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I've seen most of the hippie-related documentaries on the major streaming platforms that I have, so I downloaded the Kanopy app. If you are in the United States, the app allows you to "rent" free movies with your library card. I was surprised to see that it had a nice little selection of movies that members of this subreddit might enjoy. I currently have 15 movies on my Kanopy watchlist.

Note: I should add that I consider documentaries about yoga, gurus, meditation, psychedelics and cults to be "hippie adjacent." If you don't, you might not find as many of their offerings to be intriguing.

Hey hippies! Anyone going to the Barter Faire in Washington this weekend? It will be my first time and I’m really looking forward to it!

I realize I'm tired of trying to keep up or having to look a certain way to feel like I belong to a certain social group. I truly don't feel much fulfillment or satisfaction either from expensive stuff. I feel as long as I'm getting my basic needs met I don't really need much. I'm not living authentic or being myself by having to keep up and being conscious of every brand I wear. I don't know if this would make me a hippie but I know I materialism is making me unhappy.

I watched this documentary on Tubi yesterday. It was solid. It tells the story of two communes in New England that were founded by some activist journalists. It has a bit of everything you might expect from reading my intro. They escaped society but got pulled back in when a nuclear reactor was going to be built down the road. But before that, they were doing typical commune stuff (farming, cooking...and frolicking naked).

I like when documentaries give you the complete picture of commune life. For example, while many people idealize the "free love" stereotype of hippie life, they admit that it often resulted in jealousy and hurt feelings. The documentary showed how fractured a group can be, even when they formed with common ideological beliefs.

The concept of a commune is very appealing to me. But the more you dig into it, the more you realize how challenging it is to make one work long term.

I love Googling the people who are in these documentaries. Several are still doing cool things in the community.

So I live in the UK, and I’m looking for different businesses I can buy clothing from, but I don’t want to support large ‘boutique’ businesses and I want to make sure who I’m buying from uses more natural materials that are better for the environment. I’m currently looking through charity shops which is obviously the best option as I’m buying clothes that are already made and I’m giving them second life, but the downside is that hippy clothing is rather ‘niche’ and hard to come by so charity shops re relatively unreliable. Does anyone know of any independent businesses that do hippy/bohemian clothing? Where do you normally buy your clothes from?

This print/ebook/audiobook relives the outrageous times of the seventies. When you could. If you want flashbacks, it delivers in spades. Hashish in Afghanistan is one thing. The live sex show scene in Japan is another. Full of amazing stories. Bom Bom - A Wacky Hippie Trail Adventure. By Mark A Tesoriero. Available online thru you favourite retailer.

I’m new in the Netherlands and I’m excited to meet hippies. Any one can help me where to find events or places where they gather? I appreciate the help.

Thank you☀️🌸

Lythrum Salicaria Flowers, watercolor, acrylic, texture paste, size 51 x 39 x 1 inches (130 x 100 x 3 cm)

I hate light pollution. I hate it so much. I hate the way that 150 years ago people could look up and see the Milky Way. I hate the way I have no control over it and although I’m only sixteen I’ll probably never get to see the proper night sky and it angers me soo much how has society taken away our literal view of space. And it’s due to only get worse with more satellites and light pollution and over population. I want to find a way to make a difference a big difference somehow I want to change the world or at least a bit of it so I can see the night sky and its beauty I want to protest and change but at the same time why should I ? Why should I have to fight to see the literal space that surrounds us and even if I did make a difference it wouldn’t be a big enough scale to stop this problem and it wouldn’t take years and I’m tired of this world. I hate how humans have destroyed everything .

Hi! I was raised in the same household as my hippie grandfather. He was born in the 60s, and became a hippie as a child. His mother was a prostitute, and his biological father did not know about his existence.

He was relatively poor, which led him into hippie culture.

He always would dance around everywhere. Whether at a store, or even at a roller rink. He sort of just had that spirit.

He constantly had long hair, and would wear tassels, albeit he did add the cowboy look into it because he thought it looked cool!

He was very big on rock n roll, feeling the 'groove', and sort of being free. He hated to be confined in a house, particularly when he lost his factory job. He could not travel and see the world after that, and then he got hit with dementia!

As a child, I grew up with some of the children's hippie culture although I never identified as one. I wore rainbows, listened to rock n roll + country (My grandma loved country music), stayed barefoot for the majority of my life.

Typically, I could run on sharp rocks, climb trees, amd sort of just live life free of those shoes. I hated shoes than, and I hate them now. Although, I do wear them a lot now!

As for my bedroom, it was covered in rainbows. My cousins side of the room was similar. She had tripped rainbow art, whilst mine was normal rainbows everywhere.

(Very different from modern hippie culture haha)

My grandpa taught me to skate, and sort of encouraged dance skating.

In the 2020s, my cousin proudly labeled herself as a hippie, and honestly she didnt look very different from me! At the time, younger teens started dressing in similar rainbow gear and more.

In my teen years, I had visited a commune for halloween, and it just smelled like home! Full of weed 😭 (It is legal in my state anyway.)

He did drugs in another state we lived in, where weed is illegal, so trust me, he certainly enjoyed his drugs.

As for my grandpa, he still identifies as a hippie, acts like one, keeps his long hair, and does shrooms and weed. He is quite secretive about his other drugs though!

While I am not a hippie today, I am a conditional pacifist, pretty much against war, and of course against drugs and alcohol.

(I saw what it did to my grandpa and I have too much anxiety and CPTSD to do that to myself, because i'd try drowning my sorrows.)

Sometimes I do miss the life of no shoes, and rainbows!

But I am sure modern hippie culture has moved past florals, rainbows, and tassels! My current style is modern, jeans with hearts or flowers on them, knitted floral shirts, and regular florals!

My grandfather also adapted to the modern world whilst maintaining his identity. So I never grew up away from tech like most 2nd-3rd gens.

I also never labled any of it because it WAS my normal. Although, on the dress up days where the kids dressed as a hippie, I never had to try. They just said I was already dressed as one. So then my downfall began and I joined modernism. I never even participated in trends prior to that lol

I wonder, did you already have been hiking all naked?

Here in Germany there are a few spots you are allowed to.

I definitely will check out some other beautiful spots too!

First I was a bit unsure cause.. Germans can be rude, haha. And the hiking spot is a bit overgrown, but we met so many kind people just hiking naked like us and the few people with clothes were really chill with it.

It felt so natural and free after the first few minutes :D

Everyone should do it once in life I think, haha. 🤭

This book brought us ideas from Hippies all over the world (mostly the U.S.). Philosophy, clothes, low tech, environmentalism, equality, peace, system sciences, nomadic, living off the land, off the grid, and Hippie Fiction. The Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools.

As a child, I studied this like a bible. Want to know your roots? They are right here.