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Today in psychedelic history (01/14) 1
#11826806 - 01/14/10 03:13 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1939) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Further.
Early life
Ken Babbs attended Stanford University and was in NROTC, where he became a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Soon after becoming second lieutenant, Babbs became a helicopter pilot where he got orders to go to Vietnam. Babbs had no understanding of the impact the war had on him until he was drafted. His insight soon began to take definition. According to an interview, Babbs’ opinion towards the Vietnam war was that he “had no perceptions of the right or wrong of the situation before I went to Vietnam, but it took about six weeks to realize we were wasting our time there.” .
However, Babbs stated on what he learned from war: “Being humble, respect local customs, learn the language and helping does more good than hurting”.
On the contrary, his college experiences were not merely about the war. In 1958, Babbs took a writing class where he soon met future Prankster leader, Ken Kesey. Babbs explains meeting Kesey as “a moment of mirth and sadness, highness and lowliness , interchanging of ideas and musical moments.” They soon became best friends and formed the Merry Pranksters.
Acid Tests and Furthur
What started as a Happening emerged into a global frenzy and inspired people, still today. According to Babbs, a Happening is something that “can’t be planned ..It just happens! It takes place in public or private and involves everyone present. In Phoenix in 1964, we painted ‘A Vot for Barry is a Vot for Fun’ on the side of the bus and waved flags and played stars and stripes forever..this qualified as both a prank and a Happening.” .
The most famous happening of the Pranksters was the nationwide trip on the Furthur. While on a trip to New York, the Pranksters needed an automobile that could hold fourteen people and all of their filming and taping equipment. One of the members saw a “revamped school bus” in San Francisco that was for sale. The Pranksters bought the bus and named it “Furthur”. Babbs was the engineer for the bus. Babbs is mostly credited for the sound systems he created for the Trips Festival. Prior to Babbs’ creation, it was discovered that particular music usually sounded distorted when cranked to high levels because of the cement floor on the San Francisco Longshoreman’s Union Hall(where the Trips Festival was taking place). Babbs being a sound engineer resolved the problem. He made sound amplifiers that, when turned up to high sound levels would not create distorted sounds.
The purpose for this Happening was to link the psychedelic tribes from the west and the east. Many people tend to remember the east tribe because of Timothy Leary and LSD. Many misjudgments have been made on the Pranksters and their promotion of LSD. However, Babbs makes it clear that “just because we used LSD does not mean we were promoting its use. (LSD) is a dangerous drug..[It’s] a way, I guess, of breaking down the conformist ideology.” .
During the legendary Prankster cross country bus trip to the New York World's fair in 1964, an epic movie was filmed and shown at several “Acid Tests”. The film is called "The Merry Pranksters Search for a Kool Place" and is available for purchase in two parts at. Some have compared the Prankster’s trip to the Acid Tests. Babbs assures that the “Acid Tests came after the bus trip and came about because we were editing the movie of the bus trip and began renting places to show the movie and play our music.” What inspired the Acid Tests was when the Pranksters met the Grateful Dead. Babbs relates to that time as “it was the power that propelled the rocket ship everyone rode to the stars and beyond the whole night the acid test took place.” [IBID]
Looking back at his experiences as a Merry Prankster, Babbs says he wants younger and future generations to carry on “love, peace, and happiness; extended in practicality to the simple act of helping one another out, being kind and generous.” [ibid]
Keeping Kesey's legacy alive
Babbs' current project is promoting Ken Kesey's book Kesey’s Jail Journal. Babbs recently had a showing at an art gallery in Oregon to display Kesey’s artwork. Babbs said that the art gallery’s main attraction is “the artwork from Kesey’s Jail Journal”. Because of Kesey’s popularity and inspiration, Viking Press brought his jail journal last November. The exhibit consists of all Kesey’s artwork during his lifetime. Babbs hopes that “this exhibit will tour the country and the rest of the world.”[Iibid]
Later years
Babbs currently lives on his farm in Dexter, Oregon (near Kesey’s house) with his wife Eileen, an English teacher at South Eugene High School. In 1994, he helped Kesey co-write The Last Go Round, about the oldest and largest rodeos in America. Babbs is also founder and leader of the Sky Pilot Club. Many of Babbs's trips are now available to watch on YouTube. Babbs is also finalizing a first-person memoir of his life in the armed forces during the first years of the Vietnam War
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"At first, a bunch of us were going to go in a station wagon. Then it was getting too big for that."
