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LA New AGgers in the early 1970s...

2008-05-11T21:01:04Z

anyone else remember The Source? HELP 24 hou vegetarian restaurant?

mosrt of you are younger than I am (I graduated high school 1974) ..my parents weren't hippies whenI was in junior high and high school but I was,and my aunt was too...
anyone raised in any of these groups? or know someone who was?

we had "Jesus freaks"crawling the streets where I went to jr high in
Hollywood,all over the Boulevard. they looked jsut like hippies but
they;d surround you if you tried talking back,suddenly five
people,generally young, long-haired, bearded guys maybe a woman with
long straight hair and a granny dress or patched jeans,jsut likeWE
liked to dress, , all nice looking people in their 20s, telling you
literally on bended knee that Jesus Christ was waiting to take me in
His arms and promise me a banquet I could barely imagine despite my
filthy rotten sins and how could I turn him down. I wondered if God
Almighty was also a natural foods chef.

speaking of natural foods banquets and cult behavior:

there was the Source, which was about the weirdest New Age cult of all
(thoughthat's a difficult honor to uhold without some serious
competition, har har) ,on Sunset Boulevard but a decent vegetarian
restaurant.I'll post some about this another time-childhood friend
Mandy called me last week to chat and she told me a book about the
Source had just appeared about the Brotherhood of the Source, by one
of leader Father Yod's (nee Jim Baker, but not the Christian
evangelist of PTL) "fourteen spiritual wives" who is still devoted to
his memory. it originally ran an asn article in LA WEekly;I read it
on line. hmmm, a bit of a puff piece when i was hoping for something a
little more analytical: there was one other article in LA Weekly by
another reporter who was a hit more objective, while evoking the LA
hip scene ofmy youht pretty well....as soon as Mandy told me the
author of the was "Isis Aquarius," I kind of expected as much.

quite a blast from the past. the Source was the temporary spiritual
home of a LOT of disaffected upper middle-class LA kids. I knew ite a
few fromym junior high and high school eyars who were there for
varying lengths of time,and you;d recognize the celebrity names of
their "earthly parents" as they came to refer to them in contrast to
Baker who was their "earthly spiritual father." I hadn't known until
I read the article by this other reporter (sorry, have to look up his
name) that Earl Warren's niece was around my age and a Source-ite
too...this is when Warren. former California governor, was chief
justice of the US Supreme Court (and probably the most
progressive-minded chief justice we have had in my lifetime.)

as long as we are on LA New Age vegetarian restaurants, I can;t omit
the Fairfax District's infamous HELP (serving HELP: Health, Education,
Love and Peace" 24 hours a day.) it was a great place to go for
simple,usually tasty organic food if you got home from a camping trip
at 2 AM...but lemme tell you the crowd that was out for veggie burgers
in 1971 or so at HELP at those hours of the night was likely to be
there because the flying saucers were about to pick them up and take
them to their True Home...

raw foods food prep ( almost said "cooking") hadn't gone as techno or
skillful as it would 30 years later, of course, and some of it was
pretty hard to digest, at least for me as a teen. there was this one
night I was there with friends and maybe one person's parent? can't
remember exactly who was in the party now. but I sure remember what I
ate...restaurant food was relatively inexpensive then, as was life
even in California cities, , and i had a part time job and some
spending money, and we liked going out to the trippy natural foods
places around town, like Organicville and Aware Inn and HELP and even
the Source(which was as I say a cultural phenomenon and a New Age
church too).I ordered, and ate a large, all-raw vegetables "dinner
salad." whew, I always ate a lot of veggies, though when I was
gorwing up my dad didn't like broccoli and cauliflower and steamed
greens and most beans,so I mostly learned to prepare and chow down on
those after I'd been cooking on my own fr a few years...well,this
salad was comprehensive and RAW..I'd never had slices of raw
sweetpotato before, and raw broccoli and green beans and other starchy
things along with my tender lettuce and grated carrots and
whatnot...made myself chew through it all,woke up in the middle of the
night feeling like I was going to explode. took a pinch of baking soda
in water though it wasn't a acid ingestion type of feeling as much as
feeling like I had a balloon in my gut pressing on everything it could
find south of my diaphragm and north of my butt.. yow...felt some
better, burped loudly (maybe those two in opposite order, said I
wasn't going to try eating raw sweet potatoes or raw squash again for
a LONG time.

but the place was a hoot, HELP was, and some of their food was pretty
good. the UFO crowd tended to wear rainbow-colored air brushed long
johns a lot, and drawstring pants.

and my mother, when she was only moderately exasperated withme, would
say,"okay,I give up,you can go live at The Source!" especailly if I
was wearing white clothing, like the SOurce-ies all did then, knowing
I wasn't the type,or Earthly Spiritual Father wasn't MY tupe )(both
really) we liked to get in a laugh at them, my friends and Iwhodidn;t
join,especially when our friends got with them, and they came to
school in white embroidered Mexican clothing on a raw foods diet
themselves, sporting spiritual cliches such as "well sometimes we do
like to go to the movies after meditation and eat popcorn and just
sink into the world of Maya (illusion)"

oh they were TIMES then, yes...

Igotta get on with my day.see y'all soon!

love Judith

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Tim Guest on growing up Rajneesi...

2008-05-06T13:38:58Z

just heard about this book (when I saw a review for another book by Tim Guest) and thought it would be of interest here. I;ve copied the info from Powells.com,and plan to order the book as soon asI get paid this month (which should be next few days, good thing I keep lots of dry bans and grains iglassjarslike every former teen back to the lander and Berkeley organic-o.)

the communities that saw children as an impediment to whatever the adults were doing "spiritually" or"forgrowth" always seemed like the scariest tome, I guess because I know we were,duh,all children once.I mean,woe to the children whose parents move somewhere where vasectomy is mandated...Synanon, Rajneshpuram, etc...

will check out the book next week and report back!

Judith

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru
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At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from a dentist's chair, and collecting Rolls Royces.

Tim and his mother were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange, and encouraged to surrender themselves into their new family. While his mother worked tirelessly for the cause, Tim-or Yogesh, as he was now called-lived a life of well-meaning but woefully misguided neglect in various communes in England, Oregon, India, and Germany.

In 1985 the movement collapsed amid allegations of mass poisonings, attempted murder, and tax evasion, and Yogesh was once again Tim. In this extraordinary memoir, Tim Guest chronicles the heartbreaking experience of being left alone on earth while his mother hunted heaven.

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"London journalist Guest (the Guardian; the Daily Telegraph) shares the bittersweet story of his nomadic childhood as a member of the sannyasin, a group of people who swathed themselves in orange and lived in the various communes of the infamous Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In 1979, when Guest was six, he was brought into the group by his mother, a lapsed Catholic who 'surrendered herself to the world without a second thought,' moving to England, Germany, India and Oregon to work for the cause of Bhagwan's Eastern mysticism (which involved, among other things, engaging in sexual freedom and inhaling laughing gas). Guest played with the ragtag children of the hippie adults working in these ashrams, sometimes going for long periods of time without his mother's love or guidance. He systematically observes the daily lives of the sannyasin and their master, refusing to trash the devotees or their spiritual beliefs, instead targeting the manipulations of Bhagwan, whom he depicts as a power-mad holy man who taught restraint, poverty and obedience yet collected Rolls-Royces and told jokes 'cribbed from Playboy.' Guest forgives his neglectful mother as he records Bhagwan's fall from grace through American tax evasion, lawsuits and denials of admittance from country to country until his empire crumbled. Honest and vivid, this is an absorbing book about survival and good intentions gone awry. Agent, Denise Shannon. (Feb.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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hi, and a bit about our upbringing and its effect on our perspectives.

