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STONEHENGE, England, Aug. 7 -- With four days left to go before the final solar eclipse of the millenium, the Merry Prankters drove their magic bus Further to this ancient druid site and summoned the stones for a spiritual message from the great wizzard Merlin,
At left, Merry Prankster John Swan consults a magical crystal prism to communicate with the intrepid spirit of Merlin. "Merlin isn't here," Swan said, "but I know we'll see him before the eclipse." There was definitely poetic irony in the Prankster's visit. Ken Kesey lead a tribe of modern psychedelic warriors to this mysterious site, presumed to be a tibal gathering place of Celtic fraternal warriors. As the Prankster's took their intrepid journey to this location, they were furthering a legacy established by their spiritual ancestors, who were perhaps the builders of these very stones. |
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The media was in full swing to greet Kesey and the Pranksters as they arrived at Stonhenge. There were a handful of newspaper journalists and photographers, as well as a BBC film crew competing with their rival Channel Four film crew.
Kesey waxed philosophical about the origins of the stones, and agreed that there could be some extra-terrestrial influence in their construction. On the drive to Stonhenge, Kesey and the bus witnessed some strange spherical crop circles in the surrounding fields. Most of the circles appeared lopsided and asymetrical. Kesey suggested that these crop circles were created by "sleepwalking aliens." |
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"This only happens once every 1000 years," Kesey said about the magic bus Further being amongst these ancient mystical stones. Using a handheld radio, Kesey communicated with Babbs who was on the bus parked in an adjacent farm field a half-mile away.
As Kesey gave the word, the bus moved down the road. From the vantage point of the stones, the bus could be seen moving in the distance. The sun gleamed off its multi-colored roof, and gleamed through the gaps of the ancient monument as though it were a giant stone prism. |
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After all the spiritual vibes at Stonehenge were soaked up by the intrepid visitors, the bus gassed up and prepared for the move deeper and further down the coast, past Devonshire and into the heart of Cornwall...
The Merry Pranksters will view the eclipse from the tip of Cornwall, at the Minack theatre in Penzance. The eclipse is scheduled to hit the 100 percent viewing zone at the southern tip of England on August 11 and 11:11 a.m. ...the bus moves futher... ... pulled magnetically by the spiritual telluric currents to it's logical, cosmically pre-ordained destination, where the land ends and Cornwall and all there is ahead is the vast nothingness of the sea... ...where the sun will eclipse as a harbinger of the millenium, bringing new meaning, new intrepid travels, new journeys Further... |
