Plato's Story "The Cave" is so very Meaningful to me... When I Heard it on the FM Radio in the Late sixties I Said: "Hey, That's What Happened to ME!"

It seems to describe LSD... and I Wonder... Did Plato Eat Psychedelic Mushrooms and Dance along the Paisley Path? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
In the allegory, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world. Three higher levels exist: the natural sciences; mathematics, geometry, and deductive logic; and the theory of forms.

Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are actually not reality at all. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.[1]

For More Info: See the Movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: Starring George Carlin... and That Guy from THE MATRIX... 

Nelson Mandala - Psychedelic Art by gvan42

Nelson Mandala - Psychedelic Art by gvan42

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit.

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit.

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - purple64ets - Gregory Vanderlaan
Think for Yourself and Question Authority

eBook: AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS [Since 1945, The Pentagon Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once] by Gregory Vanderlaan

Chapter Zero. Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. Frankly Speaking, Can't We Buy Total Failure at a Lower Price?

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Read a Book - My Favorites MEME - a part of the gvan42 FREE COLORING BOOK - Print this art and Color using Felt Pens - Gregory Vanderlaan
Read a Book - My Favorites
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 American Soldiers Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School... "Too Controversial"

During the 1950s Americans went into a Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and fallout shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs. During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "the Domino Principle"while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was that one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon they would take over Mexico and threaten the American Way of Life. Soon, President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. Then President Johnson sent even More American Soldiers to fight the Viet Cong. Then President Nixon continued the War for another 5 years before eventually he decided to allow the South Vietnamese to fight their own war and we left. Quickly the South lost and thousands of Boat People fled South Vietnam because they thought they would be killed. As it turned out, The Domino Principle was false. Communism did not take over the world. The entire war was a waste of lives and money.
Javascript Art - a Drawing Created using a Program by gvan42
Javascript Art -
a Drawing Created using a Program
by gvan42

Javascript Art - a Drawing Created using a Program by gvan42

George Carlin Talks About "Stuff" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

215 Bodies Found in a Grave Next to Indian School... In Canada...
My Great Grandmother was a Shuswap... but she moved to Oregon Before this Happened... Thanks For Escaping in Time! I wouldn't Have Been Born at all If She Had Stayed in Kamloops...  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/215-bodies-found-indigenous-school-canada/

EXPLAIN THIS! God Created Many Miracle Plants. Marijuana, Magic Mushrooms, Peyote, Opium, Ergot (LSD), Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds, DMT and Psychedelic TOADS... WHY? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/explain-this-god-created-many-miracle.html

BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/biomass-electric-power-plants-could.html

Know Your Mushrooms! Amanita Muscaria... Psychedelic but Dangerous... Red and White Cap... many people end up in the hospital... 
Photos of Poisonous Mushrooms Do Not eat the Red and White - Amanita Muscaria - the Psilocybin is Brown and Blue
a BETTER MUSHROOM is Psilocibin... it's brown and blue... 

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Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
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I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

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Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

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AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







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