The Beat Poet and Art Bohemian Influenced Counterculture of the Sixties and the More Marxist Counterculture of the Seventies, and Beyond
Many Hippies of the Sixties Counterculture were anti-Christian. But the more Marxist influenced Counterculture of the seventies was more systematically anti-Christian than the Hippies.
The hippies came partly out of the Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert LSD movement, which mixed mysticism of some Oriental religions with the psychedelic experience.
Another major influence upon the Hippie movement which began in about 1962 were the Beat Poets, such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, ,Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who may still be alive at 98),Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, , Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen.
,Kenneth Rexroth can be seen as a member of the Beat Poets, and maybe the American surrealist poet Kenneth Patchen.
Then there are also the Art Bohemians who are forerunners of the Hippie Movement.. The art bohemians go back to 19th century French Painters, and the list of names include Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne.
The Art Bohemians emphasized freedom from the conventions of bourgeois society.
The Surrealists of about 1920 to 1940 mostly in France continued the lifestyle of the Art Bohemians. And after the end of World War II, the New York Abstract Expressionist painters and sculptors tended to be Art Bohemians. Since many of these painters and sculptors lived in he Lower East Side,of New York City, when the Hippie movement began, some early hippies mixed in with the Art Bohemian groups on the Lower East side and apparently absorbed some of the Art Bohemian Culture.
Even in surrealism there was some interest in mental states. Andre Breton, surrealist poet said in his novel Nadja , 1928, that "La beauté sera convulsif ou ne sera pas du tout," "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
In the Hippie movement the interest was in mental or Brain States, and pot as well as LSD and other drugs were used by Hippies to change their mental states,
Marxism does not necessarily lead to an interest in using drugs to change your brain state.
But Marxism is so systematically opposed to the absolute nature of scripture and Christian morality that a devoted Marxist does not easily develop faith in Jesus Christ and in scripture. And all who follow Marxism do not know they are Marxists.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
Some Hippies, under the influence of the LSD-Oriental- Mysticism-Beat Poet-Art Bohemianism did become Jesus Freaks.
The question is, did the Hippies as Jesus Freaks come out of those influences enough to have faith in Christ and come to love his doctrines? Was the mind of Christ in them? Maybe they could come out of the Beat Poet and Art Bohemian influence easier than they could have come out of New Left Marxism?
Could it be said hat some members of the elect of Christ did not come out of fundamentalism but out of the Counterculture?. Usually what is meant by fundamentalism is dispensationalism - Christian Zionism.
Within the Counterculture of the early seventies there was a back to the land. rural commune movement and a movement for the use of herbs and other natural remedies for disease. In fact this was one of the points of origin for the alternative health care movement which gained popularity in the last decades.
The book, Hippies of the religious Right: The counterculture and American evangelicalism in the 1960s and 1970s, by Preston Shires, says " Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.".
This makes it clear that what Shires means by the Religious Right is dispensationalism.
We know that Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel in Southern California accepted many Jesus Freaks into his congregation in spite of their being too smelly and poorly dressed to come into a conventional church. And we know that Chuck Smith was a dispensationalist. Most likely many of the Jesus Freaks under him became dispensationalists.
But probably the feminists and other Marxists - many of whom did not know they were Marxists - would have been less likely to want to go inside a Church to hear Chuck Smith preach about the dispensationalist version of Christianity.
Many Hippies of the Sixties Counterculture were anti-Christian. But the more Marxist influenced Counterculture of the seventies was more systematically anti-Christian than the Hippies.
The hippies came partly out of the Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert LSD movement, which mixed mysticism of some Oriental religions with the psychedelic experience.
Another major influence upon the Hippie movement which began in about 1962 were the Beat Poets, such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, ,Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who may still be alive at 98),Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, , Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen.
,Kenneth Rexroth can be seen as a member of the Beat Poets, and maybe the American surrealist poet Kenneth Patchen.
Then there are also the Art Bohemians who are forerunners of the Hippie Movement.. The art bohemians go back to 19th century French Painters, and the list of names include Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne.
The Art Bohemians emphasized freedom from the conventions of bourgeois society.
The Surrealists of about 1920 to 1940 mostly in France continued the lifestyle of the Art Bohemians. And after the end of World War II, the New York Abstract Expressionist painters and sculptors tended to be Art Bohemians. Since many of these painters and sculptors lived in he Lower East Side,of New York City, when the Hippie movement began, some early hippies mixed in with the Art Bohemian groups on the Lower East side and apparently absorbed some of the Art Bohemian Culture.
Even in surrealism there was some interest in mental states. Andre Breton, surrealist poet said in his novel Nadja , 1928, that "La beauté sera convulsif ou ne sera pas du tout," "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
In the Hippie movement the interest was in mental or Brain States, and pot as well as LSD and other drugs were used by Hippies to change their mental states,
Marxism does not necessarily lead to an interest in using drugs to change your brain state.
But Marxism is so systematically opposed to the absolute nature of scripture and Christian morality that a devoted Marxist does not easily develop faith in Jesus Christ and in scripture. And all who follow Marxism do not know they are Marxists.
"In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
Some Hippies, under the influence of the LSD-Oriental- Mysticism-Beat Poet-Art Bohemianism did become Jesus Freaks.
The question is, did the Hippies as Jesus Freaks come out of those influences enough to have faith in Christ and come to love his doctrines? Was the mind of Christ in them? Maybe they could come out of the Beat Poet and Art Bohemian influence easier than they could have come out of New Left Marxism?
Could it be said hat some members of the elect of Christ did not come out of fundamentalism but out of the Counterculture?. Usually what is meant by fundamentalism is dispensationalism - Christian Zionism.
Within the Counterculture of the early seventies there was a back to the land. rural commune movement and a movement for the use of herbs and other natural remedies for disease. In fact this was one of the points of origin for the alternative health care movement which gained popularity in the last decades.
The book, Hippies of the religious Right: The counterculture and American evangelicalism in the 1960s and 1970s, by Preston Shires, says " Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.".
This makes it clear that what Shires means by the Religious Right is dispensationalism.
We know that Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel in Southern California accepted many Jesus Freaks into his congregation in spite of their being too smelly and poorly dressed to come into a conventional church. And we know that Chuck Smith was a dispensationalist. Most likely many of the Jesus Freaks under him became dispensationalists.
But probably the feminists and other Marxists - many of whom did not know they were Marxists - would have been less likely to want to go inside a Church to hear Chuck Smith preach about the dispensationalist version of Christianity.