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be-in noun an organised gathering for the celebration of counterculture lifestyles and values US Originally applied to an event in San Francisco in January 1967, and then to similar events elsewhere. Organisers (“inspirers”) of that event wrote: “When the Berkeley political activists and the love generation of the Haight Ashbury and thousands of young men and women from every state in the nation embrace at the gathering of the tribes for a Human Be-In at polo field in Golden Gate Park the spiritual revolution will be manifest and proven”.- And again, the beautiful thing about the Be-In was it had no leadership, it had no big financing, it will just grow automatically. — The San Francisco Oracle, 1967
- THE BEGINNING IS THE HUMAN BE-IN [Headline] — Berkeley Barb, p. 1, 6 January 1967
- Be-In. A kind of instant hippie evangelism. Park grass, open skies and trees is the usual church architecture. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 58, 1968
- Like a super be-in, a live-in, real freedom. Wow! — East Village Other, 20 August 1969
- [Allen Ginsberg] helped to launch yet another cataclysmic voyage of human discovery–the world’s first Human Be-in. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 33, 1970
- Of course not everyone at the Be-in belonged to a specific tribe. — Ann Fettamen, Trashing, p. 23, 1970
- As I came up to the Human Be-In, walking from my apartment on Broderick Street, I got several blocks away from the polo field and the energy and vibrations were so strong that I trembled and my knees shook[.] — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tales, p. 46, 1980
- The Be-In was conceived by San Francisco Oracle editor Allen Cohen as an “ecstatic union of love and activism” between Berkeley antiwar activists and the pyschedlic revolutionaries of the Haight-Ashbury. — David Shenk and Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key, p. 20, 1994
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