Goa Hippy Tribe documentary video series Monica Aas interview

[@annbekooy1343]

A deeply touching confession. Like Monica I too am a survivor of terrible self hatred and it's attendant addictions but even in our gratitude there is still that pain of loss of so many years. Bless her for her strength and just plain guts.

[@djhannas]

Omg! Same experience! & I cryed when she cried. I was using drugs from 19 to 29. & I’ve been to goa & I was overdosing in shiva valley. Not so long from that experience I got clean. I’m clean for one year & half. & I miss goa & I miss psytrance dance. I thought I could never do that again but she gave me hope & I have made up my mind I want to be sober until I take my last breath & I love myself because I grow every day & loose all the things that I don’t need inside me. Thank you sister 🙏🏽 god bless

[@akirafan28]

Thanks for sharing your story :) Best of luck in the future ^_^

[@sreevinvinod500]

Shiva valley is amazing.. Her experience is real and she learned from it.. addiction is the worst thing .. wish you can party in Shiva valley in future too.

[@toobalkain]

I was on heroin for 25 years, most of that on coke too, pretty much destroyed and bankrupted myself and everyone around me but now in my 50s I have almost 10 years clean, a decent job, normal relationships with no drama. I've wasted the best years of my life and I regret it very much but fuck it, you have to soldier on and as you've probably realized, with a bit of time distance, you develop a more realistic perspective on dope, it's extremely destructive and the worst thing it stops working anyway and it's just maintenance from then on, not much different than being on fucking methadone and getting fat.

[@camillabotero8181]

I love this interview and I love how she describes all her feelings. It's a personal searching of life and thanks to describe. I would so happy if the humanity would be so sincere as she has done in her interview.

[@fahnke]

I would love to give Monica Aas a hug. I understand what she is saying and what she has been through. May peace continue to be with you, Monica.

[@jamesavickers5961]

Very touching Monica thank you honestly in helping others grazie Mille

[@doctorsharika]

Beautiful analysis, lovely lady, bless her for sharing her experiences

[@srikanth-xw9gq]

+sharika G i wish i could see goa once..to meet such a people like monica..peacefull place in this world goa

[@daleadelic]

i understand. wishing you inner peace as you move on. very touching moment here

[@silvertenzin]

I'm happy for you are a much deeper person today in each moment. Contentment helps

[@goahippytribe]

This is one of the video interviews from the Goa Hippy Tribe documentary video series.Subscribe to the GoaHippyTribe youtube channel if you would like to see more of these interviews as they are released

[@pikiwiki]

an honest person confronting themselves is always sobering to listen to

[@mikkelein]

thank you for being here, life's a ride that we all experience all at ones. It can't be done any other way, cause everything that have ever happend from big bang to the time you read this it all will come to this:

[@sreevinvinod500]

Every situation in her she was aware of it .. she wanted to overcome it her willpower make it happen. True individual 🙏

[@ryandcj]

I think I know Norwegian Monia. I was in Goa in the early 1970's. Thankful never had the drug addiction issue. Running from myself, yes.

[@songsabai3794]

Goa can be a bewitching place, but the voodoo is in your own mind. A survivor ; 1988-1995.

[@goahippytribe]

There's a facebook fanpage following these interviews too...its under facebook and if you search for the fanpage its 'goahippytribe

[@Joel-dt9ev]

Her story reminds a bit my own. I was lucky to have been able to get to India by road just before Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan were plunged into Chaos by Western an Russian Warmongers since the late 1970s

[@djhannas]

Joe Cab lucky you. I’m from Iran & Pakistan is blocking the way to India for us & I have to buy plain tickets 🙄

[@bony123ify]

greatest addiction of life sud be seeking nt experiencing ..drugs, sex gives u temporary pleasure bt when u r seeking the true meaning of life n wants to experience peace and spirituality one sud have a clean mind ...only then u ll realize drugs and sex is just baby infront of spirituality ...very rightly said u dnt hv to be in a beach for freedom n peace ...one sud seek inner peace then only u ll see place doesnt matters

[@richarddesjardins4079]

félicitaion apres tout ce que tu as vécue et maintenant tu est devenue authentique face a toi et envers les autres personnes om shanti lov goa....

[@hat33kiid]

Im going to Goa too play rock be my hippy self & smoke all day everyday I just dropped out of high school & that's what im gonna do with my life start my band called The Electric Kool-Aid

[@bazbc15]

All the peace and love is good. I just don't understand the idea of taking drugs to be peaceful and loving.

[@10ccalanarkush]

@Jairzinho121 ...and i also have lots of empathy for addicts across the spectrum - however this does not preclude me from underscoring effete bellyachin, for lack of a better word

[@10ccalanarkush]

@andthereisntone because..?

[@toobalkain]

Judging from these interviews and Cleo Odzer's book it's probably safe to conclude that there was nothing magical about Goa hippies, it was just a poor, backward little fishing village like many others and what made those hippies think they had something different going on was that they were collectively experiencing the heroin honey moon, the first couple of years on dope when it still works perfectly, when it amplifies your sociability and love and sexual power and the high is still great, it's an amazing feeling but like with any drug, the come down is a bitch and it comes with interest to pay.

[@tristecherie7464]

I thought Goa was just psychedelics and hash

[@toobalkain]

@@tristecherie7464 Most people think that but the reality was the opposite, not only were most Goa hippies heroin and cocaine addicts, the entire lifestyle was financed by drug smuggling. Read Cleo Odzer's book, yes, they were a bunch of junkies and degenerates, everyone sleeping with everyone else, bunch of illegitimate, confused kids, but the book is very well written and quite entertaining really.

[@tristecherie7464]

toobalkain woahhhh I definitely will.. as a 23 year old who visited Goa last year, and fell in love with even the overly Commercialised state it is in now, I’ve just been glamorising ‘old goa’ (since everyone I met out there would talk about how incredible and liberated and free it was before ‘97) and like dream about what it’d be like to be there in the 60s/70s and how I wish I’d somehow gone sooner..so it’d be interesting to see things from a diff perspective since all I hear about how different almost utopian it was like back then

[@toobalkain]

@@tristecherie7464 Sure, but you see this kind of romanticizing the past all over the world, people telling you what Thailand was like, what Laos was like, what Bali was, what Puerto Escondido in Mexico was etc. before the tourists came and everything got more expensive. I'm not saying it wasn't better in some regards but there are always new, undeveloped places to discover and like I said in my original comment, in Goa it sounds like it was more drugs talking than actual utopia.

[@andthereisntone1]

@10ccalanarkush feel sorry for yourself, buddy.

[@Jairzinho121]

@10ccalanarkush u obviously have no idea about addiction. These people did not choose to become addicted, like millions of other people in all countries. What do you think we should do with addicts? Tell them they are stupid for messing their life up? I would love to live in ur society!

[@josstoner2441]

Poor Granny...!