Kristen Finlayson

This topic came up for me when, one day, a mainstream friend of mine called me a hippy in response to a Facebook post of mine. Feeling like I walk the line between metaphysician and mainstreamer pretty well I thought to myself, "I am not a hippy!" Long story short I've since embraced my hippy-dom but it brought up an interesting conversation with my guides.

Those who know me well know that I come from a skeptical background fraught with insecurities and trust issues with the Universe. I blame some gnarly past lives, but I digress. So my secret skeptic began a quest with my guides about the whole point of the 60's hippy movement and it's seeming momentuum interrupted towards ascension.

The decade of Aquarius had all the makings of a great global Awakening. Talks about magical energies, blossoming spirituality, breaking the stiff molds of convention. Then it all fizzled. The hippies went corporate, got real jobs, had kids, and traded the polyester overalls for suits and briefcases. Sell-outs I believe they were called.

This scared me. What if all of this hard work so many of us were doing was all for nothing? What if it would all just fizzle out again and we would give up our high aspirations to become a cog in the corporate machine?

My guides bailed me out of this doomed scenario. They told me that there was a purpose to the sell out, to the movement as well as it's seeming collapse. First, all evolutions begin with a little burst cropping up somewhere but not really catching on enough to survive. Like a flower in the primordial ooze from where we came. Of course fields of wildflowers did not pop up one day. One grew, then died. Then a few grew, then died. Soon the genetics worked themselves out enough to make it work.

The 60's were a little burst of Awakening energy. Not quite enough to catch on. The times were much different and an having an open mind was viewed as badly as catching a fatal disease. Drugs artificially creating feelings and speeding people towards what seemed like ascension was also in the recipe for disaster. It doesn't work when your mind is in new energy but your body is vibrating much lower due to the drugs.

But still, there was a point to the 60's. Those sell-outs weren't such a waste after all. They ended up in some pretty influential places later on. Heads of companies, figures in the media, researchers, thinkers, innovators. They are the forefathers opening the doors to thought, technology, and literature that would help us, the true ascenders, on our path. They are also parents who taught their children to have an open mind, to allow for all truths, and to question authority. They were the superheroes of the movement who had to live as their alter egos that blended into the canvas of the time.

Now, for this movement? My guides assure me it is real. We are working authentically and very diligently toward this goal. The vibration of the Earth scientifically reflects the changes. Ascending is hard work and so many of us are putting in the hours to make it happen. We will not fizzle.