Item #39117 ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.
ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.

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ANKH #1-4 (LA: Elysium Inc., Summer 1967-Spring 1968) + original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge.

Ed. Charles Cropsey. 4to. Each 66pp.-70pp. Glossy magazine format. Photo-illustrated throughout in colour and b/w.

The first four issues of Elysium Institute founder Ed Lange's magazine (named for the ancient Egyptian symbol for life), an attempt to blend naturism with sexual freedom and the burgeoning hippie movement: "Fed on a scientific diet of psilocybin and lysergic acid, it now thrives to the consternation of the generation which gave it life. From San Franciso's Haight-Ashbury to New York's East Village... the Love Generation is in full swing" (from the editorial in the first issue, which contains numerous photos of nudists enjoying the nudist lifestyle, indoors and out, and the first part of an interview with Barry McGuire and his wife Patti at their Topanga Canyon home). The second issue of this "educational, scientific, sociological and cultural publication which illustrates the conviction that the human body is clean and wholesome" includes 12pp. on the 'The Love Book' obscenity trial; a history of censorship; the second part of the Barry McGuire interview; more.

Issue #3 features articles on communal living in Big Sur; experiments in nude psychotherapy near Escondido, California (22pp.), and hydropsychotherapy; and the fourth issue includes "What Hath LSD/God/LSD Wrought?", a 9pp. colour and b/w photo-feature on the hippie counterculture and acid use (including a visit to the Drop City commune); "Thoreau: The First Hippie" (10pp.); "The Utopian Dream: Can The Modern Communes Succeed?" (13pp.); "Youth Rebellion" (8pp.), a feature on the Hippies and Diggers in the Haight, Freaks in LA, Provos in Amsterdam; "Love in the Haight" (8pp.); Walt Whitman; and news of the opening of Ed Lange's Elysium Fields in the Santa Monica Mountains ("an ideal spot for relaxing, communing with nature and one another, or holding special events like nude psychotherapy marathons").

Originally a photographer for Vogue and Life magazine, Lange began publishing pro-nudist literature under the imprint Elysium Growth Press in 1961. He opened Elysium Fields in May 1968 as a "Human Awareness Growth Center" on eight acres of land in Topanga Canyon, where his policy of "clothing optional" rather than "nudity required" distinguished it from other nudist communities. Its numerous workshops and seminars attracted a wide range of gurus, New Age practioners, psychiatrists and psychologists, including Dr. Albert Ellis, who ran the first-ever group nudity therapy session there in the summer of 1968.

All four issues Near Fine.

Together with: an original 'GrOw NAKED Elysium' badge. 3cm. diameter. Verso rusty, o/w Near Fine.

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