BEL Memorial Garden
The Rainbow Bridge
"If you read the books of history, you will find men who sought the strange and incredible, who ensnared themselves and who were held captive by others in wolves lairs; men who sought the highest and the lowest, and who were wiped by fate, incomplete, from the tablets of the living. Few of the living know of them, and these few appreciate nothing about them, but shake their heads at such delusion.
"While you mock them, one of them stands behind you, panting from rage and despair at the fact that your stupor does not attend to him. He besieges you in sleepless nights, sometimes he takes hold of you in an illness, sometimes he crosses your intentions. He makes you overbearing and greedy, he pricks your longing for everything, which avails you nothing, he devours your success in discord. He accompanies you as your evil spirit, to whom you can grant no release.
"Have you heard of those dark ones who roamed incognito alongside those who ruled the day, conspiratorially causing unrest? Who devised cunning things and did not shrink from any crime to honor their God?"
--Carl Jung, The Red Book
"While you mock them, one of them stands behind you, panting from rage and despair at the fact that your stupor does not attend to him. He besieges you in sleepless nights, sometimes he takes hold of you in an illness, sometimes he crosses your intentions. He makes you overbearing and greedy, he pricks your longing for everything, which avails you nothing, he devours your success in discord. He accompanies you as your evil spirit, to whom you can grant no release.
"Have you heard of those dark ones who roamed incognito alongside those who ruled the day, conspiratorially causing unrest? Who devised cunning things and did not shrink from any crime to honor their God?"
--Carl Jung, The Red Book
"I am a “criminal.” I am a fugitive. I have been for 40 years. But I have been true to myself and my friends. It has been hard. But I have a vision. Someday, somewhere, I will establish the University for Psychedelic Studies. There will be a department of psychedelic botany and chemistry. There will be a beautiful park and temple with lawns and ponds, peacocks, swans, and wildlife walking fearlessly. There will be pavilions for initiation. There will be a department of entheogenic worship. There will be a school of psychedelic medicine and curing. There will be acres of psychedelic herb gardens. There will be places to dance and places to meditate. There will be a school of yoga, tantra, and a “Mystery” school. A school for breathing, for art, music, for meditation, for ecological and planetary studies as well as applications. A school for love and one for beauty. There will be no government inspectors or police. They will not be necessary. There will be guides, friends, helpers, and lovers. On the new level of consciousness struggling to be born now, this will be how it is, for the old way of competition, murder, and exploitation is fast becoming an impossible situation. This planet must be lovingly cared for or we are all doomed. We are the guardians of life and planetary harmony. This is where we are going. That is what I have seen in my visions, and that is what I have been working for all of my life. That is what I will continue to do until my last breath.
Care to dance?" - Nick Sand
The resounding success of the 2017 MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference last weekend, which with its 2,800 attendees from over 40 countries was the largest psychedelic conference in history (and a sure sign of the continuing main-streaming of psychedelic culture), was tempered by the sobering news that Nicholas Sand – arguably the greatest underground chemist in history, and a genuine hero to many of us in the psychedelic movement – had left this world and moved on into the light at the age of 75. ‘The Buddha from Brooklyn’, Nick’s accomplishments are many and legendary; most famously as the first recognized underground chemist to synthesize both DMT and LSD, as Timothy Leary’s alchemist for the League of Spiritual Discovery at Millbrook, as the co-inventor (with Tim Skully) of the Orange Sunshine LSD that has been estimated to amount to 75% of the LSD ever made, and as the man who figured out how to smoke DMT. Milestones in Psychedelic History, ironically these accomplishments would have remained mostly unknown had Nick not been captured in Canada in 1996 (along with the most sophisticated psychedelic laboratory ever discovered). After having led the underground life of a fugitive for more than 25 years, Nick was returned to the USA to complete his sentence for an arrest in 1971 (when he was caught with a mobile lab in the back of an 18 wheeler) for which he had skipped both bail and the USA.
As unjust a crime as the time Nick spent in prison was, it was in many ways a curious boon for the psychedelic community-at-large, for the articles he wrote on DMT while in prison (under the nom-de-plume ∞ Ayes were instant classics, and after Nick’s release in 2000, he appeared at MAPS conferences, and memorably at Entheon Village in Burning Man, where he was always gracious with his time and energy to the numerous younger psychonauts who wanted to shake his hand and thank him for what he had done. There has never been anyone I have more enjoyed talking about psychedelics with than Nick (other than perhaps my one memorable lunch with Alexander Shulgin before his stroke) and I have incorporated many of the things that Nick has told me into my own talks, so when the Ozora Festival in Hungary last year asked me for suggestions for their excellent Speaker Series, Nick Sand was my first choice. At first the organizers didn’t really get it, but to my delight they ended up bringing Nick and his incredible wife Usha to Ozora for the week where he was a huge hit, and I got to spend several days picking his brains as much as I dared, something of a personal dream come true. During this time I got the impression that despite the well-deserved recognition he was receiving, Nick probably would have far preferred to remain underground in his spotless laboratory, for while he was free, his hands were shackled from making the sacred compounds that he made so well in his personal attempt to liberate the world. For although for much of his life Nick Sand was an outlaw, he was never a criminal; the LSD and other compounds he created were in truth a holy crusade in which he believed he could help to change the world. And while many men and women in history have wanted to change the world, in my opinion, few were ever as successful.
Nick died on April 24th, 2017, the day after he had addressed the MAPS conference in Oakland after the showing of ‘The Sunshine Makers’, a movie about him and Tim Skully made by Cosmos Fielding, the son of Lady Amanda Fielding of The Beckley Foundation. Addressing the adoring crowd after a standing ovation, with many of his countless friends in attendance, Nick’s final words to the audience were both a question and a challenge – “Who are you, who are we, what are we doing here? Are we here to make war, or are we here to make Love?” – and then he went home after what was perhaps his finest moment and died peacefully in his sleep that night as the conference was dispersing. A death fitting of a Tibetan Rinpoche, it was classic Nick Sand to the end.
Personally, I am still a little in shock – Nick was one of my greatest heroes, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have ever met the man, let alone to call him a friend. My first reaction after I returned from the MAPS conference was to tell Reality Sandwich that I would like to write something about Nick, but my friend Casey William Hardison – who knew Nick much better, far longer, and was imprisoned for LSD manufacture himself – beat me to it with the following memorial that says all that I might have said and probably more, so I am encouraging Reality Sandwich to run that tribute instead. Farewell Nick, thank you for all that you did, I hope to see you one day again in the Love and the Light.
