Stoned Hippies Chant Hare Krishna In Field

Diangle just shared some new-to-me Family footage from 1971’s Glastonbury festival.  I had been unaware that so many giants played there (Gong, Fairport Convention and Arthur Brown, to name a few) and was awed at the great Glastonbury Fayre documentary.  Italy's Akarma has pricey boxed reissues available, but a whole lot of clips are available in your tub.

I’m most interested in this more religious portion of the movie, which culminates in a speech by Prem Rawat.  This is why pagan hippys are my favorite hippys – you get the feeling the fayre was more of a religious gathering than a music festival.  Must be the “powerful magnetic fields” that connect Glastonbury to Stone Henge.

Prem Rawat was only thirteen at the time, but DOG!  Great speaker, he acts like a prophet! “If the God is equal, if the God is one and God is same, then His Knowledge will be also equal.  And it cannot be attained by going to different sects, it is within you.”

I remember that God is definitely not within when I hear Rawat say “to go anywhere, you need some money, some pounds…my pounds are the love and the devotion pounds that can only be attained by your bank.”  I shit my pants when I heard that!  Just to get this straight: people are animals and we're all utterly alienated from God.  Brilliant at thirteen, Rawat’s newish Words Of Peace series smacks of typical new-agey-self-help flufff.

Comments

[Brian Turner]

I have the video of that Glastonbury 71 doc and the Fairport Convention bit is as stunning as the Family clip. They almost sound like Lightning Bolt or something, I'm not exaggerating...

[boil]

Brian, can you steer us in that direction? It sounds super awesome.
BTW, if you were to replace any figure in this posted clip with Christopher Lee, and you'd have the next (lost) generation of Hammer.

[Bruce]

fuckin sad. we are dogs and we run after any scrap thrown our way. me included. a pathetic but graphic frame on our absolute need to connect. may we all connect.