Here are links to various Internet recourses dedicated to the hippie movement:

Hippyland - the largest hippie site on the Net. The site contains a collection of hundreds of counter-culture documents from the 60s, Hippie Quotes, Advice on life, love, philosophy & drugs, Event calendar and etc.

http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/atoz.htm - book about hippies written by Skip Stone

http://www.hipmarket.com/index.php - the site offers a selected range of products from various vendors including Amazon.com, Calendars.com, Allposters.com and others. Here you can find cool hip things!

http://hippiedreamin.tumblr.com/; http://liohness.tumblr.com/;   - pictures!

http://leary.ru/english/ - Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

http://wanderling.tripod.com/castaneda.html - articles about Carlos Castaneda

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hippie - a tutorial “How to Be a Hippie”

http://www.fupa.com/games/1/Hippie.html - Free Online Hippie Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJsEB9Xd3qQ - How to make a quick hippie costume!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_related_to_the_hippie_subculture - films, obviously 

of course, it's just drop in the ocean of information about hippies, but it'd be useful for start :)

CARS

5 cars that Hippies like.

Toyota Prius

http://www.avterra.ru/toyota/prius.html

The Toyota Prius is everybody's favorite hybrid car and we all know that Prius drivers want to save the planet. We also know that they love stuffing their ideals down the throats of other motorists. Keep in mind however that this doesn't change the fact that the Prius is one of the crappiest cars on the road and that most car enthusiasts would rather dip their genitals in boiling vinegar then be seen driving one.

Volkswagen bus

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It’s the original stoner-mobile and has helped generations of pot smokers get their wings. They’re built like a shoebox, painfully slow and ugly as sin, but that doesn’t change the fact that millions of hippies the world over see these little German tubs as the end all, be all of the hippie nation.

Subaru Outback

http://www.ridelust.com/top-5-hippy-cars/

A favorite of the old hippie crowd, the Outback is the car for those who want to seem politically correct in today’s world. It’s well built and versatile with just a hint of rebellion built into it. It’s no VW Bus mind you, but make no mistake, roll the windows up in this baby and you can toke it up with the best of them.

Volkswagen Jetta Diesel Wagon

http://www.ridelust.com/top-5-hippy-cars/

 The Jetta Diesel Wagon is the car of choice for those young urban hipsters who think that driving a diesel will help them save the planet because a marketing team told them so. Sure it’s fuel efficient and will get you looks of praise from old toasted hippies throughout the world, but dear God, enough already.

 Nissan Leaf

http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/nissan-turns-over-a-new-electric-leaf-622574

Say hello to Nissan’s all electric mess of a car. It’s slow, will leave you stranded and at the end of the day, has an electric range of about 6 blocks. The real good hippies out there will tell you its the greatest thing since sliced bread and that we should all be driving electric vehicles. However they always fail to remember that these little suckers came over to the U.S. on boats that dole out more CO2 emissions than the entire state of New York

Source: http://www.ridelust.com/top-5-hippy-cars/

WOODSTOCK

The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture.

http://www.paperblog.fr/4440005/woodstock-3-days-of-peace-music-1970/

Dates: August 15-18, 1969

Location: Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel (outside of White Lake, New York)

Also Known As: Woodstock Music Festival; An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music

The Organizers of Woodstock

The organizers of the Woodstock Festival were four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. The oldest of the four was only 27 years old at the time of the Woodstock Festival.

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The Plan for the Woodstock Festival

Kornfeld and Lang's original proposal was to build a recording studio and a retreat for rock musicians up in Woodstock, New York (where Bob Dylan and other musicians already lived). The idea morphed into creating a two-day rock concert for 50,000 people with the hope that the concert would raise enough money to pay for the studio.

The four young men then got to work on organizing a large music festival. They found a location for the event up in an industrial park in nearby Wallkill, New York.

They printed tickets ($7 for one day, $13 for two days, and $18 for three days), which could be purchased in select stores or via mail order. The men also worked on organizing food, signing musicians, and hiring security.

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Hundreds of Thousands Arrive at the Woodstock Festival

On Wednesday, August 13 (two days before the Festival was to begin), there were already approximately 50,000 people camping near the stage. These early arrivals had walked right through the huge gaps in the fence where the gates had not yet been placed. Since there was no way to get the 50,000 people to leave the area in order to pay for tickets and there was no time to erect the numerous gates to prevent even more people from just walking in, the organizers were forced to make the event a free concert.

This declaration of a free concert had two dire effects. The first of which was that the organizers were going to lose massive amounts of money by putting on this event. The second effect was that as news spread that it was now a free concert, an estimated one million people headed to Bethel, New York. Police had to turn away thousands of cars. It is estimated that about 500,000 people actually made it to the Woodstock Festival.

