What Did I Learn from My Near Death Experience? I've Always Had a Feeling that I Had Some Important Goal to Accomplish. Then I realized...

It wasn't so much of a BIG Goal that was Needed to Be Done but Helping People Daily Thru My Entire Life. Simply Making the World a Better Place To Live. That Was The Lesson. 

Since I Did Not Die at Age 19... I've held Many Jobs that Made a Difference... and I Joined AA where the Opportunity Arose to Do 12th Step Service... and Now that I'm Retired, I Can Write my Blog to Help People Learn How to Live... and Learn History... and Have Fun Printing Drawings to Color... It's a Wonderful World... 

My Jobs Included: Working as a Clerk in an Art Supply Store. I Helped People Buy Art Supplies and Gave Advice on How to Use What They Bought. Sometimes I Gave Bad Advice but In General, I Made the World a Better Place to Live... 

Then I Became a Draftsman in a Computer Company. We Made Machines that Helped Doctors Store their Patient's Charts. That's a Useful Idea... and Every Doctor Now Uses a Computer to Store Patient's Records.

Then I designed Equipment for the US Air Force. Helping to Defend the Country. 

Then I Delivered Pizza at Domino's... Helping Hungry People... Many Couldn't Leave the House... My Work Was Especially Useful During a Snowstorm...   

Then I Sold Electronic Equipment at Radio Shack. Helping People Solve Their Tech Problems. Our Store had a LOT of Retired Engineers that Could Give Accurate Technical Advice. I Learned from Those Old Men. 

Then I worked at The Welfare Department Helping Homeless People Live Indoors... and Get Food and Medicine... and Find a Job... 

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Now that I'm Retired... I Spend my Time Writing a Blog... Hopefully I Can Use this Platform to FIGHT BRAINWASHING by Republicans... Fox "News" Has A Mind Control CULT that Believes LIES...

I Know What it’s Like to Be Dead... 

Recently I Had a Colonoscopy. The Anesthetic used was propofol ( the same Drug that Killed Michael Jackson) – I remember in the Operating Room the Nurse said “Roll Over” and then Instantly I was in the Recovery Room Wondering IF I Had Had a Colonoscopy. So I asked… and She Said The Procedure was Over… and Would I Like a Cup of Coffee?

That’s What I Think Death is Like… Except no one brings you Coffee When You Wake Up because You Never Wake Up… 

 

You Can Do It! You Can WAKE THE F*CK UP! 

Did You Know that Fox "News" Was Caught Intentionally LYING and Had to Pay $787.5 Million Dollars? OH! You Didn't Know That? Because they Didn't Tell You that Fact ON FOX NEWS! Every OTHER TV News Station Covered that Story Except FOX... Surprise! They Lied By OMISSION! Keeping this News SILENT... 

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My Near Death Experience. In 1974 My Friends and I Went Backpacking at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. One Day We ate LSD and Peyote and Smoked some Marijuana... Then we went Mountain Climbing... 

Since We had a Lot of Extra Energy and Courage, We climbed up a Chimney... a crack in the granite rock where a person can Shimmy Up... I've never done that Before or After that Day. But That was a Special Day... Tripping!

Later, I walked down near the Edge of the Tuolumne River so I Could Watch the Water Bubbling UP in a Big Pool that had been Carved into the Granite over a Million Years...

and I Slipped IN! I Was Swimming Out of Control in the Raging Waters... The River Forced Me to the Bottom of the Pool... and then I GAVE UP... I RELAXED AND ACCEPTED DEATH. 

and then the River Pushed me Up to The Surface at a Spot Where I Could Climb Out. I walked back to the Campsite, got into my sleeping bag and stayed there for The Rest of the Day... Safe and Warm... 

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Hey... I believe that there is a Reason I Didn't Die that Day... I was Spared so I Could Accomplish some Unfinished Business... I Don't Know Exactly WHAT That Business IS... So I Just DO Everything As If It Was Important!

