As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Work Together to Build a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... Red and Blue People Coming Together to Make Purple...

Focus Your Attention on this Perfect Rose - AHHHH

How do we "love 'til there is no enemy"? A spiritual message for polarized times from Larisa Stow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?__s=r9mo2z66lkfdpb6es3d4&v=bAxRb5TYbK8&feature=youtu.be <--- Click on the Link!

Photographs of Chico, California - In the Central Valley of California – 100 Miles North of Sacramento. Nestled near the Foothills of Mount Lassen. Famous for Swimming in Chico Creek and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/photographs-of-chico-california/

BE SAFE! Wear Masks! Do Not Gather in Large Groups! Wash Your Hands! PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE SMART HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVING CORONAVIRUS! #IgnoreTrumpAndPence #TheyGiveBadAdvice 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/benefit-art-sale-all-profits-donated-to.html

Joe Biden is in Favor of Solar and Wind Power. tRUMP Was Bribed to Promote Oil and Coal. Any Questions?

Coal Barons Who Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Increasingly Suspicious Inauguration Fund May Get Huge Favor... BUT THE FAVOR FAILED AND MURRAY COAL WENT BANKRUPT ANYWAY! 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/joe-biden-is-in-favor-of-solar-and-wind.html

Peace and Love - Free Coloring Book Art... Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Your Friends... Dozens of Drawings...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

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I was an Unpaid Participant in Project MKULTRA... The CIA PAID Ken Kesey to find out what LSD DID... and IF it Could be Used as a Weapon...  and then they LET Kesey Steal a Lot of  LSD and Hold ACID TEST Parties... and Somehow, that evolved to Massive Group Trips at Grateful Dead Concerts with Very Little Law Enforcement... AND IT WAS FUN... It was an EXPERIMENT to see WHAT IF a million People Took LSD... Well, They Wouldn't KNOW What Would Happen until they Invented That MARKETING SCHEME of Deadheads Going on Tour Paying their Way by Dealing LSD and Tie-Dye T-Shirts... and so... THE CIA DEPLOYED LSD ONTO THE ENTIRE USA... and the rest is American History. 

On a related Subject: I've Always Been Moved by the PLATO STORY - "THE CAVE." When I Heard it first I Said... HEY, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! THAT'S MY LIFE! I've Left the Cave and Seen MORE than the Shadows on the Wall. Thank You, Dr. Albert Hofmann. --->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 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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

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Links to My Wordpress Blog:

“Lessons Learned” by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial and Error Yielded These Words of Wisdom…

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/lessons-learned-by-gregory-vanderlaan-a-lifetime-of-trial-and-error-yielded-these-words-of-wisdom-or-something-like-that/

It’s Important That We #DumpTrump Now. He Helped the Democrats Win in 2020 by The ENDLESS FAILURES During His Years as President.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/its-important-that-we-dumptrump-now-he-helped-the-democrats-win-in-2020-by-the-endless-failures-during-his-years-as-president/

NO NUKES! We REALLY Need to Guard the Atomic Waste at PG&E’s Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/no-nukes-we-really-need-to-guard-the-atomic-waste-at-pges-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant-near-eureka-california/

AWAKEN! You Giant Made of Sand… [FICTION] by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/awaken-you-giant-made-of-sand-fiction-by-gregory-vanderlaan/

Links to My Music Videos. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/links-to-my-music-videos/

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent’s Home in Los Gatos, CA https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

Elizabeth Warren has some GREAT Ideas: Tax the Rich… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/elizabeth-warren-has-some-great-ideas-tax-the-rich/

CRIMINAL Prosecution of Donald Trump is What’s Needed Now https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/criminal-prosecution-of-donald-trump-is-whats-needed-now/

PARLER is Online Again and I’m Posting #RUNAWAY From tRUMP Messages. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/parler-is-online-again-and-im-posting-runaway-from-trump-messages/

“IMPEACH BIDEN” TRUCKER HAT for sale… It’s Not Too Early to Start the Campaign… Kamala for President! Buttons! Stickers! Coffee Cups! T-Shirts! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/impeach-biden-trucker-hat-for-sale-its-not-too-early-to-start-the-campaign-kamala-for-president-buttons-stickers-coffee-cups-t-shirts/

Trump Is Right. Bring American Soldiers Home From Iraq and Afghanistan. There is NO VALID MISSION. VETO The NDAA. #DefundThePentagon — Refund That Wasted Money to the Taxpayers. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/trump-is-right-bring-american-soldiers-home-from-iraq-and-afghanistan-there-is-no-valid-mission-veto-the-ndaa-defundthepentagon-refund-that-wasted-money-to-the-taxpayers/

