Examples of Psychedelic Music: The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Donovan... None of these were Included in the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Therapy Music Study... deadheads: stories from fellow artists

HEADLINE: Best Music Playlists For Psychedelic Therapy Are Explored In New Johns Hopkins Study. 

Psychedelic therapy sessions often incorporate music—and typically that music is of the classical genre. But new research out of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggests there may in fact be no special value in playing a Mozart concerto or Chopin étude for tripping patients.

Gongs could work just as well, if not better, the study found.

 https://www.marijuanamoment.net/best-music-playlists-for-psychedelic-therapy-are-explored-in-new-johns-hopkins-study/ 

Escalator to Heaven

Consider This:
How is it Possible to PURCHASE a Stairway to Heaven
When The Stores are all Closed?

FRAUD ALERT - Websites That Look Like Real "Trump for President" Sites are Used to Steal Credit Card Numbers. BEWARE! DANGER!

Report Them To The FBI

CLICK HERE!

https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds

SEE? It Looks Exactly Like A Trump AD!

Do Not Be Fooled! It's a TRAP!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/global-climate-strike-920-worldwide-eco.html

Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. #1 Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water, Salt and Electricity.
#1. We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California at Camp Pendleton. It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water Cools it Condenses into Pure H2O...  NaCl (salt) and Many Other Trace Elements Useful for Building High Tech Devices can be Harvested...
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html 

#2. Convert human fat into electricity using exercise bicycle power generators. The kinetic energy created by people pedaling can be converted into electricity by using an alternator, diode and battery. Many people use stationary bicycles for exercise and these currently unused sources of power could be used to create electricity. People could sell the electricity to the power company.
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/01/bicycle-power-generator-converts-human.html

#3. A Simple Way to Save Electricity in Buildings. Allow Windows TO OPEN so that Outside Air Can Freely Blow In... Allow Humans to Control the Thermostat. About Half the Time, the Weather Outside is Fine... No Need to Run an Air conditioner OR a Heater... Just Leave those Machines OFF, Using Zero Energy. Just Open a Window and Enjoy the Fresh Air...  In Modern Office Buildings The Windows Do Not Open and The Thermostat is Set by OSHA Regulation. 
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-simple-way-to-save-electricity-in.html

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 #Purple64ets.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/as-nation-we-need-to-forgive-each-other.html

and then someone on FaceBooB Published this... THANKS!

I am angry and I think it's very possible that there are a number of people in Washington DC that I do Indeed Hate. Other than that the following below all applies. Even in admitting that I do feel Hate, I have thought it over, truly sat with it, and it does Not, in any capacity, Cloud any decisions I make, made or will be making. I cannot speak of what IS Clouding the decisions of the Majority (and even some Minority) in Washington DC because it's become increasingly clear that judgement is Clouded when referring to the people that we're supposed to look up to and count on in The House, Congress, On The Hill.
That's quite literally the ONLY Explanation possible that would continue to allow the Maniac, Pathological, Lying Narcissist to have remained Squatting in our White House making incompetent, irrational decisions while Americans are dropping dead. While our honored Veterans are doing without their Benefits and Life Saving Medications. While our Active Military is being deprived of their Constitutional rights even as they lie their lives on the line for our Country. Then receive nothing in return. They do have to worry that the So called Commander in Chief is covering for a Russian someone who has bounties on their heads. While they attempt to uphold the Freedoms America was founded on, the Cheater in our White House does nothing to secure their well-being - quite the opposite actually. This should be a Horror Story we read about and close the book saying Thank goodness that couldn't happen in real life, to look around at the Horror that the United States has now become. Yes, We ARE Living right in the midst of a Stephen King - Dean Koontz best seller. Starring NY Cities most famous Nightmare Sociopath, Lying, Narcissistic, Unhinged piece of Trash that has ever walked the Earth. ❤🤍💙Gigi

I saw the following on someones page. She was not the author and it wasn't clear who actually was. I chose to share it. To whomever wrote it - Kudos. It's well written. So, enjoy. . .

"I did some thinking over the last 24 hours. Someone told me that my hate for the traitor clouded all my decisions. I have thought about that.

I never liked him. I never trusted him. Perhaps it has become hate but I don’t think so. I think it’s fear. Fear of losing everything. The country that I love. The people that I love, and the future.

Try as I might, I cannot see a future in which the United States still exists after November if the Republicans retain power. It breaks me to see how much hate they have for the forward thinking portion of our country. A simple thing like the decision to survive the pandemic by following the same recommendations as every other modern country has become instead a war of wills and a cry of “my constitutional rights” versus the responsibility of citizenship.