– James Oroc for Reality Sandwich, April 27th, 2017
RIP, Brother NICK SAND, Alchemist, has crossed the Rainbow Bridge
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/
Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, dies at 75 - April 26, 2017
|By Casey HardisonThe undaunted spirit and psychedelic warrior of love and light, Nick Sand, the outlaw chemist, died in his sleep on Monday April 24th at the age of 75.
Most famous for the Orange Sunshine brand of LSD distributed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Nick Sand was responsible for the manufacture of over 250 million doses of acid. He was also the first chemist on record to have synthesized DMT for widespread recreational use by psychedelic enthusiasts. Nick serendipitously discovered and promoted the fact that the chemical is effectively active when smoked or vaporized. For those that knew him, it was apparent that he was shameless in his alchemical pursuits. He had no regrets: through LSD, DMT, other psychedelics and spiritual practices, he had freed his mind.
Nick’s chemical career began shortly after his first mescaline experience in 1961. As lifelong enthusiast of the psychedelic path, he once remarked that he was, “doing this from my heart out of faith that this was the right thing to do. Everywhere I went I gave it away and I saw what it did to people and I said, ‘This is good.’” As a former incarcerated acid chemist, I understand where he’s coming from. I, too, share the ideals, the passion, and the shamelessness.
Taught the secrets of high-purity LSD manufacture by “Bear” Owsley and Tim Scully, Nick believed:
“When LSD is made in high purity, a certain magic obtains for the person who journeys with preparation and intention. Purity of intention and purity of product go hand-in-hand to produce a transcendent trip. There are no guarantees which corridors will open for you, but the odds are better with intelligent choices. For chemists, also, the mere intention toward purity is transformative: a path unto itself. This is alchemy.”
Rhoney Stanley, the former wife and LSD lab-mate of Bear, said Tuesday that “[Nick] was always optimistic, always thought the best would happen and he had a huge passion, a sexual passion, a love passion, a spiritual passion, and a psychedelic passion. He’s the first one who started talking about us as if we were psychedelic commandos and warriors.”
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/
Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, dies at 75 - April 26, 2017
|By Casey HardisonThe undaunted spirit and psychedelic warrior of love and light, Nick Sand, the outlaw chemist, died in his sleep on Monday April 24th at the age of 75.
Most famous for the Orange Sunshine brand of LSD distributed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Nick Sand was responsible for the manufacture of over 250 million doses of acid. He was also the first chemist on record to have synthesized DMT for widespread recreational use by psychedelic enthusiasts. Nick serendipitously discovered and promoted the fact that the chemical is effectively active when smoked or vaporized. For those that knew him, it was apparent that he was shameless in his alchemical pursuits. He had no regrets: through LSD, DMT, other psychedelics and spiritual practices, he had freed his mind.
Nick’s chemical career began shortly after his first mescaline experience in 1961. As lifelong enthusiast of the psychedelic path, he once remarked that he was, “doing this from my heart out of faith that this was the right thing to do. Everywhere I went I gave it away and I saw what it did to people and I said, ‘This is good.’” As a former incarcerated acid chemist, I understand where he’s coming from. I, too, share the ideals, the passion, and the shamelessness.
Taught the secrets of high-purity LSD manufacture by “Bear” Owsley and Tim Scully, Nick believed:
“When LSD is made in high purity, a certain magic obtains for the person who journeys with preparation and intention. Purity of intention and purity of product go hand-in-hand to produce a transcendent trip. There are no guarantees which corridors will open for you, but the odds are better with intelligent choices. For chemists, also, the mere intention toward purity is transformative: a path unto itself. This is alchemy.”
Rhoney Stanley, the former wife and LSD lab-mate of Bear, said Tuesday that “[Nick] was always optimistic, always thought the best would happen and he had a huge passion, a sexual passion, a love passion, a spiritual passion, and a psychedelic passion. He’s the first one who started talking about us as if we were psychedelic commandos and warriors.”
RIP, Brother NICK SAND, Alchemist, has crossed the Rainbow Bridge
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/
Tim Scully explained that they were doing it because they thought that “acid could save the world. Almost everybody who got turned on became deeply skeptical of the authorities and the politicians.”
The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, “Nick didn’t care about the stupid politics shit, he’d just laugh at it.”
Jon Hanna said Nick “became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedience.”
The reality of living life as an outlaw, however, came face-to-face with that principled stand. As a result, Nick and many of his lab mates would serve time in penitentiaries as penance for their services to humanity.
This led to quite possibly the funniest and yet most endearing aspect of the shameless proselytizing nature of Nick Sand: He found a way to smuggle in and dose many prisoners at McNeil Island Penitentiary with psychedelics during his stay there. “We got the whole prison stoned, this is what freedom is really about. It’s not about not being in chains, it’s about not having your mind enslaved,” Nick declared.
On appeal from that original sentence, in 1977, Nick went on the run for two decades, continuing to manifest as many doses of LSD and other psychedelics as humanly possible. As a businessman, a former associate and co-conspirator said, “Nick was aware, alert and considerate. He wanted to make sure everyone was taken care of, every mouth that mattered was fed. He cared about consciousness, purity, evolution of the spirit. He made sure that we made it to that same place together.”
Rearrested in British Columbia in 1996, Nick served time in prison through late 2000, first in Canada, and then in the United States in fulfillment of the original 22-year-old sentence that he had evaded.
At the 2001 Mind States Conference in Berkeley, California–a few months
after his release from prison–Nick explained:
“When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the many directives created by our personal history.
Many of these directives are contradictory. The coexistence of these contradictory programs is what we call inner conflict. This conflict causes us to constantly check ourselves while we are caught in the opposition of polarity. Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our consciousness in this modern world, we have problems finding deep integration.
To complicate matters, the programs are reinforced by fear. Fear separates, love integrates. We find ourselves drawn to love and unity, but afraid to make the leap.
What I found to be the genius of LSD is that it really gets you high, higher than the programs, higher than the walls that mask and blind one to the energy destroying presence of many contradictory but hidden programs. When LSD is used intentionally it enables you to see all the tracks laid down, to explore each one intensely. It also allows you to see the many parallel and redundant programs as well as the contradictory ones.
It allows you to see the underlying unity of all opposites in the magic play of existence. This allows you to edit these programs and recreate superior programs that give you the insight to shake loose the restrictions and conflicts programmed into each one of us by our parents, our religion, our early education, and by society as a whole.”
