"Freedom does indeed "need" more full-time professionals; not collective-movement preachers seeking a coterie of followers, but explorers/inventors/developer of liberated life-ways." -Rayo, November 1970 Essays on how to achieve personal freedom written by a leading libertarian activist of the 1970s. Tom Marshall (El Ray), who changed his name to Rayo, was an early proponent of the Free Isles project but eventually took to the road in a camper to live off the grid. These essays argue for a strong pro-freedom, anti-government stand as well as providing practical advice about living minimally.