The Hippie Mafia
Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World: Nicholas Schou: 9780312607173: Amazon.com: Books
My Karate Instructor, when I was a little kid, used to surf with the leader of the Hippie Mafia John Griggs. The last government case against these tweakers ended in 2009. The son of
Cecil Hicks (Cecil Hicks was the original prosecutor in the first Hippie Mafia case) prosecuted the last member of the Hippie Mafia finally closing the books in 2009.
The indictments began in 1972 and
didn't end until 2009. That's a LONG time for a case to resolve!
Oden Fong, the famous pastor at Calvary Chapel was a member of this group. What happened to him is he took an entire vial of LSD at Joshua Tree national monument and went on a trip of trips. The people that were with him said he passed out.
Oden recounts that he found himself in a dark place utterly alone on some spiritual plane and began calling out every name of a holy being he had ever learned starting with Buddha but nothing happened and no one came. Finally in desperation he yelled out Jesus Christ and at that moment a blazing spiritual being so bright that he had to turn his back and look away from the being came up to him and said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."
Oden had never heard these words before. He wasn't brought up in church, never read the Bible, never hung around a Christian. When he came back, he began a search to find out what that meant and ended up in Calvary where he was born again and today is renown pastor there.
But here, let Oden tell you his story himself:
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