Smith may be Buddhist, but I'm not sure he's a monk. Many lay Buddhists go to live in monasteries. And Smith did get married, which is not something Buddhist monks do....

Sorry, Bolsavik: I just couldn't resist the headline "Fugitive Buddhist Monk Arrested..." but I agree: Smith seems have given up that lifestyle at some point several years ago when the Nepalese Maoists made the monastic life less appealing. BTW, how exactly does one become a Buddhist monk?

Not sure how society is better served by arresting this peaceful man who's only crime was spreading hash and LSD to an uptight culture needing a wake-up.

He's clearly moved on to a path of love and compassion - perhaps the US should re-assess their law enforcement priorities and concentrate on violent criminals rather than min-expansion seekers.

Peace to him and his family and monastic fellows.

It seems we have more important things in this era of life than going after someone who has rehabilitated his life over the last 40 years. What is to be gained by arresting someone who comes back to document history of our society. This is not a terrorist! I don't think this arrest serves documenting history!!!

JUST A "BAD TRIP"!

Prisons are too crowded and it costs taxpayers way too much to lock up a man who has lived a peaceful life for the last 40 years. Surely law enforcement has better things to be concerned about!

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Too bad Nick Schou and others used Breni's troubles to promote their book and movie for their own financial gain. Breni is a rightous fellow who's been used by his so called friend Nick Schou.

I can tell you from being there that Nick had nothing to do with any of it, he's just the one that broke the story. I can't go in to detail (as you can imagine), but none of us saw this coming and thought everything in the past had been resolved.

To those that are talking shit about Bill, Rudy and Nick.
You are the same ones that spread lies about me.
Your fear is not Love. If any one has any problems or wants to see my face about this BS No problemio.
Who ever you are? IF You talk shit about my Brothers I,ll come see you and you tell me your peroblem to MY FACE this time.
Hide your heads up your Ass and YOU see nothing but your shit.
Those that don,t want to get involve in a time of crisis
Burk said it best. "The hottest spot in Hell is reserved for them".

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ANYTHING DONE IN THE LIGHT THAT HELPS MORE AND MORE IS GOOD THUS GREAT THUS REPRESENTS HEAVEN AND EARTH.
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Unless OC has changed radically since I grew up there in the '60s, Breni may be in for a rough ride. OC competes with San Diego as the worst jurisdiction in the state for drug charges. Let's hope he draws a sensible judge.

BTW, one becomes a Buddhist monk by taking vows in a ceremony presided over by the abbot of the monastery one wishes to join. I don't think celibacy is one of those vows, 'tho there are many different traditions.

There is an updated, 2007 book entitled 'The Brotherhood of Eternal Love' by Tendler, purporting to give a history of this group.

And there is a chapter describing a very grim entanglement between the Laguna Beach Hare Krishnas and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which can be read in Nori Muster's book, 'Betrayal of the Spirit.'

One can find copies of both books on Bookfinder.com

There is a copy of the 1984 text of this book that can be read online in a library someone has compiled on psychedlics.

But that text will not have the updated information available in the 2007 edition.

I dont know how vow taking is done in the Himalayan Buddhist schools.

But these are part of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, which includes Zen.

So the Bodhisattva Vow is probably somewhat similar.

Periodically at the time of the full moon, in a ceremony, one bows 1008 times, renews the vow and states, 'All my ancient twisted karma, from beginningless time, born of body speech and mind, I fully avow.

In the Mahayana tradition, and via that tradition in Soto Zen, when we take these vows in lay ordination, we state three times,

'Even after attaining enlightenment, I will continue to obey these precepts.'

For these precepts are the mind of Buddha and cannot be separated from enlightenment itself. There is no provision for violating these precepts and saying one can do so because one is enlightened and therefore a speical person for whom the guidelines no longer apply.

Pure precepts:

I vow to do good, to avoid harm, to live for the benefit of all beings, and to uphold all forms and ceremonies.

If in an ethical dilemma, ask, 'Will this give life or stifle life?'

1) I vow not to take life.

2) I vow not to lie.

3) I vow not to take what has not been freely offered.

3) I vow not to darken mind and body of myself and others with intoxicants (some versions of this say, 'I will not sell intoxicants'

4) I vow not to misuse sexuality.

5) I vow to avoid speech that produces disharmony where before there was genuine harmony.

