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Subject: Dead Media Working Note 01.9
Dead medium: The Experiential Typewriter
From: boneill_AT_allinux1.alliance.net (Bradley O'Neill)
EXPERIENTIAL TYPEWRITER: Built by Timothy Leary and
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) in the winter of 1962-1963,
Cambridge, Mass. An instrument for recording and charting
the psychedelic experience.
As cited in _Flashbacks_ by Timothy Leary, 1983, 1990;
Putnam Publishing Group, New York. LC# BF109.l43A3 1990
p. 156
"The purpose of the ET was to deal with the 'words
cannot express' aspects of accelerated-brain experience.
The subject could indicate any of various levels of
consciousness that they were unable to describe at the
moment by pressing the appropriate buttons on the
typewriter. The signal was recorded on a revolving drum,
much the way temperatures are graphed in meteorological
stations. After the session, when consciousness was
operating at slower speeds, the subject would have leisure
to examine the recorded data and describe the sequence of
events fully and precisely."
I'd like a more detailed account of this
curiosity, as Dr. Leary does not elaborate in
_Flashbacks_. But it's definitely dead.
Regards, Bradley
(((related: Dead Media Working Note 05.3)))
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