How to change reality

If you want to fly you can but you have to equally believe you can fly as much as you disbelieve. Meaning you can't expect to fly just cause you thought about it now cause you still disbelieve much more than you believe. In fact you're just trying to prove how much you can't. Filled with doubt oh ye of little faith. What you have to do is image a reality where everything is perfect for you. You're at peace with the reality. Then at that point accept that the reality could or could not exist. Then at that point start trying to make a reality where you can actually fly. And do everything in your power to make your environment conducive for you to fly and keep trying. And them you will eventually fly. Then you will realize that you morphed reality and you can do it all the time. And then you'll realize you can morph reality because you are reality. Your are all existence. Without u there is no existence. All time all things everywhere. Then try to figure away to bleep out of existence......to not exist at all..... What that must feel like. Hey why not even if you never actually fly the life of someone who tries must be fuckin awesome!!!! Just think of the movies you could speak of before you die.


A traveller....

Memories

Were the last generation to use VHS so many younger generations have a hard time understanding this concept. VHS tapes work by leaving a magnetic impression in the tape that when ran over by a copper or zinc or silver needle (not gold) it will display what looks like an image. This image is usually distorted and takes the assistance of our brains ability to alter our perception to help us see a clear picture. But just like a VHS our brains also leave magnetic impression that we can play back to see an idea of an image. Memories. Memories fade away just like the VHS tape after awhile because the magnetic impression is impacted and altered by other forces like other magnetic impressions and electronic frequencies and being around certain metals like aluminum. (Take a look at some Alzheimer's research). Gold actually amplifies this magnetic frequency but thats another subject. The more traumatic an experience the deeper the impression the longer the impression lasts. Over time out memories change. Most time slightly but as we age out brains naturally alter the impression as a result of new information we learn that negates the possibly of some passed events. This is one of the effects of cognitive dissonance. Example: you remember yourself crossing a train track when you were younger and train went by. Years later you try telling the story but learn that railroad system has been out of service long before you were born. Your brain will fight to make the image stay but eventually will give in to environmental factors impressing on your logic and it will alter the story but by bit until its altered to a point where the train never crossed the tracks or you forget the memory all together. This is an amazing concept because its stating that most of your memories are actually fake memories or atleast altered memories due to environmental factors and the brains general desire for logical resolution. Of course many would immediately dispute this without doing any research of their own and i hope you won't succumb to the same exhibition of ignorance but instead research and study for yourself. But you can't blame them because if this is true that means were are not who we think we are because we are a summation of the experiences of our lives and if our memories are fake then we must be fake. Well so what awareness is the key to resolution. Either accept it or don't. You have that choice. But once you know the truth its hard to accept a lie..... Anyway, the typical response is your stupid what if there's a group of us and we all have the same memory. Any psychologist will tell you that no one shares the exact same memory. And if you separate the group each story will be different. Detectives use this technique all the time. The only reason you all would have a similar account of an event is if you discuss it afterwards. Especially events that are unbelievable like the sun burning out or the coming of Jesus or the global shift putting pittsburgh pa where Alaska was 10 years ago cause freak weather patterns making it freezing cold in the middle of may...... This group discussion is the social agreement of events. Wether he events actually happened or not doesn't matter once the groups subconsciouses agree on the series of events. Its fascinating what the mind is capable of. Travel light.

A TRAVELER

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Speaking in light.

