Tom Wolfe's 1968 New Journalism account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' cross-country LSD-fueled bus tour — the defining document of the California counterculture's psychedelic phase.
Documents the countercultural experiment in communal psychedelic expansion of consciousness — the attempt to dissolve conventional reality and establish new modes of being — which Peterson views as the counterpart to the Jungian individuation process but without the rigorous psychological container.
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