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in Spooner's post office, perhaps we would enjoy an enclosed tract on his economic ideas. So began a corresnondence which has been one of the longest, most intense, most stimulating, rewarding, enriching, enlighten- ing, sometimes scary -- and certainly the most unusual -- of my entire life. I will return to it, from time to time, as it be- comes relevant, later on in my story. The spring of 1967 brought with it the Easter Love-In in Griffith Park, and the subsequent Griffith Park Human Be-Ins or Love-Ins. I regard these as the most important historic events with which I have been associated. They showed many thousands of us that the idea of a New Age was a real possibility, not just a pretty dream. While I remained a free enterprise libertarian in my economics, the whole question of economics subsisded in importance for me in order to malte room in my consciousness for the other ideas that were flooding the cultural atmosphere of that time and place. I was absorbing philosophical influences faster than I could integrate them. All at once I was an SDS-style New Lefter, a student of Zen, a Provotarian anarchist, an Aldous Huxley, Man Watts, and Radio Free Oz freal: a General Semanticist, a Timothy Leary fan, an admirer of Gary Snyder, and a Taoist, etc. I felt that at some future time I could drop out and mull over all this input and evolve from it a more consistent personali credo. There was a song by the Buffalo Springfield which was popular in those days which contained the line: "Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep. And that's pretty much how the Garrison Probe entered my life, at a slow creep, as one trend among many. At some point I learned that Garrison was not accusing Castro -- either from David Lifton, or from the Nort Sahl show, or from the Los Angeles Frce Press. That was vaguely disturbing to me and revived my fears of a second cover-up that would really be credible, but there were far too many positive things occupying my attent- ion for me to spare very much of it worrying about Jim Garrison. Then one day I got a letter from Clint Bolton in which he mentioned in passing that Garrison was "fanning out in all dir- ections" and expressed surprise that I had not been dragged into it. Then he said that on second thought I was much too sane, that everyone involved in the thing so far was a raving lunatic. Also, one day Lifton called me and expressed the opinion that I knew some things which would interest Garrison. I had a number of reasons by that time for distrusting Garrison as a person bits of French Quarter gossip, some of which later turned out not to be true -- and I expressed these to David, I think, without going into my theory of a second cover-up, feeling he would think me paranoid. So it went.

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