Posted on 09/07/2015 7:43:14 AM PDT by rktman
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — Timothy Leary, the late father of LSD, was memorialized at Burning Man after a fantastic procession and burning of his ashes in the Black Rock Desert.
It was a spectacle that not even he probably could have imagined, as actress Susan Sarandon led a march with his ashes into a temporary church built as an art installation in the desert for the week-long festival.
The church was scheduled to burn as part of the event on Saturday after the “man”, a giant wooden structure, burned.
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“How did Dammit Janet get custody of Leary’s ashes?”
Interesting story, particularly when it was widely reported in 1997 his ashes had been sent into space. Link to NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/22/world/a-final-turn-on-lifts-timothy-leary-off.html
In addition to Susie Saranwrap being a Hollywood leftie nutcake, she is also a woman of 67 baring her legs in public while wearing bridal white. Not good, not good.
Note to Susan: even in these times, marriage is usually between people of opposite sexes who are actually living.
Leni
Ironic since Timothy has been doing his own burning man thing since 1996.
Wavy Gravy,August 1969
I thought they shot Timothy Leary’s ashes into space?
The article says they shot most of them in to space but I guess some of the true believers got some just in case of.................something.
Yup. Susan is reliving her (wasted) youth as moves into the (to her) unknown and gathering darkness that is old age. How unhappy a person she must be, and how fearful (despite her fake optimism).
Tim, what kept you with her this long?
Her death scene in Team America was the best of all the celebrities.
Tim was so full of chemicals, maybe there’s a high in snorting the ashes (paging Keith Richards).
I didn’t really know what Burning Man was. I swear I thought it was some kind of music festival. Now I went and looked up what they are and here are their 10 Principles.
The 10 Principles of Burning Man
Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception.
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Join the conversation in the 10 Principles blog series.
Join the conversation in the 10 Principles blog series.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
Me again. What a load of carp. These are out and out lies written in touchy freely for the youthful and dumb.
Each one contradicts the next. All about giving? Giving by itself with no gracious receiving is selfish and controlling. See all mafia dons, ever. They give, all right, but it is only to establish superiority and debt.
Individual self reliance yet social participation as equal principles? Is that like, when we need your work, you’d better be there, but hey, if you are sick or hungry you are On your Own?
Notice what is missing? CARING for people. Putting the needs of others before yourself. Kindness.
It’s all a bunch of bull.
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