Know this:
The Earth is alive, and you are the brain.
Thought creates reality, so do it with imagination.
And what you think is what you get.
Relax, everything is ok,
and there is nothing to worry about.
You survived.
We are your futuremind.

Myself
Analysis
Collective
Mass
Clone
Society



I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.
Jim Morrison

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas.
Five years later? Six?
It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era
--- the kind of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties
was a very special time and place to be a part of.
Maybe it meant something.
Maybe not, in the long run ...
but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories
can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive
in that corner of time and the world.
Whatever it meant ...

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit,
but even without being sure of "history"
it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then
the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash,
for reasons that nobody really understands at the time
--- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour.
If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate
or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda ...
You could strike sparks anywhere.
There was a fantastic universal sense
that whatever we were doing was right,
that we were winning ...

And that, I think, was the handle
--- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil.
Not in any mean or military sense;
we didn’t need that.
Our energy would simply prevail.
There was no point in fighting
--- on our side or theirs.
We had all the momentum;
we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ...

So now, less than five years later,
you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west,
and with the right kind of eyes
you can almost see the high water mark
-- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

- Hunter S. Thompson