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MATERIALISM THE 60S AND THE HIPPIES I WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO TRAVELED THE LAND IN THE THE 6O'S LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT AND ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE TO LIVE WITH. AS WITH ALL CULTURES, THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT HAD ITS VERY OWN OFFSHOOTS. FREE LOVE WAS NOT A BELIEF OF THE "HIPPIE MOVEMENT. " IT WAS A CREATION OF THE MEDIA. TUNE IN/TURN ON/DROP OUT WAS A CREATION OF TIMOTHY LEARY AND THE MEDIA, NOT A "TRUTH" OF THE HIPPIE ERA. THERE ARE "MILLIONS" OF REFERENCES TO THE HIPPIE CULTURE BUT IF YOU BELIEVE IN THIS WORD, I HIGHLY SUGGEST A PICTURE BOOK, TAKEN AND PUBLISHED BY A HIPPIE BY THE NAME OF LISA LAW AND PUBLISHED BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO. IN VIEWING THIS BOOK, PERHAPS YOU MIGHT GET THE VISION OF THE SIMPLICITY AND LOVING OF THE MOVEMENT. AS THE MEDIA PERHAPS MIS-REPRESENTED ACCURATELY, THE THEME OF SOME HIPS MAS " MAKE LOVE. NOT WAR." IT IS ASCRIBED TO THE HIPS THAT THEY BELIEVED IN THIS. WHAT THE HIPPIES ACTUALLY BELIEVED IN WAS THAT KILLING ASIANS FOR A VAGUE CAUSE MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE: AND NlXON DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE MOVEMENT. FOR THAT MATTER AMERICA AS A WHOLE DID NOT BELIEVE. AS WAS IN THE GRASSROOTS OF AMERICA, THERE EXISTED DURING VIETNAM A GROUP OF SO CALLED CHRISTIANS WHO FELT THAT COMMUNISM WAS THE ANTICHRIST OR AT LEAST AN AGENT OF AN ANTICHRIST. THIS GROUP WAS A MAJOR MATERIALIST ORGANIZATION COMPRISED OF WHAT MANY MIGHT CALL MAINSTREAM RELIGION INCLUDING BlLLY GRAHAM, WHO STOOD BY NlXON TILL THE END AND THEN SHORTLY THEREAFTER DISAPPEARED. FOR YOUR INFORMATION BlLLY GRAHAM is NOW A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF BUSH SR (THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF OUR WAR MACHINE). THE CHRISTIAN PART OF THE WAR MACHINE FELT THAT THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT WAS AN ANTICHRIST UNTO ITSELF AND IN ORDER TO DISCREDIT THE HIPS, THEY USED THE VERY SAME ANTICHRIST MEDIA TO DO THEIR DIRTY DEEDS BY PLAYING ON THE MINDS OF OF THE POORLY EDUCATED RURAL BAPTISTS ETAL. THESE INNOCENT FOLK BELIEVED THAT HIPPIES WERE NOTHING BUT DRUG PEDDLING, FREE LOVE, HINDUS WHO WERE DESTINED TO HELL. NOTHING COULD HAVE BEEN FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THESE YOUNG INDUSTRIOUS WELL EDUCATED PEOPLE LED A NATION INTO UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS WRONG TO KILL FOR MATERIAL AMERICAN GAINS. AFTER THE STUNNING VICTORY OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT, COMBINED WITH A SMATTERING OF LIBERAL POLITICS IT BECAME NEUROTICALLY EVIDENT TO THE "QUASI" CHRISTIAN RIGHT THEY MUST FOREVER LAY THIS HIP GROUP TO REST, LEST THEY TAKE OVER. THIS THEY DID WITH A RATHER INEPT BUT WELL FUNDED GROUP OF CHRISTIAN ELITISTS. FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, HIPPIES BECAME "HINDUS" AND "EASTERN" MEDIATORS, INTERESTED ONLY IN FREE LOVE DRUGS ROCK AND ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. WHY THE MEDIA PICKED UP ON THIS RIGHT WING MANEUVER IS UNCLEAR BUT IT DID BECOME VERY POPULAR IN AN EMBARRASSED US WHO WAS FORCED TO REMOVE ITSELF FROM VIETNAM IN DISGRACE. HIPPIES AND THE NEW AGE THERE HAS BEEN AN ELITIST GROUP FOLLOWING THE TRUE SPIRIT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. CONSTANTINE, AFTER CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY; AFTER WINNING A WAR OF KILLING THROUGH "SIGNS FROM GOD" AND AFTER BOILING ONE OF HIS WIVES TO DEATH WAS A USER OF CHRIST AND WHAT HAS EVOLVED FROM HIM AND THROUGH THOSE LIKE CONSTANTINE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD RUIN THE SIMPLICITY, LOVE AND SPIRIT OF THE MESSAGE OF JESUS. WHAT DOES THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT HAVE TO DO WITH THE MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN GROUPS OF THE 80's AND 90's? THIS DEPENDS ON WHOM ONE is CALLING MAINSTREAM. THERE ARE SCORES OF DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS. PERHAPS IT WOULD BE BETTER TO LIST SOME AND GET AN IDEA OF HOW THEY BELIEVE....... BAPTISTS MAKE UP A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE WHO PERCEIVE OF THE BIBLE AS TRUTH AND DO NOT QUESTION FOR FEAR OF IMMEDIATE DAMNATION. FEW BAPTISTS ARE CONSIDERED HIPPIE. CATHOLIC ARE THE LARGEST FREE THINKING RELIGION IN THE WORLD. THE WORD CATHOLIC MEANS "UNIVERSAL". SOME MODERN DAY CATHOLICS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO PRACTICE WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED PAGAN SUCH AS TAOISM, WHICH IS NOT A RELIGION BUT A PHILOSOPHY WHICH NEITHER CONDEMNS RELIGION NOR GLORIFIES IT. MANY HIPS CAME FROM THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY. JEWS HAVE BEEN HERE EITHER FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME OR FROM 1800 BC DEPENDING ON WHO WE LISTEN TO. TALMUDIC REASONING SUGGESTS THAT THE HIP MOVEMENT HAD ITS ROOTS IN THE JEWS WHO ARE NOT REPRESSIVE OF MINORITIES (WITH EXCEPTIONS) THROUGH MEMORY AND ACCEPTING OF RADICAL BELIEFS. ALL OF THESE ARE THE ARCH-ENEMY OR AMERICAN RELIGIOUS/CHRISTIAN ZEALOTS WHO STILL BELIEVE THAT THE JEWS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING CHRIST. THIS IS NOT IN LINE WITH CHRISTIAN FORGIVENESS. A CERTAIN UNNAMED GROUP OF CHRISTIANS HAS DECIDED THAT THE BEST WAY TO FIGHT THE ANTl-SPIRIT AS "THEY" SEE IT IS TO CALL A GROUP OF MOVEMENTS..../! CONSPIRACY! THIS IS CLOAKED IN WHAT THIS GROUP CALLS NEW AGE AND IS SOMEWHAT ALL-INCLUSIVE. A WHOLE ISSUE OF BEING HERE MAY BE EVENTUALLY DEDICATED TO THE FACT THAT NEW AGE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A CONCOCTION BY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT TO CONTINUE RATIONALIZING THEIR OWN MATERIALISM. WHAT THE HIPPIES REALLY STOOD FOR/ AND AGAINST! "HIPPIEDOM" STOOD FOR THE COMMON MAN. IN THE DEATH OF THE "BEAT" ERA OF THE 50'S CAME A SMALL BUT ELITE GROUP OF PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS. THERE WERE THOSE WHO HAD EXPERTISE IN PHILOSOPHY AND COMPASSION FOR A TRUE KINDER AND GENTLE WORLD. THEY WORE THEIR CHAMBRAY SHIRTS AND LEVI PANTS AND THEY STOOD FOR SOCIALISM AND RADICAL CHANGE, RATHER THAN HUGE CORPORATE MAJORITIES AND MONOPOLIES, WHOSE TRUE VESTED INTEREST WAS IN WEAPONS OF WAR AND ALL THE TENTACLES ATTACHED THERE FROM. IN THE EARLY 60'S IT TOOK A PERSON OF GENUINE INTUITION AND THE ABILITY TO ASSIGN THE FUTURE SHIFTS OF THE WORLD THROUGH LOGICAL PROGRESSION. I ONCE KNEW OF SUCH A MAN BY THE NAME OF RALPH POPLAR. THEN 36 YEARS OLD. RALPH WAS ENROLLED IN CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ONE OF THE FIRST AND FOREMOST JR. COLLEGES IN AMERICA. WHILE THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS IN 1964 WERE 100% BEHIND THE PRESIDENT IN MATTERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, RALPH STOOD