Tripping (1999 Ken Kesey / Merry Pranksters documentary) 

That’s a hell of a story man, how’d you meet him?

He didn't

Kerouac is how it's spelled .

Amen sister :)

You don't meet God on LSD, it's just a mind fuck that deceives you..CIA pushed LSD hard back in the 60s

It’s nothing to take lightly.

I wish more people prior to considering dropping for the very first time - would be knowledgeable of KK --- and of his sage advice. But they mostly just jump into the 'deep end' without knowing exactly how deep it is.

@@noelsalisbury7448 The book called 'The Psychedelic Experience' written by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert is a good one to direct first-timers to or even seasoned people.

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This is so true. I met him when he took the Further bus to the Phish show at Darien Lake summer 1997. He let any wandering kid onto the bus. He was willing to hang and talk with anyone.

What a long strange trip it’s been

sexual liberation, pot smoking and acid trips are not freedom. maybe one day you'll figure that out

@@mtg1470 Well , being YOU , an arrogant self righteous moralist , certainty has nothing to do with freedom . You seem to neglect Kesey was a serious , disciplined WRITER , and books like " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " , "Demon Box" , and " Sometimes a Great Notion " do not write themselves .

Great idea...wonder where it is ...?

I am surprised that it is not. I believe it is in Oregon on the farm. I also saw someplace that there was a 2nd one built later on. In Tom Wolfe's book the credo of art does not last seems the philosophy they took with the bus - for what it is worth.

The Smithsonian tried to acquire it. Kesey refused and tried to prank them with a fake bus. It is in Oregon on his ranch.

Well put

required huh?

@@donnavaughn9409yup, trying something different, something new to you is part of experiencing what it is to be a human.

Noone should ever be required to take any drugs, legal or illegal. But especially not psychoactive drugs. Most people today aren't equipped to deal with it.

@@user-cx7kg6ok9b People like you, obviously.

@@donnavaughn9409 OK, trigger girl. how about - SUGGESTED?

Maybe a good Time for an Acid Test to see the World different?

@@Frag-Drache-Offiziel yeah I could see that.

darkness is always present, creating light in darkness is up to us

It was back then too, that is why rock and roll busted out, tue freedom music. Just like now, classic rock is busting out all over. The only difference is the clueless corporate media will not record or promote it. Rock and roll is still dangerous to the evil establishment. It is all about life, love ,fun. The garbage that is promoted now is all about violence, cruel weird sex, hatred, envy, greed, shootings, crime etc.. A lot of these media promoted "music" creeps even have devil statues and satan stuff onstage now. Yet the media used to say rock and roll is the "devils music." Not at all. The establishment just wanted their sheep clones to stay in line and not be free. The stuff they promote now is, because it glorifies all the truly evil stuff. Easy to see who is the truly evil ones.

@@michaelcraig9449 this is a horrible take. “They said our music was devil music but it wasn’t. Now that I’m their age the new stuff really is devil music!” 🤮

I wrote about what you said a few days ago: "Our mission is to enjoy what I believe is an endless journey. *The journey itself is the destination* rooted in the ineffable wonder of now. "You were *never not* the actualization of the fulfilment you continuously fool yourself into believing you must somehow yet attain. Yeah, it's here right now, even as it inevitably comes with a price."

@David Wang I resemble that remark! 😵

Yes, it’s a brilliant and underrated novel 😊

~mumble mumble~ ~GODdamned swine! Dumbo! Sessions!~ ~mumble mumble~

When he gave a "lecture" here in Austin, his bud Jerry Jeff Walker had to "translate" for him the whole time!!!

Yeah and the subtitles become more useful as the film progresses and as I assume Hunter progresses with his chemicals lol

YES!!

Hunter Thompson, snuff film maker and pervert.

@Cj He did it for both, and what a win-win that was lol

Cointel pro

Integral Stanley or to distribute LSD for the government...