2008-04-23T17:47:28Z

Wow, this is a fascinating tribe. Never really thought to think about my upbringing in this light. I wasn ’t raised on a commune, but my hippie parents defiantly raised me and my older sister, as good hippies should. Vacations were always going gross country, and camping in the woods, hiking all over the place, waking up in a tent and flicking the large northern climate slugs off our entrance flaps. I remember going every year to Vermont to the wood stove conventions, where face painting was always rainbows and beards. Flannel and overalls were uniform. I grew up in Boston, so I wasn ’t as secluded from the “real world ”as some of you, and as soon as I was old enough was sneaking out at night and running all over the city with friends from my public school upbringing. My parents stayed in the city because their hippie ethic brought them to be nurses, doctors, and eventually teachers, ‘cause they wanted to do good in the world, and optometry school was a way to dodge the draft. My dad always kept his ticket from Woodstock in his wallet. Snooping around the house my sisters and I would stumble on old pipes, crusted with old pot, and sometime random junk food maybe my dad had stashed. We were raised mostly on rice cakes and natural peanut butter, and soymilk boxes in our lunch boxes. Grew up on CSN&Y, the doors (who always creeped me out), the Beatles, cream, Hendrix, Janis, Love, Carole King, James Taylor, Free to be you and me, and so many more you would recognize from your folks play lists. My parents tried to use cloth diapers on us, but gave up I think cause they were too busy to deal with it all. We ate meat, but also plenty of tofu. I was also raised in a small town in Maine, where we would go to sing-alongs in various barns. I did my fair share of running around naked. My parents always had weird friends visiting or staying with us for months. One of my parents friends used to always baby-sit us, and tried to put nutmeg in everything, and forced me to like stamp collecting to learn all about other countries. I don ’t know where to stop, there are so many funny memories, but I truly appreciate the life and perspectives they gave me. My parents are still teachers and doctors, and live a bit more comfortable now, allowing themselves little luxuries, and try to eat organic when they can, especially now that they can afford it a little better, thanks to bread and circus, and trader joe ’s. I rebelled in my own ways, and in other ways became more hippie then they were. I am a vegetarian, which they never were, but I don ’t really care for drugs, which I am sure they did. I love camping and hiking still, and the woods and the ocean and the mountains. My families idea of a vacation together is going down to Nicaragua and teaching people about basic eye care and vision problem prevention, and improving our Spanish and hanging out with our friends down there. My family may not be typical, but I think we are pretty cool. I wouldn ’t want it any other way. We are weird and fun, and I am proud of my parents for taking the things they believed in during their Woodstock days and implementing them in realistic ways so that they could be comfortable and still be doing the good they talked about doing for the world when they were younger. My sisters and I are all very political and vocal about it, we have been to our fair share of protests, and are probably more liberal then the folks at this point. They raised a bunch of artists who are doing ok, and the little one right now is working at woman ’s shelters and doing other amazing things for herself. I have plenty of friends who have never had that, and a lot of them are just beginning to learn lessons that my sisters and I began learning long ago. We should be happy to have been raised, no matter how weird, or detrimental it could be, with a different perspective then most, allowing us to question and investigate the other perspectives around us. That is a gift that many don ’t have, we have the gift of seeing things outside the mainstream, because we have been outside the mainstream.

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any Farmies in this tribe?

2008-04-23T17:28:01Z

if you ever lived on the Tennessee Farm or one of its satellites, or you have been heavily influenced by Stephen Gaskin or by "Spiritual Midwifery," you might be interested in a great blog being put together byf ormer Farm heavy( Caravan 1971 to the Changeover in1983)Cliff Figallo, who was also one of the innovators of WELL.com .

here's the link to Farmola, Cliff's truer-than-truth tale in progress(I;'e been encouraging him to get it into book form)

www.farmola.wordpress.comhere, and WHY.

and here is my comment about how the Farm affected me though I didn't ever go there. I knew them well at a distance,old familyconnections;my aunt was one of the eldest of the Monday Night Class students with Stephen in SF,and was on the Caravan and the first eight months ion Tennessee.

http://farmola.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/intro-to-a-telepathic-community/#comments

it;d be cool to talk with others about these influential but "different" hippies. (no welfare,no adopted Sanskrit or nature names, no sex outside marriage,but lots of tie-dye,talk about"energy,"community living,innovation...)

..

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entertaining novel about aging hippies...recommendation

2008-03-03T00:11:04Z

I'll post this to reviews,too eventually...

but Tim Sandlin came out with a novel,"Jimi hHendrix Turns Eighty" set in 2022,when Jimi Hendrix *would* be 80 were he alive and there is a cantankerous group of old Bay Area hippies held more or less against their will at a retirement home in Half Moon Bay. they get pissed, work together, take a couple of hostages from the staff, and re-christen the place Pepper Land. the governor of California eventually intervenes on their behalf. it's well written and though he's from Wyoming, I'm pleased Sandlin did his homework about the Bay Area.

warning...the adult children of these old hippies don't come off so great on the whole...so don't get defensive,it'sa comic novel.enjoy the laughs and there's also a cautionary note built in.
enjoy!
Judith

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Let's hear some names???

2008-02-29T04:07:14Z

This could be fun...

I'm Aradia Sunlight
my brother Alder Robin Rainsong
other brother Terran Twilight Nuadha
A sister Vahana Una Neckabit
another sister Trillium Mckenize

We were named mostly astologically, we all have our own last names. This has been fun explaining over and over again, my entire life. My mom is Daphne SingingTree.
We had two sisters in our community growning up called RunningWater and StarLight, Running Water grew up and changed her name to Rachel. And I don't really thing anyone blamed her.
Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.....

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Older hippie kids?

2008-01-20T21:21:02Z

Hi guys: I love the name discussion. I was born in 1961, and NONE of my peers went through any of this. But with my mother's third divorce in 1970, at the age of 30, she took us from our Minnesota farm upbringing and moved to the California mountains, where she ran a boarding house for hippies (lots of swearing, some drugs, bands practicing in the front room), and eventually moved in with an icky heroin-addict bass guitar player.

... um, know any groups for THAT experience?

No sugar, just carob, lots of home cooking, everybody sat around high and laughed during the Nixon crisis, I was raised reading the National Lampoon, and when civility falls from me on my deathbed, I'll probably start flinging the word "fuck" around with wild abandon, since my internal dialogue is peppered with it. A big treat was mint tea with honey.

Names? Each of the three kids has a different last name. My father was underground as a cult leader for 25 years and when he died, he was using the name "Johenio Perente Ramos" even though he was a freaking Norwegian!

So although I'm from a different generation, I was touched by the hippie thing too. Amusingly enough, I was like the "Michael J. Fox" of the hippie household. I tend to rebel at the slightest whiff of authority (the words "Challenge Authority" were practically carved on my forehead). Dropped out of school, went to the silicon valley, and started my own business, and now I live in the tony suburbs, where I feel like a Martian! (But I married someone from the Bronx (raised by socialists), and he is afraid of cows so we can't move back to the country.)

Here's my issue: My mother is pretty narcissistic and was quite spoiled. I have a terrible attitude about the entire hippie thing and see it as amazingly self-indulgent - what the spoiled middle class kids did to dabble. Sure, we had lots of friends who grew up on communes and I saw that, but from a larger perspective, I tend to think of the whole thing as a boomer experience-o-rama.

Sounds like most of you guys have a more positive experience about it? Might just be my perceptions and generation. In 1975 I was 14.