To hear grown people crying about wearing a mask or staying home for the duration of the shutdown was actually hard on the adults in the room. Watching those same adults flock to the first open bar they found and then complain about the sudden rise in cases of COVID-19 is stupefying. How can you not see the connection?

Hearing the Televangelists assure their “flock” that they would be spared if they defied the quarantine and came to services to pass the plate, is just mind blowing for me. Common sense out the window.

I don’t hate anyone. I’m close, but right now I fear for the elderly, the children and the people who won’t live through this pandemic, because of the ignorance of others.

Good luck, stay safe, vote as if your life depends on it, because it does."

YES. IT. DOES.

#TheTrumpPandemic #TheTrumpPresidencyIsOver #TrumpFailedAmerica #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

What's The Difference Between Rush Limbaugh and The Hindenburg? One is a Flaming Nazi Gasbag and the Other is an Airship!

Led Zeppelin

My Drawing of Ezekiel's Wheel from the Bible...
I Always Wondered... UFO or Magic Mushrooms?

"Ezekiel's Wheel" Ceramic Ornament 
for sale...
by gregvan

GOP - Super MAD About Everything All The Time! WHY? Because they Know that They Are Doing EVIL and They Feel Guilty About It. They Know Their Party Is Doomed. Trump Will Lose in 2020. The Senate and The House will Become Democratic. A New Era of Peace and Prosperity Will Start. The GOP Will Not Win any Elections for 50 Years. The ERA of the Old White Man Ruling Everything is Quickly Coming to an End. Most Voters are Women, Minorities or College Graduates. Let's Try Majority Rule in the USA. We TRIED Corporate Rule and That was a Disaster!

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Gregory Laan: The Goal of the Russian Disinformation Campaign was to Get Americans to Fight Each other. Well Played, Putin! You were Successful...

Victor Koman: Yes, and Democrats are serving his quest for chaos and distrust quite well. No one else is claiming that we can't trust the 2016 OR 2020 results. Qui bono?

Ernest Sewell: If that was Putin's wish, I suspect that he's thinking that he got something of a "Monkey's Paw" type wish. We fought alright... And the Populist Nationalist Right appears to have won, or are winning rather decisively. The forces of "political correctness," ideological repression and "one size fits all" governmental control are in disarray, and are turning upon themselves to fix blame rather than moving as a coordinated entity against those of freedom, small (-er,--) government and common sense.


Gregory Laan: It Takes Two to Tango - I Keep on reading about "Boogaloo 2020" a Gun Nut Plan for the Second American Civil War... If they are not happy with the 2020 election results - start a violent revolution and keep Mad King Donald in the White House by encircling it with Armed Patriots. It Would be Fun to Watch on TV... Like a Mad Max Movie... https://www.adl.org/.../the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang...

To Republicans, Right and Wrong JUST DON'T MATTER. A Morality Free Life. My Mom taught me to Do Good and Avoid Evil. Well, Republicans don't do that.

 They just ask Do We Win? Will it work? Will it give US an advantage? Total disregard for the Ten Commandments... 

That's the Reason SO MANY REPUBLICANS END UP IN PRISON...  

The Conclusion of the Mueller Report is: ELEVEN (11) TrumpNiks were arrested and EIGHT (8) went to prison already. Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwann=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, Rodger Stone=NOT Guilty YET. Steven Calk, the banker who wanted to be Secretary of the Army using fraudulent loans to Paul Manafort as Resume Padding was Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges = Plead not Guilty. Maria Butina's Boyfriend, Paul Erickson Arrested, Plead Not Guilty... 


WHY DID tRUMP FAIL TO "LOCK HER UP?" 

Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
QUIZ: What's her name?

3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
"As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
this side was made for you and me"
QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
 END OF TOP TEN LIST
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answers to quiz:
1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
Oh...
Done groun' it all in molazzis,
Better git yo' overcoat ready,
Well, it's comin' up a norther.
Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
Oh...
Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
Oh...

5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

"Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie

l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
by Bob Seidemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 

The Scientology TV Channel has a Show: "The Truth About Drugs." - Mostly Accurate: Drugs are Dangerous. However They DO NOT Ask The Question, Are They Worth It?

True: Skiing is Dangerous but TOTALLY WORTH IT. The excitement of swooshing down a snow covered hill is worth the chance of breaking a leg... Not Worth It for ME, but many choose to SKI.

True: Driving a Car is Dangerous but TOTALLY WORTH IT. You might get into an accident but you might be able to travel thousands of miles away from home...

True: Drugs are Dangerous BUT... ARE THEY WORTH IT?

For Example:

Marijuana makes Rock Concerts More Fun. I went to an Allman Brothers Concert without smoking weed and the Music was TOO LOUD and the Guitar Solos were TOO LONG and Seemed Pointless. Seeing the Grateful Dead while Tripping on LSD is an experience UNPARALLELED in any other Music experience or RELIGION. Why read a book about Moses Talking to a Burning Bush when it's possible to Talk to God Directly?

