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[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: mindblower an experience or idea which changes one’s thought pattern, enlivening the mind and emotions.
at mind-blower, n.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 10: bread-head: One who spends the majority of his mental activity on making money.
at breadhead (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 10: bum-trip: [...] Now applied to bad experiences or poor quality music, events, people, etc.
at bum trip (n.) under bum, adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 10: freaky-straights: either ordinary-looking people with fanatical ideas on one particular theme, like the ‘Flat Earth Society’, or people whose appearance is very weird but whose minds are channelled into one usual line of thought and on all other subjects their thinking is just as stereotyped as ‘Mr. Average’. The lack of light in the eyes betrays the freaky-straight.
at freaky-straight (n.) under freaky, adj.1
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: hippy no precise informative is available on this elusive creature, which appears to be but a fabrication of the straight press to denote ordinary people with longish hair, beards and colourful clothes [...] Otherwise a hippy could be described as one who is hip, i.e. aware of the common unity of the Children of the Earth and seeks an easeful, happy life ‘doing his own thing’ in peace, without interference from grey-minded outside authorities.
at hippie, n.2
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: too much: an expression of delight, amazement or incredulity; great, nice, splendid. (From drug experiences where the sensation is overwhelming and almost too beautiful to take).
at too much!, excl.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: needle-freaks: those who have got to enjoy the habit of injecting themselves for the pleasure of the needle, ending up injecting anything.
at needle freak (n.) under needle, n.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: nods or noddy men ordinary policemen on the beat: (From Mr Plod, the policeman, in Noddybooks).
at nod, n.2
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: turn on: originally to take acid or smoke pot. Now also loosely applied in approval of an event, person, record, speaker, or an idea. A bad idea would be a turn-off.
at turn-on, n.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: turn you on: to make you see, to get you to understand, to free your head of the impositions of the mis-education system. Or to create enjoyment within one.
at turn on, v.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: spaced: a mental state in which one is unable to collect one’s thoughts, giving the impression of vagueness and abstractedness. Usually the aftermath of a drug experience, or the product of a mind overburdened with problems and pressures which negate cohesive thinking.
at spaced (out), adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: paranoid: of someone suffering from persistent delusions, i.e. grandeur or persecution, etc., mental disorder often with hallucinations. Now loosely applied to anyone agitated, upset, annoyed, or emotionally reactive.
at paranoid, adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: pigs American term for those saidistic and mindless members of the police who enjoy the privilege of ‘authorised’ brutality. (Re Orwell’s Animal Farm).
at pig, n.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: plastic hippie: one who thinks he is hip by wearing the clothes and hairstyles of the ‘Scene’, but does not have the remotest idea of Under- and Overground thinking, mental attitudes and sense of communication. There is no love or response in the eyes of such when you greet them.
at plastic hippie (n.) under plastic, adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: plastic people are those of a stereotyped mentality, nourished by mass-media and having stereotyped reactions in any given situation without any attempt to understand the real issues beneath their surface-thinking. Conventional, bigoted and narrow.
at plastic people (n.) under plastic, adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: the scene is an atmosphere rather than a locality, of things happening in people’s heads all over the world, and the places where people of alive minds [...] congregate and manifest their ideas creates that nebulous thing called ‘The Scene’, wherever it may be.
at scene, n.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: straights: basically people, groups, organisations, etc. who confine themselves to an extremely limited view of the world and conception of themselves, under the impression that they are broadminded, but who have a straight-jacketed mentality, causing them to deride or disbelieve anything which is not projected by establishment manipulated media [...] Conformist, ‘square’, unfree, restricted for fear of others’ opinions.
at straight, n.2
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: uncool: reckless, jittery, loudmouthed, paranoid, or causing a situation where consequences would be unfavourable.
at uncool, adj.
[UK] Gandalf’s Garden 6 n.d. 11: untogether: mentally confused, having scattered thinking, unable to cope very well.
at untogether, adj.
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