Woodstock, Aug. 15-18, 1969

• Woodstock Arts and Music Festival, 1969

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Commonly referred to simply as Glastonbury Festival and known colloquially as "Glasto," this five-day festival of performing arts is held near Pilton, Somerset, England, most summers. It is the biggest open-air festival in the world.

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In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.

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Films and albums have been recorded at the festival, and it receives extensive TV and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury takes place on 1,500 acres of farmland [3] and is attended by about 200,000 people [4], with extensive security, transportation, water, and electricity-supply infrastructure (stuff built on the ground).

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While the number of attendees is sometimes swollen by gatecrashers, a record of 300,000 people was set at the 1994 festival, headlined by the Levellers, who performed on the Pyramid Stage [5].

Most festival staff are unpaid volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for charity organizations [6].

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What kind of hippie festival?

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Regarded as a major event in contemporary British culture, the festival is inspired by the ethos of the hippie, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the free festival movement. [It's the British version of Woodstock.]

Vestiges of these traditions are retained in the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures, the Stone Circle, and Healing Field [7].

Michael Eavis hosted the first one, then called the Pilton Festival, after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert in 1970 at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. More: Glastonbury Festival

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Isle of Wight Music Festival comes alive

Rare photos of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival brought to life [with AI]

(Fusion Kidd) June 16, 2025: As Glastonbury 2025 opens, what is the history of other open-air festivals akin to Woodstock? Here are some rare photos of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, but in this case they are colorized and brought to life with animated motion (1968–1970). How the ChatGPT or AI modeling is able to project what happened after these photographs were taken is the mystery of something going into AI's black box and something else coming out with no one able to explain what happened in between.

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Contact in the Desert (May 30-June 3)

Contact in the Desert | May 30-June 3, 2024: The world’s leading UFO/UAP conference is as a beacon of intellectual discourse dedicated to exploring the frontiers of knowledge in UAP (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the future of technology and space travel, secret space, non-human intelligence, spirituality, and health and wellness. Get tickets now for “The Woodstock of UFOlogy.” It “is a weekend of education into the science of UFOs and extraterrestrial life,” according to Forbes.

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New photos of original Woodstock 1969

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(Prime Discovery) March 30, 2024: The summer of 1969's Woodstock Music and Art Festival was legendary. With an epic lineup that included everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Grateful Dead, the festival has gone down in history as one of the most iconic events of 1960's youth counterculture. It set a precedent for epic music festivals that is still unrivalled today. Coachella is one of the largest at a max of 150,000 each weekend. Woodstock had 500,000. But who knew there were photos from Woodstock that have never been revealed? Well, let’s look at them. New photos of iconic Woodstock with stories to match? What can be seen that stands out and unveils another side of this historic festival? Let’s take a journey back in time.

World's kids visit Dalai Lama in Himalayas

DalaiLama.com, 2018; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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We were curious, as we're sure many people are, where the Dalai Lama (the "pope-king" of Tibet in exile in the India's Himalayas, Dharamsala in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh) stands on the Israel-Palestine divide.

The Jewish JAO flag

He wouldn't take sides, certainly not against JuBus (Jewish Buddhists) and/or their symbols (and nothing is more symbolic than a state and homeland of their very own ever since they rejected that other state given to them, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Far East rather than the geopolitical Middle East).

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It was a hippie dream kibbutz kind of commune vibe, but the CIA and MI5 didn't like it or back it: Jews were needed in the Middle East to be the spear point of American imperialism for the West's control of Islam and oil-rich lands). All we found is that "his holiness" back in 2018 had a conversation with the children of Woodstock. Not the good Woodstock of the 1960s, where a pack of hippie Jews held a really far out festival that became an iconic symbol of peace and hedonism. Then as now many Jews were Buddhists, or "Jewish only on their parents' side," like his interaction with Jews from USA and Israel.

With students from Woodstock School

The Dalai Lama addressing students from Woodstock School at the meeting room next to his office in Dharamsala, HP, India on October 11, 2018 (photo by Ven Tenzin Jamphel).

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(Oct. 11, 2018) High in the Himalayas, Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India - The happy chatter that filled the meeting room next to the Dalai Lama’s office fell silent when he walked into the room.

He scanned the faces of the students waiting for him. He smiled broadly, wished them “good morning,” and sat down.

[It's like going to see jolly Santa Claus]

The Dalai Lama loves to get a laugh.

