Comes Spake the Cuckoo: An Interview with Ken Kesey
It was just another Saturday on Ken Kesey’s farm, but it felt like Shangri-La. The Cuckoo strode around his own eight acres, miles away, in a striped referee’s shirt, signing autographs and posing reticently for the cameras–an icon who, in the words of Hunter Thompson, “has found out a way to live out there where the real winds blow.
Led Zeppelin’s Dance with the Occult
Led Zeppelin perfectly encapsulates the power of the occult imagination, how it continues to see expression, and how it was able to completely propel rock and roll into electrifying new directions.
The Heretic
The following originally appeared on The Morning News.
Top 10 Books of the New Edge
A generation of avant-garde writers are making conscious magazine headlines and electrifying the festival-speakers' circuit. Featuring a brutally honest look at the shadow self, and society at large, these books are not fluffy New Age reads. They are harder to define, hosting a multidimensional mix of spiritual awakening, new media activism, punk attitude, Burning Man aesthetic, and Occupy ideologies.
Mondo History
A new 'open source history' project aims to document the crazy story of Mondo 2000, a counterculture magazine that helped popularize transhumanism, cyberpunk, and psychedelics back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Confessions of a Counterculture Redux, or, The Whomp Heard Round the World
What would happen if we could arrange a hundred million people, at
thousands of parties across the planet, dancing at the same time, to the same
rhythms? Might this trigger
transcendental chaos, the unified heartbeat of the human spirit?
Send in the Clown
Whether he's serving granola at Woodstock or curing blindness in Nepal, hippie clown Wavy Gravy brings compassion, love, and laughter to everything he does. Now, a new film celebrates his extraordinary life.