Today's youth will never even begin to understand the most profound revolution in cultural and reality changing events that occurred during our last generation. Young readers will not understand the nuances and colloquial language written here. This book may have just as well been written by an alien stranded on earth from another world. Stephen Gaskin was "The Guru or Spiritual Leader that brought forth a new way of looking at Reality. Sure, he was part of the "drug culture" of the time, as many others. I lived it; I survived and grew personally through many experiments, states of consciousness as Dr. Tim Leary and so many of the time. Stephen Gaskin, is one of the most Underestimated and "Marginalized" Teachers in American Historical Change, as this phenomena grew beyond the man. Today's youth take for granted the Civil Rights they now enjoy, the New Reality or New Way of looking at Life brought forward by men like Stephen Gaskin and so many others. It was written during an America looking for the world. Just like Mahatma Gandhi so many years ago. American Traditionalist were fighting back as hard as they could, killing President Kennedy, his brother and the unforgettable Martin Luther King. University students began being killed by our own National Guard, all over America, in an attempt to quell the uprisings. Censorship became paramount in the minds of the very powerful and wealthy. Their "sheep" were Revolting! Communes sprang up all over the world, A worl, an EARTH, understood as a Living Breathing Organism called "Gaia" from ancient times - we were coming to grips with a new concept of Living Organization surviving together in a new found concept called "Symbiosis," Life systems working together for Mutual Advantage. Were we a part of that New Way of Thinking? When teaching "Tradition" why is it they never mention the "Downside" of Tradition? The stunting of Evolution? No, this book will be "Gibberish" to most. A glimpse into one of the most Earth/Mind changing personalities of a Time of "Ground Shakin" World Changed. It reversed Polarity. An unbelievable group of Spiritual and Compassionate people left Height Ashbury in San Francisco led by their Teacher, in search of a place to live as they envisioned. In Summertown Tennessee, "The Farm" was born, as the following books will continue this remarkable story, and in further research and readings, the eventually pollution of an individual bent on undermining this compassionate generating organism into the aberration it has become today. Even Rome fell. I challenge you to read and get into the psyche of this remarkable book and man, and follow through with "The Caravan," the next book in the following series depicting their pilgrimage to The Farm, the 1,500 acre commune that helped the world and its people in unimaginable ways.
