This is a very dumb post but I want to know. Are there any teenagers ( or infact anyone ) who would consider themselves a new ager or a hippy in the Sheffield area??
I've seen one hippy guy in Sheffield so far. Its kinda lonely when your the only new agey teen in Sheffield. :( It would be great to know if there is anyone out there so that I don't seem like the only freak at college.
Thank for reading my dumb post!!

:D :D

what would you class as new age?

Moon

I'm a "label-less" :cool: :thumbsup:

I'm an old Hippy from the old days - and I still keep on truckin'.:)

Well not really new age, wicca, crystals, world peace and the like moon.

I'm an old Hippy from the old days - and I still keep on truckin'.

Groovy Carl!! I wish I was born in the sixties!! All that free love . . . :lol:

Originally posted by New Age
Well not really new age, wicca, crystals, world peace and the like moon.

Groovy Carl!! I wish I was born in the sixties!! All that free love . . . :lol:

how to upset the entire wiccan community in one sentence - call them new age :thumbsup: :clap:

Moon Maiden

lol sorry moon
Nah I didn't mean them as New Age. I meant things that arn't really new age aswell. I dunno its wierd. Some old mate of mine was a wiccan and she said that she'd call herself new agey rather than a hippy. I dunno is hippy an insult now?? I kinda thought that it was.
Does anyone know??

Also sorry to any wiccans out there!! :D

I would rather be a hippy than new age and I don't know many wiccan's who would be called New age but there ya go! :D :)

The impression that is given - at least with those I have spoken to - is that they are all love and light and empty headed! :loopy:

Moon Maiden

lol true moon!! Well at least in my case it is!!

Originally posted by New Age ...
Groovy Carl!! I wish I was born in the sixties!! All that free love . . . :lol: [/B]

You'd have to have been born in the early fifties to enjoy 'All that free love' in the mid and late sixties.

I was born in the thirties ... enough said.;)

Originally posted by Geoff
I'm a "label-less" :cool: :thumbsup:

Of course you are, 'Founder'

Nomme
:P

<------------------I'm not label-less.... I'm P.I.M.P Daddy! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by New Age
wish I was born in the sixties!! All that free love . . . :lol:
You don't need to have been born in the 60's to enjoy free love New Age. :wink: :headbang:

I don't know about New Age: I feel more like Old Age every day!

I like to think I'm a hippie in a lot of ways :)

:nod:

Erm... I have hippy values but I don't look like it anymore!! That's the problem with getting a business-type job - you have to wear a suit and conform (yawn). I suppose stuff like I-Ching, Rune Casting and Tarot are failry new age though, and I'm into those... I'm like a new-techno-hippy or something!!!:loopy:

Originally posted by Agent Dan
I suppose stuff like I-Ching, Rune Casting and Tarot are failry new age though, and I'm into those... I'm like a new-techno-hippy or something!!!:loopy:

isn't that a contradiction though? being that I-ching and tarot have been used for centuries? Making them perhaps old age?

I cannot comment about runes cos they are not my thing!

Moon

Originally posted by Agent Dan
Erm... I have hippy values but I don't look like it anymore!! That's the problem with getting a business-type job - you have to wear a suit and conform (yawn). I suppose stuff like I-Ching, Rune Casting and Tarot are failry new age though, and I'm into those... I'm like a new-techno-hippy or something!!!:loopy:
Tarrot have been around since the days of Yor and Yesteryear (i.e. A long time ago)... so hardly new age. however, they seem to be more popular with a newer culture these days so I see where you're making the association!

I suppose it's the definition of the phrase 'new age' 'cos it doesn't really mean 'new age' - even crystals (and correct me if I'm wrong, moon!) date back to druidic practices of years ago...

Incidentally, Tarot (in it's modern form) was created in the Victorian age, as were the playing cards we use now. The French came up with the first standardised deck in medievel times but it only had 11 cards to a suit...!

Originally posted by Agent Dan
I suppose it's the definition of the phrase 'new age' 'cos it doesn't really mean 'new age' - even crystals (and correct me if I'm wrong, moon!) date back to druidic practices of years ago...

