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Douglas Wachter
My photographs of San Francisco Bay Area politics in the 1960s
1966--Music and meditation one afternoon at UC Berkeley
It seemed as if you could happen upon just about anything on the Berkeley campus. One afternoon, a couple of singing and guitar-playing buskers showed up just outside the Student Union. They did their thing and earned a few dollars. Then a circle of people quietly sat down on the pavement, forming a circle. Out came a lit candle, incense and a zither. The participants assumed the lotus position and chanted softly. It was just a typical day on the Berkeley campus.
Buskers on the UC Berkeley campus, 1966.
Slim pickings.
Impromptu meditation circle, UC Berkeley campus, 1966.
For one meditator, no shirt, no shoes, mellow companions and a friendly dog.
Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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