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1. Counterculture  According to Wikipedia In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. T...
2. Edie Sedgwick Known largely as muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick is remembered today for being a part of the 1960’s counterculture, as well as for her her style, especially her waif-like figure, long earrings, black tights and charcoal eyeliner. She was bor...
3. Psychedelic Drugs Psychedelic means "soul manifesting" or "mind manifesting" and refers to a class of coupounds ingested for thier mind-changing, consciousness expanding effects. This lens features some of the best resources for understanding and h...
4. Psychedelic Videos Psychedelic means to manifest the mind (or soul). The meaning of psychedelic has been transliterated by our culture into trippy, mind-expanding and highly visual displays. This psychedelic experience has been represented by artists creations includi...
5. Everything About Ecstasy AKA MDMA Twenty years ago, I wrote the first book ever published about Ecstasy: the mind changing chemical called MDMA. When I wrote the book, Ecstasy was legal and so I know a lot about its effects on people from first hand experience. The book is called Ec...
6. Albert Hofmann The Man Who Discovered LSD Albert Hofmann created LSD in his laboratory at Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company in 1938 and in 1943 he was the first person to take it. LSD is the most powerful psychedelic and extremely potent. Hofmann tested LSD on himself and had an intense experie...
7. Tom Robbins The first book of Tom Robbins I read was Jitterbug Perfume back in 1998. It as a rich textured story, a journey of the senses about how to make scent. It is also a story about a woman finding herself through her travels to New Orleans of search of th...
8. PBR. Why you never hear about it and why people are drinking it. PBR as it is known, is making quite a comeback. From Portland Oregon to Asheville, North Carolina, PBR is a cult beer. They don't advertise but in cities like these, it is becoming the beer of choice for those that don't want to be told what to drink...
9. Timothy Leary Timothy Leary is considered by some to be one of the greatest men of his generation. He wrote over 40 books, was a professor at Harvard University in Psychology and had roles in many Hollywood movies. Perhaps his most important role was as the father...
10. Aldous Huxley Who was Aldous Huxley and why should you know about him? Well first of all, Aldous Huxley was a celebrated 20th Century Englsih novelist with some of the best books you would ever want to read. But in addition to writing a fiction, Huxley was a brill...
11. Messenger from the Summer of Love This book inspires us to remember that love is the most important thing, and that we can live life in a way that brings joy to our souls and thereby uplift the consciousness of others whose lives we touch. Messenger from the Summer of Love is a fun...
12. Guide to Becoming a Hippie Please note: this is NOT a lens about being a hippie (that's a separate lens).  This is a lens about becoming a hippie.  Got it?   1.  Turn on: Jjust avoid drugs, drugs are for squares, hippies gave drugs up for the most part...
13. The LSD Story LSD is the most powerful mind changing compound in the world! Just a small fleck almost too tiny of LSD Crystal too tiny to see has the potential to send you on the trip of your life, an experience you will always remember. In the Sixties, LSD was t...
14. Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing Lenses Headquarters Here are Bruce Eisner, the creator of the popular Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing Blog and his Lenses on Squidoo. Explore the wide variety of topics which capture the interest and imagination of this noted counterculture writer and thinker exploring...
15. Bruce Eisner Growing up in the LA suburbs in the 1950s, I felt like I was on a conveyor belt in an industrial factory, being molded and shaped into what my parents and society wanted me to become. But as I emerged from adolescence, the hippie culture blossomed al...
16. Holly Harp "I've been designing clothes since the late 1960s. I always try to remind myself that I am dressing a woman's soul as well as her body. Souls and bodies do best when they are relaxed, fluid, and comfortable. They love to play "dress-up." They love a...
17. Alternative Lifestyles Well - it makes a change from "world". Seriously though, when I first heard of making a "Lens" I had visions of something excitingly graphical (I'm a designer at heart) but it is of course more about connections and links. My regul...
18. International Politics and Life I am part of a team of dedicated and talented writers working in all corners of the world to examine and discuss politics and culture and how it relates to daily life. We've got an interesting take on things, so I encourage you to read more here and...