- kate

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question for hippie commune babies

2008-01-20T21:07:59Z

hi all,

i'm from NYC so did not grow up on a commune (try: apartment building!), but became obsessed with the movie HAIR at the age of 13 along with a girlfriend. we dreamed of being hippies, roaming central park in trailing bell-bottoms and flipping throught he air. when i got to my 30's, i still had a hippie fantasy and somehow believed (wrongly it turned out) that California was the true land of hippies. so i moved out there for a while, lived on a slum-lord hippie commune, only to awaken to the fact that hippies originated in NYC (woodstock)- or at least, the sort of hippies i believe i could clique with, anyway. that's my opinion now, on looking back at HAIR and the portrait it painted. so i guess i was like dorothy: there's no place like home... though i have to admit, i have yet to experience these NY hippies. (upstate?)

but on to my question... when i lived on this semi-commune, the best thing about it (i have to say) was the children. one child in particular, whom i still love dearly, though rarely see, now that i'm back in NY. she seemed (Iike the other kids) so strikingly precocious, intellectually curious and verbally communicative, with adults as well as children. however, i began to notice something odd, sort of emotionally detached about her as well as the other kids. i don't know if this is something you've already discussed on this tribe, but as hippie kids growing up on a commune, did you recognize this tendency in yourself? i'm speaking of the tendency to grow emotionally distant from people, probably out of sheer necessity, since so many must have come and gone in your life. if so, how has this factored into your adult life? has it helped or hurt you? just wondering about your take on this phenomenon.

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MDMA and other medications...

2008-01-20T05:45:51Z

This is an article on the topic named above. I found it gives a decent account of drug studies and of pioneers and has some powerful anecdotes. It is wonderful to see it published in the Post as a veteran and a granddaughter of a war vet. I dearly hope we can open our eyes to the reality that what we are doing to treat PTS Disorder is not working well and as our military returns from the horrors they have endured we simply can not lean on the traditional means of treatment for this illness or expect the VA to take any significant steps in new solutions.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...77.html

Also you may want to Google/Wikipedia : "Ibogaine", It is a West African drug from the country of Gabon which had brought great success, worldwide(of course not in the US) in interrupting drug addictions - be they to heroin, methadone, speed, tobacco, and a host of other addictive drugs.

War On Drugs Propagandists who have a lock on the conversation in the media on all drugs, and having our private and public Drug Rehabilitation Centers maintain a steady 90% failure rate in treating addiction, thus ensuring a perpetual non-stop flow of customers for them, than there ever would be a financial incentive for actually having people get over their illnesses.

There are so many "medications" we call drugs that could powerfully change the course of our afflicted society, however it is much more profitable to keep people sick and suffering in this money driven culture that we find ourselves in the middle of, so maybe MDMA and Ibogaine would not be a good thing to have in the US for addiction treatment, since it would undermine a lot of sacred institutions and beliefs.

Unfortunately all of this is still targeted at the symptoms of illness and not the causes, but as in the case of the rape, sometimes we can only work with what has already happened.

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2nd Gen Hippie in Victoria

2007-10-19T22:17:40Z

Oy, any 2nd Gen hipsters in the area, I am new in town and need people who understand?

& ya

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Your Relationship to Drugs

2007-10-19T18:13:14Z

I'm just wondering how growing up around drugs influenced your relationship to them. Being hippie kids invariably involves being around drugs of some kind. My parents and their friends never got into anything heavier than booze, coke or acid, and we were warned from a young age never to play with addictive stuff like heroin or opium. I for one never got too caught up in drugs. I've done plenty of them, but I never got addicted to coke like some of the people I know who grew up in "normal" homes. I don't even smoke weed anymore. If I have a problem with anything, it's booze, and even that has been getting cut out of my diet lately due to money and dietary/health considerations.

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video emails

2007-08-28T15:52:51Z

Recently I was introdued to video emails. From the site below it makes it so simple.

Plus it combies a place to put alll your phots, email conferencing, just more than i can luist.

take a lokk:

www.helloworld.com/james-freeman

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SantaCruz BirthBook...any of you in it?

2007-05-22T02:42:31Z

I'm too old to havebeen one of the babies of the Home Birth Renaissance led by hippie types, and a bit too young to havebeenthere when the first cohort produced its self-help books (all out of northern Claifornia, really.) but I got this wonderful blast from the past today when an old friend sent this to me, and wondered if any of you were in it?

otr if you were born at home, whether you feel the optimism of the mothers and fatherswho truly believed that gentle home birth wouldbring about calmer, happier chidlren for life was justified in your life?

I finally had my baby at home when I was 38, after many eyars of trying...feltvery retro but that's my life.

Judith

just got a beautiful blast from the past. last year I got in touch
with my dear friend from when we were the youngest, skinniest, and
most countercultural kids in our class at junior high in Hollywood.
turns out we have lived very parallel lives in many ways in spite of
being temperamentally very different people. she went to college in
Santa Cruz and stayed on there for a long time...now living in
Oregon but planning to relocate to Sebastopol, where her mother and
brother live, in the next year.

anyway, she was in the midwifery world for many years, then got into
doing eldercare, and last year told me that she'd thinned out her
library and sent many of her old midwifery books to the bookseller.
and she'd kept the Birth Book by Raven lang and all from the Santa
Cruz midwifery collective in the early 70s. (this was the third of
the early books on natural home birth in the 70s renaissance of
same...Jeannine credited it as an inspiration in Prenatal Yoga.

so I has told Tasha she was wise to hang on to Birth Book, that it;s
very rare and a collectors' item that often sells for a hundred
dollars (a really trashed one was about $50 on alibris.com lately).
and that my copy had disappeared from a box of my stuff when I ahd
it stored in an attic and was living in Central America in the late
70s...
well, today I took a day off work to try to get caught up on
laundry, get straight with the post office where my packages have
been in no-person's land for reasons that aren;t entirely clear,
etc. I went up to the window earlier this morning adn they had
about 5 or 6 packages of various sizes for me, including the
chemistry book I needed for my class weeks ago.

and there was a package from Tasha saying, "This seemed right to
come live with you, hope you enjoy, love," with her copy of the
Birth Book!

what a generous thing for her to do. I haven;t seen the book in
maybe 20 years? I burst into tears. remembered a lot of it, had
forgotten some, amazing to see how much we've learned since and also
how little some things have changed, the idealism and courage of
those young families...

anyway, if you have an opportunity to review this classic, DO.

much love, Judith

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On a serious note

2007-04-25T20:18:41Z

I'm not one to post all sorts of political stuff on boards but a House Resolution 333 has been proposed by Dennis Kucinich D-OH to impeach Vice President Cheney for 3 reasons.

1.) Knowingly bringing us into a war under false pretenses.
2.) Making unfounded connections between Sept 11 and Iraq.
3.) Trying to bring us into another war with Iran and violating our constitution and UN in doing so.

I tend to be very involved politically but don't usually ask friends to join in, but this time it is so important to send a message tot the people that represent us that holding the people to a higher standard the the elected officials is not ok. These people must be help accountable. If he is guilty then he will be impeached, if he is not then at least we will know that. I'm asking all of you to go to this site below and contact your represenative. http://www.house.gov/

I'm sure you get a lot of requests for such things but I have never felt it was more important to have our voice heard. Thank you for your time!

Jessica

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RETROFEST-1967 MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL TRIBUTE CONCERT BENEFIT TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS FOR SUNRISE DAYCAMP Saturday, May 12th, 2007

2007-04-25T03:34:22Z

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RETROFEST-1967 MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL TRIBUTE CONCERT BENEFIT TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS FOR SUNRISE DAYCAMP
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
9:30 PM - 2:30 AM

New York, NY, March 23, 2007: Retro69 will host a MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL TRIBUTE CONCERT tribute concert to benefit SUNRISE DAY CAMP, a Free day camp for children with cancer and their siblings run by the Friedberg JCC in Oceanside.
The concert will follow the genre from bands that performed at the July 1967 Monterey event, including possible selections from The Association, Lou Rawls , Johnny Rivers , Simon & Garfunkel, The Animals, Canned Heat , Big Brother & The Holding Company , Country Joe & The Fish , Al Kooper , The Butterfield Blues Band , Quicksilver Messenger Service , The Steve Miller Band , The Electric Flag, Moby Grape, Hugh Masekela , The Byrds , Laura Nyro , Jefferson Airplane, Booker T & The MG's , Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Blues Project , Buffalo Springfield , The Who ,The Grateful Dead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Mamas & The Papas.

