Association for Consciousness Exploration

The organization was founded in 1983 by members of the Chameleon Club (founded in 1978), and their fictional founder, C. C. Rosencomet, on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Its primary directors included Jeff Rosenbaum (died August 31, 2014).{{sfnp|Cleveland Jewish News staff|2016}}

As a campus organization they offered concerts by local musicians, offered a film series, and hosted appearances by Jim Alan and Selena Fox of Circle Sanctuary, Raymond Buckland, and the first Cleveland appearance of Timothy Leary (at Amasa Stone Chapel).{{sfnp|Neff|1979}}{{sfnp|Kuznik|1979}}

In the 1980s, they also ran a "mind spa", providing hands-on experience with mind machines,{{sfnp|Jacobs|1989}} biofeedback devices, and a sensory isolation tank.{{sfnp|Burkhart|1985}}{{sfnp|Furman|1986}}

The motto of the Chameleon Club is "CHANGE", and ACE's is "Dedicated to the Expansion of the Frontiers of Your Consideration". ACE was originally located at The Civic, a former synagogue in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and there offered classes and featured appearances of Robert Anton Wilson{{sfnp|Allison|1989}} and Robin Williamson.{{sfnp|Plain Dealer staff|1990}}

ACE hosts the annual Starwood Festival, a summer camping event held in July,{{sfnp|Nema|1995|pp=200ff}} and the annual WinterStar Symposium,{{sfnp|Adler|2006|pp=514-17}} usually held in February. ACE maintains the Starwood Center, a workshop/seminar/bookstore facility in Cleveland, Ohio, and produces and sells books, tapes, CDs and DVDs documenting performances,{{sfnp|Seachrist|2003|pp=213-14}} lectures and panel discussions from their events.

• John C. Lilly

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• {{cite web |author=ACE |date=n.d. |url=http://www.rosencomet.com/about.html |website=Association for Consciousness Exploration |title=About ACE |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218195623/http://www.rosencomet.com/about.html |archive-date=February 18, 2020 }}
• {{cite book |author-link=Margot Adler |last=Adler |first=Margot |year=2006 |title=Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=978-0143038191 |pages=514–17}}
• {{cite news |title=Local Group Hosts Dr. Timothy Leary |first=Will |last=Allison |author-link=Will Allison |work=The Observer |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |place=Cleveland, Ohio |date=September 29, 1989 |page=4}}
• {{cite news |title=Tank Aids in Relaxation, Stress Reduction |first=Joan |last=Burkhart |work=The Sun Press |place=Cleveland, Ohio |date=January 17, 1985 |page=C5}}
• {{cite news |author=Cleveland Jewish News staff |title=Remembering Jeff Rosenbaum |newspaper=Cleveland Jewish News |date=January 29, 2016 |orig-date=July 28, 2015 |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/community/lifecycles/in_memoriam_and_cards_of_thanks/remembering-jeff-rosenbaum/article_445414e0-3565-11e5-a698-ef9d4d813acb.html |access-date=2023-09-13}}
• {{cite news |title=Beating Stress Through Meditation |first=Donna |last=Furman |work=The News-Herald |place=Willoughby, Ohio |date=October 5, 1986 |pages=Section F}}
• {{cite news |title=Group Strives to Expand Matters of Man's Mind |first=Dan |last=Jacobs |work=The Sun Press |place=Cleveland, Ohio |date=November 23, 1989 |page=A3}}
• {{cite magazine |title=Timothy Leary: An LSD Cowboy Turns Cosmic Comic |first=Frank |last=Kuznik |magazine=Cleveland Magazine |date=November 1979}}
• {{cite news |first=James |last=Neff |title=Two 60s Cult Heroes, on the Eve of the 80s |author-link=James Neff |work=Cleveland Plain Dealer |date=October 30, 1979}}
• {{cite book |author-link=Nema (occultist) |author=Nema |year=1995 |title=Maat Magick: A Guide to Self-Initiation |publisher=Weiser Books |isbn=0-87728-827-5 |pages=200ff}}
• {{cite news |author=Plain Dealer staff |title=Celtic Musician Gives Concert |work=The Plain Dealer |date=May 4, 1990}}
• {{cite book |last=Seachrist |first=Denise |year=2003 |title=The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh |publisher=Kent State University Press |series=World Musics Series |isbn=0-87338-752-X |pages=213ff}}

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• {{cite web|url=http://www.rosencomet.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909122634/http://www.rosencomet.com/|archive-date=2020-09-09|title=A.C.E.}}

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