Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon : Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream

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Funny enough, she happened to cross paths at a young age with fellow future hippie, Jim Morrison—they both attended the same Naval kindergarten class before reuniting decades later in Laurel Canyon. There is also much made of certain dates which have occult significance like the fact that Tom Mix died on October 12, Alistair Crowley's Birthday. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn more about the foundation of rock and roll and the "hippie" movement of that era. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was Charles Manson and his infamous Family.

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The answers are uncomfortable, but I'm not surprised now to find military intelligence families behind the biggest stars in Hollywood, in music, and even the biggest names in politics. David McGowan: To the extent that it has a central thesis, I would say that it is that the music and counterculture scene that sprung to life in the 1960s was not the organic, grassroots resistance movement that it is generally perceived to be, but rather a movement that was essentially manufactured and steered. There was no shortage of macabre and disreputable people around including Vito and the Freaks, Charles Manson, "The Process" (an EST-like cult) and a whole host of Crowley-esque disciples.In his youth he spent a number of years knocking around the Phoenix area in various rock bands hoping for that big break. Who is going to read these piles of books sitting around my house if I have what is referred to as a. JOIN ME NOW, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly five decades ago — a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose some decidedly Orwellian ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation. I’ve known a lot of people throughout my life with a predilection for drugs and alcohol, none of whom were involved in any cults, government or otherwise. A true conspiracy-archivist to the end, McGowan chose to highlight this morbid synchronicity in one of his last messages to loyal supporters.

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It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could have then been cast as an unprovoked attack on U. I do think, over time, these guys did learn how to make music, but in the early days they needed a distraction, and lovely people who looked like they had dropped in from outer space, dancing like fiends, was a pretty good diversion. Then again, we are talking about California (where there are frequent wild fires and houses burn down all the time). He has a gift for identifying patterns between people, places and events that are largely overlooked, obfuscated, or written off by the mainstream narrative. Publication date 2014 Topics Counterculture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century, Rock musicians -- California -- Los Angeles -- History, Hippies -- California -- Los Angeles -- History, Laurel Canyon (Los Angeles, Calif.Why so many "activist" figures who toted handguns and had a history of traveling from one global hot-spot to another before suddenly picking up guitars and singing about peace and love? For the truth, you see, is that in many significant ways, Charles Manson was little more than a younger version of Vito Paulekas. I do understand that the CIA would see all of these people as expendable, but at same time, these were sons and daughters of the very people who protected and served us in the military. Actually, this has to do with the fact that the US Army drafted 10 million American men for World War II, and when these men formed families and had their first wave of kids, these kids were born in the 1940s, and hit adulthood in the late 1960s. Only the most slovenly, beer-gutted boomer crying demented tears of nostalgia over the memory of his first joint could possibly find pleasure in the likes of Frank Zappa, or Crosby, Stills and Nash.

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They started dressing oddly, growing their hair out, and became the blueprint for the flower children. And yes, a large number of these people died or were murdered in mysterious circumstances or the houses where these happenings took place burned down. And yet even today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility anywhere in the ‘conspiracy’ literature. The California music scene originated here, and it was primarily driven by kids of career military men.The CIA wanted the face of the anti-war movement to be dirty, drugged out hippies, not professors and clean cut kids whom the American public might actually take seriously. The focus on drug use in the book is to illustrate the point that none of the scene’s movers and shakers ever suffered any legal consequences for their rampant and very open use of, and sometimes trafficking of, illicit drugs. All of that was eclipsed by and subsumed by the hippies and flower children, who put a face on those movements that was offensive to mainstream America and easy to demonize. Other then that it's a decent account of the 60s counterculture and nefarious characters who inhabited it.