Its so crazy how he admits that he was doing all the things that "should" provide contentment and enlightenment like living in a small community together each taking care of each other looking out for one another, etc. But he STILL felt an unsatisfaction within himself that led him to look to God for true everlasting love. Thats the most acid thing that could happen.
Yes, it was a seductive mindset that for the most part felt possitive, but there were cracks in the illution i noticed even at the time and found destructive
There are many thousands of child survivors of sexual abuse from those communes, various hippie communities, transient crash pads etc. No one has spoken up for them.
Tom Servo - he was probably about 43 when this was made... I also looked young for my age and still do to some extent... After the later 40s into your 50s it hits you harder. Young adulthood is considered by some to be 18 to 40. I still felt felt young when I was 40. So this guy was really just a little past young adulthood at the time... Early middle age...
No he was about 32 to 36 in 87. That is the right age for communes etc. I knew a girl who was 39 in 87 and still lived in a commune. She was considered older.
I was telling my younger wife about this tonight and stumbled on this later. Made me giggle. I miss that world of hope of freedom. I love my wife and kids. Not the drudge of maintaining it all. Job, home, etc. The hippie mindset is not gone but it is an illusion. It's for the young. The world is a different animal now. Difficult to teach my kids how to cope in it. Paradise is only in the mind not in this world.
Same energy but completely different drive, one was destruction, other is creation. It takes a very special drive to achieve things while basically alone and hurting. It takes a special state of mind. All I can say is that when he was talking about the goat you can see it flash in his eyes, Manson would have killed for that goat, he speaks about understanding that. I admire that in this guy, I wouldn't have killed for the goat, but teeth would be flying at least.
Thank you so much for your work in showing us the reality of the glorious 1960’s. As a millenial, i feel there is something so “magical” about the 1960’s; I dare say “mystical‘’ even. David Hoffman, you are awesome!
I don't agree with hippies much but I'll credit them for being non-partisan. They didn't have to look at their voter ID card to know where they stood on an issue. The war was something they were against whether Democrats Kennedy or Johnson were president or Republican Nixon was in the White House.
I love how at the end of it, there's still a void. The end doesn't give it to you, even if it's more peaceful and chill (not for this guy, ploughing w horses!).
Wow this is really interesting, people dont talk much about US communes. What ended up stopping communes, they sound like they have problems like anything but also quite the expirence
This is the most real life unreliable narrator I've ever heard. I get the sense that in the 10 communes he started he left a trail of people who did not dig him.
The end was scary. There was some signs it would end like that, but the way he said it in the end... The choice of words, and the tone of his voice... 😲 Scary.
You are a fascinating person and to me this feels like art. I can't fully decide if it's scripted or real or what but it is powerful. You really have enviable skills with people and the camera.
Definitely not scripted. He would be one hell of an actor if he was reading a script or memorizing one. It is purely an interview. Done my style. David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I was a bit stoned when I watched which is why I debated the "reality". It was just so perfect. You have used your talents wisely and your work is of great sociological interest.
Sex like fire is very good in marriage. If it burns bright and hot it provides ample light and warming heat. On the other hand sex outside marriage is a hugely destructive fire. Because it was outside its intended purpose of bonding, mutual giving and procreation in a pleasurable way.
The stories of finding goodness, why it's important, how to find it... You just gotta hope each generation finds its way there. There are many different pathways to goodness, but you don't want to NOT find it in the end
Im 46, 47 tomorrow. Life has been one strange trip. Ive done a lot of drugs. Mainly psychedelics. Usually very heavy doses. I would gain so much then slowly lose it all. I real roller coaster. My sons 16th birthday was a few weeks ago. After the party had ended my wife and i sat down and ate handfuls of magic mushrooms. Amounts you wouldnt believe. Weve done this many times. Well as you can imagine it got crazy. But it always does. But for the first time ever i got it. I finally got it. I forgave everyone including my self. I met god. I get god.
Why do you assume that? Because of his accent? Other videos of his he's showed great interest in solely women, and he's been ultimately genuine otherwise from what we can all tell. So now if you speak a certain way, you're gay? lol. okay.
@@tttriple Its just an intuition. But it's obvious. What he went through is mental hell, and Christianity saved him, how could his brain go against it. Thankfully there are Christian traditions that see that it's just normal, a gift from God, was the best way I heard it described, by a priest on Oprah.
@@The-Portland-Daily-Blink Iys not the surfers its just his vibe. And having had long periods of homosexuality is not a typically hetero thing even for a hippy. Its just his version of Christianity, the thing that saved him doesn't allow for what is as natural to him as drinking water. 2021 we allow this stuff now.
Thanks, David. I see the connection now centervilletn - Great verbiage! I get it now, man! I was born in ‘53. I entered my teen years in 1966, graduated from high school in ‘71. I was only very minimally touched by the hippie culture. Of course, the music of the time was huge in my life, but I confess I didn’t pay much attention to the words. I’m shocked now when listening to “the oldies” and I realize the meaning of some songs I sang! 😊 i was actually only around marijuana once in my life, and was never offered it. I think I was probably a little naive. Of course, I took on some of the fashions, but not the more extreme. I lived in Texas, in a very small community just outside Houston (it’s now incorporated into the city). It was more “kicker” (cowboy) than hippie, and I ran in the athletic crowd rather than the hippie crowd. I’m not exactly sure how I “missed out”, or if it was a good thing or not. I’m not saying I was “better than” other kids who did go that route, but I don’t regret missing out on drugs and promiscuity. Culture is a very interesting thing. It’s amazing the changes I can see looking back on my own lifetime.
@@shamicentertainment1262 A "Be-in" was like a "Sit-in" only you were not protesting anything...you were just "being" there, loving each other, digging the peace. 🤗 💞 🌻🌸 ☮️ ✌️
One thing I could never understand about hippies is the fact they all come from financially stable and supportive families. Never met a working class hippy from a broken family
Alex. You are correct. I will post future portions of my interview with him over the next days. My experiences with UA-cam and the suggestions from UA-cam to content creators indicate that most viewers don't want to watch more than 10 min. at the most per clip. David Hoffman-filmmaker
Loving the channel David. BTW, keeping the videos a little over 10 minutes will greatly increase the chances that YT's algorithm will spread your videos to more people.
Years of neglect filled wandering and lsd void filling is typically followed by god. Fills our neurological hard wiring that our self awareness craves... self importance; "god loves you and needs you" You can see the same old story on your god loving daytime preacher shows every day. The video was cut off perfectly.
DudeRevolution my sentiments exactly, this is a bit of a generalization but I think the 60’s flower children were a bit more selfish, self important, and self aggrandizing than they think. But this guy is great fun to listen to.
Living on a commune and being a hippie aren't necessarily the same thing, our neighbours in the 70s and eighties were hippies, but they lived in a house the same as us, i was running in and out of there all the time as a child, she taught me to play the guitar and read tarot, she used to busk in the streets every weekend, this guys story is amazing, he describes this in an easy to understand way, it appears he was mainstream before, and rebelled, and mainstream after when he found jesus, i totally understand the movement though, as they were opposed to the war, and wanted to live peaceful lives 🙏
He doesn't say that. He hangs around with some and others are sometimes a problem....like blue people and orange people.,...etc. all except us dagos who are always good!!!!
The word heavy meant intense. The Civil Rights Movement had a great deal going on, needed to be going on, and it was very, very intense. When one is fighting for Civil Rights, it is, indeed, "heavy,", and understandably so. Some of those involved in social change and bringing about justice were in that frame of mind 24/7 and had it turned up on 11 all the time, not just black folks. It is a most challenging endeavor.