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hh.htm

Hidden in Yosemite National Park’s peaceful northwest corner, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a treasure worth visiting in all seasons. In spring, two of North America’s tallest waterfalls plummet spectacularly over thousand-foot granite cliffs. With its towering falls and dramatic domes, many have compared Hetch Hetchy’s grandeur to the more well-known Yosemite Valley. From early spring through late fall, visitors have easy access to a vast wilderness filled with high-country lakes, streams, and wildlife. Snowy winter days give adventurous visitors a chance to explore on skis or snowshoes.

I also enjoy singing songs and Playing the Guitar... This is My Latest Effort... a SATIRE of "LODI" By Creedence Clearwater Revival... 

"Oh Lord, Stuck in Ukraine Again...

Just about a Year Ago,

Vlad was Setting Out from Old Moscow...

Seeking to Bring Chernobyl, Back into the USSR...

The War Got Bad, The War Got Worse... I

Guess You Know it's True...

Pravda, The Russian People Got Screwed...

If I Only Had a Ruble, For Every Soldier Dead...

I could buy a Tractor and Start Me a Communal Farm...

But Vladimir is a Nutcase, He wants me to Go to the Front!

Oh Lord Stuck in Ukraine Again...

The Man from CNN, Said we were Gonna Lose...

Just Like in Afghanistan, we are Doomed to Bad News...

When the Babushkas Rise Up... It's time to Run Away!...

Oh Lord, Stuck in Ukraine Again... "

Original Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfQNB5WXmY

Chords and Lyrics:

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/creedence-clearwater-revival/lodi-chords-1048967

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My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7C0t31hww

LYRICS: 

Free All The Cannabis Prisoners...[3X][G D A D A] We Could Use the Empty Jail Cells...

for a Homeless Shelter. [2X][E, F/E, E] Nancy Reagan Was a Speed Freak.

Eating Doctor Pills. [C/E, B/E] and Then She Decided... to Clean UP... [Bb/E, A, E, A]

That's when she went on the

"Just Say Know" Crusade... [C/E, B/E] She Decided That Everyone Else

Should Clean UP TOO! [Bb/E, A, E, A]

Hey Kids! What Do You Say...

When Your Doctor Offers You Drugs? [2X] [G D A D A] Don't Be Like Nancy and Say Gimme MORE...

Gimme MORE Gimme MORE MORE MORE![E F F# G G# A] "Just Say Know!" Knowledge is Important!

K. N. O. W. [G D A D A] [3X] Knowing What Drugs are Safe...

Could Save Your Life... [E, F/E, E] Reagan's War on Drugs Turned Out

To Be a Horrible Disaster! [C/E, B/E] Millions of Lives Ruined. [Bb/E, A, E, A] Billions of Dollars Wasted.

All because Nancy Was Getting Wasted... [C/E, B/E]

Look at her! She Was an Obvious Meth Monkey! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Nancy Was a Speed Freak! That's Why She Was So Skinny![3X][G D A D A] Well, sHE'S dEAD nOW...

eVENTUALLY THE dOCTOR pILLS kILLED hER... [E, F/E, E] hER oPINIONS Just dON'T cOUNT aNYMORE!... [E, F/E, E] Legalize the Kind Herb... Tax It, Regulate It. [2X][G D A] Use The Money for Health Care...

Instead of "For Profit" Prisons... [E, F/E, E] We Need Treatment For Addicts...

Before we Have ANOTHER 400,000 Opioid Deaths...[E, F/E, E] They Say Medical Marijuana has No Medical Value. [C/E, B/E] The Government is Lying and...

Kids are Not That Easily Fooled! [Bb/E, A, E, A] Consider This: The Government Lied to US... About Marijuana... [C/E, B/E] Could they Be Lying about

EVERYTHING ELSE TOO? [Bb/E, A, E, A] 9/11? Roswell? The Kennedy Assassination? Enquiring Minds Want To Know! [G D A] Why Should Taxpayers Pay and Pay and Pay for Incarceration? [2X][G D A D A] That Makes No Sense! [2X][E, F/E, E] C/E = E0 A0 D5 G5 B5 e0 B/E = E0 A0 D4 G4 B4 e0 Bb/E = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0 A = E0 A0 D3 G3 B3 e0

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Let's Legalize Marijuana, Tax it and Free ALL The Cannabis Prisoners. REFUND The Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement to The Taxpayers!

