Charles Manson | Peace on Earth

 

"Peace on Earth, what's it worth? This Peace on Earth?

- Charles Manson

One Mind

 

Navajo Weaving

"You're dealing with one mind. But the people that are running the mind that you're dealing with, they don't even know what the mind is. They think they got a mind. Nobody's got a mind. The mind has everybody. But everybody wants to think that they've really got something going. So they play all these different little political games. I'm interested in my life, the order that runs in my atmosphere and my world, the one I know. I can't know what anybody else knows, All I can know is what I know..." 

- Manson

Queen of Blue, Queen of Red

 

"I see no way you can touch the women of the Family. She's as vast as the universe & the world & all his colors. I took her & showed her the Earth Balance & she picked it up beyond words. There is no doubt in her mind. I seen her deliver her own babies and put babies on her back & walk acrost the desert in heat without water & 2/3 dead, smile with an endless love for her own. I could spend years explaining her but only she understands my words, motions and my ways."

- Charles's Manson

1977

America | Ventura Highway

 

Man X Women

 Man Cross Woman

My father is the Universe!

My heart is just a drum

My voice is just to tell you

my love is soon to come

My mother is the Earth

My eye is just the Sun

My life is yours to call

‘cause one is one is one

Yours is to follow

Yours is mine to see

Yours is to be my mother

Yours is to give to love me

Yours is to sing in laughter

Yours is to reflect the sea

Yours is to take the children

As God speaks through me

Ours is to love the sunshine

Ours is to tune in with the moon

Ours is to live forever

Ours is to come to God soon

Ours is to stand strong one together

Ours is to not want or need

Ours is to give to brothers and sisters

Even if on a cross we bleed

Lyrics by Charles Manson, 

published in Rolling Stone 

25 June 1970

Incredible String Band | October Song

 

One of the women that lived with Manson at Spahn Ranch once told me about the music they listened to, how only certain  artitsts were  accepted based on deep resonance with the music aligning with the groups senses and ideals. The conversation was sparked when she noticed my CD, proclaiming "Incredible String Band!" her face filled with joy in remembering. Everyone associates the group with the Beatles who were very popular with young people then, as for Manson, his taste lied outside the realm of rock 'n' roll as he favored musicians such as Hank Williams, Frankie Lane, Lefty Frizzell and Bing Crosby. Bands that were respected at the ranch as being aligned with the group included the Doors, the Moody Blues, Donovan and Incredible String Band. Here I present to you "October Song", one of their best with extraordinary lyrics that  evoke the season.

I'll sing you this October song

Oh there is no song before it

The words and tune are none of my own

For my joys and sorrows bore it

Beside the sea

The brambly briars

In the still of evening

Birds fly out behind the sun

And with them I'll be leaving

The fallen leaves

That jewel the ground

They know the art of dying

And leave with joy their glad gold hearts

In the scarlet shadows lying

When hunger calls

My footsteps home

The morning follows after

I swim the seas within my mind

And the pine trees laugh green laughter

I used to search for happiness

And I used to follow pleasure

But I found a door behind my mind

And that's the greatest treasure

For rulers like to lay down laws

And rebels like to break them

And the poor priests like to walk in chains

And God likes to forsake them

I met a man

Whose name was Time

And he said I must be going

But just how long ago that was

I have no way of knowing

Sometimes I want

To murder Time

Sometimes when my heart's aching

But mostly I just stroll along

The path that he is taking

Hobo + Wife

 

Charles Manson and Spahn Ranch Raven that Manson called Devil, Manson is wearing his embroidered vest and has signed the photo "Hobo + Wife" you can read about the raven and more in Lynette Fromme's book 'Reflexion'.

"I have a raven, in a market basket. And I raise this little baby raven as I'm building the buggy, and everywhere I go with the buggy, the raven flies right over the top of it. I've got it all camouflaged down, no one can see it, and I live in the shadows in the bushes with it, up and down the old mule roads and stage-coach roads."

-Charles Manson

Lyn Fromme (Red) & Sandra Good (Blue) Interview