The music will run non-stop from 9:30pm to 2:30am and include artists such as Eddie Kaecher who played with "The Band" at Woodstock 94, Earl Shelton of the Temptations, Haley DeVestern who has perfomed as lead singer with famed bands like Big Brother & the Holding Company. In addition to the house bnd Retro69, other acts will include The Benefit will take place at the Sunset Grill located at 4068 Sunrise Highway. Seaford, NY. 516-785-4952.

There is a $5 minimum donation. For sponsorship opportunities please contact Allan Spielman at 917-583-2505 or email at allan@retro69.net. Please visit http://www.retro69.net for details.

About Sunrise Day Camp:

Sunrise Day Camp, for children ages 3 ½- 17 , is the only dedicated day camp in the nation for children with cancer. It is a camp designed to meet the emotional, social, recreational and physical needs of these children while allowing them to enjoy the comforts and safety of their own homes at night. Sunrise Day Camp is operated by the Friedberg JCC and is situated on the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds, a 300-acre wooded site that borders Nassau and Suffolk counties. Best of all, Sunrise Day Camp is offered free of charge to all children being treated for cancer and their siblings on a non-sectarian basis.

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GOODSTOCK 2007 - This Summer's Event

2007-04-25T03:28:44Z

Hi Everyone -
I just wanted to pop in at let you know about Goodstock 2007, if you haven't already heard. It's being produced by Artie Kornfeld (Woodstock 69) and Doug McClurg, and from what I'm seeing already, it just might be the place to go this summer. I've pasted their release below. If you're interested - pass this along. It could be the music event of this century.

I know they're also looking for tribute bands. Bands and soloacts should send all presskits and inquiries to allan@retro69.net, not Goodstock.
Hope to see everyone there -
Joanne

Woodstock - Preservation Archives
www.woodstockpreservation.org

Goodstock 2007: LAST CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE REAL WOODSTOCK 69!

GOODSTOCK 2007 MUSIC FESTIVAL. 3 DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC
FROM THE CREATORS OF WOODSTOCK and the MIND GARAGE

GOODSTOCK 2007 will bring together the most amazing 60's and 70's bands from coast to coast for a 3-day festival. Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Starship, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mercy and dozens of others, including the Electric Prunes, will reunite for this musical extravaganza. Experience the music, rock culture, peace and brotherhood of that era! Bands and fans - from Boston to Berkeley - will finally experience the musical event that they have waited decades for since Woodstock!

“I have watched the attempts to copy Woodstock by others, “ comments Artie Kornfeld, Goodstock 2007 promoter and co-creator of Woodstock 1969. "To me, these were over-commercialized attempts to take a great event and use it to rip-off rock and peace lovers. I consider Goodstock 2007 to be the first real attempt to have another 3 days of peace and music."

Goodstock 2007 is produced and promoted by Larry McClurg, of 60's band Mind Garage, and Artie Kornfeld, famed music industry song writer, manager, producer, and most notable as co-creator of the 1969 WOODSTOCK MUSIC AND ART FAIR - rock history's greatest 'happening' - on Yasgur's farm in upstate New York.

With nearly 50 bands booked to date, Goodstock 2007 will be held July 19 - 21, 2007 on 1000 rolling acres at the Good Evening Ranch in Summersville, West Virginia. Like Woodstock 1969, Goodstock 2007 is a 3-day music and camping event. The ranch will be transformed into Goodstock Village, as a festival of the sixties offering memorabilia, clothing and band attire, a 60’s museum style exhibit, bands performing continually, as well as a San Francisco style light show.

Camp in the Village or stay in nearby hotels. The Village will accommodate bands and music festival fans from nearly every state in the USA, as well as countries worldwide. Unlike Woodstock's for-profit imitators of recent years, Goodstock admission prices - that include camping - start at $28.00 for one day and go up to $75.00 for all 3 days. Goodstock 2007 is all about peace and music instead of generating profit.

According to Larry McClurg, Goodstock promoter, "Imagine the excitement of seeing the stars and legends of rock who played the Fillmore East, West and Woodstock, with the bands who opened for them, and the fans who were there, all in one place again. That's what Goodstock 2007 is. This is not an attempt to go back, re-create or re-visit. It is a new 'happening' and an opportunity for the whole family to experience a re-awakening of the ideals of peace and togetherness through music."

More information on the event, band line-up, and purchase of tickets is available by visiting the Goodstock website at: www.goodstock2007.com/

GOODSTOCK is produced and promoted by
Larry McClurg, Artie Kornfeld and Goodstock LLC.

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Cascade Community-Washington State

2007-04-25T01:20:30Z

Hi,
I'm forming a community in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. It's the Cascade Community Tribe. Feel free to spread the word if you please. http://tribes.tribe.net/cascadecommunity
Thanks,
Terry

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Grindlebone Goes Communal

2007-04-23T18:29:25Z

The coalition of neo and old hippies of Grindlebone arts Collective are making a pitch for a land for community and performance space. check out the website (along with film clips of "Cyberpunk Opera" the current piece theyre working on at. www.grindlebone.org. Comments eagerly solicited, guys.

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What the $%#^!!?

2007-03-19T19:39:56Z

Hey, I'm a member of the "What's Up With That?" tribe, and I think you all might want to join it, too. It's a new discussion group on tribe.net, which is geared toward humor, non-sense, parody and complaint. If you are tired of serious discussions or just want a break from it all, come make your contribution.

http://tribes.tribe.net/whatsupwiththat

Rants are encouraged.

Thanks.

(Member since 3/16/07)

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Check This Out....

2007-03-16T17:52:08Z

This is a little too much like my life...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59536?utm_source=EMTF_Onion

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Deciding to raise your child in a commune...

2006-12-29T14:53:23Z

I am a 2nd generation hippie and my husband and I have been discussing the idea of moving to a commune for about a year now. I was raised in a semi-tradional home so I don't know a lot about communial living. We have a two year old son who is totally amazing. Our current situation is we live in our 4 bedroom house with 2 other people. These people change about once a year or so and he really seems to love having someone else to play with. In addition, it makes it easier for our busy work life. So I guess what my question is for those who have raised children in communes or have been raised in communes, what did you think of it. Anything you would warn against or encourage? I just want what's best for my child and I would like honest opinions from other who have gone through this experience for better or for worse. Thank you in advance for your advice!!!

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CRUISE THE MED...DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING

2006-12-26T23:33:36Z

Beginning in March next year, we are inviting 9 people to cruise from Bodrum, Turkey along the Turkish coast, Cyprus, Athens, Alexandria on a share expenses basis (very, very inexpensive). We began a documentary in Paris and Turkey last year, and now as it gets warmer in Turkey we are going to complete it. We have a US distributor, and everyone involved will share in profits. It could be quite profitable for you and a real life changer. We are in pre-production of three others...one on black jazz in Paris after WWII until now. We have a Turkish captain/crew/cook on our 70' Gulet, 6 double staterooms still available, all with their own head (toilet and shower). Qualifications? Simply to be able to get along with people. Age? Our producer is 60, our editor is 25. Age inmaterial if you are young in spirit. If you have video experience (HD MiniDV PAL and Final Cut Pro, writing) all the better, but we are doing this to perhaps expand the focus of our documentary which is based on the mystical aspects of Alexander the Great - Title: Force of Evidence. Creative people get free reign as long as they don't sink the ship or the project. We are interested to add some human interest...profound, provocative, funny...to the program, so film making experience in not a requirement. Come for a week or two months. Email me for details.

