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I Oppose War Between the USA and Russia. Let's say NO to the "No Fly Zone" Requests. Let's Say NO to Supplying Ukraine with Fighter Jets. It's THEIR WAR Not OURS.

"Those People Over There Are Behaving Crazy Again. Sure Glad It Isn't US."

Let's Continue to send Humanitarian Aid But Not Get Involved Militarily. Too Much of a Chance for a Nuclear War and the End of Life on Planet Earth. 

The BEST Hope for Peace in Ukraine is if the Russian Oligarchs Arrest PUTIN. The New President Could Simply End the War and Blame Putin for all the Troubles.  I Like the Sanctions... The More Money Russian Businessmen Lose the Faster They'll Have Putin Removed... 

I'm Totally in favor of Hackers attacking Russian Businesses, Military & Government Online... The DDoS Attacks by Anonymous Have Been Effective. Thanks! I Might as Well be In Favor Because They Certainly Are Not Looking For My Opinion or Approval... I Hope They Disrupt Supply Chains... 

Put Putin in Prison - and Putin's Puppet Too!
Put Putin in Prison - and Putin's Puppet Too!


I Wrote to These Four People. Told 'em my Opinion... They'll Never Know What I Think Unless I Tell 'em. 





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Find Your Representative:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports, Natural Gas and Coal toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, but he acknowledged it will bring costs to Americans, particularly at the gas pump.

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Why Biden Is Exactly Right to Reject a 'No-Fly Zone' for Ukraine

Shooting down Russian planes and bombing Russian anti-aircraft sites would greatly increase the risks of escalation, up to and including a nuclear confrontation.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/07/why-biden-exactly-right-reject-no-fly-zone-ukraine

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On a different subject:

Interest in Eastern Religion is Fundamentally BEATLEMANIA. Teenagers Going Ga Ga over The Fab Four's Adventure. We must Remember that Back when India was a Colony, Young Men in England Often Went there as a Coming of Age Ritual. Serving in the Military or as Employees of a British Corporation... It's No Surprise That The Beatles Made that Same Journey... It's Kind of a Phase People Go Thru... Like American College Students Read "The Russians" as a Part of their Undergraduate Education... or Spending the Junior Year in Europe... Investigating Eastern Religion is a Step on their Spiritual Journey... and Once We Have Done That Step, it's time to Move On... It would be really silly to be Chanting Sanskrit in Your 40s... "Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh What A Fool I Am..."

Another Example of "Lads Gone Native" is the Tale of Lord Greystoke... also known as Tarzan... In Fact, Many British Men went to Africa to Build Railroads and Entire Towns in the Colonies. A Great Movie about this is "The Ghost and the Darkness" - it's a 1996 American historical adventure film starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

Of Course, "After Bathing at Baxters" (Eating LSD) there is an Automatic Interest in Eastern Religion... Mainly because one of the Standard Effects of Psychedelics is that "True Enlightenment" Feeling... I Felt like I Was The Buddha... Watching a Sunrise While Sitting in a Field in Chico, CA - Many People Have a Religious Experience and Almost None simulate what Happened to Jesus... Most Simulate Moses or Buddha or KRSNA. And then Later it's FUN to Read Books Like "Remember, Be Here Now" that appeals to American Teenagers Just Like Any Other Comic Book Would. Most of that Book is Wonderful Illustrations with a Few Words Explaining the Fundamentals of Hinduism... It's Ironic that the Man who taught Richard Alpert to Be Here Now was a Laguna Beach Surfer Named Kermit Michael Riggs. So They Both went all the way to India to Get California Teachings! But Seriously, They Both Had Many Interesting Experiences There and Met a Guru... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)

It's pretty Obvious that Vladimir Putin Has Not Had the LSD Experience. He Still Has that Pre-Psychedelic World View... Some People Missed the Magic Bus and It Shows... SAD... 

