The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, was an underground newspaper published in the late 1960s. It was arguably the outstanding example of the psychedelic aspect of the countercultural press, noted for experimental multicolored design, and involving many of the most significant San Francisco-area artists of the time, including Bruce Conner and Rick Griffin. The phrase underground press, especially underground newspapers (or simply underground papers) is, these days, most often used in reference to the print media associated with the countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, although publishers of those journals had borrowed the name from previous underground presses such as... This entry pertains to the word psychedelic, its origin and uses. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream. ... Rick Griffin, American politician, is a candidate for the United States House of Representatives. ...