REGULAR ACID CONSCIOUSNESS

Author: Paul Ebenkamp

Publisher: Spiral Editions (2025)

"With not much to / go on and not far / to go I made a / loop of the cataract / in brute wonder / woke up ready to / close a laptop"

In a 1972 interview with Mountain Girl, guitarist Jerry Garcia remarks that "I think of [the band] as being a crossroads or a pointer sign, and what we're pointing to is that there's a lot of universe available, that there's a lot experience available...we're pointing to difficulty, to bummers...we're pointing to whatever there is when we're on--whatever's happening...our vehicle, so to speak--but it's not who we are totally. Formlessness and chaos lead to new forms and new order. Closer to, probably, what the 'real' order is...more like the flow. And we just found ourselves in that space,"

...which is where this book enters, the collapse of time (long hand writing practice, speaking) and space (language, words) to ride in the flow of new forms, the path given by the absence of the path itself, a "new" regularly ancient idea of consciousness. The transitive nightfall...