Buddha Stalin 😂. It’s possible. Even if he didn’t realize it and Did it inadvertently

Sounds like ridiculous decadent hippie bullshit borne our of too much free time and money

I was in LA (Laurel Canyon area) 1966 before LSD was made illegal October. The going price for a tab of "White Lightening" which could be divided 4 ways was $5 and stayed at that price for a few years. There was alot of it about.

I was talking about the acid tests. I became aware of the tests towards the end in early '66. After that the tests morphed into "Love-Ins" where thousands showed up. Usually some bands. In San Francisco these took place in Golden Gate Park usually or at the local colleges. The Grateful Dead often played in these early events. These morphed into Woodstock and on the dark side Altamont.

#NothingLasts

@@clarkewi I'm sure the same stuff was loaded onto sheets for easier distribution later on. I believe this was circulating around 1980. www.etsy.com/listing/673752026/white-lightning-vintage-lsd-blotter-art

@@clarkewi When I was a kid I remember the free concerts in the Panhandle section of Golden Gate Park, which is on the north edge of the Haight-Ashbury. KSAN would announce them Saturday morning, an hour or two before they started. Me and a friend snuck into one in 1970. We were only 8 at the time, so we had to avoid the cops so they wouldn't make us leave. The band was Hot Tuna with Papa John Creach on the electric violin. Great show. P.S. The cops weren't there to harass the pot-smoking hippies. They were there to keep traffic moving on Oak and Fell. Times sure have changed...

It figures the Unitarians would support somebody like Kesey. His little Prankster cult was morally ambiguous at best, and criminally irresponsible at times.

David Carpenter lame fuck. I bet you’re a real joy to be around.

So what happened

David Wang i run an extraction lab 😂🤣. Yeah I’m just brain dead from a plant. You must be an idiot to think somehow cannabis makes you stupid... this is 2021 not 1969...

@@MatanuskaHIGH some people will never get it , for they do not have the capacity of thought outside their own bubble.

I went there hoping to find free thinking people, 'on the bus', and was unfortunately sent home a little disappointed, regardless thought Oregon was incredible and beautiful though, much love

I would like to go to Eugene,Oregon 😊 I would have liked to ride the magic bus 😊

Especially with the Country Fair!!

Agreed. I lived in Eugene for 20 years. Worked in media. Met Kesey twice. Echos of Kesey still reverberate.

I live in Eugene and as much as it's the same, I ts different now. Meth has totally changed the vibe

I'd say the Me Generation pretty resoundingly slammed the book on their youthful ideology in the 1980's and turned instead to cannibalizing their own culture for marketing profits, turning it into a gimmick. I did lots of acid in the 90's and still hadn't realized the Me Generation is the Generation of Broken Promise. I idealized the Beats and the Hippies. At least the Beats left good art and literature. The Me Generation, aka Generation of Broken Promises just left some great music and a ticker tape parade of self-adoration for the rest of us to clean up while abandoning every single ideal and empty words for convenience and wealth.

Now they've mostly turned into angry karens and we've all realized they're just mouthy brats full of hot air to be ignored. Just like they always were. Ooh, I did some acid and felt good about myself. Do you realize how low entry point that is? LSD can open the mind but it wears off. It's easy to break a promise and forget it all. That's what the hippies showed us.

@@MLATX512 I don't know who the ME generation is exactly, I'll look it up but what you're saying makes sense, market values took over our humanity, everything became a product and we all became consumers. Friendship, honesty, communication, love, telling the truth, compassion and the will to do and be good all became secondary to the mighty dollar... a sad affair indeed.

@@rosesprog1722 Sorry I unloaded on your comment. As you can tell, I've got some bitterness. The Me Generation is just another name for the Baby Boomers.

@@MLATX512 Oh, there is no need to apologize, I thought your words were respectful and interesting and now that I know you were talking about the boomers I agree with you even more. But thanks for looking up, I appreciate. Cheers.

everything is still available, nothing has changed, be strong and you will find it if thats your choice. Plenty of good stuff on youtube to get you inspired

@@martina4226 Thank You🤗

He changed his opinion after Altamonte.

Imagine ozzy saying, you need to go to rehab man!