Light like sound is a range of frequencies. Anything within that range will resonate. This resonation is what we refer to as reflection. The level of reflection speaks to its resonation to the frequencies of light. Thins that shine back super bright resonate well with that frequency. Things that don't like the darkness of space do not resonate on a bright frequency not to say that the material in space isn't resonating. We can only see or better to say we only recognize now a days probably due to the fact that we are so social that we must agree on what we see and if the group says it isn't there we agree to ignore it. But we only agree to see certain frequencies of light. The darkness of night is actually light as well but of a different frequency. Its foolish to think that space is dark when there have been luminaries there that we can see that have been there forever. if you can see a star that mean a beam of light from that start has travelled through darkness...... So the straight line between you and said star shouldn't be dark! and it it really isn't. Looking at space through lens of infrared and others shows things in space a person with the naked eye would refuse existed. we often hear of ultra violet light often confused with ultra violent light because of the association with damage to our upper dermis from the radiation. But ultra violet light is what we perceive as the dark night sky. Its not black its ultra violet. This is different from shade as shade still has light affecting the spot but many frequencies or rays are being deflected and bounced elsewhere as they come in contact with material that doesn't resonate or resonates in a way that it diverts the path of the frequency culling certain frequencies away from the group. But rays such as gamma rays 1 of 26 common rays keeps going through things as not many objects we agree to see resonate with gamma rays. This resonation is a major concept to understand because when you think of light in terms of frequency you can automatically begin thinking of communication using different frequencies like an ALPHA BET. The first of the second...... When you begin on this path to learn the language of light one begins to discover that the sun has been....talking..... Flames as they flicker are talking even our own bodies are emanating messages. What are they objects saying? Ill leave you to find that out. Its very interesting research and many scientist have been trying to figure out how ancient civilizations understood this concept and developed it into a major science( some of what is on the ancient walls and it Ancient texts. The Egyptian gods of day and night and their whole story becomes more interesting and begins to make more sense. Imagine studying the language of light as a child or cymatics as a child. What would you notice about what the universe is saying? Learning to sense frequencies would allow you to notice illness by such looking at someone or listening to someone. What things could we see if we practiced expanding our range of light frequency recognition? Would we see angels? The boogie man? What would be brought to light? Would you talk back to the sun and the moon and the stars? The ancients did. They were able to do things we boggle our minds over to this day. Religious figure heads like the pope the Dali Lama rabbis monks and many others still get up at the crack of dawn praying to the morning star as it rises. What are they saying?

More to come. Until then research. Especially to the ephod of the high priest Aaron and how the stones which represented the tribes of Judah illuminated is certain patterns when god wanted to speak to his people ISRAEL. That's a lot for an alphabet 12x11x10x9..........x2x1 Sheesh good must have had alot to say. Eventually he added a 13th stone. 13x12x11x10.......

ANON AMISS
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"Q & A with Spike Lee; Martin and Malcolm"

Acclaimed film-maker, Spike Lee, recently came to Clarion University to do a lecture for an audience of about 500. A brief Q & A with the audience followed. Questions were fairly straightforward; then I approached the microphone.

Me: "Mr. Lee, I just want to start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of your work."

Lee: "Thank you."

Me: "I'm a graduate student here at Clarion University, and..."

Lee: "Graduate student in what?"

Me: "Social Sciences. A lot of your films deal with civil rights issues. My question is, and I don't believe there's a dichotomous answer, but "Who would've been a more effective civil rights leader into the 1970's, 80's, and maybe even 90's had he not been assassinated: Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, because keep in mind these two leaders had very different views of how to lead their people to equality?"

Lee: "Wow? that's a real humdingger..."

Lee answered by saying that both would've been equally effective in different ways and that many great leaders of the 1960's were assassinated before their time. Deep down though, if it was a "dichotomous/one or the other question," I believe Mr. Lee would've said Malcolm X; the man devoted a 202 minute film to Malcolm in 1992, wore a hat that said "X" on it while promoting the film, and even took (what I consider) a cheap shot at King in Chapter 46 of the two disc special edition of Malcolm X (1992) when the FBI agents who were monitoring Malcolm's phone conversations with his wife stated, "Compared to King, this guy's a monk." This script line by the FBI agents suggests rumors of Rev. Martin Luther King's marital infidelity. With all that aside, though I would have agreed with Spike Lee had he said Malcolm X, and here's why...

Before I get into all that however, I want to say that Dr. Martin Luther King was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th Century. He was directly responsible for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. He undid what was the law for 300 years whether it was written law or de facto law up until the 1960's in the southern states. He changed the injustice and horror of disenfranchisement and the legal cruelty of our nation by the young age of 35. I do not believe in segregation, but I do believe Malcolm was and would've continued to be a better leader had he survived.

