I think you could find people like this in every state. I’ve known people like this in every state I’ve lived in, but they were never considered “normal” and I wouldn’t say it’s super duper common.
You’ll find a lot of that hippie culture in the small mountain towns of Colorado and New Mexico. I grew up on the Western Slope of Colorado and in some towns there is a weird mix of conservative cowboy types and new age hippie types.
There’s no specific place where they would live. Though the more relaxed lifestyle on the west coast is more in line with the New Age culture. There are, however, certain places like Sedona, Arizona where a lot of New Age people like to visit.
That question would make more sense 30 years ago. At one time, there was a pretty clear division between “New Age” and mainstream culture, but a lot of those things have been adapted into other subcultures, and often into subcultures that at one time would have been diametrically opposed.
And saying it is common in Oregon and California—again, that might have been true 30 years ago. The culture for most young people in the Pacific coast is actually a lot more hip and skeptical than woo-woo. There are a lot of young, educated people there, so there might actually be less of it than in other places.
It might also be a bit confusing because there are certain things like “eating vegetables” and “exercising regularly” that are popular in those areas, but those things aren’t quite the same as crystals or Tarot.
It used to be out west/Pacific Northwest, and may still be strongest there, but it’s spread pretty much everywhere to varying degrees. In some places it may look like the old-school hippie types, where in the central Midwest it might look like a middle aged suburban woman who saw ‘it online and did her own research’.
Here is your complimentary Kombucha and crystals… and a blank picket board, so you can protest whatever oppression you feel ‘is your truth’, at a later date.
Sincerely, a Lis Angelino with 2 nieces that go to UC Berkeley
Anti-intellectualism and distrust of institutions, particularly distrust of healthcare or lack of access. People have to find a way to take care of themselves when nothing else is available.
The world has changed such that the types of things you mentioned used to be associated with hippies, but now we have a population of right-wing nut jobs who eat organic beef tallow and think that vaccines cause autism. They probably take their kids to a chiropractor when they have a fever.
I hear there are a lot of these wack-a-doodles in parts of CA. You are probably spot on with southern OR and northern CA.
There’s lot in the mountain towns of Colorado. I live in Denver and there’s a sizable spiritual/hippie communities that do this stuff. There’s still some of this in Boulder but boulder is now filled with a bunch of rich NIMBY “hippies” and is pretty much unrecognizable to the 90s stereotype it used to live up to.. I think at this point every state probably has pockets like this.
The Secret was a bestselling book based on the law of attraction.
These ideas have for the most part seen some level of mainstream awareness at this point even if the general public is unaware of how a lot of them tie together.
Unassisted birth is significantly less common due in large part to the dangers involved. If there were a new age iceberg, this would be much deeper than the law of attraction, crystals, meditation, etc…
A lot of the new age stuff is working its way through the cultural zeitgeist as the good ideas are being separated from the benign from the dangerous.
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This just sounds like Denton, Texas
The pacific Northwest and parts of New England
I think you could find people like this in every state. I’ve known people like this in every state I’ve lived in, but they were never considered “normal” and I wouldn’t say it’s super duper common.
Cassadaga, Florida is known as the psychic capital of the world.
Then there’s the Villages. Where the hippies have gone to retire. Free love is certainly happening.
They’re basically everywhere at this point
You’ll find a lot of that hippie culture in the small mountain towns of Colorado and New Mexico. I grew up on the Western Slope of Colorado and in some towns there is a weird mix of conservative cowboy types and new age hippie types.
Lassen county and Humboldt County CA.
There’s a wildly pervasive New Age culture in Santa Fe, NM.
Sedona, AZ
Sedona Arizona, Boulder Colorado, Portland Oregon, and other similar places scattered throughout the country.
You can find them in every state tbh
There’s no specific place where they would live. Though the more relaxed lifestyle on the west coast is more in line with the New Age culture. There are, however, certain places like Sedona, Arizona where a lot of New Age people like to visit.
