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There I am, Ted Self, top left, 20 years ago, just before I moved to the farm in Summertown Tenn. I first started smoking pot and tripping in 1971, when I was 16. My dad found out I was tripping and gave me a beating. I hitch-hiked out west and ended up on Rainbow Family Tribe south of Eugene Oregon, with Garrick and about 50 others. Before eating we would all gather in a great circle and chant, many would chat OM. I asked a friend what is this OM? He said, "Man, OM is like sending out love vibrations to every living being." I think we had the last of the pure LSD25 that year, and I had a nice guided meditation. I soon came back home to continue my education and started smoking and tripping with my dad, who obviously figured if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. We lived across the street from the local hippy hangout, Avondale Park, and on March 18,1973 Stephen Gaskin came with the Farm band for a gig. Soon dad and I started visiting the Farm often, and made lots of friends. Later in 1979 after dad died me and my first wife moved to the Farm. (Die hard hippies!) The farm was at that time billed as the worlds largest longhaired spiritual community, with around 1,300 folks living there. To attempt to join, one had to agree to certain guidelines including: No alcoholic beverages, no tobacco, no meat eating, no chemical drugs, no artificial birth control. Now I was a pothead and pot was hard to find, because the Farm had been busted, and you had to know someone to keep a supply of pot. Also my wife had went off the pill and her temperature chart was not working, so soon I realized, "Here I am on a hippy commune and I have no drugs or sex!" We soon left the farm. Two divorces and several years of drug (mostly cocaine) abuse later I decided I had had enough. Sick of friends who rip you off, sick of being afraid to see a cop in my rear-view mirror, sick of having no money, I decided to quit drugs. I got my guru to help me. I still respect the people of the tribes I have known, and I love them always, but I am reformed. To those who say drugs bring them closer to God I ask: "And what happens when you die? Can you take drugs with you?" Through the magic of computers I have found that I can do worthwhile things, like leading others to my Divine Guru, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. I have put up many webpages and a message board dedicated to him. By the way, one of his meditation techniques teaches you to hear the inner sound of OM, and it is still like sending out love vibrations to every living being. It is inner communion, the voice of Divine Mother within. OM Guru, OM Shanti, Jai Guru, OM, peace.
Stephen Gaskin, spiritual teacher of the Farm.
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