My New Age Hippie Counterculture, One-World Mission
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer In an online encyclopedia document about the history of the New Age there is a statement that reads: "From a historical perspective, the New Age phenomenon is rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s." The Rainbow Family is a large international, hippie counterculture group. It is also considered one of the largest and most geographically diverse New Age groups. The Rainbow Family is an active and influential New Age part of [today's] hippie counterculture movement. A "New Age hippie" is someone who is both part of the hippie counterculture movement and the New Age movement. These two movements are closely linked culturally and spiritually. Several modern intentional communities are spiritually and intellectually where these two movements converge and fuse together into another movement. The Rainbow Family is one of these "modern intentional communities". Google search states: Several modern intentional communities cont...