"Wholeness" or "self-realization" - terms like these are part of the typical vocabulary of the left-alternative milieu in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1970s and early 1980s. Sven Reichardt presents a cultural and social history of this way of life and examines all areas: work and living, sexuality and body techniques, drugs and spirituality, as well as education and public relations. Using a Foucauldian framework, he analyzes the complex habitus and interprets it as a collective mode of self-transformation. An exciting journey into the recent past.