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A Figure of The Neo-American Church

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.

Names & titlesArthur Kleps; the Chief Boo Hoo
DomainThe founding, the catechism, the excommunication of Timothy Leary
RelationsFormed at Millbrook in Leary's circle, and turned on him
Depicted asNot depicted
StandingFounder and sole doctrinal authority; died 1999
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Art Kleps was a psychologist who fell in with Timothy Leary's circle at Millbrook, founded the Neo-American Church there in 1965, and later excommunicated Leary from it — a document his successors still publish. He testified before the Senate in 1966, wrote the Boo Hoo Bible in 1971 and the memoir Millbrook in 1975, and held to the end that the satire and the sincerity were one act rather than two. He died in 1999. The Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church continues to enrol members, sells his books and hosts the complete text of Millbrook, but the network of three hundred Boo Hoos that Judge Gesell described in 1968 does not survive in anything like its original form.

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