I am not a hippy, but don't hold that against myself.

and some of you young folks wonder why you have not had full hippyness bestowed upon you?

 

8eyedspy does the hippie hippie shake, then spools out gossamer threads covering the the spoor and yanks it all away...best stowed below the soil to make the greenies grow.

Yo CC I need to learn the ways of your kind so's that I can be full fledged 'n' I promise not to go over the edge...I pledge.

spppfffffftt sppspsfffttt ft ffffft fffffffffffffffft!

(8I hangs out in a hammock one of several newly spun, and opens 6 arms invitingly to his hosts)

Its ok really, these are threadbare...no stickum, c'mon and teach me something ole wasabe. I'm more than a wannabe.

8I

 

do you have to look a certain way to be a hippie?
this is why labelling seems useless... and stereotypes have base. just live, love, and be peaceful. label yourself what you want.

although it seems asinine to say that since this is hipforums for hippies. not lifeforums for life-livers.

 

True that oshinn, true that.

Nice to meet you BTW.

8I

 

Well, I believe in all of the hippie aspects, world peace, togetherness..etc. And I have long hair and I wear hippyish clothes like tye-dyed clothing, fringe jackets and the occasional poncho, but does that make me a hippie? Well, I guess I certainly look one, and whenever someone talks to me who isn't one of my close friends, it usually ends with "Man, you're such a fuckin' hippie", or "Wow, you're a hippie, aren't you?" So, I guess to the collective masses, I am..but I don't know if I really feel like one, and sometimes I think i'm just a poser-hippie or a hippie wannabe.

 

hey man watever you feel i dont think hippies should be a classification it should be just you and being okay with whatever be you man just be you

 

Hmm.. I like to keep all my options as open as possible, so I am just a part-time-hippie perhaps, but not with all my heart. There is lots of wisdom and good, clear thinking and feeling and great deeper understanding and perception about the reality, about humans, about a good way to live in the hippie philosophies and ideologies, so this is very attractive to my spirit. Yet, I feel I am still something more.. as if the hippies simply found their way of manifesting something larger which I feel I am intimately part of. So .. many people classify, categorize and label me as a hippie - which I always thank them for because I take it as a positive thing (although I am totally aware that they mean it in the negative sense).. but I just don't want to limit myself and my options to 'mere' hippism.

Also, there are a few alienating factors about hippies and hippism that do not fit my view of what is right. For example the whole drug-aspect -- now, I think it would perhaps be better if all drugs were free. There would not be any of the criminal activity needed then, or drug-related other side effects of the sort. I mean, if someone wants to put something in his body, whyever would someone else (like the law or the police) have any right or authority to prevent it from happening?

Life is all about experience and learning .. how can you ever learn anything if everything you can learn from is prohibited and punished from?

One theory is that I might have already tried so many drugs in some previous incarnations that I have no need to 'experiment' that way anymore. Those things simply do not appeal to me anymore.

It was said: "Drugs are a forbidden fruit that a wise person will not touch/take" .. and to me there is wisdom in that thinking/sentence.

Drugs can open doors and expand consciousness, but it has it's side effects. The aura can become 'crippled' and full of 'holes' which can let unwanted forces in .. or 'leak' the energy out. They can cause physiological trauma, damage, etc.. They are really something that would need a lot of wisdom and a teacher-supervisor for them to be totally safe to use. This teacher could then tell when is appropriate time to take them, he would control the amount, he would explain and educate on how to control all possible dangers and side effects etc.. and there would always be a goal for it (like getting some lesson learned that could otherwise not be learned, or at least not so fast). Well, maybe that's my ideal way that I would have no problem with it at all.

In the 60's, it has been said, that the youth were more patient and calm about it, they didn't rush to overdose immediately like today's youth. People today seem to be totally out of control, and just looking for a quick fix or a quick rush, a quick escape from the dull everyday life.. but the price they pay may just be too high.

Still, I think everyone should be able to make their own decisions about this sort of thing, as long as the possible harm would only reach themselves and not expand to others. If someone wants to take a damaging pill and lay on the bed totally spaced out, so be it as far as I am concerned.

But I must add one more quote here.. "Drugs can open ports, but behind those ports lurk also the dragons of evil" ...

Tripping without protection can be damaging to psyche..

- Vortac

p.s. I mean, just think about a situation in which you are torn off of your body, some of your energy systems are 'burned' by too early aroused kundalini for example, and you are unable to fully return, but unable to fully live outside the body either.. you would be alien to both worlds, unable to totally understand or live in either one... Let's just say I wouldn't want this to happen to my best friend..

 

Hmm, to continue my rambles ... another aspect is the 'free balling'-practice of the 60's hippies...

Now, of course if there is lots of love and people are emotionally balanced and all that, and everyone who takes part in this kind of stuff is an adult, and freely participates - I mean, that nobody is forced into anything - then of course I would have no objections to people doing it in general.

But these days there are lots of diseases spreading around .. who knows if there are even new diseases, just not yet found, but already spreading?

And also, I am such a person that personally I couldn't do it ... of course that might be just my problem, so to say .....

Then there is the thing that with this kind of enthusiasm to such activities, concentrating on them so much might kind of lead away from a truly spiritual path, concentrating more and more on the lust and less and less on the love and evolving as spiritual beings. There is always the danger of it becoming just another drug .. have to get another dose.. forget everything else, this is so exciting and great, etc... so it might soon become wild animalistic neverending sex-orgy which would inevitably lower the consciousness closer to the animal level and thus making sure it would continue with more lust and less love etc..

Again this is a double-edged sword; with balanced enough adults which have their lust under control (are there such people on this planet still? ) this could be just refreshing intimate freedom between great friends and loved ones without limitations of just one pair-thinking.

But I feel that one companion is problem enough, several would just drive me tearing hair off my head, hehe. Hmm, it seems to be a kind of difficult issue, and I do have some mixed feelings about it, but I hope I managed to convey the general ideas about what I think does not totally fit in my worldview about the hippie-culture and why I would feel it perhaps not totally right or a bit hypocrite to call myself - or categorize myself - as a hippie ..

I could categorize myself with so many words, all have a very insulting meaning in today's society, heh ... but that's perhaps time for another bedtime story.

- Vortac