ABOUT
Eric Millican and Bobby BEL
Founding Brothers
From the Book of Bobby:
The Founding Brothers of the *Brotherhood Of Eternal Love*.
J.C. Tunnel, Farmer John , Tommy Tunnel, Bill Erskine, Garry Cutbirth, Mike Beason . Jimmy Dale, John Daw, Roger Mayer, Eddy Padilla, Calvin Delaney, Elliot Miller, and Others.
Mike beason and Joe Buffalow told me JC dropped the first dose and told Farmer John it was God. *J.C. You GET IT* Jesus Christ *
J.C. and his girlfriend Diana were the unmentioned couple the got busted running the border in Orange Sunshine, the Book. J.C. is one of the founding Brothers that is Highly excluded in all these books. He was a Brother of No Other Caliber and a True and Real Brother. After he got busted ,Farmer John, Fasty Ron Crawford and the rest of the New formed BEL Dumped him, then split on him. without covering his back. -- I personally Gave Fatso Bobby $5000 to Give To George Chula for J.C.. to put on his Books in San Quentin, Where J.C. served 5 years.
J.C. never saw a dime. He said "I should have put it on his books"
Really. I was a Fugitive at the time, visiting him under a False ID. I was introduced to the Quicksilver girl, from Steve Millers song, By Elliot Miller. We went Cruzin on My 1970 Sportster to Quentin and visited J.C.. We brought him Weed,Hash and Acid.
J. C. Tunnel, John Griggs, Tommy Tunnel , Freddy Tunnel, Gary Cutbirth, Mike Beason, Mike Donahey, Eddie Padilla, Butch Clay, Jimmy Dale, Roger Mayer, Johnny Daw, were influences into the BEL in 1957 to 1962.
My Best Friends at that time were J.C. Tunnel, Tommy Tunnel, Bill Erskine, Fred Tunnel, Gary Cutbirth, Butch Clay, Mike Beason and Mike Donahey.
J.C. Tunnel, Freddy Tunnel, Mike Beason, Mike Donahey, Jimmy Dale Have Gone Over the Rainbow Bridge To the Sunshine of Eternal Love, as well as those listed below. --Bobby
We do not know the other folks much. Regretfully, We Never Shared Bread.
Each stage had an original core, and all members did not know or even like one another, especially the later groups and claimants.
Some Are A Band Of Thieves
I Still Dont Know Who's "In" The Brotherhood
Nor does anyone else.
The Founding Brothers of the *Brotherhood Of Eternal Love*.
J.C. Tunnel, Farmer John , Tommy Tunnel, Bill Erskine, Garry Cutbirth, Mike Beason . Jimmy Dale, John Daw, Roger Mayer, Eddy Padilla, Calvin Delaney, Elliot Miller, and Others.
Mike beason and Joe Buffalow told me JC dropped the first dose and told Farmer John it was God. *J.C. You GET IT* Jesus Christ *
J.C. and his girlfriend Diana were the unmentioned couple the got busted running the border in Orange Sunshine, the Book. J.C. is one of the founding Brothers that is Highly excluded in all these books. He was a Brother of No Other Caliber and a True and Real Brother. After he got busted ,Farmer John, Fasty Ron Crawford and the rest of the New formed BEL Dumped him, then split on him. without covering his back. -- I personally Gave Fatso Bobby $5000 to Give To George Chula for J.C.. to put on his Books in San Quentin, Where J.C. served 5 years.
J.C. never saw a dime. He said "I should have put it on his books"
Really. I was a Fugitive at the time, visiting him under a False ID. I was introduced to the Quicksilver girl, from Steve Millers song, By Elliot Miller. We went Cruzin on My 1970 Sportster to Quentin and visited J.C.. We brought him Weed,Hash and Acid.
J. C. Tunnel, John Griggs, Tommy Tunnel , Freddy Tunnel, Gary Cutbirth, Mike Beason, Mike Donahey, Eddie Padilla, Butch Clay, Jimmy Dale, Roger Mayer, Johnny Daw, were influences into the BEL in 1957 to 1962.
My Best Friends at that time were J.C. Tunnel, Tommy Tunnel, Bill Erskine, Fred Tunnel, Gary Cutbirth, Butch Clay, Mike Beason and Mike Donahey.
J.C. Tunnel, Freddy Tunnel, Mike Beason, Mike Donahey, Jimmy Dale Have Gone Over the Rainbow Bridge To the Sunshine of Eternal Love, as well as those listed below. --Bobby
We do not know the other folks much. Regretfully, We Never Shared Bread.
