"Acid Dreams" quotes Lennon as saying he had taken LSD more then a
thousand times, and " I got a message on acid that you should
destroy your ego," he later explained, "and I did, you know. I was
reading that stupid book of Leary's (Psychedelic Book of the Dead)
and all that shit. We were going through a whole game that everyone
went through and I destroyed myself...I destroyed my ego and I
didn't believe I could do anything."

The book then goes on to say:
"Lennon's obsession with losing his ego typified a certain segment
of the acid subculture in the mid- and late 1960's. Those who got
heavily into tripping often subscribed to a mythology of ego death
that Leary was fond of preaching. The LSD doctor spoke of a
chemical doorway through which one could leave the "fake prop-
television-set America" and enter the equivalent of the Garden of
Eden, a realm of unprogrammed beginnings where there was no
distinction between matter and spirt." etc, "Acid Dreams" Page 183

dc



--- In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, "merker2002" <nofront44@h...> wrote:
> --- In egodeath@yahoogroups.com, "rialcnis2000"
<rialcnis2000@y...>
> wrote:
> > Also, "Acid Dreams," then quotes Lennon on "ego death." He
later
> > was repudiating how he went to he extreme in this regard. Very
> > important to note.
> >
> > dc
>
>
> Could you elaborate on what he had to say about ego death and
> in howfar he denied things?