400,000 young people materialized for three dizzying days to listen to rock and blues music, to wear funny clothing or no clothes at all, to talk, sing, dance, clap hands, to drink beer or smoke pot and make love-but mostly to marvel again and again that they were all there together.
http://users.rowan.edu/~lindman/hippieintro.html
Here is an interesting quote from a blog that prompted this alternative view of Cayces prophecy, note the parts in color:
So just to summarize. We have a wonderful song that appears to have together come via some wonderful synchronicities regarding the band's name change and their subsequent hit "Aquarius" recorded 4 years later, due to a chance invite to watch the stage show Hair, after one of their band members lost his wallet, only to be found later by the producer of Hair who went on to invite the band to watch his play, which in turn featured a version of the song. Was the song really intended for the times we're now living in, some 40 years later? Although it was recorded back in 1969 the Flower Power era that followed definitely marked a huge shift in people's consciousness, even if briefly. Was this time symbolic in showing us what we could achieve if we really worked towards peace from a heart centered way. Was this highlighting that the Light Workers were now here and more would follow. Maybe it was pivotal in someway to show that the potential existed to start ushering a new time of peace. Sometimes the Great-Spirit has a way of temporally dangling a huge carrot and stick in front of us to ensure we start working towards our goals. Anyhow I will let you ponder your own thoughts on the subject.: http://lightworkers.org/wisdom/ian-jones/72190/the-fifth-dimension-age-aquarius-1969
Was Edgar Cacyces prophecy in fact correct? did he mean that it would metaphorically rise? it could be possible that what Edgar Cacye actually meant was that in the years to follow there would be a major shift in consciousness and that after that, our collective consciousness would continue to rise to a point where it would be like that of the civilization of Atlantis, possibly to peak in 2012? I know many are awaiting a grand appearance by the once beautiful and powerful Atlantean continent, but as a human being, I personally hope that it is just a metaphor for a shift in consciousness, imagine if you will a whole continent rising from the sea the size of Africa, millions will die and that is along the east coast alone, imagine the 10.0+ earthquakes and mega tsunamis that will result from the rising of Atlantis, is this what many lightworkers are looking forward to?
