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The Original Kleptonian Neo-American Church is a Psychedelian religious organization founded in 1965 at Cranberry Lake, New York, by Arthur Kleps. The primary religious text of the church is Kleps' book Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism (2005 [1975, 1977]). Millbrook provides an account of Kleps' founding of the organization along with a narrative of his experiences at the Hitchcock estate in Millbrook, New York, between 1963 and 1970, and describes the church's current principles and doctrine. Membership in the church is based on assent to three principles, which define the psychedelic substances as sacraments, claim their use as a basic human right, and define Enlightenment as "the recognition that life is a dream and the externality of relations an illusion" (solipsistic nihilism).

Millbrook supersedes The Boo Hoo Bible: The Neo-American Church Catechism and Handbook (1971), which also includes philosophical interpretation of psychedelic experience and synchronicity and social and political commentary on aspects of the psychedelic movement.