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"I just finished watching this documentary on the History Channel called "Hippie". It was made to introduce things about the Hippie era that most people would no idea about. For example, the Hippie era was actually born in Switzerland?!? We all known that LSD was the starting point for all of the flower children in the Haight, but what you probably didn't know was that it was created by a chemist in Switzerland who mixed a chemicals together and drank a large amount of it as an experiment. When he was riding his bicycle home, he began to experience strange images. The drug was then brought to the US which is mostly looked upon as a negative thing. OK, so people introduced the Make Love, Not War idea and the lets be one with the earth idea. So many people think that the Hippie Era was drugs and music. Now, drugs and music were certainly a big part of it...but there was much more too it such as politics, sex, and the idea of doing wrong. "
"I have to write this in response to your entry about the birth of the Hippie culture. Having lived through it and often reflecting on it I have this to say.The so called Hippie days started way before that bike ride. It roots were many and deep within the psyche and soul of mankind. Among many other things, it was a reaction to the empty and meaningless and scary days of the 1950s after World War 2, with the McCarthy era and the atomic bomb hanging always over our heads and the beatniks and the start of the civil rights struggle and the war in Viet Nam. It is deep in history, going back to the roaring 20s and the Gay 90s and the writings of poets like Walt Whitman and the Transcendentalist like Emerson and Thoreau and the Romantic poets like Byron, Shelly, and Keats to the birth of Romantic love in the royal courts of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. Elenore of Aquitaine and the troubadour helped plant many of the seeds of the sixties. The Sufi mystics and poets like Rumi and Hafiz had their part to play and on and on. That is only the Western roots. Looking East are many others.The people who lived the Hippie days also made it themselves, one life at a time one choice at a time and ended it the same way.
I was invited to a 360 blog today and found a entry he had written for today about the Hippie's.
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My response is after his entry.
The Hippie Culture - Misunderstood by society?
"I just finished watching this documentary on the History Channel called "Hippie". It was made to introduce things about the Hippie era that most people would no idea about. For example, the Hippie era was actually born in Switzerland?!? We all known that LSD was the starting point for all of the flower children in the Haight, but what you probably didn't know was that it was created by a chemist in Switzerland who mixed a chemicals together and drank a large amount of it as an experiment. When he was riding his bicycle home, he began to experience strange images. The drug was then brought to the US which is mostly looked upon as a negative thing. OK, so people introduced the Make Love, Not War idea and the lets be one with the earth idea. So many people think that the Hippie Era was drugs and music. Now, drugs and music were certainly a big part of it...but there was much more too it such as politics, sex, and the idea of doing wrong. "
"I have to write this in response to your entry about the birth of the Hippie culture. Having lived through it and often reflecting on it I have this to say.The so called Hippie days started way before that bike ride. It roots were many and deep within the psyche and soul of mankind. Among many other things, it was a reaction to the empty and meaningless and scary days of the 1950s after World War 2, with the McCarthy era and the atomic bomb hanging always over our heads and the beatniks and the start of the civil rights struggle and the war in Viet Nam. It is deep in history, going back to the roaring 20s and the Gay 90s and the writings of poets like Walt Whitman and the Transcendentalist like Emerson and Thoreau and the Romantic poets like Byron, Shelly, and Keats to the birth of Romantic love in the royal courts of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. Elenore of Aquitaine and the troubadour helped plant many of the seeds of the sixties. The Sufi mystics and poets like Rumi and Hafiz had their part to play and on and on. That is only the Western roots. Looking East are many others.The people who lived the Hippie days also made it themselves, one life at a time one choice at a time and ended it the same way.
Those days are gone, but many seeds were planted then. Indeed, new seeds are still being planted, one life and one choice at a time. And new flowers and times and name are developing even as you read this. LSD and other psychedelics were important factors and Goddess knows, they changed my life. But the restlessness I felt and the transformations that occurred in my and other's lives started way before LSD and other psychedelics became common in the U.S.A.
To those who are reading my Blog, I would like to hear your thoughts about this.
posted by River Gibeaut @ May 14, 2007
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