When most people think of Malcolm X, they think of him as a bigoted, segregationist, hatemonger of white people, unconcerned and justified in his views when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and claiming that he would achieve equality for his people "by any means necessary." On top of that he was a Muslim, which in today's world of professional wrestling style cable news media, equates this religion to mindless violence for the promise of a reward in eternity. In short Malcolm does not get a fair page in the books of American history.

Malcolm changed his racist views after his pilgrimage to Mecca. There he saw blue-eyed, blonde-haired Muslims, and admitted he was wrong. He exposed and rebelled against the corruption of the Nation of Islam's leader, the "honorable" Elijah Muhammad, for the prophet's embezzlement of funds, multiple affairs, and illegitimate children. He knew going rogue was signing his own death warrant, but Malcolm did it anyways to stand up for what he believed was the right thing to do. Most importantly, Malcolm preached that African-Americans needed to make change happen for themselves. He and his followers put drug dealers, pimps, and hustlers out of business in their neighborhoods without relying on the corrupt police. He told African Americans not to work for minimum wage in downtown Manhattan as bus boys or janitors, but to open their own businesses. Now in 2013, please remember that every time you walk into a place of business that says "Black Owned," remember that this was a direct result of Malcolm's philosophy. I believe in Jesus, however I cannot deny the integrity and genuineness of this man who practiced Islam. He loved his people and wanted what was best for them. "By any means necessary" did not mean violence near the end of Malcolm's life; it meant, "We can do this on our own no matter how hard, no matter how hopeless the road ahead looks, without the help of anyone but ourselves." In Spike Lee's film, Malcolm put it best when approached by a white person who asked him, "What can I do to help your cause?" Malcolm's answer; "Nothing..."

I currently live in a very racist part of this nation. Sometimes I feel like an alien among my neighbors seeing the confederate flags, hearing about my friends getting called a certain six letter word that translates pretty much to human garbage, and seeing the generational cycle of poverty that breaks my heart. Dr. King did a lot, but 44 years later in 2012 when a presidential candidate writes off half the country as worthless during a fundraiser with guests who are all white multi-millionaires, something tells me things could have turned out a little better. It angers me when a presidential hopeful labels people who receive aid from the government to feed and clothe their families as "worthless," "unjustly entitled," "welfare bums," "freeloaders," and worse. It angers me when $33 billion more dollars are spent on corporate welfare than on social welfare; helping those in need get a fair shot at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It angers me when the poorest among us have to compete in a financial system that's like a game of poker with Bernard Madoff as the dealer.

Source: http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/corporate-welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welfare-statistics/

But, let's say you're a man from a certain part of town with a certain skin color who walks into a bank to ask for a $50,000 loan to start your own business in your neighborhood; to create jobs in your neighborhood and keep money in your neighborhood instead of sending it to the headquarters of a fast-food chain. You may even have an Associate's or Bachelor's degree in finance or business administration. More often than not, you're going to get a big red stamp on your application that reads "DENIED", while billion dollar corporations get blank checks on a silver platter. Furthermore, I was under the impression that we lived in a capitalist country where billion dollar corporations had to fend for themselves in a Darwinian business style without any aid from the government.

Malcolm said in Spike Lee's film that was something along the lines of, "The best way to destroy a man is to teach him to hate himself, because then he will end up destroying himself." When the culture tells you to respect, admire, and emulate those who do drugs, deal drugs, kill people, steal property, assault people, care about nothing except for money, abuse women, and call each other the six letter word; REJECT THIS. These cultural leaders make millions spreading this hateful philosophy, and influence their people to jail or the grave, while laughing all the way to the bank. What many fail to understand is that these entertainers are merely puppets controlled by greater forces in society in order to lead their people into generational poverty and a life of despair. Dr. King achieved equality legally, but that doesn't necessarily mean that these greater societal forces are going to up and let it happen in reality; in fact, they are dead-set opposed to it.

