In 1968, small squares of clear LSD started appearing on San Francisco streets. The .10X.10X.007 (250 mic) squares had been turned out on an ingenius rig that produced enough identical hits of "Windowpane" to have turned on over 350 million adventurous souls by 1975.
The unique Human Being responsible for this precision and efficiency had been a Bay Area Charter Captain during the last half of the Fifties after serving in the Strategic Air Command as an Electrical Specialist aboard B-36 Peacemakers from 1951 to 1954.
It is the wish of this outrageous character to whom so many owe so much, that anyone whose life was changed by the way he lived his, be given a chance to share their experiences.
I am only too happy to provide my friend, and anyone who took a hit of windowpane (there ARE over 350,000,000 of you), with just such a forum.
The Captain is waiting to hear from you.
HOPI NEW YEAR!
.ms
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Oh yes the memories .... or would that be flashbacks?
My first trip was Orange Sunshine. I was 16 and used to go to Lake Henshaw quite often on the weekends. My buddy Steve used to come up with his parents and we hit it off well. Anyway Steve brought up some Orange Sunshine and that's where I had my first trip, and I liked it.
My other friend Alex D (we where alter boys together) had a source for blotter and windowpane. Needless to say we tripped a lot. Boy I though I liked orange sunshine but blotter and windowpane where so much better. But my favorite of all was windowpane. I don't know the exact number of trips I've had, but knowing how often I tripped and for how many years I did I'm guessing I've had 300~400 hits easily.
My last few trips I had where windowpane and I clearly remember my very last hit of windowpane. I was in my bedroom at home and dropped it. Damn if I could find it in the shag carpet (it was the 70's man)! I can't drive by the old house without thinking about that. I was in the area today with my friend Michael, and stopped by the house and told him my story.
Great site here, sitting thinking about the images and things I saw back then. Having met Captain Clearlight ... I don't know... Just puts a smile on my face.
The Dude Abides...
at the state of mind mansion. a real 'fun house' - better than any ticket required entry at any fair.
was it the same night as watching '2001: a space odyssey'?...ask michael sterling. at the film i stood up and asked, "where are the three men on the hill!" and at the mansion i got lost.
the 'experience' prepped me for the present and the future. as time and space continue their rapid advancement in evolution, i could not begin to keep up, were it not for the clear light.
BIG KISS, captain!
GENEVA (AP) - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired—and arguably corrupted—millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.
corrupted
adjective: ruined in character or quality
corrupt
verb: to make someone or something become dishonest or immoral.
corrupt
adjective: dishonestly using your position or power to your own advantage, especially for
money.
Moi?
Whoever wrote that AP headline, and purposefully included "and arguably corrupted", probably never took LSD, but if they hope to live till 102, probably should. ESPECIALLY if they continue writing.
The "Hippie Generation" coined the slogan "You're either on the bus or off the bus".
Today, all that matters is who's being thrown UNDER the bus, and that may be as corrupt as it gets.
Turned on, tuned in, dropped out, ran for President.
;>
.ms
I've known Waldron Vorhees for over 30 years. He's a narc, having set up his friends in exchange for a lighter prison sentence. He is a notorious liar. He abandoned his children; after first sexually abusing one of his daughters. Basically, he's a piece of shit. Yes, he did sell a lot of LSD...but how does that excuse his other actions?
Good for people to know.
What is "good for people to know"?
The content of the Clear Light Conference posts that chronicle a struggle to encourage the expansion of personal consciousness, the anonymous comments of someone who made the conscious decision to not use their name, or the contents of the sales page you link to?
i slept at his place last summer on a road trip.my friend is his grandson.
and i got the pictures to prove it
Anonymous...You are the dumb shit. His eldest grandson is only 25 and if you are a friend of his and have known waldron for over 30 years.... then again, you are full of shit. Math can be hard for some people....
In reading "The Jasons: THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE'S POSTWAR ELITE", I came across this joke told about Dick Garwin and it describes Waldron perfectly, so here it is with the appropriate name change:
Waldron is standing in line to be guillotined; the person ahead of him kneels at the block, the guillotine doesn't release, the executioner says it's the will of God, the person goes free; Waldron kneels at the block, the guillotine doesn't release again; Waldron looks up and says "Oh, I see what the problem is."
That is so Waldron, except he'd not only fix the problem, but convince the executioner that his improved device would be better for splitting firewood than chopping necks, and they'd be good friends from then on*.
