Hippy-dippy tendencies

[sawyl]

Another quote from Alex Ross, this time on Karlheinz Stockhausen:

Bright, glib, fair-haired, collegial, Stockhausen exuded what would later be called postive energy, although deep-seated authoritarian tendencies made him a sometimes insufferable colleague. In later years he revealed a mystical streak, bordering on the hippy-dippy; it turned out that he had lived many past lives, and that he claimed to be extraterrestrial in origin. Stockhausen was, in fact, born in a village outside Cologne, in 1928.