I wish we could know what happened to this guy. I am not much of a hippie myself since I think Peace & Love is all a bunch of bull but I really appreciate how free spirited the hippies were. Just is hard because I am 23 and a lot of the things about the hippies fascinate me with free love and open nudity. I'm not saying I'd go around having sex with everyone but sometimes I think there are things we deem romantic that I really see as a sign of friendship such as holding hands or a kiss on the forehead. Then as far as nudity goes.. I mean we are brought into this world nude yet shun it every chance we get.
This dude is just excited about seeing the other guys on the way to the shower. I mean, fair play if that's his bag bit his gay/bass congo experience was not the commune experience in general
We all have that God-shaped hole in our hearts that only Jesus can fill. Jeremiah 29: 11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”. The invitation is available to all!
He never mentioned the smell
This dude is still high.
I could listen to this guy all night.
I have a hunch you'd have no choice.
This channel has some of the best content on UA-cam. Can't wait for the next part of this interview.
Its so crazy how he admits that he was doing all the things that "should" provide contentment and enlightenment like living in a small community together each taking care of each other looking out for one another, etc. But he STILL felt an unsatisfaction within himself that led him to look to God for true everlasting love. Thats the most acid thing that could happen.
Yes, it was a seductive mindset that for the most part felt possitive, but there were cracks in the illution i noticed even at the time and found destructive
Wow, you were part of one? Where was it?
It's like it's the same hell, it just looks different.
There are many thousands of child survivors of sexual abuse from those communes, various hippie communities, transient crash pads etc. No one has spoken up for them.
this interview took place in 1990, wow, this guy aged well.
Tom Servo - he was probably about 43 when this was made... I also looked young for my age and still do to some extent... After the later 40s into your 50s it hits you harder. Young adulthood is considered by some to be 18 to 40. I still felt felt young when I was 40. So this guy was really just a little past young adulthood at the time... Early middle age...
What do you mean. Is he popular now and there is more of him, or you saying he look well in the 90s compared to the 60s?
he is definitely the guy in your neighborhood jogging at 6:30 am lol
No he was about 32 to 36 in 87. That is the right age for communes etc. I knew a girl who was 39 in 87 and still lived in a commune. She was considered older.
I was telling my younger wife about this tonight and stumbled on this later. Made me giggle. I miss that world of hope of freedom. I love my wife and kids. Not the drudge of maintaining it all. Job, home, etc. The hippie mindset is not gone but it is an illusion. It's for the young. The world is a different animal now.
Difficult to teach my kids how to cope in it. Paradise is only in the mind not in this world.
what did you older wife think about it? (you only mentioned your younger wife).
As a millennial, all I want to do is experience a week in the height of the 70’s
Paradise is a place Jesus Christ dwells and you can follow Him there if you accept Him, and believe in Him. Trust in God and repent
This guy was 300 micrograms away from being Charles Manson.
*Hee HEEE!!*
I was just thinking that he's lucky he didn't end up at the Spahn Ranch.
People abuse the term "Lol" these days but dude you got me! 🤣
Same energy but completely different drive, one was destruction, other is creation. It takes a very special drive to achieve things while basically alone and hurting. It takes a special state of mind. All I can say is that when he was talking about the goat you can see it flash in his eyes, Manson would have killed for that goat, he speaks about understanding that. I admire that in this guy, I wouldn't have killed for the goat, but teeth would be flying at least.
They can talk about love all they want, but the fact remains that there was always from the beginning a dark and menacing aspect to all of this.
Thank you so much for your work in showing us the reality of the glorious 1960’s.
As a millenial, i feel there is something so “magical” about the 1960’s; I dare say “mystical‘’ even.
David Hoffman, you are awesome!
So good!!! What a great storyteller and description. I appreciate his honesty.
I don't agree with hippies much but I'll credit them for being non-partisan. They didn't have to look at their voter ID card to know where they stood on an issue. The war was something they were against whether Democrats Kennedy or Johnson were president or Republican Nixon was in the White House.
I totally understand how he would become a preacher. To go through the free love movement and still not feel it deep enough
What's his actual name I'm fascinated by him and want to learn more. Does he have a wiki page or something ??