"For me and Kesey, too, we were trying to move into a new creative expression which was movie making, and being part of the movie. This was all a tremendous experiment in the arts. We always figured we would be totally successful and make a lot of money out of it."
"People always were saying, ‘Is this the real bus?’ and he would say, ‘Yes, there’s only one bus, like there’s only one Starship Enterprise."
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"Yeah! Yeah! Right! Right! Right!"
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- 1967: The first Human Be-In takes place
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The Human Be-In was an event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word "psychedelic" to suburbia.
Origins
Counterculture
The Human Be-In focused the key ideas of the 1960s counterculture: personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (with the aid of psychedelic drugs), acceptance of illicit psychedelics use, and radical liberal political consciousness. The hippie movement developed out of disaffected student communities around San Francisco State University, City College and Berkeley and in San Francisco's beat generation poets and jazz hipsters, who also combined a search for intuitive spontaneity with a rejection of "middle-class morality". Allen Ginsberg personified the transition between the beat and hippie generations.
Protests
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally.[4] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee. The first major teach-in had been organized by Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Michigan, 24–25 March 1965.
Event
The Human Be-In was announced on the cover of the fifth issue of the San Francisco Oracle as "A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In". The occasion was a new California law banning the use of the psychedelic drug LSD that had come into effect on October 6, 1966. The speakers at the rally were all invited by Bowen, the main organizer. They included Timothy Leary in his first San Francisco appearance, who set the tone that afternoon with his famous phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"[6] and Richard Alpert (soon to be known as "Ram Dass"), and poets like Allen Ginsberg, who chanted mantras, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure. Other counterculture gurus included comedian Dick Gregory, Lenore Kandel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerry Rubin, and Alan Watts. Music was provided by a host of local rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Blue Cheer, most of whom had been staples of the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom.:186–191 "Underground chemist" Owsley Stanley provided massive amounts of his "White Lightning" LSD, specially produced for the event, as well as 75 twenty-pound (9 kg) turkeys, for free distribution by the Diggers.
The national media were stunned, publicity about this event leading to the mass movement of young people from all over America to descend on the Haight-Ashbury area.[9] Reports were unable to agree whether 20,000 or 30,000 people showed up at the Be-In.:188 Soon every gathering was an "-In" of some kind: Just four weeks later was Bob Fass's Human Fly-In, then the Emmett Grogan inspired Sweep-In, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In comedy television show began airing over NBC just a year later on January 22, 1968. This was followed by the first "Yip-In" (March 21, 1968, at Grand Central Terminal), "Love-In" (April 14, 1968, at Malibu Canyon) and "Bed-In" (March 25, 1969, in Amsterdam).
The Human Be-In was later recalled by poet Allen Cohen (who assisted the artist Bowen in the organizational work,) as a meld that brought together philosophically opposed factions of the San Francisco-based counterculture at the time: on one side, the Berkeley radicals, who were tending toward increased militancy in response to the U.S. government's Vietnam war policies, and, on the other side, the rather non-political Haight-Ashbury hippies, who urged peaceful protest. Their means were drastically different, but they held many of the same goals.
According to Cohen's own account, his friend Bowen provided much of the "organizing energy" for the event, and Bowen's personal connections also strongly influenced its character.
Legacy
The counterculture that surfaced at the "Human Be-In" encouraged people to "question authority" with regard to civil rights, women's rights, and consumer rights. Underground newspapers and radio stations served as its alternative media.
The Be-In later spawned a series of Digital Be-Ins.
A UK theatre company, Theatre 14167, (also 14167 films) takes its name from the date of the Be-In; the company subsequently produced work by Michael McClure, who read at the event.
