Hippie villages?

On 2005-09-20 12:13, plant wrote:
i personally see it like this ...

create ur own hippy village reality wherever u go ... smile and see the light .. appreciate the trees and the flowers and with every breath, in every moment... breath in life

LIVE

and be, especially be

On 2005-09-21 06:07, Psycosmo wrote:
My fantasy is to form a psytrance neighborhood, or at least a psytrance 4 city blocks. Get enough psytrancers moved into 1 small urban area that within that area they made up the majority of people living there.

On 2005-09-20 10:20, Vagator Vibhushan wrote:
personally i dream of being part of a travelling tribe than a settled one

On 2005-09-19 20:47, HandA wrote:

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On 2005-09-19 18:13, Honguito wrote: Christiania are facing heavy problems with the governments at the moment. They used to sell "soft drugs", cannabis and shrooms, openly but the situation has tightened up a lot. Not only about the drugs, it's about Chrisitanias whole existence.

There a widespread misunderstanding among people here that this is a new conflict between Christiania and The Authorities. It's not! It's a conflict that's been going on since Christiania was "created".
And I have to say that there's very little "hippie" over Christiania these days. There's many ordinary families living there too. And there's not many hippes left. They kind of died out in the early 70's and got jobs and are now quite conservative and borgouis (settled). Some even work for the Government
But there are also many sad excistances there like the drunk Eskimoes from Greenland we forgot to take care of when we decided to "occupy" Greenland etc.

The whole conflict is about the huge drug market there. Not only soft drugs but also Heroin and other hard drugs. And the fact that Christania attract a lot of drugrelated crime including the ocassional drugrelated killings.
Before it was Hell Angels who controlled the drug traffic there. Today it's immigrant gangs versus Hell Angels. Even the people living at Christania want them long gone.

On the other hand there's also the legal issues of Christiania. Christiania used to be a Navy area. When it was abandoned it was occupied by the Hippies and that's how Christania came to life. The only problem is that the state own the property and has never legally approved Christiania.

I think Christiania will survive but those living there have to realise that they too have to pay tax and provide to the society too. They have for way too many years lived there without paying for anything such as rent, electricity etc. And they also have to realise that some of the illegal houses they have build there are way too dangerious simply because they are so poorly build.

Christiania will survive but probably under a bit more controlled terms.

On 2005-09-21 03:19, narottam wrote:
Try http://www.pachamama.com - It is "run" by Israeli trance dj! - I stayed 2 months - Highly recommend - I'm going back December

On 2005-09-19 18:13, Honguito wrote:
Ever since the first time I saw "last hippie standing" I've been fascinated of the alternative hippie villages. As most of us know, Goa isn't what it used to be anymore. So are there any other hippie villages around these days?

On 2005-09-22 21:17, monno wrote:
erm well not an entirely correct statement to make since thylejren is still in existence albeit not in a very accesible version such as christiania. untill recently they had among others jahbo (who grew up there)gow and more or less the rest of the aarhus crew up there playing each year for their annual festival. but the situation is somewhat different for them as compared to the christiania situation.
you need to get out more mr there´s more to denmark than the ørestad region.

On 2005-09-28 08:10, dustlove wrote:
Nimbin is definitely not what is advertised to be. The children of all the hippies who started the community there have rebelled against their parents' culture and many have become hip hop and death metal fans.