Mentored by a Madman by A.J. Lees

Author:A.J. Lees [A. J. Lees]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910749388
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2016-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

In a letter to Allen Ginsberg posted from Lima on July 8 1953, he spoke of yagé being a ‘blue drug’ and a ‘night drug’:

Like I say it is like nothing else. This is not the chemical lift of C, the sexless horribly sane stasis of junk, the vegetable nightmare of peyote, or the humorous silliness of weed. This is an instant overwhelming rape of the senses.

– Letters 1945–1959

Burroughs had defined junk in Naked Lunch as a generic term for opium and its morphine derivatives, including all its synthetic forms such as heroin, Demerol, Palfium, Eukodal and Paregoric. Yagé was different and the most powerful drug he had ever taken.

On July 10 he wrote once more to Ginsberg from Lima:

Yage is space-time travel. The room seems to shake and vibrate with motion … You make migrations, incredible journeys through deserts and jungles and mountains.

– The Yage Letters

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