Stephen Gaskin on the Farm 1974

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@kater3058 7 жыл бұрын

“You can have a good time” love it. Ina May is one of my heroes. I’m pregnant now planning a home birth because of the Gaskins’ influence in my life.

@TheGranti7a 5 жыл бұрын

kate r Shero ❤️ My 32-yr old was born at home, directly reflecting my sense of agency gained from a distance in high respect for what Stephen, The Farm, and Ian May were accomplishing and have accomplished. I have been paying attention to this great experience since the early 70s.

@simonnapier1979 8 жыл бұрын

This is where I was born and grew up,I was three and probably sitting here when Steven was talking.Yes I am from a Western Culture,but it is a little different.

@normanleach5427 3 ай бұрын

In the summer of 1975, I hitch-hiked down to The Farm and spent a few weeks. It's never left me. I returned there a more than a year or so later but it was more of a private venture. A waiting list was in affect and, like Joseph Conrad's "Youth", I left my "Orient" thoroughly disheartened. But the first visit was wonderful. There were some Sunday gatherings on the very hillside in this video, including a lovely wedding. I caught a ride with Stephen, not in his Volvo but an old VW Bug, a chance meeting at the gatehouse, and The Farm Band was fun...But there is depth to these random meetings. When we crossed paths at the Cumberland, Rhode Island Zen center, I offered him a gift to show my appreciation and later on, witnessed Korean Master Seung Sahn playfully grasp Stephen and confirm what I suspected all along: "This man is Zen Master." before a roomful of happy folks, monks, laymen and drifters alike.

@shubert9427 6 жыл бұрын

Sunday mornings in the Meadow. I remember how the dew on the grass was so brilliant in the morning sun. Diamonds everywhere. Thank YOU.

@normanleach5427 3 жыл бұрын

I attended a wedding there one morning in '74...a lovely ceremony with a very pure vibe of 700 + well-wishers and a few horses down the hill picking up on all that attentive "juice". It was a wonderful experience and a privilege....

@exonelresearch4032 6 жыл бұрын

Love from New Zealand. Stephen and Ina May Gaskin have been heroes of mine since 1975

@puppiefaces 6 жыл бұрын

My friend and I attended the weekly talks at the Family Dog is San Fran back in 1970(?). Steve was a lovely lovely man. I tried to wait until the group could organize the caravan to search fro a home base, but just became too fed up with city life and returned to Vermont. Several months later I saw the caravan traversing the country on the evening news. Such a very good man.

@ssake1_IAL_Research 6 ай бұрын

Stephen was my first spiritual influence. He said, "the truth will get you high." I took him literally, and I've been practicing it since 1973. He was right. It's a very subtle, refined high, but it's quite real.

@peaksurferalbert 10 жыл бұрын

Stephen passed on July 1, 2014. This short talk captures his charisma (a term he himself eschewed). The talk pulls together themes of social justice, ecology and spirituality. It addressed ecological limits as though it were 40 years later. Remarkable especially when one considers he was doing time in the State Penitentiary then. Day furloughed from the pen in handcuffs, changed to the turtleneck & embroidered jacket, driven to The Farm, spoke & then back into cuffs and stripes again. Awesome.

@avalonmist254 5 жыл бұрын

The one Ragweed I attended. I love my time with everyone

@Sophisima 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you SOOO much for posting this.

@msrose4051 7 жыл бұрын

I was on the farm in 73. I was 12 years old. I lived in the 4th rd house with Charles and Jane. The My twin and I came back in 76 and lived in the bunkhouse with the other teenagers

@plentyorg 7 жыл бұрын

I live in that same house now.

@msrose4051 7 жыл бұрын

plentyorg the 4th rd house or the bunkhouse? So cool:)

@plentyorg 7 жыл бұрын

The Plenty Office is in a double wide mobile home next to 4th South. My father-in-law lived in it for awhile. The bunk house has been refurbished by a couple who came on the Caravan. They live there with her mother.

@msrose4051 7 жыл бұрын

plentyorg i have really good memories of the farm. I picked eggplant in the fields, i worked at the drygood store and then was a fileclerk at "the house". I went on a gig with the farm band. Good memories

@avalonmist254 5 жыл бұрын

We were all there together. Bunkhouse and South and North 4th. Bless you all.

@gdillard1 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. Love, love, love.

@johnwalker4642 4 жыл бұрын

I love you so much...

@chris110 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t know what it is but I feel spiritually drawn to this community and I feel very close to Stephen Gaskin even though I’ve never met him. Maybe I knew him from a past life but even though I only learned about him and this community in the past few weeks I just felt the feeling of “I’m too late” when I learned he died. Regardless I’m definitely going to visit the farm if not live there.

@normanleach9587 5 жыл бұрын

It's quite different now. I lived there very briefly in the mid seventies, came home to New England, then after a while hitch-hiked back to stay...for a day. I've a few grand tales to tell. But, things had changed. I grew up during a Renaissance. Steven's influence was significant and life affirming. Like Alan Watts, his perspective was based on insights derived through contemplation and mindful experience. A very attentive man who influenced many of his generation to simply care.