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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Brilliant book, read it when I was 18 a few months before I first experimented. Recommend Candy Coloured Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby by Wolfe too
Orange Sunshine sounds interesting, will check
Interesting (and huge) thread on the Acid 'thumbprint' initiation for wannabe members of the Dead's 'Family' here:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1427364/page//fpart/all/vc/1
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Have you watched Magic trip, the 2011 edit of the journey across the US to the worlds fair?
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Just started The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, after finishing Nick Shou's Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World.
Presently on a late sixties Summer of Love historical trip. Will read Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels after that.
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was a really interesting group, someone needs to make a proper film about their exploits. An analogue for the Brotherhood, the Dead Presidents, were in Point Break (not much of a recommendation, I know). Apart from the robbing banks (BEL never did this) there were too many echoes between the two groups for it not to be deliberate. Bodie's anarcho-spiriruality (he was definitely an analogue for John Briggs, the leader of BEL), the wait for the once in a lifetime huge swell in Australia/Maui, the Californian surfer/criminal underground, the names of the Dead Presidents too.
Will also read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Kesey was the lead guy in the Merry Pranksters, an anarchic travelling LSD performing group that had overlap with BEL, Timothy Leary, the Grateful Dead, etc.