Remember what the dormouse said, “Feed your head!”
This meant with all kinds of ideas and thoughts and experiences. Yes, that included smoking marijuana and tripping. using mind altering drugs. But it also included reading and learning from people’s all over the planet.
Here are books that shaped the thought memes of that time.
Texts to download and read: The Sixties Reader Beat Books
The Man who Turned on The World Underground Comix
A book that opened my mind was: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce. Paul Krassner editor. There was a picture of Lenny looking forlornly through jail bars. The caption said so much with just one letter change.
Grok this in fullness! Share water! Stranger in a Strange Land.
Robert Heinlein’s religious metaphor.
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge,
A Separate Reality, Tales of Power, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by The Dalai Lama
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Joy of Sex : A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking by Crown
Whole Earth Catalog by Peter Warshall, Stewart Brand (editors
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
The Bhagavad Gita
I.Ching
I seem To Be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller
Howl by Alan Ginsberg
Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World , The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Man and His Symbols, Synchronicity by Carl Jung
Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus by Henry Miller
1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
For myself and many other of counter culture, This book was the only reason I could afford to keep transportation running.
I am forever in debt. Zen Dharma meditation beneath.
I learned so much beneath the Celestial Omnibus staring up and reading this book.
Periodicals of the times.