“Doing Evil for Money – a Novel” by Gregory Vanderlaan [another NSA Kiss and Tell Book] https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/doing-evil-for-money-a-novel-by-gregory-vanderlaan-another-nsa-kiss-and-tell-book/

The Path Forward… Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live… Let’s Heal America… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/the-path-forward-simple-suggestions-for-making-the-world-a-better-place-to-live-lets-heal-america/

Top Ten ART Gifts on My Zazzle Webstore – The People Have Spoken! With Their Wallets – All Royalties Donated to Charity – Psychedelic Art https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/top-ten-art-gifts-on-my-zazzle-webstore-the-people-have-spoken-with-their-wallets-all-royalties-donated-to-charity-psychedelic-art/

The COSTS of all those TV Advertisements for Prescription Medicines are PAID FOR BY THE PATIENTS. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/the-costs-of-all-those-tv-advertisements-for-prescription-medicines-are-paid-for-by-the-patients/

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics – Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves What is the Best Treatment.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-let-doctors-and-patients-decide-for-themselves-what-is-the-best-treatment/

gvan42 – Free Coloring Book… Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends… BIG FUN for the Whole Family! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/gvan42-free-coloring-book-print-as-many-copies-as-you-like-and-share-with-friends-big-fun-for-the-whole-family/

Almost Everyone Knows What They Were Doing on New Years Eve 1999... Y2K... Where Were You? What Were You Doing?

Gregory Laan

I was in a Cheap Motel Room watching VH-1 Behind the Music... Drinking Heavily... They Broadcast about 6 Hours of That Show... AND I MISSED GOING TO AN AA MEETING THAT NIGHT. That must have been an EPIC Event... Our Plan in the Event of Global Economic Collapse was for Celia and I To Go Live on Her Mother's Farm - Way Out in the Country... 

Mark: you didn’t miss anything

Me: What did you do?

Mark: haha not much I think I just stayed home

Me: You Don't Know? Gee, to me it was an Important night. Y2K was a Global "Thing" - Thankfully, all the COBOL Programmers Came out of Retirement and Reprogrammed the World's Computers...

 Mark: yeah it was. You would think I would know. Yeah the Y2K issue turned out to be a lot about nothing

 Me: Due to The EPIC LABOR of COBOL Programmers They Averted Catastrophe - My First Wife Got a LOT of Free Lance Work that year... They Recognized that there was a Problem, Figured out what the Solution was... and Did It... and the Public knew nothing about it... they all thought it was HYPE...

 Mark: haha yeah I knew a lot of programmers too it did feel like hype.

Steve: I was drawing caricatures at Canyon Oaks Country Club.

 Kathi: I was working in an Irish pub serving beers...we were SLAMMED! Lol

Tracey: I was a kid and it was stupid. The end.

 Sandy: I was in Hollywood! My now-ex-boyfriend and I were staying in a motel room on Sunset Blvd, and we had big plans to go out the following night because there was a club that night that we drove all the way from San Jose to go to. We didn't want to go out on NYE because places would be too crowded, so we stayed in the motel and drank champagne. Then at midnight, we drove to where we could see the Hollywood sign, because they lit it up for the millennium.

Brett: I went to a concert hall where my uncles were playing music, it was an eagles or something or other, one of those shitty club bars lol, but I was like 18, lots of friends and family were there who are no longer with us. We all got hammered, I don't know if there was a sober person in the place. My brother fell down and tried to hold on to a table with like a hundred drinks on it and tipped it over lol. Good times.

Me: I guess You Partied Like It was 1999... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4

Deborah: I was celebrating with my 3 young kids.....informing them about History and all kinds of various things other countries did to celebrate the "new year"....We watched all kinds of educational things on TV...Their Father had fallen asleep on the couch - so we covered him in Glitter to celebrate the date....It was a good night! LOL...♥️

Tim: Broadcasting the end of the world show on F.A.K.E.Radio

Travis: I was at the Pontiac silver dome watching Metallica, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.

Shivendu: At home with family.

Stevie: The Stevie Cook Band was playing a new years show at Feather Falls Casino. Right about midnight all the power went off. We thought "Oh no, this Y2K thing really happened!" It turned out that a car had run into a power pole.

Ken: Shiiiiid idk wat I was doing last week 😒

Photographs of the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Arcata, CA. Whimsical Art Bicycles travel 3 days over Road, Water and Sand thru Eureka to Ferndale.

