Mantra-Rock Dance
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The Mantra-Rock Dance was a counterculture music event held on January 29, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. It was organized by followers of the International Society for Krishna Conscio
The Mantra-Rock Dance poster by Harvey W. Cohen (created December 1966)
Haight-Ashbury, 2005
Allen Ginsberg greeting Prabhupada at the San Francisco Airport, January 17, 1967
"The New Science" article in the San Francisco Oracle (part), January 1967
Allen Ginsberg
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat
Mantra-Rock Dance
…to the local Hare Krishna temple. The participation of countercultural leaders considerably boosted the event's popularity; among them were the poet Allen Ginsberg, who led the singing of the Hare Krishna mantra onstage along with Prabhupada, and the LSD promoters Timothy Leary and Augustus Owsley Stanley III…
Ginsberg in 1979
First edition cover of Ginsberg's landmark poetry collection, Howl and Other Poems (1956)
Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky. Photo taken in 1978
Portrait with Bob Dylan, taken in 1975