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8
People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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This document is page 93 of a memoir or manuscript (likely by Arnold J. Mandell based on biographical details provided in the text) bearing a House Oversight Bates stamp. The text explores the intersection of chemical/drug-induced experiences and religious grace, referencing figures like Martin Marty and E.O. Wilson. It then transitions to a personal narrative where the author describes being a 30-year-old professor at UCLA living in Brentwood when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive testicular cancer (choriocarcinoma) with a low survival prognosis.
People (8)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Narrator | Author / Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience |
Describes his personal struggle with cancer and spiritual questions. Contextual clues (UCLA, DMT, choriocarcinoma) st...
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| Martin Marty | Professor of Modern Church History |
Cited regarding the institutionalization of personal transformation in the US.
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| Paul | Biblical Figure |
Referenced regarding Romans 4 and grace.
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| E.O. Wilson | Biologist / Theorist |
Referenced regarding sociobiology and altruism.
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| Lance Armstrong | Athlete / Cancer Survivor |
Referenced as a comparison for modern testicular cancer survival rates.
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| Unnamed Wife | Graduate Student |
Living with the narrator in Brentwood.
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| Unnamed Sons | Family |
Two young sons of the narrator.
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| Professor of Urology | Doctor |
Diagnosed the narrator.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| University of Chicago |
Academic institution associated with Martin Marty.
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| UCLA |
University of California, Los Angeles; where the narrator was an Assistant Professor.
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| Army Medical Corps |
Source of research statistics regarding cancer survival rates at the time.
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| Charismatic New Testament Book Churches |
Religious group mentioned in theological comparison.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document (inferred from Bates stamp).
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Timeline (1 events)
When narrator was 30 years old
Discovery of testicular lump and subsequent diagnosis of choriocarcinoma.
Brentwood / West Los Angeles
Locations (3)
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Location of UCLA.
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Neighborhood where the narrator lived.
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Geographic context for Martin Marty's historical analysis.
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Relationships (2)
living... with my graduate student wife
professor of urology gave me a diagnosis
Key Quotes (3)
"Did this chemically triggered transcendent experience differ significantly from the supernatural transformation of individuals by the Holy Spirit...?"Source
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"All by itself, my testicle had given birth to a mass containing all the embryological tissues of a fetus, and had thrown in some maternal placental cells as lagniappe."Source
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"The news filled me with fear and the ensuing hopeless resignation detached me from life with a dread broken up only by"Source
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spontaneously along with an instantaneous knowing-how-it-is-with-you-and-I-and-
all-of-us that made even vicious killers appear sympathetic. Is this what the
Charismatic New Testament Book Churches mean by redemption through
forgiveness of others, requiring the genuine sincerity of this thought before
qualifying for Communion? Is this Christ’s undemanding gift of grace as in Romans
4: where Paul observed that all of us fall short of the full glory of God unless justified
freely by His grace. Was this the New Testament’s spiritual technological advance
from the Old Testament’s and Koran’s eye-for-an-eye? Did this chemically triggered
transcendent experience differ significantly from the supernatural transformation of
individuals by the Holy Spirit of Christian revivalist teachings? Martin Marty,
University of Chicago’s Professor of Modern Church History, dates the
institutionalization of this personal transformation in the United States to the post-
Civil War period. Did this mean that the mysteriously selfless love of Christian
agape and the altruism of E.O. Wilson’s sociobiology lay waiting in the brain and
could appear spontaneously, by grace, without lawful directive, repetitive recitation
or the discipline of catechism?
all-of-us that made even vicious killers appear sympathetic. Is this what the
Charismatic New Testament Book Churches mean by redemption through
forgiveness of others, requiring the genuine sincerity of this thought before
qualifying for Communion? Is this Christ’s undemanding gift of grace as in Romans
4: where Paul observed that all of us fall short of the full glory of God unless justified
freely by His grace. Was this the New Testament’s spiritual technological advance
from the Old Testament’s and Koran’s eye-for-an-eye? Did this chemically triggered
transcendent experience differ significantly from the supernatural transformation of
individuals by the Holy Spirit of Christian revivalist teachings? Martin Marty,
University of Chicago’s Professor of Modern Church History, dates the
institutionalization of this personal transformation in the United States to the post-
Civil War period. Did this mean that the mysteriously selfless love of Christian
agape and the altruism of E.O. Wilson’s sociobiology lay waiting in the brain and
could appear spontaneously, by grace, without lawful directive, repetitive recitation
or the discipline of catechism?
As one might have suspected, the urgency of my inner and outer search for a
new spiritual ecology of mind was driven by more personal needs. My spiritual
hunger was made acute a couple of years before our laboratory’s DMT discovery
when as a 30 year old Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at UCLA
in West Los Angeles, I was living in a small, heavily mortgaged house in Brentwood
with my graduate student wife and two young sons. A testicular lump was an
accidental discovery made while showering. After surgical biopsy and radical lymph
node dissection, the professor of urology gave me a diagnosis of right testicular
choriocarcinoma. All by itself, my testicle had given birth to a mass containing all the
embryological tissues of a fetus, and had thrown in some maternal placental cells
as lagniappe. Unlike now, when the group of testicular neoplasms are treated
successfully with a high survival rate (think Lance Armstrong), at that time, follow up
research of this young man’s disease by the Army Medical Corps promised a five-
year survival rate of only 5% to 10%. The news filled me with fear and the ensuing
hopeless resignation detached me from life with a dread broken up only by
new spiritual ecology of mind was driven by more personal needs. My spiritual
hunger was made acute a couple of years before our laboratory’s DMT discovery
when as a 30 year old Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at UCLA
in West Los Angeles, I was living in a small, heavily mortgaged house in Brentwood
with my graduate student wife and two young sons. A testicular lump was an
accidental discovery made while showering. After surgical biopsy and radical lymph
node dissection, the professor of urology gave me a diagnosis of right testicular
choriocarcinoma. All by itself, my testicle had given birth to a mass containing all the
embryological tissues of a fetus, and had thrown in some maternal placental cells
as lagniappe. Unlike now, when the group of testicular neoplasms are treated
successfully with a high survival rate (think Lance Armstrong), at that time, follow up
research of this young man’s disease by the Army Medical Corps promised a five-
year survival rate of only 5% to 10%. The news filled me with fear and the ensuing
hopeless resignation detached me from life with a dread broken up only by
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