The Future Looks Bright
That was then - when the Great March for Peace was about to change the world, when Pasadena was beginning to battle creeping quiche, when the Motels were the band to watch - and this is now. Some glimpses of the future from the past, through the time warp of the present: From "Hitting the Fan in 2002," by Michael Ventura; January 11, 1979Prediction One: Psychic Powers Accepted and CultivatedWithin the next 10 years there will be a burst of psychic activity. It will be like jogging - one year nobody did it, the next year thousands are doing it. Thousands will start cultivating their psychic powers with the discipline and energy they now use for running. The techniques needed to develop psychic powers, which have been around for thousands of years, are being popularized in modern terms by various books and by groups such as Lawrence LeShan's workshops. The changes artificially induced by the drugs of the '60s will be multiplied a hundredfold, and God alone knows what happens then - for no doubt the darkness in our natures will have its say along with the light.What will a race with heightened psychic powers mean to government, entertainment and industry? For human
Such a change will be a while coming, though. And yet, to see them together is to recognize as well two adults who, with considerable affection, seem to have accepted that they are each other's life mates. I'd have been a numb and dumb pill-popping blonde. It's mutated rhythm & blues, as guitarist Fretts Ferrari once described it: music of the heart and soul filtered through the technology of the '70s. What other couple has dedicated themselves to building a political organization and movement based on progressive political ideas and framed their lives around that very unlikely lifestyle? No others that leap to mind. Once a quiet, Old World neighborhood, loved by longtime residents but unknown to the larger population of L. Creep ing quiche is threat ening to bury the neighbor hood in a gooey consistency. And late at night, these elfish identities convene to chat and play mind games.
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