6) I vow to beware of praising myself at the expense of others. (A corollary would be to beware of devaluing myself so as to put others on pedestals)

7) I vow to beware of harsh speech

8) I vow to beware of excessive greed for comfort and resources.

9) To avoid harboring ill will and instead, to find better and truly benevolent ways to cultivate memory and vitality.

10) I vow to honor and safeguard the treasures of Buddha's teachings, Dharma, and Sangha (the community of practitioners. However, I personally see sangha as including everyone, whether they identify as Buddhist or not. We are all interconnected. Joy for one is joy for all. An injury to one is an injury to all. No one is an island.
Ask not for whom the ambulance siren wails. It sounds for us all.

A very full description of one Tibetan version of the vow is given here

http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:LZHg1mA98OEJ:www.khandro.net/bud_bodhisattva_vow.htm+bodhisattva+vows&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

[Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2007]

BOOK REVIEW

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of LSD Counterculture
By Stewart Tendler and David May
Cyan Books; London/New York, 2007. 270 pages, $24.95

Reviewed by Steve Heilig

It’s hard to fathom at this late date, but once upon a time there were a significant number of intelligent people who believed that the world would be a much better place if everybody ingested psychedelic drugs and that such drugs should be provided free, or at least without profit. And one of the few semi-organized loci of such thought was a mysterious cohort of Californians known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Who or what was this Brotherhood? According to famed “dope lawyer” Michael Kennedy, who defended some of them when they got into trouble, “It was a loose-knit group of individuals, the common denominator of whom was that they all believed in psychedelics, they all believed in hallucinogenics and they all believed the at the world would be better if more people took psychedelics. And what they tried to do was spread as many psychedelic substances as they could around the land. Sort of like Johnny Appleseed.”

This book was originally published in 1984, but was then quickly withdrawn from print, thus becoming an expensive collector’s item. In this new version, the authors provide a new Foreward and Epilogue but do not mention any reason for the previous disappearance, leaving that among the numerous mysterious elements to this story. Whomever authorized the garish dayglo-type cover art should remain mysterious as well, but otherwise, it’s a fascinating read about a now long-ago wild yet relatively innocent and idealistic time when the inner and external horizons of culture seemed open to virtually any interpretation and stretching.

The story of LSD has been told in great and skilled detail in at least two books since the original publication of this one (Lee & Shlain 1985; Stevens 1998). From Hoffman’s inadvertent discovery of LSD to Huxley’s explorations through Leary and Alpert’s Harvard experiments and debacles to the explosion of 1960s counterculture and acid rock and so forth, the tale is well-documented, and has been analyzed and romanticized ad nauseum. So why is this book worth reading, at least for those still interested?

Well, the “Brotherhood” were a unique element of their time, at a minimum. Legally incorporated in 1966 – ten days after LSD became illegal - in California, the tax-exempt organization was dedicated “to bring to the world a greater awareness of God through the teachings of Jesus Christ, Rama-Krishnam Babaji, Paramahansa Yogananda, Mahatma Gandhi and all true prophets and apostles of God.” Some of their nascent ideology was reflected of Timothy Leary’s east coast League of Spiritual Discovery, but the BOEL were headquartered in Laguna Beach, California, “a sleepy little township” and “artists colony and resort thirty miles south of Los Angeles.” As for membership, “there were no fixed rules for joining; no name signing or ritual. But there was one basic rule among the Brothers – they believed in taking as much of the psychedelics as possible, the largest doses of LSD they could buy.”

In the beginning it was a relatively benign “scene”, as reported by one early Brother who was part of the early group living in few houses in idyllic Laguna Canyon: “There was a lot of grass and there was a vibe that you could make it with love and digging each other…It was cheap and it was fun. You know the bond, the thing that tied us up together was surfing and dope and balling.” The focus went from “grass” to LSD and large quantities of hash rather quickly, it seems, and before long, a ‘hippie mafia” – as labeled by local law authorities and then Rolling Stone magazine – was in effect. For just a couple years, the Brotherhood were at the center of “a Haight-Ashbury on sea”.

During that brief period of dreams and relative innocence, “Orange Sunshine” LSD was tossed out freely at concerts and on the beach; “John Gale, a rising figure in the Brotherhood’s distribution network, was spreading the word for the Brothers’ new LSD in the best way he knew how; on Laguna Beach he handed out 100,000 doses in a day.” The group was associated with a cool surf shop and the famed Mystic Arts World, a crafts market/open air illegal pharmacy (this reviewer recalls walking through Mystic Arts at the age of 13 or so and being offered LSD, hash, and other drugs I’d never heard of; I also recall a health food store with a real camel living out back).

