Editing Human Potential Movement (section)

==Social influence==
HPM was regarded by some as being related to [[Psychedelia|psychedelic culture]] such as [[hippie]]s and the [[Summer of Love]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stein |first=Mark A. |date=June 21, 1987 |title=20 Years After Hippie Invasion : The Summer of Love That Left Its Imprint on S.F. |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-21-mn-8912-story.html |access-date=September 16, 2015}}</ref> According to author Andrew Grant Jackson, [[George Harrison]]'s adoption of [[Hinduism|Hindu]] philosophy and Indian instrumentation in his songs with [[the Beatles]] in the mid 1960s, together with the band's highly publicised study of [[Transcendental Meditation]], "truly kick-started" the Human Potential Movement.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Andrew Grant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QI3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PR16 |title=1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music |date=2015 |publisher=Thomas Dunne Books |isbn=978-1-250-05962-8 |location=New York, NY |page=282}}</ref>

As Elizabeth Puttick writes in the ''Encyclopedia of New Religions'':

<blockquote>The human potential movement (HPM) originated in the 1960s as a counter-cultural rebellion against mainstream psychology and organised religion. It is not in itself a religion, new or otherwise, but a psychological philosophy and framework, including a set of values that have made it one of the most significant and influential forces in modern Western society.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=Human Potential Movement |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of New Religions |publisher=Lion |location=Oxford |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne0000unse_d3h6/page/399 |last=Puttick |first=Elizabeth |editor-last=Hugh |editor-first=Christopher |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofne0000unse_d3h6/page/399 399] |isbn=978-0-7459-5073-0}}</ref></blockquote>