Between the Covers Timeline

Cover Story - New York Magazine 

Dismantling the Myth of “Mother Ayahuasca” - PS2023: The Virtual Trip 

PhD_Thesis_Emily_Sinclair_Dismantling_the_Myth_of_Mother_Ayahuasca.pdf

Effects of Psilocybin on Religious and Spiritual Attitudes and Behaviors in Clergy from Various Major World Religions | Psychedelic Medicine


https://allenginsberg.org/2023/09/m-s-11-2/ 

Orville Griffiths’s favorites | Flickr 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-lady-diana-mukpo/id1515059329?i=1000607455284

Jesus Sound Explosion ‘72 LP [Full Album] (youtube.com)

John Fischer Discusses The Jesus Movement With Nancy Honeytree (youtube.com)

https://blogs.sfzc.org/  Sangha  New Journal 

Top Psychedelic Books (psychedelics.com)

Inside Ashland's TwinRay Cult (gurumag.com)

Millbrook to Hollywood Documentary about Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out movie Timothy Leary, 1967 - YouTube

Moore and Schiller, “LDS: The Exploding Threat of Mind DrugThat Got Out Of Control, Life Magazine  (March 1966)
Editorial: LSD—A Dangerous Drug (Editors 1965, 1280) New England Journal fo Medicine.

Eureka (homestead.com)  Jim Durkins Gospel Outreach Group Further here 

Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade, historians scramble to capture Woodstock's voices - ABC News (go.com)

The Surprisingly Radical Roots of the Renaissance Fair | History | Smithsonian Magazine

The Farm No meat, no dairy, no alcohol, no make-up,  A vow of poverty based on Acts.  No violence, including anger. Accept Stephen as our Spiritual Teacher. No birth control because it was chemicals.  "If you're balling, you're engaged, if you're pregnant your married."   "We weren't working for the man" says Jose, the father of the film makers c. 43 minutes/ Well, yes you were.    They used the talking stick at the gathering in American Commune.

https://maps.org/news/bulletin/?tag=bulletin

MAPS Bulletin Archive

Welcome to the Psychedelic Revolution Video

The man who is trying to be an atheist is trying to free himself from the laws of his being. He might as well try to free himself from liability to hunger or thirst. Hodge What is Darwinism?

The Radical Reader

https://archive.org/details/radicalreaderdoc0000unse

Hodge, Charles. What is Darwinism? . Kindle Edition. 

Episode 1: Allison Hoots of the Sacred Plant Alliance (ecstaticintegration.org)

Chris Vlachos A LORD’S DAY MEDITATION August 13, 2023 Face Book Post.

“A Momentous Encounter with Lonnie Frisbee”

In the spring of 1983, I was diagnosed with stage 4B Hodgkins lymphatic cancer. The disease was in an advanced stage, having spread throughout my body. The day after I was diagnosed, our family was scheduled to drive to California to visit the kids’ grandmother and go to Disneyland. Not wanting to disappoint them, we decided to go as planned, but I would immediately check myself into Loma Linda University Medical Center, where my doctor, a Christian physician, had made arrangements for me to be staged and begin treatments.

After a week of examinations, biopsies, and lab work, the oncologists determined a protocol, and I received my first round of chemotherapy, which was to be followed by another round a week later and ten more treatments after returning home to Utah.

A few days after my first treatment and being released from the hospital for the week, a friend, Paul, took me to the Vineyard, a local Christian church, to have the elders pray for me. The elders gathered around, consecrated me to the Lord with oil, and began to pray.

One of the men appeared to be leading the prayer. He didn’t place his hand on me. Instead, he held it out towards me and prayed that the tumors would “melt.” I don’t recall if he invoked the Lord to melt the tumors or if he commanded the tumors to melt in the name of the Lord. I only remember the verb, “melt.” It seemed like an odd term to use in reference to cancer. The word usually used was "shrink." As we were driving away, I asked Paul who the man was that was leading the prayer. “Lonnie Frisbee,” he replied.

Lonnie Frisbee was one of the key figures in the Jesus People movement of the late 60s and early 70s. It later came to light that he had his struggles and fell into sexual sin. I don’t know, however, where he was at morally during this period or what the state of his heart was before God at the time. Paul took me to the Vineyard because people were experiencing healings there.

