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| Steve Jobs during his hippie days |
As I write this blog, I listen to some particular music- Laal Ishq by Arijit Singh and i will urge you to listen to it as you read this, effect will magnify manifold! Music really is more meaningful than alot of our other chores and without much thinking you will agree...
I think i am a hippie and for those part i fail, i agree to them! So for me its the best thing you can do to yourself to be a hippie and be the part of the universal counterculture. The population of people existing in this cult-culture are greater than people in Christianity leave alone the small version of hippie that exist in all of us. Hippie for me is a synonym of Revolution and Freedom, now let me move closer to explain you what this term and being hippie really means? but before that let me tell you about my early experiences:
Its that when we grow up, we change! Have you heard that sound in your head that sounds like you? Do you remember that time when you heard this voice for the very first time in your life? Probably not but theres something which i observed myself and i have discussed this with few spiritual people to examine how serious it is! They told me it is... Whats that? One day at an age around 11, i was sitting and listening to this voice in my head and it was clear, each word was clear and i could understand what the voice was saying and it talked about one thing at a time at the same point in my life, there were some other freaky things i used to do, during days my favorite pass time was to sit back with a notebook and play cricket in my head and note down scores, i had diaries filled up! Another thing i did was when off to bed waiting to sleep i used to imagine myself getting small in size and being in my toy car to drive all the way to my mothers village, taking each turn! I am sure you had such strange habits too, now next day, i felt a change! This was distortion and distraction. Now, within just one day, i couldnt do all what i did for some four years with ease. That was strange so i waited for a few days only to realize that neither of the three things were possible for me now... The voice in my head became distorted, mixed up into itself and talking random thousand things at a time and unclear! The game of cricket became strange and the bowlers would fly during run up, bowl would never reach boundary and for the car thing i used to do... i remember exactly what was the problem! I would not be able to imagine myself sitting tightly in seat and would fly and bump on roof! And this changed never to go back to normal...
Now, almost ten years of this happening makes me look back and understand in greater detail about our life being affected by our thinking. As a kid we are pure because of our clear thinking but the price we pay for that clarity is a one-directional mind with limited possibilities and logic!However, what we call distortion and that something that i explained in detail in my experiences can be summed up in one word called - CONFUSION!!! Confusion is Fusion with consciousness and with confusion comes struggle following which comes a greater understanding. At the prime age of 11 and 12, we experience biological changes in our bodies and hence our minds do change. So see this change, imagine a stream of electrons running in a stream and then suddenly bringing a magnetic plate near it, what you will see is a disturbance until a proper deflection is attained. In our case, the stream of electrons represent the thinking biased by hormonal plate creating disturbance and deflection! More precisely, These streams should be seen as combination of intellect and emotions and its the emotions that experience greater deflection, so if Emotions are energy in motion, this energy is deviated at that point away from intellect bending our personalities and principles through hormones! Why all those strange things happened to my imagination was actually result of a special power my mind developed and that was to realize that mind is powerful enough to watch itself work that is... as kids we never can step out of ourselves and look at us from a distance but as we grow up we have more and more of those moments where we look at ourselves and say - Why am i even doing this? Those kinds of moment actually are part of our special brain with better processing power. So those cricket games in my head which as a kid i thought were automated and random like tv telecast, i understood were affected by me and my thinking and it was me who was directing each boll and run. So i could control it and the moment i understood it, there was flood of opportunities. Ball flying and never reaching the batsman being one of them!
Born out of that confusion is counterculture. New genes when develop themselves enough to understand their surroundings well, they have few important revelations. One of which is that my parents are doing some things that can never appear to me as fun while i love fun and they are always forcing to not wish for it! Its like the more i wish to be happy and enjoy, the more they hate me and this is happening to me through all the grown-ups! Are they mad? Cant they understand this simple fact... at that point in your life, you want to be cricketers, singers, cab drivers and those other people whom you love watching! You suddenly start loving music, talking to girls and finding your way out of systems made by grownups, creating your own fundas and experimenting with life on the new basis. Now since your inner voice is all messed up and being fast is the new mantra, you hardly pay attention to your inner voice and let your instincts drive you. This is where the hippie in you blossoms, if not handled or controlled, you are on your way to become one which i became due to lack of strong controlling influence on me during these important years that i mentioned!
hippie and counterculture is now seen as a stereotype and symbol for a few things like - long hairs, playing accoustics on streets, rash behaviour and creative things and leaving without much needs wherever there is place and doing drugs wherever available, breaking rules! Okay? If this is exactly what you thought hippies were, you are wrong and wrong by hundred miles! More on it in next post where i will explain being a hippy and being part of new counter-culture.
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