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and then I read:

A man was asked to paint a boat. He brought his paint and brushes and began to paint the boat a bright red, as the owner asked him.
While painting, he noticed a small hole in the hull, and quietly repaired it.
When he finished painting, he received his money and left.
The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and presented him with a nice check, much higher than the payment for painting.
The painter was surprised and said “You've already paid me for painting the boat Sir!”
“But this is not for the paint job. It's for repairing the hole in the boat.”
“Ah! But it was such a small service... certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so insignificant.”
“My dear friend, you do not understand. Let me tell you what happened:
“When I asked you to paint the boat, I forgot to mention the hole.
“When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and went on a fishing trip.
“They did not know that there was a hole. I was not at home at that time.
“When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was desperate because I remembered that the boat had a hole.
“Imagine my relief and joy when I saw them returning from fishing.
“Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole!
“You see, now, what you did? You saved the life of my children! I do not have enough money to pay your 'small' good deed.”
So no matter who, when or how, continue to help, sustain, wipe tears, listen attentively, and carefully repair all the 'leaks' you find. You never know when one is in need of us, or when God holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone.
Along the way, you may have repaired numerous 'boat holes' for several people without realizing how many lives you've save. ❤️
Make a difference....

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and then I read: 

I DON'T THINK PISSED REALLY COVERS IT ! ! !

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bxxxxds" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bxxxxxxt" to your incompetence.
Well, Captain Bxxxxxxit, I have a few questions for YOU:
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bxxxxxxt, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bxxxxx.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!
I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years “It's my money”-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks .
EVERYONE!! If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please PASS IT ON!!!!

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and on the Subject of The San Francisco Diggers and Humboldt County.

This far-ranging interview offers Jane Lapiner and David Simpson’s P.O.V. of the whole SF Haight/Ashbury experience, leading up to the beginning of the Back to the Land Movement and beyond. I’m honored to have provided the lead illustration, which came from an interview I did a few years ago with them in connection with their work with their theater troupe: Human Nature. (Look for it the the comments.)
I will have to go back through Jay’s interview to follow the many links to others connected to The Diggers and many other characters in the wider hippie/commune world.
Also, be aware of the connection with the current Women 2 Fierce Festival. On Thursday at 8 pm and Friday at 9:30 pm, Joyous Raven will present her one-woman autobiographical theater piece, “Breed or Bust,” where she “wrestles with” the big question, “to breed or not to breed.” Joyous is the progeny of Jane and David, who thankfully decided to breed.
When I interviewed her parents, they were touring around the world with a musical comedy titled, “What’s So Funny About Global Warming?” At the time Ms. Raven was aka Joyous Simpson, and in a bit of overshadowing, she was playing a character called Raven. Somewhere I have a Human Nature t-shirt with a Raven on it. I’ll have to see if I can dig it out.
Anyway, put aside some time to ramble through this long strange trip through our mutual history. And yes, the Grateful Dead make a fleeting appearance along with numerous fascinating people.
Diggers many years later


In 2010, I drove to northern California from my home in Joshua Tree to interview as many living Diggers as would talk to me. Each conversation over those few days felt like a breakthrough—a motherlode of historical detail and insight beyond what I had gleaned from book research. And each Digger I interviewed was excited to learn that I was headed to Humboldt County to interview Jane Lapiner and David W. Simpson at their forest home. This couple, together since April, 1967, was beloved by other Diggers. If I was interviewing them, it meant that I was really doing my work. Instant Diggers cred.
In 2022, the Diggers are little-known. But in 1966-8, such was the Diggers’ presence and notoriety that seemingly every reporter filing a story on the Haight included the Diggers in their account. “A band of hippie do-gooders,” said Time magazine. “A true peace corps,” wrote local daily newspaper columnist (and future Rolling Stone editor) Ralph J. Gleason. The Beatles’ press officer Derek Taylor would later write, “[The Diggers] were in my opinion the core of the whole underground counterculture because they were our conscience.”
Jane Lapiner and David Simpson were in their mid-20s during the Diggers period. Jane was a single mother from New York City with a background in leftist, avant garde dance; David was a Chicago-bred lefty dropout from the University of Wisconsin, who’d been a competitive boxer in high school, shared a house with pre-stardom Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, served in the Coast Guard and was trimming trees in the East Bay when… But hold on, I’m telling their stories, instead of letting these award-winning storytellers tell it themselves.
What follows is a consolidation of conversations the three of us had one night and the next morning inside their farmhouse home, warmed by a wood stove and good food. I am grateful for their hospitality, and the life-example they continue to set. There are some ‘60s people who went back to the land and didn’t fail. Jane and David are those people.
(link to 18,000-word interview in comments)
photo: Bob Doran for North Coast Journal, 2010


