The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...
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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
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"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
Paperback – 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
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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/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html
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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-project-mkultra-cia-lsd.html
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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-gathering-to-me-it-is.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_(theater)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_
Mystery_Tour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcata,_California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_State_
University
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