The next morning, I woke up with excruciating pain in the ball and socket area of my left hip, where the cancer had initially spread. I was writhing and tossing in bed like a worm that had been stepped on. “How can I go on living like this?”, I thought. I couldn’t fathom continuing in this condition for even an hour, let alone for the rest of my life. And the amount of sedation I would need to take the edge off the pain would leave me virtually lifeless.

All of a sudden, the pain ceased, absolutely stopped. It was like a switch was turned off. The pain never returned, not for a moment, not even a twinge.

Later in the week, I returned to the hospital to undergo my second treatment. After the doctor administered the chemotherapy, he gave me an additional medication. I don’t remember if it was by mouth or injection. I asked him what it was. “Your tumors are melting at such a rapid pace,” he replied, “that we’re giving you something to help your kidneys work on overdrive.” I immediately thought of Lonnie Frisbee’s prayer.

I returned home to Utah where I continued my chemo treatments for eight months, followed by a few weeks of radiation. Looking back, though, I’m not sure that the chemo and radiation were necessary. It was likely the Lord was present that day at the Vineyard, and I was healed through the prayer of the elders in Jesus’ name.

When we experience a serious illness, our knee jerk reaction is often to make an appointment with the doctor. To be sure, seeking a physician is a reasonable response: “If you are sick,” the theologian Warfield writes, “you will use means, all the means that exist.” Or to quote the ancient Jewish sage: "The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and a sensible person won't ignore them” (Sirach 48:4). Indeed, Paul prescribes for Timothy’s frequent stomach issues that he drink not only water but add a little wine to his diet (1 Tim 5:23).

This being said, if we look to what was perhaps among the earliest documents of the Christian faith, the letter of James, the knee jerk norm in the early church when a Christian became seriously ill was not to seek a physician to heal but the elders to pray:

“Is anyone among you sick? Let them call

for the elders of the church, and they are to

pray over him, anointing him with oil in the

name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in

faith will restore the one who is sick.”

(James 5:14–15a)

After all, “the empowered prayer of a righteous man” James writes, “is powerful and effective” (James 5:16). And such prayer when offered in a context where it is God’s will to heal, leads not only to a good prognosis but testifies to the on-going reality that the Lord who miraculously healed the sick throughout Galilee continues to work miracles today.

All reactions:

5David Bundy, Dianne Ainsworth Kearns and 3 others

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/04/21/the-hippie-caves-of-matala-that-housed-joni-mitchell/

bonhoeffersociety.org/2018/12/16/the-scientific-world-of-karl-friedrich-bonhoeffer-an-interview-with-kathleen-l-housley/

Summer of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pdSB5OZIk

Summer of Love Video

The TRUTH about the Jesus Revolution w/Stan Frisbee (LONNIE’S BROTHER) - YouTube 

Lonnie Frisbee Unscripted by John Ruttkay - YouTube  

Joni Mitchell Library - Dad: Joni wanted to have the baby: Vancouver Province, December 10, 1996

This is POWERFUL! Lonnie Frisbee's Words from the GRAVE W/John Ruttkay (LONNIE'S ROOMMATE) - YouTube

This is POWERFUL! Lonnie Frisbee's Words from the GRAVE W/John Ruttkay (LONNIE'S ROOMMATE) - YouTube

Roots of Conspirituality: How Guru Culture Became the Multi-Billion-Dollar Spiritual Commerce Industry – Ethos (the-ethos.co)

American Rainbow Gatherings - Somewhere under the Rainbow 

It Took 50 Years, But The '70s Hippie Definition Is Finally Mainstream, Thanks to a Tennessee Farm Commune – Ethos (the-ethos.co)

Matthew Ward interview 

Annie and Buck Herring interview 

Buck Herring Interview  

Keith Green Documentary


“I’d rather let my spirit fly free, than be caged by religion. Become a Buddha not a Buddhist; become a Christ not a Christian. One implies an awakened state of consciousness, the other a dogmatic approach to life.”