The Brotherhood’s products/sacraments did not stay “free” for long. As this book puts it, the group’s “task may have been divine, but the fruits were certainly worldly.” Linked with (in)famous Grateful Dead-associated LSD (al)chemist Owsley Stanley up in San Francisco, and with Leary on the east coast, the Brotherhood’s operations got grandiose and risky. Cash was everywhere, ranches were bought, surfboards full of hash were made and mailed around the world, an infamously incoherent Jimi Hendrix film was financed, and at one point a tentative offer was tendered to the government of France to buy a tiny Pacific French island to become “the world’s first independent state based on LSD.” Timothy Leary’s son, at a Laguna Brotherhood gathering, torched one of many $1000 bills, and when Leary called to apologise for his offspring’s behavior, he was told “Hey, Uncle Tim, we all wanted to burn a thousand-dollar bill. It was a great thing he did, very enlightening.”

Legal authorities were not so enlightened or amused. In Laguna Beach – which sits in Republican stronghold Orange County, just up the coast from Nixon’s West Coast White House – longhairs started to get busted for just being there, and suspicions were roused by the presence of money and Leary. Still, the Brotherhood funded Leary’s famous escape from California prison and supported him with an extra $25,000 while he was the exiled guest/hostage of Eldridge Cleaver in Algeria. State, Federal and international investigations got underway as well. Mystic Arts World burnt to the ground in a 1970 fire widely viewed as arson approved, if not committed, by local authorities. By the time a couple of founding leaders has overdosed or been arrested – including Leary, who turned out to be more liability than leader – trouble was everywhere for the Brothers. A big bust became pretty much inevitable, and in 1972 it came. “Between 1966 and 1971 the Brotherhood was virtually untouchable, but in the course of the investigation 750 members had been identified in a business the IRS estimated to be worth $200 million.” Such estimates tend to be inflated, but no matter, the BOEL corporation was assessed over $70 million in back taxes (the book does not say whether any of that assessment was ever paid). Members “rolled over” and turned one another in to avoid doing time. A government report estimated that “the Brotherhood was held responsible for 50 percent of all the LSD and has to be found in the United States.”

By then much of the illegal activity had shifted to Europe, as personified by a mysterious figure named Ronald Stark, who flitted around the world under various false identities (multiple fake passports were a Brotherhood specialty). Here the story gets a bit more mundane, even though it involves more clandestine laboratories and international intrigue. The founding and early Brothers died – in such manners as decapitation in a Porsche - did time, or just drifted away, and the harder-edged types who stayed in the business for the big money took over, for awhile at least. “Only the players had changed – not the game”.

Tendler and May find a few surviving figures in this updated version of their book, all of them older and some wiser (they also quote from a lengthy newspaper article that does not appear in their updated bibliography)(Schou, 2005). “As flawed as it is, having a civilization seems much better than anarchy…this is one of the reasons why I wonder if we made a mistake in scattering acid to the four winds” reflects one key figure. Another key figure “saw himself and the Brotherhood as part of a great tradition of semi-secret societies driven by a powerful doctrine and stretching back to the original Sufis, early Islamic mystics, and the Knights Templar. In the case of the Brotherhood their ‘divine sacrament’ was LSD. Like other outcasts before them, they had accepted calumny, vilification, and persecution for their beliefs.”

Perhaps. The persecution may not have been quite so intense if so much illegal money became central to the faith. But in any event, here is a fascinating story. A filmed documentary is forthcoming, and maybe more books, and certainly verbal lore about the Brotherhood will continue for some time, or at least as long as the “Summer of Love” generational mythology remains commercially viable. Tendler and May are wise enough to admit they might now have all the facts down pat: “Establishing a single truth in such an epic narrative of idealism and betrayal, wealth and corruption as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a story where so many people’s lives depended on the truth not being told, is probably an impossible ambition.”

***
References

Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, 1985:
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Press, New York.

Schou, Nick, 2005: LORDS OF ACID: How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OC’s Hippie Mafia OC Weekly, July 7, 2005

Stevens, Jay, 1998: Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream Grove Press, New York

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it is all bullshit

Noodle bowl, thank you very much for the compassionate info on vows. As you may know, the split between what became Northern and what became Southern Buddhism historically had a lot to do with the interpretation of the 5 lay precepts and the 10 monastic precepts. Northern = loose, Southern = strict. Sort of.

