" The early hippies inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between 15 and 25 years old, hippies inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from bohemians and beatniks of the Beat Generation in the late 1950s.

Today Jesus People USA is " one of the largest single-site communes in the United States " and is certainly one of the few communes with such an eclectic cultural mix of hippies, punks, " crusties " and others from various subcultures.

The hippies rented out interior areas to various artists and musicians.

The district has been known for having various social groups, such as Generation X, hippies and more recently, hipsters.

The regiments developed into the Clan's ' standing army ' with uniformed troops ready to swing into battle against the McGillicuddy Serious Party's political opponents ,, The Cambridge Borough Council, and various ' irregular ' pacifist warfare groups such as folkies, nudists, hippies, anarchists, Outward Bound, student clubs and student hostels,.

During the late 1960s, hippies became the largest and most visible countercultural group in the United States.

Along with friends like Waters and Lochary, Milstead began hanging out at " a beatnik bar " in downtown Baltimore named Mardick's, where they would associate with hippies and members of other countercultural groups and smoke marijuana, eventually bonding into what Waters described as " a family of sorts ".

Bohemians, beatniks, hippies, Goths, Punks and Skinheads have continued the ( countercultural ) tradition in the 20th-century West.

Gardner's newly created religion, and many others, took off in the atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s, when the counterculture of the hippies also spawned another period of renewed interest in magic, divination, and other occult practices.

Beginning in San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a new culture of " free love " emerged, with thousands of young people becoming " hippies " who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex as part of ordinary life.

Often depicting drug-crazed hippies living and freaking out in “ Manson family ” style communes, such films as The Hallucination Generation ( 1967 ) and Riot on Sunset Strip ( 1967 ) depicted “ hippie ” youths running wild in an orgy of group sex, drugs, crime and even murder.

The common stereotype on the issues of love and sex had it that the hippies were " promiscuous, having wild sex orgies, seducing innocent teenagers and every manner of sexual perversion.

His mother had an unconventional lifestyle – she was involved with hippies, sex, and drugs.

In a review published in his " Consumer Guide " column, Robert Christgau gave Wild Gift a rare A + rating, writing that " hippies couldn't understand jealousy because they believed in universal love ; punks can't understand it because they believe sex is a doomed reflex of existentially discrete monads.

With this increased attention, hippies found support for their ideals of love and peace but were also criticized for their anti-work, pro-drug, and permissive ethos.

Many embrace the hippie values of peace, love, and community, and hippies may still be found in bohemian enclaves around the world.

He noted that Eliade initially felt apprehensive about the consequences of hippie activism, but that the interests they shared, as well as their advocacy of communalism and free love had made him argue that hippies were " a quasi-religious movement " that was " rediscovering the sacrality of Life ".

Celibate hippies were not critical of others who chose the paths of " free love " and " sexual liberalisation ".

* " Unsheathed " from Live's 1997 album Secret Samadhi contains the chorus " Free love is a world I can't linger too long in / Free love was just another party for the hippies to ruin ", although any specific objections are very unclear.

The musical focuses on the U. S. peace movement, as well as the love relationships among the Tribe members, while the film focuses on the carefree antics of the hippies.

" Small beads on a necklace, especially ones worn by hippies as a symbol of love and peace.

In the USA, the hippies ' big year was 1967, the so-called summer of love.

She attends a mock funeral staged by a large group of hippies, with background music by The Seeds ; the theme of their play is that death is not the end, and that love and a refusal to hurt others are what keep us alive.

This was the atmosphere in which New York City musicians and audiences from the female, homosexual, black, and Latino communities adopted several traits from the hippies and psychedelia.

He regarded his move away from liberal politics as " a totally natural reaction once I began to see undisciplined elements in our country stimulating a breakdown of our system ... Those functionless creatures, the hippies ... just didn't appear out of a vacuum.

David Kaiser of MIT mentioned in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, that the possibilities of instantaneous long-range communication derived from Bell's theorem stirred interest among hippies, psychics, and even the CIA, with the counter-culture playing a critical role in its development toward practical use.

The documentary video " the YX factor " chronicles the transition from mining to skiing and the influx of " hippies " in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the words of local residents and commentators such as Peter Yarrow and Tom Hayden.

One expression of hippie independence from societal norms was found in their standard of dress and grooming, which made hippies instantly recognizable to one another, and served as a visual symbol of their respect for individual rights.

Through their appearance, hippies declared their willingness to question authority, and distanced themselves from the " straight " and " square " ( i. e., conformist ) segments of society.

At the same time, many thoughtful hippies distanced themselves from the very idea that the way a person dresses could be a reliable signal of who he was — especially after outright criminals such as Charles Manson began to adopt superficial hippie characteristics, and also after plainclothes policemen started to " dress like hippies " in order to divide and conquer legitimate members of the counter-culture.

Much hippie clothing was self-made in defiance of corporate culture, and hippies often purchased their clothes from flea markets and second-hand shops.

The degree of political involvement varied widely among hippies, from those who were active in peace demonstrations, to the more anti-authority street theater and demonstrations of the Yippies, the most politically active hippie sub-group.

In New Zealand between 1976 and 1981 tens of thousands of hippies gathered from around the world on large farms around Waihi and Waikino for music and alternatives festivals.

.</ ref > McCleary believes that the hippie counterculture added a significant number of words to the English language by borrowing from the lexicon of the Beat Generation, through the hippies ' shortening of beatnik words and then popularizing their usage.

Life in the commune appears to be hard, with hippies from the city finding it difficult to grow their own crops in a dry climate with poor soil and little rainfall.

She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of " old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the ' 60s, drag queens, Chinese people, and Koreans.

This gathering attracted 80, 000 young people and brought the hippies of the Jesus movement together with young people from traditional Christian families and churches.

They are a threesome of hippies ( hippies were commonly known as " freaks " in 1970s U. S. slang ) from San Francisco: Phineas Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and Freewheelin ' Franklin ( whose surname has not been revealed so far ).

Their moniker derived from a nickname Smith had observed among Mississippi hippies, a name with precedent in the 1920s blues artist Blind Lemon Jefferson and the Cheech and Chong character Blind Melon Chitlin.

" Throughout the late ’ 60s and early ’ 70s, CIDOC was part language school and part free university for intellectual hippies from all over the Americas.

Capp, who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard, satirized campus radicals, militant student political groups and hippies during the Vietnam War protest era.