The Sunshine Makers Page #2

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I was, at that time had moved

into one of the tower rooms.

Nick just appeared

in the morning,

popped out of the closet.

And just came and got in bed.

And we turned onto LSD.

And she

was very, very beautiful.

I like thin chicks.

I was in awe

of his energy

and I really wanted to...

Staying in bed

Yeah. I mean, Nicky likes

to make love a lot, you know.

So that is important to him.

But it's almost utilitarian.

We're going to get

in trouble here.

And I said,

you got to come to California

with me because I'm going

to need someone to help me.

It wasn't so much

that Nicky was charming.

It was that Nicky knew

where he was going.

He had a strong

sense of his mission.

Those were the things

that made him attractive.

Nick thought that

he could change...

consciousness of large

numbers of people,

by making psychedelic drugs.

He thought that that

needed to happen.

We all did.

And finally,

she just decided to go with me.

And we came to the ranch

here as partners.

And she still maintains

an interest in the ranch.

Unfortunately I don't.

It was stolen from me

by the federal government.

Well, I promised you it would

be good coming out

to California.

You got stuck here,

didn't you, Jill?

I'd love

for them to film me crawling

through the attic at Millbrook

and discovering you

- in your room.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I remember

I was with one very hot

lady before I discovered you.

She was so beautiful.

Yeah.

Not as beautiful as you.

Not as beautiful as you.

Don't even think twice about it.

Tim also

is very fond of women.

Getting high with him

was really quite wonderful.

He laid out a deck of tarot

cards before the LSD came on.

And then I think we made

love for most of the night.

I'd known Nick

by then for 15 years.

And he asked me afterwards, "well,

what did you think about Tim?"

And I said, "oh, I liked him."

He's very, very odd.

But I really liked him.

He's really bright.

"But you're not going

to work together, are you?"

And he said, "well."

And I said, "good luck

with that."

I mean, they just

are so different.

Why have all of the

books got your name on them?

That's to indicate

that it's been cataloged.

Its mysteries

and science fiction.

It's alphabetical by author.

He's unusual. Yeah.

He does function

differently than most of us

in the way he relates to people.

And he does have

a touch of Asperger's.

Tim

was a very persnickety guy.

Much more uptight than I. He's a Virgo.

He's very skinny.

So we had to set

up ground rules.

As long as I didn't

transgress on his diet

of white spaghetti,

white cheese...

you know, he liked

everything white.

I used to eat spaghetti

with butter and cheese

on it for dinner,

for every night for 30 years.

Until it became

medically not possible

for me to eat it anymore.

Tim was extremely paranoid.

He thought I was just

a crazy psychedelic madman.

Nick made a commitment

to being a lifelong psychedelic

outlaw, changing identity,

being a fugitive

from time to time.

In fact, he enjoyed pulling

the wool over people's eyes.

And I got the feeling that

he was often doing it to me.

Did he want

to become the king of LSD?

Yes.

I think so.

I remember

specifically going to have

a meeting with Sand and Scully.

They were discussing

the possibility

of acquiring lysergic acid, the

starting material to make LSD.

I suggested London, England

as a possible source of supply

for this material.

And so we pooled

our resources, went to England.

Bought

the kilo of lysergic acid,

divvied it up in little

plastic bags.

So this looks very much

like lysergic acid.

One of the things we used to do

is take advantage

of natural hollows in the body.

So we'd always put

it in a place,

like, this was our

favorite place to put it.

And then this

would go like that.

And once the shirt

was pulled down over it,

it would be basically invisible.

And I smuggled my half through

the Bahamas with Alice.

Alice used to smuggle

for me all the time.

"A great smuggler.

And she's like, "la di da.

How are you? Oh, aren't the

birds chirping beautifully?"

And she'd like

totally distract you.

She's got that

kind of sais quoi.

She was perfect.

And then took

a speedboat to Miami.

And from there was taken

by another crew to California.

I was involved

in setting up an LSD lab

with Sand and Scully.

Eventually a place

was found in November of '68,

in Windsor, California.

Tim

said, "here's the deal."

I'll do the first

run with my material.

You do the second run

with your material.

And we'll be here

together for two weeks.

And in two weeks you need

to know everything I'm doing,

"so that you can take over."

Eventually I got notified

that it was my turn

to come and to meet

at a certain parking lot.

I told Nick to change

vehicles on the way to the lab.

Get one

car to drop us off,

like at a medical building

and go out the back door

and get a rented car.

A lot of the art of making LSD

involves not getting busted.

I got to the house in Windsor.

And Jill and I moved in.

The first thing I did

was draw up a flow

chart that showed

all of the steps and sequence.

It's been a lot

of years since I did this.

LSD:

is lysergic acid diethylamide.

And lysergic acid

is the ideal starting material.

You're pretty much

guaranteed to get

busted if you try to acquire

the chemicals and do this.

So don't try this at home.

The first step

is to make something

called lithium lysergic.

He was a good friend

and he was a good teacher.

And we trusted each other.

And we all go forward

on the shoulders of the people

who went before us.

Meanwhile, we've previously made

something called the re-agent.

I was pregnant

at the time

and pretty far along actually.

We just kind of did the same

thing over and over every day

for, I don't know,

at least a month.

Generally,

working in an acid lab,

you do tend to get high.

So we were in an altered state.

You know,

sometimes something's

boiling over on the hot plate

and you'd grab it

and take it off

and you'd go, "oh."

Wow. That's hot.

Oh, no.

"I just took 2,000 mics

of acid."

Billy was sort

of a lab groupie.

He so much wanted

to come to the lab,

that I let him come and work

here for a couple of days.

I worked around the lab.

I ran some reactions myself.

They were manufacturing

somewhere between three

and four million tabs.

We

were hoping that there

would be a really

fundamental change,

in the world's consciousness.

That people would become

more responsible,

able to use technology more

wisely,

able to be gentler

with the planet.

We'd

work until we'd drop

and then we'd sleep

for a few hours

and get up and get at it again.

I went

to Billy Hitchcock

and asked him

whether he had ideas

for a distribution channel.

Because Billy had all

kinds of social contacts,

all over the psychedelic scene.

And he introduced me to the

Brotherhood of Eternal Love,

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