It was 40 years ago today...

hahaa the things i would do for a john lennon action figure..

 

Funny--I remember exactly where I was,who I was with--great stuff.

 

40 years ago i was 19, in the air force (how i got out of being drafted into the army) in ecm tec school in biloxi mississippi.

THEN i pulled my 'alice's restaurant' (minus the vw micro-bus and pile of garbage), got my honorable section-8, and never had to go back.

=^^=
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First Mr. Franklin, a few facts here,

Number 1: Pure consciousness has nothing to do with ideals. Ideals are thought and illusion. I used the word ideals just to convey the point.
Number 2: George Harrison wrote the song 'Within you, without you' based on some spiritual insights he gleaned from the tripping he had done in connection with the teachings of Swami Vivekananda. Regardless of what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi or any unscrupulous eastern teachers did or didn't do does not take away from the validity that some have indeed reached and experienced the total Divine state of Sat-cit-ananda, which obviously you never have, don't care to, nor know the potential reality of.
Number 3: Pretentious? Interesting application of the term. How old were you and how much acid were you doing when Sgt. Pepper came out, during The Summer of Love in 1967? Personally, I was tripping my ass off in the Haight-Ashbury earlier than that. The Freaks I know were steadily pushing the envelope into higher spiritual consciousness as was myself, at the dances, in the Park and the communes in the area.
Number 4: Besides this, indeed everything you say must be after the fact, because you surely weren't old enough to be doing psychedelics anywhere close to that time.
It's sad that people who speak of Hippie have such a retrospective and disattached view of the eastern spiritual implications the original psychedelic culture had, especially in the early Haight, which is why the true depth of Hippie there and elsewhere is misunderstood to this day.
Also, George Harrison deeply embraced other teachers and Gurus long after the Maharishi was out of the picture, and most of his music was based on eastern consciousness themes, not to mention his mentor of all, Ravi Shankar. And he wasn't the only one of the period by a long shot.YB

 

Being born!!

Hey Yogi Bhair, that's cool, I was 14 first time I dosed too! But I'm sure it wasn't as strong as the doses you were taking.

On another note, although I side with you in most discussions I think pretentious can pertain to pushing our own credentials, like pompous? Our words should be strong enough on their own for us not to have to prop them up with our selves, right? I dunno, just sometimes it's cool to make waves and sit back and watch where they go.

 

Yep, and yogi bhear is quite pretentious.
Of course, I'll go with Lennon over Harrison any day of the week. Harrison's mysticism was pretentious. Way pretentious.

 

Well Franklin, I don't know what your definition of pretentious is, but from how I understand its definition, it does not apply to me whatsoever. What your doing here instead, is defining how "you think" I percieve and are presenting myself, based on your evidently extremely limited awareness of alot of the parameters I mention and move into with discussion. For example, I am what is known in Tantric circles a simple yogin, someone who is daily seking to affect their finite consciousness with various yogic techniques and applications. I do them, and they affect me accordingly. As a matter of record, I just published a 220 page work titled "Kundalini Dream" documenting my efforts in this quest. I don't claim any uniqueness or aboveboardsmenship other than the fact that I am daily, hourly, striving to effect this person with what I have found and also what is time tested methods to advance ones consciousness and experience a higher level of existence. There is no pretending here dude, not a drop. What I say I have done I have done, where I say I am at, I am at. By the way, Yogin Bhairava is my actual name. Is Freewheelin Franklin yours? P.S. My LSD experiences lead me to seek out cosmic consciousness through my life as a Hippie, when tripping and alot of other karma brought me to an impasse. I speak of Hippie and its ramifications with love and respect, and it has brought me a higher level of living values. I live the realities I speak of, and always have since 1966.

 

So, your weird-o trippy yoga far-out meditations are affecting you accordingly? I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! And, no, my real name is Mr. Ranger. As far as your too-many acid trips: I’m really sorry you fried your brain, dude.

 

And that's "Mr. Ranger, Sir!" to you.

 

my dad made me take a beatles quiz on the ablum so to make sure i knew my stuff. lol! i got a 100

 

the beatles rule!!!

 

Yes sir, mr. Ranger sir, yes sir. By the way sir, you're 86'd. Ask some one who works in a restaurant for that definition.

 

Mr. Bhear: you seem to have very few functioning brain cells left. Ask someone in the real world what that means.

 

awesome!

it was really ironic actually but i was just listening to the album when i stumbled on this post. ah, i love my beatles.

 

fly jefferson airplane get u there on time!!!!!!!

remember one of the greatest moment in human history, summer of love