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 He has currently completed an unpublished autobiography titled Giving Myself Away.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 Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.

(Recorded on October 17, 2023)

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Published on November 24, 2023