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Ken Kezzy's Magic bus Further at the Oregon Country Fair.
What is
Hippie?
Deeper
meaning is what the Hippie movement is all about. A search for Mind
expansion through any means. A search for hope of any kind.an openness
to everyone and everything.
A soul felt search for peace and justice.Bringing to a final end of all
war across the planet. A return to the land, and hope for a better
relationship with nature.A search for personal spirituality beyond the
established religions. And above all a finding of who are what we are
as Human beings..
KGON 92.3 has been on the
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for over 30 years. They where there when the Greats were new,and their
still playing them today. tune in.Trun up. and drop out.
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Rainbow Family of Living Light
Some say we're the
largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no
leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means
different things to different people. I think it's safe to say we're
into intentional community building, non-violence, and alternative
lifestyles. We also believe that Peace and Love are a great thing, and
there isn't enough of that in this world. Many of our traditions are
based on Native American traditions, and we have a strong orientation
to take care of the the Earth. We gather in the National Forests yearly
to pray for peace on this planet
2nd Sunday of each month. From April or
May until October, they
are usually held at Woodstock Park- located at SE 47th Avenue &
Steele
Street, on the 47th Ave. side. They begin at 2 PM Winter months bring
Family together in homes or buildings that have been gratuitously
volunteered.
For information about Rainbow events and picnics call: Northwest
Lightline (503) 727-2498
Known by us Hippies as
Ganja,Weed,Herb,pot, It is the sacrement of all Hippies and Rastas.
Now for those of us who
know it no explenation is nessissary,but to
those who are outside the Movement I will try to enighten you about
it,and why those who hate it would want to see it leagalized.
Ganja for us is a gift from
Mother Earth the Goddess Gia. Most
Hippies are Pantheists, Nature worshipers. We see the Universe itself
as the
"The God" and The Earth as
"The Goddess". Im not saying that all
Hippies beleave this,but the majority of them do. There are those of
the biblical faith
known as "The Way" who see
Marijuana as the Plant of renoun that
shall feed the world mentioned by the bible. Those of Bible based
Rastafaiaism
also see it this way while
the followers of "One Love" are
Univeralist Ratas who belave that the "Creators" of the major religons
are all the same "God".
But all of these sects see
Marijuana as the means of communication with the "Creator".
So are Hippies like the
Rastafari a Religion. But the Mainstream
deffinition of a Religon yes. But Hippies themselves dont like the
conitations of being
called a religion because
were more then just a religon. We are
also A political Group being represented by the "Green Party". We are
also a social
movement. supporting Human
rights, Absolute Freedom,and Pure democracy.
The point is that Marijuana
as our sacrement is not something that
were willing to give up no matter what the governemnt might send
against us.
We will continue the use of
our sacrement just as any christian would continue the reading of the
bible if it was made illegal.
Unlike any other substance
under the U.S. Drug laws Marijuana is
not a drug. Its an herb. It is non-adictive, you can not overdose on it
it does not cause
cancer, Matter of fact it can
be use to treat cancer. It does not
cause brain damage or any other problems that Chemicals cause. Maijuana
unlike all the other
Schedule I Chemicals can not
kill you. It does not deserve to be considered in the anti drug law.
MARIJUNA IS NOT DANGEROUS.
The only reason that Maijuana
is illegal is the cultural
suppression of those who use it. An attack directly against the
Hippies. It remains illegal because
were still around.
Now for those of you who are
against marijuana legalization heres something to think about.
Here in Oregon the econoimics
of Marijuna are huge. Marijuana is
Oregon's Lagest industry. If the War On Drugs were ever sucsessful is
its goals of
wipeing out marijuana as a
cash crop.Oregons economy would colapse. Oregon would become an
impoverised third world nation.
On the other hand if
Marijuana was legalized it could be taxed and
regulated. The taxes collected from the manufacure ans sales of
Marijuana would be
enough to cover everything
and reduce and possible even eliminate
property taxes. Legalized marijuana means more jail space open for
violent offenders.