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1967 wanted by the feds for homeschooling

2006-12-02T05:02:12Z

my parents left the city (new york ) for new paltz in 1966. . . i was a year old. . . with two older siblings from moms first husband. . . and mom was pregnant. . . they intended to birth the new one at home . . . mine was the last hospital birth. . . they wouldn't let my father in the birthing room. .. they were appalled that he even wanted to be there. . . he insisted . . . but missed my birth. . . he watched as they sliced my foot and gave me a bottle of sugar water. . . never again. . . when my older brother became school age mom received a notice from the school district which she never responded to, and eventually a warning letter came . . . it was a federal offense to keep children at home. . . we left new paltz in 68 and moved west. "It was a great experiment" "for the children".

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Hi and Documentary about hippie parents

2006-11-12T10:19:57Z

Hi fellow hippie kids. I was on Tribe for a while, but then dropped off when I got really busy. Back now.

I wanted you all to know about a documentary I made last summer about my hippie family. More about dropping back in, then dropping out.

Web version: http://blip.tv/file/86862

I'm interested in how active this tribe is? And/or if there are other gathering places for people raised by hippies?

I'm at NYU now, back in grad. School at Tisch's Interactive Telecom program. My thesis next year will probably be hippie kids and involve media and interactivity.

I'd love to start a dialog with people interested in this. I can create a Webspace in the coming months for posting media. I was thinking it would be great to take advantage of the Web 2.0 video capabilities and interview ourselves, or post media, to a free hosting site like http://www.blip.tv that allows cross posting and permanent links with video conversion and standardization.

This would happen slowly over the next year. Eventually I'm exploring the idea of an area for video on this subject. Maybe we all answer the same questions, leading to a sort of "place" on the Web for information about our experiences that could then lead to edited down media that encapsulates the major themes.

We are a rare thing in society and lots of parents, and potential parents, out there could be enlightened by our self-explorations. Sometimes it seems to me like we are part of a daring experiment in child rearing, but we don't know the results...

- Peace.

Caleb. (http://www.plocktau.com | http://www.lrntv.com)

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film and DVD

2006-10-12T23:01:11Z

Hi. I'm new to the Tribe...onetime follower of Osho, and, more recently in Australia, of Nityama and Sacred Sexual Chuluaqui and Quodoushka. I'm a film-maker with a distribution network. Anyone interested in forming a non-explicit film co-op in Oz?
Panache
panacheparis@yahoo.fr

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Tonasket Barter Faire

2006-09-25T22:10:23Z

Does anyone know the dates of this years barter faire? And the cost?

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Non-Tradional Realionships

2006-09-19T19:17:30Z

Hey I just found this tribe, and it's right up my alley.... My mom is a Midwife and my dad is an Astrologer, My last name is Sunlight and I was born in a school bus.....Anyway,
I wonder if any of you had the influnence of Non-traditional realionships in your childhood..... meaning open realionships of your parents, bi/parents, polyparents, etc.
I grew up with some of this, and then as i grew up I actually went and lived on a commune of sorts where a lot of this was going on, within families with children.
I am not sure how this influenced me but I find I have such a higher degree of tolerence to what could be considered in the relm of a healthy realionship. And then that seems to freak a lot of people out.
Now I live in a Catholic country and while it seems there is lots of non-monagomy going on, it's never the open honest kind.
And I find it hard to explain the cultural context of openess that I came from to anyone so outside these notions. I personally am not interested in a longterm open relationship, but I believe that it is possible, and for some the right choice.
But I have found dating here (costa rica) and trying to relate culturally to someone on that level quite interesting. Everyone always wants to label me an American. And assume X,Y and Z about me, but I'm like, hey we didn't have running water until I was 10. No tv, and were incouraged to talk to fairies, I am a second generation flower child, the subculture, of the counterculture, and not at all what you might expect. But instead I keep my mouth shut.

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anyone from LA remember the SOurce Restaurant and community?

2006-08-16T03:51:59Z

I don;t have time to edit this, but this was among the more seductive cults to appeal to disaffectted middle to upper middle class teens in Hollywood and environs when I was growing up.

food was decent...

more later. Judith

okay, here's one some folks from LA may remember from those
years...The Source on the Sunset Strip, communal spiritual home to
the disaffected, often upper middle class teens of Hollywood and
environs, with a pretty decent vegetarian restaurant (though the
commune itself was all raw foods most of the time),with umpety-ump
lost teens renamed lovely and Gardenia and Hermes and Rinzai and
Little Rosebud, under the leadership of Jim "Father Yod" Baker, whose
blood son Bart went to our high school for a while (he was a little
younger than me. he was OK; I never knew him too well, lived with his
bio-mom mostly, joined his dad's community and wore white too for a
few weeks, seems to have done all right onhis own, I don;t know much
about what became of him.) for many years, they always wore white
(you could often tell who in my junior high had taken to The Source
when they switched to wearing white Oaxaca-type peasant dresses, or
the equivalent for oys) and Yogi Bhajan instructed them in yoga, and
the Earthly Spiritual Father was guru and teacher to every one of
them. they moved to the bay Area and started another restaurant, and
changed their name to the path fo TEN, which stood for The Eternal
Now (I ate at some little health food place they had in the City once
with a freidn who recognized the name of their band...could tell you
about some children of famous people who sojourned there...another
post?)...then eventually went to Hawaii and father eventually died in
a plane crash...Jim Baker had been a leather worker (my mother had a
belt made by him and inscribed to her, a gift from my dad that never
fit after she had chidlren...but that's a red raw herring...)

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this is a GREAT forum!

2006-08-07T04:48:09Z

hi everyone. I surfed on in. my parents weren't exactly hippies, and I'm older than the majority of people here I think (50 this year)...my aunt was one of the elder folks to make the Haight Ashbury scene, study with Stephen gaskin and travel with the Caravan and settle on the Farm for their first season in Tennessee.

my folks were liberals and my upbringing was a little crazymaking in that , well, the rules kept changing. I can get more into this in a future post.

I volunteered to help keep a nonprofit called the Hippie Museum afloat if we can, because I think there is much that deserves to be honored andstudied in terms of the real contributions that hippie culture made to the larger society. I wrote a piece for a 15 eyar old girl from Norway who was doing a research project on American hippies to that effect.

anway, I look forward to getting to know folks here better and tradiing stories by the campfire. having freinds with hippie parents and being an aspiring hippie myself, and having a hippie aunt who was always pissing ym mother off (she was my dad's sister) gives us PLENTY of background in common.

more to follow, I promise.

peace and blessings...Judith

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Indie Film Needs Nude and/or Topless Hippies

2006-07-27T23:31:00Z

Hello There,

We are shooting a movie in town called, The Auteur.

We need nude extras to be in our hippie commune scene on

Friday July 28th
from 6pm-6am.
meet at 1111 SE Sandy (Sandy & Burnside in Michaels Resturant Parking Lot)

We will provide transportation to the commune from a central location in PDX. There will be tons of free food and it will be a really fun time for everyone! Come play, naked hacky sack, Frisbee, or just dance in the mud. Full nudity is highly encouraged and partial nudity is welcomed. Come on and bring your friends to the most naked party scene this summer!

Dress: Hippies
ages 18+ please

Please RSVP for more details and location information about commune, Paradise.

Maile Thiesen
Casting
The Auteur
theauteurmovie@gmail.com
503-222-5832

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Looking for Hippie families!

2006-07-27T14:46:36Z

Hello all! My name is Michelle, and I work in Casting for ABC's WifeSwap. We are currently looking for a hippie family that doesn't believe in structure. If you think parents are too strict with their kids these days, then we are looking for you!

Families selected to appear on the show receive $20,000 from ABC Television. Any person who refers a featured family receives a $1,000 referral award. Families with strong personalities, who have unique hobbies, or who have anything unusual about their lifestyles are encouraged to apply. We're also seeking families that are strict, lenient, extremely clean or messy, extremely regimented, or who all work together at a business. Applicants must be two-parent households with at least one child between the ages of 5 and 20 living at home. Wife Swap is the series where two moms switch houses for six days and live in the shoes of the other woman. It’s a great experience for any open-minded family!

