Men see their dreams and aspiration
Crumble in front of their face
And all of their wicked intention
To destroy the human race - Bob Marley
Maybe more Yippie, and less Hippie?
Yesterday on the RI board, 'Johnny Nemo' remembered Abbie Hoffman saying 'There were all these activists, you know, Berkeley radicals, White Panthers... all trying to stop the war and change things for the better. Then we got flooded with all these 'flower children' who were into drugs and sex. Where the hell did the hippies come from?'
The Yippies were trickster revolutionaries, who staged shamanic acts to advance social transformation. They led thousands to the Pentagon in 1967 to attempt its levitation. They crashed the galleries of Wall Street to shower money on the trading floor. They ran a pig for president. But the decade, in America's memory, belongs to the Hippies.
The misty-eyed nostalgia has created bitterness and confusion over how members of the Grateful Dead can also be members of the Bohemian Grove. Before Neil Young's change of heart, there was dismay at his support for Ronald Reagan and at his 'Let's Roll' jingoism. And there's the resistance I still feel within myself to the consideration that Hunter S Thompson may have been up to some pretty weird shit with some disturbed company, even though Michael Aquino is also a fan, and Thompson said in 2003 that he didn't 'hate Bush personally. I used to know him. I used to do some drugs here and there.'
But where the hell did the hippies go? They entered into power, and the institutions of selfishness, because If it feels good, do it is a philosophy of life that doesn't shy from power, because it needs power to feed the habit.
The Sixties, at least as romantically recalled, is one of the most debilitating things that ever happened to progressive America. A mass, Dionysian movement for social justice became co-opted and debased into Bacchian self-indulgence, and was called a triumph.
In Breaking Open the Head, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of Robert, who one day in the Sixties consumed three Fly Agarics with some friends. To their disappointment, nothing seemed to happen. Until he went to the kitchen to grab a beer:
I took out the beer, turned around, and across the kitchen there were three huge mushrooms staring at me - a five foot tall, a four foot tall, and a three foot tall mushroom. The mushrooms were red and yellow and they had little eyes and little mouths. They looked just as solid and real as me or you.
Robert and the mushrooms stared at each other, until the largest asked, 'Why did you eat us?' Robert thought, and then replied, 'I was just following my dream.'
Pinchbeck writes:
The mushrooms conferred with each other. Finally they seemed satisfied by his answer. 'But are you prepared to follow this path?' the tallest Fly Agaric asked. Robert answered, intuitively and without hesitation, 'Yes I am.' Whereupon the mushrooms vanished. Fifteen years passed before Robert realized that the path he had agreed to follow was plant shamanism.
(Unknown at the time to Robert, Paul Devereux writes in The Long Trip that 'the spirits of the mushrooms might appear to the individual and converse with him directly.... The number seen depends on the number of mushrooms consumed.')
A friend of Robert's who also ate Fly Agarics received a similar visitation, and was also asked 'Why did you eat us?' But he answered, 'I was trying to get high.' The mushrooms told him, 'Well, if you ever do this again, we're going to kill you.'
That was America in the Sixties, and that was its choice, and these are the consequences. And it was more than just the mushrooms talking. At almost every turn in the culture and the counterculture, the easy and the selfish were chosen over the hard and the common. Not surprising. But America and the wider world still await a vanguard to take the harder paths into sacred space that lead to sacrifice and social transformation. It's a lot to ask, but that's how Babylon gets chanted down.
By the way, a couple of good things to report, after a month of bad from Blogger.
Thanks to 'et in Arcadia ego,' RI now has an excellent footprint in myspace. And here's a sign of things to come. Our family is moving, in material space, next week, so a move in virtual space will need to wait a little bit longer. But I'm looking forward to providing a better home for this community.

