"Then we sat on our star and dreamed of the way that we were and the way that we wanted to be."...Morrison
There are many good sites about the hippie philosophy, culture and symbols. The history of the drug scene and it's
consequences as time went on with organized crime bringing in speed and heroin and finishing off those Hippie Daze.
My Summer of Love
Map of the Sixties
The Protest Songs
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Anti War
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One thing that I believe helped to end it all was that Hippie style became a general fashionable thing. The clothing designers copied the style of how the hippies dressed and soon it was available for purchase and many adults began to wear the clothes whether they prescribed to the hippie philosophy or not. This was very discouraging to the hippies because their desire was to look different from the status quo as do all younger generations. When their mothers started wearing their clothes and their fathers started growing their hair, the radical fringe of society had to come up with something new to set them apart, to symbolize their difference.
When the hippie style made it into Vogue magazine, it was a sign of the end for then.
The music of those way-ahead times is also well represented on the net.
Our music climbed inside us, rocked our soul and took us higher, magically poetic
itopened our hearts and stirred our minds.
Music does speak on a level beyond words.
It is the 'Source of Universal Enlightenment'
Music videos/documentaries of '60's and '70's Music Raves / Hippie Daze
The ideal of peace and love were taught to me as a child.
Harmony, cheerfulness, compassion were words I heard then read as a child and I saw with my own eyes the evidence of their existence. But I saw in life something else as well. Disharmony and meanness!
For me this is one of life's mysteries and I was like a detective.From my childhood on I studied every religion, and practiced not a few philosophies. Desiderata
My generation was not satisfied to simply accept the materialistic values of our elders. We wanted to evolve ourselves and the world towards a higher ideal and explored all possibilities by educating ourselves. Many of us were influenced by the artists, poets, philosophers and visionaries of our own time as well as by reading and studying the greatest thinkers and philosophers in history.
"...every moment is a peace march."--Allen Cohen, elder statesmen of the psychedelic era Allen Cohen PoetryTender is Legal in The Eternal State of Love
Accepted payment on all Karmic debts.
No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet.
The lesson of the 60's is that people who cared enough to do right could change history.
We didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation.
We ended the idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world tofight a war that people do not support.
We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens.
We made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided.
The big battles that we won cannot be reversed.
We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave,
silly, headstrong and scared half to death.
And we were right. ....Abbie Hoffman
In San Francisco in the '60's I met many people who were finding some of the same answers as I, so for me it was a most positive experience.
I learned that one of the things life is about is making choices.
You can choose whether to react or respond?
I choose Peace and Love
Peace Quotes Posters / Fine Art
Peace Quotes Posters / Fine Art2
Photo copyright Randi Motson
" I think each one of us has a non-shirkable obligation to figure out the world on our own as best we can.
The way we behave as a result of that investigation is our real and practiced Religion."
...Stephan Gaskin
We each search out our own answers. That is our responsibility.
'I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And after many days my Soul return'd And said, "Behold, Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
... The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam Poetry
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