I bow my head in respectful agreement.

Lorin:

Your set at last years LIB literally changed my life. Or rather, put it back on the direction that I feel it was in my childhood. As a younger man, I was always excited and curious about spiritual exploration and social interaction. I think a large amount of things contributed to me really shutting down about five or six years ago. Usually my memory is a very nebulous and vague thing, but in this case I can exactly pinpoint the moment when I again realized that I am incredible. It was during your set, when you spoke over the PA, attesting and bearing witness to the undeniable, tangible, visceral, OVERWHELMING love that was in the air that night. I had been feeling it all day and night, but didn't understand because of my set-in-stone way of doing things the "right" way for me. It took you speaking those words for me to realize the most obvious thing that I was completely blind to: All of us are breathtakingly beautiful, and we have the ability to exceed any expectation by leaps and bounds, and that when the moment is right, and we let go to love, there is nothing we cannot do.

You know how frustrating it can be to put feelings into words, so let me just say that I am crying tears of joy. I woke up with a terrible mindset this morning, feeling the hatred and the confusion of the world. There is nothing like a little perspective, and I am about to get up and live my life today, instead of distracting myself from obvious light.

I have never met you, yet you have touched my life with amazing impact and love.

Thank you for having the courage to lay on the floor for hours.

Thank you for having the wisdom to share with us.

Thank you.

Umm.... yes.

I've recently been airing out this idea I have that what's coming out of CA right now - this strange hybridization of rave culture, psychedelic culture, the global permaculture movement, et cetera - it seems to be a big fondue pot for the next great American counterculture. While I don't think that it won't be misappropriated by the mainstream just like beat, hippie, punk, and hip hop (think: dreadlocked girls spinning poi on MTV in ten years), I think that it has a good chance of deeply affecting the world and shaking up this vile scheme within which we all seem to be trapped.

Whenever I run into anyone who scoffs - from within a counterculture or without - I always bring up the example of your show at the Nightlight Lounge in Bellingham, where the first thing everyone saw was the 10' by 15' banner about reducing your economic and environmental footprint. So far, it's eliminated all skepticism.

Keep up the stellar work.