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Art Kleps, the Chief Boo Hoo.
A psychologist who joined Timothy Leary's circle at Millbrook, founded the church there in 1965, excommunicated Leary from it, testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1966 and wrote everything the church holds. He maintained to his death in 1999 that the satire and the sincerity were the same act.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Life is a dream, and enlightenment is noticing.
Kleps's doctrine is solipsist rather than theist: what is ultimate is the dreaming consciousness, and the world is its content. He held that this is not a metaphor and not consoling.
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Psychedelics are sacraments, and the state has no standing to forbid them.
The church's legal position and its theology were the same sentence, which is why it lost. The sacrament is the instrument by which the dreamer is woken; forbidding it is forbidding the rite.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Life is a dream and enlightenment is noticing. Psychedelics are the means by which the dreamer is woken, and the state has no standing to forbid them.
After death
None taught. Kleps held that death ends a dream, which is not the same as a doctrine of survival.