Each stage had an original core, and all members did not know or even like one another, especially the later groups and claimants.
Some Are A Band Of Thieves
I Still Dont Know Who's "In" The Brotherhood
Nor does anyone else.
from Nick Schou's book, Orange Sunshine
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an informal spiritual organization of psychedelic drug enthusiasts and dealers that operated in the 1960s. The group was founded in Orange County, California by John Griggs and friends. Griggs, also known as "The Farmer", was the spiritual leader of the group until his death in the summer of 1969. He was inducted into The High Times Counterculture Hall of Fame in 2011.
The Original Bros were vegetarians. Many of them continued to practice their own version of Christianity while opening research into Paramahansa Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship, Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, and other indigenous or Eastern religions. After moving to Laguna Beach when the Modjeska Canyon Church burnt down, the group was headquartered at the Mystic Arts World stoer on [[California State Route 1|Pacific Coast Highway and the Aquarian Temple BEL 1754 Waller St. in San Francisco.
At that time, Laguna Beach was a common stopping point for those traveling south from Haight Ashbury (in San Francisco) to Mexico. Timothy Leary, the excommunicated Harvard psychology lecturer and devotee of free love (and noted for the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"), became the 'godfather' of the group.
Drug sales For several years, their psychedelic activities were underwritten by selling high-quality marijuana. As business expanded, they decided to see if they could build a national distribution network. Farmer John and Chuck Scott bought a new station wagon, loaded it up with kilo bricks of marijuana and drove from Laguna Beach to the Holland Tunnel. They took almost six weeks to move the load because New York's hippie market for marijuana at the time of their arrival was small and informal.
At the same time Eddy "Roho', Chuck Mundal and George Dumas brought 500 lbs of Mexican Pot to the Aquarian Temple BEl in a Pink Cadillac that was the biggest load to hit the city ever. We sold out in 4 Days.
Buddy "The Joker"Morgan from Western HI Buena Park Crowd, Brought the Lebanese Hash To Dodge from Brothers Eric and Wes of the Aquarian Temple BEL. The Hash was sent From Israel from Wes and Eric's Friend.
The Joker went to morocco and did a Hash Scam stored in Camel bags. It was Crap a rip. I showed him the Lebanese Wes and Eric had.
The Laguna Branch of the Brotherhood sent researchers around the world to look into purchasing opportunities. Red Lebanese and black Afghan hashish were favored because of their strength, perfumes, and popularity among buyers in the USA. Other varieties of hashish were also purchased and imported in volume. At a certain point, the cash flow was more than sufficient for them to set up their own laboratory in which to manufacture LSD. It was pure, and much of it was actually made by Nick Sand.
The Brotherhood operated originally as a psychedelics distribution network throughout the United States, most notably in California where the organization received large shipments of hashish from Pakistan and Afghanistan Among the best hashish that was imported was the black Afghani Primo. With funds from their hashish smuggling, the organization produced and distributed large amounts of the legendary "Orange Sunshine" LSD. The organization was headquartered on a ranch in Garner Valley, near Idyllwild and Maui Hawaii, Members paid the Weather Underground to break Timothy Leary out of prison.[1]
In 1965 BEL Bro Robert Ackerly, a fugitive was the owner of the Euphoria Art Gallery in Pasadena with Buddy Morgan, Bob Thomas and Owsley who had His first LSD lab and tested it. They planed the love-ins there. Robert Ackerly became a fugitive at that time, hung out with J.C.in Anaheim while he was waiting to go to San Quention, then moved to the Haight Ashbury and formed the Aquarian Temple BEL. Buddy "The Joker' Morgan did 6 months in L.A. county Jail.
Other activities The organization may have been inspired by, but did not evolve from, Timothy Leary's League for Spiritual Discovery or the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Many of its members were interested in peace and in ending the Vietnam war. A 1972 Rolling Stone article dubbed them the "Hippie Mafia."
The Brotherhood also had a small vegetarian restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway, two blocks north of Mystic Arts, named "Love Animals, Don't eat them". This restaurant operated with volunteers, with much of the food donated. Menu items did not have a price and patrons left donations for the food ordered. [The LADET restaurant was not a BEL enterprise; it was owned and operated by members of the Rainbow Family, also centered in Laguna Beach during the late 1960s. Many members of this group had friends among the Brotherhood, but they were not engaged in large-scale drug distribution. - W.A. 1 Jan 2012]
Members of the Brotherhood felt that the Vietnam War was not only illegal but that President Richard Nixon was using drug laws to imprison political opponents.