If you or anyone you know have questions or are interested in applying, please email Michelle at michelle.silva@rdfusa.com. Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you soon!

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Blues4Kali-A Hippie hymn to the hidden wisdom of the Dark Mother

2006-07-24T03:33:26Z

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What's next?

2006-07-13T05:46:53Z

Given your hippie heritage and having lived the idealsmi from the inside.. what contribution do you think our generation can contribute?

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The coolest thing about having hippie parents

2006-07-12T18:15:01Z

What was the coolest thing for you about having hippie parents? Got any good stories?

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I'm just so glad to have stumbled upon this tribe.

2006-07-12T14:49:40Z

Although it gets increasingly easier to explain my childhood, my life, my perceptions, and my concepts to people, it's *so nice* to find a group that needs no explanation. I can't wait to read everyone's threads.

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--- In ColoradoRainbowFam...@yahoogroups.com, marty heartsong

2006-06-21T17:50:56Z

--- In ColoradoRainbowFam...@yahoogroups.com, marty heartsong

<martyheartsong@...> wrote:

> Hey Pham. It's 2:30 am and I just got back. We won a major battle today
> but the war is far from over. They set up a road block Monday night about
> 7pm. No one allowed in, even if you already had a ticket, And anyone
> coming out was issued one and not allowed back in. Gigi was doing main
> gate and when they came in they confiscated his radio. Within an hour we
> had about 20 cars and rigs backed up so some of the people with kitchens
> in thier rigs started feeding the pham. Then we started a bonfire and
> started drumming. A few kids tried to sneak into the woods to go around
> the roadblock but there was leo's hiding in the woods and they were
> quickly nabbed. the main force of leo's left about 9pm after giving
> everyone in A-camp a ticket and anyone else they could find.They had a
> generator and flood lights at the road block but only left 4 leo's behind
> facing about 100 hippies who were all in good spirits when I stepped into
> the woods to answer nature's call and accidently found
> myself back in the gathering. Word quickly spread of family being
> stranded outside the block with no gear ( a lot of us were making supply
> runs when we got blocked out and all of our gear was inside) and in the
> middle of the night about 30 blankets appeared from nowhere out side the
> roadblock (thankyou ninja's). In the morning a few of our younger family
> members put on war paint and decided to try to get the supplies in that
> had been stranded all night. By then the morning leo relief crew arrived
> and there was about 4-6 leo vehicles and 6 to 8 giddyups( I was still
> inside the gathering at the time but got to listen to it unfold via
> radio). By the time the youngers got to the block (coming from behind)
> there was at least 60 -70 of them. And since people had been coming in all
> night long there was almost 200 people in front of the blockade. As soon
> as the bro's and sisters from inside the gathering arrived the cops
> started to freak and started pulling out their guns,
> shotguns and assault rifles, no lie, no tear gas guns, no pepper spray,
> machine guns pointed at the family. You wanna know how brave your family
> is?? How much this family means to all of us?? approaching loaded pointed
> machine guns and twitchy trigger fingers (the leo's were scared) they did
> the only thing they could do, they started to "OM" and quickly joined
> hands and continued to march towards the roadblock. The pham on the other
> side of the block realized what was happening and they started om-ing
> joined hands and approached the blockade from the other side. We are lucky
> no one got shot. I heard later that the om circle was almost complete when
> the giddyups busted through at a gallup and then all the leo vehicles sped
> off with there sirens blazing and lights flashing. We could hear the
> cheering over the radio's, it was awesome, but only temporary. All the
> leo's left for awhile ( I think to lick their wounds and regroup) But a
> 1\2 dozen vehicles came back at dusk and
> harrased and few of our elders (they're still trying to find someone to
> sign thier damn permit). When I left it seemed like they set up a smaller
> roadblock and they were arresting somebody so I got out without being
> hassled. But on the drive down to steamboat I passed three leo's with
> lights and sirens heading back to the site (I think I passed a few more
> that didn't have teir lights on but I can't be sure. Anyway the seige is
> still on till someone signs and so far no one will. Will post more
> tommorow if I can, it's late, 3:30am got to go to sleep
> now.........................love & peace..........sleepy

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Where are they now?

2006-06-15T20:56:48Z

Ok, so where are your parents now? (the ones who still are around, that is...) What did they do once the kids grew up?

My mother is a twice published author, living on a small piece of property with her husband, out in the boonies. No more kids, two cats and a goat. And she still grows her own pot..atoes. They fly an american flag in front of the house as "camoflage", so they don't stand out.

Like she doesn't stand out in that town....

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A Shout OUT to US the Fotunate FOOLS

2006-04-22T19:43:20Z

Let's give thanks.........

My roots instilled:
exploration, acceptance,
nourishing food and a healthy environment,

just a few..........and you?

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Hello

2006-04-11T19:31:13Z

I stumbled across this group and figured I'd join this tribe thing; maybe I'll hear about some good festivals or something.
My name is Austin (some just call me hippie) and I grew up in NorthEast Washington State on an organic garlic farm. My dad did the garlic business and my mom had her garden and the orchard, so she canned and pickled fruits and veggies and cooked meals from scratch every day. We sold our garlic at barter faires in my earlier years.
Also, there's a small offshoot of a large commune several miles down the road from my dad's ranch. There are about 15 or so members of the Love Israel family living at their beautiful ranch and vineyard/winery along the Columbia river. Their numbers have fluxuated over the years; I spent a lot of time at their ranch area and was friends with many of them over the years.
Now I've kind of moved to Arlington, Washington where the original Love Family ranch is (though it got taken away from them) due to my connections with the remaining members who live in the area.
There is also a connection to the band Flowmotion, a Seattle/Bellingham area band that is a real unique gem and holds an annual Summer Meltdown festival in mid-July.
I go to the Tonasket Barter Faire every October and hope to hit up some other cool festivals in Washington and Oregon starting next spring.
So hook me up with word on the festival circuit!

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Woodstock reading material

2006-03-21T18:35:08Z

A fun, touching, and sometimes horrifying behind -the-scenes read of the phenomenon that was Woodstock. Click the 'Journey' icon, and experience the different stories spanning the time before the concert, and detailing the aftermath of the concert.
Enjoy,
luv *pixy*

www.woodstock69.com

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Prayers deeply needed this EQUINOX!!!

2006-03-19T15:43:51Z

Greetings Kindred Spirits

This year's Equinox will be on March 20/Solar 14 Red Electric Dragon @10:26am PST. To find out the time of the equinox in your bioregion, you may reference: http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2006.shtml

There are several global prayer synchronizations occurring that we wanted to share with you. Please visit this link to learn about the different opportunities to participate:
http://www.souledout.org/festivals/globalmeditations/global.html

"On Equinox, the Earth and Sun are in perfect balance and harmony, as the sun is centered between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and centered between earth and sky. This creates a sacred cross of balancing energy that naturally harmonizes the planet and humanity. When we consciously work with this energy, we have a great opportunity to affect a deep and positive change in the mass consciousness and our world. We can use this energy to manifest anything we desire. The bigger the wave of consciousness, or intensity of voltage of the energy, the easier it is for us to bring about shift changes.

