{"id":11519,"date":"2016-01-14T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:00:29","slug":"the-age-of-aquarius-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/01\/the-age-of-aquarius-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Aquarius Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I find it nearly incompressible that it was forty-nine years ago that the Human Be-In was held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. <\/p>\n

My generation had been born into a period of unprecedented wealth and wealth more broadly spread than ever before, and with that access to education and information generally. And, at the same time in the same place there was terrible poverty, and racism, and homophobia, and full on sexism, and symbolic of so much, a bloody symbol at that, our country was torn apart by our involvement in a war in southeast Asia, itself a proxy for a great conflict between what our elders chose to call East and West. Oh yes, birth control, and, psychedelics, and mutually assured destruction all happened right then.<\/p>\n

Something trembled in its birthing. Some great turning seemed at hand. Of course the Human Be-In as a marker for the turning is arbitrary, and can\u2019t really be right, too much happened before, too much after. <\/p>\n

But, something was definitely happening. So, why not mark it here?<\/p>\n

Later some small sense of this promised new age would be caught in a musical, if not fully accurately captured.<\/p>\n