Flower power
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Flower power was a slogan used by hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of the non-violence ideology. The term is said to have been coined by the US poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965. It has since been used in many places when referring the sixties, including countless films, TV programs and documentaries, and the installer for Israel's chat program ICQ.
The "meeting place" for the Flower Power movement was based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in a club called Paradiso. The hippies chose this club because of the name paradiso. It reminded them of a peaceful place, paradise. Artists such as Yoko Ono have since been performing there on occasional visits. Nowadays it is found next to a Hard Rock Cafe and is a center of music for all groups of people, including followers of movements such as the Rastafari movement.
Flower Power also included actions by teenagers, such as giving flowers to policemen and putting flowers inside guns and revolvers, as a sign of peace and not war.
A form of spinoff occurred in the early 2000s, when a Multi-level marketer called Marelin Thornton mashed up the idea of "Flow-er Power or the power of the endless flow of love." Writing "What you feel is all that matters, because all matter is made up of how you feel", this hides a Ponzi Scheme inside a combination of Non-duality philosophy and quantum mechanics.
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