You’re gonna go an hour north of Sacramento NorCal and just go up that’s where this shit’s prevalent.
Sedona Arizona
Lots of little pockets all around the West Coast/Mountain West
It’s not one area. It’s not a single culture or income or geographical location.
Asheville NC
I’m all of that except unassisted birth. That just sounds very dangerous. I’m in the Deep South.
Everywhere
Sedona AZ, Taos NM.
That question would make more sense 30 years ago. At one time, there was a pretty clear division between “New Age” and mainstream culture, but a lot of those things have been adapted into other subcultures, and often into subcultures that at one time would have been diametrically opposed.
And saying it is common in Oregon and California—again, that might have been true 30 years ago. The culture for most young people in the Pacific coast is actually a lot more hip and skeptical than woo-woo. There are a lot of young, educated people there, so there might actually be less of it than in other places.
It might also be a bit confusing because there are certain things like “eating vegetables” and “exercising regularly” that are popular in those areas, but those things aren’t quite the same as crystals or Tarot.
Utah
Here in Oregon…
There are crunchy people in a ton of places, it’s just smaller pockets of them.
It’s pretty much everywhere now. It has become more mainstream in recent years.
Sedona, AZ
Dahlonega, GA
It used to be out west/Pacific Northwest, and may still be strongest there, but it’s spread pretty much everywhere to varying degrees. In some places it may look like the old-school hippie types, where in the central Midwest it might look like a middle aged suburban woman who saw ‘it online and did her own research’.
Santa Fe, NM
There are varying amounts of them everywhere in this country.
That said, they tend not to be geographically concentrated, so I doubt anywhere has a majority population of New Age practitioners
Welcome to the West Coast…
Here is your complimentary Kombucha and crystals… and a blank picket board, so you can protest whatever oppression you feel ‘is your truth’, at a later date.
Sincerely, a Lis Angelino with 2 nieces that go to UC Berkeley
“unassisted birth” Is this a thing? I know several people who have had births outside of a hospital but always assisted by a midwife or doula.
Asheville NC
Southwest US
Anti-intellectualism and distrust of institutions, particularly distrust of healthcare or lack of access. People have to find a way to take care of themselves when nothing else is available.
Stereotypically, San Francisco
The SF Bay Area.
Coastal and desert areas with lots of money.
Portland Oregon probably
Just follow the banjo music.
The world has changed such that the types of things you mentioned used to be associated with hippies, but now we have a population of right-wing nut jobs who eat organic beef tallow and think that vaccines cause autism. They probably take their kids to a chiropractor when they have a fever.
I hear there are a lot of these wack-a-doodles in parts of CA. You are probably spot on with southern OR and northern CA.
Oh yeah, those people have always been all over.
Taos, New Mexico. Not everybody there, obviously, but yeah there’s definitely a decent population.
There’s lot in the mountain towns of Colorado. I live in Denver and there’s a sizable spiritual/hippie communities that do this stuff. There’s still some of this in Boulder but boulder is now filled with a bunch of rich NIMBY “hippies” and is pretty much unrecognizable to the 90s stereotype it used to live up to.. I think at this point every state probably has pockets like this.
The internet
Also, everywhere.
The Secret was a bestselling book based on the law of attraction.
These ideas have for the most part seen some level of mainstream awareness at this point even if the general public is unaware of how a lot of them tie together.
Unassisted birth is significantly less common due in large part to the dangers involved. If there were a new age iceberg, this would be much deeper than the law of attraction, crystals, meditation, etc…
A lot of the new age stuff is working its way through the cultural zeitgeist as the good ideas are being separated from the benign from the dangerous.
Vermont maybe?
Asheville is definitely the first place I’ve lived where you can pretty easily get into a conversation about Pluto in Aquarius at the grocery store
Hippies are the Maga’s now. Last 20 years there’s been a large shift
All over. You just have to find that community.
Salem, MA