Feed Your Head

Remember what the dormouse said,feedhead

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 all over the planet. And being generally open to new experiences in music, art and living.

Drug use and misuse booklet given out to hippies at the  Community Center .

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The Strip Project can’t ignore the 300 Lb. Dancing Shiva of drug use, so we wish to collect hippie tales of drug culture as popular culture documents. Drug use is a personal decision and is not advocated, but such tales are a vital part of the history of hippies.

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thisweekinpsychedelicsOPEN THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ALTER YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS

DO YOU HAVE PRINCE ALBERT IN A CAN? THEN YOU’D BETTER LET HIM OUT.

p_albertTHE PRINCE ALBERT CAN GAVE ONE AN EXCUSE TO HAVE CIGARETTE PAPERS. THE CAN FULL OF MARIJUANA WAS CALLED A LID, STILL THE NAME OF THE BASIC UNIT FOR SELLING GANJA till the 21st century.

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Books of the Hippies

Most hippies read a lot! Science fiction, religion, how to, comics, etc.  Here are books found in many crashpads and homes.

Beat readings

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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 jailbars. The caption said so much with just one letter change.

“Americans love non-conformity and often reward it with the metal of honor.”

Grok this in fullness! Share water!

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert Heinlein’s religious metaphor.

 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

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  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

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

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus by Henry Miller

1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell

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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.

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