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FOR CYBER MONDAY: Refuse to Consume - Boycott Everything or PAY CASH Under the Table - Do Not Participate in tRUMP's So Called "Booming" Economy... I keep on seeing TV Advertisements That Express The Concept That BUYING PLASTIC CRAP CAUSES ECSTATIC DANCING... That's False!

Think About This for a Moment... 
Don't You Have Everything You Want Already?

MEME - gvan42 - pay cash - refuse to be part of tRUMP's so called Booming Economy

STOP BUYING STUFF. With Trump Campaigning on his So Called "Booming" Economy, We Can Refuse to Participate... Why Not buy Food for Cash at your Local Farmers Market?

That Sale is Never Counted in Economic Statistics because the Local Farmers just put it Directly into their Pocket and Never Report It as Income on their Income Taxes... Buy your WEED from your friendly neighborhood dope dealer... They CERTAINLY don't report sales to the Government... as for other things... Do You Really Need to Buy Stuff at All? Don't you Already Have Everything? If you are reading this, You already Own a Computer or a Phone That Works... and There Is No Reason to Buy a New Computer or New Phone BECAUSE WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE IS GREAT! They Say You need a Brand New Plastic Gizmo BUT THEY ARE LYING! 
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Yes, It's True that Trump Will Continue To Lie About His Failed Economy BUT... ALL News Reports Have a Tendency to Reflect Reality... Even FOX News Reports when The Stock Market Goes Down... and The DJIA has been Going Down a LOT Recently... Trump Makes EXCUSES... He Blames The Media and Aliens but... More and More People are ACTUALLY LOOKING IN THEIR OWN WALLETS AND REALIZING that a Tax Cut for the RICH doesn't do them any GOOD at All! Currently, Farmers can't sell to China and they are Going Bankrupt in Record Numbers. Truckers are Being Laid Off - 2,500 this year alone... Prices are Higher, Wages are Lower, Layoffs and Bankruptcies Every Day... All Accurate News Reports Says We Are Experiencing a Trump-0-Nomics Disaster... DO YOUR PART! REFUSE TO CONSUME... DO NOT HELP HIM GET REELECTED... Need a new Chair? Buy one for Cash from a Neighbor... Need a Bullet Proof Backpack for Your Children For School? Well, Go Ahead and Buy One from Walmart or Amazon... SOME Purchases are Justified... Remember: It's Easy to Refuse To Consume Because MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO EXTRA MONEY ANYWAY... Buy a New Car? That's Absurd! Who can afford That on an UBER Driver's Earnings? Buy a Home? Not a Chance! BUY ANYTHING? Nope, Not with THIS Paycheck... Everyone I Know is REALLY HURTING... Is it any surprise that Fashion Style Features Jeans with Holes in them? Yep, Real People are wearing their Jeans for Decades and Wearing Holes in them! Did you notice that it's "Totally Groovy" to Shop at Thrift Stores? If you buy NEW STUFF you are propping up Trump's Economy... In my hometown we have a GREAT store Called The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Store and It's Wonderful... We also have the Saint Vincent DuPaul Thrift Store. It's FUN to shop there because it's always different surprises... Not the Plastic Crap You Find at Walmart. What About Dumpster Diving? Sometimes People Throw Away Stuff because It's Inconvenient to Transport. I remember that at the College Town of Chico, at the end of the School Year, students would just throw away stuff instead of taking it home for Summer Vacation... REALLY! Be Aware! There is a Famous Book written by Abbie Hoffman ( Leader of the YIPPIES! ) called "Steal This Book" that documents How to Get Everything for FREE! 

