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More My Best Pictures: A Psychedelic Art Show & Travel Photographs of my Journeys in California... With Comments about What the Pictures Show!

Drawing of the CALM Medic Tent at the Rainbow Gathering California..
CALM Medic Tent at the Rainbow Gathering California... It was an Excellent Experience to Sit in the Forest and Draw... While Campers Walked By... CALM is a Volunteer Health Center... Most Famous for Healing Blisters on Feet... and Providing Hot Tea to Cure a Cough... 

 

Sacramento River near Chico... at Scotty's Boat Ramp and Bar...

Sacramento River near Chico... at Scotty's Boat Ramp and Bar... Plenty of Water that Day. This swim reminded me that We let Fresh Water Just Flow out into the Ocean at the Golden Gate Bridge... What a Waste... We Ought to Pump the water onto fields to grow crops... 

North Shore Clear Lake, CA
North Shore of Clear Lake, CA... On Highway 20... There are Three Roads from the Coast to the Central Valley of California... and Depending on the SNOW Level... I choose 299 (From Arcata to Redding) or 36 (From Alton to Red Bluff) or 20... It Never Snows on 20... 

Butte Creek Canyon near Paradise, CA
Butte Creek Canyon... Photo taken from the Skyway from Chico to Paradise... This Valley BURNED in the Camp Fire... But Locals paid to Rebuild the Famous Covered Bridge over Butte Creek.

Andersen's Pea Soup Restaurant
Andersen's Split Pea Restaurant... http://www.peasoupandersens.net/ 
We always stopped there when Traveling South from San Jose to Santa Barbara... On Highway 1... Taking my Brother to UCSB... 
The Andersen's Pea Soup SIGN that you see again and again on Billboards...
The Andersen's Pea Soup SIGN that you see again and again on Billboards...

"One Mile" Swimming Pool on the Chico Creek... Bidwell Park is Open 24/7 and It was Fun to Swim Nude at Night with My College Sweetheart... Sadly, She is Already Dead... I Looked Her Up Online and Found an Obituary... Drug and Alcohol Abuse... 

Psychedelic Art Celebrating an Permanent Ecology Commune... Looks like an Excellent Place! La Paz Eco Village...
Psychedelic Art Celebrating an Permanent Ecology Commune... Looks like an Excellent Place! La Paz Eco Village... 
https://lapazecovillage1.weebly.com/project-overview.html

Dang! That's DEEP! Psychedelic Art by gvan42

Wave Form FUN by gvan42
Wave Fun by gvan42 - Playing with a Photoshop Function... THANKS! Automatically Generating Psychedelic Designs!

Dance of the Mugwumps by gvan42
Dance of the Mugwumps by gvan42

Portrait of a Grey Alien by gvan42
Portrait of a Grey Alien by gvan42

Crab Echo by gvan42
Crab Echo by gvan42 - a Gentle Abstract that Might be Excellent as a Background for a Central Object or Slogan... 


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I was listening to a Sermon "The Double Edged Sword of Faith" and I got some insight... Thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhr4akjj7U&t=12s 

She mentioned that The People that Started Wikipedia Had FAITH that Most People That Were Smart Enough to Actually Figure Out How to Edit an Entry WOULD TELL THE TRUTH... The Liars of the World are Generally Pretty Stupid and so they Never Post their Lies on Wikipedia... 

They Had FAITH and They Were Right! 

https://www.uusf.org/

another example she gave of FAITH was a Person Leaving an unlocked bicycle outside a store while shopping... and having FAITH that no one would steal it... In MY opinion that's a Really Stupid Idea... 

and then I remembered that Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech had a Band Called Blind Faith... 
I'm Wasted and I Can't Find My Way Home... 

Merrick Garland’s choice could not be more clear. Either uphold the Rule of Law and defend American Democracy, or contribute to its destruction by allowing the man who led an armed Insurrection to overthrow the United States Government to go unpunished.

There’s no other way to put this: Donald Trump is a complete and utter fool. Not to mention a Career Criminal. Time to Indict and put the last nail into his Corrupt Coffin.

Midterm voters did their part in preserving Democracy. Now it’s up to Merrick to do his. Stand up for the Rule of Law. Pick a Crime. Any one of the Mountain of Federal Crimes Trump has committed, and Indict the MF.

We ARE Evolving. Culturally, and Spiritually... Consider This... A Hundred Years ago People Who Came Back from War and Had Mental Health Problems were Called...

Yellow... A Coward...

Then Veterans from World War One - Had Shell Shock.  
Then Veterans from World War Two - Had Battle Fatigue. 
Then Veterans From Vietnam had PTSD... 

SO... We are LEARNING... EVOLVING...

Now Anyone Who Suffers Mental Healyh Problems is Greeted With Compassion... Battered Wives, Abused Children... Etc Etc Etc

It's Difficult To Believe BUT... In 1969, Homosexuality was Illegal... Now Gay People Get Married... 

NOW, Let's Cut Defense Spending in HALF... The Pentagon is an Obsolete Concept... as we all know... Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country... Ever Since WW2 All Wars Have Been BOGUS Marketing Campaigns for the Military Industrial Complex... Not Only is it a Colossal Waste of Money BUT... It's a Waste of People's LIVES... Dead Soldiers... Wounded Warriors... Engineers and Draftsmen That Waste their Working Life Designing Weapons... 


Peace and Love Forever ART - gvan42
Peace and Love Forever ART - gvan42


Here is an Interesting Sermon... Given by Ladies who work in the Tenderlion District of San Francisco... Working with The Poor... 
Be Aware that Nothing Happens for the First 15 Minutes of this Video... 

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*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

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

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... 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!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

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...



*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.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) 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...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

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.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics