Yes, Back to the Garden meant without moral law and clothes. Whiles Woodstock is celebrated as an example of how beautiful the “free (as in uncommitted) love” ethos, Haight Ashbury is a real example.
Yet not all were rebels against moral authority and seeking a Christless utopia they could only find thru drugs, many of who run the MSM it seems, but some were looking for the reality, and found it in such churches as Calvary Chapel. Wonderful moves btw on that, http://www.calvarychapel.com/media/VENTURE.mp4 (download) in which i see God moving to reach these in the “Jesus movement,” while it lasted.
Is the thread dead yet?
Funny you would mention the Haight.
In April of 1967 I was in the Haight. It was lovely, full of promise.
In August I was there and I stood with the attitude of a pilgrim at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. A guy came up to me ans asked if I knew where he could get a gun. People had been stealing his drugs and he needed to put a stop to it.
I told him I had just arrived from the east and couldn’t help him. He left and I turned to my friends and said, “The Hippie movement is over. The Christians are right.”