There were 51 students belonging to Classes 11 and 12 from Woodstock School, visiting the Dalai Lama's Himalayan enclave (and government in exile) during their extracurricular “activity week.”

He first made friends with Woodstock School at the beginning of his life in exile, when the Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader lived in Mussoorie, the Indian hill station where the Woodstock School is based.

Are there any Palestinians here?

After asking how many Tibetans and Bhutanese there were in the group, he wanted to know where the rest of the children came from. The majority were Indian, but among a total of seven nationalities there were also students from Palestine, Syria, and [and formerly Buddhist now Muslim] Afghanistan.

Woodstock School student stands up to ask the Dalai Lama a question (Ven Tenzin Jamphel).

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He reported that he had just been talking to a group from Indonesia [home of the magnificent Borobudur Buddhist Temple] about how sad he feels to witness friction between Shia and Sunni Muslims.

To him it is unthinkable that people who worship the same Allah [God] and follow the same Quran [Koran or Islam's Bible] should fall out as they seem to do.

“However, I’ve never heard of such quarrels between Sunni and Shia adherents here in India,” he told them. “Indeed, India is unique in that all the world’s major religions, those indigenous to the country, as well as those that came from abroad, all live here happily together.

“India’s long-standing tradition of inter-religious harmony is exemplary, and now the time has come to share this practice with the rest of the world.”

Israeli Jews and Americans visit the Dalai Lama in his home in Himalayas

The first of several questions from the students concerned the Dalia Lama’s pastimes. “When I was a boy,” he replied with a laugh, “I used to enjoy taking things apart.

“I examined my toys and watches to see how they worked. I dismantled and reassembled a movie projector that had belonged to [my predecessor] the 13th Dalai Lama to make it work. Since I was young, I’ve also enjoyed growing plants.

“I grew beautiful tulips in the Norbulingka garden [the Jeweled Park around my palace] in Lhasa [the capital of my former Himalayan empire]. These days, however, as I get older, I have less interest in these things.”

Who decides what’s moral?

Always bring the Dalai Lama a gift.

Another student wanted to know who decides what’s moral. He told her that all the world’s major religions teach about love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline.

Some traditions, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [the Abrahamic faiths], believe in a creator God and regard us all as children of that God.

Other Indian [Dharmic] traditions like Jainism and Buddhism see beings themselves participating in creation, so responsibility for change rests on our shoulders.

“We should not let ourselves be dominated only by sensory awareness,” he advised, “we should also pay attention to mental consciousness, develop a single-pointed mind, and use it to analyze the nature of self and the nature of reality.

Karma: One day we'll learn. Until then...

“What we experience is the result of our own actions. If it brings joy, we regard what we’ve done as positive; if it leads to misery, we think of our action as negative.

“Just as we can’t say that one particular medicine is the best on all occasions, we cannot say that one religious tradition is best.

“We need our different traditions because of people’s different dispositions and therefore we need to treat all religious traditions with respect.

“Many problems we face we bring on ourselves because we are prey to destructive emotions. We tend to think in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ with little sense of the oneness of humanity.

“And yet, climate change, for example, because it affects us all, means we have to take a more global view. We can’t neglect it. We are interdependent...” More

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Review: Wild Medicinal Plants Nature Walk

Christopher Nyerges (SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com) and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Christopher made me a laurel out passionflower tea leaf vine to help my insomnia.

Author and survivalist Christopher Nyerges (left) leads wild plant foraging class in the woods.

Nyerges is fixture in Los Angeles, and here he is being interviewed by the late great Huell Howser

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(School of Self-Reliance)

School of Self-Reliance Founder Christopher Nyerges led us through the woods at Pasadena's Hahamongna Watershed Park, foraging medicinal plants and mushroom hunting. We spotted chicken of the woods growing on a carob tree and green gilled lepiota (Chlorophyllum molybdites).

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STORE (School of Self-Reliance)

Today's class under an eclipsing sun had a massive turnout. A group of nursing students from a local university joined for class credit. And LAMS' Bat's women's group of plant foragers we're doing mycology next to the group.

So more than 50 people were present in two groups, picking up plant knowledge books, eating wild mushrooms and edibles, as Nyerges regaled everyone with quips and humorous anecdotes about his time on his TV survival program, The X-Show.

Nyerges was in Los Angeles so long that Huell Howser caught wind of him and came by for an episode of Visiting with Huell Howser.

"Suicide Bridge," Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, over the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles Foothills