Re: My personal opinion of the modern gathering
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- Date: 2 Aug 2006 10:01:12 -0700
Hey RiverMan;
The only constant in life is change.
namaste;
bodhi
http://psychedelictourist.blogspot.com
woodstock wrote:
John wrote:
I never heard of you until Sister Difference died.
So now we have a 13 year history......GAP in time
are You a Cop...and wheres your badge?
HA HA
Boomer
Oh, I didn't know only cops see the difference between a peace movement
and a party <shrug> -why does he have to be a cop? Think about this:
the majority of people who can even get there these days are people who
have nothing to lose or people well enough off financially to afford
taking that much time. -woodstock-
RiverMan wrote:
First of all let me state that I am not, nor have ever been or
proclaimed to be a "hippie"... But I do have a similar mindset to that
of the real hippies who came before me. I am a child of the 70's. I
grew up with dingo boots and huge Liberty bell bottoms and satin
shirts... and even thru all that I was and have always been a tree
hugging, nature loving, hippie "type".
My very first gathering was in 1993 in Alabama and it pretty much
changed my life... no.... not pretty much.... it had a profound effect
on me and completely changed my life.
While standing in line at the grocery store with my girlfriend around
late June 1993.... I just happened to look down at a stack of that days
newspapers and saw the headline... It read " Rainbows Gather in
Talladega" and it had a picture of a girl doing a hair wrap on another
girl. This sounded interesting and was something I had never heard of
before so I talked my girlfriend and brother into going up for the
weekend. We fillled our ice chests with hamburger makings and hotdogs
and beer and headed out for the weekend. Two weeks later we were all
still there... we had all lost our jobs and were all in tears because
we had to leave. That gathering had such a major effect on me that it
actually changed my life and from then on I devoted all my time and
resources to keeping the spirit of Rainbow alive and building something
like that in Alabama... which is where the original Beautiful Alabama
Rainbow Family (BARF) came from.
Over the years I have watched Rainbow change a little at a time into
what it is now.... And I have to admit that I don't like the direction
the gatherings have taken. I think it's more of a drug fest, party town
in the woods. It really sux that so many people who once had a vision
of this Utopian gathering have bailed because of fear of persecution or
prosecution or whatever... and left the family to fend for it's self.
This year was probably one of the strangest gatherings I have ever
attended. The attitude is much more relaxed and much more open to
drunkeness and photographs than ever before. I remember never seeing
meat cooked at the kitchens,,,, and now almost every kitchen has meat.
Rainbow, like everything else, evolves over time. And it seems like
most of the older folks refuse to change with it.... So they stop
coming and the whole movement loses it's original feel and purpose even
faster. The kids that come nowadaze could care less about nature and
brotherlhood and most are just there to party. Gatherings are not so
much a place for spiritual healing and brotherhood anymore... it's more
like a rave... with glow sticks and whatever.
What is really a shame is that the people who made this movement so
special are no longer there to teach these new folks what they are
there for. I do accept the change... I don't really like it, but I am
not going to bail out just because it's "different" now. Rainbow
changed my life and I can never forget that... especially as I look
into the faces of the new people and wonder what profound effect the
new Rainbow will have on them... if any. But I stay and will help teach
and reach as many as I can about why we are there to gather... I am not
a rat fleeing a sinking ship... if this ship sinks I want to go down
with it....
-=] River [=-
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