LSD is a hellva drug
There were a lot of these people still around in the 70’s . I found them a little creepy and manipulative. I avoided them .
@Clare McHugh, I agree. I love how he talks about being self-sufficient while simultaneously talking about cleaning out the food at the local Safeway.
Maybe y’all can not be so quick to judging others with very little information
My favorite speaker on this entire channel. Every new video of his that you post is just mind blowing to me. Thanks for posting these david!
Oh if he's still out there..We need more!
and we said, "cool man, we'll stop".
Great story, righteous guy and an ending I liked.
Powerful. A story I needed to hear: some of the answers I've been looking for.
This dude is fantastic.
I love how at the end of it, there's still a void. The end doesn't give it to you, even if it's more peaceful and chill (not for this guy, ploughing w horses!).
i forgot but now i remember why i enjoyed being a hippy
cant be myself.
this guy definately jumps up and down to brush his teeth
😂😂😂😂😂 Best one I've heard in a while... "You want a tip?.. Don't breath under water" *Kneeslapperz*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow this is really interesting, people dont talk much about US communes. What ended up stopping communes, they sound like they have problems like anything but also quite the expirence
trickyhero a lot of them had an unfortunate tendency to turn into cults. Especially when flower power was but a distant memory.
One or two guys got all the girls. I suspect that soured a lot of the unlucky males.
Stronger personalities always took over, meaning that the playing field never stayed fair, free and equal for long.
6:50 the world needs to hear this right now
He's a character.
This is the most real life unreliable narrator I've ever heard. I get the sense that in the 10 communes he started he left a trail of people who did not dig him.
It's a dog eat goat world, y'all
🤣🤣
The end was scary. There was some signs it would end like that, but the way he said it in the end... The choice of words, and the tone of his voice... 😲 Scary.
How relevant these old stories remain throughout the years.
I would of loved to have experianced the 1960s sounds a very interesting time.
You are a fascinating person and to me this feels like art. I can't fully decide if it's scripted or real or what but it is powerful. You really have enviable skills with people and the camera.
Definitely not scripted. He would be one hell of an actor if he was reading a script or memorizing one. It is purely an interview. Done my style.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I was a bit stoned when I watched which is why I debated the "reality". It was just so perfect. You have used your talents wisely and your work is of great sociological interest.
Sex like fire is very good in marriage. If it burns bright and hot it provides ample light and warming heat.
On the other hand sex outside marriage is a hugely destructive fire. Because it was outside its intended purpose of bonding, mutual giving and procreation in a pleasurable way.
Feel bad for the Goat Man
Living independently and self sufficiently does not include stealing food from a Safeway!
Yeah, the stealing part killed much of the magic.
Thanks!
Thank you Neil for the support. It matters.
The stories of finding goodness, why it's important, how to find it... You just gotta hope each generation finds its way there. There are many different pathways to goodness, but you don't want to NOT find it in the end
Please, please let us hear more from this guy. What year was he interviewed? He’s has to be older than me, but sure doesn’t look it.
Thank you.The interview took place in 1990.
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David Hoffman did you conduct this interview?
chrisi237, yes he did
Who is this dude?? I want to hang out with him!
Im 46, 47 tomorrow. Life has been one strange trip.
Ive done a lot of drugs. Mainly psychedelics. Usually very heavy doses.
I would gain so much then slowly lose it all. I real roller coaster.
My sons 16th birthday was a few weeks ago. After the party had ended my wife and i sat down and ate handfuls of magic mushrooms. Amounts you wouldnt believe. Weve done this many times.
Well as you can imagine it got crazy. But it always does.
But for the first time ever i got it. I finally got it. I forgave everyone including my self.
I met god. I get god.
Chuck Norris before he got buff.
This is so good, I only wish the video would have included how he found God.
