Editing San Francisco Oracle (section)

==Successors and imitators==

After the paper folded, ''Oracle'' staff who had left the city and relocated in [[Middletown, California]], put out a single one-shot issue of a 24-page psychedelic tabloid paper called the ''Harbinger'' in [July] 1968, with contributions by Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, [[Michael Hollingshead]], and others.

In November, a new ''Oracle'' called the ''San Francisco Oracle of the Spiritual Revolution'' was launched, publishing 7 issues between November 1968 and November 1969. Published in [[Larkspur, CA]] and edited by Phillip Davenport (1943–2001), a disciple of [[Samuel L. Lewis|Murshid Samuel Lewis (Sufi Sam)]], it had a more spiritual focus and included material relating to [[Stephen Gaskin]], Sufi Sam, [[Baba Ram Dass|Ram Dass]], and other gurus of the San Francisco scene, as well as the usual underground fare.

A monthly psychedelic Los Angeles paper with [[neopagan]] overtones, called ''The Oracle of Southern California'', existed for about a year; the first issue was published as ''The City of Los Angeles Oracle'' in March 1967.<ref>[http://catalog.nypl.org/search/o=15032781 ''Southern California Oracle'': Description and contents]</ref>

Some members of the ''SF Oracle'' collective were involved in starting another paper, ''[[San Francisco Express Times]],'' which published from January 24, 1968, to March 25, 1969, at which time the paper's name was changed to ''San Francisco Good Times,'' appearing under that title from April 1969 to August 1972.

In 1967 students at [[San Francisco State College]] distributed a one-off eight-page tabloid parody of the ''Oracle'' called the ''Orifice,'' edited by [[Ben Fong-Torres]].