I'll end my blog with this modern parable. A man visited a part of town with his friend that was in ruin. It looked like something out of Stevie Wonder's "Village Ghettoland." His friend told him to wait in the car while he went into the house. A few minutes later he came back and told him to come into the house with him. He entered and saw what appeared to be some type of store owned by one of the residents of the neighborhood. The man behind the counter wasn't selling drugs, needles, pipes, guns, or women. He was selling newspapers, coffee, sodas, snacks, toiletries, and other items needed for the daily living of the members of his community. The man appeared well dressed and well respected by others in the store and was doing nothing morally wrong. He had achieved his equality by any means necessary. I strongly advise you to achieve equality by any means necessary and even more strongly advise you to leave the door open to others. You may go to college, earn a Doctoral degree, and work as an psychologist for a company owned by a board of all white trustees. You may live in a good neighborhood without all the crime and hopelessness you grew up in. You may have a long, comfortable, and secure life. But consider for one minute the great risk, and even greater reward of starting your own company in whatever field you have mastered and setting up your business in a part of town that society has all but condemned. With the shape of places like Detroit, I believe Malcolm (and Spike Lee) would agree with every word of this blog.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and may God guide you in all of your decisions,

- KEEPYOURHEADUP

Boston bombing and the military drill that was rehearsed hours before it.

Images that show employees of a private security firm involved in what appears to be a bombing drill confirm eyewitness reports that such an exercise was underway in the hours preceding the attack on the Boston Marathon, although authorities continue to deny that any drill took place.
When Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi questioned the Massachusetts Governor, the Mayor of Boston, and the FBI Special Agent in charge of Boston on whether there was a bomb drill taking place on the morning of the attack, he was told that there was “no specific intelligence” regarding an attack and that no drills took place besides the usual precautions taken for a big event.
This contradicts eyewitness testimony from University of Mobile Cross Country Coach Ali Stevenson, who stated, “At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there. They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise.”
The subsequent release of photos that placed the official narrative in disarray, images which showed both middle eastern and Caucasian men with large black backpacks behaving suspiciously immediately before and after the blast go to great lengths to confirm Stevenson’s story and suggest that official denials that drills took place are part of a larger cover-up.
As Anthony Gucciardi has documented, two individuals identified in the images are likely to be employees of Craft International, a Blackwater-style private military/security firm. However, the media and authorities have instead focused solely on two other middle eastern looking men and ignored the presence of what appear to be current or former military professionals standing just 30 feet from the site of the explosion wearing backpacks similar to those used in the attack talking into their cellphones.


Another image shows an individual dressed in the same fashion placing a black backpack on the ground in the moments after the nearby explosion.

Another image shows what could be the same Caucasian man or a third identically dressed individual with a black object in his hand after the blast.

The two or three men’s behavior and demeanor in the photos clearly suggests that they are engaged in some kind of drill, which would correlate with eyewitness reports from marathon runners that bomb drills were taking place at the start of the event and that participants were told to remain calm.
Immediately after the bombings, an image also emerged showing an individual walking on the roof immediately above where one of the blasts took place, again suggesting that he was taking part in a drill that paralleled the real attack.

Given the fact that authorities had to cancel a press conference yesterday, which many believe was linked to the release of these images on the Internet, it must surely be only a matter of time before police are forced to admit that there were bomb drills on the day of the attack.
The identity of the men pictured above and the answer as to why they were seemingly involved in a bombing drill that mirrored many aspects of the actual attack yet was denied by authorities are questions that must be answered if we are to form a complete picture of what took place.

ANON AMISS
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Boston bombing and the military drill that was rehearsed hours before it.