It's A VOLUNTARY TAX!
I Wouldn't Pay a Penny 'Cause I Don't Smoke...

Contact your Senators and
Representative in the House...
Tell 'em to END CrazyLaws®
https://www.senate.gov/
and
https://www.house.gov/

Biden's Position: decriminalization, expunging past convictions, federal rescheduling, legalizing cannabis for medical purposes and letting states set their own policies.

THAT'S BETTER THAN CRAZYLAWS Like We Have Now!

What's Trump's Position? 

Marijuana (cannabis) and the rights of individual states to legalize recreational and medical marijuana was an issue of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and he formally stated during his campaign that he believed states should have the right to manage their own policies with regard to medical and recreational marijuana.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Donald_Trump_administration

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A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... 

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If One Pill Can Kill... My Advice is to Not Eat Fentanyl at All... BUT... For Safety's Sake, Why Not Take Half a Fentanyl and then Wait an Hour before Taking the Other Half... OR Not... Maybe a Half Pill Got You High Enough?

Of Course... If You are High on Fentanyl You Might NOT Be able to Make a Valid Decision about Taking Another Half Pill... The Questions "Am I High Enough" might be Just Too Damn Tricky!

 Why Not simply Eat Cannabis Cookies and Drink Coffee instead? In Many States in the USA, Cannabis Cookies are Legal and Quality & Dosage is Tested... I found that eating Two Cookies and a Large Cup of Strong Coffee Got me Plenty Stoned... 

and then I Rode the Monorail to The Space Needle in Seattle... I Played the Musical Toys at the Experience Music Pavilion... a Tribute to Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain... 

I Remember that in the 1970s We used to Cut our Windowpane LSD Gelatin Squares into Four Pieces and Eat One Quarter... Just to Verify that it was Actually Real... often the "ACID" Sold to Teenagers was a Witches Brew of Compounds that would make you feel strange... NOT ACTUAL LSD... and the Only Way to find out what it was... Was to Eat a Quarter Dose and wait an Hour... Often I would Realize that It WAS Good Quality but That I was ALREADY HIGH ENOUGH... So I'd Give away the rest... 

One Reason I Recommend Against Fentanyl is... I Don't LIKE the Opium High... Yes, I Felt Like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland... My Body Vanished and All I Had Left was my Grin... BUT... It made me feel Nauseous... Queasy... You See, "they" Sold Smoke-able Opium in the Parking Lot of The Grateful Dead Concerts... and It was an Excellent Combination with LSD... Because Often LSD Made me feel Anxious... but Opium Calmed me Down... I remember one time I visited the National Art Gallery at the Smithsonian... and totally GROKKED the Paintings... then Went to a Tangerine Dream Concert at the Warner Theater... Excellent!

and then I Read a Question on FaceBorg:

Can lab grown meat replace the real meat?

and I Replied: 

If Corporations can make more money selling lab meat then pretty soon that's all that will be available... I Remember in the Asimov Book Foundation: The Son said "MOM! Not Zymoveal Again! I Hate That!" when they sat down for dinner... 

Isaac Asimov in 1953 described in "The Caves of Steel" feeding the burgeoning world population with a yeast-based food he called "zymoveal"

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Why Not Let Doctors and Patients Decide What Medicine is Best? Get the BRIBED Politicians OUT! They Are Puppets of Big Pharma!

 If the FDA Regulated Psychedelics; Quality, Purity and Dosage Testing would protect the consumer from Unknown Dangerous Drugs. Currently, Criminals That Sell "ACID" often Mix a Witches Brew of Chemicals that Make People Feel Strange... For Example: Fentanyl and Methamphetamine makes for a Pill that Truly "Blows Your Mind" but Often Kills the Consumer... 

“Robert Crumb”
Bronze statue Commissioned in 2002-03 by Felix Dennis for his “Garden of Heroes & Villains” in Dorsington, England. 

ZAP Comic Cover:

The first poster to bring Wes Wilson to the doorstep of future fame back in 1965.... I've got my original and rare first printing framed in very fitting chrome barbed wire with blood red barbs that I made. One of the very first posters that Wes signed for me over 50 years ago!
We're not too far off the mark these days.... more than ever!

