The Secret

In the global economic crisis there is one question on everybody's mind: will I have to start making my own shoes out of muesli. It is clear that hippies are in possession of a great amount of knowledge for living in an advanced state of awesomeness, because just ask them. I don’t know whether they think I’m one of them, or that I’m someone they can ‘groove’ with, or that I seem empathetic (or a similar but shorter word,) but the hippies I have met have always felt like they can reveal their secret methods to me. This is an example of some of the incredible secrets they have chosen to bless me with:

- My mind is infinite. Anything I believe can happen.
- I age because I believe I age.
- If I stop using chemicals on my body my skin’s oils will find their own natural balance and I won’t need soaps and shampoos any more.
- Yoga can unlock a powerful cobra that lives within my spine.
- A person who lives on a strictly vegan diet will have so much more energy and vitality than someone who eats meat.
- Cannabis Sativa is a miraculous vegetable that can unlock our true potential.
- I don’t need coffee in the morning, I should just eat an apple.
- Felafel is a miracle food.

There were many more secrets, but I wouldn’t want to blow your mind. You would expect that members of the Hippy Nation, knowing all this, would be wise, benevolent, and glowing with a pure and cosmic energy. So why are they smelly, malnourished and angry. How can ten years of yoga give someone the disposition of Joseph Stalin? How can an organic vegan diet make it look like you’ve just spent a month on a raft in the Atlantic? Well, there are a number of possibilities:

1. They are like the Jedi or the Dalai Lama: bound to use their powers not for personal interest, but when the universe is truly in danger.
2. They use their powers only in secret. The rest of the time they throw us off the scent by assuming a shabby alter-ego.
3. They are full of shit.

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/814/a_saucerful_of_secrets.html

http://www.cobdo.org.uk/