Images that show employees of a private security firm involved in what appears to be a bombing drill confirm eyewitness reports that such an exercise was underway in the hours preceding the attack on the Boston Marathon, although authorities continue to deny that any drill took place.
When Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi questioned the Massachusetts Governor, the Mayor of Boston, and the FBI Special Agent in charge of Boston on whether there was a bomb drill taking place on the morning of the attack, he was told that there was “no specific intelligence” regarding an attack and that no drills took place besides the usual precautions taken for a big event.
This contradicts eyewitness testimony from University of Mobile Cross Country Coach Ali Stevenson, who stated, “At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there. They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise.”
The subsequent release of photos that placed the official narrative in disarray, images which showed both middle eastern and Caucasian men with large black backpacks behaving suspiciously immediately before and after the blast go to great lengths to confirm Stevenson’s story and suggest that official denials that drills took place are part of a larger cover-up.
As Anthony Gucciardi has documented, two individuals identified in the images are likely to be employees of Craft International, a Blackwater-style private military/security firm. However, the media and authorities have instead focused solely on two other middle eastern looking men and ignored the presence of what appear to be current or former military professionals standing just 30 feet from the site of the explosion wearing backpacks similar to those used in the attack talking into their cellphones.


Another image shows an individual dressed in the same fashion placing a black backpack on the ground in the moments after the nearby explosion.

Another image shows what could be the same Caucasian man or a third identically dressed individual with a black object in his hand after the blast.

The two or three men’s behavior and demeanor in the photos clearly suggests that they are engaged in some kind of drill, which would correlate with eyewitness reports from marathon runners that bomb drills were taking place at the start of the event and that participants were told to remain calm.
Immediately after the bombings, an image also emerged showing an individual walking on the roof immediately above where one of the blasts took place, again suggesting that he was taking part in a drill that paralleled the real attack.

Given the fact that authorities had to cancel a press conference yesterday, which many believe was linked to the release of these images on the Internet, it must surely be only a matter of time before police are forced to admit that there were bomb drills on the day of the attack.
The identity of the men pictured above and the answer as to why they were seemingly involved in a bombing drill that mirrored many aspects of the actual attack yet was denied by authorities are questions that must be answered if we are to form a complete picture of what took place.

ANON AMISS
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This is your country on drugs: the secret of getting high in America

Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He's just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C. and gets a pop quiz from the Huffington Post.
Where does 420 come from?
He pauses and thinks, hands on his side. "I don't know the real origin. I know myths and rumors," he says. "I'm really confused about the first time I heard it. It was like a police code for smoking in progress or something. What's the real story?"
Depending on who you ask, or their state of inebriation, there are as many varieties of answers as strains of medical bud in California. It's the number of active chemicals in marijuana. It's teatime in Holland. It has something to do with Hitler's birthday. It's those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.
The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
The Huffington Post chased the term back to its roots and was able to find it in a lost patch of cannabis in a Point Reyes, California forest. Just as interesting as its origin, it turns out, is how it spread.
It starts with the Dead.
It was Christmas week in Oakland, 1990. Steven Bloom was wandering through The Lot - that timeless gathering of hippies that springs up in the parking lot before every Grateful Dead concert - when a Deadhead handed him a yellow flyer.
"We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais," reads the message, which Bloom dug up and forwarded to the Huffington Post. Bloom, then a reporter for High Times magazine and now the publisher of CelebStoner.com and co-author of Pot Culture, had never heard of "420-ing" before.
The flyer came complete with a 420 back story: "420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California in the late '70s. It started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb - Let's Go 420, dude!"
Bloom reported his find in the May 1991 issue of High Times, which the magazine found in its archives and provided to the Huffington Post. The story, though, was only partially right.
It had nothing to do with a police code -- though the San Rafael part was dead on. Indeed, a group of five San Rafael High School friends known as the Waldos - by virtue of their chosen hang-out spot, a wall outside the school - coined the term in 1971. The Huffington Post spoke with Waldo Steve, Waldo Dave and Dave's older brother, Patrick, and confirmed their full names and identities, which they asked to keep secret for professional reasons. (Pot is still, after all, illegal.)
The Waldos never envisioned that pot smokers the world over would celebrate each April 20th as a result of their foray into the Point Reyes forest. The day has managed to become something of a national holiday in the face of official condemnation. This year's celebration will be no different. Officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California, Santa Cruz, which boast two of the biggest smoke outs, are pushing back. "As another April 20 approaches, we are faced with concerns from students, parents, alumni, Regents, and community members about a repeat of last year's 4/20 'event,'" wrote Boulder's chancellor in a letter to students. "On April 20, 2009, we hope that you will choose not to participate in unlawful activity that debases the reputation of your University and degree, and will encourage your fellow Buffs to act with pride and remember who they really are."
But the Cheshire cat is out of the bag. Students and locals will show up at round four, light up at 4:20 and be gone shortly thereafter. No bands, no speakers, no chants. Just a bunch of people getting together and getting stoned.
The code often creeps into popular culture and mainstream settings. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction, for instance, are set to 4:20. In 2003, when the California legislature codified the medical marijuana law voters had approved, the bill was named SB420.
"We think it was a staffer working for [lead Assembly sponsor Mark] Leno, but no one has ever fessed up," says Steph Sherer, head of Americans for Safe Access, which lobbied on behalf of the bill. California legislative staffers spoken to for this story say that the 420 designation remains a mystery, but that both Leno and the lead Senate sponsor, John Vasconcellos, are hip enough that they must have known what it meant. (If you were involved with SB420 and know the story, email me.)
The code pops up in Craig's List postings when fellow smokers search for "420 friendly" roommates. "It's just a vaguer way of saying it and it kind of makes it kind of cool," says Bloom. "Like, you know you're in the know, but that does show you how it's in the mainstream."
The Waldos do have proof, however, that they used the term in the early '70s in the form of an old 420 flag and numerous letters with 420 references and early '70s post marks. They also have a story.
It goes like this: One day in the Fall of 1971 - harvest time - the Waldos got word of a Coast Guard service member who could no longer tend his plot of marijuana plants near the Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard station. A treasure map in hand, the Waldos decided to pluck some of this free bud.
The Waldos were all athletes and agreed to meet at the statue of Louis Pasteur outside the school at 4:20, after practice, to begin the hunt.
"We would remind each other in the hallways we were supposed to meet up at 4:20. It originally started out 4:20-Louis and we eventually dropped the Louis," Waldo Steve tells the Huffington Post.
The first forays out were unsuccessful, but the group kept looking for the hidden crop. "We'd meet at 4:20 and get in my old '66 Chevy Impala and, of course, we'd smoke instantly and smoke all the way out to Pt. Reyes and smoke the entire time we were out there. We did it week after week," says Steve. "We never actually found the patch."
But they did find a useful codeword. "I could say to one of my friends, I'd go, 420, and it was telepathic. He would know if I was saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go smoke some?' Or, 'Do you have any?' Or, 'Are you stoned right now?' It was kind of telepathic just from the way you said it," Steve says. "Our teachers didn't know what we were talking about. Our parents didn't know what we were talking about."
