Welcome to the Old Hippies Group Page!

[Skip]

Welcome to all, Old Hippies and friends! :) This is the new Old Hippies Group Page, a place where we can once again unite and change the world! Hip, Hip, Hooray!

[fylthevoyd]

cool idea Skip :) are we going to be viewed as elitist lol since our numbers are so few....or would that be cuz our numbers(age) are so high :)...oh well :spliff:those of us from the old school needed a classroom to hang in :)

[Starsrainbow]

Thanky for a hang out for us ole 'farts' 'winks' :)

[Southernman]

Hi y'all

nice place here. Seems, I should rise my visiting rate of the old hippie section at hip forums again. Wish yo a fine time, where ever you're.
Namaste

[shameless_heifer]

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in to say howdy

sh

[poor_old_dad]

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in to say howdyYeah, what she said.......

Peace,
poor_old_dad

[shameless_heifer]

Glad ya made it POD, bummer about your summer..hopefully things will turn around real quick, send best vibes over to ya..

I hope things start to pick up a little in here.. echo echo echo

:)
sh

[Pleiadian Dreams]

Hi All: I've been looking for some peers to communicate with. Thanks, Skip!

[shameless_heifer]

Hi Dreams communicate away :) we're listenin'

sh

[Pleiadian Dreams]

I always thought the word Hippie meant we were hip. We kept up on world events, started networking truth vs. media hype, making stands and generally shaking up the unconscious mindset of the '50's. I moved to the country to raise my kids and got out of touch. When I moved to Northern Cali, I was appalled that the locals were calling these dirty homeless little street urchins who lived in the woods - Hippies. And they were literally dirty and smelly and really needed some bathing. While we were pointing out the dysfunctionality of our society, we were also into beauty, flower power, embroidered jeans, body art, music art, art, art, art.

I talked to these kids and they were into panhandling, stealing, coming up with very creative psycho dramas to get SSI, etc. but were in total rejection of social issues. Nothing wrong with that or their lifestyle but what a misuse of the term "Hippie". So everytime someone would call them hippies I'd have to set them straight :-)

So this is why I can see Skip's point of view. There is a core understanding of someone who has come out of the unconsciousness of the Pleasantville of the 50's, of the childhood programming we all got and breaking out into being psycho-active. I still have programming issues come up after working on it all these years. Some programming runs deep. We came specifically to jump into that game/mindset to write that chapter in our Book of Forever. It was an amazing consciousness/energy shift that set the stage for Now. We lost many members to the Yuppies due to their fear programming having been raised by depression era kids but I see them coming back to their roots in consciousness.

Our culture doesn't honor it's senior members so I can see our next phase as we move into our wisdom years - having fun sharing our particular take on this crazy planet but with an empowerment stance.

[Sus]

YAY...so glad to have the Old Hippies forum back...thanks Skip!

[shameless_heifer]

Lets bake some Green Brownies and have a party!!

sh

[Southernman]

...............Wow sister, thanks for this words, welcome here.
Here at Germany the words Hippie or hip didn't have no deeper meaning for us, our school english wasn't good enough. It was just a label, spreaded mainly by this, what you call media hype. Before this terms came into use, they called us, better them (in this days I was to young for understanding really, what was going on) Gammler, what means a lacy person, hanging around, taking drugs and refusing all that, what you call Pleasantville. We felt the message of the music, which came over more than we understood the lyrics, we checked, that just 2 decades after WWII, with the permission of the allied forces a lot of less incriminated Nazis were back to power, in administration, politics, justiz, police, army, schools and universities and with all the missiles from both participants of the on going cold war, pointing directly to our heads, with all the enviromental pollution and a lot more, what went wrong, it came to a strong movement in this country, unfortunately not as sustainable, as we thought in this days. Today, with permission of the Green Party in the government, german soldiers are defending our freedom in the Hindukush too, what a joke. The need for peace and tolerance in this world is as great as ever and we should be glad about every youngster, who feels this. It's up to us, to show them, that hip and hippie is more than funny clothes, minds and drugs. Teach our children well ......

[scratcho]

Well,I'm here.Don't have much to say this morning--but I'm here.

