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Orange sunshine, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its quest to spread peace, love, and acid to the world, Nicholas Schou

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Orange sunshine

bibliography

Nicholas Schou

the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its quest to spread peace, love, and acid to the world

Told for the first time, this is the inside story of the rise and fall of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the group of California hippie surfers dubbed the ?Hippie Mafia.? Based out of the ?O.C.,? the Brotherhood grew into a worldwide drug cartel in the late 1960s and early ?70s. They also were an officially registered church committed to spreading the spiritual philosophies of their mentor Timothy Leary throughout the world, via their powerful homemade acid, ?Orange Sunshine.? Nicholas Schou delved deep into the Brotherhood?s story, and was able to gain access to long-silent former members who discussed such things as their international hash smuggling network, and to the cops who sought to bust them. A widesweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock ?n? roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia. In a book that draws on interviews with former members of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and the cops who sought to bust them, the author relates the story of the "Hippie Mafia," an organization that was part of a hash-smuggling network and was committed to spreading its spiritual philosophies, and homemade LSD, around the world in the 60s and 70s