Hippie History heros

Ain't no question. Timothy Leary, 1920-1996. He not only did pioneering research into psychedelic drugs while at Harvard, and got fired for his experiments. He was a driving force in popularizing them. Not only that, but when the pigs busted him for a small amount of marijuana and sent him to prison for ten years, he busted out of California Mens' Colony, San Luis Obispo, 1970, and escaped to Algeria (with help from the Weather Underground). In fact he escaped prison by pulling himself hand over hand over a phone line that went over the fence, having found a route to the roof, and by coordinating his escape with an escape vehicle on a well timed schedule. A different vehicle took his prison clothes to a gas station in San Diego, well off his escape route.


So, he wins on all fronts: as an academic, as a successful escaping convict, as a media celebrity. But most of all, I think anyone who can fool the American pig establishment on all fronts deserves some kind of award.

 

Sorry, I got to call you on these two. Reagan is the guy we were all avoiding and/or hiding from. Reagan hated us, we hated him. Reagan was a pig's pig.
After Morningstar Ranch in Sonoma county was busted out of existence in 1967, a lot of the heads went to the Wheeler Ranch up the coast. It took the pigs about three years to destroy that, but Reagan was on the wire saying "No more Wheeler ranches." Reagan did as much to destroy our movement as Charles Manson.

And after Manson and his followers fucked over a few people (killed five, I think) about this time, it was just shit, guilt by association. All the counterculture people had to deal with this nonsense and deny he had anything to do with us. The pigs were already running wild all over us without this additional shit to deal with. So Manson just sort of helped the pigs fuck with us and force us in many cases out of our chosen life style because there were vigilantes left, right and centre. So fuck Manson, and fuck Reagan.

Also, you mention Dick Cavett and the Smothers Brothers? You forgot Sinatra, Hope and Dean Martin!

 

How about j.kerouac?

 

Kerouac was okay as an author. I wouldn't put him in the same league with Tom Wolfe, Richard Brautigan or Norm Mailer. If he eventually became famous, I'm sure he was as surprised as anyone else.

Let's face it, most 'hippies' would have laughed out loud at the phrase 'hippie history heroes'!

 

i think J kerouac was the first beatnik and it's the beatnik movement that caused or gave a push to hippie one...

 

He wore sandals, had long hair and beard, walked everywhere, got all spiritual with people, spoke out against the leaders of his time.
And some of those parables are a trip.

 

Oh and he started the first commune.

 

?????

 

You know, Jesus..

 

My vote goes to George Harrison, John Lennon, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ohh goodness, i have too many heros

 

Aldous Huxley. A precursor to hippies everywhere.

 

Aleister Crowley. he did it ALL and I mean all. All psychedelics avaliable to him, all the mystical stuff, all the encouraging of personal freedom (and the whole of the law will be "do what thou wilt"). hippie before hippies

 

Totally! I'm a prospective doula and thinking about going into midwifery later on if I feel the call. I'm reading Spiritual Midwifery right now. Ina May is a goddess!

If we're talking proto-hippies here, we can't forget Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson....

 

i agree 100% with you on this, i think lennon did the whole peace thing cuse that was the only thing going for him at that point, george has allways been my favorite beatle to.

id also have to say allen ginsberg, and to some extent timothy leary, if it wasnt for him, acid would probably of been exctinct by now if he hadnt done what he did. could be wrong, just my opinion. im also suprised no one mentioned ram dass, he worked with leary on the psylocibin tests at harvard and has written some great books on psychedelia and t'whatnot.

 

Greg Hill n' Kerry Thornley. I'd add Robert A. Wilson to this but his big work never really came out until 71, he did hang around the Leary scene fairly predominately.

 

Jesus, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich...

I guess everything happened much earlier…

It just took some time for people to realize…

We are awaiting revival of the hippies again…

 

Jack Kerouac(but Im sure someone's metnioned him by now)

 

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John Lennon.

 

"Essentially, the Papers were an attempt to antagonize the street people into an awareness of the absolute bullshit implicit in the psychedelic transcendentalism promoted by the self-proclaimed, media-fabricated shamans who espoused the tune-in, turn-on, drop-out, jerk-off ideology of Leary and Alpert."

Emmett Grogan​

Emmett Grogan (left, wearing beads) attending a meeting. Grogan was one of the founders of the Diggers.

The Diggers provided services to the needy, like free housing and food. The daily free food program was held in The Panhandle, an extension of Golden Gate State Park, San Francisco, where the Diggers provided donated or stolen produce, meat, and bread to hungry Haight-Ashbury residents.