THE UNLIKELY MARRIAGE

      During this magical acid trip, he's seen, in bits and pieces, how he can put his acid and his Granny sides together into a sort of unlikely but necessary inner marriage.

      All day, he's listened to them talk in his head. On the one side was his acidhead, saying "go for it man, drop big and often, whenever you want." On the other side was Granny, saying, "well, maybe you'd better slow down, control yourself here. You never know.... ."


     He's in the middle, torn both ways, although identifying now more with his wild and unafraid acidhead. He worries though. There are dangers. One is of falling into the unconscious and not coming out. He seems to be avoiding this so far. Anyway, he didn't fall in, he dove in.

      The other danger is of scaring Granny. He's very close to his acid side now, so he has to watch out for Granny trying to take him over again because she's afraid. He has to keep a conscious connection with her. If he doesn't, she'll get behind him and work through his unconscious.

      The world is crazy! Read any newspaper. It's insane, and Kesey is sane. He's living out the archetype of the overthrower, the one who stirs everything up. In his book, Cuckoo's Nest, he's telling us that we're all insane really, all living in this insane asylum called society.


      He decides to take acid as often as he wants. His only real consideration is that he get his Ph.D. and soon. To do this, he's going to form an inner coalition government, one that will please and further both the acidhead and the Granny within himself, one that will allow them to get along with each other and leave him alone.

      He wonders how to bring this unlikely pair together. Then he realizes just how easy it is. All he needs to do is allow for an ego in which his wild acid side can freak and explore edge city as much and as deeply as he wants and in which Nixon and Reagan and Granny can rest assured that law and order - which on this level means sanity, that is, a sufficient connection with consensual reality - will always prevail.

License with control
Acid with his Ph.D.
Both ends of the book
A whole book