I Remember Sitting Around The Campfire While a Friend Read Haiku Poetry Out Loud and We All Experienced Overwhelming "A-HA!" Moments as the Meaning Was Revealed...

We Were High on LSD in Butano State Park 

near Santa Cruz, CA... Deep in a Redwood Forest...

LSD Certainly Amplifies The Significance of Every Experience... "Eureka! I Have Found IT!" Is Common... and Yet...

Rarely Do Those Cosmic Realizations Seem Important the Next Day. However, Some Great Lyrics Were Written on LSD... Mystic Crystal Revelations and the Minds True Liberation... It Truly WAS the Dawning of the AGE of Aquarius... 

Consider This... What IF Everyone Stood on the Top of Mount Sinai and Talked to a Burning Bush... and it Gave You Guidance for How To Live a Good Life... Pretty Likely You Wouldn't Want To Go Halfway Around the World and Kill People You Don't Even Know For No Reason.

This is your Brain on Photoshop- Any Questions?

What If There Really IS Medicinal Value 
to Psychedelic Drugs?

Will CRAZYLAWS Prevent Real People From Getting Medicine That Could Benefit Them?

Why NOT Let Doctors Make Decisions About Medicine?

Do Politicians Have ANY CLUE AT ALL ABOUT PSYCHEDELICS?  

Awww... Cute Little Chubb Chubb

Suppose You Had a Pressure Cooker Filled with Wine and a Long Hose Running Into A Tent... Put the Pressure Cooker on the Campfire and...

The Alcohol will Evaporate and Fill the Tent with Intoxicating  Vapors and Hot Steam... Like a Sweat Lodge but With Booze... Might be Useful to Heat the Tent just before Bedtime... 

Of Course you could fill the Pressure Cooker with Coffee, Tea or Water and Marijuana Leaves... Beef Stew... anything!

If You Filled it with Vodka AND Marijuana Leaves The Alcohol would act as a Different Solvent Than The Water... Releasing Different Chemicals...

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A Drawing of a Pressure Cooker Tent Vaporizor
Done on a Map of California by gvan42

Pen Drawing on a Map of UTAH

The Best Part of the song "Iko Iko" is that it's Possible to Play it using TWO Chords! For Example "A" and "E" and You Can Make Up Lyrics If You forget Where You Are and What You Are Doing! I remember Playing this at Main Circle, Rainbow Gathering in Idaho.

and then Later, a young man and I Played Uncle John's Band at the Relaxation Station... That's The Very First Place a Camper would encounter on the way into the Rainbow Gathering... "Welcome Home!" We Played it about 6 times... because the Young Man said "I Don't Want to Learn anymore new songs" and since there was a Constant flow of People walking by... No One Knew That we were Playing the same song... except for the Tarot Card Reading Lady and other Pranksters That were Hanging OUT... One Guy had a Piece of FOAM that Looked Like a Concrete Block... He would ask a person to help him Carry the Block Because it was very heavy... and then ACCIDENTALLY DROP THE PIECE OF FOAM on the Visitor's FOOT... and then everyone would laugh because it was NOT Dangerous... It Was a Prank! The Realization That They Were Not Going To Be Hurt... and The relief... Caused Laughter...

A Journey to the Rainbow Gathering in California 2004. Photographs and My Story... and Memories of The Gatherings in Idaho, Utah and Pennsylvania...

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band… READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-journey-to-rainbow-gathering-in.html

"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"- traditional. Sung by Gregory Vanderlaan accompanied on Acoustic Guitar.

https://youtu.be/x0S2w0vOfYg 

Classic children's song that was very popular in my own family... 

Mount Shasta during the Drought
We were able to drive to the End of the Road
No Snow.

Swimming nude in Butte Creek. Victoria and I went to the OKI Dam area near Chico, California on a hot summer day.

 I wanted to impress her with my strength so I swam Butterfly across the lake. Splashing wildly with my arms. This was one of the most wonderful days of my life. All alone with my woman... It seemed timeless as if we were Adam and Eve in Paradise. 

We attended AA meetings at the Campfire Council Ring in Bidwell Park. It was a large meeting on Sunday that attracted people from Paradise and Chico. One meeting we were discussing the similarity between the concept "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass and the idea of "One Day at a Time" by Bill Wilson. I realized that it was pretty easy to "Be Here Now" when having fun in a beautiful park with friends but it was a little more difficult when doing something unpleasant. Those meetings made me think.

After one meeting Mike Gardner and I played guitars and sang. We did "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles and then "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" by Hot Tuna. My selection of songs was designed to take the audience into a scary world of witchcraft and the bring them back with a Negro Spiritual.

Another meeting was on Mother's Day. People were speaking of how much they loved their mothers and other pleasant thoughts but when it was my turn I told them that My Mother died of Alcoholism and I was not really sure when because I was drinking heavily at the time. That caused the people to become silent and remember exactly why we were at an AA meeting.

Read more of my Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

FYI: If you ever want to have a private conversation, meet your friend at a campfire in the woods.

 No cellphone surveillance, No email hacking, No spy cameras, No secret microphones... The Campfire is not absolutely required... but FUN! This also works at the Office. Outside there is usually a smoking area near the dumpster, just ask a friend to ‘step into my office’ and go outside for a private conversation. #ELF #EarthFirst! #deepecology #overgrow #purple64ets

I heard an author on Book TV talking about his book "Future War". He stated that DARPA has invented drugs that make a soldier MORE COURAGEOUS... Have they been using it in the wars in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN??? I wonder if this is the reason so many soldiers commit suicide when they come home from that war... 

FUTURE WAR

Preparing for the New Global Battlefield

by Robert H. Latiff

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-h-latiff/future-war-latiff/

Clamso Me Boys Clamso - a Song by Arlo Guthrie - 

Long Live the Clamshell Alliance