--- product_id: 3864571 title: "Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World" brand: "nicholas schou" price: "VT7979" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3864571-nicholas-schouorange-sunshine-the-brotherhood-of-eternal-love-and-its store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World **Brand:** nicholas schou **Price:** VT7979 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by nicholas schou - **How much does it cost?** VT7979 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3864571-nicholas-schouorange-sunshine-the-brotherhood-of-eternal-love-and-its) ## Best For - nicholas schou enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted nicholas schou brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World ## Images ![Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51sp7btyvJL.jpg) ![Nicholas SchouOrange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tqpu5ts4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ Laguna Beach was a happenng scene *by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018* While reading a bio of Augustus Stanley Owsley I found a recommendation for a BEL bio which was different than this one. Having read this, I'd recommend the other book unless you're REALLY into the BEL history. The writing was mediocre and the author doesn't write narrative well. It does contain many revelations about that era to which I'd not been privy. The Laguna Beach scene was a continuation of the San Fran scene. Many fled the bay area for Laguna after the summer of love went sour. There must be smething about psychedelics which leads geographically disparate groups of people down very similar life paths. I've read similar stories from other people and places. My own life reiterated the patterns as well.The author never went into the chemistry of orange sunshine which was prduced by BEL member Nick Sands after Owsley was gone. It was purportedly not LSD itself, but a close polymer, ALD-52, and quite as active. It took LSD and ornge sunshine many times. Th sunshine was different. Acid can be unsettling and pushy coming on, but not ALD, which was smoother. ALD also produced stronger visuals. .Some batches were very strong. I liked sunshine better, myself. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ These guys were smart, resilient, resourceful and apparently had balls of steel! *by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020* I expected to like this book and boy did I! These guys were smart, resilient, resourceful and apparently had balls of steel! This is an easy to read fast moving book about people I knew nothing about although I lived through the time and I've read widely about it! The Brotherhood of Eternal Love were the biggest hash smugglers of the era and one of the most broadly successful LSD distribution organizations of the post legal era. I remember the "Orange Sunshine" of the time, in the early 70’s, but I didn't know how we got it and where it came from. If you are interested in this time and place there is a lot to be learned here including the “high minded” initial motivations of this young group of Southern California Acid Head Surfer Dudes. Throw in Tim Leary and Andy Warhol for good measure! This is a great read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mind-bender *by I***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2013* Imagine getting blasted on pot and putting Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsies" on the stereo system. A few minutes later, Hendrix himself walks in with a six-pack of Miller High Life, saying "I don't like that album. It's imperfect." This is not fantasy but reality. It's the summer of 1970 on Maui, Hawaii, where Hendrix performed a free concert on the slopes of the Haleakala Volcano while being filmed, along with Les Potts (the lucky partaker of Hendrix's beer) and other Brotherhood of Eternal Love members for the music documentary,  Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge . This scene doesn't begin to describe the incidents and events packed into this history of the early LSD-drenched days of the sixties in the LA area (with excursions to Hawaii and Afghanistan). Many books have been written about the sixties. This one concentrates specifically on the cast of bizarre characters who morphed from petty rebel-with-a-cause-type criminals running around looking for people to beat up, into peaceniks out to save the world by means of (literally) millions of doses of Orange Sunshine - reputed to be the finest acid ever produced on a mass scale.Some of these events are so unbelievable as to scarcely be imagined and unlikely to ever occur again in any locale, like the 1970 "Christmas Happening" in Laguna Canyon, which attempted to outdo Woodstock by getting all 25,000 participants (150,000 were expected) high on acid after thousands of hits Orange Sunshine were dumped over the crowd by plane. The festival, with hordes of naked people, many freely having sex and many more extremely hungry due to nonexistent planning for food, was brutally broken up and cleared out a day later by the police. Then there was the very far-out smuggling operation employing a sailboat boat packed with high-grade marijuana that successfully made the journey from Mexico to Hawaii through high seas and storms - by a crew with little-to-no maritime experience and no navigation equipment except the starsFor all the wildness and insane schemes, this was an unprecedented era in modern times unlikely ever to be to repeated, when economic prosperity, an increasingly educated population, and the irrepressible American brand of creativity and individualism came together and flared for a few years before too many red lines were crossed and the Establishment came down hard. We have taken quite a detour since (Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes) but things may be picking up again with the groundswell of national support for marijuana legalization. The sixties is not over yet.Nicholas Schou did a lot of digging and has succeeded in weaving a richly detailed yet economically told account. The major lacuna, to my mind, is with so much focus on the histrionics and spectacles, and the author's suppressing of his own point of view in the interest of journalistic objectivity, we seldom get into the actual heads of the main actors (John Griggs, Eddie Padilla, Johnny Gale, Timothy Leary, etc.). LSD was the prime mover of this history, yet one almost suspects Schou himself has never ingested any (I can't believe he hasn't), what with the utter absence of any sustained descriptions of the LSD experience that would help clarify for the uninitiated reader what animated these crazy people to live fascinating lives on the edge (here we miss our genius drug muse Terence McKenna, e.g.  True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise ). ## Frequently Bought Together - Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World - Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III: Cooking Italian, the Authentic Way - HEADS: A BIOGRAPHY OF PSYCHEDELIC AMERICA --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3864571-nicholas-schouorange-sunshine-the-brotherhood-of-eternal-love-and-its](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3864571-nicholas-schouorange-sunshine-the-brotherhood-of-eternal-love-and-its) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-11*