[farmout]

Hello to all and a big thanks to Skip for the new ole hippie forum. May take a while for the word to get out to all the old gang, so tell all your friends about this.
Special hello to Starla! Hope all is well now with you, and your stress level has subsided greatly.
I just got back from BurningMan, talk about a hot spot. But the art was awesome and so was the vibe. Seems to be an undercurrent of discontent there now though. Some bad guys lurking about there also, but in a crowd of over 45000 you might expect that.
Peaceful thoughts to you all.... Farmout :-)

[Skip]

Hello to all and a big thanks to Skip for the new ole hippie forum. May take a while for the word to get out to all the old gang, so tell all your friends about this.
Special hello to Starla! Hope all is well now with you, and your stress level has subsided greatly.
I just got back from BurningMan, talk about a hot spot. But the art was awesome and so was the vibe. Seems to be an undercurrent of discontent there now though. Some bad guys lurking about there also, but in a crowd of over 45000 you might expect that.
Peaceful thoughts to you all.... Farmout :-)
Yes, everyone tell your friends about the Old Hippies forum(s)!

I've set these forums aside especially for us now to get together and relate like never before!

I now realize that was my biggest frustration with this site.

WE didn't have a place to hang!

I got dismayed when some great people left the site due to various reasons, but much of it was due to the BS that would always find a way into the hippie forums.

It took awhile before it dawned on me that it wasn't US but those who didn't really understand what we are about. This included many young hippies who mistake the media hype for reality.

So now we're establishing our own group on these forums for interrelating, and another group of forums for those who want to learn what our generation learned and experienced as "hippies".

Which brings me to the next idea along this path... An Online SCHOOL!

I'm calling it the Free School because we will explore Freedom in its many manifestations. It also corresponds to the Anarchist vision of the Free School which you can read about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_school

It's also FREE because it won't cost anything to participate and of course because we will allow Free Speech as elsewhere on this site.

I'm hoping this Free School will provide the platform from which we old hippies can distribute our knowledge, wisdom and experience around the world.

Any Old Hippie can signup to lead a course (discussion) on any topic.

I suppose we'll have to setup a Free School student group so we can review applications for the school (those who can participate in the course discussions).

I'll start a new thread where we can propose subjects to be made into course forums. Some likely ones will be "activism", "politics", "ecology", "surviving outside the system", "spirituality", "networking", etc...

All of those will come under the Free School heading/forum.

What do you think of that idea?

[Starsrainbow]

Yup yup yup..... especially learning alternative ways to start living which most don't even know is going on as we speak

People are living it out there an many are also contributing their time to get the information out in many places

:)

[farmout]

Sounds interesting to me. I don't know if I would be a good discussion leader, but would be willing to interject my thoughts and experiences.
You've been busy lately, Skip!
Peaceful thoughts to you one and all... Farmout :-)
Also, does anyone know how to contact DDR? Dudley Do Right?
He hasn't been on the forums since spring. I wonder if he is alright.

[scratcho]

This may not be on the highest of levels,but it may be helpfull,so anyone that wants to work on their own place,I can talk you thru your roofing needs and maybe some others.Hopefully I can help save some folks some money.If you're close enough,I'll show up.-------Man this Oregon weather now--sure makes it easier to take all the rain comin' up.Beautifull!Have some fun today---scratcho---------add:free of course.

[BirdTattoo]

Hey, old timers. I look forward to getting to know everybody.

[tuatara]

i got in too .........guess my age was reason enough ......i too look forward to the forum ....hoping to get some thought provoking ideas from here........

[Willow_Jon]

I am VERY proud to be here amongst the kind and the wise !!

[oink]

Stopping in to say hi! Nothing profound to say at the moment. Maybe nothing ever profound to say, except in MY mind. Gone again!

[peacefulmama]

peace to all here....thanks to skip for letting me in....I'm looking forward to hearing, and seeing, all the wisdom, joy and peace that you'll share...

[supertramp]

wanted to say hi, and thank skip for letting me in.

being among the younger of the crowd, would like to say thanks to all you folks for your stories and post of the early days. I can read that stuff all day!

thanks again to all!

[HippyChick1960s]

Hey Skip,

Thanks for adding me onto this group! Am very hopeful about it. And yeah, was no place to hang for us old farts before. lol Good to be here.

HC

[hippymuso]

Hi all old hippies,

glad to be here, feel free to direct me to the right places, I'm still feeling my way around.
cheers Hippymuso from Oz.

[hippymuso]

Greetings and salutations to all,


great to find a place for people of a similar ilk.

Yes, I'm afraid we have these 'new hippies' in Australia too, except over here they are called 'ferals', I have no problem with these people or their way of life, my only worry is health issues concerning the kids, but each to their own, the way this world is going they may be the only people to survive.

One thing that hippies have always been about and that is tolerance of all people regardless of their religion colour or way of life.

