The Consciousness Revolution was a period of spiritual awakening in American history, according to Strauss and Howe in their books Generations and Fourth Turning. They put the years of the Consciousness Revolution as 1964 to 1984. Under Strauss & Howe's system, the era before the Consciousness Revolution was the American High; the era that follows it is the Culture Wars era. A spiritual awakening is a religious experience involving a realization or opening to a sacred dimension of reality. ... Strauss and Howe (William Strauss and Neil Howe) are a duo of authors who are known for their books on generations and history. ... William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (ISBN 0688119123) and The Fourth Turning divide Anglo-American history into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history, and divide the saecula into generations by birth year, and classify generations and historical periods into four types each. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... American High is a documentary television show about the lives of fourteen kids at Highland Park High School, located in the city of Highland Park, Illinois. ... The term culture war has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since at least the 1980s. ...

The Consciousness Revolution began with urban riots and campus fury and swelled alongside Vietnam War protests and a rebellious counterculture. It gave rise to feminist, environmental, and black power movements and to a steep rise in violent crime and family breakup. After the fury peaked with Watergate in 1974, passions turned inward toward New Age lifestyles and spiritual rebirth. The mood expired during Ronald Reagan's Presidential re-election campaign in 1984 as one-time hippies reached their yuppie chrysalis. The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War (Vietnamese Chiến Tranh Chống Mỹ Cứu Nước, War Against the Americans to Save the Nation) was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against... Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. ... Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ... The Watergate building. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... Yuppie, short for Young Urban Professional, describes a demographic of people generally between their late twenties and early thirties. ...

Age Location in History:

• The G.I. Generation was entering elderhood. As institution-founders and the "status quo", and they found themselves on the defensive side of the generation gap.
• The Silent Generation was entering midlife. They were thirtysomething when the slogan "Don't trust anyone over thirty" was popular.
• The Baby boomers were entering young adulthood. They were the hippie masses that made Woodstock so idyllic.
• Generation X was being born. Already, they were looking at the adult world as a source of mass confusion and were starting to be criticized as "bad". The criticism has moved up the age ladder with them.

The G.I. Generation is the generation of Americans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment and the parents who had a generation gap with their Boomer children. ... A generation gap describes a vast difference in cultural norms between a younger generation and their elders. ... The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. ... A baby boomer is someone born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity that in many countries followed World War II. In the United States, demographers have put the generations birth years at 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U... Woodstock redirects here. ... Generation X is a term used in demographics, the social sciences, and more broadly in popular culture. ...

See also

• The Beatles
• Counterculture
• Fourth Great Awakening
• Jesus Movement