Ancient traditions of the world understood that the EQUINOX is a powerful time for manifesting dreams and visions and to accelerate synchronicity and intuition. From the pyramids in Egypt and Mexico, to the stone circles in England, to the solar markers in the Native northwest, Equinox is time that was honored as a powerful and transformative time. On any given Equinox, we have an incredible opportunity to make a profound difference in our world." - Aluna Joy

***********

At this time in the living prophecy, on the Road to 2012, it is clear that there are many, many areas in the world that are in need of prayer and divine intervention. One signficant synchronization that we can focus spiritual attention on is occurring in the political arena during this Storm Wavespell: Iran is planning to open an International Oil Bourse on March 20-26, for the express purpose of trading oil in Euros rather than dollars. According to political analysts from Europe, there is a high possibility that this event could trigger the beginning of a global systemic rupture aka a worldwide political, economic, financial and possibly military crisis. Obviously, it is speculative as the event has yet to happen, but we felt called to offer this information that it may catalyze us to utilize this powerful time of Equinox to focus our spiritual energies that we might positively balance these extremely volatile times. We are also reminded that 3 years ago on the Equinox was the US invasion of Iraq. At this moment, our intentions of Peace carry great weight. May the highest harmonious possibility unfold for our Planetary Family. May we all be guided by our divine spirits to partipate in the healing and balancing of our world.

***********

If you wish to research more on the topic of the Oil Bourse, one source is: http://www.europe2020.org/en/section_global/150206.htm

For an inspiring article, please check out this link:
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657

***********

As Mayan Messenger Carlos Barrios said, "We have the responsibility and possibility to change the destiny, we have our weapons... And we are not talking violence...our weapons are meditation, sacred ceremonies, the thought of millions of people, the amazing power of mind, creating the harmony of love, respect and spreading conscience...violence is not the answer, do not look for the answer on the intellect and the strength, the answer is in the power of your heart..."

*************

This Blue Storm Wavespell closes with a New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse on March 29/Solar 23 White Crystal Dog.

*************

May We Meet In The Eye of The Storm,
Eden and Robert Sky
www.13moon.com

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MUSICIANS FOR FREEDOM:

2006-03-19T00:52:52Z

Tribe Link

http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_for_freedom <<<< Please fell free to Join!

This is a place where all people who write, sing, play music, who DJ, love, create, and produce their own music get together to share their song, soul, & dreams with passion.....to exchange ideas, connect, inspire ................It's open to all: non-artists and artists alike! Come feel free & share with other musicians to connect, network, smooze, dance, groove....your inner dreams ecstatic. Music is a sacred force to be shared with all and honored collectively, not hoarded, censored and over processed in the vast shallow games of commercial competition and false fame that sometimes breathes its fumes into the industry...... . In essence Music is eternal and open to all who are free enough to tap into its unlimited streaming power. ....................Welcome to this Tribe!

Yo, In the Beggining was Music, sound, was the Word (tone) of immutable strength. All of creation is born from Sound. Imagine what the first 'note' or tone was? Aummmmm...... yea.........beautiful.

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Hello

2006-02-25T03:15:52Z

I'm probably one of the younger people to have had hippy parents, seeing as I'm only 19. But I did grow up on a commune. The Abode of Peace and Love, Seva Nevas. No drugs, but lots of love and communal lunches on Saturdays. I call it a semi-commune. I'm a fourth generational new-ager. My great grand parents on my dad's side, my grand parents on both sides, and my parents on both sides were/are Theosophists. I'm really glad for the community we had growing up. Most of the people I knew growing up were part of it, or part of the Theosophical community as a whole. I feel bad for my younger siblings because they don't really have that anymore. We still live on the commune, but the heart of the commune, doesn't seem to exist so much anymore.

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Singer Songwriters:

2006-02-14T19:34:33Z

Hey there open creative, beautiful people! I just created a new Tribe called Singer Songwriters http://tribes.tribe.net/singer_songwriters_unite_inthe_mystery

feel free to join...

Namaste
xo

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Family trip oportunuity

2006-01-26T18:57:59Z

This was posted on the Jam Band Tribe thought some here might be interested

Family Trips

A forthcoming Discovery Channel/TLC program is searching for old school Dead Head parents and their progeny. The call is out for "families who have children now between the ages of 25 and 45 who raised them on tour or did a lot of traveling to shows while they were growing up." The casting department for the program adds, "If this description fits your family at all and you have pictures or home movies from when you all were traveling-please send me an email about your family with a picture if you have one!" Send your email to familytripcasting@gmail.com. Aside from the supreme glory of being featured on a Discovery Channel/TLC program, the show's producers pledge to "send 10 lucky families to relive a trip from the past." (and in a mildly-related manner, we at Jambands.com offer our salutations to staff writer/copy editor Randy Ray, who has just learned that he will add a pair of twins to his growing brood- even if his son Conor doesn't quite yet constitute a brood).

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introducing my self.

2005-11-13T23:24:07Z

hi my name is joel & i just joined this trbe.i grew up in a hippy household with a twist. we had all the trappings of a normal hippy house ie. big organic garden, chickens, goats barefoot naked children running around, but my parents were also conservative christians,not like the bushies you see today,but still very much conservative. my dad still lives in a yurt at 67 years of age. my question is did anyone else grow up in this manner or were me and my sisters the only ones? i've heard there was a big christian revival in the 70's that attracted alot of hippies.

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woodstock from the womb

2005-04-30T22:47:48Z

i may have been the youngest in attendance in woodstock in '69 .. ? i was along for the ride - groovin' & lovin' from my mom's tum. (born 2 months later). apparently a 7-month-large belly was not going to stop my mom from experiencing this event :)

growing up (until ~age 7 for me), we were very nomadic .. traveling lots across the states, all of our posessions in a camper, living in a couple of communal type situations ..

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jewish hippie kids?

2005-04-11T16:30:31Z

probably my most tie-dyed, pot-smoking, drum-thumping exposure as a child was in our very unorthodox jewish community. I can almost smell the scents of patchouli and veggie-matzo ball soup as I type this... so, i'm wondering if any of you had similar introductions to judiasm and/or how you think these "alternative" lifestyles/religions relate to each other?

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Communal Child-Rearing

2005-03-21T00:38:09Z

Hi, I was wondering if anyone in this tribe was raised in a communal environment, such as having parents trade off taking turns watching the children, much like what might happen on a commune. Or, have any of you raised children communally? The reason I ask is because I am writing a paper on communal child-rearing for an experimental class I am taking on post WWII communes. I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts on being raised communally or raising your own children communally and have a couple of specific questions in mind. If you're interested in sharing your experience, please send me a message, write back to this post or e-mail me at ipearlma@ucsc.edu thanks so much!!
-ilana rose

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tofu

2005-03-10T04:29:50Z

how many of you were forced to eat this non stop? I remember talking to my grandma about it years later and her telling me "I felt so bad for you. She [my mom] wouldn't let you eat anything good."

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takilma???

2005-03-08T15:44:49Z

Hey, any of my takilma family out there??

xoxoxSara

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memories of

2005-03-07T05:15:12Z

ham bone

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Saturday night

2005-03-01T21:19:30Z

I got my freak going on.

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rancho park.

2005-02-16T04:29:17Z

does anyone out there remember going to demos w/ their parents in rancho park, cheviot hills (of all places), los angeles, ca??

this used to be a big site for demos & i remember it quite well. we would sit in bleachers, make lanyards & listen to everyone from ramsey clark, (who has since become somewhat dubious but then was a good friend of) phil ochs, pete seeger, joan baez-- all sorts of people.

the last one i remember going to was for the ERA. i went w/ my mother & signed the petition-- i think it was the first petition i ever signed --at what would now be called something like the gblt table. i think it was thenn called something to do w/ stonewall, far more impressive.

being neither g, nor b, nor l, nor t, i did indeed somehow understand whose table i belonged to. there should be a table for all of us who fit nowhere, regardless of where we put, well, it.

best to you-----

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ham bone

2005-02-12T05:04:04Z

memories of

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running w/ scissors

2005-01-05T18:43:01Z

hi there.

i am new here, hi.

my parents would -vehemently- argue (were they here) that they were not hippie parents, but folkie parents (my whole family is old), otoh, my father did paint nearly everything in the house neon orange (a small exaggeration, but that did include the piano), left a half finished animal mural on my wall (i have a -finished- by anonymous psychedelic dinosaur mural now) &, you know, the weirdest thing is opening up a book on the manson family & realising you know, & quite well too, at least one (& probably more) of the main characters in -that- book. in any book on the manson family, hey.