That is about as neat and concise an encapsulation of the purposive use of LSD as I have ever come across.
This Easter at Shulgin Farm, Nick approached looking frail and a bit unsteady in his gait, but grinning ear to ear, he leaned on me and quipped, “Hi Casey, I’m not dead yet!”
I thought it funny at the time, but I had a weird premonition. I followed him into the house and was lucky to be part of this final conversation with Ann Shulgin, the underground psychotherapist pioneer and wife of famed and prolific, lawful psychedelic chemist, Sasha Shulgin. Over a bowl of organic blueberries yesterday, Ann said, “Nick was a dear friend and we are all going to miss him terribly.”
This last Saturday, at the Psychedelic Science 2017 conference put on by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies and The Beckley Foundation in Oakland, California, Nick showed up for the screening of the new movie by Cosmo Feilding Mellen, The Sunshine Makers, about him, Tim Scully, Bear Owsley, and their manufacture of LSD. Nick’s closing remarks to the audience, his last public words, posited that LSD helps to answer our questions:“Who are you, who are we, what are we doing here, are we here to make war or are we here to make love?”
Nick received a standing ovation, many hugs and kind words. Mike Randall, a former LSD prisoner and leader of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love relayed that Nick said he’d never had a day like that.
I believe it was a kind of completion for him--he could see his work had produced spectacular results and psychedelics had become mainstream. High on the crowd’s love, our love, having lived a proud, free and shameless life, he had a good death. May the four winds blow him safely home.
Casey Hardison - As a former underground psychedelic chemist, Casey was arrested in 2004 for producing LSD, DMT, and 2C-B. Casey argued for Cognitive Liberty, the right to alter his mental functioning as he saw fit. After serving 9.27 years of a 20 year sentence, Casey was released in 2013.
Nick with Ann Shilgin, Easter 2017
https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/
Tim Scully explained that they were doing it because they thought that “acid could save the world. Almost everybody who got turned on became deeply skeptical of the authorities and the politicians.”
The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, “Nick didn’t care about the stupid politics shit, he’d just laugh at it.”
Jon Hanna said Nick “became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedience.”
The reality of living life as an outlaw, however, came face-to-face with that principled stand. As a result, Nick and many of his lab mates would serve time in penitentiaries as penance for their services to humanity.
This led to quite possibly the funniest and yet most endearing aspect of the shameless proselytizing nature of Nick Sand: He found a way to smuggle in and dose many prisoners at McNeil Island Penitentiary with psychedelics during his stay there. “We got the whole prison stoned, this is what freedom is really about. It’s not about not being in chains, it’s about not having your mind enslaved,” Nick declared.
On appeal from that original sentence, in 1977, Nick went on the run for two decades, continuing to manifest as many doses of LSD and other psychedelics as humanly possible. As a businessman, a former associate and co-conspirator said, “Nick was aware, alert and considerate. He wanted to make sure everyone was taken care of, every mouth that mattered was fed. He cared about consciousness, purity, evolution of the spirit. He made sure that we made it to that same place together.”
Rearrested in British Columbia in 1996, Nick served time in prison through late 2000, first in Canada, and then in the United States in fulfillment of the original 22-year-old sentence that he had evaded.
At the 2001 Mind States Conference in Berkeley, California–a few months
after his release from prison–Nick explained:
“When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the many directives created by our personal history.
Many of these directives are contradictory. The coexistence of these contradictory programs is what we call inner conflict. This conflict causes us to constantly check ourselves while we are caught in the opposition of polarity. Another metaphor would be like a computer with many programs running simultaneously. The more programs that are running, the slower the computer functions. This is a problem then. With all the programs running that are demanded of our consciousness in this modern world, we have problems finding deep integration.
To complicate matters, the programs are reinforced by fear. Fear separates, love integrates. We find ourselves drawn to love and unity, but afraid to make the leap.
What I found to be the genius of LSD is that it really gets you high, higher than the programs, higher than the walls that mask and blind one to the energy destroying presence of many contradictory but hidden programs. When LSD is used intentionally it enables you to see all the tracks laid down, to explore each one intensely. It also allows you to see the many parallel and redundant programs as well as the contradictory ones.
It allows you to see the underlying unity of all opposites in the magic play of existence. This allows you to edit these programs and recreate superior programs that give you the insight to shake loose the restrictions and conflicts programmed into each one of us by our parents, our religion, our early education, and by society as a whole.”
That is about as neat and concise an encapsulation of the purposive use of LSD as I have ever come across.
This Easter at Shulgin Farm, Nick approached looking frail and a bit unsteady in his gait, but grinning ear to ear, he leaned on me and quipped, “Hi Casey, I’m not dead yet!”
I thought it funny at the time, but I had a weird premonition. I followed him into the house and was lucky to be part of this final conversation with Ann Shulgin, the underground psychotherapist pioneer and wife of famed and prolific, lawful psychedelic chemist, Sasha Shulgin. Over a bowl of organic blueberries yesterday, Ann said, “Nick was a dear friend and we are all going to miss him terribly.”
This last Saturday, at the Psychedelic Science 2017 conference put on by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies and The Beckley Foundation in Oakland, California, Nick showed up for the screening of the new movie by Cosmo Feilding Mellen, The Sunshine Makers, about him, Tim Scully, Bear Owsley, and their manufacture of LSD. Nick’s closing remarks to the audience, his last public words, posited that LSD helps to answer our questions:“Who are you, who are we, what are we doing here, are we here to make war or are we here to make love?”
Nick received a standing ovation, many hugs and kind words. Mike Randall, a former LSD prisoner and leader of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love relayed that Nick said he’d never had a day like that.
I believe it was a kind of completion for him--he could see his work had produced spectacular results and psychedelics had become mainstream. High on the crowd’s love, our love, having lived a proud, free and shameless life, he had a good death. May the four winds blow him safely home.
Casey Hardison - As a former underground psychedelic chemist, Casey was arrested in 2004 for producing LSD, DMT, and 2C-B. Casey argued for Cognitive Liberty, the right to alter his mental functioning as he saw fit. After serving 9.27 years of a 20 year sentence, Casey was released in 2013.