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
- 1979: Sheraton Hotel heiress, author and ketamine proponent Marcia Moore (presumably) dies
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Erowid Character Vaults
Marcia Moore
May 22, 1928 - January 14, 1979
Summary
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Marcia Sheldon Moore was the daughter of Robert L. Moore, who founded the Sheraton Hotel chain. Over the course of her life she married four times. With her first husband and their three children, she spent time India studying Hinduism. With her third husband, Mark Douglas, she co-authored several New Age books. Along with lecturing to promote her books, Moore worked as a yoga teacher and astrological counselor. She eventually developed her own approach to reincarnation therapy, which she called "hypersentience". She promoted this therapy through the Ananta Foundation in Ojai, California, and via the quarterly Hypersentience Bulletin that she began publishing in 1975.
Moore's initial ketamine experience took place in April of 1976. About a year later, she met the man who became her fourth husband, an anesthesiologist named Howard "Sunny" Alltounian. Together they wrote the book Journeys into the Bright World, which chronicled their experimentations with ketamine. Moore coined the term "samadhi therapy" for the new blissful drug-induced self-exploration that she and Alltounian began working with and providing to others. Less than three years after her first ketamine experience--and following her increasing and problematic use of the drug, which she ended up hiding from Alltounian--Moore passed away in what was likely the first known behavioral fatality associated with ketamine. However, there are some conflicting accounts related to her disappearance and death; Alltounian and at least one of her children have stated that they believe Moore committed suicide.
(https://erowid.org)
Marcia Moore (May 22, 1928 – January 14, 1979) was an American writer, astrologer and yoga teacher brought to national attention in 1965 through Jess Stearn's book Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation. She was an advocate and researcher of the dissociative properties of the drug ketamine. Moore disappeared in 1979, and although her remains were found in 1981, the cause and circumstances of her death are still unknown.
Biography
Early life
Moore was born Marcia (pronounced mar-SEE-uh) Sheldon Moore, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 22, 1928, the only daughter of Robert L. Moore, founder of the Sheraton Hotel chain, and Eleanor Turner Moore, who was an artist, illustrator and esotericist. She had three brothers: writer Robert (Robin) Moore, John S. Moore, and William K. Moore. Robin Moore wrote The Green Berets (1965) and The French Connection (1969) among other books.
Drug proponent
A published astrologer, she last married anesthesiologist Howard Alltounian and together they lived a reclusive life experimenting with ketamine. She became a proponent of the drug ketamine in her 1978 book, Journeys Into The Bright World, written with her husband. The book promoted the existential richness of the ketamine-induced dissociative experience, and the possibilities for using this drug in conjunction with Jungian psychotherapy.
Disappearance and death
In the winter of 1979, at age 50, Moore disappeared. Her remains were found two years later in the woods near her Washington home. It has been hypothesized that on a winter night in the forest, Moore had injected all the ketamine available to her, became unconscious, and died of hypothermia. Her lower jaw was identified via dental records. Ann Rule has stated that Moore's skull had been found with a hole in it; one of her friends suspected it was a bullet hole, but investigators believed it may have happened due to the skull's exposure to the elements over two years. This information was not immediately published by investigators at the time of the discovery. The cause of her death remains unresolved.
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
Incident: Marcia Moore. 1979. Washington State, USA. # Jansen K. "Ketamine: Dreams and Realities". MAPS. 2001.
"Moore disappeared from her house on January 14, 1979. Her husband spent a year searching for her, including journeys to Hong Kong and Thailand, places to which she had traveled in the past. Her skeleton was found in early spring, 1981, in the place where she had frozen to death. She had made a journey at night into the dark world of the forest, a potent Jungian symbol, curled up in a tree, and then injected herself repeatedly with all of the ketamine she had been able to find. That night the pond froze over, the moon rose, and the Fire Lady was killed by the ice.
'Marcia became addicted to ketamine and committed suicide. The drug is dangerous and its use should not be encouraged... I told her that it was a seductress, not a Goddess.' -- Howard Alltounian, M.D. (Moore's husband), Interviewed by Karl Jansen (April 1998)
The evidence is more suggestive of accidental death than suicide, and bears similar hallmarks to a death from exposure in a person intoxicated with alcohol. There was nothing to indicate that she was depressed or that her conscious intent was to die, and she did not leave a note. Nevertheless, there may have been powerful subconscious elements that sought to go through the door for the last time, and never return."
