Atop Rendezvous Peak above Jackson Hole, late May 1972 with Tsultrim Allione. “It was the day he took acid up there” Tsultrim recalls. Photo snapped by Ron Zimardi / Ravi Dass. This moment immortalized in these lines from Allen’s “Denver to Montana””
High on Rendezvous Mt. gazing cross Gros Ventre Valley Jackson Hole roads etched distant, Crag-rock'd snow skirts round Teton's grand stonepeaks, lodgepole pine fringed glaciers -- To Moose, A Ah Sha Sa Ma Ha 3 Chords C F G -- Change Gurumantra? -- Silent openeyed half hour gazing cross green soft valleyfloor -- silent clouds slowshifting thru blue dimnity --
Allen and Tsultrim had recently met through Trungpa Rinpoche, and she remained Allen’s meditation instructor for the rest of his life. She continues teaching from Southern Colorado’s Tara Mandala, and authored ‘Feeding your Demons’ & more recently “Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.”
