Past Life Hippies Unite! ;)

[lucyinthesky]

After posting this "I definitely know i did! http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif There is no way my soul was made to live in today's world. Every waking day i dream about having lived in the 60s. I would do anything to be able to go back...everything was so much more appreciated, i think, and i look at people today, especially young adults my age, and they know nothing of what it is to appreciate...they're all too busy getting drunk and banging as many people as they can." in a previous thread, i noticed i received a couple of replies from people who heartacheingly wish they could go back in time.

I just wanted to hear from other people who seriously, truely believe they were a part of the 60s in a past life. I really think I was and it pains me every day that i can't go back. I just don't feel like i belong in this decade and it's becoming depressing! lol...Anyone else feeling the same?? :confused:

[SweeperOfDreams13]

I feel the exact same way.
I sure hope I was at Woodstock '69 ;)

[givepeaceachance]

You took the words out of my mouth. I never felt like I really fit into today's world. I was always behind on the times and was never really comfortable. The music of the 60s had always been a part of my life since I was little, but it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I really began to learn about the 60s. I beleive in reincarnation and I am positive that I lived in the 60s in my past life. Everything I love says so. The Music, the beleifs, the clothes, the people. It would be my dream to go back... I know you can't dwell in the past, but I wish i could. That is why i am dedicated to trying to change the world. Maybe one day we can live amongst people who are loving and caring the way they were from our past lives.

[TripAmerika]

It seems quite a few of us believe ourselves to have been a part of the 60's even if we weren't actually born until the 80's. I certainly feel it.

[kilted2000]

I to feel like I was a hippy in the 60's. I imagine hippy groups sitting in the middle of the quad at my college.

[newo]

I was there, and once again I see people who tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. The 60s had its dark side.The same year we had Woodstock we had Altamont. Big Sur and Haight-Ashbury were a great scene for awhile, but they became overrun with bikers, junkies and others who ruined it. The Vietnam War seemed that it would never end; and there were riots, civil strife, and the ever-present fear of nuclear annhilation.

Don't get me wrong, it was a time of great change and I'm glad I was a part of it, but if you could go back in time you'd quickly realize that for everything you've gained you've also lost something.

[givepeaceachance]

I do realize that things were not perfect. Things have never been perfect and times then were as strange and crazy as times now. I just feel something inside of me that says I was there to experience all the good times and bad. I want to live it again anyway.

[lucyinthesky]

that's exactly what i was going to say. I think of the bad things too, and i would have liked to just had the full experience. but i do understand your point ;)

[Miss_Tambourine_Girl]

i was richard nixon in my past life

[dylanzeppelin]

i believe we look at the 60s as a place where we could fit in. We can look back because it's already been done, so we look at the crazy stuff that went on and wish we could experience it for ourselves. I'm obsessed with the whole decade and believe that if time could turn back, I for one wold def go back. Today, I feel like an outsider because I don't fit in anywhere. It's just so different and hard to relate at times. I believe that with the passion of the 60s, we all had some point lived it even if we were born in the 80s. It's all quite surreal if you really think about it.. but I guess this life now isn't as amazing as if it was the 60s. However, I think that if I really did live in the era, would I really go into the whole hippie scene not knowing what we know now?

[lucyinthesky]

you probably would have had to have been a lot more gutsy to be a hippie back then then now, because of all the discrimination against the counter culture and all that jazz. i know i woulda still chosen to do the same :)

[DejaVoo]

Oh yeah i would go back to the 60's in a heartbeat!! it would be so differnt though, without lots of TV and computer (two things that I'm tottaly use too..sad) but , i would love to be there. i wish i could go back there, KNOWING the things that I do now. I don't really beileve in past-lifes, but i think they are kinda interesting. and if i DID beileve in them, i would think that I lived in the 60s in a past life. I have got so wrapped in todays living, i just want to get out of it. I'm also obsessed about this decade, i always read about it on the internet or rent books from the library. I hope someday soon we can all get together and make the whole thing happen again....this time its for us!

[Digital Underpants]

All this I wish I was in a different time stuff is just a desire for radical ideas in your life. Be a revolutionary like me and take some stands for something you believe in. Don't be afraid to speak out. The government only ha as much control as we give them.Todays world is way more exciting than the 60's ever were just ask someone who was there Peace.

[Crush]

Hmmmm, I would like to go there, but I supposse more on a vacation, just be there for a year or so and have a good time. Since there is a chance that when you're standing there you're more like:"wow, nice, is this it" I mean I really feel like it, it would be cool and all. But isn't everything made more romantic then it was. There was a lot of crisis too, lot of riots, protests and not only sitting in the park with some friends smoking pot and listing to the beatles. I suppose there was a good chance your parents kinda disliked you for being al weird and on drugs and all, and have lots of fights with them.

You can desperalty try to go back to the 60's or make your own. If you want to protest, just do it. Hang out with you friends in the park bare feeted. Eventually you'll convince people it is cool, not all people have a mind as close as a, uhm i dunno what extually, but a lot of people are open minded so... And if I look around a lot of people are intrested in the 60's. I suppose it will come back, but it won't be completely the same. There is lot's of reason for it anywayz. You have this stupid war, peoples head get chopped off, prisiners being mistreated. There will be a point the where the people will say:"fuck you with the war man, we wanted you to stop, now look what you did, everything's fucked up" And it will all be reborn

At least that's what I like to think..... :rolleyes:

[Ginge]

I like to think I was born in the wrong generation, too. But when I sit and REALLY give it some thought, I think the only reason why I would want to go back to the 60s is so I could experience The Beatles. Other than that, as a black female living in the United States, I can safely say I'd have no desire to actually live in the 60s. I'm pretty sure you all know why. ;)

Everything I love about the 60s hippy movement (peace, love, and happiness), I can strive to acheive in this day and age. :)

[MushroomDreams]

What a great thread. I was there and there are times when I wish I could go back.

It was a time when a doorway opened. I believe that crack in the continuum of time was a doorway to a higher existence. The message was love. I felt it back then and I believe that the door is still open.

We wanted to build a new society and live off the land. For a very short the bohemian culture became a part of the pop culture. It was cool to be different. We were looking for more than society had to offer. We were looking for freedom. You romanticize about the sixties- we romanticized about the Wild West. Maybe because there were no rules.

Today there are huge new challenges. You have another unjust war, an insane president, a deteriorating environment, loss of freedom, and you don’t necessarily have the support of your peers.

I think Crush has the right idea. Get a few guitars and go to the park. If no one is looking, go skinny-dipping in a river, but just have fun.

I wrote about my experiences maybe you could do the same. You never know what will come out of it.

[lucyinthesky]

What a great thread. I was there and there are times when I wish I could go back.

It was a time when a doorway opened. I believe that crack in the continuum of time was a doorway to a higher existence. The message was love. I felt it back then and I believe that the door is still open.

We wanted to build a new society and live off the land. For a very short the bohemian culture became a part of the pop culture. It was cool to be different. We were looking for more than society had to offer. We were looking for freedom. You romanticize about the sixties- we romanticized about the Wild West. Maybe because there were no rules.

Today there are huge new challenges. You have another unjust war, an insane president, a deteriorating environment, loss of freedom, and you don’t necessarily have the support of your peers.

I think Crush has the right idea. Get a few guitars and go to the park. If no one is looking, go skinny-dipping in a river, but just have fun.

I wrote about my experiences maybe you could do the same. You never know what will come out of it.What a great response. There are many things i want to do to revive the enthusiasm, envolvement and movement against todays huge new challenges, and i cant wait! by the way, I put your book on my birthday list a few weeks ago actually!!!! :D

[MushroomDreams]

Happy Birthday, lucyinthesky :)

Peace

[givepeaceachance]

You can desperalty try to go back to the 60's or make your own. If you want to protest, just do it. Hang out with you friends in the park bare feeted. Eventually you'll convince people it is cool, not all people have a mind as close as a, uhm i dunno what extually, but a lot of people are open minded so... And if I look around a lot of people are intrested in the 60's. I suppose it will come back, but it won't be completely the same. There is lot's of reason for it anywayz. You have this stupid war, peoples head get chopped off, prisiners being mistreated. There will be a point the where the people will say:"fuck you with the war man, we wanted you to stop, now look what you did, everything's fucked up" And it will all be reborn

At least that's what I like to think..... :rolleyes:

Exactly man! That's exactly what I am doing and trying to do. We can live it ourselves. The time is right!!!

