What experience led you to join the "hippie" culture? I can recall my awakening at the tender age of 14 man. I was on a choir trip to NYC and our tour bus driver was this old hippie cat. He actually gave me my first copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and then sent me and the rest of my choir to John Lennon's memorial. I remember hangin' out at the park and seeing a bunch of hippie cats around there. Eventually a group of about 6 of them waved me over and had me follow them into the more secluded area of the park. There they gave me my first joint, had me try some shrooms and then once we were all groovy, one of them came up and told me I was John Lennon reincarnate. Now I know that might sound weird to some but I still hold to that memory even 10 years later man. That is when I found my place in the counterculture.
I don't think I would want to model my life around people who hang out in a park in the middle of the day and provide drugs to children who they just met... but that's just me. Seriously though, that's kind of fucked, isn't it?
Pretty much it was my draft notice- -even though I started rebelling against the system at 15, 16....
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Honestly after gettin' to sit down and talk to a couple of them I came to have a real respect for them. Their moral code was just different than what yours is. So what did he or she do to earn that credit? How so?
My dad is a hippie. My mom has just a little bit of it. My dad runs a school for sustainable living in Maine, farms with Horses, built his own house etc. the things that you had others expose you to and thought were exotic were just a part of my daily life.
Taught the basic concepts, and lived them. Also, she exposed her students to a variety of information sources outside of standard textbooks, such as independent documentary films about environmental pollution. For the next three years after that, I had at least one young teacher from a liberal/hippie college each year, and each one built on the foundation left to her by the others. My 6th grade class had a cool music teacher too; a flower child who taught us Cat Stevens songs. eace:
I got really baked once when I was 18 or 19, took a road trip to Asheville NC, and stumbled across a bunch of dancing hippies. I sat there for like two hours just completely stoned and enthralled with their dancing. I discovered the Grateful Dead a few weeks later and it was all over from there lol
I don't think I've had a physical single experience that's led me to join the Hippie culture. I think it's been more subtle than that. My own interests have led me down that path, more spirtually, artistically and musically. Then I watched a movie featuring a bunch of hippies living in a commune, and I was like amazing, I would love to live like that. I searched on the internet, stumbled across this forum, and then I saw how much I had in common on here, that maybe I'm already a Hippie? I don't think I'm a classical Hippie, I'm not of the age group, I wasn't around when the Hippie culture started. But perhaps we are all the new Hippies? Kind of the descendants (spiritually) of the original hippies. That's just my perspective on it. In the meantime, I try to live true to my beliefs, continually learning and improving how I live, and discovering more about who I truly am, and how I want to be.