It costs aproxamatly $250 a
day to keep a pothead behind bars where
they do nothing more then what most potheads do anyway sit around all
day watching
TV eating and smoking pot.
Now I dont figgure that theres very many
of you working class mainstreamer who really would approve of your
money being
waisted this way. We Hippies
understand, we think its a waist to. But its not our fault that the law
makers are so predudice.
Next time the legalization
ballot comes up think about where you
want to spend your money. I doubt its in provideing some pothead the
Meals and a place
to sleep just because he got
high.
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Happenings and fests in Hippieland
Oregon
Country Fair
The
Oregon Country Fair is the oldest continueing Hippie Culture fair in
the U.S.
It
opened in doors in july of 1969 and has remain open to this very
day.
The
main fair is a maze of trails in a wooded area filled with booths made
of recycled materials.
In this maze of trails can be found
everything you cant find
anywere else. Alcohol and Drugs are banned from the main fair,So if
your looking to party you you need to go out to the camps.
opened in the summer of 1970. It is the
nation's oldest open air market still in operation.
It still matains its 1970ies Hippie culture
tradition. And many of the booths feature traditional Hippie handmade
wares. Link. Eugene
Saterday Market
The
world beat festival.
Held
in Salem's beautiful
Riverfront Park on the banks of the famous Willamette River, the Salem World Beat Festival
is a two-day, non-stop program of international music, dance, food,
hands-on crafts and folklore. The Beat is a professional-quality event
celebrating the people and traditions of every continent.
Three costumed processions and more than 125 performances,
demonstrations and workshops take place throughout the weekend. In
addition to cultural exhibits, food, clothing and gift items, each of
the festival's five World Villages includes a children's area with
free, hands-on cultural crafts.
Breitenbush Hotsprings is a great place for Hippies
to relax soaking
in the Hotsprings,going on a hike on the many trails,take part in the
many classes in natural and spiritual enlightenment.Rent a cabin or
enjoy the organic vegitarian cusine in the main lodge.
For more information just Click
Here.
Alfa Farm is a long standing Communal Farm in Deadwod Oregon.Their
mission is to create holistic community and teach responsible
management and use of our natural resources,social justice,and world
peace. if you want to know more click here.
Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s MAGIC TRIP
is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s
fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964,
Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set
off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York
World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a
renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady,
the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the
driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the
Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting
footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has
remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Gibney and Ellwood
were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey
family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film
Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have
shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American
history.
The Yellow Submarine 3D
Disney Studios has hired Director Robert Zemeckis
to helm the remake of a Yellow Submarine announced
that it will produce a 3D remake of The Beatles’ 1968 animation film Yellow Submarine.
Pixar isn’t in charge: the film will actually be created by ImageMovers
Digital, Disney’s
state-of-the-art performance capture animation studiooperated
in conjunction with Zemeckis and his partners. The Yellow Submarine 3D
movie will include 16 major hits of the Beatles as well as recordings
from the original animated film.
A first look at the logo of the Yellow Submarine
3D, it was unveiled at Disney’s D23:
Trailer will be posted when avalible.
HIPPIE BOOK REVIEW
'Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World'
by Nicholas Schou>
An OC Weekly writer reveals the dark side of the
1960s drug culture by
tracking down members and associates of the Orange County
counterculture group, who spoke of it for the first time in decades.
In the 1960s, a group of psychedelic-loving misfits from Orange County
called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love figured it could turn the entire
world on to the mystical power of LSD.
It
seemed like a reasonable idea at the time -- the brotherhood had been
founded on a shared belief in LSD's transformative effects. But
somewhere along the line, the spiritual message was squashed by
thousands of kilos of smuggled marijuana and hashish.
By
decade's end, the psychedelic messengers had sidetracked into a
smuggling operation that made the group one of the largest drug cartels
in America.
Instead of enlightenment, the members of the
brotherhood wound up making their mark as narcotics trailblazers: They
distributed Orange Sunshine, arguably the most popular "brand" of LSD
in history; created the strain of pot known as Maui Wowie; and were the
first to bring Afghan hash to the U.S.
