Gandalf’s Garden

Gandalf’s Garden was a mystical community which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie/underground movement, running a shop and a magazine of the same name. It emphasised the mystical interests of the period, and advocated meditation in preference to drugs. Muz Murray was prominent and editor of the magazine (and is now a world-travelling Mantra Master).

The magazine ran for six issues, published in 1968 and 1969. Because of their rarity and the quality of the psychedelic artwork, copies of the issues were valuable collectors’ items; however the entire output of Gandalf’s Garden is now available to read online at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22gandalf%27s+garden%22

‘Gandalf’s Garden chronicled the flower-power scene of the 60’s London. The “mystical scene magazine” concentrated on the spiritual aspect of hippie life, and served to connect people in London and around the world who were looking for an alternative to the dreary and destructive realities of industrialization, war, or even the darker aspects of the “turned on” life.’

     – Clint Marsh, The Pamphleteer


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