re:Utopians and Monte Verità, the mountain of Truth
reply by howiemac to "Utopians and Monte Verità, the mountain of Truth"
on 06 Jan 10 at 10:12
very interesting 
I had no idea such things were happening in Switzerland more than a century ago, and this is inspirational. The idea of setting up
This post made me think of something I would like to explore further: the flower power era in the late 1960's did a lot of harm to such new age concepts ("a commune where they practised naturism and vegetarianism"), as many people now associate such things with the drug addled and unwashed hippies of that era. Through mind bending drugs, principally LSD, these hippies achieved flashes of enlightenment, and responded accordingly - however, the "summer of love" in 1967 was very short lived and the movement descended into an abyss of selfish hedonism and disillusionment, as the happy drugs stopped working, and harsh reality took over - these people were not truly enlightened, as they had not ....(more)
I had no idea such things were happening in Switzerland more than a century ago, and this is inspirational. The idea of setting up a commune seeking an outdoor way of life, a vegetarian diet, simplicity, nature and free love, is as valid today, as it was then, if not more so..
This post made me think of something I would like to explore further: the flower power era in the late 1960's did a lot of harm to such new age concepts ("a commune where they practised naturism and vegetarianism"), as many people now associate such things with the drug addled and unwashed hippies of that era. Through mind bending drugs, principally LSD, these hippies achieved flashes of enlightenment, and responded accordingly - however, the "summer of love" in 1967 was very short lived and the movement descended into an abyss of selfish hedonism and disillusionment, as the happy drugs stopped working, and harsh reality took over - these people were not truly enlightened, as they had not ....(more)