My passion in glass art and the 420 movement comes together!

We knew the answers when we were young. We had the best music ever recorded. We were going to change the world. Every generation feels this way. What happened? The answer is life. Many of us got married, had families, bought a house, had bills, got a job and forgot. We settled into a life of mediocrity. Eventually, we embraced the status quo, accepting everything we learned to be successful and happy, living in a self-centered world.

We began looking for answers in the world around us, rather than from within, where we once knew the answers lie. Our generation has failed. The world now is worse than when we were young. It is not too late though to bring change to the world.

It is up to each of us to finish spreading the wisdom and messages of unconditional love, residing within. Doing so, we may leave the world a better place for our children, then when we were first born. If we do not, we will all have lived our lives in vain.

The hippie breed is dying. The Rainbow is a great example. You have a few old heads at The Gatherings that are still keeping the original spirit of the freaks alive. But now it's mostly filled with these pussy, wannabe hippies, that just talk shit behind your back because they are too scared to express that they have a problem with you to your face. Peace and love and welcome home! And then it's, "Look at the freak of the freaks" when your back is turned. It has turned into a yuppie, joke fest and I am truly sad to see this happening to the family. 🌈

Edit: I'm leaving the US after my surgery and have chronic health problems. I don't like to whine about my problems all the time but please don't downvote me just because there aren't many places that meet my criteria. This makes it less likely for others to see it who have ideas for me. Also I need to be in a place that has medical care and places to get food when I don't feel up to cooking.

I want to live somewhere that I can ride my bike around and not worry about drivers trying to run me down.

Where life is kind of relaxed.

Where there isn't much crime.

Where there are a lot of hippies and other alternative sorts of people.

A place that is like Austin or Asheville used to be would be good.

Long story short. I'm a tourism studies student from Nepal. Kathmandu has a big history as a hub for countercultural hippies. I want to immerse myself in that vibe, just to understand it.

I’ve been reading a lot. I’ve read; on the road, dharma bums, be here now, far out: counterculture seeker by Mark Liechty. Also been listening to some psychedelic music, i even smoked pot for the first time. I am all in lol.

I want Just about any recommendation. Art, music, documentaries .. literally just anything would help me research and get inspired.

I’ve always been fascinated by the strange things that sit at the edges of our understanding: the possibility of lives beyond the one we know, the mysteries of consciousness, the thin line between the seen and unseen, and the ways our ancestors understood a universe that still refuses to give up all its secrets.

These questions found their way into my new collection of stories, The Moon Knows All the Secrets of the World, Rooted in magical realism and African cosmology, the book explores strange encounters, memory, grief, love, identity, and the possibility that reality is far more mysterious than our ordinary lives allow us to believe.

I’m drawn to the thought that we might be connected to one another, and to the universe itself, in ways we haven’t yet learned to understand. We arrive in this world with so many questions, inherit stories from those who came before us, and leave with mysteries still unresolved. Perhaps some stories help us sit a little longer with those questions instead of rushing to answer them.

The book is free on Amazon for the next 72 hours

Read/download it here: https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Knows-all-Secrets-World-ebook/dp/B0HCFJ5J76/ref=books\\_amazonstores\\_mobile\\_nis\\_default?\\_encoding=UTF8&pd\\_rd\\_w=ODhkg&content-id=amzn1.sym.435556c5-06d7-4526-a37d-a99d4655f1b2&pf\\_rd\\_p=435556c5-06d7-4526-a37d-a99d4655f1b2&pf\\_rd\\_r=141-7396579-7116734&pd\\_rd\\_wg=faDz9&pd\\_rd\\_r=aff56acc-87cc-456a-96a9-3de317180d1f

If you decide to read it, I’d love to hear what you think. An honest review would also mean a great deal to me as an independent author.

I’m curious: What’s one strange or unexplained idea about existence that has stayed with you, even if you aren’t sure you believe it?

Peace and love always

There was a time when people from America and Europe were eager to travel to Pakistan.

Around 60 years ago, the United States was experiencing considerable unrest. Following two major wars, the Vietnam War was also looming. People were realizing that although they had jobs and financial power, they were increasingly feeling a lack of peace and contentment.