Steve, muchos gracias for the book review. I don't know if it was John Gale, but I was at a Who concert at Anaheim Stadium in June of 1970 and this guy wearing nothing but leather pants and a big beard was dancing through the crowd throwing handfulls of Sunshine from a big wicker basket. People near me were saying "look sharp, here comes the Sunshine Express". It was a very hot day. Regarding the Brotherhood, I'll paraphrase the 'great song traveller': "I never met them, but I knew them just the same."

Aquarian Temple BEL: Who the hell do you think you're kidding?

Golden Frog:

That guy with the leather pants was indeed Johnny Gale. He had Orange Sunshine Express stenciled on a leather vest that went with those pants you mention. The June 1970 Who show was also the first rock concert at the Anaheim Stadium. Must have been quite a fun time, seeing as how the Who was at its peak that summer (this was right before Isle of Wight).

Aquarian Temple BEL is a bit off topic in this post, but as crazy as it may seem, I can vouch for the fact he ran with the BEL as early as high school. He went by the name Chris Wheat--see his other comments in this post--and spent quite a bit of time in Kandahar. His real name is Robert Ackerly and he's the fourth face from the left, second row, in the BEL wanted poster above.

If anyone wants some additional contextual information, there is a haunting book by Rory MacLean, entitled Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India.

However, MacLean actually takes the trail all the way to Kathmandu.

He noted that part of what ended the hippie trail was when Nepal and India changed their older liberal visa policies and in the early 1970s, imposed much higher fees for visa entensions. '...Western governments forced Nepal in 1973 both to revoke long-term tourist visas and to make cannabis use illegal...Life in the East became not only less trippy but more expensive. Kathmandu's chief of police started demanding a 1,000 rupee bribe every month to extend a visa.' page 248.

MacLean does not mention the Brotherhood, but his book may supply some valuable background information, especially for those like me who are just a bit too young to have been able to travel the hippie trail.

The Brotherhood would not have been possible apart from a particular social context that has today nearly been lost. Magic Bus manages to re-create part of that context..and shows us how so much of it has been lost.

(Warning: anyone who is able to remember those days and who travelled that route 40 years ago may end up crying their hearts out if they read this book.)

all things pass

uno says: all things pass

Noodlebowl:

The wooden sounding board at our Zen Center reads as follows:

'Great is the matter of birth and death.
'Time is fleeing, gone, gone
'Wake up,
'Wake up, each one
'Do not waste your life.'

if elvis surfed he would still be alive

Wow, its a Dodge City reunion party here in the Navel Gazing comments section!

This is a message I sent out tonight to some Buddhist teachers who are contemporaries of Ven. Kalu Rinpoche (and I included the link to this article with its AH-some portrait of Brennie & Rinpoche [which translates as: "Precious Jewel"]. Also, after just reading some of the posts- Although I didn't know any of these brothers back then [& therefore "missed out" on having my picture up on that poster on top,heh-heh!], I did carry a cigar box that I had hand-painted & had glued a Bill Ogden "Holding Together Brings Great Good Fortune- Tim Leary Freedom Fund" poster to, and carried around Western HIGH School seeking donations to help pay the "$300K Ransom for his release after being kidnapped by gov't officals," as the poster reads. And Yes, Nick, that Who concert at Anaheim Stadium in '70 was quite a fun time [w/Blue Cheer opening for them, as I recall)& I remember Mr. Sunshine Express (JG) who got my two High School girlfriends Cheryl & Wanda too HIGH to hang out with me, which somewhat was bumming me out... oh well, win some, lose some... And now back to our program...)
"Please do whatever prayers or pujas you can for our Vajra-Brother Brenice Smith, as he is facing serious prison time from LSD distribution & hashish smuggling charges from almost 40 years ago... The next hearing in the Orange County court is Friday, October 16, & he could conceivably spend the rest of his life in prison, even though all he was doing was to help wake people up out of the "Robotic Slumber of Western Dysfunctional Society." He also has a family in Nepal.
Though I never met him, I feel we have a connection as we grew up in the same area and have the same Tsawi Lama (Root Guru), Ven. Kalu Rinpohce. I know first-hand how wrong these Draconian drug laws are and I feel it was only my faith in the Triple Gem and the helpful prayers of my Dharma sisters & brothers that saved me from these same oppressors over these past few months/years/decades..."
So Om Tao/Om Mani Padme Hum/Om Tare Tu Tare Ture So Ha 4 Brennie & May All Your Good Dharma Practice Come to Fruition in Your Dharmic Mandala of the Here & Now, Brother-Man!
-= ~?~ =-

I pray they drop the charges against Brenice Smith

Thank you, Nicholas. Yes, it was quite a fun time, once you got into the venue. There were some scary crowd problems involving exchanging what you thought was your entry ticket for a 'real' ticket.

