Older hippies and some going crazy

Sew, I was wondering about the true stories about older hippies going insane. I know it is there, because i have seen like 60 y/o at fests totally out of it. Thats without drugs.

So, how did this happen? Since you guys got to see it were they always crazy? Or did some people start to just bend off? Was any of it from the use of psychedelics?

 

I don't think there's an iota of truth to it.

And my therapists - in fact, all the doctors and nurses here at Look At All The Colours! Hippie Haven Sanitarium - say there's nothing to it.

Got any 'shrooms?

 

Sure they weren't just having a good time and you mistook it for insanity? They do let us out sometimes you know! Lones on house arrest just now though! Having too much fun!

 

I consumed copious amounts of acid when I was young - as did my friends. I knew many, many people in that subculture and I don't know of even one who lost their mind as they aged. Honestly, I think it is probably scare tactics of the "Reefer Madness" ilk.

 

Haha, I kinda wondered sometimes if people just got bored of normal stuff and started talking weird stuff just to see what happens. I want to try it now

Well, lets assume that the people I met were indeed crazy. None of you have met someone like this?

It probably is scare tactics. I have only met a handful in my life of being around people who do stuff. Idk if its from drugs though.

 

When you lose your inhibitions as those of us who took L--you can dance your ass off-laugh your ass off ,and "carry on" in public like we don't give a shit--then we probably look quite looney to those that haven't.

 

I am not talking about loosing inhibition. I am talking about people saying that Indian toilet paper is coveted by a prince that the woman talks to.

Speaking of women, I noticed that most of them were girls that were off their rocker... Hmm.

 

You need to understand that people latch onto scenes-
whether it be festival scenes, rainbow gatherings, grateful dead tours-
because there is always a sense of acceptance and love for almost everyone.
So lots of naturally "insane" or veritable outcast/weirdo types latch on because they can't find acceptance or love anywhere else.

Oh, and harder drugs definitely fuck up people too

 

You're my age though. I know it can if you use a lot in a short time, but not permanently. Nor does that usually happen. I am looking for permanent stories though from people older than us (less likely to make up some bogus crap).

I figured the whole love scene thing though. That was my excuse, but I am looking for accounts from someone who has been around a while. No offense, but I have yet to meet someone our age that doesn't think they know everything or make up stories. This is why we have old people

 

Maybe they were pulling your leg or just making shit up.

Indians don't use toilet paper - only barbaric Europeans & Americans smear shit on their ass with paper. Indians clean themselves with water.

 

I've met a few who have "gone 'round the bend" ,but they were all young. They would be much older now --soooo-maybe they stayed that way.

 

Exactly-back in the day (It WAS a Thursday) the only folks who truly checked out were:
-those poor souls who were the victim of an acid laced drink. They spent a little time in the pcych. ward but no lasting effects
-those that took acid in stupid quantities (25 to 30 hits and kept topping up and tripped without stopping for months) They just never came down

They were crazy then and will be crazy now.

The rest of us-I've held a steady day job for 37 years-no issues (other than some great stories and the occasional strobe)

 

Are YOU trying to TELL ME that Indian toilet paper is NOT coveted by a prince etc.???

damn!!! don't shake my world that way....next, you will tell me that Elvis is dead, and money is only a concept.

as regards women, estrogen poisoning is as dangerous as testosterone poisoning...and they said weed would mess you up...c. everett coop knew NOTHING! nothing, i tell you....

 

I made the mistake of doing over 500 hits of lsd as a 10 yr old in 65 which came free from a friend who got it from timouthy leary in NYC when my friend went there for guitar lessons. I then went to a few festivals like woodstock and watkins glen and strawberryfield in canada and well i soon realized there were more progressives doing positive things and that high was much better than all the dope i did. Yea i grew it in humboldt back in the early 70's but i also started a recycling center and created a positve commune and then went on to build green homes back east and now i am restoring an 1820's farm house and farm. Some older hippies feel they need to keep on living to be seen rather than to be living to know that one day when you pass into the next world you can look down on earth and say yeaaaa i planted those redwood trees in washington state and yea i planted those fruit trees in calif and yea i built those green homes back east and well then you will be in the next world knwing you have no regrets for the life you lived.. yea i also transitioned gender and have understood the basic human spirit because gender is just the shell we have until we shed it for the next world.

so what are you live for ??? is it only this world??? and then you spend an eternity wondering why you wasted your life stone and looking so called cool when in reality you did nothing cool !!!

 

Hey Forget, I was at Strawberry Fields too. It was held only a few miles from my house. That was a fun week.

 

yea life was crazy back then. I got a bus ride with a blue grass band from New orleans and they dropped us of in international falls canada and it took 30 of us like 30 days to get out of there. what a hitch that was..

 

As far as insane old hippies go, I think there are about an equal ratio of insane old hippies as there are insane old straight people... so, yeah, you might find a few old nutjobs at the festival - but it doesn't mean that hippies in general are going to go bonkers when they hit 60. If they do, I'm in trouble!

Also, depending on what kind of trip the old fart was on, he may very easily be talking to you about toilet paper and princes, and ships and sails and sealing wax and cabbages and kings for that matter... but come Monday morninig, he'll likely resume his post as the CEO of some company, somewhere.

Physiologically, old hippies are just old people. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

I thought I replied to this. Heh, lmao though when I first read it.

I am not calling old hippies crazy, nor am I calling hippies bad in any way. I just have realized some have gone off the edge, and I wanted to see if anyones friend did that and was it possibly from drugs.

The hippy lifestyle doesn't usually include long term friends, so I guess thats why no one has had a friend go crazy (from whatever it might be).

 

It's so refreshing to have a 23 year old who is such an expert in the hippie movement.
Hippies have long term friends just like any other like minded groups of people. Where do you pull your data to come up with this kind of crap. Hippies are going crazy, hippies don't have long term friendships, etc. etc.
All this makes me kind of picture you as a

 

Well, I am not a butt head.

I pull my data from what I have seen. My mom was a major hippy and she moved around all the time. Free floating and making friends everywhere she went. But, because of drugs and moving so often she didn't really have a whole lot of long term friends that she traveled with. She does from when she was younger though.

And jesus, everyone. Hippies go crazy like normal people, your not immune! Don't act like I am saying that all hippies are a bunch of crazy loners. Please keep what I say to a realistic interpretation...