No one had planned for half a million people. The highways in the area literally became parking lots as people abandoned their cars in the middle of the street and just walked the final distance to the Woodstock Festival. Traffic was so bad that the organizers had to hire helicopters to shuttle the performers from their hotels to the stage.

The Music Starts

http://www.vintag.es/2012/08/woodstock-august-15-18-1969.html

Despite all the organizers' troubles, the Woodstock Festival got started nearly on time. On Friday evening, August 15, Richie Havens got up on stage and officially started the Festival. Sweetwater, Joan Baez, and other folk artists also played Friday night.

The music started up again shortly after noon on Saturday with Quill and continued non-stop until Sunday morning around 9 am. The day of psychedelic bands continued with such musicians as Santana, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and The Who, to name just a few.

It was obvious to everyone that on Sunday, the Woodstock Festival was winding down. Most of the crowd left throughout the day, leaving about 150,000 people on Sunday night. When Jimi Hendrix, the last musician to play at Woodstock, finished his set early on Monday morning, the crowd was down to only 25,000.

Despite the 30-minute lines for water and at least hour-long wait to use a toilet, the Woodstock Festival was a huge success. There were a lot of drugs, a lot of sex and nudity, and a lot of mud (created by the rain).

http://inmaculadadelatorre.over-blog.com/article-woodstock-1969-109155209.html

After the Woodstock Festival

The organizers of Woodstock were dazed at the end of the Festival. They didn't have time to focus on the fact that they had created the most popular music event in history, for they first had to deal with their incredible debt (over $1 million) and the 70 lawsuits that had been filed against them.

To their great relief, the film of the Woodstock Festival turned into a hit movie and the profits from the movie covered a large chunk of the debt from the Festival. By the time that everything was paid off, they were still $100,000 in debt.

Sources:http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/woodstock.htm

MUSIC

Do you believe in rock 'n roll?
Can music save your mortal soul?
Don McLean (American Pie)

One cannot imagine sixties without music. The 60s decade produced some of the best music of all time. Even today it is listened to not only by the 60s generation but by our children and grandchildren. As Hippie movement and revolution in music took place in the same time, these cultural phenomenons influenced each other greatly.

Here we are going to tell you about some famous musicians of that time.

Shamans

The hippies had among them some individuals who can be considered Psychedelic Shamans. These shamans led the way, first by experimenting themselves, then by reporting the results and promoting their realizations in various media. Here brief biographies of the most famous Shamans.

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Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs such as LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university nonetheless because of the public controversy surrounding their research.

Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy such as "turn on, tune in, drop out"; "set and setting"; and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension (SMI²LE), and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977).

During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 29 different prisons worldwide. President Richard Nixononce described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".

In his sixties, he was with no home, no job, no credit and dwindling credibility. He moved to Los-Angeles and started socializing in Hollywood circles, a natural evolution for those attempting to alter perception. He believed that Hollywood and the Internet would be the LSD of the 90’s, empowering people on a massive scale.

His lectures became multi-media extravaganzas with live video and music, entitled “Just Say Know”.  His books became graphic novels, focusing on the World Wide Web. He increased his daily diet to consist of 30 cigarettes, one marijuana biscuit, one bonghit, half a cup of coffee, and a great deal of nitrous oxide.

Dr. Leary died of inoperable prostate cancer, and he’d planned an elaborate death ritual for himself. He’d set up web-cams where fans of his work could watch him commit suicide in real time. Instead he died in his sleep, uttering the last words: “why not”.

Later, his ashes were loaded into the same 9x12 inch canister containing the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and blasted into space on the Pegasus Rocket.  

Sources:

http://www.timothyleary.us/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/24/ken-kesey-magic-trip

Ken Kesey was one of Oregon's most famous, critically acclaimed and controversial authors. His rise to literary and cultural prominence was the product of his distinctive skills and experiences.

Kesey was born on September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado, and in 1946 he and his family moved to Springfield, Oregon. In both high school and at the University of Oregon, Kesey was a champion wrestler. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism in 1957, Kesey attended Stanford University's creative writing program under the tutelage of acclaimed historian, novelist, and short story writer Wallace Stegner. While at Stanford, Kesey participated in U.S. Army experiments involving lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and mescaline. These hallucinogenic experiences would change Kesey's outlook on life and inspire his writings.

He published One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962 and the quintessential Oregon novel Sometimes a Great Notion in 1964. Both novels explore what Kesey saw as the conflict between modern industrial society and individuality, a struggle between conformity and freedom. This struggle was also central to Kesey's personal life, where he turned to psychedelic drugs to find personal liberation.

Considered a founding father of the 1960s counterculture, Kesey promoted drug use as a path to individual freedom. He founded a group known as the Merry Pranksters whowere notorious for their “acid tests”.