Nick with Ann Shilgin, Easter 2017
Alexander Theodore Shulgin
Memorial Service: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sasha-shulgin-memorial
June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014
Known to family and friends as “Sasha”, Alexander Theodore Shulgin was born on June 17, 1925 in Berkeley, California. His father, Theodore Stevens Shulgin (1893–1978) was a Russian immigrant who taught history and literature in Oakland. His mother, Henrietta D. Aten (1894–1960) was a poet born in Illinois who taught English to Berkeley junior high students. Sasha was a multi-instrumentalist (piano, violin, viola) from a young age, with a lifelong love of music. As a child, he obtained a Gilbert Chemical Laboratory Outfit, setting up his first lab in the basement of his parent’s home. In his senior year at University High School in Oakland, Sasha scored extremely well on a competitive exam and became one of only seven incoming freshmen from California who won an all-expenses-paid scholarship to Harvard University. However, with the United States’ involvement in World War II, Sasha left Harvard during his second year to enroll in the U.S. Navy. When his military duty was completed, he returned to the Bay Area, earned his BS in chemistry and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed post-doctoral work in the fields of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1948, Sasha married his first wife, Nina Gordon, and in December of 1949 their son Theodore Alexander Shulgin was born. Both predeceased Sasha: Nina in 1977 from a stroke, Ted in2011 from cancer.
After working as a research director for Bio-Rad Laboratories, Sasha joined Dow Chemical Company as a senior research chemist. While at Dow, Sasha developed the first biodegradable pesticide. Marketed under the brand name “Zectran”, the product ultimately became highly profitable for Dow, who consequently allowed Sasha complete freedom in his pursuit of the science of chemistry. Following his first experience with mescaline in 1960, Sasha found his calling: he would devote his research efforts to the field of psychedelic chemistry. Over the course of his lifetime, Sasha explored hundreds of psychedelic compounds, many of which he invented. He characterized their psychoactivity through careful scientific bioassays. In the process, he was able to tease out a wealth of information regarding the relationship between the chemistry of a novel molecule, and the changes that might result in its pharmacology and potency when slight alterations were made to the chemical’s structure, particularly at what Sasha termed “the magic 4-position”. His attention was drawn to the 4-position after he conceived of and synthesized the compound DOM, which he bioassayed on January 4, 1964 and discovered to be surprisingly potent: it was psychoactive at the 1 mg dose. Never before had a phenethylamine been found to produce any effects at such a low dose!
In 1966, Sasha left Dow and began working as an independent consulting chemist from a lab that he set up at his home. He served as an expert witness in court cases and occasionally conducted chemical analyses for law enforcement, while he continued to synthesize new compounds and to investigate their pharmacological effects. Over the years, he received several awards from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. To supplement his income as a private consulting chemist, Sasha at times gave lectures and taught courses in public health, forensic toxicology, chemistry, and the pharmacology of psychoactive drugs at UC Berkeley, UCSF, and other universities.
In 1971, he accepted a position as a pharmaceutical chemistry professor at San Jose State College. After he had already begun teaching classes, the Dean of the school informed him that he must get fingerprinted before they could process his first paycheck—a stipulation that surprised and irked Sasha. Forever a champion of civil liberties, Sasha told the Dean: “I consider the requirement of the Board of Trustees that an employee be fingerprinted prior to being paid an odious and unprincipled infringement upon one’s personal privacy, and one that cannot serve any useful function to the college. I certainly do not accede to it.” The Board wouldn’t budge on their fingerprinting requirement for paid employees. However, when Sasha offered to continue teaching the course without remuneration, thereby not actually being a paid employee, they agreed to his creative solution. Throughout his life, Sasha never let his unwillingness to compromise his principles interfere with his generous good nature.
Sasha gained worldwide fame as the “Stepfather” or “Godfather of Ecstasy”, following publication of a 1978 text that he co-authored with David E. Nichols, wherein they described the unique psychopharmacological effects of MDMA. Sasha developed a new synthesis for the drug, which had originally been made by Merck in 1912 but was never pharmacologically tested by them. In 1977, the year prior to publishing the description of MDMA’s effects, Sasha had introduced the psychologist Leo Zeff to the compound. Zeff, who became a pioneer of the underground psychedelic therapy movement, was so impressed with MDMA’s potential psychotherapeutic value that he postponed his planned retirement in order to introduce other therapists and clients to the substance. Many therapists found it to be an extremely useful medication. However, within a few years MDMA became widely popular amongst recreational drug users, resulting globally in governmental restrictions of the compound.
In the fall of 1978, Sasha met Ann Perry, a newly divorced psychedelic enthusiast who quickly became his most ardent supporter. They were married on July 4, 1981, and remained partners, lovers, fellow-explorers, and best friends for the rest of Sasha’s life.
Sasha was a prolific author, producing countless journal articles and book chapters. In 1988, he released his book Controlled Substances: Chemical & Legal Guide to Federal Drug Laws (second edition 1992). Together with Ann, Sasha co-authored the fictionalized autobiographical chemistry books, PIHKAL: A Chemical LoveStory (1991) and TIHKAL: The Continuation (1997). With Ann’s daughter, Wendy Perry, he co-authored The Simple Plant Isoquinolines (2002). In 2011, with co-authors Tania Manning and Paul Daley, Sasha released The Shulgin Index, Vol. 1: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds.Several of his lab notebooks have been digitally published by Erowid.org. Andhis forthcoming book, The Nature of Drugs, is currently being edited for publication.
Sasha was also a popular and prodigious lecturer, affording him the opportunity to travel the world andspeak at numerous events. Along with Ann, Sasha was a regular speaker at Botanical Preservation Corps seminars, Mind States conferences, MycoKosmos gatherings, and Burning Man playalogues. Sasha repeatedly expressed the importance of harm reduction through drug education, summed up in his four-word philosophy: “Be informed, then choose.”
Psychedelics and empathogens were Sasha’s most passionate interest, as he wholeheartedly believed that these drugs could be exceptionally valuable tools for self-discovery when properly used. “I am forever in their debt,” he said, “And I will forever be their champion.”
An embodiment of integrity, Sasha set a wonderful example through the life he lived, epitomizing many of humanity’s best qualities. He was intelligent, thoughtful, gentle, loving, compassionate, engaging, curious, considerate, joyous, humble, principled, insightful, hard-working, inspiring, selfless, kind, loyal, giving, friendly, creative, irreverent, entertaining, and wickedly funny. A lover of jokes and wordplay, Sasha’s ever-present sense of humor leaned toward the ribald, veered into the black, but always banked on the corny; he quick-wittedly served a plethora of puns on the [2C-B-]fly, guaranteeing pained groans from all.
