[1] Richard Brown is working as a gemologist and Jewelry designer in Bangkok, Thailand, for Astral Gemstone Talismans, a brand known for creating fine gems-jewelry based on the Navaratna belief in Jyotish.

[13] During his stay in India with Swami Bon Maharaj Brown was engaged in the establishment of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Academy, a primary school, in Nandagram, U.P., as well as expanding the Institute of Oriental Philosophy in Vrindavan, U.P.

[25] In 2004, Ugly Things Records (USA) issued another full album of unreleased tracks named The Lost Acetates 1965–1966, that received international media coverage.

[26][27] A motion picture screenplay (The Misunderstood: WGA 977444) about the band and Rick Brown's adventures was written by rock historian Mike Stax (editor of Ugly Things music magazine) in 2002, and is under revision.

Brown's book Ancient Astrological Gemstones & Talismans[38] received the 1996 Benjamin Franklin Award[39] from the Publishers Marketing Association (PMA).