CASE STUDY – The Human Be In jan 1967 san fancisco bay area Michael Bowen said the be in would be a
“Gathering of two tribes” “One of the main purposes of the be-in…was to bring together cultural and political rebels who did not always see eye to eye on strategies for liberation.” “In effect the goal was to psychedelicize the radical left.” “The attempt was to bring together political radicals and acid devotees, in Golden Gate Park, to celebrate what the editor of a new freak paper, the San Francisco Oracle, called "a union of love and activism previously separated by categorical dogma and label mongering."
Timothy Learys appearance His appearance at the be in and speech was to publicise and promote the League for Spiritual Discovery Timothy Leary
the be-in lost its efforts to join two the groups
ACID DREAMS Book pg 159 the sixties gitlin PDF (saved in new left docs) pg 201
tour to promote his new group, the League for Spiritual Discovery. The League had only two commandments - "Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow man" and "Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his own consciousness."
ACID DREAMS Book pg 161
“The High Priest of the psychedelic movement spoke of expanded consciousness”
ACID DREAMS Book pg 161 ACID DREAMS Book pg 162
LSD publicising at the be- “The be-in was the culmination of everything in that had been brewing in the Haight, and people were still buzzing from it weeks later. If LSD already had a reputation as a drug of peace and love, the be-in swelled it to gigantic proportions.” POINT:NEW LEFT + HIPPIE CLASH
ACID DREAMS Book pg 159 ACID DREAMS Book pg 159
leads from case study into the clash between NEW LEFT and HIPPIE “the Oracle group failed to accomplish one of its major goals: the unification - if only on a symbolic level - of political radicals and psychedelic dropouts. If anything, the be-in tended to underscore the differences between the two camps.”
ACID DREAMS Book pg 164