Mid-America Motel

I was in the Mid-America motel in Salina Kansas

And I took some LSD that turned out to be considerably more than I thought I was taking

So much that I thought I was going to die

And so, I started to run out of the hotel room to call for help

I was naked, and I got to the door

And I imagined what would happen next when I went outside that door

“The naked old man in room 125 is crazy...” and it’s thorazine and all that

And I decided there must be easier ways to die than that

So, I decided to stay in the room

I sat down in front of the television set, which I had on, but the volume off

And I had a picture of my guru in the center of it

So that it was all coming out of his head

And I said to him, “Please let me die, I think I’m ready to die”

And I decided they’d find me the next day

And it would be interesting

I mean, they just find this guy

And I had all these questions I would ask of the universe written all over the room

So that my mind would fall on a question

And I thought, “That’s an interesting way to go”

It’s like 'Krapp's Last Tape'

So, I kept asking to die

And I watched that my mind kept slowing down

And slowing down, and slowing down, and slowing down

Until pretty soon I saw each thought arise, exist, and pass away

The next thought arise, exist, pass away

And then I saw there was a space between each thought

It was getting bigger and bigger as my mind penetrated more deeply

And then I went into the space between two thoughts

And there was a break in consciousness

And I wasn’t

And then the next moment, I thought

“Well, in that case, I can be anything I want”

And I came back

And then I started to recreate the universe after that

I started to see the entire universe out here

And all the suffering in the world

And it was like a vast ocean of suffering

And it was like they were all my children

All of it, all of it

And I started to reach out for it