I've been visiting the Kinetic Sculpture Race for many years. Every time I take my camera and document on websites the machines. My favorite location is the Manila Community Center. They have a big celebration there with live music, food, a jump balloon for the kids and food. The Sculptures Change their wheels from street tires to sand worthy tires. The next part of the race goes over sand dunes and on the beach. I've walked on the beach there during the race but it's really exhausting so in recent years I've not gone there. My wife never wants to go out to events so for years I've taken photographs for her to enjoy when I get home.

Links to More Photographs: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/carson-mansion-in-eureka-california.html

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/kinetic-sculpture-race-free-fun-for_27.html

TV Station Filming KSR in Manila going up the sand dunes to the Beach

Video:

Click on the Enterprise to Engage Engines When Loaded... 

or even if you are Not Loaded.

Obvious GOP Bribery: Gordon Sondland Paid tRUMP a Million Dollars for the Inauguration Celebration AND THEN He was Appointed Ambassador to the European Union AND THEN He Received a Million Dollars of Taxpayer Construction on His House.

AND THEN when He Testified on Capital Hill... He Blamed 

Everything on tRUMP and Rude Julie Anna!

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Gordon Sondland, key Trump Ukraine envoy, is using 

$1 million in public funds to upgrade his official residence.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/872410/gordon-sondland-key-trump-ukraine-envoy-using-1-million-public-funds-upgrade-official-residence

A curious question in all this is why Sondland, whose ambassador post is based in Brussels, was involved in Ukrainian diplomacy in the first place, given that Ukraine is not in the EU. But President Trump reportedly wanted him involved. Trump often gave him “special assignments,” Sondland has claimed, “including Ukraine.” Sondland’s donation of $1 million to Trump’s inauguration may have helped buy him the president’s ear.

https://www.vox.com/2019/10/10/20904504/gordon-sondland-impeachment-inquiry-testimony 

How Gordon Sondland, ‘a Guided Missile for Getting Access,’ Landed in the Middle of Trump’s Ukrainian Mess.

https://fortune.com/2019/10/17/who-is-gordon-sondland-testimony/

Drumpf [Trump] Threatens to Wreck the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington DC by turning it into A MAGA Campaign Rally. He plans a Foaming at the Mouth Mad Dog Speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

The Same Location that Dr Martin Luther King said "I Have a Dream." That Dream has Turned into a Nightmare... With a Crazy Killer Clown Haunting the White House...

Rudy Giuliani Cancels Trip to Uranus. He was going there to find "Dirt" on Joe Biden's Son. He Cancelled Because they told Rudy that he wasn't Welcome. GTFO! Go Home! We Had an Election and Sent Paul Manafort's Boy Back to Russia!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-ukraine.html

DJIA Loses 600+ Points. Stock Market Hammered by Trump's "Bonehead" Trade War. White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow says All Americans will be paying higher prices. Dow Jones Industrial Average "Goes Berzerker" and Everyone Loses Money...  Will Donald Drumpf [Trump] cause Global Economic Collapse? Will he Declare Bankruptcy AGAIN and ask His Father to Bail Him Out?

Which Side did the Drumpf [Trump] Family Support During World War Two? Germany or America? Germany. Looking at the Trump family, none of Trump’s parents, uncles, or first cousin seem to have served in World War II on the American side. Trump has second cousins on his German side living in Kallstadt who likely fought for Germany in World War II.

Why does President Trump Hate American Farmers? His Trade War has Reduced Profits, Increased Bankruptcies. He has CAUSED More Suicides, More Drug Addiction Overdoses and More Alcoholism than we had during the Obama Years. FACT! 

Democrats Could Hold Fund Raising Movie Showings of "Casablanca" or "The Sound of Music"... "There are Very Fine People on Both Sides." Said Donald Drumpf [Trump] about American Nazis Holding Tiki Torches at Twilight in Charlottesville... Just Like There were some Very Fine Germans During WW2... Like Wernher von Braun... The Reason these two movies would be perfect for Fundraisers is THEY ARE BOTH ABOUT FINE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE NAZIS... AND TODAY WE ARE FIGHTING THE NAZIS AGAIN... #DumpDrumpf

DJIA Loses 600+ Points. Stock Market Hammered by Trump's "Bonehead" Trade War. White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow says All Americans will be paying higher prices.

Dow Jones Industrial Average "Goes Berzerker" and Everyone Loses Money...  Will Donald Drumpf [Trump] cause Global Economic Collapse? Will he Declare Bankruptcy AGAIN and ask His Father to Bail Him Out? 

Rudy Giuliani Cancels Trip to Uranus. He was going there to find "Dirt" on Joe Biden's Son. He Cancelled Because they told Rudy that he wasn't Welcome. GTFO! Go Home! We Had an Election and Sent Paul Manafort's Boy Back to Russia!

