High Desert Sky Saxon Tribute @ Pappy & Harriet's

Also- this just in! If you're on Facebook (or want to sign up- it's free!) check out Klaus Wille's AH-some album of about 25 photos of this night! copy & paste this link:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=107094814462&ref=nf
Email message from Dead(red)Head Karen (wishing success w/the HIGH Dez Sky Tribute) : "Go get 'em Tiger! grrrowwwl..!"
Sunny's response: "SO cosmic that you said that girl-friend..!
That 1st link on my blog is for the youtube video of Billy Corgan & the 'Spirits in the Sky Band' at the Echoplex Sky Tribute doing the Seeds "900 Million People Daily (All Making Love)" that i wanted to do last night at the show- where Sky's lyrics include one part about a tiger stalking in the this jungle tonight! (In my opinion, this is one of the songs that greatly influenced one young man that used to stand in the audience in front of Sky, mesmerized by his 'shamanic vocal talents'... Jim Morrison of the Doors..!) But I did 4 other Ah-some songs (directed by Sky): George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," Sky's "Can't Seem to Make You Mine," Ben E. King's "Stand By Me," & Sky's "Pushin' Too Hard." In the 1st Sky/Seeds song, Host Ted Quinn rapped the lyrics of a song i wrote for Sky, "Enter the Dharma Sky," that was missing for 5 years until Ted pulled it out of the album ("Little Richie Marsh- Starlight Date" Sky's 1st album of 50's doo-wap*) that Sky gave him at the Joshua Tree "Sky Sunlight & the God-Dog Band" Sessions. All four songs are up on youtube now- you can copy & paste this link to see "Can't Seem to Make You Mine/Enter the Dharma Sky": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRN7WUF_XHo
And then, of course you can click on 'Sundowner108's Other Videos' to see the others.
This most recent version of the God-Dog Band (that beautifully backed me up) were (Instant Karma Yoga's) Geoffrey Earendil on percussion, Clive Wright (from Cock Robin/ Harold Budd/too many others 2 list) on lead electric guitar, Gene Evaro on bass, w/his beautiful sisters Shavaughn, Gabrielle & Bryanna (who all gratefully came out of the Evaro Family Band rehearsal in time to make this magic happen)... and many others who joined, like Zaina Alwan, who creates the AH-mazing P & H stage backdrops and... Pappy & Harriet's Robin! There were quite a few others, including, but not limited to, Wally Ingram's family doing back-up vocals on "Stand By Me" (& why didn't Wally come up & get on the drum-set..? I mean since Sam wasn't using them- i'm just sayin'!)& BTW, Wally's daughter Lydia is quite the performer at 4 years old!
(And for a taste of the Evaro Family's music, go to w3.peaceloveevrao.com)
Oh what a Namas-Day/Night! Heart-Felt Thanks to EVERY-ONE from Echo Park to Joshua Tree (not to even mention the AH-some Austin & No. Cal. Tributes) helping the Spirit in Sky to Come Full Circle at the time of his transition. Special thanks of course to the One who, in the middle of the "Loss of a loved one (& subsequent grieving process)" was able to create miracles to honor Sky, Sabrina Saxon! Also thanks to AH-nother Heart-Sister of Sky's, HIGH Desert-Dweller Judy Wishart who not only created an album cover for one of Sky's 80's solo albums (seen up above & to the right of the humble little Sky Shrine behind Ted Quinn in the photo of him giving one of his Sky tributes), but also brought AH-mazing old Seeds poster art & photos of his performance at P & H to share! (She is seen in the last photo, with Sabrina & me in a "Seeds-AH-Tois") Also, as i reminded everyone last night near the end of my rendition of "Can't Seem to..," Sky's 49th Day in the Bardo (in-between state, according to the Tibetan Tradition) is TODAY Aug. 13th! It would be wonderful if all who know & love Sky (even if you didn't meet him in the physical before he left) could focus, in your own spiritual preference (i.e. song, chant, mantra, prayer, meditation, etc.) on Sky merging with the BRIGHT HALO OF RAINBOW LIGHT! *I'M POSTING SOME OF THE PRAYERS BELOW HERE-(for more, email me at conchustimes@yahoo.com)
And I know all of you who couldn't be there physically, were with US in the Dharma Sky- Where SKY is SMILING, real BIG right NOW (about as big as i was last night & will be whenever i remember this night!)...
...just AH-Some!
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* If you're interested in this classic 1st Sky LP, it may still be available at: http://www.nortonrecords.com/lps_exclusives.html (& only $10-! i better grab one b4 they're gone!)