[Pablo]

why would you want to go back in time? the future still holds the posibility to be any way, and you might as well look to it because its what you have to work with.

[Crush]

It is true, You create your future. If you want things to be more like the past, you should work for that (working my ass off here) The thing is. If you look at this forum, there are like pretty much hippies so if you would like some woodstock again. Just arrange it and post it, and you'll have a big change you'll meet every forum dude capable of coming. (girls too, most of the time I call everybody dude :rolleyes: )

Also there's another post out here on the forum wich tells stuff about horizontal thinking instead of vertical. Wich means you don't see your fammilly as in your father, mother, brother. But that including all of your friends, even neighbours or strangers. Be open and kind, I think that will show other people how cool that is and it might inspire them to also be more open and kind. I try to do this, although it is hard work, and I'm so not there yet, but I'm trying!

It involves changing yourself too of course since you always have the problem of how much society has had effect on you. (in means like being one of the not open minded people) And that has to change, but it can only happen when you realised it.(yes it's compicated)

Now, I suppose you do have to keep count of other (is that a right expresion?) You know, not like sit in a crouded park, totally naked with a stereo next to you playing jefferson airplane at it's most loudest. That will have a negative effect. Just let people get to know you and show them your way of live. If they like you, they might just go and be more cool ;)

wooow, i diddn't even knew I knew all this, just some inner part I suppose :D

Just have fun, get to know new people, be more like you want to be and live like it. That was the original message I believe

[redflip]

...by questioning everything! Why is it right that our (U.S.) young men and women are dying in a foreign country? Why is it okay for big business to be corrupt and nobody wants to blow the whistle? Why are we 'unpatriotic' if we question what G.W. does? Why are people afraid to take to the streets in demonstration to protest? Why?

You want to relive the 60's! Turn off the t.v., go out to the park, the quad, whereever and share your ideas, your music, your love, your emotions, and most of all, yourself!

Peace!

[TerminalMadness]

I agree; I think in a past life I was a hippie as well.

I've always been different from everyone else, always had different thoughts, different values, always been involved in protesting always found the war to be wrong, and I'm basically obsessed with anything involved with the sixties and seventies.

Especially the music. I feel basically out of place everywhere, almost as if I don't belong here.

I'm with you lucyinthesky. Right on.

[TerminalMadness]

I was there, and once again I see people who tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. The 60s had its dark side.The same year we had Woodstock we had Altamont. Big Sur and Haight-Ashbury were a great scene for awhile, but they became overrun with bikers, junkies and others who ruined it. The Vietnam War seemed that it would never end; and there were riots, civil strife, and the ever-present fear of nuclear annhilation.

Don't get me wrong, it was a time of great change and I'm glad I was a part of it, but if you could go back in time you'd quickly realize that for everything you've gained you've also lost something.
Damn lucy in the sky, it's like you're taking my thoughts.

I agree with her. Sure there was the kent state massacre, the draft, the vietnam war, inflation, the low economy, civil rights movement, rioting, BUT I would have loved to experience it either way as lucyinthesky said. I still feel out of place regardless.

[MichaelByrd1967]

I was the guy who got ran over at Woodstock...

[WhatIs]

but it was this one!

I was fortunate enough to grow up in the sixties. The predominant messages for those tuned-into the counterculture were good ones.

I can sum it up by saying it was about spirituality over materialism.

You can take the same path today, but you have to fight harder to break away from the consumerism that has truly become the religion of America.

Peace.

[kwicksandiv]

;) What a great thread indeed! Oh those were the days my friend I though they'd never end. I grew up as a youngster in the 60's and became a teen in the 70's. Those times were carefree for me. Watching Rowen and Martins Laugh In, The Brady Bunch and Love American Style. No computers, cable TV or cell phones. I grew up in Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie so we had lots of camp fires on the beach. Trips to the parks were endless and going to concerts was must....Moody Blues, Niel Young, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Zepplin, The Who, and so on. Those times for me did not include a house payment, bills or my 2 beautiful teenage sons (15 & 18) times were simple for me then. the memories are precious! The sky seemed bluer and the lake seemed calmer. Sunsets were more intense. But then I had the time to be care free 24/7. Going to the icecream stand and buying a cone for a quarter and sitting on a bench that over looked the lake....ahhh it all was good.

It is so great that all the younger people on the site are so interested in that time. My 15 year old is also. He loves the music from that time, he says that it was the original and the first time it was being done. I feel very blessed to be born at the time I was. But if you weren't make this your time for being carefree. Enjoy the scenery around you and do simple things. Go in the woods and build a campfire and stay mellow as long as you can.;)

[Crush]

That's a good advice! Just do some stuff and be care free :)
BTW your son is totally right about the music. Most music from the '60s are really nice, new and timeless. Much better than all the dance and trance crap there is nowadays. There's much more technice of playing the instrument involved, I like that :)

[FatherMcKenzie]

there is no doubt in my mind that i would go back and live in a different decade if i could. i absorb every aspect i can about the 60's 70's, reading book to watching movies, and of course almost everything i listen to is 30+ yrs old. Sometimes i feel like i am the only youngster who misses those times i never lived. the people i know dont really care to much for the past (other than the fact drugs were a big social influence) kind of makes a feel alone. :cool: but i suppose all n all theres no much of a point in wishing like that,

[Terra]

I am more than sure about my pastlife in 50s-80s. I always was interested in hippies, Woodstock and general 60s-70s, even when I was much younger and knew almost nothing about reincarnation. I remember how few years ago there used to be a commercial on German music channel of some Woodstock CDs compilation and they showed some parts from Wodstock. I swear I would move closer to TV and watch it very closely when it was on TV! Some time later I found more information about reincarnation and became very interested. I started to point attention to my likes/dislikes, fascinations and fears. Later I did self-hypnosis for several times, I also meditated. After that memories started coming to me. Once when I did self-hypnosis I found out out that I was 35 years old in 1986, so that means I was born in 1951. About a week ago I heard Beatles' She Loves You on a radio and something like : "How old was I then?" came to my mind, I realised I was 12. I checked on the internet and this song was released as a single on 1964 January. It all makes perfect sense! I also remember that I was on a road trip in 1977 summer.
I also remember two more pastlives.

[alice_d_millionaire]

guys, the same thing is happening now. right now, we've just starting fighting an unjust war that will continue indefinitely. we're living in a culture of pre-processed crapped-out marketing scams that do no more than rot the mind and line the collective corporate pocket. people are starting to realise this and want to do something about it. sound familiar? to quote a great man, "the times they are a changin."

[PeaceLuvinHippieTaz]

I too was raised in the 60's. Besides the counterculture, families still ate together, played together and prayed together. There were the care-free times and then our friend's and family members came back from Vietnam and our picture perfect world's were shattered. I knew many that never made it back but the ones who did painted an ugly picture of "outside of the fishing bowl". It was a rude awakening for us-the next generation of hippies. I know, that is why at 17, I went to Mexico with a anti-war, anti-society group. There was around 20 of us to start and ended with 14 of us living in Ensanada. We took turn's going to San Diego for a few weeks and working at stores or fast food places. Living was very cheap. We studied different religion's and governmet policies, laid on the beach and dreamed of world peace. Several times a year we went to S.F for peace rally's and hippy fest's. Those were day's of celebrating and preserving life and finding our purpose in the whole thing. I have to say they were the best times of my life.

[beatlerific]

i know what you mean. i have always felt out of place in the present. at least i know there are others that know how i feel!