Drumpf [Trump] Threatens to Wreck the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington DC by turning it into A MAGA Campaign Rally. He plans a Foaming at the Mouth Mad Dog Speech at the Lincoln Memorial. The Same Location that Dr Martin Luther King said "I Have a Dream." That Dream has Turned into a Nightmare... With a Crazy Killer Clown Haunting the White House... 

DENVER DECRIMINALIZES MAGIC MUSHROOMS. Imagine Going to RED ROCKS for a Concert after Eating LEGAL Magic Mushrooms... THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! A Brand new Wave of Psychedelic Tourism... I want to go!

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/09/721660053/in-close-vote-denver-becomes-first-u-s-city-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-mushroo

Unite Celebrations: Worldwide 4/21 in City Centers. Music, Chanting, Celebration of Love

http://www.uniteinbabylon.com/

On
21st of APRIL ( it might be a different day this year... do research for where and when)
we will synchronize with
our brothers and sisters all around the world !

In
Israel, India, Brazil, Mexico, Marocco, Australia, England, Scotland, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran, US, Thailand, Turkey
we will gather to create powerful chanting-circles in the middle of the city !

Our vision
is to take the light we cultivated over the years in small circles, rainbow gatherings and chanting circles and bring it to the cities, out into the streets, where it's needed the most .....................

From
the bottom of our hearts
we invite you chanters, musicians and foculizers to join us ......
The more people we are the more wonderful the vibe gonna be

Bring
your love, other lovely people, your voice, instruments, tea, blankets, candles, and everything else you need to feel comfortable ..........
It's on us!

HOMEPAGE:
http://www.uniteinbabylon.com/

Facebook GROUP:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UniteInBabylon

YOUTUBE Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/UniteInBabylon

"What IS a Rainbow Gathering?" To me it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I'm in the band.

Every year about 10,000 hippies and freethinkers go backpacking for a week on July 1st thru 7th. The location is always different and not revealed until about two weeks before it starts. Visit https://www.welcomehome.org/ to see where and what it is. I have attended four Rainbow Gatherings. The first gathering I attended was in Pennsylvania in 1987 then Idaho, California and Utah.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/what-is-rainbow-gathering-to-me-it-is.html
This is a description about my trip to The Rainbow Gathering in California 2004… I wrote this to help me remember…

Thousands of People chant OM. This photo was snapped just before I decided it was time to put away the camera and experience the event… Yes, it’s important to remember to LIVE LIFE instead of DOCUMENTING LIFE.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html
I went to the gathering with a goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory when there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-712014-heber-city.html

Main Circle: I feel positive with the meeting between

 the Mormon Youth of Salt Lake City and the Rainbow Gathering... 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-photographs-utah-2014.html 

Greg Vanderlaan in Heber City, Utah 

Often, there is a divide between performer and audience... 

It's better when the audience is the performer. 

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-art-and-mystory.html 

My experiences following the Grateful Dead...

It became apparent that there was something ELSE going on in addition to "rock and roll/show business". Some times I would not bother to buy a ticket to the concert at all but was happy to play music in the parking lot. Many people DID NOT attend the concerts. They went to experience the scene that surrounded the DEAD. There was a philosophy that the band was not the center of attention.

Dancing at the Rainbow Gathering in California... Dun Dun Village...

The Rainbow Gathering is the logical outgrowth of this feeling. The people from the audience (and other like minded individuals) meet in a National Forest and have a wonderful camping trip. At this level, the band does not even attend at all.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

In 1972, a friend of mine went to San Francisco and went to the Fillmore West and came back to our high school and said... LET"S BUILD OUR OWN.

That was the beginning of Forbes Mill in Los Gatos California... We had a light show and electric rock music every weekend at an abandoned stone flour mill in the center of town... On Wednesday nights we performed folk music. My band performed... I was the head of security and did advertising posters.

Since we had Town sponsorship of our "Teen Club" thru the organization Youth Unlimited, we had to make sure no laws were being broken or the police would shut us down. Certainly no drinking or illegal drug use or housing of runaways. My take on law enforcement was to direct potential lawbreakers to the nearby hole in the fence that lead to the wooded area next to the freeway.  I admit that a lot of laws were broken on State of California property, but that was NOT MY CONCERN. I was responsible for making sure that OUR property was crime free.

The light show was created by using four slide projectors and two spinning wheels with variable speed motors that blocked the light from reaching the white wall behind the bandstand. Each cardboard wheel had holes cut into it so that the slides would be projected in a stroboscopic manner.  Some slides were abstract art created by "crystal craze" paint and others were photographs.

We also owned a strobe light and I learned to not point it at the electric organ player because the blinking light made it impossible to see which keys were black and which were white...