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  • Orange Sunshine

  • The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
  • By: Nicholas Schou
  • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
  • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)

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Orange Sunshine

By: Nicholas Schou
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
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Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia", the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation, and literally providing the fuel for the psychedelic revolution in the process.

Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the Brotherhood, combining exclusive interviews with both the group's surviving members as well as the cops who chased them. A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.

©2010 Nicholas Schou (P)2021 Tantor
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Fascinating

The story of this interesting group of people who decided they were going to enlighten the world with LSD and marijuana it’s totally fascinating, and is a part of the history of this country that most people are unaware of.

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I remember orange sunshine.

This book was a lot of fun taking me back to my hippie memories. Now I know where that orange sunshine came from.

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Trip down the rabbit hole

what a great book, alot of insight on how hash and lsd kicked off in the United States! thanks to all responsible as I feel LSD among with other psycadelics being so important in the discussion of mental illness and mind, space and time exploration 🤓safe travels

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Incredible story

This book really drives home the fact that Taco Bell has pretty much always been a big part of cannabis culture.

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The first 5 minutes.

I love the story. I was excited to fill in this portion of my 60’s historical knowledge. A crazy telling about the goings ons affiliated with the surf community of Laguna Beach during the mid late 60’s… I was hooked. But the entirety of it was disappointing in its delivery. It had some exciting story telling of the drug runs through Europe, to Afghanistan and back to the US. The narrator was hard for me to listen to and often put me to sleep.

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