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    Holy Hell: Psychoactive Poetry
    Holy Hell: Psychoactive Poetry
    Holy Hell: Psychoactive Poetry
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    Holy Hell: Psychoactive Poetry

    By S. W. Whelan

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    These poems playfully ground the holotropic notions of Western ontology and Eastern meditation traditions in the varied experiences of everyday life. The arc of the book is a journey from the depths of the unconscious mind to the heights of Superconsciousness. Unique to Whelans poetry is his evocation of the coexistence of the primordial Delight in Being with metaphysical terror. All of these factors contribute to the acutely psychoactive quality of the poetry - the audience cannot but resonate with the psychological transformations that are embedded in the writing.

    Subjects include, among other things, an exploration of the transformative effect of Whelans ordeal with childhood cancer; the liberating potential of sex and creativity; and the struggle for meaning in our post-nihilistic world. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 10, 2009
    ISBN9781450003148
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      Book preview

      Holy Hell - S. W. Whelan

      Holy Hell:

      Psychoactive Poetry

      S. W. Whelan

      Copyright © 2009 by S. W. Whelan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any

      form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording,

      or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing

      from the copyright owner.

      Cover photograph provided by Robert Stewart Johnson, III.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      Xlibris

      Corporation

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      70052

      Contents

      Foreword

      I

      recollection

      What Is a Window to What Is

      Lines Composed While Neither of My

      Supervisors Were Checking on Me

      Asphyxiating Innocence

      II

      grown accustomed

      no one to be blamed

      Sampling the Milky Pool

      III

      life is the expulsion of not-life

      We Should Fuck

      Small Fingers Do

      An Assault on the Nervous System

      IV

      Self-Triangulating

      V

      Woven

      Leaving My Body Alone

      Metabolic Heat

      A Flowering

      Transfixed By the Impossible

      Enough to Step Outside

      VI

      Fear of Death is Fear of the Unknown

      It Is All Undone

      Note on Neurolinguistics

      Vaccinating Against Information Psychosis

      Dedicated to my parents

      A pair ofotherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesizedHiggs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be soabhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time andstop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes backin time to kill his grandfather.

      -Dennis Overbye, ‘The Collider, the Particle,

      and a Theory about Fate’ in the New York Times,

      October 12, 2009

      History is the shockwave of eschatology. In other words, we are living in avery unique moment, ten

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