01 Soul Rebel
02 Try Me
03 It's Alright
04 No Sympathy
05 My Cup
06 Soul Almighty
07 Rebel's Hop
08 Corner Stone
09 Four Hundred Years
10 No Water
11 Reaction
12 My Sympathy
13 Dreamland
14 Dreamland Version
15 Dracula
16 Soul Rebel(Version 4)
17 Version Of Cup
18 Zig Zag
19 Jah Is Mighty
20 Brand New Second Hand
21 Brand New Second Hand(Version)
22 Downpresser
MP3
CBR 320 Kbps
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Parte 1

01 Keep On Moving
02 Don't Rock My Boat
03 Put It On
04 Fussing And Fighting
05 Duppy Conqueror
06 Memphis
07 Soul Rebel
08 Riding High
09 Kaya
10 African Herbman
11 Stand Alone
12 Sun Is Shining
13 Brain Washing
14 Mr.Brown

Parte 2

01 Keep On Moving
02 Don't Rock My Boat
03 Put It On
04 Fussing And Fighting
05 Duppy Conqueror
06 Memphis
07 Soul Rebel
08 Riding High
09 Kaya
10 African Herbsman
11 Stand Alone
12 Sun Is Shining
13 Brain Washing
14 Dracula

CBR 320 Kbps

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01 Keep On Moving
02 Don't Rock My Boat
03 Put It On
04 Fussing & Fighting
05 Duppy Conqueror V,4
06 Memphis
07 Riding High
08 Kaya
09 African Herbsman
10 Stand Alone
11 Sun Is Shining
12 Brain Washing
13 Kaya(Alternate Take)
14 Duppy Conqueror(Alternate Take

CBR 320 Kbps

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01 Lively Up Yourself
02 Small Axe
03 Duppy Conqueror
04 Trenchtown Rock
05 African Herbsman
06 Keep On Moving
07 Fussing And Fighting
08 Stand Alone
09 All In One(Medley,Part 1)
10 Don't Rock The Boat
11 Put It On
12 Sun Is Shining
13 Kaya
14 Riding High
15 Brain Washing
16 Four Hundred Years
17 Memphis(Dub Version)
18 Live(Lively Up Yourself Versio
19 More Axe
20 The Axe Man(Small Axe Version)
21 Zig Zag(Duppy Conqueror Versio
22 Grooving Kingston 12(Trench To
23 Moving Version(Dj Version)
24 Keep On Skanking
25 Copasetic
26 Kaya(Version 2)

CBR 320 Kbps

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1973 - Catch A Fire (Deluxe Edition, 2 CD)

01 Concrete Jungle
02 Stir It Up
03 High Tide Or Low Tide
04 Stop That Train
05 400 Years
06 Baby We've Got A Date
07 Midnight Ravers
08 All Day All Night
09 Slave Driver
10 Kinky Reggae
11 No More Trouble

CD 2

01 Concrete Jungle
02 Slave Driver
03 400 Years
04 Stop That Train
05 Baby We've Got A Date
06 Stir It Up
07 Kinky Reggae
08 No More Trouble
09 Midnight Ravers

CBR 320 Kbps

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1973 - Burnin'(Deluxe Edition. 2 CD)

01 Get Up, Stand Up
02 Hallelujah Time
03 I Shot The Sheriff
04 Burnin' And Lootin'
05 Put It On
06 Small Axe
07 Pass It On
08 Duppy Conqueror
09 One Foundation
10 Rasta Man Chant
11 Reincarnated Souls
12 No Sympathy
13 The Oppressed Song
14 Get Up,Stand Up
15 Get Up,Stand Up

CD 2

01 Duppy Conqueror
02 Slave Driver
03 Burnin´And Lootin´
04 Can´t Blame The Youth
05 Stop That Train
06 Midnight Ravers
07 No More Trouble
08 Kinky Reggae
09 Get Up, Stand Up
10 Stir It Up
11 Put It On
12 Lively Up Yourself

CBR 320 Kbps

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02 No Woman, No Cry

04 Rebel Music

06 Natty Dread

08 Talkin' Blues

10 Am-A-Do

MP3

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1974 - Rasta Revolution

CBR 320 Kbps

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1976 - Rastaman Vibration

01 Positive Vibration

CD 2

CBR 320 Kbps

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1977 - Exodus

01 Natural Mystic

CD 2

CBR 320 Kbps

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1978 - Kaya

CBR 320 Kbps

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1979 - Survival

CBR 320 Kbps

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1980 - Uprising

CBR 320 Kbps

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1983 - Confrontation

CBR 320 Kbps

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2002 - Legend

01 Is This Love

CD 2

CBR 320 Kbps

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