Here is just one set of the final prayers in the Bardo Terdol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), that I share w/you should you have the time to read while thinking about Sky Sunlight Saxon on his 49th day (today) and visualize him merging with the BRIGHT LIGHT of LIBERATION. Should you have the interest, all of them are available here:
http://www.summum.us/mummification/tbotd/appendix.shtml



'The Root Verses of the Six Bardos':

[1]

O now, when the Birthplace Bardo upon me is dawning!
Abandoning idleness -- there being no idleness in [a devotee's] life --
Entering into the Reality undistractedly, listening, reflecting, and meditating,
Carrying on to the Path [knowledge of the true nature of] appearances and of mind, may the Tri-Kāya(3 bodies of Buddha-hood) be realized:
Once that the human form hath been attained,
May there be no time [or opportunity] in which to idle it [ human life] away.
[2]

O now, when the Dream Bardo upon me is dawning!
Abandoning the inordinate corpse-like sleeping of the sleep of stupidity,
May the consciousness undistractedly be kept in its natural state;
Grasping the [true nature of] dreams, [may I] train [myself] in the Clear Light of Miraculous Transformation:
Acting not like the brutes in slothfulness,
May the blending of the practicing of the sleep [state] and actual [or waking] experience be highly valued [by me].
[3]

O now, when the Dhyāna Bardo upon me is dawning!
Abandoning the whole mass of distractions and illusions,
May [the mind] be kept in the mood of endless undistracted Samādhi,
May firmness both in the visualizing and in the perfected [stages] be obtained:
At this time, when meditating one-pointedly, with [all other] actions put aside,
May I not fall under the power of misleading, stupefying passions.
[4]

O now, when the Bardo of the Moment of Death upon me is dawning!
Abandoning attraction and craving, and weakness for all [worldly things],
May I be undistracted in the space of the bright [enlightening] teachings,
May I [be able to] transfuse myself into the heavenly space of the Unborn:
The hour hath come to part with this body composed of flesh and blood;
May I know the body to be impermanent and illusory.
[5]

O now, when the Bardo of the Reality upon me is dawning,
Abandoning all awe, fear, and terror of all [phenomena],
May I recognize whatever appeareth as being mine own thought-forms,
May I know them to be apparitions in the Intermediate State;
[It hath been said], 'There arriveth a time when the chief turning-point is reached;
Fear not the bands of the Peaceful and Wrathful, Who are thine own thought-forms'.
[6]

O now, when the Bardo of [taking] Rebirth upon me is dawning!
One-pointedly holding fast to a single wish,
[May I be able to] continue the course of good deeds through repeated efforts;
May the womb-door be closed and the revulsion recollected:
The hour hath come when energy and pure love are needed;
[May I] cast off jealousy and meditate upon the Guru, the Father-Mother.
[7]

['O] procrastinating one, who thinketh not of the coming of death,
Devoting thyself to the useless doings of this life,
Improvident art thou in dissipating thy great opportunity;
Mistaken, indeed, will thy purpose be now if thou returnest empty-handed [from this life]:
Since the Holy Dharma is known to be thy true need,
Wilt thou not devote [thyself] to the Holy Dharma even now?'
[Epilogue]

Thus say the Great Adepts in devotion.
If the chosen teaching of the guru be not borne in mind,
Wilt thou not [O shishya] be acting even as a traitor to thyself?
It is of great importance that these Root Words be known.

Sky Sunlight Saxon Memorial at the Echoplex July 24 2009 g.c.