Sasha died of cancer. Many of those who have dipped into the bounty of pharmacological gifts that Sasha created share a wide-eyed sense of appreciation that they’re unable to fully express. His presence will be missed—his life, long celebrated. He is survived by his loving widow, Laura Ann Shulgin, her children, Alice, Brian, Christopher, and Wendy, grandchildren, his dedicated caretakers, invaluable Team Shulgin members, and a vast network of dear friends and fans worldwide who comprise what the Shulgins call “the Tribe”. A memorial will be held in the BayArea at some point in the coming weeks; for details, please join the announcements e-mailing list at http://www.shulginresearch.org.
Memorial Service: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sasha-shulgin-memorial
June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014
Known to family and friends as “Sasha”, Alexander Theodore Shulgin was born on June 17, 1925 in Berkeley, California. His father, Theodore Stevens Shulgin (1893–1978) was a Russian immigrant who taught history and literature in Oakland. His mother, Henrietta D. Aten (1894–1960) was a poet born in Illinois who taught English to Berkeley junior high students. Sasha was a multi-instrumentalist (piano, violin, viola) from a young age, with a lifelong love of music. As a child, he obtained a Gilbert Chemical Laboratory Outfit, setting up his first lab in the basement of his parent’s home. In his senior year at University High School in Oakland, Sasha scored extremely well on a competitive exam and became one of only seven incoming freshmen from California who won an all-expenses-paid scholarship to Harvard University. However, with the United States’ involvement in World War II, Sasha left Harvard during his second year to enroll in the U.S. Navy. When his military duty was completed, he returned to the Bay Area, earned his BS in chemistry and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed post-doctoral work in the fields of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1948, Sasha married his first wife, Nina Gordon, and in December of 1949 their son Theodore Alexander Shulgin was born. Both predeceased Sasha: Nina in 1977 from a stroke, Ted in2011 from cancer.
After working as a research director for Bio-Rad Laboratories, Sasha joined Dow Chemical Company as a senior research chemist. While at Dow, Sasha developed the first biodegradable pesticide. Marketed under the brand name “Zectran”, the product ultimately became highly profitable for Dow, who consequently allowed Sasha complete freedom in his pursuit of the science of chemistry. Following his first experience with mescaline in 1960, Sasha found his calling: he would devote his research efforts to the field of psychedelic chemistry. Over the course of his lifetime, Sasha explored hundreds of psychedelic compounds, many of which he invented. He characterized their psychoactivity through careful scientific bioassays. In the process, he was able to tease out a wealth of information regarding the relationship between the chemistry of a novel molecule, and the changes that might result in its pharmacology and potency when slight alterations were made to the chemical’s structure, particularly at what Sasha termed “the magic 4-position”. His attention was drawn to the 4-position after he conceived of and synthesized the compound DOM, which he bioassayed on January 4, 1964 and discovered to be surprisingly potent: it was psychoactive at the 1 mg dose. Never before had a phenethylamine been found to produce any effects at such a low dose!
In 1966, Sasha left Dow and began working as an independent consulting chemist from a lab that he set up at his home. He served as an expert witness in court cases and occasionally conducted chemical analyses for law enforcement, while he continued to synthesize new compounds and to investigate their pharmacological effects. Over the years, he received several awards from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. To supplement his income as a private consulting chemist, Sasha at times gave lectures and taught courses in public health, forensic toxicology, chemistry, and the pharmacology of psychoactive drugs at UC Berkeley, UCSF, and other universities.
In 1971, he accepted a position as a pharmaceutical chemistry professor at San Jose State College. After he had already begun teaching classes, the Dean of the school informed him that he must get fingerprinted before they could process his first paycheck—a stipulation that surprised and irked Sasha. Forever a champion of civil liberties, Sasha told the Dean: “I consider the requirement of the Board of Trustees that an employee be fingerprinted prior to being paid an odious and unprincipled infringement upon one’s personal privacy, and one that cannot serve any useful function to the college. I certainly do not accede to it.” The Board wouldn’t budge on their fingerprinting requirement for paid employees. However, when Sasha offered to continue teaching the course without remuneration, thereby not actually being a paid employee, they agreed to his creative solution. Throughout his life, Sasha never let his unwillingness to compromise his principles interfere with his generous good nature.
Sasha gained worldwide fame as the “Stepfather” or “Godfather of Ecstasy”, following publication of a 1978 text that he co-authored with David E. Nichols, wherein they described the unique psychopharmacological effects of MDMA. Sasha developed a new synthesis for the drug, which had originally been made by Merck in 1912 but was never pharmacologically tested by them. In 1977, the year prior to publishing the description of MDMA’s effects, Sasha had introduced the psychologist Leo Zeff to the compound. Zeff, who became a pioneer of the underground psychedelic therapy movement, was so impressed with MDMA’s potential psychotherapeutic value that he postponed his planned retirement in order to introduce other therapists and clients to the substance. Many therapists found it to be an extremely useful medication. However, within a few years MDMA became widely popular amongst recreational drug users, resulting globally in governmental restrictions of the compound.
In the fall of 1978, Sasha met Ann Perry, a newly divorced psychedelic enthusiast who quickly became his most ardent supporter. They were married on July 4, 1981, and remained partners, lovers, fellow-explorers, and best friends for the rest of Sasha’s life.
Sasha was a prolific author, producing countless journal articles and book chapters. In 1988, he released his book Controlled Substances: Chemical & Legal Guide to Federal Drug Laws (second edition 1992). Together with Ann, Sasha co-authored the fictionalized autobiographical chemistry books, PIHKAL: A Chemical LoveStory (1991) and TIHKAL: The Continuation (1997). With Ann’s daughter, Wendy Perry, he co-authored The Simple Plant Isoquinolines (2002). In 2011, with co-authors Tania Manning and Paul Daley, Sasha released The Shulgin Index, Vol. 1: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds.Several of his lab notebooks have been digitally published by Erowid.org. Andhis forthcoming book, The Nature of Drugs, is currently being edited for publication.
Sasha was also a popular and prodigious lecturer, affording him the opportunity to travel the world andspeak at numerous events. Along with Ann, Sasha was a regular speaker at Botanical Preservation Corps seminars, Mind States conferences, MycoKosmos gatherings, and Burning Man playalogues. Sasha repeatedly expressed the importance of harm reduction through drug education, summed up in his four-word philosophy: “Be informed, then choose.”
Psychedelics and empathogens were Sasha’s most passionate interest, as he wholeheartedly believed that these drugs could be exceptionally valuable tools for self-discovery when properly used. “I am forever in their debt,” he said, “And I will forever be their champion.”
