In Part 1, Tommy will be delving into Burroughs's background in order to explain how Burroughs's experiences influenced his worldview and his writing. We also discuss some important research findings of Tommy's concerning the Mayan 2012 prophecy and the link to Burroughs, the importance of the alien insect overlords found in Burroughs's writings, and expand further on Burroughs's interest in the occult, including why most literary critics ignore this aspect of Burroughs entirely.

Episode Notes:

Tommy P. Cowan's academia.edu page: https://amsterdam.academia.edu/TommyPCowan/

Correspondences Journal: https://correspondencesjournal.com/

The Exterminator : https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/moloko-print/william-burroughs-brion-gysin-the-exterminator-redux/

The Yage Letters + Junky ( & other works): https://all-med.net/pdf/the-yage-letters/

And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with Jack Kerouac (& other works): https://newbooksinpolitics.com/political/and-the-hippos-were-boiled-in-their-tanks/

The Soft Machine: http://miltonthed.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/burroughs_william_seward-the_soft_machine.pdf

Naked Lunch: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch

Other authors/ persons of interest mentioned in this episode:

Brion Gysin, The Dreamachine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine

Jeffrey Kripal, author of The Super Natural : https://www.amazon.com/Super-Natural-New-Vision-Unexplained/dp/1101982322

Barry Miles, author of Call Me Burroughs: A Life: https://www.amazon.nl/Call-Me-Burroughs-Barry-Miles/dp/1455511935

Ted Morgan, author of Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23949.Literary_Outlaw

Robert A. Heinlein, sci-fi author: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/robert-heinlein/

Terrance & Dennis McKenna: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Landscape-Mind-Hallucinogens-Ching/dp/0062506358

Kill Your Darlings (film): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/

Naked Lunch (film): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/

Episode art credit: photo by Richard Avedon

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