[NODRAMAMAMA]

After posting this "I definitely know i did! http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif There is no way my soul was made to live in today's world. Every waking day i dream about having lived in the 60s. I would do anything to be able to go back...everything was so much more appreciated, i think, and i look at people today, especially young adults my age, and they know nothing of what it is to appreciate...they're all too busy getting drunk and banging as many people as they can." in a previous thread, i noticed i received a couple of replies from people who heartacheingly wish they could go back in time.

I just wanted to hear from other people who seriously, truely believe they were a part of the 60s in a past life. I really think I was and it pains me every day that i can't go back. I just don't feel like i belong in this decade and it's becoming depressing! lol...Anyone else feeling the same?? :confused: I hear what you saying about going back in time, but being a BLACK(not african)AMERICAN well.. to say the least it really didn't get all that good for us until roughly around the 80's(70's were alright sorta) but hey the 80's were cool. I'd go back.

[granola.kiss]

I think I was born in the mid-forties.

In the late fifties, at 16, I left home to join the beat scene in New York. I spent nights hopped up on bennies in small, dark jazz clubs, listening to poets rap through a haze of smoke & alcohol.

In the early sixties, I traveled cross-country to the Haight-Ashbury district, before anyone else did & experimented with LSD & revolution. I protested the war on the grounds of Berkeley.

In the late sixties or early seventies, when I was in my 20s, I moved to a small but beautiful self-sustained Oregon commune to live off the earth with like-minded people.

After a few years, I moved back to New Jersey to reunite with my family, married, & raised four beautiful children in an atmosphere of peace & tolerance.

In the late seventies, I died a tragic death, but I had lived a full life & died knowing I had fulfilled my reason for existing; to live beautifully, advocate peace & love, & pass these values onto a new generation.

In 1981, I was reborn into who I am today.

[Or, well, thats what I like to believe happened.]

mad love,
cortnee

[Pablo]

I think people just say they were what they want to have been. Why would you all have been hippys and then be hippys again now? Theres no flow, reason, or balance in that.

[DandelionPrincess]

^hehe, yea, you guys need variety like the past Billy the Kid over here:p

[crummyrummy]

I am pretty sure I was born in 1973. I would hate to have been a hippie and then died in time to be reborn in 73.

[wildfire]

ok i've got a question. if the children are the future and all the young people in the 60's were like what they were then how the fuck did the world turn out like this today?

well as has been stated previously was alot of trouble in the world in the 60's so i think that its not going back in time its trying to bring that mentality that people had into the world today. and the way to get to people is through the media. but that is so corrupt that no one will go near that so were stuck.

[DandelionPrincess]

lots of ppl say i'm a 50's girl b/c i love hula-hooping and cream soda...a decade off but does that count? :p

[fylthevoyd]

People,people,people as I was part of the time you dream of being a part of.Your desires show strenght,to advance humanity.Transcend these time boundries,and move forward with your beliefs,instead of wasting energy attempting to go back.The collective force of the young is a mighty force,if applied.Emulate your wishes and desires,regardless of what society thinks.Doing this could very well bring about your dream world,thus saving the human race from their own self destruction.It is the same cry of the young that was heard in the 60's.Plus society is more apt to listen,since society is comprised of survivors from the 60's.A word to the young,you are the future,plan it right for the benefit of us all.

[NewNoise]

Yeah, I'm the same way. I feel like everything that makes me, me is more related to the 60s than to any other time. I love everything that hippies were about. I dream about being in the 60's. And if anybody goes to the positive mental attitude forum, I have my experience with my othe reality, which is also set in the 60s. I feel like the reason I am this way, and why I was born in this era instead is to help bring back peace and love. Maybe that's our purpose. Maybe we're the ones who are supposed to change the world. :)

[Granola Funk]

I think rather than wishing we lived in the 60's counterculture, we should live in our own and actually try to make the revolution succeed this time.

[lucyinthesky]

i notice a lot of people were quick to say that we should make what we can out of now, which is totally possible, but it's just the feeling of not belonging in this day, or this time, or this place, or with these people, or this country or anything! I just don't belong here right now.

[Granola Funk]

Make it a place to belong! Only you can make the world what it is.

[Veritas]

I broke down and cried about it once. This society kills me and what makes it bearable is the psychedelics and the music. Whenever i watch the woodstock movie i just imagine those people there and how great it must have been to be at woodstock. I wish i was there.

[lucyinthesky]

I broke down and cried about it once. This society kills me and what makes it bearable is the psychedelics and the music. Whenever i watch the woodstock movie i just imagine those people there and how great it must have been to be at woodstock. I wish i was there.

that's exactly how i feel.

[peaceisluv89]

Yeah, I feel the same way man, I mean, now in this world we call home, everything seems to be for money and the more this u have or that the better u r, or some shit like that. But money, and cars, and having like 4 houses, that doesnt make u, well u. Sometimes I'm not sure what makes us, us, u know. But I know what doesnt make us, us, and I would do ne thing to have lived in the 60's, or atleast live like the 60's, and that's all I CAN do, is live the 60's now, today, u know, and whether people dislike the way I live, or don't appreciate how I live my life in peace and love, thats boss man, I can be down with that, whether I dig it or not, but if more people took the time to relize and know and even live the 60's, then maybe, just maybe the 60's could return, and I do get carried away sometimes, but in my mind ne thing is possible, so if u didnt live IN the 60's, why not try to live the way they did. But what ever u wan't man, it's solid. Peace and love man

[Crush]

It's shitty to feel like that, I have it from time to time too, but I always try to make some good stuff out of it. This time is indeed a stupid one. most people are all for themselfs and not being social and all, it's all money money money :confused: that sux. But you can't do anything about it, besides trying to live as cool as possible and don't care about what other people think. Just be friendly and social, have a good time. The all money thing is bad, but there are enough people who don't like that idea. I think if you have a job which you really like then the money thing isn't a problem, it's just something you get at the end of the month and it makes you able to live a good live. Lots of people feel like this, try to locate some via this forum which are near you and meet up and have fun. It should be really nice, since you all got kinda the same feeling and you can make the feeling of the 60's yourselfs. If you want to go even further, try to change some stuff and go with demonstrations and protest.

[GanjaPrince]

Hello everyone,

I was a hippie in my last life, and died at a young age, reborn in this current form circa 1982...

Yet I would never want to go back, I did it, why do it again?

"The time, the time is now, and it's right for me, it's right for me, the time is now, the word, the word is love, and it's right for me, it's right for me, and the word is Love!" - YES

NOW NOW NOW!

Never live in the past, live in the present, the past and future are one, right now.

Love now, love all beings, love the life you were given!

Everything is beautiful! And this society stinks, but it is beautiful, destruction is shiva, and shiva is vishnu the preserver and vishnu is krishna, in other words, destruction is a form of the LOVE the cosmos has for US!

Have a cosmic sense of humor, see the mystical paradox!

And work with beings of all paths, all walks of life, to awaken this world to unconditional universal love, brother and sisterhood, sharing, consciousness revolution, freeing the mind, getting off all the hangups of sex, gender, race... all the things the hippies were about.


The only way out is IN, find a place inside that will keep you safe, the heart cave, you can sit, with total comfort, total peace, and shine your light across the universe!

[Crush]

Somehow I think GanjaPrince is right. You live now, not yesterday.

[purplesage]

I too wish I was around in the 60s, I was born just 4 months short :(

Like other posters have said, we should focus more on how we can make things the way we want them to be. Spreading the word is probably the best way we can do it. In this day and age we have access to the entire world through the internet. Put a website up. Get some colourful cardboard and make up some business-type cards with your name, website and message on it and give them out to everyone you know and everyone you meet, to spread the word. (Why should business cards only be for business?) Make your own t-shirts with pictures of your favourite 60's people or events on them. Meet up regularly with like-minded friends where you can play the part.

We may not be able to go back but there are probably heaps of opportunities out there we can all take advantage of to make the present and the future a better place for ourselves.

