Do you consider yourself a "Hippie" or a "Beatnik"?
Sent Yesterday

you ask an excellent question! i probably have elements of both, wonderful topic to discuss when we meet. how about you, do you identify with either group?
Sent 12:08pm

I think both groups honor peace & love & creativity so that's what I'm about.  Hippies are also associated with drugs and free sex and that's what I'm not about.  I get high on being healthy , doing yoga and engaging deeply in my creative process.
Sent 12:33pm

that is a great perspective. yes, i identify with peace and love and creativity too. and i love your process for getting "high"...i think it's wonderful and i share a similar process - although i'm not a practitioner several of the physical aspects of yoga. i hope to be sometime in the future.

with respect to drugs and "free" sex, i think both the beats and hippies were associated with them. they are not part of my life now, but i think both groups were experimental. experimenting with drugs, different "structures" of intimate relationships, eastern philosophy and practices, styles of dress, etc.

i respect experimentation as one of many tools one can use to try to improves one's life, improve the lives of others, and perhaps create a better world and move the human race a step forward. experimentation and exploration are still big parts of my life and probably always will be. :)