An embodiment of integrity, Sasha set a wonderful example through the life he lived, epitomizing many of humanity’s best qualities. He was intelligent, thoughtful, gentle, loving, compassionate, engaging, curious, considerate, joyous, humble, principled, insightful, hard-working, inspiring, selfless, kind, loyal, giving, friendly, creative, irreverent, entertaining, and wickedly funny. A lover of jokes and wordplay, Sasha’s ever-present sense of humor leaned toward the ribald, veered into the black, but always banked on the corny; he quick-wittedly served a plethora of puns on the [2C-B-]fly, guaranteeing pained groans from all.
Sasha died of cancer. Many of those who have dipped into the bounty of pharmacological gifts that Sasha created share a wide-eyed sense of appreciation that they’re unable to fully express. His presence will be missed—his life, long celebrated. He is survived by his loving widow, Laura Ann Shulgin, her children, Alice, Brian, Christopher, and Wendy, grandchildren, his dedicated caretakers, invaluable Team Shulgin members, and a vast network of dear friends and fans worldwide who comprise what the Shulgins call “the Tribe”. A memorial will be held in the BayArea at some point in the coming weeks; for details, please join the announcements e-mailing list at http://www.shulginresearch.org.
Owsley Stanley, RIP
(born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
was an American audio engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the counterculture of the 1960s. Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them to an Acid Test party. As their sound engineer, Stanley frequently recorded live tapes behind his mixing board.
Stanley was the first private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD.[1][2][3] By his own account, between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced no less than 500 grams of LSD, amounting to a little more than ten million doses at the time.[4]
Stanley died in a car accident in Australia, on March 12, 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
(born Augustus Owsley Stanley III, January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
was an American audio engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the counterculture of the 1960s. Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them to an Acid Test party. As their sound engineer, Stanley frequently recorded live tapes behind his mixing board.
Stanley was the first private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD.[1][2][3] By his own account, between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced no less than 500 grams of LSD, amounting to a little more than ten million doses at the time.[4]
Stanley died in a car accident in Australia, on March 12, 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
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Crossed The Rainbow Bridge
****J.C.** Tunnel ** Rest In Peace My Brother****
**William "Lil Bil" Erskine ** Rest in Peace My Brother**
**Mike "Doc" Beason** Rest In Peace My Brother**
** Freddy "Ray" Tunnel** Rest in Peace Brother**
**Jimmy Dale** Rest in Peace My Brother**
**William** Buddy**The Joker** Morgan**
**Mike Donahue**
RIP
****J.C.** Tunnel ** Rest In Peace My Brother****
**William "Lil Bil" Erskine ** Rest in Peace My Brother**
**Mike "Doc" Beason** Rest In Peace My Brother**
** Freddy "Ray" Tunnel** Rest in Peace Brother**
**Jimmy Dale** Rest in Peace My Brother**
**William** Buddy**The Joker** Morgan**
**Mike Donahue**
RIP
Farmer John Griggs
The Brotherhood emerged from a concept of a man named John Griggs. Griggs was a marijuana dealer in Anaheim, Calif., in the mid-1960s when he discovered LSD. Griggs quickly became an evangelist. He and many members of the Brotherhood had shady backgrounds or criminal records. Griggs quickly came to believe that LSD was the path to enlightenment, a sacrament by which to discover and commune with God. In fact, when Leary later took up with the Brotherhood, he called Griggs ”the holiest man who has ever lived in this country.”
Griggs gathered a tribe of followers who engaged in communal acid trips. Originally about a dozen members, the group grew, dubbing themselves the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in 1966 at "The Church" in Modjeska Canyon. They formed a legal church by that name. Griggs and a number of others were serious about spreading peace and love through acid. “We were experiencing a whole new viewpoint of life that was so beautiful and loving and caring of others and the whole world. We felt connected to the source of all life,” one early member says. But opinions differed. Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.”
**Owsley Stanley**Bear** Did not Know there Were 2 BEL Brothers
living with his Partner **Bob Thomas**In Pasadena
We Owned the Euphoria Art Gallery.
We Tried his First LSD With Bear, Bob Thomas, The Joker, 4 **Goddesses** Unknown to Me*
I was Bobby Bird at that time.
A customer had sold some LSD To a Nark at the Euphoria before I Became the Owner.
The Police arrested us for Drugs.
We did not have any. The dropped the Charges to Interfering with a Police Officer.
We communicated With Bear for the last 2 years before He passed over
The Rainbow Bridge. Bear thought it was funny we were BEL. The Joke-er was on Him.
Tommy *T.T.* Tunnel and I dropped the First Orange Sunshine
in front of Farmer Johns house in Dodge to check it out. All things passed before Me.
I Said "I want some Pussy."
They asked Me what I thought of It.
I told them "In the Front Door Out the Back Door**
Whatever that Means?
I spent the night at Carol And Johns house, an Art Creation itself.
I Went to the Beach with Carol Griggs and Ilean Padilla the next Day.
**The Goddesses**
*Book of Bobby*
"Yes this question always comes up every time someone mentions Griggs' death. Although it's not in the book since I only talked to [Brenice] Brennie Smith after I turned in the manuscript, he was there the night Griggs died and confirms that he died of a toxic reaction to a crystallized form of psilocybin as stated in my book. Who knows what else was mixed in with it, but by all accounts, it was poisonous in the extreme in so far as Griggs ingested far too much of it, according to Smith as well as other Brotherhood members who weren't there but got that story straight from those who were present. Nobody I interviewed for the book who was in the Brotherhood and on the scene when he died have any confusion that this is how he died. It was widely known among the Brotherhood that this psilocybin was making the rounds, see where I mention Ed Padilla mentioning Griggs' enthusiasm for the stuff the last time he saw Griggs. Some speculate that Griggs choked on his own vomit on the way to the hospital, but Smith says this is not the case and backs up the version in my book." --Nick Schou
The Brotherhood emerged from a concept of a man named John Griggs. Griggs was a marijuana dealer in Anaheim, Calif., in the mid-1960s when he discovered LSD. Griggs quickly became an evangelist. He and many members of the Brotherhood had shady backgrounds or criminal records. Griggs quickly came to believe that LSD was the path to enlightenment, a sacrament by which to discover and commune with God. In fact, when Leary later took up with the Brotherhood, he called Griggs ”the holiest man who has ever lived in this country.”