“God” is too big for one religion. Love & quantum physics are my religion. At one level, all religious traditions have the same aim—to transform the individual into a positive being. I love Jesus, I love Shiva, I love Krishna, I love Buddha. All rivers lead to the same ocean. “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.” ॐ

John Lennon

"We need moral instructions, all of us do, kind of in these times, you know, it seems to have, the world seems to have lost its way. So, to write songs along those lines is a big responsibility. I would have to crack the books with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whose the brightest man I ever met, you know, in the most spiritually profound. Maybe if I read him again, I’d get some ideas, you know?” Minute 36 of her Library of Congress Interview 2023

Joni Mitchell on this interview "I'm an individual, which, defined by Nietzche, is a person who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."  36:03-36:11
Joni Mitchell and Brian Blade Interview: TimeTalks Luminato - YouTube

David Geffen is the Free Man in Paris. (43:06)

ou’re welcome. I’m sorry that the passage I quoted does not appear in the link I provided. I must have made a mistake. Here are some other Rolling Stone interviews where you might find the quote:

• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/morrissey-interviews-joni-mitchell-melancholy-meets-the-infinite-sadness-91681/ This is an interview by Morrissey from 1997, where he and Mitchell talk about various topics, including her albums, her influences, her views on feminism and vegetarianism, and her relationship with David Geffen.

• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joni-mitchell-blue-cameron-crowe-interview-la-times-1186599/ This is a recent interview by Cameron Crowe from 2021, where Mitchell discusses the 50th anniversary of Blue, the album’s legacy, and the state of her singing voice.

• https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/07/joni-mitchell-classic-interview-rocks-backpages This is a classic interview from 1969, where Mitchell talks about her early career, her songwriting process, and her musical influences.

• https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/morrissey-joni-mitchell-interview/ This is a summary of the Morrissey interview from 1997, with some highlights and quotes.

"I read 'on the Road' in mayby 1959. It changed my life"

On The Road | The Official Bob Dylan Site

In a scene at Kerouac's Grave (died Oct 21, 1969) in Scoreses Rolling Thunder Review (around 1:05) Ginzberg says he got all his poetry from Kerouac's Mexico City Blues.  Dylan Says he'd read it.  That his friend David Whitaker (Sp.) gave him a copy in Minneapolis in 1959   Ginzberg says, "That's where I got all my poetry, Mexico City Blues" and calls it "My favorite"  Dylan said that when David Whittiker gave hi the book it just "blew a hole in my mind"


https://www.businessinsider.com/mountain-girl-memoir-jerry-garcia-ken-kesey-merry-pranksters-sixties-2022-10

Time Magazine online:  April 9, 1965, Vol. 85, No. 15 - The Vault - TIME  

The William Blake Archive 

Hare Krishna! A San Francisco Śrīla Prabhupāda Pilgrimage - Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project (gtu.edu)

Courier express. (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1964-1982, December 08, 1978, Page 35, Image 35 - NYS Historic Newspapers 

Death of a Theologian - The American Interest (the-american-interest.com)

Jazz news: Lennie Tristano: The Complete Look Up and Live (allaboutjazz.com)

When my dad killed God | The Christian Century

The ‘Honest to God’ Debate | Commonweal Magazine 

Date Book Archives - music journalism history (music-journalism-history.com) 

The Entities that Exist Within Psychedelics | With Dennis McKenna - YouTube Jordan Peterson. 

Thomas Merton, Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 1 (1939-1941); ed. Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O; HarperSanFrancisco, 1995). Vol 1.

Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 2 (Dec 1941-July 1952); ed. Jonathan Montaldo; HarperSanFranciso, 1996. Vol 2.

Thomas Merton, A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk’s Life (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 3 (July 1952-May 1960); ed. Lawrence S. Cunningham: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996). Vol 3

Thomas Merton, Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 4; (May 1960-July 1963) ed. Victor A. Kramer; HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Vol 4

Thomas Merton, Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage (The Journals of Thomas Merton Book 5; ed. Robert E. Daggy; HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Vol 5

Thomas Merton, Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (The Journals of Thomas Merton 6; Christine M. Bochen; HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). Vol 6 

Thomas Merton, The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (The Journals of Thomas Merton ed. Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O.; New York: HarperOne, 1998). Vol. 7

1962

Look Magazine Online

Beatles Ultimate Experience: The Beatles Interviews Database

1951 Sept: Gary Snyder reads Suzuki’s Essays on Zen Buddhism: First Series as he waits beside the road in the Nevada Desert while hitchhiking his way to graduate school in Indiana (Larson, Heart Beats, 1) 

The above comes from A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered (ed. Masao Abe; photos, Francis Haar; New York, Tokyo: John Weatherhill, 1986), 207-209.  Excerpts reprinted in Cloud-Hidden Friends Letter 5 (1983): 17-18. 