Sundowner108, the bill that day was Blues Image (sounds close to Blue Cheer), Richie Havens, John Sebastian (knockout!) and the Who. Now *that's* entertainment!

I have a relative who has been on Death Row over 20 years. He's got more happiness and honor than a lot of people on the outside.

Hey G-Frog, thanks for setting the "time machine back on course"... (the ticket exchange thing is a bit of a mental-twister... what does it mean- people received 'fake tickets?')
With our prayers... Maybe Brennie will get off from a rational-headed judge like the one up in Tahoe...
I know of a guy who became Buddhist in what he called the "razor-wire monastery" & he took advantage of his years to do Dharma practice & teach it to other Prisoners of (the Drug) War, & others there. And just like our Burmese, Tibetan, Mongolian, etc. brothers & sisters, who are in prison for "political crimes" like taking refuge in a Living Buddha or simply speaking out for religous &/or political freedoms, etc., we all have our karmic calling in this precious human birth, with its impermanence, cause/effect of our actions of body speech and mind... while dealing with the shortcomings of this illusory existence. (A teaching that brother Brennie undoubtedly knows well, as I received it from the Rinpoche in the photo above! It's called "the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind Toward the Dharma," one of the main observations we make at the onset of our purificatory foundational practice of Tibetan Buddhism) -= ~?~ =-

all things pass

Dear Oathkeepers

Because the grand jury or the F.B.I. has not enforced the Constitution or Honored their Oath http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

In the Rico Act continueing criminal activities of the Federal Reserves Bank and our US Govt., State Of Calif, County,s and City,s.
for their New World Orders North American Union and the Premeditated erosion of our rights and the Constitution for their
unlawful gain.

The controlled substance act, is agenst the Constitution. Henery Anslinger who orchastrated this abomanetion of human dignity, his wife is a heir to the fed reserve
bank. The Tri lateral Commosion, CRC, council on foriegn relations and others supporting forien troops and foriegn powers meeting with our elected Represenitives,on our soil. are commiting Treason and your not doing your job we gave you or Honoring your Oath to Administer Justice.
Your Oath supersedes all illegal orders amd laws from these evil parasites stripping our country of all our ansesters created here.
You must stand up for Freedom now or we will have to remove you for not doing your job we gave you and entrusted you to watch for this kind of crime for us.

Giveing you Our Authority to Administer Justice for All.
Not Just us

We demand the immideat Investigation into the continuing criminal activities of the Fed Reserve Bamk, US Government Justice Dept., US Gonvernment,
All State, City and County Agencys that Honor their Oath to the Constitution that are supporting and engaged in these criminal activities that have us on the Brink of World War, while they steal all our Money with a depression by design.
The illegal Monopoly of the Oil, Paper. Cotton and Man made
Parnacuticuls for the repression of God Grown Herbs, Pot. Opium, Cocoa and others, here before Man.
Since their inception in 1913 the F.R.B. has funded both sides of all wars with Standard Oil and IG Farbin furnishing both sides with products. Prescot Bush was
aressted for having Nazie Money in his Bank. Why don't you know this? Or Are you commiting Treason.

Their illegal New World Orders North American Union at the expense and erosion of our Constitution.
NO, NOT EVER Because WE HONOR OUR OATH


Holding Brieny Smith, In Orange County, who is a Member in our Church, Who,s Sacrement is all that Grows out of the ground in the Universe since 1966.
Is illegal. Please investigate this immedeatly. Honor The Oath

Orange county district attorney is committing TREASON

As a Independant in house investigating jourlnest for Community TV we see many crimes being commited by folks not Honoring Their Oath.