(https://erowid.org)
Edited by Learyfan (01/09/21 10:29 AM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#11827210 - 01/14/10 08:20 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by Learyfan (01/14/11 09:20 AM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#11827373 - 01/14/10 09:12 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: solstice] 1
#11827784 - 01/14/10 11:05 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hmmmm... Pretty interesting. I wish I could go back to the 60's for one year !
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: chase555] 1
#11828077 - 01/14/10 12:13 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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chase555 said: Hmmmm... Pretty interesting. I wish I could go back to the 60's for one year !
you and me both
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: sputnik34] 1
#11828293 - 01/14/10 01:00 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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sputnik34 said:
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chase555 said: Hmmmm... Pretty interesting. I wish I could go back to the 60's for one year !
you and me both 
Fuck, if I had one wish thats definetally what it would be !... oh well... TIME TO START ANOTHER PSYCHADELIC REVOLUTION!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: chase555] 1
#11828447 - 01/14/10 01:34 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i love classic rock and feel such a deeper connection to it than many other people my age. i dont understand how you can dislike the beatles or zeppelin and everything inbetween. would love to go back to the 60s!!
i think were gonna see a big, BIG change this century. for the better. our perception of ourselves and the world is going to change drastically. hopefully well see major political and social reform, both of which are far, FAR out of date.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: smokin427] 1
#11829014 - 01/14/10 02:55 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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You have it right dude... I never stop listening to The beatles its always plaing where I go... or Pink Floyd man... I love that shit so much. Really gets me thinking and I hope your right about this century. It'll be a good one for sure !
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: smokin427] 1
#11829182 - 01/14/10 03:15 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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smokin427 said: i think were gonna see a big, BIG change this century. for the better. our perception of ourselves and the world is going to change drastically. hopefully well see major political and social reform, both of which are far, FAR out of date.
This century?! I think this change will happen this decade! I hope anyway.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: chase555]
#11829404 - 01/14/10 03:41 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fast forward to 3:57. Really awesome clip about the Be-In.
"It was like this conch shell blowing, from an ancient time saying "Come out....come back.....reappear.....all you gods and goddesses, you divine people......"
Edit: video no longer available
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#11829903 - 01/14/10 05:05 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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summer of love. if i could go back to any year it would be 67 for sure.
hypothetical situation: this would be sooo unethical, but maybe not too immoral. what if we experimented with a food supply of a small town, and tainted it with lsd, or even marijuana. or even new york city??
i would never do this, but it seems like something the country needs: a reawakening of who we are and why were really living here today. were sure as hell not living here today to make a bunch of money and buy new cars, but thats what everybody thinks
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: smokin427] 1
#11829964 - 01/14/10 05:15 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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LOL dude the people would have to know about the LSD or everyone is going to freak out and think they are dieing or something man... but I see where you are going with this and I really think this should happen. I think more with mushrooms though I seem to learn a lot more on mushrooms then I do with LSD... but personally I like LSD a lot more!
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: smokin427]
#11830011 - 01/14/10 05:23 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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It isn't right to dose people surreptitiously though. And it wouldn't work like that anyway. 
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#11830092 - 01/14/10 05:37 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah... Everyone just needs to be given a tab or two !
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#11830171 - 01/14/10 05:49 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: It isn't right to dose people surreptitiously though. And it wouldn't work like that anyway. 
like i said, un-eth-ic-al.
but for real, everyone today is so self centered and fucking full of themselves, atleast in america. we need something to wake everybody up, and bring us together.
edit: im gonna create a post about this. interesting topic.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: smokin427] 1
#11830802 - 01/14/10 07:18 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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You should make a psychedelic calendar with trippy photos and these type events listed on the appropriate dates. I'd definitely use it, and celebrate aptly if I knew about certain dates in advance.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: stereolab] 1
#11831332 - 01/14/10 08:21 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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very interesting! the 60's were such an amazing time, too bad I was not born yet... :/
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: majora]
#11832075 - 01/14/10 10:16 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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You have been born... wtf LOL
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: chase555]
#13784121 - 01/14/11 01:02 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by Learyfan (01/13/20 06:37 PM)
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#13784228 - 01/14/11 01:30 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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