Psychedelics gave us the Later Music of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly,  The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape, Sopwith Camel, Steve Miller, The Eagles, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors and The Who... Scientology has not produced any Great Music...

Opium Gave us "Alice in Wonderland" and "Thru the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. and "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allen Poe.

It's True that Edgar Allen Poe had a Horrible Life... Alcoholism and Opium Addiction... but... He wrote some great Tales...

and Psychedelic ART? Fillmore West Concert Posters... Peter Max... Joe Parker... Robert Crumb... Rock Music Album Covers...

and the Computer Programs like Adobe Photoshop and Paint Dot Net have MANY tools that create psychedelic art... I assume the felt there was a market for Psychedelicizers and wrote code to deliver that to people...

ANOTHER SUBJECT that the Scientology TV Show Fails to address is: Should Drugs be Legal?

Obviously, Marijuana should be legal as Many States Have Legalized it with Positive Results. Millions of Lives have been Ruined by Incarceration. The Prisoners AND Their Families.

Should Psychedelics be Legalized? My Opinion is Medicinal Psychedelics Should Be Legal. Many people have benefitted from The Psychedelic Experience when considering Mortality... Others have NOT. The man who had a Travel/Cooking Show on CNN Committed Suicide... Anthony Bourdain says that as a young man he ate Orange Sunshine brand name LSD... I would think that would PREVENT suicide...  I guess I was wrong...

Legalization would improve the QUALITY and PURITY of Psychedelics. Often Illegal Drug Salesmen sell DOM and Call it LSD... DOM causes a Three Day Trip that most people find so unpleasant that they go to the Hospital... Desperate to Stop Tripping... If SANDOZ Labs were making the LSD we could be assured of getting PURE Quality and a KNOWN DOSE. Some people find that 100 micrograms is a great trip but 400 micrograms is JUST TOO MUCH. Consumers would be given the choice of how much to take. When I was a teenager many doses were 400 mics but by the 1990s 100 mics was standard... OR THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY... I have no IDEA what I was eating...

I found that a Large Dose of Psilocybin Mushrooms was Scary but a small dose was fun. I remember going to The San Jose Convention Center the Day BEFORE a Car Show... I just walked in and looked at everything including the Brand New Volkswagen... No One Challenged me or asked for a ticket... or any thing. Then I went next door to the Public Library to work on my website and I noticed that all the Librarians seemed frightened of me... I guess a Giant Man Tripping on Mushrooms Appears to be a WOOKIE... and should not be confronted... The next day I was telling my boss at work about the NEW Volkswagen and How wonderful it looked and He asked my what color the bug was... I did not know the ANSWER to that question because to ME, it was Paisley... so I lied and told him it was Blue.

Peyote should OBVIOUSLY BE LEGAL. and it is for Members of the Native American Church.

Some Couples Counsellors say that MDMA is good for healing Marriages.

The Law says Opioids that you get from your Doctors are Legal... and Kills Thousands of People Every Year.

Coffee seems safe... or at least, I'm going to keep on drinking it Forever.

Tobacco is VERY Addictive and Causes Cancer, Emphysema and COPD. It's Legal.

FOR ME, Smoking Marijuana is not good... When available, I smoke all day every day... When Oregon Legalized, I smoked One Pound in Eight Months. Then I Stopped Smoking and took a driving vacation to The Deserts of Nevada. Can't have an Illegal Drug in the Van... I always met Police. SO, NO Withdrawal Symptoms like with Addictive Drugs Like Tobacco or Opium. However I DID Remain Stoned for about a Month. I DID See things that Were Not There. I DID Make Decisions based on Events That Did Not Happen... OOPS...

and another thing... Since I quit Smoking I have made 53 Music Videos of me Singing and Playing the Guitar... While I was Smoking I Made 4... AND While Playing the Piano Stoned I use too much foot pedal... and the rhythm is not smooth... even while playing composition I wrote myself... my brain was having difficulty remembering what chord came next.

I did a Scientific Study of Drugs and Chess Playing Ability. I Had a Chess Computer that would play at different levels... I played on different drugs... Coffee made me a better player, Marijuana and Alcohol made me worse. I couldn't play at all on LSD... The experiment was not interesting.

Alcohol is TRULY a Dangerous Drug. Thankfully I Joined AA in the year 2000. Quit Drinking, met a lot of Interesting People. Married one of them. In the end stages of Alcoholism a person Gets Delirium Tremens... a horrible hallucinatory nightmare world... That's what they say.

"Yesterday Upon the Stair I saw a man that wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh How I wish he'd go away."