A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered

1953-1956 Kerouac’s Buddhist journal (11 notebooks)

1953 Dec: San Jose Library, Jack Kerouac opened Asvaghosha Bodhisattva, Life of Buddha (ET; Samuel Beal) Sacred Books of the East 10:1 251 book entitled The Life of Buddha (1917) to the title page. (Larson Heart Beats 7)

O worldly man! How fatally deluded!  Beholding everywhere the body brought to dust, yet everywhere the more carelessly living; the heart is neither lifeless wood nor stone, and yet it thinks not ‘Al is Vanishing.’” (Kerouac, quoted Larson, Heart, 7)

1953 New Year's Eve: Kerouac reads A Buddhist Bible (ed. Dwight Goddard)

1956 on the day Dharma Bums is published Kerouac along with Allen Ginsburg and Peter Orlovsky visit D. T. Suzuki at his West 94^th street apartment (Larson, Heart, 8).

April 20: Pahnke’s Good-Friday Experiment at Marsh Chapel. 

Howard Thurman's Sermon, which was heard by those participating downstairs in the Robinson Chapel.

Huston Smith's recollections as a participant.

Rick Doblin “Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment’: A Long-Term Follow-up and Methodological Critique,” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 23.1 (1991): 1-28.

1964

Fall: Owsley buys copy of The Kybalion: The Hermetic Philosophy in Berkeley’s Shambhala Bookstore.

Jan 14 1964 Norman Rockwell's The Problem We Live With in Look Magazine p 22-23, with page 21 serving as a cover page that says The Problem We all Live With and then below that "Painted for LOOK by Norman Rockwell"

1965

April 8:  Dentist John Riley slips LSD into George and Patty Harrison and John and Cynthia Lennon’s Coffee. (Turner 2006, 113-14) and here 

May: By this time Owsley had synthesized his first batch of LSD while living at 2205 Lafler Rd, near Cal State University in L.A.

June: Underground R. Crumb took LSD for the first time.

Sept 17:  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrives in America aboard the ship M. V. Jaladuta, disembarking on this day on the Commonwealth Peer in Boston, Massachusetts.  See the Jaladuta Diary and here.

1966

Maureen Cleaves March 1966 Evening Standard Interviews with John (March 4, p. 10), Ringo (March 11, p. 10), George (March 18, p. 8), and Paul (March 25, p. 8).

March 4, more on John Lennon saying the Beatles more popular than Jesus  in March 4 interview. along with good quality photo.

April 8, 1966: "Is God Dead?" Time (April 8, 1966): 82-87.

Larry Rivers' cover made for the magazine but rejected by Time.

June 13-18: LSD conference sponsored by UC Berkeley and held at the Haight & Laguna Extension Campus in downtown San Francisco.  The complete original brochure is here.  LSD conference held at Haight & Laguna Extension Campus in downtown San Francisco. The original brochure for the conference reads: “Lifelong Learning University of California Extension / Berkeley.” That the conference was transferred from Berkeley to the University Extension center downtown San Francisco is noted in Timothy Leary, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (Berkeley, CA: Ronin, 1965-1999), 113. The referenced to its being located at the Haight & Laguna Campus of the University of California Extension Division is seen on the stamp on the brochure (below) and is referenced in the June 11, 1966, Journal of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (October 18, 1896 – January 15, 1971) 

August: William Hamilton, "The Death of God," Playboy Magazine, (Aug 1966): 79, 84, 137-139

September links related to Datebook article (1) 

September:  “Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary,” Playboy Magazine (Sept 1966), 93, 95-96, 100, 102, 104,110, 112, 250-251, 254-256). <These numbers are correct.  See Here (missing p. 106).  Full interview (unpaginated) (Full issue here) 

Late 1966: Paul MacCartney becomes the last Beatle to take LSD. After the release of Revolver. (Turner 2006, 125).

1967

Jan 14: Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park.

“When Jerry Ruben jumped on the Stage and tried to run a political scam, no one listened.” (Timothy Leary, “Introduction (1998),” The Politics of Ecstasy [Berkeley, CA: Ronin, 1998], 9). 

Jan: On a whim R. Crumb moves from Cleveland to San Francisco. (“Interview: R. Crumb: The Art of Comics No. 1,” The Paris Review 193 [Summer 2010]: 44).