Mountain Girl and Bus

The Merry Pranksters are a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically and variably labeled "Further" or "Furthur". Their early escapades were chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Wolfe also documents a notorious 1966 trip on Further from Mexico thru Houston, stopping to visit Kesey's friend novelist Larry McMurtry. Kesey was on the lam from a drug charge at the time.

Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady, Carolyn Garcia (also known as Mountain Girl), Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, Kentucky Fab Five author Ed McClanahan (also known as "Captain Kentucky"), Gurney Norman, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, Anonymous (Linda Breen) and John Page Browning (also known as "Rampage" or the "Cadaverous Cowboy").

A hippie was a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was first popularized in San Francisco by Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, although by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date”. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. I was there! In later years, mobile "peace convoys" of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society.

During the past few years, attempts to put on exhibits to expound on the Hippies or Summer of Love or of Woodstock was and is well meant, but somewhat futile as is like trying to capture lighting in a bottle….. Nice try, but (IMHO) …no cigar. The philosophies of the true Hippie does still live on but these days to run across a true Hippie is a lot harder than you may think. Alas…..keep your eyes open, they’re still out there just the same, but not always where you may think them to be.

Still lett'in MY Freak Flag Fly!

and then SC Replied:

I was born too late to be a TRUE Hippie (1962), but I am & always will be a Hippie in my Heart. I got on the Grateful Dead bus in 1980 & never got off 

 I've kept the ideals of peace, love & environmental activism my whole life! I'm married to a slightly older, late blooming Hippie as well. (40yrs next month!)

and then SD Said:

A hippie was a lifestyle choice not a person or thing we lived on in our lives with a acceptance mindset that went beyond being liberal it was being truer to our inner spiritual self and a willingness to accept that we may not change others but we could change ourselves I know many that have not changed a bit and some who have but I judge not least I believe in the inherent ability of our creator to give us strength to adapt to change and still be able to be a hippie at our core Loving caring forgiving gentle and generous humans...

and SOC Said: 

Very well explained and very accurate. I lived it and my inner Hippie lives on at age 70. I'm so glad to have come up in that Era, with all the great music, experimentation, play, and fantastic creativity. We were encouraged to be ourselves, not clones. We were colorful, to say the least. And we were well intentioned, with perhaps an air of too much naiveté....I so agree with you that the summer Hippie Fests are just so wanna- be and syrupy. You really had to live it to really get it. It truly was spontaneous and very organic. To recreate it just isn't possible in today's world. Blessed am I have to have been part of that scene while it lasted.

• HOLY GRAIL of ROCK POSTERS •
One of the most rare and sought after psychedelic rock posters from any era. From the summer of 1969 comes this Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa by the late & legendary Rock Artist Extraordinaire Rick Griffin. It was for a show that was CANCELLED so the posters are very few and far between, only a couple of dozen are known to exist! Griffin did the first Aoxomoxoa for a series of shows the Grateful Dead did in January of 1969 at the Avalon ballroom, and the Dead in turn, flipped that artwork into the cover of their third album. Griffin reworked the art from those shows, into the Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa. This poster is SOOOOO VERY rare. It was for an event in Hawaii, that was supposed to be for three days at the Honolulu international Center in Honolulu Hawaii. Besides the Dead, It's a Beautiful Day was also on the bill. Can you imagine how many hours went into this poster ?!
The shows were cancelled, the promoter never paid the printer, and the printer threw most of the items in the trash can. Of course there wasn't a collectors market for these items at the time. Legend has it that Rick Griffin captured a few before they were thrown out and brought them back on the plane with him. A few of the cut ones, and a few of the ones with the handbills still not cut off of them. These are the ONLY remaining ones that have survived.
And so it was on this day 54 years ago that the Aoxomoxoa Tour with the Grateful Dead, It's a Beautiful Day and Starchild at the Honolulu International Center was "supposed" to take place. The second reprinting of this poster is somewhat smaller than the original and is recently beginning to rise in price as well. The second printing as seen here also has a white border while it is black on the original as you can see in my framed picture of the poster in the comments.