The Catholics grew and processed Wine here in Alma collage during the illegal probiton. I suggest you contact Columbia Universty
For the Law that enabled them to practice our Religion under the Constitution. I am a Catholic also. http://www.columbia.edu/

Please contact me so we can resolve this issue. Investigate this crime to our Freedom, Religious Freedom, Humanity and the very foundation,s of Our Country. Seiz the property and ascets of the Federal Reserve Bank, put them in prison and give us back our money.
Freedom is not Free ask a Combat Veteran

Thank You,
Robert Ackerly D.D., R.A.
Sociel Services level #14 Drug, Child Abuse, Nutrition, and Group Home Management Counselor
Mental Health Review Board District #4 Rep
Homeless.Veterans.Rehabilitation.Program Outreach
President:
Aquarian Temple BEL U.L.C.
Veterans International Production Entertainment Resources
Veterans Green Health Team
Independent Producer Community TV Santa Cruz
Reefer Man Blues Band
Green Body and Mind
Alternatives To Med,s Center
Santa Cruz Freedom Forum
(831) 427-1528

Hey, Sundowner:

All I know is that when we got to Anaheim Stadium there was a near-riot going on, as many thousands of angry people tried to exchange the tickets they bought in advance for an "entry ticket". The big, beefy dudes wouldn't let you in w/o one. Nicholas says it was the first rock concert at that venue; doesn't suprise me. What a SNAFU! It could have easily turned into a Riverfront Stadium scene, also a Who concert.

Here is what I believe:

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All defilement is adventitious
Born from attachment
To objects of fear and desire
No sin stains our deep, original nature
Innocent and shining forever

We arise, exist, and depart
The One remains
Light in the darkness
Darkness in the light
World without end!

So mote it be

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Peace and release to Brenni

More lies by the Orange County DA in their illegal Treason. Their Evil quest to eliminate our Constitution.

No one faced life.

I was convicted of the same charges and did 3 month,s on a A2 Number. That means I was egibale for porole the Day I hit the Termenal Island Federal Prison.
Because the treasonass O.C. DA at that Time
Held me illegally for 4 months,Without representation, denied me my right,s to represent my self, asked my Federal Lawyer to give me time. My Federal Public defender did not show up for the trial and refused To commit TREASON.
The Fed Judge saw through their BS.

This will be brought to Light in our Claim that the FBI is investigating now.

They don,t tell you how they shot Peter Ameranthis down, illegaly moved him. We have a EYE Witness that saw him from 1 foot away in the house from the window.,
O.C.agent J.D.Green committed this Crime of Murder and continuing Treason and criminal activities of the Orange County Judicial system.
NO Weapons ever in the Brotherhood.

All the innocent kids harassed, Locked up with more time than murders and Rapist, child molesters and illegally by our Oathkeepers who do not honor their Oath.

We need to put these Folks in prison for their crimes.
Freedom is not Free ask a Combat Vet.

Stand up for Freedom Call Your FBI now
make a claim and take our Justice system back.
Sanfrancisco@ic.fbi.gov
grandjury@co.santa-cruz.ca.us

Thank You,
Robert Ackerly D.D., R.A.
Sociel Services level #14 Drug, Child Abuse, Nutrition, and Group Home Management Counselor
Mental Health Review Board District #4 Rep
Homeless.Veterans.Rehabilitation.Program Outreach
President:
Aquarian Temple BEL U.L.C.
Veterans International Production Entertainment Resources
Veterans Green Health Team
Independent Producer Community TV Santa Cruz
Reefer Man Blues Band
Green Body and Mind
Alternatives To Med,s Center
Santa Cruz Freedom Forum
(831) 427-1528

Take the Test
Hemp, Opium, Cocoa. (God Grew These)
VS
Oil, cotton, Pharmacy,Paper. (Man, Fed reserve made)

Hay All you Plastic Starr BisketHead,s with Head,s full of Dough here is a Truth Test you can take.
We take what We are Pushing

We ask you to take what your Pushing
Orange County LAW???

The Test
Man made Fed reserve owned
OIL & other poison
Take your vaccume cleaner hose, put one end on your exhaust pipe of your Car. insert it in your car window, roll up the windows, and put your family in the car and start The Car.
Take some heart pills , psych drugs, smoke a cigarette and have a drink.

God Grown on Earth
Hemp. Opium, Cocoa
I will put my family in my car roll the windows up, Smoke Pot, Opium, Cocoa and in the morning we will go have breakfast,
wired, tired, hungry, stoned. In 72 hours all will be out of our system. These make you fell good.

Hay the Orange County Law Just Us System, in that other Car, has taken what their pushing.
Reap What You Sow
Where did they Go?