[wildfire]

we shouldn't be trying to bring back anything. we need to take lessons learned and counterculture values of the 60's and moveforward with them. take it a step further.

you may think that society today is just about money and greed, but you have to remember that it has always been a counter culture thing-a few young people, misbehaving, going against society, standing up for their beliefs, trying to make a difference. and the movement started to grow and by the sixties it was mainstream almost.

and you can see a faint little glow, a shimmer, a few young people, listening to older music and starting bands influenced by it-subterranean, no one you'd hear of in the mainstream. a few young people taking a stand for animal rights, realizing that we are ruining the envrionment and natural resources-realizing that war gets you no where-moving away from the mass franchise.

it has always been a counter culture thing. it alstarted with a few who though that something was wrong and wanted to change it.

[MushroomDreams]

I think it was the “hundredth monkey”. That is- we all seemed to get this idea at the same time. I don’t know if it started at any one place. It was like the next leap in evolution. :)

Peace

[toolab]

Hi Everybody and Peace to All,


Man, just reading what all you young kids say about the sixties brings back so many memories and a few tears. Most of you wish you had lived in the era and I can't say I blame you. I was a hippie and lived the lifestyle as I knew it in San Antonio, TX. It was a time for tremendous social and cultural change, but you guys have the power to do the same today. I implore all of you to get out and connect with people. Learn and study the values set forth by the Hippies of the sixties and put them to the test in today's society. In the sisxties, we protested against an unjust war, do the same today. The Iraqi War is wrong and started by a misguided, transplanted Texan. In Novemeber, go out and rock the vote (for those of you old enough to vote). This may seem alien to the Hippie culture, but it has evolved as a powerful tool that gives us all a voice in our government. The way to change government is not by overthrowing it but by imploding it from the inside out. Our vote allows us to make sure that change does take place. We can't allow twisted conservative values jepordize what was so hard fought for in the sixties. If you truly belive in freedom and everthing it represents, then go out and vote in November and throw out the scoundrels. The Republican party is a party of exclusion not inclusion as they would have you believe. Bush is not a uniter but a divider, and he has garnered support for pushing constituional admendments that will jepordize our freedoms. If he wins in November that I hate to see what this country will look like in 2008. Sorry if I kind of veered off track but I feel that if you truly love the sixties and all it stood for, then the only alternative is to stop wishing you had lived there and participate in today's society. So go out there and live life to the fullest. Join a protest group, give of your time freely to better our society, and just enjoy yourselves.

ALI

[NewNoise]

ive been doing a lot of research on the 60's lately. the more i learn about it, the more i want to bring it to today. i feel like thats my reason for being on this earth. to bring peace and love back. of course, i cant do it alone. i wish there was more people like the people in these forums. everyone should just come together with people from their community that are here. we should have a day where we start a revolution. it should be in every major city in the US, and the world for that matter. any thoughts?

[littlewing88]

I totally feel like I was a hippy in my past life. I swear I even have flashbacks from it man. Like they're triggered by smells or feelings and stuff like that. I remember being at concerts and stuff and it's just really far-out stuff man.

[john cox]

It's a trip to read How simular you young dudes and chicks are to those of us in the 60's. One element I dont see as much is the musicans just being musicans playing to play and to entertain the people. For example; a little basement club on Sunset (maybe someone who did less LSD can remember the name) never charged for shows, and you never knew who would show-up. The Youngblood, being joined for a 40 minute blues jam with Zappa & Capitan Beefheart,Hendrix & Buddy Miles followed by Zappa and Beefheart doing a battle of the bands, playing every instrument on the stage. Almost forgot..Mickey Dolense(?) of the Monkeys. Started changing in the 70's. A band of friends living in my apartment recordedunder 5 names the Arches, etc. But there was also rogue cops and authorized rogue cops,bad drugs, and much else you would not want to relive.
And yes, statesiders need to vote and without a spirtual element all will deteriate. Go For IT: JNANAJOHN

[LaurelBayTree]

I totally think people our age today who are hip and into the love era were reincarnated! I have this poster called flower child that I wish I could jump into because it sums up how I feel and where I would feel most comfortable in. It is possible the universe knew there would be a time when our free spirited loving peaceful souls would be needed again and that time is now! I mean if you compare today with yesterday. I see it. Ya dig? Sometimes I feel sad because I feel so out of place and then I talk with those who are interwined with my mind and man...that is a trip within itself. I want to hop on the magic bus all over again. Peace and Love

[Bohemian_Child]

for me it goes past feeling out of place and time.

Ive been told (half jokingly) my entire life that i was born in the wrong decade. my parents used to tell me i was born 40 years too late (i would have been 18 in 64 then)

And since i was about 16 ive been told by countless family members that i must be a reincarnation of my aunt. Several family members whom i recently met for the first time at a wedding instantly said "you must be beverly's grandaughter, you look and carry yourself and just like your aunt. In fact, after talking to you i feel like im talking to Crystal, makes me think twice about reincarnation" and the such. Its strange, we have the same taste in music, same taste in clothing, trave, food, same shoe size, even little details like i found out a few weeks ago i use the same soap and shampoos and all this stuff that she uses. Down to the tiniest details.

And the more pics of her i see the more i realize i really do resemble her. She was a huge hippie in the 60s. Toured with the dead, hit woodstock, and ended up living in arizona/cali (not sue which was first) selling home made jewelry and clothing, then moved to India, then south america. She died before i was born, though.

Anywho, so not only do i feel out of place and have been told im out of place, i swear- i may be my aunts reincarnation.

[Goddess Om]

I really love and appreciate all of you...and I know exactly how you feel.
The truth is, many of you probably were reincarnated from lives that were somehow cut short in or after the sixties.
Hey, we needed you guys to carry the vibe forward this time around, and that's exactly what you are doing. You carried your passion beyond the grave and you are bringing it back as a loving gift from the Universe to Itself. More power to you!
By all means, yearn for it, the past you love, but yearn enough to make it happen all over again. Live it! Live it now!
Become enlightened in your own way; open yourself up to wonder and creativity; honor the Earth Mother; love people enough to bring down the structures that use and abuse them. Stop them killing young people and poor people in meaningless wars that are all about someone else's greed. Speak up, speak out, be a pain in the ass if you need to. Stick it to the Man!
The sixties was about breaking free. And you can do that - you don't need drugs to do it. Get high on life and keep reaching out to other people. Do crazy, kind and unexpected things to make life easier for somebody else - when you take people by surprise, you can sometimes wake them up!
Don't be afraid to love, afraid to feel, afraid to be vulnerable. Lead with your heart...
"Stay young, just this once....I want a thing of value...I want to see in the dark...I want to win with you" (INXS)
Love you all heaps,
Goddess OM

[burkie]

I love you.

[Hari]

From the sixties, many changed and went on to work hard and make money, others remained wasteful and idulgent with drugs, others became
involved with cults, and remained there. Some married another hippies and raised children, others became seriously involved with easter religions and yoga, while others became part of the new age movement.

Others who had ran away, went back to their parents by free will, and others were emotionally forced to. Many died of od.

I didn't read about this... I witnessed most, and some of these were things I did. I always thought that those who died, let's say 1969 or 1975, would come back as children of hippie couples that had given up in some way, or continued in their path.

No one can say exactly what a hippie is, because the world changes so much, and people live through an experience and try other experiences, but what is practical remains.

Too much care for the hair is not practical, wearing uncomfortable clothing either. Being a paid murderer of other people in their own country is against logical morality.

Thinking for yourself is the only hip thing to do.

[Goddess Om]

I love you.awww...i love you too

[LaurelBayTree]

So is it possible that some of us knew each other in the sixties, were related, lovers, or just best friends and now that we are reincarnated to different parts we no longer know that person? I believe I have found a friend I probably knew sometime during the sixties. We have never fought and seem to mesh perfectly. What rainbow of possiblitlies are there?

[TerminalMadness]

I believe in re-incarnation, and it's possible some of the people here who live the lifestyle are re-incarnated.