Griggs gathered a tribe of followers who engaged in communal acid trips. Originally about a dozen members, the group grew, dubbing themselves the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in 1966 at "The Church" in Modjeska Canyon. They formed a legal church by that name. Griggs and a number of others were serious about spreading peace and love through acid. “We were experiencing a whole new viewpoint of life that was so beautiful and loving and caring of others and the whole world. We felt connected to the source of all life,” one early member says. But opinions differed. Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.”
**Owsley Stanley**Bear** Did not Know there Were 2 BEL Brothers
living with his Partner **Bob Thomas**In Pasadena
We Owned the Euphoria Art Gallery.
We Tried his First LSD With Bear, Bob Thomas, The Joker, 4 **Goddesses** Unknown to Me*
I was Bobby Bird at that time.
A customer had sold some LSD To a Nark at the Euphoria before I Became the Owner.
The Police arrested us for Drugs.
We did not have any. The dropped the Charges to Interfering with a Police Officer.
We communicated With Bear for the last 2 years before He passed over
The Rainbow Bridge. Bear thought it was funny we were BEL. The Joke-er was on Him.
Tommy *T.T.* Tunnel and I dropped the First Orange Sunshine
in front of Farmer Johns house in Dodge to check it out. All things passed before Me.
I Said "I want some Pussy."
They asked Me what I thought of It.
I told them "In the Front Door Out the Back Door**
Whatever that Means?
I spent the night at Carol And Johns house, an Art Creation itself.
I Went to the Beach with Carol Griggs and Ilean Padilla the next Day.
**The Goddesses**
*Book of Bobby*
"Yes this question always comes up every time someone mentions Griggs' death. Although it's not in the book since I only talked to [Brenice] Brennie Smith after I turned in the manuscript, he was there the night Griggs died and confirms that he died of a toxic reaction to a crystallized form of psilocybin as stated in my book. Who knows what else was mixed in with it, but by all accounts, it was poisonous in the extreme in so far as Griggs ingested far too much of it, according to Smith as well as other Brotherhood members who weren't there but got that story straight from those who were present. Nobody I interviewed for the book who was in the Brotherhood and on the scene when he died have any confusion that this is how he died. It was widely known among the Brotherhood that this psilocybin was making the rounds, see where I mention Ed Padilla mentioning Griggs' enthusiasm for the stuff the last time he saw Griggs. Some speculate that Griggs choked on his own vomit on the way to the hospital, but Smith says this is not the case and backs up the version in my book." --Nick Schou
John Gale
1947-1982
In the early 1980s, life went downhill for Hynson
when John Gale, one of the Brotherhood's best surfers and Laguna Beach's most legendary outlaws,
died in a mysterious car crash, ruining Hynson emotionally and financially.
Gale was Hynson's business partner in Rainbow Surfboards, which the two founded
in Laguna Beach in 1969, as well as his best friend.
Bobby Says
**Johnny Gale was a True Bro**
**Always Cruzin in the Flow**
**Johnny Gale Is a King of Cool**
1947-1982
In the early 1980s, life went downhill for Hynson
when John Gale, one of the Brotherhood's best surfers and Laguna Beach's most legendary outlaws,
died in a mysterious car crash, ruining Hynson emotionally and financially.
Gale was Hynson's business partner in Rainbow Surfboards, which the two founded
in Laguna Beach in 1969, as well as his best friend.
Bobby Says
**Johnny Gale was a True Bro**
**Always Cruzin in the Flow**
**Johnny Gale Is a King of Cool**
Brotherhood of Eternal Love Member,
Brother **Peter Amaranthus** was illegally shot by J.D. Green,
an Orange County Narc.
District Attorney Cecil Hicks has already ruled the shooting of Peter Amaranthus, 20,
by an undercover deputy "justifiable homicide."
Brother **Peter Amaranthus** was illegally shot by J.D. Green,
an Orange County Narc.
District Attorney Cecil Hicks has already ruled the shooting of Peter Amaranthus, 20,
by an undercover deputy "justifiable homicide."
Rest In Peace Brothers
**John**Jack**Black Cloud**Harrington**
**Donny**Mighty Mouth**Postelle**
**Paul** The Duck** Ziegler**
**John**Jack**Black Cloud**Harrington**
**Donny**Mighty Mouth**Postelle**
**Paul** The Duck** Ziegler**
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Chuck; Chuck and his wife Barbara
Chuck was shot by the Police |
*Brother Chuck Scott *
*Rest In Peace, Brother*
*Rest In Peace, Brother*
**Gordon "Black Bart" Sexton, RIP, Brother**
**Richard Brewer** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Tony "The Bull" Torres** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Joe Angeline** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Elliot Miller** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Bobby** Black** Ellis**Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Robert "Moon" Martin** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Ray Opie**
**Richard Brewer** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Tony "The Bull" Torres** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Joe Angeline** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Elliot Miller** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Bobby** Black** Ellis**Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Robert "Moon" Martin** Rest In Peace, Brother**
**Ray Opie**
**Steven "Choo Choo" King** Rest In Peace My Brother**
**Juice Bar Ron *The Mushroom Man* at the Town & Country Lodge**
One of my [Bobby's] dearest friends and Family through the years.
WE Share what we have through thick and thin,
an Orange County Homeboy.
One of my [Bobby's] dearest friends and Family through the years.
WE Share what we have through thick and thin,
an Orange County Homeboy.
*RIP: **Brother Chris Matthews**
Former county supervisor who owned Poet and Patriot Pub & Veteran Extraordinaire
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_10296617
**RIP: Brother Ned Torney **
http://www.louielouie.net/blog/?p=133
Tonight, at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, California, there will be a big celebration for Ned Torney.
Ned was a multi-talented musician that played with a lot of bands in the San Francisco-San Jose region- the Chocolate Watchband, Syndicate of Sound, the Sundogs, Jerry Miller (of Moby Grape, Frantics), and various other bands. Ned died last year sometime in November, so tonight friends and family are gathering to pay tribute to the man that touched so many.
Brother Ned had a Heart attack When he got busted in Arizona With 500 lbs of Fine Mexican Buds.
[The **NED FEST** show aired and will be rerun on CTV Santa Cruzin, a weekly series on ch 27 Saturday evening at 9 pm.] http://www.communitytv.org/ctv3
Keyboard magazine was a place where Ned worked for many years, starting off with the very first issue, writing articles, doing production work, and eventually becoming an assistant editor.
Former county supervisor who owned Poet and Patriot Pub & Veteran Extraordinaire
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_10296617
**RIP: Brother Ned Torney **
http://www.louielouie.net/blog/?p=133
Tonight, at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, California, there will be a big celebration for Ned Torney.
