hippy colonies

HIPPIE COLONIES

Counterculture of the 60s

• Hippies rejected the establishment

• Embraced Eastern philosophies and sexual liberation

• Protested against the Vietnam war

Hippie Communes

• They created places were they could live the ideal hippie life

• Communes-secular

-alternative religions

• Used a modified tribal structure based on the Native American example

• 1960-70-many rural and urban communities were founded, but lasted a short time because of poor planning and execution

DROP CITY

• First rural hippie commune

• 1965-Trinidad, Colorado

• Community of artists

• Founded by Gene Bernofski, JoAnnBernofski, Richard Kallweit, Clark Richert

• Envisioned themselves as a utopian community living within a work of art

HOG FARM

• Longest running hippie commune

• Founded in 1964 by the clown Hugh Romney also known as Wavy Gravy

Wavy Gravy

• Initially located on a hog farm outside Los Angeles, it became a travelling commune

• They were in charge of the security at Woodstock-they were known as the ‘Please Force’

THE FARM

• Founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin

• Was a spiritual leader in San Francisco

• Taught a blend of Eastern religions and Christianity

• Lewis County, Tennessee

• Members took vows of poverty, did not use artificial birth controls, alcohol, tobacco, animal products

• Believed in the holiness of life

• Smoking marijuana was a sacrament

Children of God/The Family

• Was part of the ‘Jesus Movement’, a Christian element within the hippie movement

• The members of the movement were called ‘Jesus freaks’

• Founded in 1968 by David Berg in California

David Berg

• Founded colonies in cities around the world

• Rejected mainstream Christianity

• Had ideas of apocalypticism and revolution against the outside world that they call ‘the System’

• True disciples must drop out and ‘forsake all.’

• Flirty Fishing

• The group’s liberal sexuality led to cases of child abuse