For example, me and Lucy in the sky have basically the same aspirations, including buying a van and crusing the world, so is it possible we were friends in the past?

[Gerva]

I agree with newo and lucyinthesky's second post.

Until the age of 18 i used looking back at the 60s too, as if it was the best possible world, then you have to think that was just a flash-light amongst the darkness. Well, all of us look at it utterly fascineted ( me too of course) and automatically believe that those times were the best ever..but that(hippy movement) was just a branch of the society, the frontguard likewise. The rest was quite tough i guess.
So all of us (unborn before 80s)wish we lived in that period..but probably our wish for real would be like one of you wrote..just to experience it..feeling that atmosphere..fortunately in this site we have some great 50 years old hippies who can tell us how it did feel, at least..

[LaurelBayTree]

were we put back here because mother earth's identity was in need of a voice? i mean looking at our society today sometimes i feel so weak against the negativity, but i know my voice can make a difference.

[purplesage]

I used to think I was the reincarnation of some young person from the 60s who died a tragic death. I don't know what my stance is now, but it's quite possible. I'm not sure whether I believe in reincarnation but some of the cases I've read about spin me out.

[StonedAngel]

Wow..I didn't know anyone else had that same feeling about the 60's as i do.I really feel like i've been there and done that, and i'd do anything to go back in time for a day. When i was really little (before i even knew the meaning of the word "hippie") I used to tell my parents things about the 60's..i can't really think of an example right now, but it was really weird things that there's NO way a 4 or 5 year old could know. Thanks for making me feel less alone. :)

[Goddess Om]

Beautiful Young Hippies,

It does my heart good to know you are here and you came back into earth life with awareness of the past and what your purpose is now. It is perfect.
You are the second wave of us...and I could somehow 'feel' you all coming of age and coming into your time in the last year or two.
And isn't the Universe amazing...bringing you here while us oldies are still around to help you remember, to inspire you, and to give you all of our best love and blessings.
Do not focus too much on the negativity, except to acquaint yourself with it...do not let it overwhelm you. See it, then act in a positive way to change it. Do not be dragged down into it's spiral.
Do not think it is all about numbers, like you (1) against the millions. What it is all about is doing what you can with what comes before you, day by day.
It is making life better for one person, on one day...performing one action that maybe seems to make just a tiny difference on one day...and knowing that it eventually spreads out like a giant ripple to touch everyone.
Your positive energy, your blessings, your actions...expand...and do make a difference. What you think today will still be here in the ethers of the earth plane for millennia to come!
Remember, your point of power is in the present moment. Accept your power, imbue your actions with spiritual energy, compassionate motivations, imagine you are a bright point of light with unlimited power and potential (for surely that is the truth).
Many Bright Blessings of Peace & Love,
Goddess Om

[LaurelBayTree]

thank you for those touching words, goddess. i am 21 and just beginning to experience all this new postive flow within me. my husband, love, my soulmate feels the same and we look forward to passing it on to our children who in turn will be able to stand, holding hands with their brothers and sisters across the world instead of picking up a gun. peace and love sister.

[Goddess Om]

my husband, love, my soulmate feels the same and we look forward to passing it on to our children who in turn will be able to stand, holding hands with their brothers and sisters across the world instead of picking up a gun. peace and love sister.That's beautiful! If only people could understand and embrace the concept of Oneness...then they could not harm anyone or anything, and feel only kinship with one another. I am so happy you plan to share this with your children. They will save the earth.
Bright Blessings to you all...

[LaurelBayTree]

That's beautiful! If only people could understand and embrace the concept of Oneness...then they could not harm anyone or anything, and feel only kinship with one another. I am so happy you plan to share this with your children. They will save the earth.
Bright Blessings to you all...


Thank you sister goddess. I will. I sometimes feel like the others do...I am supposed to be somewhere else. Hubby and I are moving to Asheville in May which from what I heard is a predonimately hippie communal circle, even if capitalism has started invading there. the truthfullness is somewhere. I am hoping to find a place there to settle down and begin a story all my own. Peace and Love sister.

[livingwater]

(Asheville def is cool. I can't wait to visit again.) But about the 60's as a pastlife- I too, have wondered about being there. I think I was and that is why it all came back to me. I was born in '83-and was not raised in an environment that would even promote the attitude I have and hold true today.
I did not get it from my background raising, the majority of my friends or the community I grew up in. There came a time that I began thinking-with all the ideas and more questions than answers...Around that time- I was wandering on one of the downtown streets of my town and saw this cool,bohemian, interesting shop. I desired to go inside and I did. There I met this girl with cascading hair down her back, wearing hippy garments inhaling the incense all around me and observing she had an attractive yet unshaven armpit. I observed her,listened to her thoughts/ ideas and created some of my own. Little by little, I began to feel at home in me.
I was becoming liberated in a gentle, simple yet profound way...And it all seemd so familiar.
There is something about the "hippy" era of the 60's and 70's that is very natrual and real. The "hippy" era is living and thriving for those who identify it within their spirits. Maybe we were there.I feel like I am constantly out of place in society's view. I feel like there is very few of us out here left. The worls is becoming more and more chaotic without a thought about slowing down, relaxing,reflecting and thinking about what really matters. That is what I think when I see how society is and what the world is shaping into and what we have left. But- we do have each other...
If we are from this chosen era-our gift is to carry the torch so it will not go out. Some hippies have changed and sold out along the way, some have died (I.E. Jim Morrison-even though he Lives Eternal),some are still with us...
Peace,Joy & Understanding

[LaurelBayTree]

Is it possible to be reincarnated into the past? Okay we are living in the 21st century, but if you died and were reincarnated would is be possible to be reborn again in like the sixties? I have always been curious about that.

[wildfire]

the first time i started getting in to this hippie lifestlye was when i first saw all the people protesting the war in iraq on tv. it reminded me of all the protests of the sixties and i was just joking around saying that i was going to become a hippie. i didn't really know much what a hippie was so i decided to go to the main site and look it up. and i as i was reading the definition i reallized that this was alot of the beliefs that i have. the quotes about freedom expecially the ones that jim morrison said i identifyed with. so i started reading more stuff on the internet, read some books and am now all most fully saturated in this. growing up in the caribbean i have, i now realize, known a lot of hippies and ex-hippies, mostly friends parents or friends of my parents.

[penguin]

I was at school in the 60's ,and pretty much a full blown hippie.I lived in a commune,had no job and just hung out from middle of '67 onwards.There will never be another time like it.It was a time that changed a lot of people forever.....

[LaurelBayTree]

Let the sun shine in from the past for we are all one!

[Goldilocks]

*

[element7]

Oh man. I was born on MLK day which is now celbrated on Monday, regardless of the real day besides who knows, it's just a day. I'm convinced I was a spider once. I can't bear to see them die. Many people freak out and squish em. Not in my presence, I'll bitch and complain. Long live the barbarians. Grrrrrrr. I love you. Let us weep over flowers in our sight while butterflies make their might in storms.

[Goddess Om]

Anyway, I got to see first-hand young, innocent men dying for a fake cause. The horrifying thing I saw wasn't JUST the dying, yet the insistence from them, their family members, etc...that the Iraq war was worth fighting for for one reason...because if it wasn't, those men would have died in vain.

How terrible a position to be in[/QUOTE]I read an article about how the taking of a life causes psychological trauma for the soldiers. It said that they can sit around joking about how they had one of their own legs blown off, but when you ask them a question about how they killed someone, a dreadful silence and a bowed head is all you get. Fuck. This shouldn't have to happen. And the families try their best to make sense out of the death and think being 'patriotic' will make it all ok.
If your husband is in the navy, that's cool if it is his choice and none of us should judge that. I wish him well and hope he is safe and doesn't have to hurt anyone or anything by doing his job. Let's just to try WAGE PEACE with a passion from now on.

[LaurelBayTree]

those who meditate...remember to meditate on peace...our world needs it now more than ever. by the way it might have been on this forum or some other one where someone suggested bringing back the SDS what do you guys think?

[wildfire]

what's the sds?