OK, You HAVE to buy Gas for your Car IF YOU DRIVE. You HAVE to enrich ExxonMobilBPShellHaliburtonDowDuPont... There is NO ALTERNATIVE... Those people are destroying the Earth with their Climate Change but... ONLY IF YOU BUY THEIR GAS... Only if you Buy their Plastic Crap made from OIL... Years ago people drove voluntarily just for fun... I Myself drove all over the USA to go hear the Grateful Dead Play Concerts. Well, those days are GONE... Maybe it wasn't a Brilliant Idea after all... Whatever... Too Late NOW! Today, it makes sense to drive to work... to drive your kids to school... and to drive to the farmers market once a week... However, all that other driving around is not really needed and ACTUALLY DOES EVIL... And... STOP FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES! It is possible to Use the Internet to DO PicturePhone Communication... All business deals can be done using PicturePhones... Why go all the way across the Country to make a sales call in person? It's Cheaper and More Ecological to use Technology to do the deal... LEARN from Greta Thunberg... She is Sailing from Sweden on a Solar Powered Sailboat so she can attend a Climate Change Conference in the USA... She could have Flown in a Jet Airplane but THAT WOULD BE INSANE! Get a Clue, Boeing Airplanes are Falling out of the sky and crashing... killing everyone on board... Well, COULD THAT BE A SIGN? 

50th anniversary of the Summer of Love... The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain, The culture of the United States was radically different before the 60's...

LSD Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan vandergreg gvan42 purple64ets gregvan

The conformism of the 50's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

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The Diggers of San Francisco were a street theater company famous for their slogan "Today is the first day of the rest of your Life." They provided free food in Golden Gate park to needy Hippies during the Summer of Love. They also created a "Free Store" where all the merchandise was free. I suppose that they were skilled in getting donations. They also walked around Haight Street with a giant picture frame that passers by could step through in order to change their "Frame of Reference." The Diggers were part of the SF mime troupe, Bill Graham worked for them also as a benefit dance promoter/arranger to raise funds  by having local bands play and selling tickets. He later became the most successful rock music show promoter in the USA.

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American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.


Thunder Machine:
Their (with Joe Lysowski) best-known collaboration was a large “Thunder Machine”—big enough to enter, and covered in swirling psychedelic color—which produced a cacophony of tone and echo from the pounding, drumming, mumbling and shouting of those within and without. It was a favorite at the San Francisco Trips Festival and occasionally at Ken Kesey's Acid Trips—popular enough to require repeated repainting and re-welding:

Ken Kesey and the Thunder Machine



I have heard many people inquire lately about Kesey's THUNDER MACHINE > Here are some close ups, including a rare shot of the inside! I believe that Zane made mention that it was a "remake of the original" but I very well might have misinterpreted? I must thank Zane for graciously having us all over to the "art barn." posted by Fred Schrott




1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain... The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.
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The Diggers of San Francisco were a street theatre company famous for their slogan "Today is the first day of the rest of your Life." They provided free food in Golden Gate park to needy Hippies during the Summer of Love. They also created a "Free Store" where all the merchandise was free. I suppose that they were skilled in getting donations. They also walked around Haight Street with a giant picture frame that passers by could step through in order to change their "Frame of Reference." The Diggers were part of the SF mime troupe, Bill Graham worked for them also as a benefit dance promoter/arranger to raise funds by having local bands play and selling tickets. He later became the most successful rock music show promoter in the USA.
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Currently, a peaceful village called Arcata, California thrives using the basic concepts of Flower Power. It's on Highway 101 near the Oregon Border... Home of Humboldt State University... If you want to experience the bliss yourself, take a loan from the Federal Department of Education and go to college at HSU. Arcata also is the center of Marijuana farming in the USA. The vast majority of the Grass is grown in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties... The extreme North Western corner of California. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-california.html

https://thegdwheel.com/page-231/

Big enough to stand inside a person simply hit the metal sculpture with sticks, mallets, hammers or your hands and you created "Thunder" ... It also had microphones and electric guitar pickups to allow the sound to be fed into the mixing board and modified electronically with echo, wah-wah etc...


