Avatar Hangs With Bohemians

Meher Baba visited the Dunites. Royal Rosamond camped on Anacapa with Bohemian Poets. Jessie Benton had a salon at Black Point that her friend Brett Harte attended. Harte and Miller were members of the Bohemian Club. Royal’s wife, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, conversed with the followers and promoters of Krishnamurit in Ojai.

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One of the best books written regarding the history of San Luis Obispo County in California. It is the true story of a small, loose-knit community of bohemians, artists, writers, hermits, hoboes and spiritual seekers who lived wild, unfettered and rent-free in driftwood shacks and tents in the Pismo Beach Dunes (now the Oceano/Pismo Dunes) in the 1920s and 1930s.

Some of the Dunites even published a short-lived nationally distributed magazine, created in the Dunes, with contributions by photographers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and other artists and philosophers who interacted with the Dunites and went on to greater…