[LaurelBayTree]

i forget what it stands for...students something or other....

[newo]

I was born in 1954. Could I be a past-life beatnik? A reincarnation of a beatnik who died in 1953? Was I hanging out in Greenwich Village, playing bongos or a sax, getting high and drinking lots of coffee? Did I protest the Korean War?


Hey, I once grew a goatee!

This would explain a lot!

[purplesage]

SDS = Students for a Democratic Society

[LaurelBayTree]

SDS = Students for a Democratic Society

thanks man! by the way...i dig your screen name. i saw some purple sage herbs at the farmer's market the other day. i plan on going to buy some before the snow comes. peace and love everyone :)

[seda-azul8]

certainly..aye,aye..! Sometimes I get depressed with this generation..I can't believe I actually came here for a life..It must be some pretty damn good reason..'cause never in my right mind or my soul's mind would I pick to come here..But I did..we all pick our lives see..I look like I belong in the 60's..

I think like it..act like it..its so much more,my style..That isnt all I ever think about it,but its always there..in my mind..I mean you could go to hayt ashbury anytime of day..in the 60s and strike up a conversation with someone about any type of philosophy, or any type of anything..free love, free music, free living,free-dom..Freeness..It just grooves there.There is this magic about the 60s..some kind of thing that is indescribeable.
A lot of most things are better there..the music..the blues..Art..
jim morrison,jimi hendrix,janis joplin..

God..what did I do to deserve to live here..in this generation?..
My heart swells to go back there..I yearn..I try to astral project to leave my body and go there,but that doesnt go over so well..

Sometimes I even contemplate suicide.just so I could go back to the 60s..

Someone wanna go with me..lol?

[LaurelBayTree]

Do you guys get depressed sometimes because you feel out of place? I sometimes do...but I try not to let it get me down.

[lucyinthesky]

Do you guys get depressed sometimes because you feel out of place? I sometimes do...but I try not to let it get me down.

deperessed.....yeah....kinda too strong of a word tho. More along the lines of lost.

[LaurelBayTree]

yeah...i know what that is....lost....hubby and i are moving trying to find out what more is out there than here in raleigh...

[Goddess Om]

God..what did I do to deserve to live here..in this generation?..
My heart swells to go back there..I yearn..I try to astral project to leave my body and go there,but that doesnt go over so well..

Sometimes I even contemplate suicide.just so I could go back to the 60s..

Someone wanna go with me..lol?

I would love to go back, even though I was there before. But you guys are the lucky ones, because you get to do it better than we did. You get to learn from our mistakes. You have a tougher, smarter, more deceiptful enemy. But you get to remember, with your soul, the vibe we had back then.
In your minds it is idealised, and that's just how it should be. You are holding up our original vision, and seeing it brighter and clearer than we ever did. Really!
So long as you hold to that vision, you CAN make a difference. It is what we all yearn to do, but we can't scatter all that energy and throw it away by focusing it on the past. It has to be held in the forefront of the Now. It is to be lived today and tonight. It has to be a coming together of like minds, just like we all are here.
Never lose sight of it, because your thoughts and what you imagine in your mind's eye, is CREATIVE ENERGY. What you think about most every day is what you create. It is inescapable. I love you for your commitment to peace and love and the beauty of our Beingness. Many blessings to you all...

[newo]

GOING BACK

By THE BYRDS



I think I'm going back
to the things I learned so well in my youth
I think I'm returnin' to
Those days when I was young enough to know the truth

Now there are no games to only pass the time
No more electric trains, no more trees to climb
But thinking young & growin' older is no sin
And I can play the game of life again

I can recall the time
When I wasn't ashamed to reach out to a freind
Now I think I've got
A lot more than just my toys to lend

Now there's more to do than watch my sailboat glide
And everyday can be a magic carpet ride
A little bit of courage is all we lack
So catch me if you can I'm going back

[inbloom]

deperessed.....yeah....kinda too strong of a word tho. More along the lines of lost.
i'm lost without you. :(

[seda-azul8]

Do you guys get depressed sometimes because you feel out of place? I sometimes do...but I try not to let it get me down.
and well I cant speak for y'all..but I can say that I do get somber and all,cause I don't belong here..And I can see it clearly..none that are like me..reside here..
it's this whole new,vibe thing..And I really dont dig the vibes here..in this whole generation..the 2000's..or whatever..

[seda-azul8]

deperessed.....yeah....kinda too strong of a word tho. More along the lines of lost.
yea..I hear you..all I am is lost..and dazed,really..
when I tell others that the 60s were my previously lifetime..they either laugh at me, condescend me, humor me or blow me off..
and it sucks..and is an utter drag..
why wont no one believe me?.. i think its obvious..that I was there..
and so what if there is no "scientific..technical.. information".. who cares--?
it is so clear and right and sensible to me.. like--solid.. to me..

and I can see it..for you lucy,and ya'll..
so if it makes ya feel any better..I believe you were there too..
even tho i dont really know you..who cares--?..
its still my thoughts goin' out there..and stuff..
so I do..believe..man..

and I ..
I think that everything ended after 1971..

[LaurelBayTree]

I feel happy to know of this thread. This lets us all express our selves and our dreams of a better future. Been feeling out of place again lately...but I turn on some Beatles and Dead and Dylan and more and I am shining with the sun again.

Any of you guys watch the Yellow Submarine?

[flowerchild89]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels that way! i was trying to figure out how to say that i would do anything to live back then without sounding like a weirdo, but you explained how i feel perfectly. ive read stories of people whove gone to woodstock, and theyve said things like "it was more than a concert, it was the bonding of half a million people spiritually, mentally, and physically" and "there can never be anything like it ever again" and i know that's true. I just wish with all my heart I could go back to the 60's, when people wouldn't look at me strangely for not wearing shoes or not brushing my hair. i know there were lots of bad things happening then too, but the pros weigh more than the cons.

[LaurelBayTree]

All we are saying is give peace a chance....

:-)
Hope you all are having a wonderful day. Here is a picture of my kitty. Smile and laugh for he is silly.

[flowerchild89]

Wow...I love this site.
People sound exactly the way I do, it's kind of scary.
About the issue of present day vs. the 60's, I'm kind of divided. While I've cried about the sorry state of affairs in the world today and wished that I could go back, the (small!) practical part of me realizes that that can't happen. So I think that we need to do the best we can of recreating that magnificent time period. I know that it probably can never fully be done, but we can try. So while it's okay to ponder about how different our lives would have been in the different decade, we can't forget about creating the best future that we can.

[redhatter]

It's easy to forget how short a time that really was. I grew up in Austin during the 60s and 70s, and by the time I became a teenager in 1974, that world had already largely passed away. Oh sure, the style had become pervasive, but the substance of the movement to change the world for the better was giving way to an exhausted and fatalistic introspection, a mood captured perfectly by John Lennon:

God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over

Many who did not share in the fight to win new freedoms cynically and self-indulgently abused them, creating an opportunity for reactionary backlash, which came to fruition with the election of Reagan in 1980. How many remember what a crushing blow that was? And now, we have people who want life to be better but can't recognize the difference between the Democrats and Republicans! Well, I don't want to go there... What I do want to say is that it was hard work to create those spaces in the 1960s that were safe for and fostered true creativity and real change for the better. It's great to draw inspiration from the '60s and early '70s - I used to a lot and still do to some extent - but as many others who were there have said on this thread and elsewhere, we who are living now are here for a reason. We are the only ones who can do what needs to be done now. This may not be what many want to be, but I think we are living in a time more akin to the 1930s and 1940s, and we just need to face it that we do not live in easy times (the '60s were not easy either) ; our time is less "fun" than the '60s in many ways, but if we want to create pleasant oases of decency, we are going to simply have to do it ourselves. Walmart and all the rest of the big corporations have their own ideas of utopia, and let me tell you, theirs are what will prevail everywhere if all we do is wax nostalgaic. I know you know that. Let's remember that we are in a conflict, a conflict we didn't ask for, but have to deal with none the less. While most of the nation is hypnotized by the fight against terrorism, a terrorism that was inspired in large part by the foreign policy and culture of Reaganite America and beyond, we could be using every ability we have to try to figure out any way at all to improve this country from within, with the long-term goal of making America an inspiration to the rest of the world and not an object of fear and loathing. We are opposed by the most effective propaganda machine in history. They never stop consolidating power, and thinking of ways to discredit anyone who stands in their way. Their vision for America and the world is a technocratic feudalism. Frankly, there has never been a more honorable fight, and it is a fight that is best fought with the weapons of mind and heart and spirit. That is our destiny, for those brave enough to take it on.