Peace and love to all, hang in there guys. :) :rainbow:

[warmhands420]

Thank you Skip for making a place for us. I lost my way and wandered into some young ones, not a very friendly bunch. I have a hard time calling them hippies. Like hippymuso said, tolerance of all people regardless of their religion color or way of life. Might want to add age or generation to that.

[Rain1950]

I really don't like the word 'old'


I prefer to use the term 'ageless'

[silverhippy]

No one should be looked at as old, we should just think of ourselves as the ones that got here first to make it a better place for those that would follow, ok now that we have all said hello, oh everyone but me, so hello to all, now that is over with, what shall we talk about, I hope something, these groups dont to seem to do well. We have all seen so much together that we should have something to say to one another. I was on another old hippy members group and it went well for a while but then as fast as it started it died, hope this one does better, soooo what do we talk about, music, politics, war, Taco Bell, or just plain old every day cataclysmic ectoplasm, what do you think everyone, anyone. Lets talk to each other shall we ?

Peace

[warmhands420]

I'm not the one who used the "O" word. I am, and have always been, me. My Great Grandmother was 97 when she died. She waited till my Grandmother left to go shopping and went to chop wood for her stove. When they found her she had a smile on her face. If you rest you rust. And age has nothing to do with that.
Taco Bell? Now I'm hungry, gosh darn it siverhippy thats your doing.
As far as the old hippies not talking or this site dying out it wont happen as long as there are at least two of us left. This is a big room and people circulate, it doesn't mean the partys over. Spring is here, 78 one day 38 the next, from flowers to frostbite dont you just love it. I envy you folks with a long growing season.

[silverhippy]

Hey man, hope all is well with you, and yeah the weather here sucks too, it has been in the high 70s for like 5 days now it is 40 oh well welcome to Pittsburgh. I hope people talk here we have much in common and can share experances, and maybe some one could teach me how to spell, spelling the down fall of our generation at least on my end, Taco Bell, I kinda like Jack in the Box or just micky Ds, thats something I don't understand either, people are always talking about eating organic food and living green to be a hippy, we lived at pizza and fast food shops when we were young, and as for living green it was like hey sis turn up the heat I'm cold. Maybe it's just me but I don't get it, we could have been a bad sect of hippies, but I can't remember anyone having any desire for Yogert, a Big Mac will do just fine. Good to see you here take care man.

Peace

[Rain1950]

Spring is here, 78 one day 38 the next, from flowers to frostbite dont you just love it. I envy you folks with a long growing season.We were still getting snow up to 2 weeks ago! It's finally showing signs of spring here. Time to get busy prepping the garden.

I have always looked at life thru what I call 'the eyes of a child', and I have my 9 y/o gives me a renewed enthusiasm.

When my wife of 34 years left, I did not cry. I looked ahead in life, having my home, my garden, my health and many years of future.

[silverhippy]

We were still getting snow up to 2 weeks ago! It's finally showing signs of spring here. Time to get busy prepping the garden.

I have always looked at life thru what I call 'the eyes of a child', and I have my 9 y/o gives me a renewed enthusiasm.

When my wife of 34 years left, I did not cry. I looked ahead in life, having my home, my garden, my health and many years of future.
Very cool outlook on life, to see life through the eys of a child, you can see everything for what it is, instead of seeing it as others have told you how you should see them. Things seem new to you and you can draw your own conclusions as to what they mean to you. Sorry to hear your wife left you, but you stayed strong and lived on and that's very cool also. So yeah you are one of the good ones.

Peace

[warmhands420]

We have my nieces two girls, 10 and 4 running around here during the week. I am going to miss them when school lets out. The 4 year old has redefined the world for every adult she meets. I wish I had their energy.
As far as spelling goes if it wasn't for spell check you wouldn't be able to read this.
My sister lives west of Seattle and is always bragging about how much better her weather is than ours. Now I can call her out on that.
Did you notice that spell check doesn't have an option for hippy? Keep the faith.
~Peace

[Sus]

silverhippy, I'm from the Pittsburgh area too...Washington County to be exact. I kinda miss that area, the mountains, and the autumns probably the most. I considered moving back there at one point, but other places call me more at this point...

I don't miss the winters. :ack:

[silverhippy]

silverhippy, I'm from the Pittsburgh area too...Washington County to be exact. I kinda miss that area, the mountains, and the autumns probably the most. I considered moving back there at one point, but other places call me more at this point...

