#psychedelicism

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KNIFE IN THE COFFEE IS SUCH A GOOD SONG HOLY SHIT

[handeaux]

Dorelle Heisel Plumbed Brain Mysteries And Psychedelicized Cincinnati’s Social Circles

Dorelle Markley Heisel called Cincinnati her home for several decades, but her mind was in another dimension. She was known as “Cincinnati’s Brain Lady” and held college faculty positions in literature, psychology and fine art. She pioneered biofeedback techniques to control mental and bodily functions while introducing Cincinnati’s strait-laced society to the psychedelic subculture of the Sixties.

Virginia Dorelle Markley was born in 1917 in Danville, Illinois but spent her childhood shuttling between her father’s Palm Beach restaurant and her mother’s St. Louis hotel. At DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, she was student royalty – literally – voted May Queen in her senior year.

It was at DePauw that she met and became engaged to W. Donald Heisel, a Cincinnati native and Western Hills High School alumnus. At the time of his 1940 marriage to Dorelle, Heisel was assistant secretary to Cincinnati’s Civil Service Commission and was, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer [21 May 1940] “one of the city’s youngest executives.” The Heisels built a new house on a quiet cul de sac in Westwood, where they raised two daughters.

Don Heisel earned a reputation as the “godfather of public administration in the Tristate” [Cincinnati Enquirer 6 March 1988] because of the many governmental officials he mentored at the University of Cincinnati and at Xavier University. Dorelle, who had earned a degree in English from DePauw, added a bachelor’s (1952) and master’s (1965) in education from UC while also taking classes at the Cincinnati Art Academy.

Dorelle taught English for several years in Cincinnati high schools and at the Ohio Mechanics Institute. During the summers she was a fixture at Pogue’s Department Store. Hundreds of Queen City baby boomers likely display pastel portraits of themselves, sketched by Dorelle at her stand in the Pogue’s children’s department. She hated the drab institutional brown walls in her husband’s office, so one day she hauled her pastels over to City Hall and executed a large mural of the Cincinnati skyline, drawn from memory.

UC’s University College recruited Dorelle in the mid-1960s and she flourished there, teaching literature, art appreciation and psychology. With assistance from the Procter & Gamble company, she brought innovative technology into her classrooms with a push-button feedback device that allowed students to register immediate opinions regarding class content. She told the Cincinnati Post [14 March 1968]:

“When students become frustrated with a lecture or feel lost or just plain bored, they can indicate their anxiety by signaling me on the monitor.”

Dorelle’s interest in media and their effects on human communication led her to Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan, known for his books “Understanding Media” and “The Medium Is The Massage.” Among the earliest mentions of McLuhan in Cincinnati newspapers is a reference to a 1966 Evening College class taught by Dorelle to introduce the Canadian theorist’s ideas to Cincinnati.

Simultaneously with her investigations of media and biofeedback, Dorelle dove into what was then known as the human potential movement. She presided over a multi-week UC Evening College class titled “Actualizing Your Potential: A Group Happening.” Enquirer reporter Jo Thomas sat in on the course and reported [21 August 1969] a most unusual classroom experience.

“I will not lecture,” Heisel said. “You will live out experiences, and I will ask you questions. Answer them in your head without verbalizing them. Writing is so slow and the mind works at such speed.”

Dorelle invited the students to form themselves into trains of about nine “cars,” kindergarten-style and take turns being the “engine” or the “caboose.”

“Elderly women hung on to 20-year-olds. Bald men chugged in front of bearded men. Around and around the room the trains went, gathering momentum and enthusiasm. One train burst out of the classroom door into the bright hall, chugging with gusto.”

The explosion of new ideas generated by the psychedelic Sixties energized Dorelle and she launched a series of public lectures to share her excitement. One wonders how her Cincinnati audiences, among such mainline organizations such as the Federation of Jewish Organizations and the Kiwanis Club, reacted to her exposition titled “Turn On, Tune In, Find Out!”

