(sometimes spelled "hippy") refers to a member of a subgroup of the and the American Civil Rights Movement , are considered the three dissenting groups of the 1960s Counterculture .
Originally, hippies were part of a ' song " All You Need Is Love ".1 They perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture " The Establishment ", " Big Brother ", or " The Man "..Theme appears in contemporaneous interviews throughout Yablonsky (1968). McCleary, 2004, pp. 50, 166, 323 Noting that they were "seekers of meaning and value," scholars like Timothy Miller describe hippies as a New Religious Movement .. Timothy Miller notes that the counterculture was a "movement of seekers of meaning and value...the historic quest of any religion." Miller quotes Harvey Cox , William C. Shepard, Jefferson Poland , and Ralph J. Gleason in support of the view of the hippie movement as a new religion. See also Wes Nisker's ''The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom'': "At its core, however, hippie was a spiritual phenomenon, a big, unfocused, revival meeting." Nisker cites the ''San Francisco Oracle'', which described the Human Be-In as a "spiritual revolution".
On the West Coast Of The United States , Ken Kesey was an important figure in promoting the recreational use of psychotropic drugs, especially LSD, also known as "acid." By holding what he called " Acid Tests ," and touring the country with his band of Merry Pranksters , Kesey became a magnet for media attention that drew many young people to the fledgling movement. The Grateful Dead played some of their first shows at the Acid Tests, often as high on LSD as their audiences. Kesey and the Pranksters had a "vision of turning on the world."
Harder drugs, such as Amphetamines and the Opiates , were also used in hippie settings; however, these drugs were disdained, even among those who used them, because they were recognized as harmful and addictive.. Heroin , for example, was banned from the Stonehenge Free Festival .
See Also: Hippie trail
Many Hippies traveled light and could pick up and go wherever the action was at any time; whether at a "love-in" on Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco, a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Berkeley, a party at Ken Kesey 's "Acid Tests", or if the "vibe" wasn't right and a change of scene was desired, hippies were mobile at a moment's notice. Pre-planning was eschewed as hippies were happy to put a few clothes in a backpack, stick out their thumbs and hitchhike anywhere. Hippies seldom worried whether they had money, hotel reservations or any of the other standard accoutrements of travel. Hippie households welcomed overnight guests on an impromptu basis, and the reciprocal nature of the lifestyle permitted freedom of movement. People generally cooperated to meet each other's needs in ways that became less common after the early 1970s. This way of life is still seen among the Rainbow Family groups, New Age Travellers and New Zealand's Housetruckers .http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/misctruk/gypsytrk.htm
A derivative of this free-flow style of travel were hippie trucks and buses, hand-crafted mobile houses built on truck or bus chassis to facilitate a nomadic lifestyle. Some of these mobile gypsy houses were quite elaborate with beds, toilets, showers and cooking facilities.
On the West Coast, a unique lifestyle developed around the Renaissance Faire s that Phyllis and Ron Patterson first organized in 1963. During the summer and fall months, entire families traveled together in their trucks and buses, parked at Renaissance Pleasure Faire sites in Southern and Northern California, worked their crafts during the week, and donned Elizabethan costume for weekend performances and to attend booths where handmade goods were sold to the public.
The sheer number of young people living at the time made for unprecedented travel opportunities to special happenings. The peak experience of this type was the Woodstock Festival near Bethel, New York , from August 15 to 19, 1969, which drew over 500,000 people.
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