Celebration of the Lizard King: Jim Morrison

I went on to find other wonderful coincidences in Jim's writing and his inspiration from other works such as The Yage Letters from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. This is another drug-inspired tale woven through a series of letters between the two authors. The first portion of the collection begins with Burroughs during his visit to the Amazon Rainforest in 1953 in search of yage, one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man. The latter series of correspondence occurred when Ginsberg went on the same conquest in 1960. Burroughs wrote back to Ginsberg after his mystical journey...

"WHAT SCARED YOU ALL INTO TIME? WHAT SCARED YOU ALL INTO YOUR BODIES?"

Not a decade later, Morrison wrote...

"Who scared you? Why were you born, my babe?
In two-time's arms with all of your charms, my love.
Why were you born? just to play with me?
To freak out or to be beautiful, my dear?
Load your head, blow it up, feeling good, baby"


                                                                                                   Brandt Hardin