Brotherhood of Eternal Love
Brother Mike from the East suggests all readers check out the current cover story in the OC Weekly called Lords of Acid. It's the tale of Laguna Beach in the late '60s when seekers gathered at Mystic Arts bookstore (across the street from Taco Bell) to meditate and/or sample potent "Orange Sunshine" LSD which got brewed up in the canyon. It was all fun and games until lead guru Timothy Leary got popped for grass by some overzealous cops and the heads turned to harder drugs. The community's quest to "purchase an island where Leary and the rest of the Brotherhood could establish a utopian society founded on Leary's religious teachings" reads straight out of Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1909 novel, Comrades, except for the acid part, anyway.
Comments
Hey Dude I was also a brother in Laguna
I remember well
very well
Posted by: Richard Lewis | September 28, 2006 10:36 PM
I was an orange county brother back then and i remember it well.It was a time eddy.I believe it will be coming around again.It was all too much to take in the first go around.
Posted by: mike beckstead | March 4, 2008 04:47 AM
I was there. Me, Eddie Coleman, Crazy Gordon, Jimmy Rammos, Cleo St. Beach, running from Babcock and Purcell. The Brothers will never die!
Posted by: mario St DeHaven | January 27, 2009 06:46 AM
I used to run from babcock and purcell too. neil purcell put me away for quite a while. I remember everything and just about everybody that lived on woodland drive and the canyon. I used to go to sri lanka a lot. Get in touch with me somebody, I'm 63 years old but still alive.
Posted by: Mario St DeHaven "black james" | February 18, 2009 11:27 PM