Under John Cooke’s guidance, the San Francisco Oracle was established by Michael Bowen in 1966 in order to promote counter-cultural messages and teachings about love and peace. ‘The Story of T-Ruth’ was published as a one-page article in issue 9 of the Oracle, right at the high point of the Summer of Love. According to R.W. Bruch, this…
Category: Counterculture
John Cooke’s last letter to Michael Bowen
The following letter was written by John Starr Cooke a week before he died in 1976 in Tepoztlan, Mexico. It was sent to Michael Bowen in San Francisco as he prepared to leave for Europe for the second time. When the letter arrived and Michael opened it, John’s picture (kept on the wall under glass…
Counterculture
“John [Starr Cooke] told me that the Hippie/Love movement started in his living room in 1962. I didn’t understand what he meant by that for many years.”– Jordan Rivers Do you remember this iconic image from the 60s? The ‘Flower Power’ photograph by Bernie Boston, taken during the ‘March on The Pentagon’, October 21, 1967.…
Destiny is the meaning of the Royal Maze…
Destiny is the meaning of the Royal Maze… destiny has brought you here and destiny is always NOW. The term ‘New Age’ has been passed around so much since the Sixties that it has become something of a catch-all for anything outside the mainstream, with its meaning blurred and distorted, much like the surface of an…