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Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

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The true story of the drug-smuggling, church-founding “Hippie Mafia”: “A definitive history of the dark side of the 1960s.” —Los Angeles Times Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They began as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers. But after discovering LSD, they embraced Timothy Leary’s mantra of “Turn on, tune in, and drop out” and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation. Just days after California became the first US state to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its Laguna Beach headquarters, where they sold blankets and other paraphernalia. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hash, Hawaiian pot (the storied Maui Wowie), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of it smuggled in secret compartments inside surfboards and VW minibuses driven across the border. They befriended Leary, enlisting him in the goal of buying a tropical island where they could install the former Harvard philosophy professor and acid prophet as the high priest of an experimental utopia. The Brotherhood’s most legendary contribution to the drug scene was homemade: Orange Sunshine, their trademark acid tablet that produced an especially powerful trip. Their foot soldiers passed out handfuls at communes, Grateful Dead concerts, and love-ins up and down the coast. The Hell’s Angels, Charles Manson and his followers, and the unruly crowd at the infamous Altamont festival all tripped out on this acid. Jimi Hendrix even performed a private show for the Brotherhood on the slope of a Hawaiian volcano. Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the group, combining exclusive interviews with both the surviving members and the cops who chased them. A wide-ranging narrative of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll (and more drugs), Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Dunne Books; Reprint edition (March 16, 2010)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 16, 2010


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 3771 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • Orange Sunshine
Nicks book is a Great Read of the High Times and True Adventures of My homeboys since 1957 Fremont Jr. High School. Nick Turned On and Tuned In to the outside fringes of the Original BEL. Most of the interviews were with the known rip off and Snitches. Like Stewart Tendler and Ed Mays Book is so full of B.S. We never were a motorcycle club or bullies. Nick did a miracle good unbiased job getting what he got but just scratched the surface like i say. From what I saw. To Bad I am the only one He could talk to from that Time and I was not hanging With John, Jimmy Dale , Lizard, Johnny Daw, Fasty in 57 cause I just moved there.I was in class with them. I was hanging out With J. C., Tommy and Freddy Tunnel then Lil Billy Erskine joined us. J.C. turned me on to pot in 1960 and LSD in 65 when I came back from Viet Nam after stockpiling Old ammo from Port Chicago California from 62 to Philippines getting ready for the War to 64. J.C. and Johns Parents moved to California together in the 50s. J.C. Was the first one to bring God into the LSD session from what I heard. J.C. and Tommy T. Lil Bill and Me Had mental telepathy of the highest degree and I still bump Tommy T. hope to see him soon. Orange Sunshine is a Classic unreal Read but how come they don't arrest JD Green for shooting Peter In the back and moving his body or the old John Birchers who said the burned Mystic Arts World down? As We march on Occupy Wall street, the federal reserve bank and the Nazi America War Machine that Our fellow Nazi Americans are paying taxes for to their Nazi Masters We can End The Fed Reserve Bank End WAR, POVERTY, TAXES AND 95% OF CRIME. Prescott bush was arrested for having Nazi money on his bank. Rockefellers Standard Oil, Exxon and Mobil Oil furnished the chemicals for the Japan and Germans planes and submarines to operate. Since their inception in 1913 They funded every side of every war, created the prohibition, controlled substance act, Depression and rescission by design and their biggest product is War. [...]) Now is the time to stand up for Your rights. The Publisher Weekly, Ted Turners Time Warner, Fox, CBS and all our newspapers and major media are pushing the Nazi War Machine and want to eliminate 95% of the population. This is on their monument Ted Made and in print at their World government, United Nations the Rockefeller and Rothschild built and pay for the home of the OLD New World Order of Nazis. Did you think the Nazis went away? ([...]) Get Hip to the Man don,t Be lame playing his game your working for the American Nazi man ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2011 by Robert Ackerly
    • Well-written but Gloomy book about Sunshine
I must say this book was extremely well-written and seems to have been pretty impressively researched, but it was a real bummer to read! It seemed to just give mostly the negative aspects of this magnificent time period in history. Certainly not much "sunshine" to be found in these pages. The ugliest characters weren't the "drug dealers" (who the author painted a pretty unsavory picture of), but the nasty cops and former CIA narcs who kept busting them relentlessly for years. There's even a picture of one of the creeps standing next to a beautiful mountain goat he'd just killed in Afghanistan (I suppose he had some time on his hands in between busting hippies). There was also a disturbing amount of busted Brotherhood folks turning snitch after they were arrested. Those not sitting in prison, having been cut off from the hashish overseas by the DEA, turning to using and selling the devilish cocaine instead -- which proved to be the final death knell to the Brotherhood's Quest. Since the author didn't "flesh" out any of the characters, it was all just kind of a one-dimensional view. I'd say overall, it was interesting in a historical way, but left a bad aftertaste as yet another example of the futility of the war on drugs and the ugly repercussions it's been leaving in its path for the past 40 years. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2013 by Escher's Paradox
    • Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out in Laguna Beach in the 60's
We just moved to the Laguna Beach area and while doing research about the history of the area I found this book. I am 63 and lived near Boston when this was all going on in CA in the late 60's but was part of the wild teen culture at that time and can relate. This book hit the mark as far as providing a history about how the hippie drug culture spread across America due to the deliberate dispersion from a few select areas and groups. The Brotherhood was one of those groups and Laguna Beach was one of the epicenters for this dispersion. Interesting real period characters are named and described and the naive boldness and blind luck of how they got as far as they did in their mission to enlighten the world via LSD is amazing. The only con I can come up with is that some of the characters (people) mentioned, other than the main ones, are hard to keep straight sometimes. However, it is such a good overview of a unique group at a unique time in history that it is a minor flaw. If you are at all interested in this period you will love this book while listening to Jefferson Airplane (particularly: White Rabbit). ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017 by Michael Serfes
    • These guys were smart, resilient, resourceful and apparently had balls of steel!
I expected to like this book and boy did I! These guys were smart, resilient, resourceful and apparently had balls of steel! This is an easy to read fast moving book about people I knew nothing about although I lived through the time and I've read widely about it! The Brotherhood of Eternal Love were the biggest hash smugglers of the era and one of the most broadly successful LSD distribution organizations of the post legal era. I remember the "Orange Sunshine" of the time, in the early 70’s, but I didn't know how we got it and where it came from. If you are interested in this time and place there is a lot to be learned here including the “high minded” initial motivations of this young group of Southern California Acid Head Surfer Dudes. Throw in Tim Leary and Andy Warhol for good measure! This is a great read! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020 by Anthony J. Desena

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