The totem 5


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page 24  Perhaps more "totemic" than windmills, towers and lighthouses, is a monument to Jules Verne with a dark plate on a sandy background. Jules Verne mentioned Formentera in his novel 'Off on a Comet'. The author describes a launching platform for an adventures journey … Grateful for the mentioning of their island, the inhabitants of Formentera built a monument in honour of Jules Verne.

— Bernd_L, "Isla de Formentera Things to Do Tips" According to Sam Hutt, in Formentera Syd's friends proved to be fans of Timothy Leary, so the fashion of the word "totem" among them could have been influenced by certain things Leary said and wrote: in a February 1967 meeting called "The Houseboat Summit", transcribed some time later in the legendary newspaper San Francisco Oracle, Leary said "… they head out and find the Indian totem wherever they go", and incidentally he again used a totem in a 1970 poem writing "totem animals of this land", but the word "totem" was also in his early 1967 pamphlet to promote his famed "Turn on, tune in, drop out" philosophy, at that time at its peak among the hippy community: Your clan must be centered on a shrine and a totem spiritual energy source. — Timothy Leary, Start Your Own Religion

Immersion into Formentera's totems