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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bieberman, Lisa

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967, 1971

Volume: 6 item(s); 11 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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Related Information and Links

See also a published letter from Merton to Bieberman in The Road to Joy, pp. 351-352.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/04/15 (#01)TALSfrom MertonI am a monk, poet, priest, and have written s [sic] few books on the contemplative life in which IYes response to Bieberman's article "On Getting the Message" in <u>Innerspace</u> - advice from Merton - has no experience with psychedelics, but much experience with youth going through crises as novice master / "experience and communication, solitude and community" / Indians and peyote / Ibn al'Arabi / Sufis
 1967/04/15 (#02)TL[c]from MertonI am a monk, poet, priest, and have written s [sic] few books on the contemplative life in which IYes response to Bieberman's article "On Getting the Message" in <u>Innerspace</u> - advice from Merton - has no experience with psychedelics, but much experience with youth going through crises as novice master / "experience and communication, solitude and community" / Indians and peyote / Ibn al'Arabi / Sufis
 1967/04/25 TLSto MertonThanks very much for your letter. I appreciate what you say about not being too anxious to be  Indian peyotists - adding ritual to experience of psychedelics / agrees that silence would be useful but asserts that she is foremost an activist - going underground with movement, like many "hippies", leads to "raids and embarrassment" / wants to hold psychedelic sessions "above-ground" by 1970
 1967/04/no other <i>Psychedelic Information Center</i> BULLETIN [-] A New York City group, the <u>Jade Companions</u>  John Aiken, leader of the <u>Church of the Awakening</u> (see "Aiken, John" file) / Symposium on the Religious Significance of Psychedelic Drugs / morning glory seeds / Underground Press Syndicate / legality under federal law of making LSD for personal research
 1971/02/02 TLSto Center from Bieberman, LisaI'm sorry to be just getting around to answering your request for copies of correspondence from  sending original of Merton's letter / permission to publish
 undated/no/no other on getting the message by Lisa Bieberman [-] "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours," said  Sidney Cohen and Timothy Leary / communication of LSD experiences / validity of religious experiences on LSD
        

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