Product Description

There are moments in history that usher in a new dawn. In America, in the sixties, that moment was the summer of 67'. My book is a story that goes to the foundation of the New Age movement, in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Many of us remember how something mysterious and wonderful touched the world at that time. We remembered our essence: we remembered how to love.

I've always believed that this story would eventually be told. It has a universal message of Love and a very important warning for our time. I hope this will serve to reawaken that spirit that was The Summer of Love.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #414138 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 183 pages

Review
"..after reading this book, I for one have a renewed sense of meaning and purpose." -- -Skip Stone author of Hippies from A-Z

"If you are curious as to what really went on during the hippie era, then this book is for you." -- Paul De Mey, editor of New Renaissance Magazine

"There was definitely something extraordinary - even profound - about that time.. this novel is a perfect metaphor - It turned me on." -- Melody Record, book reviewer for Good Times Entertainment Magazine, Santa Cruz, CA

Customer Reviews

Great Experience From the Summer of Love
I enjoyed this book very much. It was an interesting read and it shows that only with direct and personal experience (satsang) with the Master can a person subjectively observe the Master's Is-ness and inner transformation. And that is what this story is about; a spiritual experience of great importance, affecting and transforming the life of this author. After reading Charles Perry's Haight-Ashbury historical account and Gene Anthony's pictorial account, Robert Roskind's memoires of ex-hippiedom, Tom Woolfe's bio on the Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters adventures, along with this read, you really can feel for the cultural, social and political climate at that time and the place, and get a feel for the Master and appreciate the idea of a such a Being living here amongst us in knowledge and yet still in vulnerablity. Great read.

Far Out
I lived through the Summer of Love, and my own experience was far less adventurous or groovy than the events described in this fictional account. That shouldn't be surprising, since the story is about the calling and initiation of a few flower children (and others) into a path of lifelong spiritual service. This isn't a novel meant to fictionally convey to the reader what the SoL was like...rather, it's a way of viewing it as a spiritual event, a hinge around which human choices and events might turn one direction or another.

So far as reading goes, I did not notice the many typos or other problems mentioned by previous reviewers--perhaps those have been cleaned up. The story itself is made stronger by being expressed in language of the time and the characters being humanly comprehensible...in other words, they are not "perfect beings."

Still, there's a lot of auras, and golden light, and third eyes--the sort of thing that works if you're receptive, but not so much so, if your personal inclination goes in a different direction.

In sum, this is a pleasant and hopeful story, but one that on reflection can lead the reader to think about what has happened since 1967. Has the world improved? Have you?

Enjoyable Read Stating Simple Truths
I can tell you that reading this book definitely resonates with something deep inside. Even though I wasn't born during the 'Summer of Love', I can get a sense of what it must've been like. It doesn't matter since the message is timeless. Definitely a must-read !!!