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Birth of a remarkable community “where all the women are strong; the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” The Farm created a Lake Woebegone Effect, while hoping to create a Butterfly Effect that would spread peace around the world.

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Memoirs of the psychedelic sixties and the inception of America’s most-remarkable, alternative lifestyle community—The Farm—by a reporter who followed the story and spirit of the sixties over the edge. Energy, magic, vision, beauty and chaos of a world-altering era.

John Lennon said, “Psychedelic vision was reality for me.”
In the sixties and beyond, seeing astral plane phenomena—energy, auras; feeling vibes; experiencing telepathy—was reality for millions of people. There was magic in the air. The world was changing before our very eyes.
Einstein’s formula—
E=mc2 — Mass times the speed of light, squared—suddenly had new meaning— Enlightenment = Masses on psychedelics, un-squared!

Far-out, telepathic adventures, cultural revolution and mind-blowing discoveries at the San Francisco spiritual smorgasbord of 1969--yogis, swamis, Zen hippies, beatniks, gypsies, gurus, LSD, magic mushrooms and peyote. Part One, is the story of magical times—world, cultural, and personal events leading to the birth of America’s biggest commune The Farm in 1971.

In his book, Boom!—Tom Brokaw wrote—
“In the sixties, I was a young, up-and-coming reporter, and I came right up to the edge of what was happening, and I backed away.”

Stiriss writes—“In the sixties, I too was ‘a young, up-and-coming reporter’ and came up to the very same edge as Tom, only I went over—Wheeee!”

Founded in 1971, The Farm was a shared vision, dream-come-true attempt to create utopia. Community members followed their hearts and a powerful energy that seemed to come from the Earth itself—beckoning back to the land, back to the garden. The Farm was spiritual but did not follow any particular religion or ism.

After a devastating earthquake hit Guatemala in 1976, the author worked a year with Farm carpenters and Mayans in remote mountain villages. The team built houses, schools and clinics. Melvyn was project manager for the construction of four schools, a rural clinic and a clinic for Mother Teresa in Guatemala City.

In 1980, The Farm collective and its outreach arm, Plenty International, were awarded the alternative Nobel Peace Prize, the Swedish Right Livelihood Award
“...for caring, sharing and acting with and on behalf of those in need at home and abroad.”

Sit in on Zen, hippie guru, Stephen Gaskin’s Monday Night Class, aka Telepathy and Energy 101—a high-energy communion, place for trippers to share energy, psychedelic adventure stories, world wisdom, and learn how to manifest a good trip. Gaskin attempted to pick up where Timothy Leary left off in advising a generation and worked to keep the revolution peaceful and spiritual. Both inspirational and a cautionary tale about having a guru.

Catch the spirit. Join the adventure aboard a colorful, 100-bus caravan—rolling through the heart of America—an audacious, 12,000-mile, peace-spreading journey, community-on-wheels, that became—The Farm, where more than a thousand people lived, shared land, learned trades, built a town, celebrated life, became dear friends, fell in love, married, had babies and worked humanitarian projects around the world.

Earthy and ethereal escapades—a fun Zen romp, celebrating life, spirit and serendipity—starting with beatnik encounters in Greenwich Village in the fifties, with high school buddy, who grew up to be actor/narrator, and now Zen priest, Peter Coyote.

Part One ends in the backwoods of Tennessee, up Moonshine Alley with the KKK and FBI watching. True stories of people on a path with heart.