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JM - A Message To Young People

Copyright by JM A Record is a message to young people: to people under the age of 25, and certainly to people under the age of 40. If you’re over the age of 40, I’m not sure that you should listen to this record. What I’m going to say might make you mad. I don’t like to get people mad. I particularly don’t like to get people over the age of 40 mad, because these are the people who have guns and handcuffs and prisons—a wide variety of instruments of metal with which they punish people who get them mad. Young people, for the most part, aren’t so concerned with control and power. They’re much more involved in having fun, being curious, exploring their sensual equipment, making adventurous explorations, making love, trying to learn what it’s all about. I have personal experience which has taught me how fierce people over 40 can be with those who challenge their beliefs. Down in Texas there are a group of men over 40 who got so mad at what I’m saying that they sentenced me to prison for 30 years. And up here in New York state there are another group of men over 40 who want to put me in jail for another 16 years for saying the sort of thing that I’m going to say on this record. I’m cutting this tape on the third floor of the Castalia Foundation in Millbrook, New York. The Castalia Foundation is a psychedelic center, a place for consciousness expansion, a spiritual retreat, a center for experimentation in the use of psychedelic or mind-opening drugs. As you would expect from a place designed to produce beautiful experiences, the Castalia Foundation is located in a beautiful spot. I can look down on acres of green lawn. Down there on the left, underneath the trees, I can see a meditation house: a one-room jewel box where people go for a few days, or a week at a time, to live in silence, cut off from the pressure of the world; turn on, tune in, to their inner possibilities. Just beyond the meditation house there’s an iron gate which leads down stone stairs to a meditation garden. There’s a huge maple tree, 20 feet in diameter, with ponderous, stately limbs. About 15 feet up in the tree there’s a tree house lashed with spider web roping. A beautiful elven girl with golden hair is living there this week. Beyond the tree there’s an apple orchard and an organic garden. Farther out around the house there are meadows, sacred groves, pine forests, a waterfall, brooks.