An early adopter of technology, Dorelle acquired a variety of devices to assist her research into altering thought patterns via biofeedback. Among these contraptions were the electromyograph and the alphaphone that made brainwaves audible or visual. She claimed that biofeedback, in addition to curing a variety of conditions from depression to migraines, transported users into a new state of being that she called the Kairos Dimension.

"The Kairos Dimension is nature taking its electronic course through you by providing strategies for amplifying your sensory range,” she announced in her 1974 book, “The Kairos Dimension.”

The titles of Dorelle’s non-credit classes and community lectures indicate the paths her biofeedback research led her down: “Brainfun: Steering Minds In New Directions,” “The Holographic Mind,” “How Biofeedback Opens Social Spaces,” and “How Biofeedback Supports Excitement And Growth.” Here is the course catalog description for one of these classes:

“Feelings of stress, tension and pressure take place only in muscles, never in the chemical-electrical brain that sends out orders. New research gives us a more accurate model of how we guide and control our range of ‘body sculptures.’ Small group exploration of the latest technologies.”

As the Human Potential movement evolved into various New Age philosophies, Dorelle’s biofeedback strategies caught on among that crowd. When the Montreal Star compiled a list of 50 important New Age books in 1975, Dorelle’s “Biofeedback Exercise Book” was featured along with books on transcendental meditation, herbal remedies, gestalt therapy and “The Joy of Sex.”

The nationally syndicated television show, P.M. Magazine, hosted Dorelle in November 1983 as “Cincinnati’s Brain Lady who enables you to see your brain on a television screen.” For a brief period, UC’s radio station WGUC aired a show devoted to Dorelle’s “Kairos Dimension.”

The Heisels divorced in 1977 and throughout the 1980s Dorelle’s public appearances waned. A Body/Mind/Spirit Festival at Avondale’s Unitarian Church in 1988 found her discussing biofeedback along with proponents of shamanism, tarot cards, crystals, chelation therapy and psychic powers.

Dorelle retired from UC and relocated to Plano, Texas where one of her daughters lived. In retirement, she played bridge and painted portraits. She died, aged 79, in November 1996.

[tmbmtb]

My identity's a compromise My potential has been fetishized And my soul has been psychedelicized!

✯ Knife in the Coffee, Car Seat Headrest

[rexvonkostia]

Most Beautyful Playlist in Spotify.

[gracethenighttripper]

All has been psychedelicized! Named her "The Acid Queen."

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CHOICE FINDS, KEEPERS, GEMS, AND COVER PHOTO FAVORITES ALL AROUND.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the 26th set of previously used cover photos in my ongoing series of "Tumblr Cover Photo" posts, the third set for October, and featuring such online finds as:

Attila, King of the Huns (part of McFarlane Toys' "6 Faces of Madness"), the feral, feline, & feminine Monica Belucci as one of Dracula's brides in "Bram Stoker's Dracula," an art print of IRON MONKEY's "Bad Year" sleeve artwork by Mike Diana, THE BEATLES performing "Revolution" for a British television broadcast in 1968, a Mad Hatter LSD blotter art design by Mark McCloud, psychedelicized Criterion artwork for "Carnival of Souls" by Edward Kinsella, a vintage MISFITS "Earth A.D." DIY sticker design, and the Tin Woodman of Oz from McFarlane's Monsters Series 2 "Twisted Land of Oz."

Source: McFarlane Toys, Wired, Collider, Mixcloud, Facebook, Pinterest, IMDb, Figures World, various, etc...

[cc-cuttlefishculler]

my identity's a compromise my potential has been fetishized and my soul has been psychedelicized!

[rotcivnasrabb]

Gracious…remember when❓

circa ‘65-‘67

depending on the source

This psychedelic soul classic was written by two of the four Chambers brothers, Joe and Willie. Joe wrote most of the lyric after sitting in on a class at UCLA with Timothy Leary and taking LSD. Willie put the music together and contributed the line, "My soul has been psychedelicized."

