Dec 15, 20223 min read

12 Dayze of Christmas Gratefulness- THREE: G-d ARrest These Merry Gentlemen

Updated: Dec 16, 2022

Traveler: To experience the other "dayze" in this seer-ease...just get back on your camel...travel afar (out)...to the blog: https://www.asoulinwonder.com/blog-1

G-d Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Friends

G-d arrest these Jerry Mentalmen...Huh???

Wordplay that can include the original so-named "Merry Pranksters" and those of us still riding some buses of our own...

MAGIC TRIP - Official Trailer - Ken Kesey Documentary (02:20)

Merry Pranksters Tape - The Fillmore Acid Test (34:00)

--featuring the Grateful Dead

In my early 20's, I read Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968) and Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" (1962) and internalized their messages of exploration sometimes to the "outer limits"...

Beginning in the summer of '69, I drove my "self-painted-with-some-help-from-a-friend" 1965 VW Bus back and forth and around this

ol' U S of A with friends - fellow "Merry Pranksters" looking for waves and fun and adventures...Even did two "trips" with my family: First, with my parents...Second with some of my sisters...

Now back to our (IR)regularly scheduled program...

...DO attempt to adjust your teleVISION sets...

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Another take (contains links to all the tunes)

Angels we have heard when high

"HIGH" is a state of mind...

...Some use substances to help reach this state...

...Some use meditative practices to induce it...

,,,Others find it in nature...

--in listening to the John Denver lyrics "He was born in his 27th year..."

I wondered if the members of the "27 Club" might have chosen

different paths had they spent some time here...)

A Brief History of the 27 Club - RollingStone (includes 21 members)

Now 75, I've tried these and other ways to get "HIGH"...Currently, meditation (with and without music) and nature (again, with and without are my "drugs" of choice. Two places have become outdoor shrines:

The Bayard-Cutting Arboretum where I have spent some wonder-filled times sitting among the trees with fellow nature-worshippers sharing poems, prayers and promises...

--Let me know if you'd be interested in checking out these gatherings - they are very INCLUSIVE...

Hempstead Lake State Park practicing tai chi with like-minded folks. Notably, our Sensei is a friend from my "on the bus" days that I had the good fortune to reconnect with and accept his invitation to "Come to the Water"...

--Also an INCLUSIVE group, we meet every Tue & Thu at 8:00 AM on the fishing pier by Fields 2&3. In inclement weather, we gather under the shelter of the Pavillion (see photo) at the northern end of the Field 1 parking lot.

TOM-a-Son, Lake & Calmer (01:38)

HELP: Can someone help me find a FREE method for adding some of the meditative music our Sensei adds to our practice??? I've tried for several hours so far...

For example, here's a track I like that's similar to those he shares: