A short scientific parable by Renaldo Recuerdo The story has been sung to us from the centuries. My mother’s mother’s mother and many many mothers before sang the tale. The…
The Love Family, Hippie Commune or Religious Cult?
Love Family Passover, 1977 In the Summer of 1976 the annual Rainbow Gathering was held in Montana by Cave Mountain, near Choteau, in Lewis and Clark National Forest. At the…
Swami Satchidananda’s Lesson For Me
In or around 1975 i was living outside Gainesville, Florida. I had been studying yoga out of the book “Integral Hatha Yoga” by Swami Satchidananda. He was the funny little…
Birth Announcement Letter to My Parents
While perusing one of my mother’s old photo albums I found a letter I had written her and my dad shortly after the birth of my first child. It’s not…
How I Kissed Grace Slick
Visiting Enid with my girlfriend Swarloka in the Summer of 1975 we saw that Jefferson Starship was playing in Tulsa. I borrowed my dad’s pickup and we loaded the goat…
The Wizard of Golden
In the late 1970’s i participated in the Rainbow Family Tribal Gatherings. After the 1978 gathering in Oregon a few of us on the council decided to try and keep…
Campbell, Texas Ranger
[Ed. Most of the accounts of these events and persons were taken from the book “Tumbleweed Treck” by Stella Campbell Rockwell. Her accounts in turn were based largely on tax…
Interview With Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey / Tim Leary “debate”
The following was transcribed from a tape of an interview I conducted with Dr. Timothy Leary upon his arrival in Eugene, Oregon to debate his close friend Ken Kesey at…
The Spirit World
Medicine Story walked on The Path That Stands on Two Legs. His Uncle, the Sun, was coming up over the Pueblos before him. His Mother, the Moon, was going down…
The Hippie T.A. and The Nuclear Mathematician
In 1974 I was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. I was working as a teaching assistant and the first semester of the…