BLOTTER 3

Published by Psychedelic Education Center, Santa Cruz, California, [1978]. [Edited by Bruce Eisner, Peter Stafford]. First edition. Tabloid format, 17.5" x 11", 20 pages, illustrated in b&w with drawings and photographs. Articles include a piece by Peter Stafford & Bruce Eisner on the Hallucinogenics in Native American Shamanism and Modern Life Conference held in San Francisco in September 1978; The Advent on Ketamine Therapy; Astrology and LSD; illustrated aphorism by Luna Goddess of Psychedelia; Making Compost for Mushrooms; The Electric Brainstorm, An Interview with Dr. Jean Millay (a friend of Timothy Leary, she co-created INTEGRATION, the first biofeedback stress management game for the IBM pc in 1984); an illustrated Cosmic Collage; Sayings of Michael Hollingshead (the psychedelic pioneer who turned Leary, William S. Burroughs, Alan Watts and many more onto acid); The Psychedelic Future by Eisner; Kirlian photographs of peyote; and more. With ads for Leary's upcoming appearance at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco; Quicksilver Answering Service; and books on marijuana, drugs and psilocybin. GOOD CONDITION: folded with mailing label, stamp, postmark and 2 small clear tape pieces on the rear cover, there is wear to the edges and spine folds, light toning, otherwise bright, clean and legible.

In 1977 counterculture psychedelic drug advocate Bruce Eisner helped found the Psychedelic Education Center in Santa Cruz, the earliest organization aimed at furthering the cause of the Psychedelic Revolution. Eisner produced only 4 issues of Blotter between 1978 and 1979, they are all very scarce. In 1990 the group became the Island Foundation based on Aldous Huxley's visions and continued to keep the Psychedelic Movement alive during a time of cultural repression.

ST. JOHN'S BREAD WEDNESDAY MESSENGER: Volume I, Number I. November 19, 1969. &

ST. JOHN'S BREAD WEDNESDAY MESSENGER AND PARANOID FLASH ILLUMINATOR Quarterly Journal: X-tree serious No. FOR [ca. 1970].

TWO ISSUES, published by St. John's Bread Church, Topanga / Venice, California, 1969, [1970], first and only printings. Edited by Paul Encimer. Zine, mimeograph, various paper colors, side staple bound, 8.5" x 11", 22 and 38 un-numbered pages. VERY GOOD CONDITION: with a fitting association to City Lights - both issues were originally mailed to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco with stamps, postmarks, address and penned printed matter on the rear covers, otherwise just some light edgewear, age toning, and the rear cover of one is pulling from the staples, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

This zine was without a doubt the most out there and influential counterculture voice of the late 1960s. A scarce primary source illuminating Discordia's hippie origins. An exploration of real and imagined spirituality, cabals, psychedelic drug fueled enlightenment, surrealistic esoteric confusion, poetry, fiction, comic paradoxical conspiracies, revealing secret knowledge of Discordianism for your perverse entertainment. Issued on multi hued paper printed on mimeograph machines, its ethos inspired the dawning of the zine age and spawned the Church of the SubGenius and the New Religious Movement.

St. John's Bread publisher Paul Encimer (1938-2021) Discordian name, Dr. Confusion was an early ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. His friend and contributor Kerry Wendell Thornley, Discordian name, Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst was the co-founder of Discordianism and author of Principia Discordia. The first 10 pages of Thornley's poem Illuminati Lady, which Robert Anton Wilson described in Illuminatus! as "an endless epic poem which you really ought to read," is printed herein.

HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!

EARTH: ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY Volume 1, No. 3, February 18, 1970

The first Earth Day was celebrated in April 1970, confirming a commitment of rising environmental stewardship among thousands of people throughout the US to protect "Spaceship Earth." This sentiment was echoed in the halls of the federal government in the early 1970s, a period in which the Environmental Protection Agency was established, and the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts were passed.

Published by Entropy Publications, Berkeley, California. First edition. Edited by Alan M. Robbins, Michael Stephen Metcalf. Tabloid format, 11.5" x 17", 8 pages, featuring news of hearings, lectures, meetings, and other activities related to ecology and environmentalism in the Bay Area and nationally. GOOD CONDITION: folded as issued, wear to the edges and spine folds, age toning, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon, recycling was requested!

The Shattering Screen : A Journal for Subversive Cinema. Issue No. 1

A scarce radical vintage film zine that presents a compelling exploration of Hollywood's powerful intentional politically reactionary messaging in the popular films of the time. Films include The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Yentl, Chariots of Fire and many more. Also discusses the directors Stanley Kubrick and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A revolutionary take on mainstream cinema.

Self produced by Shattering Screen, Chicago, Illinois, 1984. Edited by John Stevenson and Jeremy Turner. First and only edition. Softcover zine, tabloid on newsprint, 17.5" x 11.5", 12 pages, illustrated in b&w with dramatic collages and drawings throughout. VERY GOOD CONDITION: light horizontal fold, a touch of age toning, and a light dime size droplet shoreline on the rear cover. Scarce, only two copies located in OCLC collections worldwide.

LIFE IS FREE, Volume 0, Number 0, Winter 1988

A unique zine detailing the Philadelphia Squatter Scene. Published by [Karen Eliot] c/o The Wooden Shoe, Philadelphia 1988. Karen Eliot, Editor. Underground Anarcho-Squatters' Newsrag, softcover tabloid, printed on newsprint, 17" x 11.5", 8 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and collages, includes illustrated instructions for building a stove for your squat. VERY GOOD CONDITION: solid, bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce, only four copies located in OCLC collections worldwide.

An underground zine made by and for anarchist squatters, filled with guidance on how to squat, where to squat, the steps needed to equip the squat, squatter support, and prescient revolutionary political commentary on gentrification. I found one source that stated Karen Eliot created this zine and paid for the 500 copies she had printed from the money she earned as a sex worker. Sounds completely plausible to me, there are no records of Karen Eliot and her cohort of fellow squatters except in the pages of this compelling zine.