“Go toward the source of the pain. Go right toward it and there will be a moment where you get through.”

Charles Upton

New Thinking • Nov 23, 2023 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The Science of the Greater Jihad, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory, System of the Antichrist and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation. He has currently completed an unpublished autobiography titled Giving Myself Away. His website is https://charles-upton.com/. Here he reminisces about an intense period in his young life when he was mentored by Lew Welch, an acknowledged member of the Beat Generation of poets. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:06 The Poetry Scene 00:09:51 Lew Welch as Mentor 00:22:56 The World of the Beats 00:32:56 The Death of Lew Welch 00:51:16 Zen and Psychoactive Drugs 00:56:53 Impact of the Beat Generation 01:03:46 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Swedish and Spanish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on October 17, 2023)