UP AND QUESTIONED THE AUTHORITY BY WHICH AMERICA KILLED SE ASIANS. FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS RALPH WAS BOOED AND HISSED, BUT A SLOW, SURE CHANGE OCCURRED IN 1965. SOUND MINDED STUDENTS STARTED TAKING RALPH'S WORDS AND THINKING THEM THROUGH TO A LOGICAL CONCLUSION. THEN A REMARKABLE TURN OF EVENTS OCCURRED. MANY FELLOW STUDENTS RALLIED BEHIND RALPH, BURNING THEIR DRAFT CARDS, HANDING OUT ANTI-WAR PAMPHLETS AND INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA WERE FOOLING THEM AND KILLING THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. NOT ALL HIPPIES ARE RALPH POPLARS. EACH SUB-CULTURE HAS ITS OWN PHILOSOPHICAL MIXTURE. TO BE SURE THERE WERE THE CHARLES MANSON'S BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THEIR WAS AN ORGANIZED CADRE OF PEOPLE WHO WERE INTERESTED IN PRESERVING EARTH FROM THE PERILS OF WAR AND THE RAPE OF MATERIALISM. THIS THEY DID THROUGH ECOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS. IT IS/WAS WITH GREAT PRIDE THAT THIS ONE GROUP OF AMERICANS WAS CREDITED WITH THE END OF THE KILLING IN SE ASIA AND TODAY MANY ARE STILL ALIVE IN THE MOVEMENT TO SAVE EARTH FROM THE SUPER RICH WHO RECEIVED THEIR MAKE FROM THE CARBON GROUP. THE RAPE OF ALASKA AS WE ALL KNOW ALASKA HAS PAID A HIGH PRICE FOR THE EXPLORATION AND CONSUMPTION OF HYDROCARBON PETROLEUM. THIS WAS DONE AT THE EXPENSE OF MANY FORMS OF WILDLIFE IN THE NORTHERN LATITUDES. THIS WAS DONE IN FULL KNOWLEDGE OF EXECUTIVES OF MATERIALISM WHO BELIEVED IN MONEY MORE THAN THE SANCTITY OF GOD GIVEN LIFE-FORMS OR THE EARTH THAT SUPPORTS THEM AND OURSELVES. THIS WAS DONE IN THE NAME OF THE EVIL MONEY CHANGER HIMSELF. CARBON/THE EVIL ONE 666. ROCKEFELLER, A MARRIED MAN WHO INVESTED HEAVILY IN OIL, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK PRODUCED BY SEXUAL EXCITEMENT WHILE ON TOP OF A WOMAN MHO WAS NOT HIS LIFE. THIS TYPE OF MORAL TURPITUDE IS RAMPANT AMONG THE CARBON-BASED POWER BROKERS. WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IN THEM? FORSAKE MATERIALISM/CAPITALISM AND THE WORSHIP OF SAME THROUGH PETROLEUM BY ACKNOWLEDGING A NEW WAY OF LIFE THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT! THERE ARE THOSE IN POWER WHO WISH TO SHAPE THE WAY YOU THINK. THIS THEY DO THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA WHICH IS THE MAIN ARM OF ALL POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. AMERICA AND THE WORLD IS BEING DUPED BY THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE ALL THE PROCEEDS. THERE IS NO NEW AGE MOVEMENT! IN THE LATE 1800'S A RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHER BY THE NAME OF MADAME BLAVETSKY. WENT FROM Moscow TO THE ANCIENT VEDIC AND HINDU MOUNTAIN RETREATS TO EXAMINE SCRIPTURES WHICH WERE WRITTEN FROM 2000 YEARS BC BUT HAD NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE BY A NON-VEDIC. WHAT BLAVETSKY FOUND WAS TRULY INTERESTING IN NATURE. SHE FOUND THAT MAN HAD DISCOVERED CERTAIN AD RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS, THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST. THIS WAS NOT UNUSUAL HOWEVER, AS THE PRE-CHRISTIAN JEWS HAD THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH WAS MORAL IN CONTENT. DURING THE DAYS OF CONSTANTINE THERE EXISTED HUNDREDS OF OFFSHOOTS OF CHRISTIANITY. CONSTANTINE FELT THAT THESE GROUPS WERE DANGEROUS IN SOME WAY TO HIS ULTIMATE RULE OF VAST AMOUNTS OF AREA, SO HE HELD A COUNCIL IN ROME THAT WOULD BEGIN THE ROLE OF