Editing Grok (section)

===In counterculture===
{{see also|Counterculture of the 1960s}}

*[[Tom Wolfe]], in his book ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' (1968), describes a character's thoughts during an [[Psychedelic experience|acid trip]]: "He looks down, two bare legs, a torso rising up at him and like he is just noticing them for the first time{{nbs}}... he has never seen any of this flesh before, this stranger. He groks over that{{nbs}}..."<ref name="wolfe1968">{{cite book|author=Tom Wolfe|title=The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]|ISBN	=978-0-553-38064-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9io09MPj55EC&q=%22He+groks+over+that%22|year=1968|page=96}}</ref>

*In his counterculture [[Volkswagen]] repair manual, ''How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat<!--not a typo--> Idiot'' (1969), dropout aerospace engineer [[John Muir (engineer)|John Muir]] instructs prospective used VW buyers to "grok the car" before buying.<ref name="MuirGregg1971">{{cite book|author1=John Muir|author2=Tosh Gregg|title=How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=guPXAAAAMAAJ&q=grok|year=1971|publisher=John Muir Publications|isbn=978-0-912528-33-5|page=16}}</ref>

*The word was used numerous times by [[Robert Anton Wilson]] in his works ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' and ''[[Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy]]''. For instance, in ''The Eye in the Pyramid'', volume one of ''Illuminatus'':<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert Anton |last2=Shea |first2=Robert Joseph |author1-link=Robert Anton Wilson |author2-link=Robert Shea |title=The Illuminatus! Trilogy Omnibus |date=1984 |publisher=[[Random House]] |isbn=9780307569646 |page=174}}</ref>
{{blockquote|I caught the references to Aristotle, the old man of the tribe with his unfortunate epistemological paresis, and also to that feisty little lady I always imagine is really the lost Anastasia, but I still didn’t grok. “What do you mean?” I asked (...)}}

*And in ''The Trick Top Hat'', volume two of ''Schrödinger's Cat'':<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert Anton |title=Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy: "The Universe Next Door", "The Trick Top Hat", & "The Homing Pigeons" |date=1979 |publisher=[[Dell Publishing]] |location=New York |isbn=0-440-50070-2 |page=242}}</ref>
{{blockquote|Williams went on. "You've got to think of time ripples, as well as space ripples, to grok the quantum world. ..."}}