then the peace marches & the rock stars-- it is l.a., okay. tom rapp, i remember him, pearls before swine, rapping (as it were) w/ my father.

my mother, i should note, was the breadwinner (among other things) & just remained a card carrying member of the freudian left (people who got psychology phds mid century or before). i could give you a list of her patients, though, some of which would curl yr hair were it not curly already (as it were, redux).

even as an Elderly Elegant Gothic Lolita i remain at the quintessential height of hip.

at any rate, to my subject then:

has anyone read this book, "running w/ scissors" by augusten burroughs??

he is almost, to the day, the age of me. yet he clearly HATES anything whatsoever to do w/ growing up counterculture (he wants to be on "donny & marie" but he gets the date of its airings wrong), & even though his mom is crazy (my father was crazy, but in a different way. more violent, too), there still seems to me something very, very odd in wanting to become a card carrying member of the bourgeoisie, as a 1970s child, especially when one does not have to.

true, reading ones fortune in ones feces does cross the line a bit. yet not all of it was like that & i think he is just interpreting counterculturey events (living on the front lawn, stuff like that) thru the eyes of someone who really wants reagan america to really, really like him-- even though he is gay.

i suppose it was just that his bio was a lot closer to my bio than most bios & i have interpreted my life in the way polar opposite.

anybody else have any thoughts??

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welcome!

2004-12-13T02:37:46Z

Okay, I admit it: I started this tribe mainly just to see how it worked when you set one up. But don't let that stop you from sharing your amusing anecdotes of childhood amidst the hippies here.

If you do, I'll chime in with some of my vast store...

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?

2004-12-11T11:41:40Z

How do you get involved in a commune?

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What carries over?

2004-11-24T18:11:55Z

What is it that you grew up with that is still in your life today? What philosophies did your parents pass on to you that manifest in your life now? Or did the whole lifestyle pass on to the next generation?

(Anybody seen the movie "Flashback?")

Smiles,
Sienna

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Is our center shifted?

2004-11-23T10:08:10Z

I read an article this morning about how mainstream media has a tendency to take a centerist view and the more conservative cable news stations there are, the more the centerists have to move to the right.

I wonder if that's applicable when talking about human and cultural perspectives as well. Is our center shifted because of our upbringing? How so?

I'm more tolerant of alternative life paths, but less of ignorance. My parents didn't restrict me from doing most things, but I was heavily encouraged to question and learn. I think I become to easily frustrated when others don't do the same.

How and why is your center shifted?

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dig this

2004-08-22T21:09:39Z

http://www.diggers.org

especially:
http://www.diggers.org/links.htm

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My memories are very mixed......

2004-06-23T06:30:30Z

My family was a collage of different beliefs, cultures, and lifestyles. I had the small town middle class chidlhood during the week/school year living with grandparents, while spending vacations and every other weekend with my leftist radical mother and patient Buddhist Japanese-American stepfather. My mother was the activist, while my stepfather worked quietly and never said no whenever my mother asked for money for any of her activities and causes, including bailing people out of jail and feeding everyone who came to meetings or stayed with us on their way to Canada. While I did not grow up having whole foods shoved down my throat, my decision to become a vegetarian at 15 was supported and nurtured by everyone in my family. My childhood was filled more with gatherings, music, observing drug use and the movements of the day, so most of the family farms I visited were of the traditional sort rather than counter-culture, although I had dreams of homesteading and living off the grid. In this post I'll share some of the movement memories from my childhood. I didn't eat grapes most of my life because of the Farm Worker's boycott and to this day I have yet to cross any type of picket line. I wrote letters to Angela Davis when she was in jail, enclosing photos of me, a redhaired 14/15 yr old girl holding up my cat whom I had named after her. Later I discovered Ms. Davis never received those letters (the FBI added them to my mother's file). I remember being at an antiwar demonstration in Berkely with my mother when I was 12 (1970) and a tear gas canister landing at my feet. Fortunatley I was wearing a pair of heavy duty hiking boots and I leaned down, picked up the hissing canister and threw it back! That same year I was suspended from school in the 6th grade for wearing a black arm band and organizing a silent vigil during lunch in memory of the students slain at Kent State. Demonstrating against the war with my family was a regular occurance, yet I was completely unaware that all the weekend company at my mother's home were people traveling up to Canada. At the same time I was writing to older cousins, one in jail for refusing to fight, another in Viet Nam thinking he was doing his duty. We went to court over my refusal to say the pledge of alligience and I thought the FBI agents who came to interview my family were insurance agents (haha!). My mother marched on Washington and after MLK Jr's assination she started working with the local chapter of the Panthers. (I think this is what drew the FBI). When I was 10 I was excited to get a long distance phone call from my mother who was a delegate at the DNC in Chicago, only to watch in horror as the television displayed images of the violence of the riots soon to follow. My innocence was shattered when I saw the photo of the dead child in the street from the riots in Life magazine, so at 10 1/2 while I was active in Girl Scouts and looked forward to my weekly ballet lessons, I decided the world was as cruel as it was beautiful and I needed to find a way to make it beautiful for everyone. So even though I grew up surrounded by news and events related to the war, saw many wonderful leaders assisnated or jailed, I still carried a lot of hope. One of the most memorable events during this time was listening to a young attorney speak passionately about his client's unjust arrest and I thought to myself, "I want to be a lawyer." That attorney was a very young Johhny Cochran and his client was Geronimo Platt. While I didn't become an attorney I was married to a fine man for almost 20 years and we raised a very socially conscious young man. I still have hope that my newly born grandson will grow up and most of the issues we are still dealing with today will be nearly if not completely solved. Okay....I'm still a bit of an idealist. Remember, HOPE is what was left in Pandora's box! ;)
xoxoxo Pandora

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hellohello

2004-06-08T18:27:56Z

hellooooooooooooooooooooo

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living in a commune

2004-05-05T04:41:04Z

I was raised in a commune from 5 - 15 years old in the outskirts of Washington D.C. My parents (5 of them, yeah long story) made me eat tofu and nut loaf, what a joyful time. 2 children and 8 adults in a 2 bedroom one bath house, and my daughter complains if she has to share her bathroom with a guest!! HA! I rebelled and began a "typical" american life, whatever that means. The house, the cars, the kid, the dog...but deep down inside...I miss the commune...how ironic.

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yay! I'm not alone!

2004-04-22T16:56:48Z

Greetings!

I'm from a commune in S.W. Ohio that was formed for pursuit of very heady metaphysical goals. The adults spent many hours in meditation and ritual while we kids (12 of us including 'cousins') bopped around the property making tire swings and diving off the hay loft. It was truly an alternative universe compared to my life now. However, I'm glad of the experience, and I'm glad to know this tribe is here.

Far out...he he he.

Smiles,
Sienna

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The ultimate in Hippie parenting !!

2004-04-21T19:38:18Z

I was born in the middle of nowhere( 20 miles from the nearest town). 1978- no electricity nor running water or a modern convienance of any kind. Our house was lit with gas burning lanterns, our water was carried up from the stream. We had chickens and sheep. Ate the chicken and shaved the sheep. My mother spun the wool and made sweaters and various other items. My father hunted deer and made my first pair of pants out of deer hide.I of course rebelled and joined the punk rock movement, but as I am getting older I rejoice in the fact that we were a self substainable family and that I learned alot about how to live. (unlike these modern city dwelling hippicrites) How much more of a hippie uprising can you get !!!

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anyone ever live at east wind or twin oaks?

2004-01-07T19:31:26Z

i did not actually grow up on a commune but i spent a few months at EW and a couple of weeks at Twin Oaks....loved this experience though not sure i would live there long term...i especially liked the annual women's (womyn :) gathering at Twin Oaks (:

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