One Saturday afternoon, Owsley had flown on a helicopter to Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, where he had distributed acid to his disciples like Jesus. In what must still rank as the greatest story of them all, Owsley was said to have gone to visit a group of Berkeley Free Speech activists who had been thrown in jail. Wearing a purple velvet suit and carrying a Bible, he solemnly began reading passages from it only to reveal that the Bible had been dipped in acid so those in jail could “groove” on the pages. Each activist then tore out a page from a favorite section of the Bible and sucked on
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