No one really knows what the druids did, as they never wrote anything down. Judging from the number of skeletons found at druidic sites though, death played quite a large part in their practices.

Incidentally, Tarot (in it's modern form) was created in the Victorian age, as were the playing cards we use now. The French came up with the first standardised deck in medievel times but it only had 11 cards to a suit...!
Aye the tarot is a deck of cards, which have been around in various forms in europe (notably earliest in Italy & southern germany) since the 1400s. It is pretty much exactly the same as any other deck except for the addition of the Major Arcana (cards such as Death, The Fool, the Tower etc.) The origin of these is pretty much lost, but there are eastern traditions that use decks of 'cards' as prompts for storytelling, which may be how they came about


For many people, the term New Age clearly refers to a momentous turning-point in history. According to astrologers, we live in the Age of Pisces, which has been dominated by Christianity. But the current age of Pisces is due to be replaced by the New Age of Aquarius early in the third Millennium

For me, new age means cringeworthy airbrush art posters of unicorns and waterfalls with cheesy (and physically inaccurate) rainbows.

actually Dan there is evidence that the egyptians were using cards in some form or another. I cannot remember where i have seen that little gem of info but I shall dig to confirm!

I cannot comment too much on the crystal practises of the Druids, it seems likely being that gems and stones were readily available in the isles without having to be mined, and still were to extent until fairly recently. However there is no remaining evidence of the druidic practises being that the romans slaughtered the lot and their order demanded an oral tradition - i.e they didn't write anything down. All evidence we have is taken from biased sources.

Their divination normally involved entrails and scrying! They would have used what was available to them

Moon

Yeah I know they used cards previously, but the current 'accepted' incarnation of Tarot is definitely Victorian (e.g. Ryder Waite deck). Most 'western' cultures have cards *somewhere* in their history. I'd be interested about the egyptian system, though, they've got some great ideas in their religion - my favourite being the early egyptian society creation myth (before Ra and the well-known gods)... Quite dirty!!!

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
However there is no remaining evidence of the druidic practises being that the romans slaughtered the lot and their order demanded an oral tradition - i.e they didn't write anything down. All evidence we have is taken from biased sources
Their divination normally involved entrails and scrying! They would have used what was available to them

Moon

The pre-Roman druids (stonehenge etc) seem to have been a bloodthirsty lot however, whereas the later celtic druids were quite highly regarded by roman thinkers - up there with the persian magi and babylonian astronomers.

Moon, what evidence do you have that the druids were all slaughtered by the romans? I have not found anything that would lead me to that conclusion.

Right off the top of my head

They were cornered on an island (forget the name) just of the welsh coast and the romans burned the lot to the ground! It is the main reason Boudica was able to slaughter as many romans as she did because the main part of the roman forces were busy ridding the empire of the 'hairy arsed bandits'!

The sacred groves were burned, and being that the British Isles is sited in many texts as the source the druid training it died with them. I have only met one - modern day druid who could slightly hold a candle to the originals. The rest are players - see Prince of Wales.

Moon

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
Right off the top of my head

They were cornered on an island (forget the name) just of the welsh coast [snip]

Moon

Anglesey I would guess by that description.

Nomme

Hi I have been doing some digging in old forums.

Right, yes I do refer to the slaughter at Angelesey. And actually reading a post by a colleague I am beginning to wonder whether they were actually wiped out.

I do put have a high opinion of the old druids, and by comparison as I have said above the modern ones simply appear like dodgy old folk who want to go around dressed up like albino monks to annoy the neighbours!
However - if you take into account my belief that the old druids were very powerful, it would have taken alot of roman soldiers to sort them out.

However the Isle is a big place, with Druidry being spread in parts of Europe and Gaul, it would be stupid I think to assume that there would be only ONE place for training in the Isle.

There is also the details on the structure of the druids, being that there were three parts. It is possible that the remaining orders preserved the Druid practises underground after the roman invasion.

The topic of Druidry is an odd one.