This song spoke to the younger generation that was fighting for civil rights, social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. The lyrics are somewhat ambiguous, but the constant repetition of the word "Time!" makes it clear that the song is a call to action.

Enjoy…

Geo

the last time I heard this gem❓ I wish I could share…I suggest perhaps late ‘70’s

A blind squirrel 🐿️ can catch an acorn…if he’s lucky 🍀 Suppose I am said blind squirrel 🐿️

I believe the original version was two minutes and change. This version…over eleven minutes

Black psychedelic soul❓My recollection❓

Slim and none…and Slim left the building❗️

Rarer than hens teeth❗️

Rarer than an uncooked steak❗️

Rarer than real…fake is everywhere these days❗️

catch my drift❓

If so

You are rarer than military intelligence…❗️

How can you if I didn’t throw it❓

[1960s-texas-psychedelic-garage]

@puresblut I had to go to the net when I exhausted all my resources. Union Gas did become Christopher.

[heathengentleman]

Now the time has come

There's no place to run

I might get burned up by the sun

But I had my fun

I've been loved and put aside

I've been crushed by the tumbling tide

And my soul has been psychedelicized

Now the time has come

There are things to realize

Time has come today

Time has come today

Time, Time, Time...

- The Chambers Brothers

[rgr-pop]

with prince paul (the real fredric jameson) calling the question of the past x years (entirety) of rap history against the social life of the nineties, which, in 1999 slick rick did the same, although with less specific intention, and partially that's because this is what rap always had done, but these two guys were really always about revealing that. that in 1989 prince paul is "you could use records that weren't just by james brown" but the thesis of 1999 was fundamentally that the seventies is all there is or will be. and then (here i'm repeating myself), if pp is looking back to 89 from 99, the psychologized (psychedelicized) utterance-as-sample minimalism of the slim shady lp is looking both backward (perhaps toward grand upright music v warner brothers) and forward (a lot to think about the impending collapse of the industry but most of all: hard to image a 99 debut more important to the twenty first century)

[bisexualmorpheus]

MY POTENTIAL HAS BEEN FETISHIZED... AND MY SOUL, HAS BEEN PSYCHEDELICIZED!

[rexvonkostia]

Namasté

[savedfromsalvation]

Time has come today Young hearts can go their way Can't put it off another day I don't care what others say They say we don't listen anyway Time has come today (Hey)

Oh, The rules have changed today (hey) I have no place to stay (hey) I'm thinking about the subway (hey) The love has flown away (hey) My tears have come and gone (hey) Oh my Lord, I have to roam (hey) I have no home (hey) I have no home (hey)

Now the time has come (time) There's no place to run (time) I might get burned up by the sun (time) But I had my fun (time) I've been loved and put aside (time) I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (time) And my soul has been psychedelicized (time)

(Time) Now the time has come (time) There are things to realize (time) Time has come today (time) Time has come today (time)

(Time) (Time)

Oh, oh Their time is here People get burned There is a train coming You don't need no...

Their time has come Now the time has come (time) There is no place to run Their time is now But I had my fun (time) I've been loved and put aside (time) Their time has come Get it on Columbia Records Time, yeah

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS

Written by: Joseph Lamar Chambers, Willie Mack Chambers

Album: The Time Has Come

Released: 1967

Lyrics provided by Musixmatch

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Sesame Street Brainwashed A Generation Into Psychedelia!

Sesame Street Brainwashed A Generation Into Psychedelia!

(via iridium) by Grand Poobah Warning: If you were born between 1962-1978, there’s a good chance your soul was psychedelicized early on in your childhood years. Evidence points to this 1969 Sesame Street clip that helped children learn to count to 10. Seems pretty innocent, but there is something much more sinister here in order to brainwash a generation of kids into being “groovy”. After being…