I don't miss the winters. :ack:
Nice to meet you, you don't miss the winter ? Winter is very cool, fireplace blazing away warm and comfortable in your own little home, let it snow let it snow. Forget the other places come home we want you back.

Peace

[uninterestedbystander]

Greetings All, Just another old/noob on the board. Did my time at many a GD and Little Feat concert and hope to reconnect with the present of my many people....Tim

[eponabri]

I'm glad to be here too.. and so pleased to see that there are still so many of us left.

[mosaicthreads]

Good to see you all here.

[OldTroll]

I always thought the word Hippie meant we were hip. We kept up on world events, started networking truth vs. media hype, making stands and generally shaking up the unconscious mindset of the '50's. I moved to the country to raise my kids and got out of touch. When I moved to Northern Cali, I was appalled that the locals were calling these dirty homeless little street urchins who lived in the woods - Hippies. And they were literally dirty and smelly and really needed some bathing. While we were pointing out the dysfunctionality of our society, we were also into beauty, flower power, embroidered jeans, body art, music art, art, art, art.

I talked to these kids and they were into panhandling, stealing, coming up with very creative psycho dramas to get SSI, etc. but were in total rejection of social issues. Nothing wrong with that or their lifestyle but what a misuse of the term "Hippie". So everytime someone would call them hippies I'd have to set them straight :-)

So this is why I can see Skip's point of view. There is a core understanding of someone who has come out of the unconsciousness of the Pleasantville of the 50's, of the childhood programming we all got and breaking out into being psycho-active. I still have programming issues come up after working on it all these years. Some programming runs deep. We came specifically to jump into that game/mindset to write that chapter in our Book of Forever. It was an amazing consciousness/energy shift that set the stage for Now. We lost many members to the Yuppies due to their fear programming having been raised by depression era kids but I see them coming back to their roots in consciousness.

Our culture doesn't honor it's senior members so I can see our next phase as we move into our wisdom years - having fun sharing our particular take on this crazy planet but with an empowerment stance.Yet another post that could qualify as a sticky!

And you’re able to spell Pleiadian correctly! Wow, I’m really impressed!



Have fun and play safely!"Billy" Eduard Albert Meier is waiting for you...

[Sarah Luz]

I was wandering around thinking I might find some stuff on the internet about the STP Family - and I did. That's how I got here. I was a run away in the late 60s - early 70s and, since I grew up in Colorado - of course I landed in Boulder. I got there in time to meet some original STPrs - and was there when they died off. I hung with a crowd from Pennsacola, Florida in my early days there - concerts at Left Hand Canyon, the concert at Hidden Valley Ranch with Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm - the huge concert up at Brainard Lake. In fact, I lived with the folks from Florida in an old girl scout camp up at Brainard when the big concert was held - I think Swami Satchidinanda was there because of some alignment of the planets or something - but mostly everyone was just stoned. I hooked up with the STPrs who were still alive later - and it was a horrific experience! I'll never forget it! These guys were so freaked out that they were stumbling around with piss and vomit on themselves - and looked psychotic. They were raping women up in their camp - which was just off the Peak to Peak Highway between Nederland and Brainard Lake - and they just trashed the woods up there. I'd never seen so much damage to the woods. I carry these memories inside (along with many others) and I frankly don't know how I made it out alive - especially since I was so young. Now, I am semi-retired from psychotherapy with delinquent adolescents - and I thought I'd try to find other folks who lived through the very, very high times and the hell as well.:peace:

[Sarah Luz]

I just read some of the other posts, located just above mine and noticed that they were much more philosophical and thoughtful in a political, social way. I want to mention that this is my very first post! So I wasn't sure where I needed to go in this very large Hipster site. Please let me know if I should go somewhere else....also, just a note - for me, as an extremely young "street chick" at that time (14 years old) - I wasn't focused on society or the environment. I DID march on Washington DC in '72 - and spent a large amount of time in "family" groups living completely off the land - but because of my background, unfortunately, I have to admit that I was there to escape life completely and it was a good time to do it. There were many of us who were very young - coming from abusive homes and really frightened by the events of the 60s, i.e., the Cuban Missile Crisis (which horrified me), and the deaths of the two Kennedys and MLK. If you combine this type of social anxiety with an unstable home - and then send in the freedom (and drugs) of the hippie movement - you get a toxic option for total escapism.

[OldTroll]

Welcome to Hip Forums Sarah Luz!

There many many forums and sub-forums to explore and enjoy.

Have fun!

[silverhippy]

Cool, good to see this thread open again.