I’m not defending the Hells Angels here (they were violent and pretty messed up without a doubt), and I’m just hoping for reality, but has no one seen the video from altamont and heard the witnesses? The guy pulled out a gun. In addition to that the Hells Angels were dosed out of their minds. This is not just me, but book after book, person after person who validated this. Plenty of evidence contradicts this tale. Why not tell it like it is. Everyone was being irresponsible.

I think Keith had only came across the comparitively Jokey English Angels, who did the Security at their Hyde Park 1969 Gig. Keith was naïve, imo. There's a good video with Marianne Faithful who talks about this whole Altamont incident, and she pull no punches about what she thinks about Keith's thinking.

further goes beyond further! And furthger than even that!

The bus came by, and I got on...thats when it all began

The key was knowing when to get off the bus

American wasn’t divided before the vile counter culture came out of the universities promoting their moronic ideas …

I was there (born 1948) and grew up in LA. my perception of that time is utterly opposite. It was the "love children" who hated everything that didn't fit into their very narrow narrative. All they really cared about was getting high, screwing anyone that was willing and wearing the uniform of the day. The kids of that era got VD, drug addled and thought church was bad but astrology was good. And, maybe most importantly, they turned into BMW-driving Yuppies. The whole "movement" was as deep as a dime.

David Schlessinger I’m a child of your generation, I pay my respect to you sir!

Right on.

I wish there was a "Wow!" button here.

Bulshit

Masterbaters: Those 2 guys were goofs. The term hippie sounds so childish. Most "hip-pies" were lazy and dirty and I think we try to romanticize the past. To capture and relive the past is not hip at all.

@@jamesbrooks9567 You are misguided. Seems to be increasingly common these days.

Ditto but without the car ( I always hated them !) and in UK a couple of years before you.Took Amanita Muscaria in '62. Did acid in '64 when it was still legal. The journey though was parallel to yours.

@@luckydave328 Do you remember a man named Owsley? He was always mysterious to me and I think Bob Dylan wrote a song called, "The Mighty Quinn," that I thought was about him. I was taking purple LSD that I was told was made by him. Our journeys take us to strange dimensions and you can see the change in America during the '60s. I think a lot of it had to do with LSD and marijuana and the things we took to expand our consciousness. Did we change the world? Well, I'll leave that for historians to argue about.

@@johnallen2771 Yes. I remember Owsley. He was supposed to have the best Acid. All my first trips were from Ronald Laing. He was getting it from Timothy Leary. I heard Leary got it from Owsley. Who knows though... and who cares really ? Right up until 67 it was always a clear liquid that we got. We used to do a few drops from a dropper bottle straight onto the tongue. Later there were blotters, sugar lumps and coloured pills Purple Haze, Orange Sunshine , Strawberry Fields and then it was Windows. One time just before it became illegal me and some friends did a very high dose. We did a 'bottle wash' of all this crystalised acid that was left in the chemists' (the cook I suppose they'd say now) bottle in a home factory. It was possibly hundreds of trips. I don't know. All I know is an express train made of light hit me full on and I disappeared ! I didn't do much acid after that. More of other psychedelics and psychotropics but several years later. It wasn't all good but it was an amazing time and amazing experiences. Yes of course we changed the world. I'd say mostly for the good but the dark forces were always trying to drag us off the path. I feel I am in a very good place now and those experiences led me here. I am very grateful for the times I have lived through...including now. 😁

@@johnallen2771 Btw I think Quinn the Eskimo was dealing 'snow' (cocaine) not acid.