Moon

Boudicca's a whole different issue!! I'm from Colchester, and they still have the Roman Castle they built after they'd razed the rest to the ground!! There were lots of reasons that she one, especially that the Roman Commander thought that an undisciplined rabble led by a woman would be unable to compete with them properly!! They found a few quotes dating back to then along those lines... Subsequently, most of the Roman Army was elsewhere and they made the mistake of underestimating the iceni tribe...

I'm sure that if you combined all of the knowledge from all of our brains - we would know EVERYTHING (between us)!!!!!
It never ceases to amaxe me - what people know.

Originally posted by Agent Dan
I suppose it's the definition of the phrase 'new age' 'cos it doesn't really mean 'new age' - even crystals (and correct me if I'm wrong, moon!) date back to druidic practices of years ago...

Incidentally, Tarot (in it's modern form) was created in the Victorian age, as were the playing cards we use now. The French came up with the first standardised deck in medievel times but it only had 11 cards to a suit...!
I didn't know that Dan. AFAIK they were a lot older. Just goes to show my limited knowledge. And I can read em too.

Thanks for the info!

Still not new age though if they're victorian. :P

Honestly who cares if its new or old age!! :D So what thats about four hippies/new agers in Sheffield or is it more?? :P

We should hold a festival!! Obviously a small one though!! Are you coming to the forum meet thursday 6 november Newy?

November 6?? Hmm I wonder if thats a college day?? Yeah holding a festival would be great!! I wonder where we could hold it though??

Ahh oh no It's my longest college day!! Oh!!

It's in the evening, so your friday morning timetable might be more appropriate!! I think it'll be at a pub near devonshire green, but it may be at the classic rock bar now that's definitely going to be open! I'm sure someone will give you a lift home if you need one, they're a pretty friendly bunch!

Ohh I don't think I'll be able to go. What with the whole underage thing. Aww well have a nice time anyway. :D

Yeah, but you'd be allowed in, even if you didn't drink. Anyway, who's gonna ID you when you're with a bunch of old gits like us?!
:D
p.s. what do you study then?

As you're asking, I call myself a zippy - Frazer Clark (of encyclopedia psychedelica, rainbow alliance etc.) coined the word to mean a technological, up-to-date hippy.

I used to get asked if I was a hippy all the time when I had long hair.

What is it apart from free love that defines hippyness for you, new age?

Aww Dan I'll have to come along another time. It would've been nice though. I'm studying towards my GCSE's at college. I didn't do them in July because I've been taught at home for the past three years.

Dadda for me I think that attitude is the most important thing for hippyness. ( Or zippyness lolol ) Like I guess I'm a semi hippie. I wear the gear of a hippie, but not all the time. I always try to treat people with respect and I try to avoid confrontations. I respect the environment and I'm not really into materialism which I think is kinda strange for a teen.
I have the long hair and try to support the Greenparty and Greenpeace and stuff. I'm also into this crystal healing and reiki and different cultures and stuff.
But saying that I wanted to join the RAF a while back and was thinking of tyedyeing my plane. :D
So maybe I'm not a hippie but its what I get called all the time!! :headbang:

Originally posted by Agent Dan
who's gonna ID you when you're with a bunch of old gits like us?!


DoBouncer might do!

Excellent reply new age - as far as I'm concerned you are a brother hippy/zippy.

They most important thing that jumped out at me was respect for everybody. That is a pretty special thing if you can do it - even some of the time.

I guess it must be harder to be a teen these days when just about everybody around you worships labels and superficial stuff.

I hope you can hang in there with your values intact. In just a few months some of the smarter kids will start to realise there is more to life than shiny shirts and shiny cars.

Until then you may have to hang out on sheffield forum for your stimulating conversations!

oops - that last post was from me. I forgot to log out after my wife had been on. Damn cookie!

Aww ty Dadda!! :D
Its nice to know that theres fellow hippies out there guys!! :)


In just a few months some of the smarter kids will start to realise there is more to life than shiny shirts and shiny cars.

Sorry for asking but what makes you say that??