... saw them as aliens. Their psychedelic themes were though of as foolish, and their beliefs too extreme. But to the hippies themselves, being a hippie was a matter of accepting a universal belief system that transcended the social, political and moral norms of any established structure. Below are excerpts from the book Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone regarding the hippy values and ways ... up from his chair, he looks at how time has just slipped by and vaguely realizes that mentally, he has become slack and physically shapeless. In short, the loss of definition in mind and body. Now it ...

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• Grade Level: High School