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[cubpedro]

Not really sure what to say :thumbdown:
I don't post much but felt like I should say something.
It's been a couple years now and I feel like I've learned a wealth of knowledge - I really enjoyed hips experience meeting God and truly knew I wanted to be a part of the community after reading topia's mission statement.:bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:

Hippie3 R.I.P. Friend - you'll be missed by many.:hippie:

[MonBongk]

RIP Hip ... You has taught us much! :headbang::eusa_clap:bow:

[ethnobotanica]

mrs hippie will likely release a picture in due time.

:heart:

Bless:heart:

[losfreddy]

For hippie. I will not go

[Direct Link]

Death makes angles of us all and gives us wings where we had sholders smooth as ravens claws

[zodd]

even though it was such a short time, even though i only spoke to him on a few occasions and he was short with me because he was a buisy man ( i cant believe i had a go at him for that i felt like a jerk then and i do now),

im stil glad i had a chance to meet him
he will be a positive influence on my life in so many ways. And through topia he wil go on being a positive influence of this im sure

[taoshan]

God bless him.

[martinnn]

Live everyday like it was your last, to the fullest because you never know then your time is up.

Hippie3 R.I.P my Mushroom Masaya.

[Freaky]

I just don't know what to say. Words will never be good enough to honor the way hippie has changed the world. The only thing I can think to do ;and I invite everyone to join me ; is to create as many outdoor mushroom gardens as I can in honor of the man who created the topia and changed the world. R.I.P. you will be missed but never forgotten.

I for one am planning my Hippie3 shroom garden for the upcoming season. Poppies and Boomers as my way to honor Hip with all of the knowledge he shared with me. He was my greatest teacher of wisdom light and life. I'm glad I saved my last order of Donkey Doo from last spring. It will truly be Hip's garden and I'm looking forward to being able to log it on Topia. I'm so thankful he created Topia!

[oldbulllee]

i have submitted my registration some time ago, and forgot about it...
then i come here and a P.M. pops up- a welcome note from someone nicked Hippie3.
and than i go to the home page for the first time, as a logged user, and i see that a man who welcomed me here is no more.
a moment of total gravity.

[voodoobutter]

Been a lurker for a while, but I would like to thank the man who has provided us with a place to share knowledge and insight; to teach and to learn; to connect us all.

[Dahcrev]

What a long strange trip its been.

Tonight I shall celebrate your life and the
things you've taught me ever so indirectly.

As for now, Godspeed.

[killaweed]

Wow. You will be missed. i just logged on and read the news of your passing. To say it came as a shock is an understatement. I will keep you and your family in my prayers.

[mushit]

This is just so surreal,,and it's going to take me a long time to deal with it.For me i ALWAYS thought that Hip would be here,even if i just was just going to lurk i ALWAYS figured he would be there for me if i needed him with some great advice as he always gave me.

Ain't that the truth!! I feel exactly the same way.

[waylitjim]

I for one am planning my Hippie3 shroom garden for the upcoming season. Poppies and Boomers as my way to honor Hip with all of the knowledge he shared with me. He was my greatest teacher of wisdom light and life. I'm glad I saved my last order of Donkey Doo from last spring. It will truly be Hip's garden and I'm looking forward to being able to log it on Topia. I'm so thankful he created Topia!

Hey Freaky. I too have some of his donkey doo, and I love your idea. I will also grow a garden in honor of the great man we called Hippie3. He really left us with something special, it is our job to keep this site running the way he would have liked. Topia will always be his home in space.

[killaweed]

I thank you Hippie3 for having a place like topia. i can not begin to tell you the impact this place has had on my life. I will miss your comments and your wisdom. i wish we had you for longer. But you were needed in heaven. You are one of those rare people who will have a lasting impact on my life

[Decapod]

Safe travels, Hippie.


"See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn 'em. Cause you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrreal fuckin' high on drugs."

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively, there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, in which is an imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, is what it is, okay? Keep that in mind at all times. Thank you."


Dreaming of that face again.
It's bright and blue and shimmering.
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.

On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.

In... Out... In... Out... In... Out...

A child's rhyme stuck in my head.
It said that life is but a dream.
I've spent so many years in question
to find I've known this all along.

"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running?"

Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...

"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"

Prying open my third eye.

So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.
I opened my eye and there we were.

So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.

Prying open my third eye.

[Jordan86]

I was so surprised because it came out of the blue and just like had so much more to do he just had his new farm/house going and like just days ago he was gonna take over syringe making buisness and I don't know I thought he'd have more time and more trips, 53 isn't exactly young but it's still time to do stuff. meant to be I guess.


I'm pretty bummed. I mean everyone is, but I dunno. He lived more than most do.

[fungusfarmer]

Wow...not alot can be said. Started this trip way back 8 years ago. Few names came and gone. I for one will remember all the things that he helped bring to light for many people out there. I know he taught me a respect and patience that I could anywhere else. So so long friend....I wont say good bye, I'll see you again.

[MycoMistress]

Thank you so much, Hippie3, for having this great website.
My heart goes out to Hippie's family and friends. :cry:

When I heard about your passing, I thought of this:


There’s a story that Suzuki Roshi told. He was the Zen master at the Zen Center here in San Francisco. He went to Yosemite and saw a big waterfall coming over a cliff. It’s one river at the top of the cliff, but as it falls, the river breaks up into all these individual droplets. And then it hits the bottom of the cliff, and it’s one river again. We’re all one river ‘till we hit this cliff. That distance between the top of the cliff and the bottom of the cliff is our life. And all the individual little droplets think they really are individual little droplets until they hit the bottom, and then they’re gone. But that droplet doesn't lose anything. It gains. It gains the rest of the river.


-Mark Bittner, from the film, <cite>The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill :heart:


R.I.P.



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[hyphaenation]

This thread is for mourning , no need to worry about business details at this time.

All will be taken care of. For now we mourn the loss of a great man.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.