Eastern Philosophy made a big impact on western society in the swinging sixties, a decade already full of psychedelic upheaval. Here was a time of social and cultural change with a generation of younger people looking for a different life view than the post war era could offer them.
The literature and philosophy of Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Zen found its way via popular culture into mainstream society. When pop groups the stature of The Beatles included eastern philosophies in their lyrics and eastern instruments on their albums, then the influence of Eastern Philosophy could not be ignored.
For those disillusioned with what their consumer and market led society could offer them, eastern philosophy offered a differing viewpoint on life, one that seemed to hark back to a simpler life based on natural laws and a life in tune with the universe.
After the world wide conflicts that affected most of the early twentieth century there was a quest for a different way of living. The arrival of eastern ideas certainly gave people a new way of looking at the world.
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