I've seen him do it.
The Planet, and all upon it, are better off for powerful and original minds. I am glad to call one of them my friend. One of my best.
*and no one on the Ranch would go cold that winter.
:)
ms/mogur
Waldron is a narc informant. Not much else to say, really. You get this within a few minutes of talking to him. He cannot be trusted. Period. Other than that he knows nothing and no one. The narcs use him to set up others. He talks and talks but the rest of it is crap. He lives on a rundown farm near Ukiah. A number of people seriously hate him. He is an old man now who has done much harm to good people. What he did or did not do in the seventies is now irrelevant. What he is today is a narc informant. Bottom line: stay away from him.
Mr Vorhees had been used by an undercover contract agent named "Bill Pickens" in the early 1990s to "infiltrate" his circle of friends in the SF bay area, although at the time the DEA plan was to bust Mr Vorhees, not recruit him. The same operation busted his son and a close friend. The contract agent was introduced to Waldron through another of his sons.
It has been unclear how much information Waldron provided to the contract agent or his handler (DEA special agent William Etter), however several groups at the time were attempting to recruit Waldron in developing manufacture and distribution networks for LSD in the rave and club scenes in the SF bay area. The DEA contract agent had developed the majority of his operational information on his own and was also working with the benefit of information obtained in a series of court ordered wiretaps.
His last conviction was for "conspiracy" due to foreknowledge of a deal that took place between the contract agent and someone who Waldron had introduced the agent to. One group did manage to recruit his son, Adam, who worked as a go-between on a couple of deals and was busted for it. His son had managed to warn as many people as possible when he was busted and they left town.
There had later been some issues over people Waldron did know and those he did not know, and after a wide range of busts in that particular DEA operation, the remaining LSD makers and distributors were those who were providing a lower quality of potentially "dirty" acid which was being distributed through the rave scene. Waldron had allegedly provided some information as to who he knew had "clean" acid and disavowed involvement with others.
As his reputation was in the 1990s, Waldron was repeatedly solicited for advice, connections and other activities related to LSD manufacture and distribution, and anyone can tell by his obvious poverty that he was refusing them, and on apparently some occasions, he was obligated to report some of the contacts to his various probation officers or pretrial services officers in order to stay out of jail, so as a word of advice, don't solicit him for advice or connections in the manufacture or distribution of dope.
There had also been an ongoing issue with a former landlord who had apparently been an on again off again agitator and informant who had also attempted to recruit Waldron in organizing a number of schemes. When they had a falling out over several issues, there was a long civil court battle where various accusations of wrongdoing went back and forth. Each accused the other of legal wrongdoing in court, and out of court, among friends in the old hippie community, accusations of everything from informing to the government to outright theft were constantly going back and forth.
Many of the people who had been involved in those episodes in the 1990s are now dead. Waldron's son Adam died in a work related accident shortly after getting out of prison, the former landlord and his wife died of natural causes. The undercover contract agent was never heard from again, and the DEA case handler is rumored to have retired out of the DEA. Waldron is now old, impoverished and in poor health.
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Captain Clearlight is my Grandfather. I only knew he exsisted when I was 14 yrs old. I am now 26, and have travelled to the ranch many times to visit, and have had Grandpa stay at my house in Portland, OR many times. I have heard of his stories...most of them true, some not... He has make many mistakes in the past, but we are created to forgive. My dad was one he abandoned. My Aunt will not talk to him. But he has a changed heart. Though he cannot be completely changed, and there are parts of him that I would never want changed, he is a loving Grandpa now. I am proud. I love you Grandpa and will see you soon.
~Ryan Morgan Vorhees
Well, since my son, Ryan, has posted here about his grandfather, Waldron, I might as well do the same.
My name is Brad (54), and I'm Waldron's eldest son, the eldest of three boys and one girl (the youngest being one of the boys by a second marriage who died tragically at age 25 or so).
Dad left my mother and we three kids when I was about three, and there was no support and very little visitation after that time. I felt pretty badly about that when I was younger, but I have since come to understand that his parents were also very irresponsible in their parenting, and while that's no excuse, the existence of those poor role models in his early life make Waldron's actions easier to understand.
Is he a liar? That's an ingteresting question. I've come to believe that dad lives in a world of his own making, which is constantly evolving to suit his taste, hopes and desires. Yes, much of that world is fictional, but much of it is not. I've come to take the imagined with the factual, and just try to understand the man underneath.
