Introduction
1. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
2. The word 'hippie' came from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
3. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, though by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date".
4. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation.
5. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.
6. Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts.
7. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society.
8. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.
9. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms, including health food, music festivals, contemporary sexual mores, and even the cyberspace revolution.

Origin
1. A July 1967 Time Magazine study on hippie philosophy credited the foundation of the hippie movement with historical precedent as far back as the counterculture of the Ancient Greeks, espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics also as early forms of hippie culture.
2. It also named as notable influences the religious and spiritual teachings of Henry David Thoreau, Hillel the Elder, Jesus,