Timothy Leary had this to say about the Brotherhood: "The whole concept of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love is like a bogeyman invented by the narcs. The brotherhood was about a group of individuals who took the LSD, and they practiced the religion of the worship of nature, and they'd go into the mountains. But they were not bigshots at all. None of them ever drove anything better than a VW bus. They were just kind of in it for the spiritual thrill."[2]
Legal prosecution On August 5, 1972, dozens of group members in California, Oregon and Maui were arrested.[3] Others scattered around the world. Robert Ackerly was arrested in Santa Cruz Informed on by Tim Leary's son in law Dennis Martino, Johanna Harcort Smith, Tims Daughter and Son.
Dennis Martino was Killed by the French Underground, According to a article in Playboy Magazine, after He set Tim up in Afghanistan and Robert Ackerly in Santa Cruz from the Town and Country Lodge in Ben Lomand.
Dennis told Robert in Afghanistan, when Robert said The Afghans would hide Tim, that "Tricky Ricky gave Me up to agent Burke" at that time. Tricky Ricky said he was going to go find me for them so they let him go, according to Dennis Martino in Afghanistan. I wondered how he knew about Tricky and Agent Burk.
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Later arrests In 1994, police arrested Russell Harrigan near Lake Tahoe, California. An Orange County judge dismissed the charges against Harrigan because of his exemplary lifestyle.[3]
In 1996, Orange Sunshine chemist Nicholas Sand was arrested in British Columbia, still making LSD, for which he spent several years in prison.[3]
On September 26, 2009, Brenice Lee Smith, a suspected member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love was arrested in California, after nearly four decades on the lam. The 64-year-old Smith was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport, after arriving from Nepal.[3] He was arrested on two, nearly 40-year-old warrants issued in Orange County, related to the sale and possession of drugs.[4] On November 20, Smith, after serving two months in jail, pleaded guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish. Released the next morning, he immediately got back on a plane, to live with his wife and daughter in Nepal.[5]
In popular culture The Brotherhood is the subject of the upcoming documentary film Orange Sunshine.
References
The Original Bros were vegetarians. Many of them continued to practice their own version of Christianity while opening research into Paramahansa Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship, Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, and other indigenous or Eastern religions. After moving to Laguna Beach when the Modjeska Canyon Church burnt down, the group was headquartered at the Mystic Arts World stoer on [[California State Route 1|Pacific Coast Highway and the Aquarian Temple BEL 1754 Waller St. in San Francisco.
At that time, Laguna Beach was a common stopping point for those traveling south from Haight Ashbury (in San Francisco) to Mexico. Timothy Leary, the excommunicated Harvard psychology lecturer and devotee of free love (and noted for the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out"), became the 'godfather' of the group.
Drug sales For several years, their psychedelic activities were underwritten by selling high-quality marijuana. As business expanded, they decided to see if they could build a national distribution network. Farmer John and Chuck Scott bought a new station wagon, loaded it up with kilo bricks of marijuana and drove from Laguna Beach to the Holland Tunnel. They took almost six weeks to move the load because New York's hippie market for marijuana at the time of their arrival was small and informal.
At the same time Eddy "Roho', Chuck Mundal and George Dumas brought 500 lbs of Mexican Pot to the Aquarian Temple BEl in a Pink Cadillac that was the biggest load to hit the city ever. We sold out in 4 Days.
Buddy "The Joker"Morgan from Western HI Buena Park Crowd, Brought the Lebanese Hash To Dodge from Brothers Eric and Wes of the Aquarian Temple BEL. The Hash was sent From Israel from Wes and Eric's Friend.
The Joker went to morocco and did a Hash Scam stored in Camel bags. It was Crap a rip. I showed him the Lebanese Wes and Eric had.
The Laguna Branch of the Brotherhood sent researchers around the world to look into purchasing opportunities. Red Lebanese and black Afghan hashish were favored because of their strength, perfumes, and popularity among buyers in the USA. Other varieties of hashish were also purchased and imported in volume. At a certain point, the cash flow was more than sufficient for them to set up their own laboratory in which to manufacture LSD. It was pure, and much of it was actually made by Nick Sand.