Aloha.... Share this rare one!
Most definitely Approved by
ProfessorPoster

Cause and Effect of the 1960s Hippie Movement - Written by Emily Marsden - A long thoughtful Article...

https://emilyemarsden.wordpress.com/academic-writing/cause-and-effect-of-the-1960s-hippie-movement/


In the 1960s, a new group of young, long-haired and wild people began to form in San Francisco, California and soon spread throughout the rest of the country. These people were given the name hippies, defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as, “a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society and advocates a nonviolent ethic.” Hippies were young adults that derived from the middle-class, rejecting the older generation’s rules and rebelling against the ideal of work and ambition. The hippie movement started to form after President Kennedy’s assassination and became even more apparent because of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the surfacing of mind-altering drugs and a new kind of music. Because of the hippie movement, laws have been created banning illicit drugs and discrimination and more races, ethnicities and lifestyles are accepted.

Hippies created their own counterculture that revolved around free love, peace, drugs and music. They were the anti-establishment, outraged by the Vietnam War and protested for peace. Hippies were non-violent and turned to drugs and music to rebel and to feel freedom and a new experience. They believed in expanding their sexual relations, encouraging any kind of sex and throwing all taboos out the window. They encouraged nudity, going against the old Puritan values of modesty and finding the beauty in the human body. Hippies wanted healthier, more organic food to eat, contrary to the manufactured, TV-styled dinners that many Americans had come to enjoy. The hippie movement was all about discovering new things, exploring new ideas and rebelling against society.

In 1963, the U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated, thus beginning to alienate American youth from the government. After Kennedy’s murder, the ideas of conspiracy and government cover-ups gripped America and caused an epidemic of paranoia. The media helped to create the post World War II era a climate of fear of communism by emphasizing the growing strength of the enemy every day.

In 1965, after the Vietnam War had been active for nearly ten years, Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, initiated a strong escalation of the American involvement in Vietnam. By 1968, there were massive anti-Vietnam War marches, protests, sit-ins and student strikes in major cities and on college and university campuses across the country. Young men were being drafted against their will to fight in the war and over time, their resistance grew stronger, leading up to even more protests. Leading most of these protests were hippies. Young adults had become disgusted with the war and the society they lived in and rebelled against the traditional American lifestyle, craving peace and happiness.

As the Vietnam War dragged on, the nation watched their world crash and their loved ones come home wounded or sometimes not even come home at all. Hippies, along with many others, grew dreary and just wanted everyone to get along, so they were directly affected by the Civil Rights Movement. Many hippies believed that everybody was equal and that everyone deserved the same right to go to school and vote. Along with war protests, they also took part in protests against discrimination. They did not just march and use their voices to protest against the war and racism, but they also used their appearance by growing out their hair, wearing colorful clothing and jewelry and patching up their jeans.

Along with their bold clothing choices, hippies, along with many others, took advantage of a new form of contraception that was being offered known as “The Pill.” Sex no longer meant having children, so it became more casual. Free love was a common concept at the time and hippies believed that one was free to love whomever they pleased, however and whenever they pleased. This philosophy encouraged young adults to explore their sexuality more than they had before. Sex became an open and accepted part of the hippie lifestyle and many explored non-traditional sex, including group sex, public sex and homosexual sex.

Hippies discovered new ways to express themselves through protests and sex; they also turned to music as a form of emotional, spiritual and political expression. Music was more than just a form of entertainment, but it also passed on a message and allowed people to explore their inner world and guide them on a quest for meaning. Along with music, hippies used drugs such as marijuana and LSD for self-exploration, freedom, rebellion and a new experience. At the time, people did not know the dangers of drug use and it was normal to smoke or swallow whatever was handed to them. The infatuation with LSD lasted for a number of years until it started to get negative publicity because of the traumatic trips and flashbacks that began to emerge. On October 6th, 1966, LSD was made illegal in the United States, although the prohibition did not lead to a lower consumption until years later. On October 27th, 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was passed, fighting against drug abuse and preventing the possession of controlled substances

The hippie movement was a direct effect on the laws that were created to prevent drug use that still exist today. The hippie movement also affected the Civil Rights Movement, which eventually resulted in several laws giving African Americans and women the same rights and white men, including the equal rights to vote and to an education and work. Women are no longer expected to be housewives and it is accepted if a woman wants to have a job.

