IVIV p 76 Out at Joshua Tree, doing peyote

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 22:15:49 CDT 2009


"Out at Joshua Tree, doing peyote.  Ascending into the sky haloed in 
an all-but-unwatchable radiance toward spacecraft not of earthy origin."

Although the two sentences stand separate, there is a strong Joshua 
Tree and UFO connection. George Van Tassel's annual flying saucer 
conventions took place not far from the City of Joshua Tree from the 
mid '50s to the mid '70s at Giant Rock which is a very big rock

http://www.integratron.com/2History/History.html
. . . UFO conventions at Giant Rock for almost 20 years to raise 
money for the Integratron project and asked supporters for donations. 
In 1959, 11,000 people attended the spacecraft convention, and Van 
Tassel continued to work on the Integratron while writing a number of 
books on time travel and rejuvenation.

P must have dreamed the peyote part or heard it from twits that think 
the area looks like peyote country.  I consider peyote and marijuana 
to be medicine.

On another topic, Ojai is the New Age capitol of the universe.




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