 Although Lyman and the Family shared some attributes with the hippies – prior experimenting with LSD and marijuana and Lyman’s cosmic millennialism – they were not actually hippies; in fact, the ethos of the community was virulently anti-hippie.Female members dressed and behaved conservatively and male members wore their hair relatively short by the standards of the era.According to both Felton and Kindman, Lyman discouraged sexual activity and at least once ordered a pregnant member to get an abortion.