Ron Boise
http://boiselifeworks.info/

The Acid Tests were LSD Parties where hundreds of people took the Psychedelic Drug and Danced, Painted Each Other with Blacklight Body Paint under the Ultraviolet Bulbs... played with electric and electronic music machines and instruments... There were trippy light shows and some people spoke into Microphones attached to Echo echo echo Machines.

The Grateful Dead (An American Rock Band) played. Ken Kesey had his own band that played MODAL Oriental tunes... Modal music is easy to teach non musicians because on a keyboard instrument all the black keys may be played in any order and it sounds good... You can learn a modal song in about 10 seconds...



http://boiselifeworks.info/ Ron Boise (1931-1966). American sculptor who worked primarily with sheet metal, often from junked cars, to create nude figures, large abstract pieces, and fanciful musical instruments. He first came to prominence when, in 1964, the San Francisco police seized his series of male and female figures engaged in sexual unions described in the Kama Sutra.1 In the ensuing highly publicized trial, a jury rejected the prosecution’s claim that the works were obscene. Not long after, a large musical instrument—The Thunder Machine—sculpted by Boise and painted in swirling psychedelic abstractions by Joseph Lysowski, was displayed, strummed and drummed at the San Francisco Trips Festival, at the Rolling Stones’ ill-fated Altamont Free Concert, and occasionally at the Acid Tests conducted by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. Boise's early death, at 34, came before his reputation was firmly established.
http://www.gratefuldeadfamilyalbum.com/page-231




http://www.o-art.org/history/50s&_60s/Trips/Boise/RonBoise.html
The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs. Paul Krassner was back in town, and he heard the word that was out on ... The Scene. Everybody would be "dropping acid" about 5 or 6 P.M. to get ready for the Acid Test to begin that night at nine o'clock at the Fillmore Auditorium. Krassner arrives and__shit!__he sees:

...a ballroom surrealistically seething with a couple of thousand bodies stoned out of their everlovin' bruces in crazy costumes and obscene makeup with a raucous rock 'n' roll band and stroboscopic lights and a thunder machine and balloons and heads and streamers and electronic equipment and the back of a guy's coat proclaiming Please don't believe in magic to a girl dancing with 4-inch eyelashes so that even the goddamn Pinkerton Guards were contact high.


http://www.o-art.org/history/
The Emergency Committee to Make Time Go Forward presents The History of Experimental Music in Northern California...


It was actually Stewart Brand who thought up the great Trips Festival of January 1966. Brand and a San Francisco artist, Ramon Sender. ...The Trips Festival was set for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, january 21-23, at the Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco. The Trips Festival was billed as a big celebration that was going to simulate an LSD experience, minus the LSD, using light effects and music, mainly.




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The "Beyond Counterculture" Book is the History of the Hippies who fled The Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco and Moved to MATEEL in Southern Humboldt County to Earn their living farming Cannabis. Originally a Doctoral thesis.


Between the Eel and Matole Rivers, Garberville and the Lost Coast.

Mateel is a Sunny and Warm.

Once PALCO logged the area, the land was really cheap. Perfect for growing Marijuana Outdoors. This location is Not on Google Streetview.
Beyond Counterculture: The Community of Mateel – June, 1990 by Jentri Anders.
https://www.facebook.com/jentri.anders



https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Counterculture-Community-Jentri-Anders/dp/0874220602




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Cosmic Art Show - Absurdist Images created in

Potatoshop by Greg Vanderlaan

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/07/cosmic-art-

show-absurdist-images.html


Free Psychedelic Art - Global Awakening is Real

and Happening Now

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/free-

psychedelic-art-global-awakening.html


Rainbow Gathering Idaho 2001: A Gathering of

the Tribes...I went to the gathering with a specific

goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing

in public. Yes, mission accomplished. I was 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.... READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/

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Grateful Deadhead ART and MyStory... American
History...


