Feed Your Head

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Remember what the dormouse said,  “Feed your head!” 

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This meant with all kinds of ideas and thoughts and experiences. Yes, that included smoking marijuana and tripping. using mind altering drugs. But it also included reading and learning from people’s all over the planet.

Here are books that shaped the thought memes of that time.

Texts to download and read: The Sixties Reader   Beat Books

The Man who Turned on The World    Underground Comix

 

A book that opened my mind was:    How To Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce.  Paul Krassner editor. There was a picture of Lenny looking forlornly through jail bars. The caption said so much with just one letter change.

“Americans love non-conformity and often reward it with the metal of honor.”
“Americans love non-conformity and often reward it with the metal of honor.”

 

Grok this in fullness! Share water!    Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert Heinlein’s religious metaphor.

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge,

A Separate Reality,  Tales of Power, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan 

by Carlos Castaneda

People’s Chronology 

  Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

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  The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by The Dalai Lama

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

 Joy of Sex : A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking by Crown

Whole Earth Catalog by Peter Warshall, Stewart Brand (editors
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Bhagavad Gita

I.Ching

I seem To Be a Verb by Buckminster Fuller

 Howl by Alan Ginsbergginsberg

Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World , The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Man and His Symbols, Synchronicity by Carl Jung

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus by Henry Miller

1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell

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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive

For myself and many other of counter culture, This book was the only reason I could afford to keep transportation running.

I am forever in debt. Zen Dharma meditation beneath.

I learned so much beneath the Celestial Omnibus staring up and reading this book.

Periodicals of the times.

Independent Voices

 

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