[paulfreespirit]

spirit lives on...........................richie havens.FREEDOM

[Goddess Om]

. We are opposed by the most effective propaganda machine in history. They never stop consolidating power, and thinking of ways to discredit anyone who stands in their way. Their vision for America and the world is a technocratic feudalism. Frankly, there has never been a more honorable fight, and it is a fight that is best fought with the weapons of mind and heart and spirit. That is our destiny, for those brave enough to take it on.
You speak the words of my heart redhatter and I love your spirit.
So many people here feel like giving up, but they really need to be made of stronger, tougher stuff.
I think we can do it, but we have to be so confronting, so charismatic and so unexpected that it will shock people out of their apathy.
We need to be creative!
Remember the first pictures that came out of people who chained themselves to trees etc. We need things that strike the public imagination. We need to brainstorm this.
Hell, people used to stick placards on their bodies saying "the end is nigh"...and then walk around the city. And sure, they may have been 'out there' in more ways than one, but they said what they wanted to say.
Maybe we need to have some "love-ins". Get people together in parks and beside rivers and have people speak from their hearts about the kind of world they want to live in.
Maybe we need a Peace & Love concert, or buskers who sing songs about the environment and raise money for good causes.
Maybe we need random acts of kindness...or small groups chanting for peace in the streets (a'la hare krishnas)...come on you guys...all it needs is one person to start something up, then come back and tell us how it went (so you can inspire the others to do the same). It will be a cool adventure and these little things will build up your courage for the bigger issues.
I wrote the lyrics for a song, but I am not a musician...It's called Silver Mystic and its environmental...but I need someone who can put it to music.
Maybe someone else here can print t-shirts with slogans or peace signs etc. There must be a lot of creativity and intelligence right here amongst us all. I am always happily amazed at the level of intelligence and integrity the young hippies have (although I am an older hippy).
Come on you gorgeous people!

[FreakyJoeMan]

I wish I lived in a time where people walked around kamonos and had samurai swoards.

[Peasento]

But nobody cares anymore. You can't change and influence people if they don't give a damn. My soul aches for a better time.

[purplesage]

Bravo redhatter, well said.

Do you people seriously think it's gonna happen if you wish hard enough? I'd love for that to be so but that's just not gonna happen. I think wishing without doing is just releasing a lot of sad and hot air into the wind. It's sad to read and frustrating.

Here's a thought: Maybe those of you who are just prepared to wish aren't really serious about it after all.

If everyone on this thread who wished it was the 60s joined the Society For Change (http://sage1970.proboards39.com) we can both wish AND be a lot better off. More people are joining up every day. The Society For Change is THE place for wishing - and putting those dreams into reality. Let's do it, goddamn it! You are no longer just a lone voice in the crowd wishing for change... Let's round up everyone into the one place and get something happening!

Reminds me of one of Jim Morrison's songs... "They got the guns but we got the numbers" If we get the numbers we can't fail.

[Morokunda]

I think the exact same thing everyday. I feel so different from a lot of the people I meet these days.

[flowerchild89]

I wish more people cared about each other and the world, and less about money and material things. "If any large group of people desired their own happiness more than the unhappiness of others, that would be paradise."

[HippieFlowerGirl67]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/BeatleParadise/67.jpg
See the girl in the orange shirt looking up at Robby? That's me in a past life.....

[GanjaPrince]

Imagine it is inevitable!

9


now


wow


love!


who?


I don't know anything silly.

We won?

what?

world peace!

when?

NOW!

Love is all


I'm at your feet universe!

[phoenix88]

me and my group of friends...actually pretty much just two of my friends think the same way. we both wish we could live back in 60's. him and a group of my friends get together for sessions and i always pretend its the late 60's. they don't really get into it as much as i do though. one of my friends dad is Tom Shipley from "Brewer and Shipley". I don't know if you've heard of them but one of their famous songs was "One Toke Over the Line". but he's cool to talk to. i get to play with his equipment from back when he recorded his songs. its amazing to think he actually lived through the 60's and was part of a famous band. playing with people like jimi hendirx, and bob dylan.

[urbangal]

That I was born too late; that I should have been born early enough to experience all that has past. I disagree. I was born at just the right time to appreciate all that has past and to bring the lessons, both good and bad and terrible, to the now time so the future is not a repeat of the past.

Yes, I still wish, despite the ugliness against black people, that I had lived the bohemian lifestyle between '65 to 1970. Gone to those great rock shows, played circles, seen the Beatles, or the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors at the Whisky, Jimi rock the center of the Woodstock world. The hardest I think would have been trying to stay clean in a time were psychodelics were considered a must to have a way out mental experience. Right now, it is very easy to just say no as I get high on life. Being here, reading other's messages, playing in drum circles free of any chemical enhancement just blows my brain. Still though, to have drifted though the streets of H&A during the summer of love, drinking in life happenings, experiencing the closeted hatred (yes even that!), connecting with people of all colors while dipping into the cauldron of the dreamtime for spiritual experiences beyond reality.

Part of me feels I had been there, brieftly experiencing life before moving on to this one. Who knows man....who knows.

urby

[Galahad]

I was a youngster in the 60's (Beatles everywhere...) and a young activist in the 70's,

but for all the young people here...remember...:

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven

A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear it’s not too late

[MellowPsychedelia]

You know, As much as living as the 60's would be cool why does it have to end. There is still hippy communities now I am going to do my best to live it up in modern world as a groovy guy.

[Little flower]

my sis can still remember her past life as a cheetah!

[Micha]

I agree with everything yall are saying..

I HATEHATEHATE these times and i'd do anything to go back!
Haha
But really, theres no use in hoping...
I've gadda do the best I can with what I've got...

[Donna]

I agree with everything yall are saying..

I HATEHATEHATE these times and i'd do anything to go back!
Haha
But really, theres no use in hoping...
I've gadda do the best I can with what I've got...
I agree with you...

[ThrftShopSweater]

its a shame to think that a ton of the hippies who were around in the 60s are now corperate dicks... a lot of them once they hit the eighties just lost their sence..

[sleepy_ashes]

I tend to think it's a matter of a lack of sense in their actions in the 60's. Really they acted with a guise of "peace, love and equality" when all they really were was a grouping of people who wanted to partake of the pleasures the hippie lifestyle alloted them. Easy sex, easy drugs, and a sense of belonging. Sadly there is a large tie-dyed and scruffy haired bandwagon that is unrightfully associated with the hippie movement.

[ladymadonna61]

I was a hippie from birth! I was born in 1961, but trust, if I'd have been born in 1951 I'd have done more to fulfill my hippie dreams and desires than I already have.

[GanjaPrince]

THE FREAKING 60s are HERE NOW, JOIN THE PARTY OF ONENESS, OH YEAH, NOW

Hunter S. Thompson is just fucking around, peace and love in las vegas, just playing devil's advocate.

He knows the cosmic joke.

I don't know anything, silly

Do nothing,

Go nowhere

NOW HERE
FUN!

GET IN!

SURRENDER TO THE NOW!

[Faerie]

My mom always tells me i was born in the wrong era... She was to young to be a hippie, not born until 1960..... She tries to tell people she younger than me... she says she 21 and i must be really old cause im wearing clothes from the 60's.