WHEN YOUR DOG EATS THE GOAT
Where is this guy now? Lol
Where is the rest of his interview? I want to see the whole interview. Thanks
I guess this was kinda the hippie culture you hear somewhat about now
“I lived in a walk in closet” oh hun you’re still in there.
W shaming parents you believe you're not gay like slamming a ruler on the desk. That's what's happening I think.
Why do you assume that? Because of his accent? Other videos of his he's showed great interest in solely women, and he's been ultimately genuine otherwise from what we can all tell.
So now if you speak a certain way, you're gay? lol. okay.
@@tttriple Its just an intuition. But it's obvious. What he went through is mental hell, and Christianity saved him, how could his brain go against it. Thankfully there are Christian traditions that see that it's just normal, a gift from God, was the best way I heard it described, by a priest on Oprah.
I know lots of men who talk like that and are strictly hetero. It’s called Surfer Dude Speak. He’s probably from California.
@@The-Portland-Daily-Blink Iys not the surfers its just his vibe. And having had long periods of homosexuality is not a typically hetero thing even for a hippy. Its just his version of Christianity, the thing that saved him doesn't allow for what is as natural to him as drinking water. 2021 we allow this stuff now.
This guy is like the male version of Cheryl Hines
Pardon my ignorance, but what’s a”be-in”, or “bee-in” or “B-N”? 😊
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Be-In
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No clue. Maybe it was the bee inn?
Thanks, David. I see the connection now
centervilletn - Great verbiage! I get it now, man! I was born in ‘53. I entered my teen years in 1966, graduated from high school in ‘71. I was only very minimally touched by the hippie culture. Of course, the music of the time was huge in my life, but I confess I didn’t pay much attention to the words. I’m shocked now when listening to “the oldies” and I realize the meaning of some songs I sang! 😊 i was actually only around marijuana once in my life, and was never offered it. I think I was probably a little naive. Of course, I took on some of the fashions, but not the more extreme. I lived in Texas, in a very small community just outside Houston (it’s now incorporated into the city). It was more “kicker” (cowboy) than hippie, and I ran in the athletic crowd rather than the hippie crowd. I’m not exactly sure how I “missed out”, or if it was a good thing or not. I’m not saying I was “better than” other kids who did go that route, but I don’t regret missing out on drugs and promiscuity. Culture is a very interesting thing. It’s amazing the changes I can see looking back on my own lifetime.
A be-in is a meeting of the counter culture,with or without music.
@@shamicentertainment1262 A "Be-in" was like a "Sit-in" only you were not protesting anything...you were just "being" there, loving each other, digging the peace. 🤗 💞 🌻🌸 ☮️ ✌️
One thing I could never understand about hippies is the fact they all come from financially stable and supportive families. Never met a working class hippy from a broken family
I think many took it for granted and thought survival (in any form) was easy.
Cut off just when he was getting into what really mattered to him.
Alex. You are correct. I will post future portions of my interview with him over the next days. My experiences with UA-cam and the suggestions from UA-cam to content creators indicate that most viewers don't want to watch more than 10 min. at the most per clip.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
Thanks David. I look forward to the next installment. And much appreciate you sharing your historic archives with the world.
Loving the channel David. BTW, keeping the videos a little over 10 minutes will greatly increase the chances that YT's algorithm will spread your videos to more people.
Years of neglect filled wandering and lsd void filling is typically followed by god. Fills our neurological hard wiring that our self awareness craves... self importance; "god loves you and needs you"
You can see the same old story on your god loving daytime preacher shows every day. The video was cut off perfectly.
DudeRevolution my sentiments exactly, this is a bit of a generalization but I think the 60’s flower children were a bit more selfish, self important, and self aggrandizing than they think. But this guy is great fun to listen to.
Good God! Could you imagine this guy being your cellmate?
6:12 “people have written me back saying they were sorry they got involved with me at that level” well communication is important
These people are why we now only have the option to "STRIVE! ACHIEVE!" or just STARVE.
Dust a Safeway store dry.. Do what you gotta do...