I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English
class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up
posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote
essays about them.


He was attempting to stimulate creative
WRITING but more importantly,
creative THINKING.


One was an American flag made out of swastikas
and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5
hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES"
type suburban tract homes.


Our English teacher
stopped working for the school system that year
and has never been heard of since. That has
happened often to people that go to see the Dead...
They change their lifestyle and start associating
with a different set of people... READ MORE:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-
deadhead-art-and-mystory.html


Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and
Stories. Many thanks to all that made the Grateful
Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our
lives together were written as a fiction story,
everyone would dismiss it as being unbelieveable...
Yet it all really happened!
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-
deadhead-tribute-webpage.html


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Great Books: Project MKULTRA: CIA/LSD
American History "The Search for the Manchurian
Candidate" by John Marks

MKULTRA: Was a CIA Mind Control Project in
the USA during the 1950's and 1960's. They were
looking for a way to use drugs as weapons of war.
For example: LSD as a way to simply get the
"enemy" to lay down their arms, voluntarily...
like, too stoned to fight...


The project conducted tests on college students at
Stanford University. Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter
both were employed. Later, Ken started having
"ACID TEST" parties where the participants took
LSD and danced to the Music of the Grateful Dead.
Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for the Dead.
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/great-books-
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Rainbow Gathering in California 2004.
Photographs and My Story...Om...



What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is
Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in
the band… Thousands of people go backpacking
for a couple of weeks… Every year during the end
of June and the beginning of July… The location
is different every year but it is always in a
National Forest… It’s an intentional temporary
village…


This is a description about my trip to The Rainbow
Gathering in California 2004… I wrote this to help
me remember… READ MORE:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/what-is-rainbow-
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It appears That The Hippies were right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEZoY-TMG4

DO YOU SEE SOUNDS?
HEAR COLORS?
WELL...YOU DO NOW!
Imagine that you are floating in a tub of warm water...
every muscle in your body is completely relaxed...
your mind drifts and contentment blooms
like a time lapse film of a Rose... Awakening...
you leave your body and rise up to the ceiling...
you look back and see your body...
it is resting with a cup of tea in it's hand...
ahh...mint...

as you watch your body, your mind seeps
thru the ceiling and you see the
world. there is a forest...
it is for...rest...
on the shore of a lake a spiral of deadheads
dance around a fire. the flickering light seems
to be perfectly synchronized to the rhythm
of the drums... alas...

The reversal of entropy is merely an illusion.
one of the deadheads reaches into the
shadows and lifts a five gallon can of gasoline...
it is tightly sealed. he places it on the fire...
they all move back...

it will take time for the gas to expand enough
to burst the can...
a slender woman with strawberry blond hair
raises a conch shell to her lips and draws
a deep breath. she blows a long note signaling
The beginning of a new era of mankind.
everything is dripping with meaning.
significance saturates every
leaf of every tree ...
then a tiny hole appears in the gas can and
a cone of fire reaches for the sky...
you contemplate metallurgy, welding and
strength of materials...

then the gas can resigns itself to fate
and a ball of fire searches for oxygen
and of course finds it.
the spiral of deadheads emit a massive
yeah! and you drift on...
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This tale is not a verified experience...
it was just a story someone told me
about at a Grateful Dead concert...
None of my friends EVER
put a 5 gallon can of gas on a fire
just to have fun...







Psychedelic Poetry - "CEREMONY AND RITUAL" - a story - Fiction - written by gvan42 about Trips to Philadelphia - Grateful Dead at JFK Stadium and The Spectrum Arena

OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL…
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!
MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES…
THEY JUST…know… THAT I WILL LAUGH…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFFMAN
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This was written after attending a Grateful Dead concert in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was sitting up above the crowd in the bleachers and could see the dancers move more enthusiastically during peaks of the music… less motion during gentle passages… as the dynamics of the improvisation ebbed and flowed, the dancers moved accordingly… like sea anemones moving in the currents of the ocean… I also mention the Spectrum in Philadelphia… It has many blinking advertisements for Atlantic city casinos in the area where refreshments were being served…




http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/grateful+gifts
A CIA Employee Spoke to Millions of Americans and said: "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." - Was That the DEPLOYMENT of Project Mkultra?