[SpliffVortex]

All this I wish I was in a different time stuff is just a desire for radical ideas in your life. Be a revolutionary like me and take some stands for something you believe in. Don't be afraid to speak out. The government only ha as much control as we give them.Todays world is way more exciting than the 60's ever were just ask someone who was there Peace. i agree but i dont today is more exiciting if you have lots of money ,better built motocross bikes,street bikes, jetski, sport cars etc. but most of this toys are $10.000 to $100.000 most young dont have that kind of money this is were the 60s were superior . even if i had 100 cable channel on my tv back in the late 60s early 70s i would had spent more time out of my house and not watching tv . also your everyday need was much cheaper food was dirt cheap,gas was cheap,you could find an old decent car fairly cheap, citys were smaller traffic was much lighter people were much friendlier most cops were assholes but a joint "pot" weed" did not get you a year in jail like today in most cases either the cop rip it apart or smoked later. in a protest you got your ass beat but then they do the same today if the shove comes to a push. the off springs of the 50s parents "kids" was much larger than today for a few short years what that means is a huge amount of young people were born in the early 50s and mid 50s all growing up in the 60s all at one time .since standard of living was rather cheap having 3 -4 kids was not a problem "mom stay home" food was relative cheap "dad work" by the late 70s parents thought twice about having kids much less 3 or 4 of them. the generation boom came to a stop. only blacks and latins today have lots of kids "most are dumb girls with no brains" but going back to the 60s this made 60s with a large surplus of teens and this was what made the 60s exciting not material things like the late 80s and today are. i dont consider terrorism, lousy music, or the need for a visa or mastercard or a minimum of $200.00 in your pocket to have a little fun exciting. or having the thousands of cops on the streets the FBI,another bunch of other agency not to mention video cameras everywhere as fun. you think woodstock would had been fun if it was done today =NO do you know what it would cost for 3 days of music of real talented bands lets say 14 top metal band , 3 days of food and drinks, then your going to have every cop and every undecover cop they could muster in along with home guard security and they would bust you for anything smoking a joint is bad passing a joint to a minor "17 year old " would get you a life sentence or even label as a pedophile. "for life" i have a fancy computer this day and i had many toys since the early 70s however as more years pass by many of the toys have gotten so expensive they are hard to touch. a young teen still in school or fresh out of school would need a well off parents or a decent pay job to have fun this day since most of the fun comes from material things " todays hippies or the other hippies GANGS is hard to label a gangs as hippies but in many way they are this are a small to large groups of young teens or adults 18+ they party they drink or get stone they have "quote some radical ideas" they steal ,rob,murder ,and fight to death for a city block that dont belong to them anyway "the city owns that" the only thing they have similar to hippies are they are young and stick together however ,stealing ,robing, murder, and forming a elite group remove them as hippies. i hope i made some sense but the way i write is very confusing sometimes, sometimes i dont make any sense at all.

[SpliffVortex]

I was a hippie from birth! I was born in 1961, but trust, if I'd have been born in 1951 I'd have done more to fulfill my hippie dreams and desires than I already have. i feel your pain i was born in 1956 even tho i heard the music going on by the time i was old enough to run around the streets 1971 it was too late i saw a few remaining hippies here around coconut grove in miami they used gather by the park play music "some local band " a few headshops" near by was the hall were jim morrison play and pull is wanker out "well thats what some claim" today miami police well bag you if dont look like you have at least $50.00 in your pocket in that exclusive coconut grove a place for the rich to hang out . but at least i did see great rock bands in early 70s at great prices from alice cooper to quicksilver messenger service at an average of $6.50 for the concert tickets. great bands but less of them did play as late as 1979 after that it got ugly. with the end of the 70s most fairly cheap ways to have fun ended. the economy took a dive ,reagan and his drug wars made it worse. only a few metal bands keept things a bit intresting plus some of the early 80s music , MTV was worth watching if you were lucky to have cable tv. not any more not since the 90s.

[apple seed]

i want to go back but we are all stuck here. :( but i comletly get you.

love and misspelings, apple seed

[Clay]

I agree completely. I know I was part of the 60's revolution in my past life, and I know that together, we can start it up again. Time is but a state of mind, and the Universe constantly proves it.

[Bargain Junki]

I feel the exact same way.
I sure hope I was at Woodstock '69 ;)
You hope you were there- and remeber it? Now why would you hope for something like that, haha. ;)

[meggie4288]

I Know What You Mean, Lots Of Times I Feel Just Like You, However I Think We Need To Look At It Like This We Have Something Good To Look Back At And Deep Down We Are Happyer In Our Souls Than They Ever Will Be!!!!!
Love,
Meggie

[SpliffVortex]

Gather some friends buy some wine or pot, rent or buy and watch the DVD or VHS of the woodstock concert of 1969 film on a big screen tv thats about as close as youR going to get to the woodstock 1969, a nice surround system would be nice ,turn all the room lights off burn some cool smelling candles relax and wacth . dont let the parents in period. unless they pay for the wine cooler or something.

[givepeaceachance]

Hell Yeah! I'm game. I've been feelin the same thing

[Syntax]

It's time for another age of peace, love and flowers... Sometimes I walk down the street and feel it is coming. I can almost see it happening. But it's not! Each day, I get less and less convinced that anything will happen. This time, Babylon won... We may not see anything like the 60's until 2060 :(

Damn, if it just started! I'd take an active part in it, for sure, but I just don't have the initiative to be among the first...

[SpliffVortex]

It's time for another age of peace, love and flowers... Sometimes I walk down the street and feel it is coming. I can almost see it happening. But it's not! Each day, I get less and less convinced that anything will happen. This time, Babylon won... We may not see anything like the 60's until 2060 :(

Damn, if it just started! I'd take an active part in it, for sure, but I just don't have the initiative to be among the first... the goverment is far more powerfull today and with computers your dreams of the 60s are petty far away and the TV brain wash millions into thinking in material things only = good luck.

[peace_on_earth]

hell know babylon wont win. we all just need to reject babylon in our own way. im hitting the road. some people are "ruining" babylon's money, some people are staging massive peace rallys. do whatever to fight against babylon.peace.

[Micha]

I think that if all of us actually were born then, then alot of us would take it for granted.

Like we know now how awesome it would be..
But do you think that you'd actually do everything you say you would now, then?
Like if the 60's and 70's were all we had known...

I mean, definitely not all of us..but some..

I dont mean to be a bummer :(
I'd kill for a time machine right about now..
:)

[Micha]

That's why we needta focus on bringin it back, rather than dwelling on the past! =)

[canadian_boy]

i agree, the same power structure is there, the same shit . This time we just have to try to achieve the revolution. It'll be hard cuz almost everybody is materialist and lame, but we can make it.

I don't wanna live back in the 60's , i just wanna meet the hippies and see what failed so we will be able to achieve the revolution...

[SpliffVortex]

ARTIST: Zager and Evans
TITLE: In the Year 2525


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.


In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.


In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.


In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.


In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh


In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
Guess it's time for the judgment day.


In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh


In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh



Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.


But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.


In the year 3535 {fade}

[smilefriends]

although i am still young, i am very into astral projection, and since the age of 12 have been working on progressing my skills in that area.

i have seen my akashic records, and i have seen some events from my past lives quite clearly while in astral travel.

one of my biggest beliefs before i had this experience is that i felt like i really was from the 60's, and thats where i belong.

seeing that in my past life i was in fact from either the 60's or 70's, that part wasnt very clear to me, was like a dream come true.

everything was just easier, it felt like a huge burden had been lifted from my shoulders as i walked down a random street.

everyone was kind to eachother and everyone else was kind in return.
it was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and i hope from seeing this someone else will try it and have the same luck i have.

peace&love
sean

[tuatara]

in my past life i was born in 1951 ..i hung out with the cool crowd and attended concerts and had loads of fun ..i was anti establishment and ....wait a minute ..i WAS born in 1951..lol.yes those were great times and no not all of us have sold out..still think and act like i did in the 60s ..have matured a bit but chalk that up to experience in life.whatever you look for my friends i hope you find it .............I DID