GETTING HIGH… ON LIFE
The 1960s — the age of tie-dye, social protest, flower-child environmental concern and feminist tension. As The Beatles searched India for the path to meditative transcendence, Ayurvedic medicine and vegetarianism, those left at home grappled with the ’60s concern of “meaning over money”, while attempting to form an answer to Time magazine’s question ofthe decade: “Is God Dead?”. The Age of Aquarius ushered an interest in explorative wellness that centred on magic mushrooms and herbal hedonism.
Fast forward to 2019. Once again, tie-dye has hit the catwalks, social protest flows through our streets, climate change has become one of Australia’s most divisive subjects and we continue to wrestle with the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. Google easily allows us to explore Ayurvedic theory and the benefits of yoga, while we eat our Hungry Jacks Vegan Cheeseburger and flip through the Twitter commentary of Time’s “The Mindful Revolution: The Science of finding focus in our stressed-out multitasking culture”.