For a while, they were
America's foremost counterculture outlaws, dubbed the "hippie mafia" by
Rolling Stone. But the organization ultimately fell prey to greed,
back-stabbing and legal heat. And when it was gone, it barely
registered an acid flashback, even after biographers, documentarians
and Madison Avenue began to strip mine the hippie era for material.
Yet
in "Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to
Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World," Nicholas Schou manages --
amazingly -- to penetrate four decades of silence.
A staff
writer at OC Weekly, Schou first wrote about the brotherhood for that
paper in 2005, and now he's unfurled a true-life ghost story,
interviewing dozens in and around the brotherhood's orbit, many of whom
are talking on the record for the first time.
The result is a
mind-blowing scrap of found history, like something buried deep in the
earth -- and you cannot avert your eyes. It's a bizarre tale in which
freakazoid suburban 1960s kids live recklessly, blissfully unaware of
just how close to the edge they are.
The roots of the
brotherhood can be traced to Anaheim in the early 1960s, when Orange
County was an "American Graffiti" landscape of hot rods and hoodlums.
One such figure was John Griggs, just another average low-grade dealer
and user -- until he dropped acid in 1965 and became a devotee of
Timothy Leary's lysergic philosophy and a pied piper for the promotion
of hallucinogenic drugs.
Griggs, Schou writes, "would recruit
everyone he knew -- surfers, street fighters, pot dealers and petty
crooks -- into a tribe of people who viewed acid as a sacrament, a
window into God itself."
This loose but growing aggregation
officially became the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in October 1966.
Their utopian agenda, aside from turning on the world, involved a
scenario in which the group would relocate to its own island.
But
such grandiose dreams didn't come cheap. Although they opened a
storefront called Mystic Arts World on Pacific Coast Highway, drugs
were always the primary source of the brotherhood's solvency.
In
1967, Griggs consulted the I Ching for advice about sending some
brothers to the Middle East to score hash. "The book said, 'Crossing
the great water will bring supreme success,' " brotherhood member
Travis Ashbrook recalls.
But while brotherhood members were
shipping hash-filled cars back to the States, Griggs developed a bond
with Leary -- who'd moved to Orange County at his suggestion -- that
was tearing the group apart.
Many in the brotherhood
distrusted Leary, Schou writes. To them, the acid guru was a charlatan,
addicted to fame and willing to glom on to anyone willing to help
promote his great cause: himself.
The entry of the high-profile
Leary into the organization was accompanied by increased scrutiny from
law enforcement, which prompted many members to flee California for
Maui.
Filling the void were nefarious characters more
interested in money and fear than peace and love. The name of the
brotherhood, Schou notes, "now was being hijacked by dope pushers and
used as a sales pitch or a marketing device."
After Griggs
died in 1969 of a drug overdose, the group lost its tenuous bond.
Business became more ruthless. The drugs got heavier. Mistakes were
made, and, in 1971, the police finally brought them down. The
Brotherhood of Eternal Love was left to rest in peace.
That
is, until now. With "Orange Sunshine," Schou has crafted a definitive
history of the dark side of the 1960s. It's a jarring but important
reminder that the black-and-white filter that many of us bring to the
decade is really shot through with gray.
Places to go Things to do.
NATURE LOVERS!!!
If your a nature freak like most hippies Oregon is the
the place for you. The Oregon Hippie Trail (AKA) Pacific Crest Trail is
the best in the U.S.
The senery is astounding and the hotsprings along the trail like Austin
,Bagby,Brietenbush,and Cougar,are great places to relax along the
trail.
Hippies are always looking for the
opprotunity to practice freedom. If your intrested in Nudism or
Naturism goto.
This is a local
oregon cover band,playing the music
of the Grateful Dead. to listen to a sample of their
music and find out where they are playing next
go to Big stupid
circle Myspace
Tribal Seeds
A great new reggae band.
Check out their myspace
page.
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