In 1965, Kesey's drug use landed him in jail for six months. Upon his release, Kesey moved to a farm near Eugene to raise his family. He would publish a loosely organized memoir of his experiences in 1973's Kesey's Garage Sale. In 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became an Oscar winning film and Kesey briefly worked as a professor of writing at the University of Oregon. He published his third novel, Sailor Song in 1992, and lived in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, until his death on November 10, 2001.

Sources:

http://www.ohs.org/the-oregon-history-project/biographies/Ken-Kesey.cfm

http://nnm.ru/blogs/spiridonn/karlos-kastaneda-castaneda-carlos-sobranie-sochineniy/

Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was a Peruvian-born American author. Immigration records for Carlos Cesar Arana Castaneda indicate that he was born on December 25, 1925 in Cajamarca, Perú. Records show that his surname was given by his mother Susana Castañeda Navoa. His father was Cesar Arana Burungaray. His surname appears with the ñ in many Hispanic dictionaries, even though his famous published works display an anglicised version. He moved to the United States in the early 1950s and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. In 1960 he was married to Margaret Runyan in Tijuana, Mexico. They lived together for only six months, but their divorce was not finalized until 1973. He was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (B.A. 1962; Ph.D. 1973).

Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his purported training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. His 12 books have sold more than 8 million copies in 17 languages. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices, which enable an increased awareness. Academic critics claim the books are works of fiction, citing the books' internal contradictions, discrepancies between the books and anthropological data, alternate sources for Castaneda's detailed knowledge of shamanic practices and lack of corroborating evidence.

Castaneda died on April 27, 1998 in Los Angeles due to complications from hepatocellular cancer. There was no public service, Castaneda was cremated and the ashes were sent to Mexico. It wasn't until nearly two months later, on June 19, 1998, that an obituary entitled A Hushed Death for Mystic Author Carlos Castaneda by staff writer J.R. Moehringer appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

Sources:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8088.Carlos_Castaneda

Hippie philosophy

We are stardust, we are golden, 
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Johny Mitchell/CS&N  (Woodstock)

The Hippie Generation was searching peace, love and community. Rejecting middle class values and the teaching of the generations who had come before them, the hippie movement created a culture of its own, embracing "free love" and beginning the sexual revolution. However, the hippie movement had a darker side as well, encouraging the use of drugs ranging from marijuana to LSD. 

Here we tell you about the main aspects of the hippie philosophy

Anti-War Movement 

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One of the most recognizable aspects of the hippie counterculture was the strong opposition to wars and nuclear weapons. They often participated in peace movements, but never used violent tactics. Hippies carried out teach-ins which explained what was going on in Vietnam, marches which drew as many as 500,000 people at one time, draft card burnings which indicated non-cooperation with the war machine, protests at induction centers where attempts were made to stop people from signing up for the war.

One of the most remarkable moments of the movement was on October 21st, 1967. 100,000 hippies, liberals and others marched peacefully on the Pentagon in an attempt to levitate it. They were met with a human barricade of 2,500 soldiers surrounding the Pentagon. And soon enough, violence erupted when the more radical protestors clashed with US Marshals. The protest lasted for almost three days before order was restored. To further promote their pacifist cause, some placed flowers in the barrels of the soldiers’ guns while others made daisy chains.

Influence from East

http://genesiseightseven.blogspot.ru/2013/02/the-everlasting-man-eastern-philosophic.html

The hippie movement was deeply influenced by Eastern philosophy and religions. Yoga, meditation and vegetarianism became common practices in hippie communities. These were the ways to fight the inner demons which prevent people from being kind to each other. However, hippie rejected some aspects of eastern religions, such us celibacy and social hierarchy.

Sexual Revolution

Make love not war.

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http://sciencenewsinquotes.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/penicillin-not-the-pill-may-have-launched-the-sexual-revolution/

Beat poets and writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs wrote popular books that embraced sensuality and sexual experimentation as an essential ingredient to living life to its fullest.

In America with its conservative, Puritan roots free love became a kind of protest against social standards.

Communal living situations fostered short-lived relationships, and much sexual experimentation. Even the taboo against sex in public was forgotten. In parks, at festivals, in fact almost any hippie gathering was often the occasion for newly formed "couples" to get it on, often in public view. "Free love" meant you could love anyone, anywhere, anytime, without guilt.

In the 1960s different forms of birth control were popularized. This allowed women to have sex, without concern about unintended consquences.

Rejection to Consumerism

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The torn, colorful clothes and the long messy hair and beards worn by adepts were used to express the dissatisfaction with a society completely corrupted by consumerism. The psychedelic colors were a response to the sobriety and formality imposed by the the past generation.

Clothes were self-made as well as hygiene products in order to be eco-friendly and demonstrate that it is possible to live without harming the environment. Since true beauty comes from inside, hippies opposed to the society’s beauty dictatorship as if clothes and cosmetic products could make a person beautiful.

