Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

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20 th century with the growth of the 1960s counterculture in America.
The hippie movement combined a back-to-the-land sentiment
with a deep commitment to equality that grew out of the
political liberation movements that were prominent at the time.
The cultural revolution was set out in terms of “expanding one’s
consciousness,” which referred not only to being more openminded
about violating longstanding social mores but also to
affecting one’s psychology through meditation or drug use.
The popularization of unobservable elements of Freudian and post-
Freudian psychology concerned mainstream psychologists, who
direction it was taking. A new approach was sought, the result of
which was behaviorism.
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