Carey Linde is a father of 3 and grandfather of 4 residing with his wife Dong Li in a float home on Granville Island in Vancouver Canada. He is a lawyer called to the bar of British Columbia in 1972. He practices family law in the area of parental alienation.
Born in New York City Carey was raised in New England spending his teenage years in Vermont. After graduating high school from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden New Hampshire in 1960, Carey enrolled in the University of British Columbia.(UBC) Dissatisfied with the core curriculum and distracted by the world off campus he intentionally failed his 2nd year. He then attended the Berklee School of Jazz and the Boston Conservatory of music.
While living in Boston 1962-63 Carey volunteered at the International Federation for Internal Freedom across the Charles River in Cambridge. IFIF was the brain child of recently fired Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert ( later Ram Dass) Ralph Metzner and others dedicated to research, education and dissemination of LSD and other psychedelics to promote peace and harmony in the world and individuals.
After a year in Boston, his interest in the latent therapeutic powers of mind manifesting medicine plants and laboratory produced psychotropic compounds easily overwhelmed his very unexceptional musical skills. He dropped out again.The following winter Carey ski bummed in Manchester Vermont saving up enough money to buy a 650 cc BSA motorcycle.
In the summer of 1964 he rode the bike down into the southern mountains of Oaxaca Mexico in search of the sacred mushrooms.
Carey re enrolled into UBC in the fall of 1964, graduating with a degree in psychology. He then spent 3 years in the law school at UBC during which time he was vice president and acting president of the Alma Mater Society - the student council followed by being president of his graduating class in law school. He did his articles in Kamloopps B.C. moving with his family to Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) in 1972 accepting an invitation by the Skidegate Indian Band to reside in their community on their reserve. There he and his wife had their 3rd child while he established the first and only law practice on the islands.
In the mid 80's Carey moved with his family to Vancouver.