{"id":21,"date":"2003-07-03T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-08-17T13:54:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T19:54:40","slug":"psychedelic-venus-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelic Venus Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had read Hans Holzer’s rather sniffy assessment of the Berkeley-based Psychedelic Venus Church<\/a> back in the 1970s in his book The New Pagans<\/i>, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it listed under entheogen-based groups by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies<\/a>. Michael Marinacci wrote a more detailed history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chief founder Jefferson Freedom Poland, a\/k\/a Jefferson Clitlick a\/k\/a Jefferson Fuck Poland and other things, is apparently keeping a low profile after doing some prison time for having sex with underaged persons. MAPS doesn’t mention that part. <\/p>\n

Another figure of the times, Sam Sloan, mentions the PVC in his history of the Sexual Freedom League<\/a> at the U. of California.<\/p>\n

Sloan, no doubt a certified genius whose main interests seemed to be sex and chess, maintains two complicated sites here <\/a>and here<\/a>. Having been kicked out of the securities industry by the SEC, he apparently is now a New York City cab driver and chess journalist who spends his time on byzantine conspiracy theories. Short version: Everyone from Sen. Hillary Clinton on down is out to get him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had read Hans Holzer’s rather sniffy assessment of the Berkeley-based Psychedelic Venus Church back in the 1970s in his book The New Pagans, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it listed under entheogen-based groups by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Michael Marinacci wrote a more detailed history. 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Hundreds of his Fellow Citizens waited upon him also, diverting themselves with Tours of the House and Gardens, which are both Marvelous.M. and I walked up to the house from the parking area.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9081,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9081","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":3},"title":"The Pomegranate 19, no. 2 Now Published Online","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Click here for the Table of Contents. As usual book reviews are free downloads. Articles The Image of Paganism in British Romanticism Pavel Hor\u00e1k Special Section: Paganism and Politics Paganism and Politics: A View from Central-Eastern Europe Michael F. 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