They moved to Orange, New South Wales and then to Warwick, a small town (now place name) near Cowra on the Lachlan River where his family had a vegetable farm.
[3] With the assistance of NSW Film * Television Office Anderson he has written a screenplay for Billarooby as a feature movie, entitled From A Death to a View.
After primal scream therapy, he spent some time in Druid Heights, a healing centre on Mt Tamalpais, Marin County and then moved to Bolinas, a small alternative town north of San Francisco where he lived for 18 years.
In 1975–76, he attended peyote meetings with Magda Cregg in Bolinas, which were held at the time of the full moon in the tradition of the Huichol, a Mexican Indian tribe.
In 2011 he mounted a major retrospective exhibition: Lampoon: An Historical Art Trajectory, at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, February 18 – March 12, 2011.
[6] Jim Anderson spoke as a panelist at the 2016 Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival on "Truth and Authenticity in Fiction" and "The Creative Process: How Hard is it to Write?