"With it." If you are with it, that means you are awake, alive, and aware."Tune in" meant to become aware of reality, and "drop out" meant to stop believing and participating in society's collective fantasies and false narratives. By urging people to "turn on," he meant to awaken your mind by taking drugs. "Turn on, tune in, and drop out." Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor who was most famous for his research in and advocacy of psychedelic drugs, first said these words and they became a mantra of the movement."Spaced out" or "spacey." Not mentally present distracted, dreamy, and/or possibly stoned.Use this phrase when you fully agree with someone or something. "Right on!" An expression of strong agreement or support an emphatic YES!!!.
The hippies experimented with the idea that people should be free to love whomever, wherever, and whenever they want. Convention dictated strict and binding rules about relationships and marriages, rules that were oftentimes difficult or harmful to people (especially women and gay people). "Free love." The counterculture of the 1960s included a reevaluation of the rules and traditions around relationships.
Hippies wore flowers in their hair and offered them to the police during anti-war protests as a gentle gesture of peace, love, and resistance. It was meant to characterize a non-violent way of opposing the status quo (as opposed to gun power, which is how The Man maintains control). "Flower power." The poet Allen Ginsberg coined this term in 1965 at an anti-war demonstration.This phrase applies when a subject or idea is so radical that it expands your consciousness beyond this universe. "Far out." When something is amazing, unusual, radical, or unconventional, it is far out." Blow your mind." If something "blows your mind," it it so surprising, overwhelming, exciting, amazing, or disturbing that it momentarily or permanently destroys brain function.Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Hippie Phrases, Expressions, and Quotes If someone gives you good vibes, that means you have a positive feeling about them.Īctivist offering a flower to a military police officer: Make love, not war. Hippies believed that emotions could be felt tangibly and that people and situations could be understood by attuning to their emotional or psychic vibrations. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters had a bus they named Further to take them on literal and metaphorical trips around the U.S. If something is "trippy," then something about it is so unusual or amazing that it makes you feel like you're in a completely different place (or on drugs). When you get high on drugs, you "take a trip" or go on a mental journey. Typical hippie threads included patched jeans, peasant blouses, halter tops, tie-dye, floral granny dresses, fringed vests, bellbottoms, and cutoffs. When something it's intense, vivid, mind-bending, consciousness-expanding, or mesmerizing, it's psychedelic (like LSD).