It could be said that dad's greatest offense was toward my mother, who struggled to raise well three kids on her own. Perhaps I am the second most offended, and I have now forgiven all. Dad is very, very sorry for many of the decisions he's made in his life, and he's apologized in tears to me for his irresponsibility toward mom, me, my brother and my sister on many, many occassions over the past 20 years. What's more, I can tell that he loves me deeply now.
A statement was made by an earlier blogger that he sexually abused my sister. I don't believe that to be true, and unless that anonymous blogger has proof (which he/she could not have), it would be best not to proliferate such suppositions.
Dad is an old man now, and sorry for many of the things he's done. He's also proud of many of the things he's done -- even if I, a more conservative person, disagrees that those things were good. I've never dropped acid (although on the only visit I can remember making to him while growing up, he employed me when I was 15 to cut waste clearlight strips into hits in return for an old motorcycle), so I cannot really know if acid is a good or bad thing. But he believes it was good at the time. It sure was an interesting time in the 60s and 70s.
I could tell all kinds of stories, but suffice it to say that Captain Clearlight is as deserving of love and forgiveness as anyone, that he grieves the effects his faults have had on his family, and that he loves his family now as much as a dad and grandad can.
His upcoming 80th birthday party is a time for his friends to gather and celebrate him -- warts and all. My brother, Greg, and I will be there, along with two of my sons, Ryan and Justin. Note to the other blogger(s) here who don't like him: there's no reason for you to come to the party. This is his day to be glad, and his four sons/grandsons will not respond kindly to anyone hassling him while we're around -- and dad didn't sire a bunch of pushovers.
Happy birthday, dad. You're wild, crazy, irresponsible and loose with the truth -- and I love you.
Brad
Well to continue in this sentimental shit-storm, I will say my piece. I am Waldron's youngest grandson. I'm 21.
First let me address the issue of Anonymous. Or should I say both the Anonymouses. It is obvious that these are two different people. One seemingly well informed/researched person with a passion for hating Walt, and the other ins one of the friends that went with me to Walt's ranch in 2008. (Who exactly I don't know or care. I have visited every summer with many friends for four years now.)
Look at the post dates, the style of posts and the common sensibility of the solution.
Moving on.
He truly believed in enlightenment through LSD. While I believe that it can help, I am a follower of Christ and believe the only Truth is though Him.
That aside, he was a genius and a successful entrepreneur. Now he is a content aging man. He leaves a legacy that some admire and others despise. But he also leaves his genes, and for that I am glad.
Yeah Walt's done wrong in his life. Who hasn't? He's now a crazy old man who still knows how to live, laugh and love. Can't wait to celebrate the eight decades he's been causing ruckus on this earth.
God bless America and grandpa Waldron Vorhees.
-Justin
My name is Dr Ulysses N Kurtz and I cannot say that I had any windowpane acid, here in Oz it was was mainly blotter or dots, but far out I had a lot, good luck and good health to those who turned us on on and continue to.
Kurtz
Walt is a dear friend of mine who always went out of his way to help me, and others in a positive spirit. He is truly unique, and i love him dearly. Maybe one of these days, I'll visit him up north.He and I would like that.
To any and all who talk bad about him-go ahead-it';s a free country which he helped reserve by serving in the Korean war. God bless ya Walt.
Love CR
Please pass along my fond hello to Walt. I subletted his room at the ranch in Lake County in 94? when he was away for a few months. He was always a stand up guy to me. He'll know who I am. I've lost contact since about '98, the last time I say him was at a rave in Marin I think. Oleg M. was a friend too, I've lost track of Oleg. The last time I saw him was in San Anselmo where he was living. I'd like to say hi to Oleg, too. Does anybody know where he is?
I'd like to set the record straight. I am Walt's daughter, Pam, and he did rape me when I was 8 years old. When I confronted him about it, he said he couldn't remember, because he was doing a lot of drugs at that time. It was 1966. My big brother Brad said in his post that, next to my mother, he was possibly the most offended by Dad's abandonment. I don't agree. Each of Walt's children's lives have been affected negatively by the loss of the father they needed--and that their mother needed--to grow into healthy adults, mine and my younger brother's lives no less than Brad's. And the rape added another whole dimension to the loss.
I love my Dad because he is my Dad, but even typing those words is painful, because he has never been there for me when I needed a Dad. And that makes me so very sad.