Drugs and Spirituality

If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there.

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In the 60s, drugs were not seen as evil (maybe, except for heroin). Drugs helped people, or at least made them feel better. Colorful fashions, several art movements and of course the incredible outpouring of musical talent in the 1960s was directly due to the impact of psychedelic drugs.

Drugs helped hippies break away from the confines of their mind and the society that mankind has built up around itself, the same one that makes laws, religions, etc. It was like opening the third eye of subconsciousness.

Hippies claimed the idea that society tries to forbid everything that is pleasurable, only because pleasure equals "sin" in most of the organized religions, and drug use was a kind of protest against the social oppression. 

Sources:

http://suite101.com/article/hippie-philosophy--understanding-the-hippie-ideology-a359816

http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=198

http://www.crystalinks.com/hippies.html

http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=223

http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=203

http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/drugs.htm

http://www.ehow.com/about_5375320_history-hippie-movement.html

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/a-brief-history-of-hippies/2

A brief history of hippie movement.

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of men

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

John Lennon ('Imagine')

 Back in the 1960's and 1970's these people were called Hippies. There were drugs, hallucinogens to reach higher awareness, music and Woodstock, a cause to fight for, Vietnam, a spiritual mission, poetry sessions to express pain and emotion, meditations, communes, cults, and more.

http://www.defshepherd.com/2011/05/sexual-revolution-cited-as-cause-of.html

Hippie (often spelled hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain. 

Beatniks were Hippies’ precursors. The Beat movement was a bohemian counter-culture in its own right and included experimentation with drugs and sexual liberties. The Beat writers began in New York, but most of those who were closely associated with the movement moved to San Francisco, where the Beat Generation of the 1950s would become the hippie movement of the 1960s.

Most of people in the movement were young, between the ages of 15 and 25, and it’d be right to say that the movement was that no one older than 30. 

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The hippie movement is connected to young Americans' disillusionment with the Vietnam War. Hippie culture often encouraged dropping out of society because of what it viewed as social wrongs, and the movement was a catalyst for other social movements, including the back-to-the-land movement, environmental movement and the rise of organic farming.

By 1970, much of the hippie style, but little of its substance, had passed into mainstream culture. The media lost interest in the subculture as it went out of fashion with younger people and even became the target of their ridicule with the advent of punk rock. However, many hippies made, and continue to maintain, long-term commitments to the lifestyle.

Neo-Hippies

Neo-hippies are people of 21st c. who claim to believe in the hippie philosophy of 1960s. However, many critics argue, that these "new hippies" are making more of a fashion statement than a counter-culture movement.

How can you understand that a person in front of you is a hippie?

Here the list of Hippies’ distinctive features:

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• Longer hair and fuller beards than current fashion.
• Bright-colored clothing, and unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and non-Western inspired clothing. Much of their clothing was self-made in protest of Western consumer culture. Head scarves and long beaded necklaces, for both men and women, were also fashionable in addition to sandals.
• Listening to certain styles of music; psychedelic rock such as Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, blues such as Janis Joplin, traditional Eastern music, particularly from India, or rock music with eastern influences, soulful funk like Sly and The Family Stone, jam bands like the Grateful Dead and folk Music like Bob Dylan.
• The VW Bus is usually known as the counterculture/hippie symbol; a peace symbol is usually painted where the VW logo would otherwise be seen. Because of its low cost (during the late sixties), it was revered as a utilitarian vehicle. A majority of buses were usually repainted with graphics and/or custom paint jobs. (photo)
• Free love
• Drug use
• Communal living

In the next posts we'll tell you about various aspects of hippie culture and philosophy.

Sources: 
http://www.crystalinks.com/hippies.html

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/a-brief-history-of-hippies

http://www.ehow.com/about_5375320_history-hippie-movement.html

http://www.hippy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=193

Hello, we are Alisa and Tina. We are 19-year old students from Chelyabinsk State University. Honestly, we suppose that our blog is the most emotional, the brightest and the kindest among others, because it dedicates to people who want to live in peace and love, who want to be free and who consider freedom as the greatest value we have. Have you already guess what topic is? Well, we created blog about Flower Children – about Hippie.

As for us, we are not Hippies; we are only interested in them. Why? The answer is quite easy: now there are a lot of violence and crimes in the world, people are becoming more and more wicked and cruel, probably many of us feel the lack of love, support and understanding, but they don’t think about it in everyday’s fuss. But Hippie approach to life can give it to us! They've been against wars, cruelty and everything that beget evil and unhappiness.

Would you like to know more about the life of Hippie? Or maybe do you want to destroy some stereotypes about them? So, you are welcome! Spend only 7 minutes and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Hippie! Perhaps, you would change your mind and world around would be better.

So, what time is it?

It’s Hippie time!