What does the word ‘hippy’ mean to you? Dreadlocks? A penchant for tie dye? Free love?? The English Oxford Dictionary describes a hippy as ‘typically having long hair, wearing beads, one associated with a subcultural rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinatory drugs.’ But I say look beneath the surface you will find that what makes someone a hippy is so much more than that. Indeed, the original hippy movement was born in North America and Western Europe as a counter existence to the more conventional and accepted modes of living which placed money and personal power at its core. Hair was worn long and loose and clothes became colourful and flowing in defiant juxtaposition to the clipped and uniform post war haircuts and solemn and formulaic garb of corporate and conventional living in the late 50s/early 60s. And obviously there were the drugs. New age mavericks such as Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley were experimenting and challenging conventional modes of thinking and being through the use of drugs such as LSD …