Living on a commune and being a hippie aren't necessarily the same thing, our neighbours in the 70s and eighties were hippies, but they lived in a house the same as us, i was running in and out of there all the time as a child, she taught me to play the guitar and read tarot, she used to busk in the streets every weekend, this guys story is amazing, he describes this in an easy to understand way, it appears he was mainstream before, and rebelled, and mainstream after when he found jesus, i totally understand the movement though, as they were opposed to the war, and wanted to live peaceful lives 🙏
Can this guy be my new best friend?! I love him so much!
I really tried 2 give him the benefit of the doubt up until 2:58- 3:05 then I gave up!
what year was this filmed in? 1989?
Read the description please. 1989.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker what month?
Love part of "peace and love" always seemed kind of shallow.
well, we are talking about teens to early twenties. It's a wonderful idea.
I wonder what's happened to this guy since this was filmed.
What were the downsides and flaws of living in a commune?
this dude just seems like he’s been studying real hard
What does he mean by the « spades », please?
damn i had never heard of this before
Right. Love. Sex. STDs. Malnutrition. Violence. Good times.
I used to do drugs, i still do, but i used to do to.
Unsustainable reality/ fantasy
"B -in??"
Be in. As in just to be
2:23 damn the "spades" were too heavy lol. takes it hes not a fan of blacks, but im cool with it.
He doesn't say that. He hangs around with some and others are sometimes a problem....like blue people and orange people.,...etc. all except us dagos who are always good!!!!
The word heavy meant intense. The Civil Rights Movement had a great deal going on, needed to be going on, and it was very, very intense. When one is fighting for Civil Rights, it is, indeed, "heavy,", and understandably so. Some of those involved in social change and bringing about justice were in that frame of mind 24/7 and had it turned up on 11 all the time, not just black folks. It is a most challenging endeavor.
Dude looks like Howdy Doody. Has a comedian's face, mannerisms.
I wish we could know what happened to this guy. I am not much of a hippie myself since I think Peace & Love is all a bunch of bull but I really appreciate how free spirited the hippies were. Just is hard because I am 23 and a lot of the things about the hippies fascinate me with free love and open nudity. I'm not saying I'd go around having sex with everyone but sometimes I think there are things we deem romantic that I really see as a sign of friendship such as holding hands or a kiss on the forehead. Then as far as nudity goes.. I mean we are brought into this world nude yet shun it every chance we get.
Reminds me of Dennis Reynolds 😂😂😂
5:08 You just split in our communes to avoid disputes. Sounds like Protestant churches.
Being high on sex and drugs most of the time is an addiction, not freedom. But hey if you dont have shave ever, than i agree. lol.
Who is this guy?
What or who were the spades?
Lol
What colour is the ace of spades!
Slang for black people
Communes are fine, just pay it's own bills!!
Straight as a San Fransisco street.
wow i only imagine that today he is a batshit crazy old man...
This "love" sounds superficial.
You know radar spelled backward is radar?
You’re thinkin’ about it, ain’t ya?
@@mazimadu ..L-E-V-E-L..............holy shit.
The spades?
This dude is just excited about seeing the other guys on the way to the shower. I mean, fair play if that's his bag bit his gay/bass congo experience was not the commune experience in general
😮
This man is fresh out the shower.
Luckily there are alternatives to lavish hedonism other than Christianity.
Only Baby Boomers will get this. 💟☮️.
We all have that God-shaped hole in our hearts that only Jesus can fill. Jeremiah 29:
11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”. The invitation is available to all!
Amen!
He works height Finance now, right?
People didn't take shits or pop zits back then.
Joel Osteen?
Young Chuck Norris
I'm the goat man
What happened next.
He had me until the end when he mentioned god...………..forfuksake.
Lol
So what's this guy's agenda now? What's he pushing now? It's something, obviously.
R.E.L.I.G.I.O.N. !!! ... what else???
Is he talking like black??
Proud of being a rip-off?