his wide
experience of mescalin, seemed to have written virtually nothing about the use of
psychedelics. And of course this was the 70’s, before Shamanism became a buzz-word.
So Alex found that his nature had placed him on the outside of another world, the world of
ritual magicians who insisted that psychedelics were bad for him, and of course had never
taken any.

Many years later, Alex began to see what had happened in broad terms:
he had become part of a new magickal vanguard, who had had to grow up enough to write
their own manuals.

Of course, he reconnected to Eternity, and became his own Angel of the
Future but that is another tale, for another millennium!

PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE

Looking at the history of the use of LSD, it was first used by Dr.
Albert Hoffmann in 1943. MostPierce ranks third in the nation -- behind only Fresno State's Ryan Mathews and Stanford's Toby Gerhart -- with 1,211 rushing yards. He already has rushed for nearly twice as many yards as any other freshman in school history.

So how did he end up at Temple?

"He had a number of schools recruiting him, but Temple was the school investing the most time in the young man," said Kevin Owens, Pierce's football coach at Concordville (Pa.) The Glen Mills School. "It seemed they really wanted him to become a part of the program."

Pierce's off-field problems had caused him to land at Glen Mills, a residential school for court-adjudicated males 15 to 18 years old. Pierce has told reporters he was involved in a fight as a sophomore at Ardmore