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Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s to mid 1970s teenager and youth culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička). [15] Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects ...
Lonnie Ray Frisbee (June 6, 1949 – March 12, 1993) was an American Charismatic evangelist in the late 1960s and in the 1970s; he was a self-described "seeing prophet". [1] [2] He was known for his hippie appearance.
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
Many hippies rejected mainstream organized religion in favor of a more personal spiritual experience, often drawing on indigenous and folk beliefs. If they adhered to mainstream faiths, hippies were likely to embrace Buddhism , Daoism , Unitarian Universalism and the restorationist Christianity of the Jesus Movement .
He published a pamphlet in 1967 called Start Your Own Religion to encourage people to do so. [64] Leary in 1989. Leary was invited to attend the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In by Michael Bowen, the primary organizer of the event, [95] a gathering of 30,000 hippies in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
1.1 Hippie movement as a new religion. 1.2 Psychedelic drug use as direct religious experience. 1.3 Unconventional syncretic approach. 1.4 Religious leaders.
Young, Shawn David. "From Hippies to Jesus Freaks: Christian Radicalism in Chicago's Inner-City." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Vol 22(2) Summer 2010. Young, Shawn David (2015). Gray Sabbath: Jesus People USA, the Evangelical Left, and the Evolution of Christian Rock. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231172394
Kerista was founded by John Presmont after an auditory hallucination telling him that he was the founder of the next great religion of the world. After time spent in New York in the 1950s, and several island experiments in Dominica , Honduras , and Belize in the 1960s, Jud settled in San Francisco at the end of the 1960s.