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All You
Need Is Love!

from: beatles.murashev.com
Beatniks,
hipsters and hippies are a form of an American style
bohemian subculture. And the bohemian subculture is
deeply rooted in centuries old liberal European artistic
scene. But what made the hippies different from all the
other groups was that they demonstrated against US
Government's policies in the nineteen-sixties, and
brought about many social-political changes in their
homeland and the world. Hippies also questioned many
popular values and beliefs. They professed ideas of peace,
love, pacifism, ecology, civil rights, gay rights and
more. Hippies had followers allover the world in just a
few years. Hence, in America the tern "hippy"
or "hippie" became a synonym for "a social
reformer" and also a "user of soft, psychedelic
drugs". However, few are aware of the great role The
Beatles played in the initiation, popularization and
globalization of the hippie movement and ideas. That's
why I decided to build this page dedicated entirely to
them.
It
was also The Beatles' first coincidental interest in two
Yoga teachers from India (Maharishi Yogi and Prabhupada)
that made those two teachers probably the best known
Hindu Gurus in the world today. Later, Paul and George
also finished Yoga Teachers training courses and did a
lot of teaching through their own music. Guess, in a way
The Beatles were like four Gods (Sans.: Anthakarana) who
came to the rescue of the world (and The Stones were like
the five sense organs). And in a way, Haight Ashbury [Hashberry],
Chicago's Old Town, NY's Greenwich Village and other 60's
hippie Meccas will be remembered as a kind of sacred
grounds by many of us. Oh, and lets not forget the
Monterey Music Festival that got the hippie movement off
the ground and the things that followed were probably
initiated there and then. It probably marks the dawn of
the hippie movement at its Golden Age. The time of the
Summer of Love Festival was like a great holiday for many
hippies and especially for me because on the First of
January of 1968 I turned sixteen. And as you may know,
when one's sixteen there's love in the air and everything's
beautiful in its own way even though, as Barry McGuire
used to sing, it may be "the eve of destruction"
or a kind of transformation from one state of being to
another. Guess, that's why they call it sweet sixteen.
So in a way, the Summer of Love vibration was in harmony
with my life vibration. After that in mid-August 1969
followed the Woodstock Festival, which was also one of
the most important historical hippie events that perhaps
also marks the Autumn of the Movement. The events that
followed Woodstock brought about rapid changes and an end
to the Vietnam War. Between these important events there
were also many other less remembered ones. There were
many happenings, be-ins, folk music festivals, concerts,
coffee houses where hippies gathered and in many parks
and on many campuses where there were long haired boys,
some music, a sense of brotherly love and a smell of
incense in the air... was a time and a place of a hippie
festival/ holiday.
But now, let's get real for a minute... whether this new age will be a better one or not does not depend on the stars, the position of the planets or anything else like that, as some may believe. It will depend mainly on all of us; on what we believe in, what we stand up for (before it's too late), and how we stand up for what we believe in. Sooo, Flower Children, have hope and keep the faith, and may the groove (the force) be with you always. |

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