A PICTURE is worth 1000 words... but a video is worth "900 Millon People Daily- All Making Love..." Billy Corgan covered this Epic AH-mazing Psychedelic Seeds Song- among others, Friday night- check it out here (copy & paste this link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXwLfmc4Qi8
1st image is from the 1968 "Teen Scene." Next is the flyer I put together for our "last-minute" Sky Sunlight Tribute, signed by the original Seeds that were at the Echoplex, Daryl Hooper, Carl Belknap, Don Boomer & even their original road manager, Richie France! Next is the beautiful Sky Shrine put together by the Hostess, Sky's Wife Sabrina Saxon & her friends Lisa & Peter from Sandy Ego. Next is the "Climax of the Evening" photo w/everyone gathered for "Pushin' Too Hard," channeled by (Sky Tribute Artist) Don Bolles. Seeds drummer Carl Belknap is 5th person from the left. Next is the most psychelic photo (as in blurry) of Seeds keyboardist Daryl Hooper just to the right of one of the Go-Go Dancers, while Leighton Koizumi (the other Sky "Tribute Artist") sings his verse. Then Billy Corgan jams on bass in "Yahowa 33" w/Djinn Aquarian, as well as in the next photo- Is that Sky in the 'Orb' by Djinn's guitar? Next is the LA Weekly Aug. 31, 2007 special issue w/cover story on the Source Family w/Djinn on upper left. Then, "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" & old friend of Sky's Rodney Bingenheimer introduces the Electric Prunes with Prunes singer James Lowe right behind him. Next are member of the new Seeds that Sky recorded the "Red Planet" CD with at the time of the Pappy & Harriet's '04 Show: from left, Go-Go Dancer, Mark "Branch" Bellgraph, Rick "Rock N' Roll Avenger" Collins & Sky's long-time guitarist Tommy "Atomic" Azevedo. Next are (from left) Djinn Aquarian, Crystal, Rebekah & Spring Aquarian with some (human-created) "Orbs"- part of the psychedelic decorations everywhere. Next is Rick's beautiful wife Christa Collins performing Sky's "A Faded Picture," from the 'Web of Sound' LP. Then, Yogi John Franzoni, who, not only is the connection that I met Sky through, but also appeared on the cover of the LA Weekly on their special Yoga Studios issue some 2 decades ago, and who Sky is jamming with again on Etheric Tibetan Singing Bowls. Next is Yogi John, (seated) with other Source Family members, known then as "Boaz." Then the the Source Family issue again, with Sky's greeting for me signed with his Source Family name "Arelich"- he always called me "Champion." Then some of Sabrina's Shrine/decoration crew Lisa & Peter from San Diego. Then another Sky Shrine shot, followed by the human-orb (with a tiny Rodney on stage) declaring: " 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky!" (all photos (c) Sunny Sun-Downer)more info: SkySaxon.com SKY LIVES!
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Paul Krassner Interview Part 2

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORM IN RARE POLITICAL BENEFIT FOR BLACK PANTHERS! EXTRA! EXTRA!









Paul Krassner Interview, Part 2
By Sunny Sundowner
(As published in the current issue of the Desert Valley Star www.desertvalleystar.com)