Distinct appearance and clothing was also one of the immediate legacies of hippies. Since that time, a wide range of personal appearance options and clothing styles, including nudity, have become more widely acceptable, all of which was uncommon before the hippie era. Hippies also inspired the decline in popularity of the necktie and other business clothing, which had been unavoidable for men during the 1950s and early 1960s. Additionally, the style of the 1960s hippies influenced clothing fashions and trends for decades after and some still exist among the teenage population today, especially the peace symbol and colorful jewelry.

Because of hippie’s sexual openness, alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality and transexuality are generally more accepted. Young adults have become more sexually active at a younger age because of the influence of past generations. Overall, the hippie movement was a time of not only exploring oneself and rebelling against society, but it was also a time of acceptance. After the hippie movement, African Americans, working women, homosexuals, nudity and non-traditional apparel all became generally more accepted. Without the hippie movement, the United States would not be as free and adoptive as it is today. The 1960s was a highly influential time and the hippies were highly influential people. Bob Dylan, a musical sensation and activist of the hippie movement said, “People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.”

Travel Pages

Virtual Journey to the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Arcata, CA - Photos and Videos

Virtual Journey thru the Trinity Alps of Northern California - From Arcata to Redding

Virtual Journey to the Lost Coast of Northern California. From the Avenue of the Giants to Victorian Ferndale

Virtual Journey to the Star Wars Redwood Forest - From Highway 101 to Red Bluff thru Remote Humboldt County

Virtual Journey to Eureka, Arcata and Trinidad

Pastels on the Plaza Benefit Art Show Happening - People Draw Art on the Sidewalk to Raise Money for North Coast Head Start

Fun Things to Do in Eureka and Arcata - The Tallest Trees, The Finest Herb and Six Rivers

Virtual Journey from Washington DC to Key West and then Niagara Falls - Stopping at the Rainbow Gathering in Pennsylvania

My Best Posts:

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.

My Autobiography - Growing up in Los Gatos, CA in the 1960s

Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You Like... Color Using Felt Pens or Colored Pencils... Share with Friends!

Numbers have Cultural Meaning: A List from Zero to Infinity and Beyond! For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Let Doctors and Patients Choose What Medicine is Best for Themselves... No Need for Bribed Politicians Making Medical Decisions!

CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...

#BubbleUP Economics Works! Raise the Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars an Hour - Raise All Social Security Checks 15% - WE PROMISE TO SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits... EVERYBODY WINS!

Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

More My Best Posts:

SEE? Do Evil, Get Punished. Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers Found Guilty... Did You Know that He Shot Himself in the Eye with his Own Gun? He was working as a Firearms Safety Instructor and Had an Accident! SEE? I Told You So! Playing With Guns is CRAZY!

How to IMPEACH THE SCOTUS - Take Action Now! Contact Your Representative in the US House.Tell 'em to Throw The Corrupt GOP Justices OUT!

FENTANYL KILLS: This Information Has Been Kept Secret by The Deep State... But... NOW YOU KNOW!

#FRANCE1789 The Violet Overgrow is Coming. The Failure of the Ruling Class Is Obvious. Join Us in Washington DC for an EXORCISM...

Rainbow Gathering 2023 - July 1-7 in a National Forest In the northern Appalachians, including and between the Alleghenies and the White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire, USA.

Operation MindSprout - How to Build Your Own Idea Factory! Forge Concepts while you Sleep - It's Easy!

HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL! Will they Keep On Postponing? FOREVER? I Hope SO... It's a Totally Bogus Plan designed by Trump to Punish Immigrants... Since Trump is No Longer President the "NEED" to Hassle Immigrants Has Vanished!

The Real Reason Merrick Garland Refuses to Arrest Donald Trump. They are afraid that the Next Time a Republican is Elected President, He Will Have Joe Biden Arrested... As Long as Donald Trump is "Above the Law", they ALL are "Above the Law" and No One Will Ever Be Held Accountable.