Sunrise in the Kalahari.Desert, South Africa. Composite photo from “In Search of the Future.”
Sedona, AZ: The new Sedona film "In Search of the Future" was screened in conjunction with the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary concert in San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaimed Septemb er 2, "Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Day."
"The Summer of Love in San Francisco is internationally recognized as the birthplace of the 60's revolution which ignited a spiritual awakening that swept the world," said Newsom.
> Bailey and Marlow - 60s emissaries now in their sixties – revisit The Haight-Ashbury in 2007. (Photograph by local resident, daughter Lila Bailey, attorney.)
Chief Sonne Reyna, featured in the film, led the opening ceremonies that kicked off the day-long free concert in Golden Gate Park attended by more than 50,000 people spanning multiple generations.
> Chief Sonne Reyna, one of the Native leaders who conducted the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Celebration. Cameron/Baxter Photo.
"Information has replaced chemicals," suggests Andrew Cameron Bailey, the film's director. "LSD opened minds to an expanded reality in the 60’s and 70’s. In 2007, a new understanding of the Conscious Loving Universe (CLU) brings forth a paradigm shift of significant proportions: Native wisdom meets the new science, heralding the end of war, poverty, and disease with an evolutionary leap in consciousness for the human race."
The year 1967 was a time when the simple four-letter word "love" gave birth to a counter-culture generation and a way of being and thinking that laid the foundation for the Consciousness Movement, the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement, the Women’s Movement, and the Environmental Movement.
