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hensley425
08-07-2009, 03:48 AM
Any ideas on where I should start. I'm really into the ideas and the whole hippie thing but I'm just getting into and I need some help. Any suggestions?

Peace
JoeyPB
08-07-2009, 03:51 AM
Any ideas on where I should start. I'm really into the ideas and the whole hippie thing but I'm just getting into and I need some help. Any suggestions?

Peace

Go camping for a month, and not in an RV or something, go camping deep in the woods or mountains for a month. Bring some friends, some guitars, some weed (or what have you) and maybe listen to some good 60's albums. You'll learn what it's all about after that - not only about being hippie, but a lot of life's lessons.
hensley425
08-07-2009, 04:15 AM
I think I'll try that once I graduate from high school next year. Thanks.
AT98BooBoo
08-07-2009, 04:31 AM
Read up on our history and culture. Start with Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests.

Theres also a book titled Hippies A-Z. Check out Terrence McKenna, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsburg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Jack Keroauc etc Learning and understanding our history will help you understand and appreciate the present.

Check out some Grateful Dead Allman Bros. or some other good jam bands. Listen to the studio recordings then listen to the live recordings....

Go check out some festivals.. see www.jambase.com (http://www.jambase.com)
Kalcupesuluaca
08-07-2009, 04:47 AM
Fall from a very high place
JoeyPB
08-07-2009, 04:49 AM
Fall from a very high place

No, that's getting back to reality. Being a hippie is the ride up.
PeaceInTheStreets
08-07-2009, 05:16 AM
stay true to you. stay open minded. love mother earth
hensley425
08-08-2009, 12:59 AM
Read up on our history and culture. Start with Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests.

Theres also a book titled Hippies A-Z. Check out Terrence McKenna, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsburg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Jack Keroauc etc Learning and understanding our history will help you understand and appreciate the present.

Check out some Grateful Dead Allman Bros. or some other good jam bands. Listen to the studio recordings then listen to the live recordings....

Go check out some festivals.. see www.jambase.com (http://www.jambase.com)

Yeah I've read the book "light my fire" by ray manzarek a few times and he lists a whole bunch of books that people read back than such as "on the road" by jack Kerouac and books like "a coney island of the mind" and books like that. I don't really know where to find books like that other then barnes and nobles but I'm most likely going to get them off the interenet. And I do listen to bands from back in the day like Jefferson airplane and c,s, and n and the doors and stuff so I already have parts like that covered lol