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Oracle

Title
Oracle / City of Los Angeles.
Publication
Los Angeles, Calif. : Oracle of Southern California, c1967-1968.

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nos. 1-9TextPermit needed Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O73 1967 nos. 1-9Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Details

Publication Date
V. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 1967)-v. 1, issue #9 (Jan. 1968).
Description
1 v. : ill.; 43 cm.
Alternative Title
  • L.A. oracle
  • Oracle of Southern California
  • Oracle of So. Calif.
  • Southern Calif. oracle June 1967
  • So. Calif. oracle Aug. 1967
  • S. Calif. oracle Oct. 1967
  • LA oracle
  • Los Angeles oracle
  • Southern California oracle
Subject
  • Crosby, David, 1941-2023
  • Crosby, David, 1941-2023 > Portraits
  • Davis, Miles
  • Dana, Joe
  • Freedland, Nat
  • Greene, Liz
  • Harrison, George, 1943-2001
  • Harrison, George, 1943-2001 > Portraits
  • Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
  • Mintz, Eliott
  • Shankar, Ravi, 1920-2012
  • Shankar, Ravi, 1920-2012 > Portraits
  • Watts, Alan, 1915-1973
  • Watts, Alan, 1915-1973 > Portraits
  • Byrds (Musical group)
  • Doors (Musical group)
  • Country Joe and the Fish
  • Jefferson Airplane (Musical group)
  • Yi jing
  • Lifestyles > California > Periodicals
  • Popular culture > Periodicals
  • New Age movement > California > Periodicals
  • Underground press publications > California > Los Angeles
  • Communal living > California
  • Counterculture > California > Periodicals
  • Counterculture > California > Pictorial works
  • Hippies > California
  • LSD (Drug) > Periodicals
  • LSD (Drug) > Social aspects > United States > Periodicals
  • Psychedelic art > Specimens
  • Religion and culture > United States
  • Rock music > 1961-1970 > Analysis and appreciation
  • Sex > Religious aspects
  • Tantrism
  • Yoga > Periodicals
  • Youth > Drug use > California
  • Zen Buddhism
  • Hopi Indians
  • Alternative lifestyles > California > Periodicals
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) > Periodicals
  • California > Social life and customs > Periodicals
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social life and customs > Periodicals
Genre/Form
Underground newspapers – California – Los Angeles.
Note
  • Published in tabloid format.
  • Publisher varies: Oracle Cosmic Joy Fellowship, Nov. 1967-Jan. 1968.
  • This tabloid journal and the San Francisco Oracle, which inspired it, were among the founding periodicals of the Underground Press Syndicate. Both periodicals were notable forums for the 1960s counterculture, including psychedelic ideology and art.
  • Includes photographs of hippies and advertisements for hippie stores, various Love-Ins, and concerts and music festivals featuring groups such as The Byrds, Kaleidoscope, Clear Light, The Fraternity of Man, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Country Joe & The Fish, and others. Also includes articles about health issues like STDs and hepatitis and public service information about federal food stamps, county health centers, the A.C.L.U., etc.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Additional Formats (note)
  • Available on microfilm from Bell & Howell as part of the Underground Press Collection.
Contents
Oracle #1 (March 1967): Peter Bergman on the Hopi Indian; The Love-In of the Spring Equinox; The I-Ching -- Oracle #2 (April-May 1967): Allan Watts interview by Nat Freedland; The Hopi Life Plan; Elliot Mintz & Joe Dana Talk -- Oracle #3 (June 1967): How to Start Your Own Religion; On the Possibilities of an L.S.D. Utopia by Thadeus and Rita Ashby -- Oracle #4 (July 1967): How to Meditate; The Sound of God by Ravi Shankar; Miles [Davis] Interviews George Harrison; Diggers -- Oracle #5 (Aug. 1967): Strawberry Fields Forever? [interview with mentor of the psychedelic tribe Strawberry Fields]; STP: Additive or Subtractive?; A Beatle Meets the Press; Why Psychedelics? -- Oracle #6 (Oct. 1967): Tim Leary's Prediction; David Crosby of The Byrds -- Oracle #7 (Nov. 1967): cover art by Liz Greene; Birth of a Tribe [by Gene Carlson of the Om Foundation commune]; The Yoga of Sex and the Magic Mushroom by Thad and Rita Ashby; photo of naked hippie girl body painted with the words "Granny Takes a Trip West" -- Oracle #8 (Dec. 1967): psychedelic black-lite mandala posters; "Further Notes" [poem by Bob Kaufman]; The New Gurus, interviews by Joe Dana -- Oracle #9 (Jan. 1968): A Stroll Down Memory Lane with Hugh Romney [Wavy Gravy]; Rolling Thunder Speaks; Sex, Religion, and LSD by Allan D. Coult [Chairman of the International Society for Psychedelic Anthropology at Berkeley].
Call Number
Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O73 1967
LCCN
sn 93023947
OCLC
15032781
Title
Oracle / City of Los Angeles.
Imprint
Los Angeles, Calif. : Oracle of Southern California, c1967-1968.
Current Frequency
Monthly
Additional Formats
Available on microfilm from Bell & Howell as part of the Underground Press Collection.
Access
Restricted access; request permission from holding division.
Local Note
The Berg Collection holds all 9 issues published, with duplicates of nos. 5, and 7.
The Berg Collection holds a related publication, Oracle Anthology I: A Chronicle of the Aquarian Age; this item is cataloged separately but housed with the issues of The Oracle.
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Place of Publication
United States California Los Angeles Los Angeles.
Other Title
L.A. oracle
Oracle of Southern California
Oracle of So. Calif.
Cover Title
Southern Calif. oracle June 1967
So. Calif. oracle Aug. 1967
S. Calif. oracle Oct. 1967
Research Call Number
Berg Coll+++ Counterculture O73 1967
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