The Brotherhood operated originally as a psychedelics distribution network throughout the United States, most notably in California where the organization received large shipments of hashish from Pakistan and Afghanistan Among the best hashish that was imported was the black Afghani Primo. With funds from their hashish smuggling, the organization produced and distributed large amounts of the legendary "Orange Sunshine" LSD. The organization was headquartered on a ranch in Garner Valley, near Idyllwild and Maui Hawaii, Members paid the Weather Underground to break Timothy Leary out of prison.[1]
In 1965 BEL Bro Robert Ackerly, a fugitive was the owner of the Euphoria Art Gallery in Pasadena with Buddy Morgan, Bob Thomas and Owsley who had His first LSD lab and tested it. They planed the love-ins there. Robert Ackerly became a fugitive at that time, hung out with J.C.in Anaheim while he was waiting to go to San Quention, then moved to the Haight Ashbury and formed the Aquarian Temple BEL. Buddy "The Joker' Morgan did 6 months in L.A. county Jail.
Other activities The organization may have been inspired by, but did not evolve from, Timothy Leary's League for Spiritual Discovery or the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Many of its members were interested in peace and in ending the Vietnam war. A 1972 Rolling Stone article dubbed them the "Hippie Mafia."
The Brotherhood also had a small vegetarian restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway, two blocks north of Mystic Arts, named "Love Animals, Don't eat them". This restaurant operated with volunteers, with much of the food donated. Menu items did not have a price and patrons left donations for the food ordered. [The LADET restaurant was not a BEL enterprise; it was owned and operated by members of the Rainbow Family, also centered in Laguna Beach during the late 1960s. Many members of this group had friends among the Brotherhood, but they were not engaged in large-scale drug distribution. - W.A. 1 Jan 2012]
Members of the Brotherhood felt that the Vietnam War was not only illegal but that President Richard Nixon was using drug laws to imprison political opponents.
Timothy Leary had this to say about the Brotherhood: "The whole concept of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love is like a bogeyman invented by the narcs. The brotherhood was about a group of individuals who took the LSD, and they practiced the religion of the worship of nature, and they'd go into the mountains. But they were not bigshots at all. None of them ever drove anything better than a VW bus. They were just kind of in it for the spiritual thrill."[2]
Legal prosecution On August 5, 1972, dozens of group members in California, Oregon and Maui were arrested.[3] Others scattered around the world. Robert Ackerly was arrested in Santa Cruz Informed on by Tim Leary's son in law Dennis Martino, Johanna Harcort Smith, Tims Daughter and Son.
Dennis Martino was Killed by the French Underground, According to a article in Playboy Magazine, after He set Tim up in Afghanistan and Robert Ackerly in Santa Cruz from the Town and Country Lodge in Ben Lomand.
Dennis told Robert in Afghanistan, when Robert said The Afghans would hide Tim, that "Tricky Ricky gave Me up to agent Burke" at that time. Tricky Ricky said he was going to go find me for them so they let him go, according to Dennis Martino in Afghanistan. I wondered how he knew about Tricky and Agent Burk.
.
Later arrests In 1994, police arrested Russell Harrigan near Lake Tahoe, California. An Orange County judge dismissed the charges against Harrigan because of his exemplary lifestyle.[3]
In 1996, Orange Sunshine chemist Nicholas Sand was arrested in British Columbia, still making LSD, for which he spent several years in prison.[3]
On September 26, 2009, Brenice Lee Smith, a suspected member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love was arrested in California, after nearly four decades on the lam. The 64-year-old Smith was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport, after arriving from Nepal.[3] He was arrested on two, nearly 40-year-old warrants issued in Orange County, related to the sale and possession of drugs.[4] On November 20, Smith, after serving two months in jail, pleaded guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish. Released the next morning, he immediately got back on a plane, to live with his wife and daughter in Nepal.[5]
In popular culture The Brotherhood is the subject of the upcoming documentary film Orange Sunshine.
References
- ^ Jacobs, Ron, The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground, Verso Books, 1997
- ^ Timothy Leary
- ^ a b c d Schou, Nick (Nov 12, 2009). ""Hippie Mafia" Hash Smuggler Arrested". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ "Suspected LSD ring fugitive arrested in California". THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. September 30, 2009.
- ^ Schou, Nick (Dec 03, 2009). "Case Closed on "Hippie Mafia" Smugglers". Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, Nicholas Schou (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009), ISBN 9780312551834.
- The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture, Stewart Tendler and David May (1984), ISBN 1904879950.
