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Psychedelia As A Counterculture

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“Psychedelia” is new way which people could experience the world with new sides. In 1950s in London and San Francisco began first appear psychedelic music and culture. It is mainly used by teenagers and distinguished from adult’s culture. The counterculture, which first started to appear in 1960s, was assertive than adult culture. In 1960s counterculture was known as a hippie worldview. There are two tendencies, which were in music in 1960s. Marijuana and LSD especially played a central role in providing the basis for the new worldview many young people were seeking. These drugs led to higher consciousness, which was only mystic. Also hippie worldview had spiritual aspect, which also was for achieving a higher consciousness. The first important
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