In addition to being a successful businessman, he was a nudist (and owned his own nudist colony in Florida), a New Age spiritualist, and a recreational psychedelic drug user with an interest in interspecies communication and mental telepathy. He considered his best friend to be a leopard named Henry, and he lived most of the time in a gated residential compound in Mazatlán, Mexico, that he named the Love Joy Palace. Erickson, who eventually became addicted to the party drug ketamine (“Vitamin K”) and who was under indictment in the United States on several drug-related charges, fled to the
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