I am currently working on the influences of hippie culture beyond music on the Californian ideology of Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore, and in part also on the start-up culture in Berlin. A totally fascinating panopticon from Maria Shelly (Frankenstein), Lord Byron. Ada Lovelace, Charles Baggage to Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, all the Asian and Indian influences, Timothy O Leary to the Grateful Dead and Barlow and others which result in a new own universe.
With regard to the influence of hippie culture, I would also like to refer to the German rights and their most exposed representative, Ernst Jünger. Jünger was a kind of a right-wing hippie. He loved the borderline experience, the martial experience that goes wild in the war (Steel storm/Stahlgewitter), on the production front (The worker /Der Arbeiter) and in the spiritual-psychological borderline experiences. He contacted the LSD inventor Hoffmann at an early stage and wanted to experience this sort of borderline experience before Timothy O Leary later visited Hoffmann as a left-wing hippie. The first right hippie for me is Jünger. And as paradoxical as it sounds, I would see Heinrich Himmler and his organization Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) as a right-winged hippie: anti-materialism, spirituality, neo-paganism, Zen Buddhism and borderline experience in alpinism or their people´s sexual liberation from Christianity morale, the Lebensborn. However, a leftwing hippie never would accept that you call Himmler and Jünger hippies as pacifism, multiculturalism, Make love not war, liberal sexual liberation and gender equality are their objectives. But if you define a hippie by the borderline experiences this definition fits. And Ernst Jünger even wrote a book “ The World state“(Der Weltstaat), in which he is propagating a One-Wolrd vision that never would be part of the other right-winged extremists. But as the term hippie is monopolized by the image of the marijuana smoking, longhaired peacenik ala John Lennon we don´t want to introduce the term of the right-winged hippie, but only to show some similarities.