- [1] Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
- [2] Orange Sunshine on Facebook
- [3] The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
- Orange Sunshine Documentary Film Official Site
- OC Weekly article about the Brotherhood
- Free Marijuana Church
- Operation Julie
"They were not a bike gang they were the Street Sweepers car club, John Gales' dad was a Harley dealer...this was started from the ones that wrote the first book and High Times pushed this story ..in the story they said Farmer died from PCP They weren't even there in the beginning. There was only one gun, J.C. gave it To Tommy T.. Tommy T. told Bobby BEL He had a Sawed Off Shotgun High and wore Stingy Brim hats Just Like the Untouchabels.
Times (Issue 2, 1972) and Rolling Stone started the whole hippie mafia thing in the first place. There were different factions of the brothers that didn't even know each other. There were hard feelings between them later. The core started out as jocks in school in '57....the Blue Jackets. The Blue Jackets wore those jock coats with the letter, you know, school colors. John had his for wrestling." --Freewheelin' Gary
As these corrections come up, we are adding them to the BEL History page. But once these stories go public, they turn into memes, not truths. Then people "want" to hear the story that way, right or wrong -- they THINK they know, and that is what gets repeated. The truth and the legend differ.
"I met a brother that supplied most of Chicago in '69. We became very close; he was dealing at a show. I had known him a while and got lots from him. The cops were coming after him he bumped me, handed me a big bag of acid said, "Keep walking don't look back; I'll catch up to you." He did....after that I was getting lots of 500 for $375. He took me under his wing. Later they popped him with 60,000 hits, beat him down. He bought his way out ,went back west, never seen him again. He was the one that turned me on to my first trip Orange Sunshine. A little later Aaron Russo in '68 had a club like the Whiskey in Chicago. It held about 500; it was called the Electric Theater. The Electric Circus from New York sued over the name. They changed it to the Kinetic Playground. It was the scene for 2 years, then the cops burned him out."
--Gary, BEL/ULC Minister,
Temple of Bloom
Times (Issue 2, 1972) and Rolling Stone started the whole hippie mafia thing in the first place. There were different factions of the brothers that didn't even know each other. There were hard feelings between them later. The core started out as jocks in school in '57....the Blue Jackets. The Blue Jackets wore those jock coats with the letter, you know, school colors. John had his for wrestling." --Freewheelin' Gary
As these corrections come up, we are adding them to the BEL History page. But once these stories go public, they turn into memes, not truths. Then people "want" to hear the story that way, right or wrong -- they THINK they know, and that is what gets repeated. The truth and the legend differ.
"I met a brother that supplied most of Chicago in '69. We became very close; he was dealing at a show. I had known him a while and got lots from him. The cops were coming after him he bumped me, handed me a big bag of acid said, "Keep walking don't look back; I'll catch up to you." He did....after that I was getting lots of 500 for $375. He took me under his wing. Later they popped him with 60,000 hits, beat him down. He bought his way out ,went back west, never seen him again. He was the one that turned me on to my first trip Orange Sunshine. A little later Aaron Russo in '68 had a club like the Whiskey in Chicago. It held about 500; it was called the Electric Theater. The Electric Circus from New York sued over the name. They changed it to the Kinetic Playground. It was the scene for 2 years, then the cops burned him out."
--Gary, BEL/ULC Minister,
Temple of Bloom
Ten days after California banned LSD in October 1966, Glen Lynd, his wife and a friend walked into the offices of a Los Angeles attorney on Sunset Boulevard and signed the papers incorporating the Brotherhood; Lynd was the only Brother who did not have a criminal record, so he was designated to organize the incorporation. According to the legal papers, the Brotherhood, tax exempt, was dedicated 'to bring to the world a greater awareness of God through the teachings of Jesus Christ, Rama-Krishnam Babaji, Paramahansa Yogananda, Mahatma Gandhi and all true prophets and apostles of God'. Was there a hint of Leary's influence in this list? Griggs had recently returned from a trip to the East, and the Brothers were largely 'unschooled'.
To achieve its ends, the Brotherhood intended to 'buy, manage and own and hold real and personal property necessary and proper for a place of public worship and carry on educational and charitable work'. Was there an echo of the League's tenets in article 4-D which read: 'We believe in the sacred right of each individual to commune with God in spirit and in truth as it is empirically revealed to him'? This was 'a recognition that the search for God is a private matter', written another way.
