1966-12-01: Correspondence with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Reb Zalman), audio tape recorded letter to Merton
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Title
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1966-12-01: Correspondence with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Reb Zalman), audio tape recorded letter to Merton
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Description
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Zalman Schachter records a letter to Thomas Merton while driving. He mentions classes he is teaching and lectures for the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society in Montreal. He references the Vietnam War and the use of napalm. Captions include a photograph of Thomas Merton taken by Schachter of Merton holding a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert, given to him by Zalman Schachter.
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Identifier
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Section A- Schachter, Zalman M., Rabbi, 1924-2014: 1966/12/01
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Rights
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© The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved. Photograph of Thomas Merton © Zalman Schachter.
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Source
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Thomas Merton Center, Section A, Correspondence
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The recording was transferred from reel-to-reel audio tape to digital format. Most recordings were first transferred to compact disk and then ripped to digital. NOTE: transcripts were generated in 2025-2026 using the Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Some known errors in transcription were corrected by archivists; however, there are still mistakes, especially with specialized monastic names and terms, foreign languages, and recording sections with multiple people speaking at once or off-microphone. All text needs to be screened by a human and cleared with the Merton Legacy Trust before publication.