That's Exactly What Happened in the Late 1960s... Dr Timothy Leary (Author of the CIA's Personality Test) Went Coast to Coast Encouraging Young People to Eat The CIA's Miracle Drug, LSD and... Stop Protesting Against The War in Vietnam... because They Were Too Busy Being Holy Men, Saints... and Wanted to Play the Guitar all Day... and Go Live in the Country and Grow Vegetables, Weed and Children... and Make Paintings, Pottery and Tie Dye T-Shirts... Write Poetry... Etc, Etc, Etc...

and All of those Interests Added Up To NOT Being a Menace to The Military Industrial Complex... Dropping Out...

SO... Was "The Sixties" part of the CIA Project Mkultra? The Part Where they Actually USED LSD as a "Weapon" Against "Enemies" in the Hope that We Would Simply Lay Down Our Arms and Surrender... In a Way They Were Successful BUT... They Had Not Taken Into Account People Like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Country Joe McDonald and Grace Slick... Who Used LSD to Promote The Protest Against The War in Vietnam (and The 1950's American Culture In General.)








Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Medicine is Best... I Just Emailed My President, Representative and Senators. HERE IS HOW To Find Your Own!

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives
I Said: "Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best... Legalizing Recreational Psychedelics is a Great Idea TOO.

Legal LSD Would Be Manufactured by High Quality Scientists and PURITY, QUALITY and ACTUAL DOSE would be Regulated. Often ILLEGAL ACID is Not LSD at all but some other chemical, Like DOM (STP) a Three Day Nightmare Trip... People That Buy Ecstasy Often Do Not Get Actual MDMA but get A Bizarre Combination of Methamphetamines and WHO KNOWS WHAT!

Legalize Psychedelics For the Public's HEALTH... Criminal Chemists Pose a Hazard To The People's Sanity! FDA Approved Psychedelics Would Be Better... Do It For The Kids!"
http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

I Also Emailed a Scott Weiner, State Senator in San Francisco using a Fake Address and Phone Number I Found on Google Maps... Click on this Link and Type In Your Home Address... https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/






Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...

A Question asked in the Ram Dass Facebook Group...
https://beherenownetwork.com/be-here-now/

and Then he wrote a Dozen MORE Books and Gave Many Lectures... ALL WORTHY... I Especially Love "Still Here" because I'm 67 Years Old and The Question of My Own Death is Important To Me... Now... https://www.amazon.com/Still-Here-Embracing-Aging-Changing/dp/1573228710

It's Important to remember that Kermit Michael Riggs Taught Dr. Richard Alpert to BE HERE NOW. He was a Laguna Beach, CA Surfer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)



and Then After Listening to The Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Show... I Had a Dream: 

We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings...

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and then someone asked about the Rainbow Gatherings:
So what happens after these gatherings? do people just go back to their normal lives. OR are there little factions that just dispurse or stay put??? i have so many questions and I am so close to being able to start my traveling. just a few more moves to make first and tying up loose ends.

Someone answered:
I do what universe leads me to do. Maybe another gathering, back home to work, just travel, solo hike, eat acid, be goofy, basically if it keeps me smiling i'm in. Be happy. Be kind. But most importantly be urself cause everyone else is already taken

I said:
For ME... I return to my Life... WISER! I've gone four times... once a decade... and each time i got to play music and sing in public... but that's just MY TRIP... My Friend Mike Walked around Reading the Book ATLAS SHRUGGED out loud... because he felt that was important... My Friend Sonya Sophia taught a Guided Meditation Class... I also worked as a Fire Tender at the Welcome Home kitchen...
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