Altered Mind- Whats your Sign. Comments on Hippie Spirituality
Religion is a sticky subject. Hippies are in touch with their selves, so we feel all those spiritual callings, but we are very suspicious of organized religions and dogma sends us off on a barking rant about the Man (the big patriarch that is putting us down). We are actually scientific in our search for truth and read all the books- Bible to Baglavagita. We don’t like dogma, but we do like really far out sh*t- astral travel to levitation. But when we hear the words “The Lord” It just rubs us the wrong way. Who is this guy floating on a cloud judging us? The God trip just irritates our rebellious urges. Christianity is in our heritage, but it isn’t really a good fit of the hip, so many of us either are atheist (but the we don’t get to go deep) or we turn to a nice unfamiliar religion to get our spiritual high. We got Christian alternatives, Quaker to Universalist- this helps to loosen up the tight envelope but, in the end, we are still stuck with a patriarchal system. We have Hinduism which at least has men and women together, but it is still very traditional rolls and the ultimate god is a man. Many of us go for the Goddess pagan religion which at least has a mother birthing all creation (at least its anatomically correct). It helps us heal the long history of patriarchal domination and it puts the living Earth back into the picture as something to revere. In the overall picture, however, we are still lopsided.
If you really want to journey inside the mind of a hippie, you must walk on the wild side. We like the idea of a conscious universe, but it probably is a hermaphrodite, like the eldest of creatures on this Earth; trees or worms. Magic happens because we allow the conscious reality to speak to us. We notice what some call the omens, but we just like to say the flow. If the flow is happening then it is meant to be, like the conscious universe is talking to us. This is an old concept and it use to be thought of as the Way of the Wyrd (we now call it weird). When something strange happened, it used to be a heads up that destiny is speaking to you, it was the Way of the Wyrd. Now we say Wow man, that was weird, we pause and trip out on what could that mean.
Native American wisdom revives and nourishes a Native European, Native African, Native Latino, pagan wisdom that has been beaten out of us with the Christian dominance. But when we hear the Native Americans speak of The Great Mystery and talking to the plants, animals, and land, it feels so right. Our deeper roots are connected like the aspen trees, if only we can get over our prejudice and a long history of abuse.
Buddhism is spreading rapidly among the hip because it is a philosophy and not a religion. It doesn’t even bring up the god trip, so we can have any god, goddess, or no god. It fits with our scientific mind and also allows us to journey deep into our consciousness. It is being picked up rapidly in the west even though Buddhist do not seek to convert. But many only dabble in it because when your open-minded, there is a lot to choose from.
In the Science realm, it is also getting tripped out. The unified science of Nassim Haramein and the Resonance Science foundation is breaking ground into a quantum, holographic, spirituality that is very exciting. This dude is breaking ground and is unafraid to look at any information, even in old christian text to the creation of the pyramids to the geometry of space, to find answers. He is trying to make it easy for lay people to understand, but you have to put on your thinking cap to really dive in because it is a very rich world we live in.
Hippies like to morph all the religious icons together; yoga- karma- fairies- astrology- Trinity Godess- Star Trek- Gia- Shiva- Osiris- Science- Agnostic- rainbow- Great Spirit-Buddha-cosmic consciousness. But the real root that ties it all together is that if it is based on love, tolerance, and peace, its all right- that is the hippie spirituality, like our cloths, it’s full of color.
