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Mar 2023
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Ep. 28 – Mountain Girl with Carolyn Gar...

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About this episode

Carolyn Garcia, one of The Merry Pranksters, chats with Madison Margolin about LSD, letting loose, and communal living.

In this episode Madison Margolin and Carolyn Garcia discuss:

  • Carolyn’s time as a psychedelic lab analyst at Stanford
  • The Merry Pranksters 
  • Atmospheric parties and poetry
  • How LSD can put you in touch with yourself
  • Fun, Frolic, and Letting Loose
  • Communal Living 
  • Carolyn and Ram Dass

About Carolyn Garcia:

Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia, also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead. The Merry Pranksters were comrades and followers of American author Ken Kesey. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. Carolyn is the owner of Mountain Girl’s Botanica, a line of beautifully simple herbal products for well-being, brain fitness, and cognitive enhancement. Keep up with Carolyn on her Instagram.

“We learned to trust each other very quickly. Somehow we knew each other through the gift of the LSD, to see each other’s active brain and personality. Instead of not knowing people very well, you felt like you innately knew them or that you could read their aura.” – Carolyn Garcia


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