It's one thing to identify the origin of the term. Indeed, Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary already include references to the Waldos. The bigger question: How did 420 spread from a circle of California stoners across the globe?
As fortune would have it, the collapse of San Francisco's hippie utopia in the late '60s set the stage. As speed freaks, thugs and con artists took over The Haight, the Grateful Dead picked up and moved to the Marin County hills - just blocks from San Rafael High School.
"Marin Country was kind of ground zero for the counter culture," says Steve.
The Waldos had more than just a geographic connection to the Dead. Mark Waldo's father took care of real estate for the Dead. And Waldo Dave's older brother, Patrick, managed a Dead sideband and was good friends with bassist Phil Lesh. Patrick tells the Huffington Post that he smoked with Lesh on numerous occasions. He couldn't recall if he used the term 420 around him, but guessed that he must have.
The Dead, recalls Waldo Dave Reddix, "had this rehearsal hall on Front Street, San Rafael, California, and they used to practice there. So we used to go hang out and listen to them play music and get high while they're practicing for gigs. But I think it's possible my brother Patrick might have spread it through Phil Lesh. And me, too, because I was hanging out with Lesh and his band [as a roadie] when they were doing a summer tour my brother was managing."
The bands that Patrick managed for Lesh were called Too Loose To Truck and the Sea Stones; they featured not only Lesh but rock legend David Crosby and acclaimed guitarist Terry Haggerty.
The Waldos also had open access to Dead parties and rehearsals. "We'd go with [Mark's] dad, who was a hip dad from the '60s," says Steve. "There was a place called Winterland and we'd always be backstage running around or onstage and, of course, we're using those phrases. When somebody passes a joint or something, 'Hey, 420.' So it started spreading through that community."
Lesh, walking off the stage after a recent Dead concert, confirmed that Patrick is a friend and said he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Waldos had coined 420. He wasn't sure, he said, when the first time he heard it was. "I do not remember. I'm very sorry. I wish I could help," he said.
Wavy-Gravy is a hippie icon with his own ice cream flavor and has been hanging out with the Dead for decades. HuffPost spotted him outside the concert. Asked about the origin of 420, he suggested it began "somewhere in the foggy mists of time. What time is it now? I say to you: eternity now."
As the Grateful Dead toured the globe through the '70s and '80s, playing hundreds of shows a year - the term spread though the Dead underground. Once High Times got hip to it, the magazine helped take it global.
"I started incorporating it into everything we were doing," High Times editor Steve Hager told the Huffington Post. "I started doing all these big events - the World Hemp Expo Extravaganza and the Cannabis Cup - and we built everything around 420. The publicity that High Times gave it is what made it an international thing. Until then, it was relatively confined to the Grateful Dead subculture. But we blew it out into an international phenomenon."
Sometime in the early '90s, High Times wisely purchased the web domain 420.com.
Bloom, the reporter who first stumbled on it, gives High Times less credit. "We posted that flyer and then we started to see little references to it. It wasn't really much of High Times doing," he says. "We weren't really pushing it that hard, just kind of referencing the phrase."
The Waldos say that within a few years the term had spread throughout San Rafael and was cropping up elsewhere in the state. By the early '90s, it had penetrated deep enough that Dave and Steve started hearing people use it in unexpected places - Ohio, Florida, Canada - and spotted it painted on signs and etched into park benches.
In 1997, the Waldos decided to set the record straight and got in touch with High Times.
"They said, 'The fact is, there is no 420 [police] code in California. You guys ever look it up?'" Blooms recalls. He had to admit that no, he had never looked it up. Hager flew out to San Rafael, met the Waldos, examined their evidence, spoke with others in town, and concluded they were telling the truth.
Hager still believes them. "No one's ever been able to come up with any use of 420 that predates the 1971 usage, which they had established. So unless somebody can come up with something that predates them, then I don't think anybody's going to get credit for it other than them," he says.
"We never made a dime on the thing," says Dave, half boasting, half lamenting.
He does take pride in his role, though. "I still have a lot of friends who tell their friends that they know one of the guys that started the 420 thing. So it's kind of like a cult celebrity thing. Two years ago I went to the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. High Times magazine flew me out," says Dave.
Dave is now a credit analyst and works for Steve, who owns a specialty lending institution and lost money to the con artist Bernie Madoff. He spends more time today, he says, composing angry letters to the SEC than he does getting high.
The other three Waldos have also been successful, Steve says. One is head of marketing for a Napa Valley winery. Another is in printing and graphics. A third works for a roofing and gutter company. "He's like, head of their gutter division," says Steve, who keeps in close touch with them all.
"I've got to run a business. I've got to stay sharp," says Steve, explaining why he rarely smokes pot anymore. "Seems like everybody I know who smokes daily, or many times in a week, it seems like there's always something going wrong with their life, professionally, or in their relationships, or financially or something. It's a lot of fun, but it seems like if someone does it too much, there's some karmic cost to it."
"I never endorsed the use of marijuana. But hey, it worked for me," says Waldo Dave. "I'm sure on my headstone it'll say: 'One of the 420 guys.

Ryan Grimm
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