Shute,s who cares, lets get some Honest Folks with some Spirit and a Soul,
Enlightened with some Compassion and Truth.
Their is no Justice with out Beauty

We Take What We Push
The Masters Of Fun

Love Your Self Don't Judge Your Self
Love Me Don't Judge Me
Smiling Makes You Feel So Good
Laughing Drive,s The Blues Away
That,s how We Work And Play

PEACE & LOVE

The Brotherhood Of Eternal Love

http://www.myspace.com/reefermanbluesband

The OC OS consp. case was a pilot case backed by the feds to get the makers and main distributors of the sacrament. They indicted 50 people by name and 150 "john Doe"'s in a big illegal fishing expedition to create snitches. To the best of my memory all those who held their mud and didn't shit themselves were dismissed. those who couldn't handle jail time copped a guilty plea of a few months and got out.

The advent of freedom and real joy and religious revelation totally freaked out washington. They vowed to stop it. This
was related to me by a CIA agent a few years ago. thus the draconian laws that put the mfgers of psychedelic sacraments in prison for double life sentences. This is pure satanism.

Brennie's case is so old I really don't think it will go anywhere. All he has to do is hold his mud and meditate.

Best thing we can do is get him a decent lawyer and not a public defender.

Nick Sand

Chief Alchemist for the League for Spiritual Discovery and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Never existed,never went away.

LOVE

I would like to thank everyone posting here, especially Nick Sand - a truly wonderful and gracious man.

My first LSD experience was with Orange Sunshine back in 1970 (at the age of 20), and, of course, it changed my life. I met Nick at the 2006 LSD Symposium In Basel (and interviewed him for the Opium Den library several months ago - our most popular download. Thanks Nick!).

I had the honor and privilege to spend a long afternoon with Albert Hofmann (and his beautiful wife, Anita) back in 2003. We spoke of many things, including his thoughts on the wide-spread use of LSD. I was humbled when Albert agreed to write a blurb for my book, The Naked Truth About Drugs (Sasha Shulgin wrote one too).

I host an online talk show, The Opium Den (advocating the repeal of drug prohibition, and invite anyone involved with the Brotherhood to contact me. I'm building an interview library, and would enjoy giving my listeners more info on the early days of LSD - a very popular subject for them.

I will faithfully respect the privacy of anyone interested in appearing on the Opium Den. If you're interested, please let me know.

All the love~

Daniel Williams
williamsdaniel@mac.com

Its awesome to read from you guys. I've just been reading everything i could find on the BOEL and 60's underground counterculture and happened to find this case going on right now.
I'd love to have lived those days, and i feel much respect and admiration fo what some of you did. I hope Brennie's allright, and would like to know how his case continues.
It's so frustrating that the world is so much worse now, so much further away from change. But well...who knows, things are not always what they seem to be. In the sixties the revolution was happening and then it didn't. Now seems very far away but it might just happen, it's all within ourselves.
Love to everyone and thanks so much

Hi everybody,

You can read the latest news on Brenni/Dorje over here:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/breaking-news/brotherhood-of-eternal-love-fu/

For one of the oldest and best Prison Dharma books, get and read Bo Lozoff's classic

"We Are All Doing Time".

Bo Lozoff and his wife Sita started teaching yoga in prison after a loved one of theirs was busted and had to serve hard time.

They ran a community that included people who were released from prison and accept all donations however small. Their motto and they mean it is, they'd rather receive one dallar, given freely in love, than a million dollars given from guilt coercion.

And for those who are still running around, here's this continuing education resource:

http://www.drugwarsurvival.com/

Say Nick I always Loved Orange Sunshine. 1 st it was the Blue Levis, then the yellow barrels then the Orange. It was strong 360 mic each dose. We took 5 to make sure of the ego death. With the help of the Prayer book the voyage was liberating. The take off was rather heavy though. I sat for a couple of days once while they mixed the crystal with the orange base color and we smeared a paste on plastic broads and punched out the tab to dry on a cheese cloth. I'm wondering why it was such a heavy take off like rocket fuel. Later we got some liquid that we took. If you could see it, it was a strong dose. That was real smooth, no rock fuel effect. Why was the orange so heavy? Can you mention anything about that NOW?
Thank you for all the good times.
Michael

While the murderers of Waco walk around free. Bush , Clintons, and Obama the present day thugs are free. This man may go to jail? Sad sick and disgusting

congradulations brenni i thought nick and i were the last of the mohicans.

"in this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticisim." -bhagavad gita