I will have to add my comments now. First of all I do not believe my dad raped my sister. We were living in Sunnyvale at the time. My mom had a boyfriend named Leo Cantu. He was a navy man and drank a lot. I truly believe he was the one that raped her. I was talking to her one day and she said she woke up from a bad dream with Leo's name on her mind. I believe her therapist just assumed it was Walt and convinced her of that. Dad didn't visit very often, except to bring us presents at birthdays and Christmas. He never spent the night and was never there long. That would make it pretty far fetched for him to even have an opportunity if he was that kind of man. He was always surrounded with beautiful women in a very loose time, there is no reason he would have had to violate anyone for sex.
I love my Dad very much and got to know him when I was about seventeen. He has always been there for me since. As far as abandoning his family goes, I have had many long talks with him about this situation. My mother asked him to move out over a jealousy issue. He has explained the situation to me and he was just consoling a friend not fooling around on my mother. He is the reason I am who I am to this day and that is a very kind, generous, caring man because of his mentoring. He is one of my best friends as well as my father. I went to prison at nineteen because the federal government was trying to use me to entrap him and I was young and dumb to there ways. I did not get the acid from him that I was busted for. I told him about the sale after the fact, and he started asking me questions. He told me they were cops and told me to leave the state for my safety. Then there is the clincher. He sold the DEA agent a hundred hits of acid and got three years in prison for it. We all know he did'nt make that sale for the pittance of profit it would have brought him(it was a dollar a hit at the time and I don't believe he would of taken the risk for ten or twenty dollars when at the time he had two wallets, one with twenties and less and one with fifties and up). I asked him some years later and then I understood. He gave them three years of his life to keep me out of prison by giving them who they really wanted. It didn't work because I wouldn't testify against him even though he told me to.
He may spin some yarns like old-timers will do, but I also tell stories that no one believes until someone that was there confirms them word for word. His influence has made my life very colorful and full of experiences that most ten people together could never claim. I am glad he opened up my perspectives so I could truly live life. I haven't met many men in my life that were as kind, caring and considerate for other peoples needs and concerns.
I love you Pa and hope to see you again very soon!!!!!
My name is Hershel and I lived at the Round Mountain Ranch with Waldron for the last 7 years. My last name is not important...Waldron knows who I am. I know very little of his past. What I do know is he will literally give you the shirt off his back. Since his stroke, he is dependent on people for his medical care. He is sometimes forgetful and hard of hearing. He was a good friend to me and stood by me when I was catching flak from some of the other Ranch residents. I would sometimes drive him to his doctor appointments or pick up his prescriptions. The Ranch is NOT a good place for Waldron right now. He is being preyed on by certain people who steal his meds, rip off his money, steal his personal belongings, etc. It's my opinion he needs to be with family members...if they're in the position to take on his particular needs. I miss Waldron and wish I had a place for him to come to. His 'care givers' have used him for a free place to live. He's not happy...but will say he is...I know him and know he's not happy. For the last 3 years, the landlord and certain Ranch residents, as well as certain 'caregivers', have participated in a conspiracy to move him off the Ranch. Waldron loves living at the Ranch but it is not conducive to his mental health. Contrary to popular belief, Round Mountain Ranch is full of opinionated and vindictive assholes. At one time or another, practically all of them have made his life miserable. Right now, he is not allowed to have visitors except for the ones allowed by his current 'caregivers', who are alcoholics and drug users. One is practically deranged and prone to fits of yelling and screaming. The situation is deploring.
After rereading my post of 3-30-12, I think I need to clarify something...I spoke about Waldron's caregivers...I was referring to his previous caregivers. His current caregivers literally work their butts off for Waldron and take very good care of him. Just wanted to clarify so there would be no misunderstandings. Hershel
I have made peace with my Dad; I am really thankful for that. This post is for my little brother. Greg, if you told me you'd been raped, and I told you that you hadn't been, how could I possibly know that? Maybe you don't remember when we spent the night at Dad's place--when he lived at Rancho Diablo--near my 8th birthday. I do. I remember what happened there. I was molested for months by Mom's boyfriend Lee, as well. The upstairs neighbor, too. Just because you weren't there to see it happen doesn't mean it didn't.
A bit of a legend. Admirable personality. And certainly a restless, kind, insanely tall individual.
Acid certainly did me some good. Allowing me to look beyond the moment that is. And math, well that shit became simple on acid. Not to say acid should be your tutor ;)
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