“On the Run with Robert Crumb,” Tony Baldwin’s ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) 

Interview with R. Crumb (Saturday August 5, 2006).

"LSD was central to the whole thing. And people try and play that down now, they get uncomfortable when you start talking about the fact that LSD was one of the main things that turned left wing serious political anti-war movement into something religious and visionary. after that it was no longer just political and, and, you know, folk music, and, and help the Negroes, and fight the war and all that. It was, it became religious, it became uh mystical. You know. Saving the earth, the preciousness of nature, and living close to nature, living spontaneously, you know. It became much more radical and extreme in its purest (purist?) form, you know, because of LSD. LSD was the road to Damascus for the hippies. It just knocked you down and put a blinding bright light in your face, you know, showing you something much deeper and vaster than merely rebelling against the political system. You know, rebelling against, or deeply questioning the whole validity of, of industrial civilization as per se." (17:13-18:25) 

"Since it was mostly children of the middle class, it was immediately something for them to be smug about. “Oh, I’ve seen the light and you haven’t,” you know, kind of attitude they went around with, which was became really insufferable. “I’m beautiful, I’m spiritual, I’ve, I’ve lost my ego, and you haven’t,” you know it’s like meeting some smug Christian who says, “I’m saved and you’re going to go to hell unless you too are saved,” you know it’s kind of attitude and it became like every social gathering became a[n] encounter group where everybody sat around trying to out cool each other. You know, it’s really annoying." (18:32-19:10)

Feb:  The Houseboat Summit, held on Alan Watts' houseboat, which was named the S.S. Vellajo.  Participants where Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, it was done for and published in the San Francisco Oracle # 7.  Allen Cohen was present representing the paper. ( Full text and here / original audio and here).   

April 16: Publication of Digger Chester Anderson’s four-page tract “Uncle Tim’$ Children” (and here) with its famous quote: “Rape is as common as bullshit on Haight Street.”

May 13: Release of San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair), by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, recorded by Scott McKenzie.

June 16-18:  Monterey Pop Festival

August 7: George and Patti Harrison visit Haight-Ashbury District

1968

May 17 The Selective Service Office in Catonville, Maryland, raided by nine individuals (the Cantonville nine) who took hundreds of draft documents and burned them.

1968

Noel Paul Stookey converted as a result of Bob Dylan recommending he read the Bible.

I Love You Alice B. Toklas! (Kiss My Butterfly) (1968).

1969

Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky

House of Elijah in Yakima, WA, opened in 1969 and closed in 1979.  They celebrated their 50^th/40^th Anniversary Reunion at Randy May’s in Yakima on June 21-23, 2019.

House of Elijah in Yakima, WA, opened in 1969 and closed in 1979.  They celebrated their 50^th/40^th Anniversary Reunion at Randy May’s in Yakima on June 21-23, 2019.

Aug 15-17 (Friday-Sunday), Woodstock Music and Art Fair, advertised on its famous poster as “An Aquarian Exposition in White Lake, NY” promising “Three Days of Peace and Music.”

Aug 15 Swami Satchidananda spoke at Woodstock.[3]

Dec 26 “Is God Coming Back to Life?” Time Magazine cover.

1970

Sept 18, Jimi Hendrix dies

Oct 4, Janis Joplin dies // On that day Tiny Tim and Melanie appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.  Melanie Safka sang, Peace will Come

Nov 27: Release of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass triple album.

 

1971

Ocean Put Your Hand In the Hand (Elvis and Joan Baez both did versions)

May 28, Life Magazine cover “Worldwide Success of ‘Jesus Christ Supertar,’ A Reverent Rock Opera”

June 21, 1971: "The New Rebel Cry: Jesus is Coming!" Time Magazine (June 21, 1971): 56-73. Cover “The Jesus Revolution”.  Curiously the title now given on the web is "The Alternative Jesus: Psychedelic Christ."

In the conversation Stookey had with Dylan about reading the Bible Dylan reference was made to his “next album, which was John Wesley Hardin (released December 1967).

1972

In the spring of 1972 I would go to Yakima and stay at the Rainbow House. 

Tim Cahill, “Acid Crawlback Fest: Armageddon Postponed,” Rolling Stone (Aug 3, 1972): cover, 6, 8, 10.

1978  The Big Fix with Richard Dreyfuss  

The Marriage of Bali Mardan Prabhu - YouTube  Fake Toyota Heiress