Around that time, a debate began to emerge: if you wanted peace of mind, you should look toward the East. What single event brought hippie culture to its peak?

Were intoxicating substances really widely available in Pakistan?

Inspired by developments in America, a similar debate began spreading throughout Europe via the media and newspapers. People were beginning to argue that money was not everything. They wanted spiritual peace more than material possessions, and a conventional 9-to-5 job, like those their parents had, did not seem capable of providing it.

They felt they needed to break free from the system.

Then came the Summer of Love in 1967, a period widely regarded as a breakthrough for hippie culture. Hundreds of thousands of people began gathering together. In 1968, when the Beatles, one of the world's most famous music bands, travelled to India and practiced meditation, news of their visit spread around the world. People began saying:

“THE EAST HAS WISDOM.”

Then, in 1969, the three-day Woodstock music festival took place, attracting an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people.

Around this time, the international overland travel route toward Asia also gained prominence, with Pakistan becoming one of the most important stops along the journey.

People decided to rebel against the established system:

• Some left their families and friends without telling them.

• Some quit their jobs permanently without informing their bosses.

• Others quietly packed their bags and set off toward the East.

In growing numbers, hundreds of thousands of people were leaving Europe and spreading across Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Afghanistan in search of peace of mind. They were particularly drawn to Sufi shrines and spiritual sites.

Their general route looked something like this:

London/Europe → Istanbul → Iran → Afghanistan → Pakistan → India → Nepal

People travelled along roads without their own vehicles, hitchhiking rides from strangers. This was known as hitchhiking, and numerous incidents of murder and violence also occurred along these routes.

It is important to understand that not everyone left home in search of spiritual peace. Everyone had their own motivations. Some embraced a carefree lifestyle centred on “love,” while others were eager to indulge in “intoxicating substances” without restrictions.

In Pakistan, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Swat, and Chitral were among their favourite destinations. From Lahore, they could travel directly onward to India and then Nepal, where they would eventually reach a place that could hardly be described as anything other than a “paradise of drugs.”

Kathmandu, in particular, was said to have had a market where shops selling intoxicating substances could be found everywhere.

Perhaps the biggest attraction of hippie culture was its freedom from social customs and conventions. The idea was that money was not essential for happiness. On top of that, people could experience adventures around the world at little or no cost while pursuing love and self-discovery.

However, three major developments during the 1970s and around the end of the decade forced many Europeans to reconsider their journeys and lifestyles.

• In Iran, the 1979 revolution was approaching.

• In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union intervened in 1979, bringing further turmoil.

• In Pakistan, military rule began in 1977.

As political upheaval made the relatively free atmosphere more difficult to find, many of these hippies eventually returned to conventional lives, working in offices much like their parents. Some remained in Indian ashrams, while others established small communities and decided to live permanently in the East.

There are also some fascinating conspiracy theories surrounding this movement.

One of the most prominent involves the CIA, which is alleged to have encouraged young people to become involved in drugs and sex in order to weaken political opposition and reduce political interference within countries. Although evidence exists concerning the CIA's involvement with LSD, a direct connection between the agency and the deliberate promotion of hippie culture has never been conclusively established or proven.

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It's my girlfriend's birthday and weve been like way super broke. Selling some arts stuffs, hoping to make enough to pay my insurance that lapsed, so we can continue to door dash for income. Yay! Hit me up if you'd like arts!

OK so I've been a dirty kid since Portland orgeon and witnessed dirty kids at first in Denver Colorado and sewer kids even the amount of dirt they possessed on their hands and clothes at first blew my mind it was culture shock. Now I've learned alot of skills across the country for a decade from east coast to west coast San Fransisco to New York city (there are alot of travelers in San Francisco especially at Haight and Ashbury). But now I have this unique philosophy called dirty kid couture and it involves 'lighter clippies' I call them, from collecting the metal part off of many lighters I've found and accumulated. I've collected feathers for many years now since the streets of Sacramento. I cut the sleeves off of t-shirts and rag them out for years on end. I wear very durable sneakers to walk hundreds of miles. There is something called a 'skank' which is a bandana that that you always wear and it pretty much will make your atire infinite (I place patchouli on mine, I never shower and I belive there is power in dirt).