@@luckydave328 Anybody who was alive from about '63, when Kennedy was shot, to about '70 with Kent State knew that something magical was happening in the world. Yes, we preached love and peace and I still do to this day. We were much more inquiring in those days, so much so that we didn't trust anyone, the government especially, to tell us the truth. We wanted to see what the real truth was. I also have "disappeared." It was on a peyote trip in the desert outside of Nogales, Mexico. I went to another dimension where I learned wonderful secrets I never knew existed. I am not espousing drug use, you can do the same thing with deep meditation. It's all in the mind. For about 7 or 8 short years we went through a learning process that took us from bobby sox to astral thoughts. Nothing really changes, I guess, there are probably similar periods in history where the same sort of thing happened. In many ways Trump and Pence remind me of Nixon and Agnew. I'm glad you're in a good place now, so am I. I often wonder if age does bring wisdom. I'm not sure yet.

same here , i loved the stuff , couldnt get enough of it

I was one of those goobers that said “there’s no bad trips. Just learning experiences.” Pretty sure the mushroom gave me a healthy dose of psychosis one time. I had been traveling through many doorways and I think my brain wanted to crack under the weight of the expansiveness when I returned. And cid showed me eternity one time. Fuck that shit.

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Ah Moby Grape. “She”

Yes!

That's exactly it.

We had that book in our conservative church library!! Of course I picked it up at 12 and read it cover to cover! I couldn't believe it was even IN there! Mom was the librarian. I never told her what it was. She apparently thought it was a kid's book HAHA!

@@kittenfuud lol

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​@@kittenfuud was that the paperback with a Sugar Cube wrapped in Paisley wrapping paper ? ( That's the one I read, anyway! ) Another meaning for the 'head' librarian, I guess 😉?

I used to sell orange barrels and purple microdots from the same bag

I'm betting Kesey came closer to wisdom than you're capable of.

ha ha haaa~! #Troll, much?

whats the song at 28 mins 15 seconds PLEASE

"Little Hands" by Skip Spence, being covered by Robert Plant on the "More Oar" tribute C.D. which came out in 1999. "Oar" was Skip Spence's solo album which was originally released in 1969, but Bill Bentley of Birdman records put together this tribute album for Skip with a lot of well known artists.

Bill's a good guy. His Roky Erickson trib just got a reissue a week or two back. I'll tell him hi for ya!

Wait me to is it on youtube?

That campaign commercial is why LBJ was elected instead of Goldwater. America would be a very different -- and much better -- place today if Goldwater had become President .. we had to wait for Reagan ... and then Trump

Keep on Keeping on all.

Keeping on here

Read this before I even realized who posted it🫵🫡

The Movie Going Furthur is a fresh take on the current Pranksters .

The pranksters footage was finally edited into a movie in 2011, Magic Trip. They did a great job. Its a fun film and is like seeing The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test come to life.

I was looking to buy a house in the boulder creek, la honda area and seeing this film now makes me wonder how it would feel to trip in the densely red wooded trees and the dark. Its dark, its full if wild life. Beautiful area- where neil youngs ranch is- la honda, (rather he and pegi lived while they were married)

The original hazes and skunks came from that area. Haze bros and BOEL

Sammy Scotch I’ve tripped many times on the old growth Douglas fir in mt hood forest. I imagine redwoods would be even more cool. Tripping in the forest is always better than in the city.

Tripping in a big , 'reasonably' safe park with lots of beautiful quiet places with all that nature, with friends - for the First Time is a potentially very positive thing to do. Plus some drinking water, and don't get really, genuinely Lost. Stay safe. Love to all.

​@@MatanuskaHIGHsuper silver haze is incredible. Can't find skunk anymore. Don't know

We need another movement

Since it ended badly for many, I'd say we need New Type of Pranksters, ones who do NOT identify their Freedom with A particular drug or guru or creed, etc. This movement was important & meaningful, but ultimately self-defeating.. There is a saying in the East: The finger that points out the moon--the wise man realizes it is about the Moon & the idiot attachs to the finger.

eric russell of course it has to be new, modern and unique to have an effect really! And yeea classic buddhist saying that more humans need to know such things

Why ?

It probably helped that it was ripped on the same VHS machine that it was recorded on. I'm sure I could get better quality video if I knew how to set it up properly. :)

Yes it was a very fun and "lightening" time. I was there there for a good part of it. However, remember, "There is no time like the present." Part of the revolutionary aspect of those times was exploring and making a new point of view. That means working toward a way of living where everything is new and fresh. Those times are past. Too much nostalgia and you are just as stuck as we were before we got on the bus. I encourage the new "space cadets" to respect the past but keep exploring the present. The gems are always here and present but you have to look for them......Happy Trails 79tazman!

