RAINBOW GATHERING
IDAHO-USA 2001
Great!
Here everyone will keep smiling at everyone;
they will all give you big hugs without even knowing you, just because they all acknowledge that,
deep inside, everybody is but a unique identical human being...
What a revival! What an experience! What an extraordinary feeling one will keep forever,
once back in "normal" society! New conviction and such easily contagious happiness!
Here we are!
Songs, dance and music everywhere...Look! Don't you see it just the way I do? And the chats here?
Always very congenial and ever so clever too: such a change from the places we have just left!
As a matter of fact, it's just like stepping on the huge stage of a Theatre in order to recall a long-forgotten past,
which had been cast aside by the endoctrinating "Babylone" (civilisation!); the true part of a natural being; open-minded,
confident in life, showing respect towards Nature (one's own, other people's, the whole planet)...The part played by any autonomous human being responsable for Cohesion, Peace and Harmony, (based on the "what we have in common"), in one's own village. Thus responsable, of course, for the setting-up of this wide camping-ground, with its teepees, kitchens, toilets, showers, water supply, kindergarden, infirmary.
You know...Someone who doesn't depend on chiefs', leaders' decisions and, so, who does not blame anybody for personal problems, (the "establishment", a social class...). Unlike the Hippies of the past!
Being the only Head of this entire world, each one will try to face any problem, deal with all of them and manage to find a solution!
This is why you will hear over and over again that "everybody is a Rainbow as long as you've got a belly-button and a bowl for the food!"
Obviously, the best thing in these Gatherings, would be to keep away from any kind of drugs, including coffee and alcohol...Still, "nobody is perfect"!
Welcome home!
Here, in a Rainbow Gathering, everyone is offered the possibility to open up, to be and to express oneself completely, without being watched, judged, or criticized: with all one's different "colours", freely, entirely!
One may take an active or a passive role, being congenial or shy; be an atheist or a spiritual person, a buddhist or a christian, a pagan or anything else...
Don't you agree with me?
Observe them! Talk to them! Listen! You'll surely come to the very same conclusion.
In such an athanor, one is compelled to find one's true natural ways, the simple way to live happily, ("lightly"!), for a week or a month (may'be longer when back home?) : is this the reason why we meet only smiling faces with clear eyes wherever we go in this gathering, in any gathering of the "Rainbow Family of Living Light"?
Is this the reason why one always feels like shouting out loud to Nature, and to all the inhabitants of such heaven-like oases, this unforgetable song, straight from one's heart?
Listen! You can almost hear it everywhere...Yes!
I LOOOOVE YOUUUUU! ???
"The Rainbow Family is a movement of idealistic Utopia having the vision of a world directed by love and cooperation,without violence and competition.It's the egalitarian vision of a world without managers,oppressors and oppressed people (...) There's no centrral organisation,, to overthrow or destroy.
It's a movement,not an organization.Its strength comes from the individuals who settle the gathering.
(They see it) as an alternative to pessimism,apathy,cynical promesses from demagogic politicians,sectarian divisions issued from revolutionary politics."
Michael I. Niman (People of the Rainbow,a nomadic Utopia.-Univ. of Tennessee Press.I997)
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