When we last left our “Counter-Culture Hero,” we were hitting on a couple of the aspects of the un-official “Anthem of the (Nineteen) Sixties: Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll.” We were left with his take on what might have happened had his Yippie co-founder Abbie Hoffman and Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick been successful in dosing Richard Nixon’s beverage with LSD at a White House Social event for his daughter, Julie.
Paul says that his “religion” is “coincidence” and I truly believe it! Right as the issue of the Desert Valley Star came out with Part 1 of this interview, it was announced in the L.A. Times that, after a year-long battle, Yoko Ono finally won possession of 10 hours of video tapes of John Lennon & his family, one part of which shows "Lennon smoking marijuana and joking about putting LSD in Nixon's tea!" But the plot thickens- when I called Paul to tell him this news, he reported that what was even more amazing was that when I called he was just writing about a previous experience he’d had with John Lennon! “Truth is stranger than fiction!”
Sunny Sundowner: It’s interesting how you previously related that your LSD and cannabis use at concerts such as with the Grateful Dead would cause you to lose your inhibitions about such things as dancing in public. Well, speaking of LSD and the Grateful Dead, I wanted to get your take on this: (according to former Grateful Dead manager Rock Scully’s biography, “Living with the Dead”) back in the sixties, Jerry Garcia and his first wife, Sara were having a “bad trip” on LSD, or “acid bummer” as it was called back then. In spite of their “freak out” (the term’s original meaning), they had the good sense to visit Jerry’s song-writing partner Robert Hunter, who surmised the situation and proceeded to leaf through a book that he pulled down from his shelf: Tim Leary and friends’ version of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” titled “The Psychedelic Experience.” Jerry and Sara were on the edge of their seats waiting as Hunter was perusing different parts of the book for a while, and then finally closed it, looked at them and said, “It’s OK.” They couldn’t believe that was all there was to it, asking “It’s OK?” That then turned into their “mantra” as they left, going into a positive new experience, murmuring “It’s OK!”
Paul Krassner: Um, well I guess that sums it up- two words!
SS: Kind of like Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing?”
PK: Uh huh, right… and sometimes it just takes that “little nudge” of reassurance, which is what Hunter did. He had to sum up this profound book in a very simple way. I like that- this relationship between “profundity” and “simplicity”… or it could just be because I’m lazy. (Big Laughter)
SS: “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Guru-ship.” Then, oddly enough, what that very book recommends having for those embarking on a “psychedelic journey,” Jerry, decades later, became: a “guide,” musically-speaking, for thousands of young people taking these inner “journeys.” It’s also interesting that the Grateful Dead were one of the only groups that didn’t ever really do political benefit concerts…
PK: Well, they did do a benefit concert for the Black Panther “political prisoners” at the Oakland coliseum in 1971…
SS: Oh, I forgot about that! What a statement of “Counter-Culture Unity” that must have been! Were you there for that?
PK: Yes, I was there with a bunch of Merry Pranksters. It was really exciting. The unity of counter-cultural diversity was strong but unspoken. Everybody was frisked by Black Panthers before we were allowed to enter the concert hall. Later, I asked Ken Kesey what his reaction was. He replied, "I stood very still."
SS: Well, I hope he got stoned so he could dance, too! (Laughter) I guess what I was thinking about was more about the Vietnam War protests. I read that the Dead didn’t play at protests because they felt their music itself was their “anti-war protest.”
PK: Well, because it was “positive.” So it was “political” in that sense, because a Dead concert was really a “Camp Re-union” and a “Healing Ceremony” for many… but most of all, it was a sense of “Community” that was as much the attraction of it, as was the music itself.
SS: And we might go so far as to say that, in addition to being a healing ceremony, it was a “spiritual experience.” One interesting aside, though, came in an interview with Jerry later on, where he was asked what he thought about this one faction of “Deadheads” who considered him to be “God,” and he responded that he would tolerate it until they came for him with the “nails and a cross.” (Laughter) But you had an interesting bit of Jerry Garcia trivia about his “spirituality” involving “The Urantia Book”…
PK: Oh yeah- Garcia read the entire Urantia Book…
SS: And that’s like over 4 inches thick!
PK: Yeah, and it’s in small print. Back in the sixties, there was a legend that if you read the entire Urantia Bible, which is sort-of “science-fiction” in its own way- a mix of science-fiction and spirituality… but if you read the entire book, then ‘three elderly women would come visit you.” But Jerry told me that he never got that visit… and he was very disappointed. (Laughter)
SS: Do you think he considered it a waste of time, then? (Laughter)
PK: No, he had a “twinkle in his eye” about it- and he knew that it was the “journey” of reading it, rather than the “goal” of meeting “three elderly women.”
SS: Exactly! Well, in regards to another “new age” topic, do you have a belief one way or another on re-incarnation?
PK: Well, it’s inconceivable to me- I can’t separate consciousness from the physical brain. It’s just my own limitation. But even if, objectively, it was a true process, I would use it as a metaphor- I’d try to live my life as if it was my “last incarnation.” And, then have reincarnations in my own life. For example, my writing career has been essentially non-fiction and humor.
SS: And you could say that each one of your books or issues of “The Realist” was one of your ‘incarnations” in itself.
PK: Yeah, in a “sub-division scale.” But in a larger division… I’ve got two new books, one of which is “Who’s to Say What’s Obscene? Politics, Comedy and Culture in America Today,” with a forward by Ariana Huffington. And the other is “In Praise of Indecency- Dispatches from the Valley of Porn.” They’re both collections of my columns and articles… but my current obsession now is to work on novels. So, for me to work on fiction: that’s a new “incarnation” for me, because I have to make everything up. I have this friend who is a novelist, Avery Corman, who wrote his first article in the early sixties for “The Realist,” and then went on to write two novels that later became movies: “Oh God!” and “Kramer vs. Kramer.” So I called him and told him how I realized that writing fiction was difficult because you have to make everything up, and he said, “Come on Paul! You’ve been making stuff up all your life!” And I said, “Yeah, but that was journalism!”
Get more Krassner at paulkrassner.com!

The 1st Desert Valley Star "Annual Pot Issue!"

