Core Insight:
According to Osho, the rise of hippies in America stems from unprecedented affluence producing existential boredom and spiritual restlessness. Youth, seeing their parents’ wealth bring no inner peace, rebel against a stagnant, materialist order. Hippies symbolize an early, chaotic stage of a deeper search—akin in spirit to Buddha and Mahavira—often experimenting wildly before turning toward meditation, yoga, and religious inquiry for genuine fulfillment.