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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: goblinshark]
#13785209 - 01/14/11 09:35 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Damn it, you're right. I'm bumping this thread from last year and it looks like those videos have been removed and that no one else has them. That really sucks, because those were good videos. Oh well. I replaced the first one with the only good Human Be-In clip I could find. It's a clip collage set to Jefferson Airplane.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13785686 - 01/14/11 11:25 AM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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These stories are always really interesting. I agree with whoever said this should be made into some sort of calendar.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Force Ten]
#13786942 - 01/14/11 04:01 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by Learyfan (01/14/15 05:37 AM)
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#15664763 - 01/14/12 10:55 AM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#17545585 - 01/14/13 05:20 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#19415960 - 01/14/14 05:45 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy 75th Birthday Ken Babbs!

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#19416402 - 01/14/14 08:59 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Happy Birthday, Intrepid Traveller!
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Into The Woods]
#21119192 - 01/14/15 05:50 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is a 26 minute video collection of footage from The First Human Be-In. I have never seen this much video of that day. Pretty excellent.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#21121326 - 01/14/15 04:50 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: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.
Anyone notice the date -- October 6, '66?
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: endogenous]
#22777346 - 01/14/16 06:23 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#24009092 - 01/14/17 08:01 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well today is the 50th anniversary of the Human Be-In. It was a very important event in our history because it was one of the first times that hippies had assembled in such large numbers. It must have been absolute magic to have been there that day. Thousands of peaceful people were high on the infamous 99.9% pure White Lightning brand LSD, created by Owsley, Cargill, Scully and Douglas in the basement of a Point Richmond, California home in late 1966. They grooved together in harmony while listening to speakers like Leary, Ginsberg etc. and listening to bands like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. To be alive, and there, at that moment must have felt like you were attending one of the most important events in human history. And while their vision for the future of mankind wasn't allowed to pan out exactly as they planned, it remains a landmark moment in the history of psychedelic counterculture history, frozen in time forever.
Also, I'm glad to hear that they're putting on a Human Be-In for 2017 today. Click this link to see. Hopefully some of the feeling from the original event will be found there today.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#24913172 - 01/14/18 10:34 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#25743068 - 01/14/19 06:30 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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40th anniversary of the disappearance and presumed death of Marcia Moore. The heiress of the Sheraton Hotel chain and outspoken ketamine advocate took a large amount of ketamine and went into the woods where she froze to death. Her body wouldn't be found for another 3 months.
Click here to read her book Journeys Into the Bright World, about her ketamine experiences.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#26432602 - 01/14/20 05:34 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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Learyfan
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#27147065 - 01/14/21 04:19 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#27148040 - 01/14/21 03:56 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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The marcia moore story is so crazy; she did a massive dose of IM Ketamine and said Jupiter or Saturn spoke to her and said go to this place and go as deep as you can go and you'll be with us in a new realm.
So she goes into the woods, deep, and injects about 5g of Ketamine in one session - then holes out so hard for so long she froze to death out there. Makes you wonder if she really did go somewhere else and decided to stay.
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Learyfan
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Typerwritermonky said: The marcia moore story is so crazy; she did a massive dose of IM Ketamine and said Jupiter or Saturn spoke to her and said go to this place and go as deep as you can go and you'll be with us in a new realm.
So she goes into the woods, deep, and injects about 5g of Ketamine in one session - then holes out so hard for so long she froze to death out there. Makes you wonder if she really did go somewhere else and decided to stay.
I assume you mean if she went somewhere spiritually, because they found her body a while later. But yeah, I know what you mean. I guess it's possible. We'll never know until we die. Then, I assume, all questions will be answered.
But anyway, today is the 55th anniversary of the Human Be-In. I can still feel the energy of that day as if I were there. Here's an interesting description of the Human Be-In from Allen Cohen.
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From SFOracle@aol.com Tue Dec 19 15:41:08 1995 Return-Path: <SFOracle@aol.com> From: SFOracle@aol.com Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 18:42:48 -0500 To: dancer@netcom.com Subject: Timeline
You have a huge but very useful task before you. I was in the Haight in the 60s and was one of the editors and founders of the SF Oracle. About 4 years ago I published a complete reproduction of the Oracle with Regent Press, Oakland CA. This year Rockument Inc (http://www.rockument.com) published a CD Rom called Haight Ashbury in the Sixties that I wrote. Perhaps you should look at these.
Your entry on the human Be-In is in error. It wasn't produced by HIP or the Diggers. Here is the story:
The Human Be-In - January 14, 1967
Hippies and The Anti-War Movement Unite The Human Be-In developed out of the success of the Love Pageant Rally, the first San Francisco outdoor rock and roll celebration that Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen produced on October 6, 1966, the day LSD became illegal in California. We had realized that the change in consciousness and culture we were experiencing had to be communicated throughout the world. We felt that the ideals of Peace, Love and Community based on the transcendental vision could transform the world and end the war in Vietnam. In short, we wanted to turn the world on and to do it we would need to attract the spotlight from center stage Washington and Vietnam to center stage Haight-Ashbury.
Michael Bowen centered much of the organizing energy for the Be-In from his pad at Haight and Masonic. In addition to his expressionist painting and drawing, he was friends with the Beat poets from the North Beach era, and had spent time with Tim Leary at Millbrook. He was a mystic hustler who Allen Ginsberg had called the most convincing man he had ever known. He could charm the press and turn on a square. And he did. He invited Leary and the Beat poets to the Human Be-In, and arranged for it to be a worldwide media event.
Bowen and I had become concerned about the philosophical split that was developing in the youth movement. The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the Hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from resistance to the war. The Hippies thought the anti-war movement was doomed to endless confrontations with the establishment which would recoil with violence and fascism. We decided that to strengthen the youth culture, we had to bring the two poles together. In order to have a Human Be-In we would have to have a powwow.
We met with Jerry Rubin, Max Scheer and other Berkeley activists, and shared our ideas about directing magical and conscious energy towards the Pentagon in order to overcome its impregnability as both the symbol and seat of evil. We had developed this magical concept to exorcise the Pentagon from the writings of Lewis Mumford and the visions of Charlie Brown, the peyote shaman. The idea to exorcise the Pentagon would be realized in the March on Washington in October. Rubin and Jack Weinberg were invited to speak at the Be-In, and Max Scheer agreed to announce and support the Be-In in the Berkeley Barb.
The Gathering of the Tribes in a "union of love and activism" was an overwhelming success. Over twenty thousand people came to the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. The psychedelic bands played: Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lew Welch, and Lenore Kandel read, chanted and sang. Tim Leary told everyone to Turn on, Tune in and Dropout; the Diggers gave out free food; the Hells Angels guarded the generator cables that someone had cut; Owsley Stanley gave out free acid; a parachutist dropped like an angel from the sky and the whole world watched on the evening news. Soon there would be Be-Ins and Love-Ins from Texas to Paris, and the psychedelic and political aspects of the youth culture would continue to grow hand in hand everywhere.
Allen Cohen
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#28139066 - 01/14/23 06:55 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#28143230 - 01/16/23 04:29 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I mean I've had such intense K holes before that I thought I actually had died and was dead.. then I came back to life and had to sew my reality back together.
But once I broke through, I was certain I had died. It was a full OBE. I could see how if one had a few of those K holes that they could become deluded it's real enough that it's worth dying over.
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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/14) [Re: Learyfan]
#28620738 - 01/14/24 09:40 AM (5 months, 9 days ago) |
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45th anniversary of Marcia Moore disappearing. 
But it's Ken Babbs' 85th birthday today! 
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