The Latest Desert Valley Star- July 4th: Freedom 4 Cannabis- 1st "Annual Pot Issue" Is Already A Collector's Item on the 1st Day It Arrives On the Streets! Geoffrey Earendil's AH-mazing artwork on the 1st High Desert Cannabis Dispensary (full page) Ad Features the Tibetan Dancing Chittapati flanked by an Indian Shiva Baba Worshipping Lord Shiva w/his Ganja-filled Chillum. Page 3 has Sunny Sun-Downer's AH-mazing & Hilarious Interview with "60's Counter-Culture Living Legend," Yippies Co-Founder/Realist Editor & Author of Countless Books- Paul Krassner!
Conch-Us Times Blog-Bonus- Tim Leary on "Smoking Marijuana"- Copy & paste the following link & go to: "Live And Let Live" from the 1970 album "You Can Be Anyone This Time Around" w/musicians Steven Stills, Buddy Miles, others... The title cut and "What Do You Turn On When You Turn On?" are also HIGHLY Recommended (& remember- Tim was saying this just about 40 years ago! Are PEOPLE finally Listening? Has the 100th Monkey Started Laughing?!)
http://new.music.yahoo.com/timothy-leary/albums/you-can-be-anyone-this-time-around--202184921
Now HERE's a suggestion for you multi-tasker-types: While you're listening to Tim & one of the first "Brotherhood of Eternal Love" public experiences, you can open another window, come back here & read the following interview- for a multi-faceted-experience! (Also- don't miss AH-nother AH-mazing coincidence at the end...-=0=-)
DANCING WITH CANNABIS AND THE DEAD-
The Sixties Culture’s Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll (Not-Necessarily-In-that-Order)
Sunny Sundowner’s Interview with “60’s Radical, Yippies Co-Founder, Counter-Culture Living Legend”
(And Desert Hot Springs Resident) Paul Krassner

