The Merry Elves of Ecstasy Paperback – March 24, 2026

The Merry Elves of Ecstasy is a novel about four young drug dealers who meet in Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, 1967, and who try to enlighten the world by turning people on to psychedelic drugs. This endeavor put them at odds with the Establishment, so after establishing their identity in the Haight, the Merry Elves eventually found it necessary to flee San Franscisco and find new places to carry on the campaign. With the help of an incarcerated former dealer, they became allied with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the world’s largest and most successful psychedelic drug trafficking organization, and thereby gained access to a virtually unlimited supply of Orange Sunshine LSD.This in an invitation to spend some time awash in hallucinations. You can track these gentle hippies and their friends, on the streets and sidewalks of their countercultural communities, and in the city parks and in their homes. You get to see inside various hippie crash pads and visit a utopian commune in the mountains of North Georgia. There are pop festivals to attend and lots of great music to hear. In the process, enjoy a crash course in western science and philosophy, then join the Merry Elves on fun flight into the highest wisdom of East, continuing humankind’s perennial quest to discern the ultimate nature of reality. Read more