ABOLISHING ALL THOSE RELIGIOUS GROUPS THAT DID NOT SIGN ON WITH HIS BELIEFS. THIS IS ANALOGOUS TO THE BLAVETSKY MOVEMENT. CONSTANTINE, WHO WAS BELIEVABLY CORRUPT, USED ARM BENDING TACTICS TO THOSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO CAME TO THE COUNCIL, TO SIGN HIS DECREES. AFTER RETURNING TO THEIR RESPECTIVE TOWNS AND COUNTRIES, MANY OF THESE RELIGIOUS LEADERS RECANTED WHAT THEY HAD DONE WHILE UNDER CONSTANTINE'S THUMB. WHILE CONSTANTINE WAS NOT A WRITER, MADAME BLAVETSKY WROTE SEVERAL BOOKS ON HER INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ANCIENT VEDIC TEXTS. IN THESE BOOKS SHE LOOSELY TIED IN SOME CHRISTIAN CONCEPTS. IF ANYTHING, SHE WAS GUILTY OF A GOOD AMOUNT OF ARTISTIC LICENSE, HOWEVER SHE GILDED THESE INTERPRETATIONS WITH SMATTERINGS OF SCIENCE FICTION. AS YEARS PAST BY FROM BLAVETSKYS WRITINGS, OTHERS WHO WERE SEARCHING FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE READ HER BOOKS. THEY THEN INTERPRETED BLAVETSKYS BOOKS IN TERMS OF THE PRESENT TIMES. THERE ARE DOZENS OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS WHO HAVE NO TIES WITH EACH OTHER. THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT is RUN BY ELIZABETH CLARE PROPHET. THROUGH THEIR PUBLISHING HOUSE, THEY HAVE ADOPTED MANY HINDU THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS ALONG WITH BLAVETSKY DISCOVERIES INTO A MILLENNIUM OF BOOKS. THESE INCLUDE METHODS OF CHANNELING THROUGH "ST. GERMAIN. ". A PERSON WHOM PROPHET BELIEVES is AN "ASCENDED MASTER. " ADDITIONALLY THEY REFER TO JESUS AS " THE MASTER CHRIST. " ALONG WITH PROPHET, MANY GROUPS BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF ASCENDED MASTERS WHO LIVE IN SOME "ETHEREAL " AND UNSEEN WORLD NEAR THE GOBI DESERT OF INNER CHINA. IN LIGHT OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS WHICH RANGE FROM ATHEISM THROUGH MORMANISM, BLAVETSKY AND THOSE WHO ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH ANCIENT EAST INDIAN BELIEFS ARE LEGITIMATE IN LAW. CAN MADAME BLAVETSKYS BELIEFS BE ANY MORE UNUSUAL THAN JOHN SMITH SEEING AN ANGEL CALLED MORONI WHO TOLD HIM WHERE HE AND A FEW NEIGHBORS COULD FIND AND VIEW SOME "GOLDEN PLATES, " THEN AFTER SIGNING AFFIDAVITS, THE PLATES ARE TAKEN TO HEAVEN. NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. THE MORMAN GROUP IS BASED IN JUST AS MUCH UNBELIEVABLE MATERIAL AS THOSE WHO FOLLOWED BLAVETSKY OR THOSE WHO CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY EXTRA-TERRESTRALS. IT HAS BECOME QUITE COMMON FOR CHRISTIAN EXTREMISTS TO PLAY ON THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEM, BY WRITING CONSPIRACY BOOKS ABOUT A NEW AGE RELIGION, BASED ON FAR FLUNG IDEAS INCLUDING THOSE OF CARL JUNG, FREUD, Lucis PUBLISHING AMONG OTHERS. MANY OF THESE GROUPS DO NOT BELIEVE IN "HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY" IN ANY FORM. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST THAT LIVES IN ONES BODY TEMPLE SHOULD BE THAT OF LOVE, FORGIVENESS, PASSION AND COMPASSION. THIS WILL PROBABLY BE BALANCED WITH A BIT OF HUMANITY. AFTER ALL CHRIST HIMSELF WAS HUMAN. SO WE ALSO HAVE FEARS AND DOUBTS AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING. IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR SOME WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE OR A CHILD TO QUESTION THEIR OWN BELIEFS. IF THE CORNERSTONE IS STRONG HOWEVER, WE EVENTUALLY COME BACK TO CHRIST. THE REMAINDER ARE OF WHAT I CALL CHURCH OF THE NEGATIVITY. |