Hippies readily embraced the possibility of alternative realities, perhaps as an antidote to the depressing reality of war and the draft, and an increasingly reactionary society that took a dim view of anyone ‘dropping out’.

Enthusiasm for things paranormal may also be explained by the movement’s association with psychedelic experiences and ‘altered states of perception’ - hippies were regularly perceiving all kinds of inexplicable and apparently miraculous things.

announces the arrival of a mind-based transit system, the ultimate freedom from the authority of the government and ‘straight’ society.

The telepathic transit system requires only ‘krishna consciousness’ to propel the traveller instantaneously to the moon. This telepathic mobility promises ultimate physical and mental freedom from any earthly authority.