LSD, Ken Kesey and the Afterlife: An Author’s True Story of Making Afterdeath Contact With the Bestselling Counterculture Icon

By KEN KORCZAK In 1972, William Bedivere was a young man browsing the shelves of Banyen Books, an emblematic metaphysical bookstore beloved by seekers & hippies in Vancouver, British Columbia. He didn’t buy any mind-expanding books that day. However, he did happen to score something even more consciousness-expanding — “a handful” of Orange Sunshine, said … Read more

Heroin, Rape and a Cult: The “Road” That Led One Man to Freedom

By KEN KORCZAK A teenage ‘hippie’ in New York City was psychologically scarred and headed for darkness when an unexpected invitation changed everything. It was the mid-1960s, and Richard Nissenbaum was a disaffected Jewish teen living in New York City. After his bar mitzvah at age 13, he lost all interest in religion. He was … Read more