Lynd said years later: 'Well, it was John Griggs' main idea to incorporate because he had talked to Leary, and it was possible to incorporate to become tax-exempt as far as land goes and, if and when marijuana ever becomes legal, become tax-exempt on marijuana.' There were no fixed rules for joining; no name signing or ritual. But there was one basic rule among the Brothers—they believed in taking as much of the psychedelics as possible, the largest doses of LSD they could buy. The articles of association did not explain how the Brotherhood intended to buy its land or establish its place of worship. You cannot really tell a lawyer or the State of California that you intend to raise capital by breaking the law—by massive dealing in drugs.--Tendler & May.
6 Days Before LSD Was Illegal The Aquarian Temple BEL Wrote their By Laws that included all of Natures Abundance that God Grows here, We Went to Sacramento to see the Attorney General
Where We received a Document of Good standing with the State of California and Made Ronald Reagan a Official Minister in the Aquarian Temple BEL.[ Book Of Bobby]
To achieve its ends, the Brotherhood intended to 'buy, manage and own and hold real and personal property necessary and proper for a place of public worship and carry on educational and charitable work'. Was there an echo of the League's tenets in article 4-D which read: 'We believe in the sacred right of each individual to commune with God in spirit and in truth as it is empirically revealed to him'? This was 'a recognition that the search for God is a private matter', written another way.
Lynd said years later: 'Well, it was John Griggs' main idea to incorporate because he had talked to Leary, and it was possible to incorporate to become tax-exempt as far as land goes and, if and when marijuana ever becomes legal, become tax-exempt on marijuana.' There were no fixed rules for joining; no name signing or ritual. But there was one basic rule among the Brothers—they believed in taking as much of the psychedelics as possible, the largest doses of LSD they could buy. The articles of association did not explain how the Brotherhood intended to buy its land or establish its place of worship. You cannot really tell a lawyer or the State of California that you intend to raise capital by breaking the law—by massive dealing in drugs.--Tendler & May.
6 Days Before LSD Was Illegal The Aquarian Temple BEL Wrote their By Laws that included all of Natures Abundance that God Grows here, We Went to Sacramento to see the Attorney General
Where We received a Document of Good standing with the State of California and Made Ronald Reagan a Official Minister in the Aquarian Temple BEL.[ Book Of Bobby]
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Left: Glen Lynd, Oregon Coast, 1968
Right: Glen and Marilyn Lynd, circa 1968. Lynd had just returned from Afghanistan on one of the Brotherhood's earliest smuggling trips. He went on to play a cataclysmic role in the group after he and his wife moved up to the Idyllwild ranch with Leary. He testified, revealing the inside workings of the BEL. He spent his later years in Southern Oregon, passing in 2002.
Among those arrested was Glen Lynd. In jail, Lynd was upset at the way the Brotherhood seemed to be crashing down. He was still haunted by Griggs' death. After a lot of thought, Lynd decided he wanted to change his life.
In November, the Orange County Grand Jury sat again. Much of what the district attorney's office had offered so far was based on hearsay or evidence gathered together from police raids. Glen Lynd walked into court and changed all that. Here was the star witness who could talk about the Brotherhood from its innermost core. Lynd appeared twice, providing a 200-page testimony on life with the Brothers.
Lynd took his listeners from the early days in Anaheim to the Mystic Arts World Store, his hash run to Afghanistan, the purchase of the ranch, the dealings with Sand, the creation of Orange Sunshine, Griggs' death and on into the 1970s. Although Lynd spent much of his life in Oregon, he still travelled to Laguna occasionally and was trusted by both Andrist and Randall. At the ranch, Lynd had known Leary quite well and regaled the jury with stories of their conversations telling how Leary had helped to shape the Brotherhood.
Among those arrested was Glen Lynd. In jail, Lynd was upset at the way the Brotherhood seemed to be crashing down. He was still haunted by Griggs' death. After a lot of thought, Lynd decided he wanted to change his life.
In November, the Orange County Grand Jury sat again. Much of what the district attorney's office had offered so far was based on hearsay or evidence gathered together from police raids. Glen Lynd walked into court and changed all that. Here was the star witness who could talk about the Brotherhood from its innermost core. Lynd appeared twice, providing a 200-page testimony on life with the Brothers.
Lynd took his listeners from the early days in Anaheim to the Mystic Arts World Store, his hash run to Afghanistan, the purchase of the ranch, the dealings with Sand, the creation of Orange Sunshine, Griggs' death and on into the 1970s. Although Lynd spent much of his life in Oregon, he still travelled to Laguna occasionally and was trusted by both Andrist and Randall. At the ranch, Lynd had known Leary quite well and regaled the jury with stories of their conversations telling how Leary had helped to shape the Brotherhood.
