The Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church is a Psychedelian religious organization founded in 1965 at Cranberry Lake, New York, by Arthur Kleps.[1][2] The primary religious text of the church is Kleps' book Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism (2005 [1975, 1977]). Millbrook provides an account of Kleps' founding of the organization along with a narrative of his experiences at the Hitchcock estate in Millbrook, New York, between 1963 and 1970, and describes the church's current principles and doctrine.[1] Membership in the church is based on assent to three principles, which define the psychedelic substances as sacraments, claim their use as a basic human right, and define Enlightenment as "the recognition that life is a dream and the externality of relations an illusion" (solipsistic nihilism).[3]
Millbrook supersedes The Boo Hoo Bible: The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook (1971), which also includes philosophical interpretation of psychedelic experience and synchronicity and social and political commentary on aspects of the psychedelic movement.[4]
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edit- ^ a b Kleps, Art (2005) [1975, 1977]. Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism. OKNeoAC. ISBN 978-0960038800.
- ^ "About the OKNeoAC". www.okneoac.org.
- ^ "Membership". www.okneoac.org.
- ^ Kleps, Art (1971) [1967]. The Boo Hoo Bible: The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook. Toad Books. ISBN 978-0960038817.