Ned was a multi-talented musician that played with a lot of bands in the San Francisco-San Jose region- the Chocolate Watchband, Syndicate of Sound, the Sundogs, Jerry Miller (of Moby Grape, Frantics), and various other bands. Ned died last year sometime in November, so tonight friends and family are gathering to pay tribute to the man that touched so many.
Brother Ned had a Heart attack When he got busted in Arizona With 500 lbs of Fine Mexican Buds.
[The **NED FEST** show aired and will be rerun on CTV Santa Cruzin, a weekly series on ch 27 Saturday evening at 9 pm.] http://www.communitytv.org/ctv3
Keyboard magazine was a place where Ned worked for many years, starting off with the very first issue, writing articles, doing production work, and eventually becoming an assistant editor.
Glen Lynd
1942-2002
1942-2002
**Bob Thomas**1938-1993
**Augustus Owsley Stanley III*, 1935–2011, **Bear**
**Augustus Owsley Stanley III*, 1935–2011, **Bear**
Russell Harrigan, one of the Original Founding Fathers of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Jan. 26, Sunday, 1pm :rm 117 Just talked to him. He can still laugh too. I told him I will try and come there again when I know my new schedule at work. Russell said "I think I am dying" I said "well, its not the first time (LSD) " But he said: "No, i am really dying" I told him we all love him and he was still able to tell me he loves me. When I told him I need to come see him again so he can look at me again before he laeves Russell gave me the gift of his great laugh. Remember him as we all knew him. One of us, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love - One of the Spiritual Warriors leaving a prermanent light on the History of Laguna Beach, and the World. An Original Spiritual Warrior out to turn on the world to a Higher Quality of Life, Light, Love. Om throughout life. --Edward Padilla
Phil "Fingers" Farrell
Brian Johnson is our Brother who passed over the Rainbow Bridge from the
School Of Life with Honors
to the Void of the Great Mystery. Peaceout
Brian Andrew "Binky" Johnson
June 21, 1950 - May 27, 2017
Capitola
Brian was born in Santa Monica, California. He was one of ten children born to David and Mary Johnson of Los Angeles. Brian is one the many children who grew up with the many families on Dunbarton Ave in Westchester. He attended primary school at Visitation and graduated from Westchester High in 1968. After graduation Brian moved to Santa Cruz Co. and remained here throughout his life. HIs last ten months of life were spent with his brother Neal, sister in law, Kay and nephews in Capitola.
Brian enjoyed music (Especially the works of Frank Zappa), attended many concerts that he helped to promote and enjoyed the lively action of the music scene in Santa Cruz during the 70's and 80's. He had a deep love for the outdoors and loved to hike, fish and camp. He also enjoyed time with his family at his vacation home in Bend, Oregon. During his illness he dreamt about visiting all the state parks in California and saw all the animals of the parks and enjoyed another dream where all his friends came together to the house for a party. When he woke up he said everything was perfect from the food to the people who attended. Brian loved sports and was a devout Raiders and A's fan. Many bets were wagered on those two teams. Brian enjoyed watching classic TCM movies and always relished his fathers quote," The best movies are made in black and white."
Brian is preceded in death by his father David Johnson, his mother Mary Johnson, his brothers Christopher, Dennis "Rabbit" and Ken, "KP". He leaves behind his brothers Phil, Tim, Neal, Bruce, Alex , his sister Annie and numerous nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews.
In lieu of flowers and gifts we ask you to support Hospice of Santa Cruz. We thank the nurses and Social Services for their constant support in caring for Brian through this period of his life.
There will be a casual gathering on June 24th at Neal and Kay's home starting at 12:00. Family and friends of Brian are welcome to stop by throughout the day.
"Do you love it?
Do you hate it?
There it is.
The way you made it."
- Frank Zappa-
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=Brian-johnson&pid=185861539&fhid=20298
School Of Life with Honors
to the Void of the Great Mystery. Peaceout
Brian Andrew "Binky" Johnson
June 21, 1950 - May 27, 2017
Capitola
Brian was born in Santa Monica, California. He was one of ten children born to David and Mary Johnson of Los Angeles. Brian is one the many children who grew up with the many families on Dunbarton Ave in Westchester. He attended primary school at Visitation and graduated from Westchester High in 1968. After graduation Brian moved to Santa Cruz Co. and remained here throughout his life. HIs last ten months of life were spent with his brother Neal, sister in law, Kay and nephews in Capitola.
Brian enjoyed music (Especially the works of Frank Zappa), attended many concerts that he helped to promote and enjoyed the lively action of the music scene in Santa Cruz during the 70's and 80's. He had a deep love for the outdoors and loved to hike, fish and camp. He also enjoyed time with his family at his vacation home in Bend, Oregon. During his illness he dreamt about visiting all the state parks in California and saw all the animals of the parks and enjoyed another dream where all his friends came together to the house for a party. When he woke up he said everything was perfect from the food to the people who attended. Brian loved sports and was a devout Raiders and A's fan. Many bets were wagered on those two teams. Brian enjoyed watching classic TCM movies and always relished his fathers quote," The best movies are made in black and white."
Brian is preceded in death by his father David Johnson, his mother Mary Johnson, his brothers Christopher, Dennis "Rabbit" and Ken, "KP". He leaves behind his brothers Phil, Tim, Neal, Bruce, Alex , his sister Annie and numerous nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews.
In lieu of flowers and gifts we ask you to support Hospice of Santa Cruz. We thank the nurses and Social Services for their constant support in caring for Brian through this period of his life.
There will be a casual gathering on June 24th at Neal and Kay's home starting at 12:00. Family and friends of Brian are welcome to stop by throughout the day.
"Do you love it?
Do you hate it?
There it is.
The way you made it."
- Frank Zappa-
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=Brian-johnson&pid=185861539&fhid=20298
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Timothy Leary
1920-1996
1920-1996
Ken Kesey
1935-2001
1935-2001
Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley III,
January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
also known as Bear
January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
also known as Bear
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix
(born Johnny Allen Hendrix;
November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)
American musician, singer and songwriter. Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
(born Johnny Allen Hendrix;
November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)
American musician, singer and songwriter. Despite a limited mainstream exposure of four years, he is widely considered one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann also was the first to isolate, synthesize, and name the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds, psilocybin and psilocin. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child. In 2007 he was ranked a shared first place, alongside Tim Berners-Lee, in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses
