This LSD Love Guru Gave Steve Jobs His “Reality Distortion Field”

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Steve Jobs was a man who adopted many mentors in his life, but one of his mentors deserves more than a passing look: Robert Friedland, a charismatic, free love wacko who dealt LSD and had his own free love commune on the same apple orchard that inspired Steve for the name of his company. It was also where Steve allegedly got his “reality distortion field” from.


Steve Jobs met Friedland at Reed in 1972 after Friedland was kicked out of Bowdoin forhaving $125,000 worth of acid and then doing two years in a federal prison. Highly charismatic, he journeyed to Reed, ran for student body president, and handily won.

Steve met him after arranging to sell him his IBM Selectic typewriter. When Jobs came into the room, Friedland was having sex with his girlfriend, and insisted Jobs stay and watch, which Jobs did.

Friedland then formed a commune out on All One Farm, an apple orchard that was granted to him by an eccentric millionaire uncle. People did acid and talked a lot about Eastern spiritualism there, and the Hare Krishnas would cook them meals.

Steve eventually decided communal living was not for him after sleeping in the kitchen and watching people steal each other’s food in the night. Upon leaving the commune, though, Steve Jobs had the inspiration to name his company Apple.

http://www.cultofmac.com/125656/this-lsd-love-guru-turned-gold-mining-billionaire-gave-steve-jobs-his-reality-distortion-field/

[Electric Monk]

1. Snake

[ellisonz]

2. "Highly charismatic, he journeyed to Reed, ran for student body president, and handily won."

Go Reed!

:popcorn:

[FLAprogressive]

3. Interesting note: Mr. "free love" is now a billionaire mining magnate.

Funny how things change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Friedland

[no_hypocrisy]

4. How could you steal someone else's food at a commune when the food

was community property, belonging to no one, belonging to everyone?

Jobs didn't "get it".

[Scuba]

5. +1