79tazman Me too January 26th. I was raised by hippies who taught me to always question authority, and to help where I could in the world

6 was 9 for you

Buy it.it on sale now

You'd be brainwashed

Nora Hope Karan jerry Garcias ex as well

Did you know my mom Martha Richdale?

Glad the bus is still running.the hippie dream continues. Rog brown. Pacific sunset records.

@@rogbrown1458 Well, it's not "THE" bus; Kesey & friends recreated it. The original pretty much disintegrated over the years in a barn on the farm.

@@jazzmanchgo ok then but the dream lives on with a newer bus. Now where did I leave my smokes. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

All influenced by the first one.

:)

Kerouac was a Republican and thought the hippies decadent. Or, basically, he was a Catholic mystic. Look it up.

@@JesusIsKingAndSavior By the late 60s, Kerouac was an alcoholic, living as a recluse with his mother and probably despondent that his books were no longer being read and that he was becoming forgotten about. And he was probably more decadent than the hippies were, the way he lived his life, although I am not judging anyone.

👱🏻‍♀️IT WASNT DAT GREAT I WAS WHITE FLIGHT FRUM EBBETS FIELD ON BEDFORD AVE

It's like viewing the world for the first time again. Or so I believe.

An individual trip can be described, either as it happens or later if memory allows, but the listener or reader can only be expected to partially understand the head space being described to them. What we cannot describe is the experience anyone else might have.

Shpongled covers it pretty well.

Love

I've never had a bad trip !

100%, but it was by design."

👱🏻‍♂️LOVE FOR DA EARF U DONT EVEN CLEAN YO HOMELESS SHELTER ROOM

Fun loving & good people mate Not deep down Just all over decent

@David Wang Surely contributing to the good of society was also at the heart of Ken Kesey's mission, but yet at the time and even today he would still be classed as a criminal in the eye of the law.

"To live outside the law you must be honest." -Bob Dylan

​@@robertpoen5383 Bob knows the difference between - Outlaws & Criminals

💯% agree. I learned so much while tripping in the woods.

A lack of walls makes for a much nicer time overall.

@ i was about to dive under a wall that turned into a wave, there was a surfing poster on the wall, & the water just leaped out of it...someone said something from behind me, & i forgot about the giant wave & we went outside

I think it was Leary rather than KK who first said this one, ( and it doesn't Really matter either way!) but it encapsulates it for me the best :- ' Set , and Setting '

Like minded people Just living free Very cool

"...was laughing loud because the other shoppers reminded me of ants..." lol!

Tracers

I ate some peyote buttons and then went shopping at Safeway and the trip hit me when I was checking out my groceries. I had to have the check out lady count out the money because I didn't know what it was. I was laughing my ass off - everything was like a cartoon in the store. When finally got back up into the hills then it all made sense -- up there in Nature.

Gerry Lavelle ::: I found mescaline very delightful and playful....especially light, patterns, and color; welding and pyrotechnics.....imo

@@codeblue2532 Mescaline was like Mexican blankets and Hopi Kachina deities, Dancing Saguaro cactii and mult-colored lizards. Peyote button flying saucers. There was so much fake mescaline around that when you got the real stuff by making it yourself -- you really knew you were there. One time I was tripping on it and I looked up in the sky and burning words started forming. The words became like a burning Lord's Prayer in the sky. Then it read "On Earth as it is in Heaven" and I started laughing because I realized that it's all One -- Heaven and Earth are One.

Free love is sexual Marxism used to destroy people's family and thus hasten the inevitable day of glorious Communist revolution ☝️

The book sits on my coffee table!

Read the book 1970. Read Hunter S Thompson Hells Angels book earlier. The overlap of the two books was interesting. T Wolfe also wrote an article about poorly paid store staff in London. Reminded me of, as a teenager, working at Oxford University Press Bookstore on Charing Cross Road. Strong "trips" available. Best from Sandoz, Switzerland.