SS: I thought we could touch on, among other things, the un-official “Anthem of the Sixties,” or “Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll,” but I wanted to do it in reverse order…
PK: OK.
SS: Do you feel that the rock n’ roll music of the sixties helped lead to a revolution of spiritual consciousness in the West?
PK: Well… At the time that the hippies started turning on with rock n’ roll, what was going on WAS a spiritual revolution. My good friend Lenny Bruce had a line: “The people are leaving the Church and going back to God!” (Laughter)
SS: No wonder he pissed off the government!
PK: Yeah, that was part of it… It’s just that there was no law against blasphemy, so they had to get him for the language that he used… The main word they persecuted him for was the same word that Country Joe & the Fish popularized at the original Woodstock Concert with their infamous “Fish Cheer”: “Give me an F!...” and of course you know the other three letters. So, rock n’ roll music… I’m eclectic in my musical tastes, but if I had to choose only one, rock n’ roll is my favorite. Partly because of the association with the counter-culture, and partly because- I belong to a “Secret Army”… That only dance when they’re alone… And rock music made me want to dance- especially if I was stoned. I went to Egypt in 1978 when the Grateful Dead played at one of the pyramids. I was hanging out with (Grateful Dead Manager) Bill Graham there. I had already taken acid and he gave me a ‘marijuana cookie’
SS: They had them back then, eh? I thought it was just “brownies!” (Laughter)
PK: Whatever you’d want to bake! And… we were both back in the area between back-stage and the stage itself… dancing- And he confessed to me that that moment was the first time he had ever danced in public. I said: me too! But I think that the music provided the missing link between your body and your spirit. It united those aspects. So many of the songs were about “optimism, hope and the mystery itself.” So it was an integral part, not just of spirituality, but also of politics. There were songs about racism, the Vietnam War, about how cruel humans could be. These songs were a response to those things saying we wanted to replace ‘fear’ with ‘joy’ and the music was a soundtrack for that process.
SS: One of my recent articles for the Desert Valley Star focused on the music of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the energetic effect it had on one’s metaphysical energy centers, or “Chakras,” if you will. So I was wondering if you remember an “Experience” or two with him?
PK: Well… Jimi Hendrix was the first “black Yippie.” The “Yippies” back in the sixties were the “Youth International Party”… and he had a Yippie button on his hat, and one thing the Yippies did besides protest the Vietnam War in Chicago in 1968, was to, on Valentine’s Day of the next year, send out hundreds of rolled joints to people in many different professions- teachers, lawyers, anyone we could think of. There was even one particular person they sent one to because his name in the phone book was “Peter Pot.” And each joint was mailed with a leaflet with the truth about marijuana and the unjust laws against it. So, Jimi paid for the pot… that was his contribution to that act of the Yippie’s “Guerilla Theater.”
SS: “Now it can be told…”
PK: In New York, the next year, in ’69 at Woodstock another thing that stands out in my mind, with all the incredibly good music that was there, was Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” because this was a gathering of the tribes from around the country and internationally, that had seen the “American Dream” morph into the “American Nightmare. That version expressed, for me, that anguish and disappointment of what was happening in the country- culturally, politically, spiritually… and that it articulated the consciousness of the audience- which, again, I’m projecting… but it was optimism that we have an alternative value system, and we’re going to LIVE IN IT- It’s not going to be an ‘abstract thing” in this country. So the ‘soul-full-ness’ of the wailing of his guitar… symbolizing that out of this “empire that was beginning to crumble”- I mean, we can see that more and more now over the decades, crumbling under the weight of it’s own corruption, there was another “empire” building, that we called the “counter-culture.”
SS: And you were on the fore-front of that counter-culture. Well, speaking of that concert, I’m reminded of the other famous ‘sunrise set’ by the Jefferson Airplane, with Grace Slick waking everyone up with “Look what’s happening out on the streets- Got to revolution!” the opening lines of the title-cut of their album “Volunteers of Amerika” (the original title before RCA records made them change it to just “Volunteers.”) That leads me to ask you a question regarding something that she talked about in her autobiography, “Somebody to Love?” Because she was friends with Nixon’s daughters before she moved to San Francisco, she was invited to some social function at the White House that Nixon would be participating in. But here’s the really wild part: she took as her date, your sixties Yippie Co-founder, Abbie Hoffman, and their plan was to dose the punch bowl with LSD so that hopefully Nixon would get dosed & see the “error of his ways.” So, I was just wondering what you think might have been the result if they had succeeded in their “mission.”
PK: Well, that’s a hypothetical question…
SS: I know- it’s a big “IF!”
PK: I don’t know… Abby would have gone to jail sooner? (Laughter)
SS: I was just wondering if you might be able to give an impromptu scenario of Nixon on acid- affecting the political situation of this country.
PK: Oh, I thought he WAS on acid! (Laughter)
SS: But it was the “Brown Acid” they warned people at Woodstock NOT to take!
PK: He didn’t listen when they said that! (Laughter) I don’t know… Allen Ginsberg always thought that he could create world peace if he could get- at that point it was Kennedy and Krushev, to both take LSD. I think because it helped serve as a vehicle to connect the sub-conscious and the conscious minds- but people projected their own experience on it and assumed that that would also happen with somebody like Nixon. But I think that acid would strengthen or extend a value system that somebody already had. So Catholics would have a “Catholic Acid Experience,” Jews would have a “Jewish Acid Experience”… whatever the symbols were. The best example is when I was at (“Acid Guru”) Tim Leary’s place in Millbrook (New York). When we were talking, the phone rang and he let me listen in- it was a stockbroker who was calling Leary to thank him for turning him on to acid, because it gave him the courage to “sell short.” By the same token I met a Socialist who, as a result of his acid trip there, gave a talk to the Socialist Scholars Conference about why Socialists should take acid. So whatever ‘vision’ someone had, acid could expand it. So I, being an Atheist… people couldn’t believe it, saying, “you mean you took acid and you didn’t find God!?” and I would say, “No, I found several more gods not to believe in…” (Laughter)
-Award-winning satirist Paul Krassner edited the groundbreaking countercultural magazine, The Realist (1958-2001), but when People magazine called him "Father of the Underground Press," he immediately demanded a paternity test. Visit paulkrassner.com.
Addendum: Paul tells me his religion is "coincidence," & I truly believe it! Right as this issue of the Desert Valley Star came out with this interview, it was announced in the L.A. Times Calendar Section's "Quick Takes" that Yoko Ono finally won possession of 10 hours of video tapes of John Lennon & his family, one part of which shows "Lennon smoking marijuana and joking about putting LSD in Nixon's tea." Here's a link you can copy & paste to see a story about the beginning of this case in the NY Times:
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2242733520080422?feedType=RSS
Could we then have coined a new term, I ask: "L.S.Tea?-=0=-