value systems and experiences. After the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967, the Summer of Love became a watershed event in the development of a worldwide 1960s counterculture when newly recruited flower children returned home at the end of the summer, taking with them new styles, ideas, and behaviors and introducing them in all major cities of the U.S. and western Europe. Social analysis In his book, Prometheus Rising, the philosopher Robert Anton Wilson suggested that the flower children could be viewed in Jungian terms as a collective social symbol representing the mood of friendly weakness. In 1995, The Sekhmet Hypothesis extended Wilson's idea into other pop cultural trends with other youth movements being compared to the moods of hostile weakness, friendly strength and hostile strength. See also Baby boomers Carnation Revolution Counterculture of the 1960s Generation X Hippie History of the hippie movement Love beads References Further reading 'Flower Child' in the American Heritage Dictionary Online Etymology Dictionary Official Information on the single, San Francisco Hippie movement Counterculture Counterculture of the 1960s Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco Flowers in culture de:Blumenkind (Hippie) it:Figli dei fiori he:ילדי הפרחים