Peace

[erzebet1961]

Feels like home here!

[shameless_heifer]

Hello again Ole Hippies, So long since I have posted here.. y'all too, huh...... In these troubled times, with war and economicals decline biting down on us, we find ourselves at The End Of Days... Not the end of the world, but the end of the old system of things..A big change is coming.. Babylon is falling and with it comes new beginnings.. as the old way falls off into the sea of renewal, we cling to one another as the dark cloud envelopes us...We are on the brink of twilite as we recunstruct our priorities and necessesities... We live below poverty and try to glean off the land as the weather sees fit.. But I can see we are not doing enough for when the big one hits....WE got ripped off a few months ago..3,000$... yes, our savings, gone. We had food cashes that we have had to use as 8 more family members moved in.. Now we have to start over in the winter when there are not many resources availble.... I know we are not unique in this and things are tough all over..As I see things fall away.. luxuries and preference goes out the window, we adjust ourselves to doing with less.... Being simple folks with simple needs, we do not miss the things we have to release and hold on to what will get us through.... Even in these hard times I find we are just as happy as if we had all the gold around Mr. Ts neck.... We have each other.. we have our land.. we have the great sky above us and the precious Earth below our feet... We stand strong in the knowing that no matter what happens we have lived a good life and fought the good fight.. I don't know what is to become of any of us.. but I do know that my time here was spent well and I am Loved.... Even tho we may not have lots of money, or the newest of everything.. we have what we need to get by.. Our freezer is full of Deer and Wild Hog.. Which is our staple in the winter.. we have our root veggies and canned food stuff we put up this summer.. so all is well and we will get through yet another hard winter.. The wood is stacked by the door and we are ready to snuggle down untill the Sun shines brightly and Spring brings renewal to Mother and her children... Bright Blessings my brothers and sisters.. I am Thankfull we have each other.. I am glad to see us gather and be strong together....sh

[Sus]

Sarah Luz...welcome!! I love reading your posts!


And, Shameless, your words are so true. We are at the end of times...the end, I believe, of the old order, and the beginning of something new. Hopefully we can all get through these hard times with faith in ourselves and each other, and the earth that, even though we've put Her through so much, still sustains us...

[highlandganjaman]

At last a place I can call home
This has been a great thread to read

Peace & Love to all

[silverhippy]

And to you. And welcome home..

Peace

[highlandganjaman]

Thanks silverhippy great to be here have a nice Xmas:cheers2:

[silverhippy]

Thanks silverhippy great to be here have a nice Xmas:cheers2:


You too :cheers2:

Peace

[RetiredHippie]

Just found this particular part of the forums. There's so many sub forums around here one could get lost. Peace and Groovy man............

[flower child 2]

It's sure nice to know that we oldies are still around and well, hello to you all and let's keep in touch

[snowsurf]

Peace all just wanted to say thanks to all yall hippies and Skip :cheers2:

[scratcho]

Went thru all 6 pages and it looks like only silverhippy and I are the only ones that post any more----------------

[etherea]

Hi! I don't know how I haven't found this thread before. I will make a point of checking it out when I'm online and contributing if I can.

[Jim Mac]

:peace: I am a new member, and I would really like to join this group. Can someone tell me how?

[etherea]

Hi! Jim. Go to the social groups page and then to old hippies. The information should be there. If you're over 40 you will be made welcome. So hi! again

[Jim Mac]

I'll do just that. It's good to have a place where I can feel the peace and love from people who are not, and don't need to be plastic.:peace:

[ChetO]

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in to say howdy

sh

I joined the forum here, hopping to get a message to Tom S., but then I found an address in the MSM White Pages for Larry and Chuck's boy, K***.

I know K*** will help me get a message to Tommy, so I deleted my post in the 'introduce yourself section.

I came into the WPP commune about late 74 or early 75, just as the Good Earth was breaking up. I think I did meet you once upstairs across the street from the Whitehouse. You were telling everyone you had a crush on Breeze?

I don't remember much about the Good Earth, so I won't be much help with memories. When I asked members of the WPP commune what the Good Earth was about, they said you all shouted at each other alot and were "not political".

Tom is a great leader. I hope he's still alive. Pam and I have a house in Maine, and can give him and a friend a free place to stay.

[chip01]

Hello, I too am an old, out of place hippie....and I like it that way. A lot of the younger,wanna-bes are now asking me all sorts of questions about Woodstock,etc. seams like this new generation of kids are looking for some kind of direction....like a lot of us did back then.