The Hippie culture spread worldwide. Finding expression in literature, the dramatic arts, fashion & the visual arts. Including film, posters advertising rock concerts and album covers. They embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy and were often vegetarian & eco-friendly. They believed that psychedelic drugs expanded one's consciousness and created intentional communities or communes.
Hippies sought to free themselves from societal restrictions, choose their own way & find new meaning in life. Personality traits and values are "altruism, mysticism, honesty, joy and nonviolence." Hippies had wild sex orgies & the open relationship became an accepted part of the hippie lifestyle. Hippies tended to travel light and could pick up and go wherever they want, at any time. Hippies usually have long hair and beards.
The Hippie Code:
"Do your own thing, wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on, if not to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun."
According to the Hippies, LSD was the hippie sacrament. Washing away years of
social programming, a re-imprinting device, a consciousness-expander, a tool that
would push them up the evolutionary ladder.
According to the Hippies, LSD was the hippie sacrament. Washing away years of
social programming, a re-imprinting device, a consciousness-expander, a tool that
would push them up the evolutionary ladder.
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