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e.j. gold
by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com) - May 08, 2001

The son of Galaxy science fiction magazine founder Horace L. Gold, he is one of the most controversial spiritual Teachers who surfaced in the 1960s Human Potential movement. If Timothy Leary was heir to Aldous Huxley, then E.J. Gold carried the torch of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, channelled via a childhood spent with Frank Herbert, Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov, and others.

Part of the California Nine art collective, Gold quickly established a formidable reputation as a transpersonal psychologist, spiritual explorer, and contemporary of Dr. John Cunningham Lilly, Robert Anton Wilson, and Fritz Perls.

He is best known for The American Book of the Dead (Nevada, CA: Gateways Books, 1975), a provocative and contemporary interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Gold illuminated our understanding of spiritual crises and pop culture, and continued to explore Bardotown (the City of the Dead) through labyrinth voyaging, artistic visions, and most recently, customised online gaming using the popular Doom design architecture.

Gold's Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Human Being is frequently associated with George Gurdjieff's Fourth Way because of a prank that occurred when Gold published Secret Talks With G. (Nevada, CA: Gateway Books, 1978), frustrated with the failure of the Gurdjieff Foundation to make public the final 'Third Series', Life Is Real Only Then, When "I AM" (New York: Elselvier-Dutton Publishing Co, 1981). Although Gold's well-crafted 'hoax' worked, anticipating the Enneagram's commercialization, the heirs of Ashiata Shiemash were not amused.

The incident continued to haunt Gold, whose research and teachings would encompass Sufism, L5 space colonies, shamanism, natural childbirth, angels, lucid dreaming, and the floatation tank. His collective would publish important writings by Robert S. de Ropp, Claudio Naranjo, and Mark Olsen, create multimedia stage and video productions, author video games, and record experimental albums.

The Human Machine as a Transformational Apparatus (Nevada, CA: Gateways Books, 1985), Life in the Labyrinth (Nevada, CA: Gateways Books, 1986), and Practical Work on Self (Nevada, CA: Gateways Books, 1989) are, for many people, the 'core' of E.J. Gold's work, serving as guidebooks to awaken an awareness of suffering and the Absolute, the rift between intelligence (mind) and feeling (heart), and the transformational possibilities of becoming more human. These books offer a glimpse of the vast knowledge that may regenerate civilization.

Whatever your belief about his legitimacy and 'false' Sufism schools, E.J. Gold has shown that your ultimate creation is your Self. Most of all, you can transform yourself with wit and humor. After all, why does spiritual liberation have to be so dour and serious all the time?

Slimeworld.org
Ground-zero for E.J. Gold fans, Slimeworld.org conveys his characteristic sense of humor, with links to his many publishing and gaming projects.

Gateways Books & Tapes
Gateways Books & Tapes is a non-profit publisher of books by E.J. Gold, Dr. John Cunningham Lilly, Robert S. de Ropp, Claudio Naranjo, and many others. Discover important cultural and spiritual artefacts that you will not find elsewhere.

FairGame
The bi-polar violence, childhood development, and censorship debate in America has missed the excluded middle: games can teach the evolutionary value of co-operation as a survival strategy, and help individuals triumph over selfish replicators (genes and memes). Gorebag (E.J. Gold) leads the charge with several projects using the Doom environment, and with an indepth knowledge of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Also check out free game music, MP3s, wallpaper, and more.

Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
From 1950 to 1961, Galaxy magazine, founded by Horace L. Gold, transformed science fiction into a serious literary genre. E.J. Gold has revived the magazine for a new online audience. He continues to publish some of the most provocative and intriguing science fiction.

Newbie.org
A kind of Slashdot for beginners, compiled by E.J. Gold and friends. An example of Gold's strategies for building co-operative communities, and spreading Agape.

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