Vu sur le forum RainbowFrance: ------------------------------ Intéressant de faire savoir, ou de répéter, répéter, répéter cela à tous ceux qui sur des forums rainbows appelent à lutter contre ceci ou cela, à faire des manifestations pour ceci ou cela, que le Rainbow ne se rassemble pas pour protester, mais pour montrer que l'on peut vivre ensemble en paix, ici et maintenant...... Retransmis de: [Rainbow Family Of Living Light] Digest Number 846 "The Gathering is not a protest. The Rainbow gathering is not a demonstration FOR peace. The Rainbow Family Gathering of Living Light is a demonstration OF PEACE; an intentional community of compassionate, idealistic, faithful, prayerful people endeavoring to demonstrate WHAT PEACE IS."
Bel article paru dans le Canadian Geographic (Sept./Octobre 2005) sur le rassemblement de la Famille Québécoise: (1ère partie avec photos): Puis les textes (en plus lisible... et en anglais!):
Le texte est en anglais mais quelques parties essentielles vont être traduites afin que vous tous puissiez en prendre connaissance. 1ère partie: ********************** To the people out there that read this, which it seems most don't read David's posting they need to be addressed so the younger future Rainbow Chidren of Light know the history and the truth of the Rainbow Family and what it is truly about, as it is much to all in differant ways.... "So First of all, be prepared for a different answer from each person who responds. Rainbow is different things to different people." "Further Letters On Rainbow's Origins - Part I" "This is from the introduction of my book on Rainbow about the context of the times when Barry Plunker (of Marble Mount Outlaws) met up with Garrick Beck (of Temple Tribe) and they began to plan the first gathering. In May, 1970, the radical youth movement reached its height. When the USA invaded Cambodia, the National Guard killed four anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio and two at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Student strikes closed down over 400 universities and colleges across the country in protest against the invasion and the killings. That was the week that Chuck Windsong, who was deeply upset about the killings, went into the forests of Washington to camp out with his cousin Barry. Barry had left Haight-Ashbury long before and was now helping draft dodgers and deserters escape across the border into Canada. That week of student week of invasion and killings and student strikes, Barry and Chuck started making plans to invite everyone who would come to stand in a circle on a mountaintop on a Fourth of July. It took over two years of preparation before Barry, Chuck, Garrick, Karen, Jean Vision and the others could have the silent circle at the first Rainbow Gathering in the mountains of Colorado on July 4, 1972. During those two years, the left-wing movement went through a period of decline. Already in June, 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the main radical youth organization, had split at its national convention. SDS chapters around the country had mostly refused to follow any of the rival factions. Thus, the student strike of May, 1970, was not coordinated by any national organization and there was no way of keeping the energy going. By this time, large numbers of SDS'ers and other leftists were mentally and physically exhausted from five years of working against a war that went on and on. In May, 1970, there was hope that the revolution - or at least the end of the war - would come soon. By that fall the hope was dying down. Some places the hope died later than others. In outlying areas, young people were just starting to turn onto the counter-culture and the vague hope of the revolution that had come to them at second and third and tenth hand from the radical youth organizations, while in the main centers, the hope was dying. There was a brief surge of hope again around the May Day anti-war demonstrations of May, 1971, but the hope died down again. The left-wing people who had provided the moral leadership for the counter-culture went out of action. Some went to graduate school, others to a piece of land in the country and others to heavy alcohol and drug use. Some kept on with the struggle, but the media weren't paying attention and the goals looked further away than ever. In 1972, an article in "U.S. News an(i- World Report" noticed that as protest died down, crime in campus areas was increasing. With no more goal of a revolution to give a moral purpose, the dropouts and runaways in college fringe areas started stealing more and more. As trust broke down, students and other people were no longer ready to give them a place to stay. The use of LSI) and other psychedelics declined. There was a big increase in the use of alcohol, downers and heroin. Apparently in most people, psychedelics inspire bright, hopeful visions and when people no longer believe they can make these visions into reality, they prefer to blot them out. As young people lost hope that the revolution would come soon to transform the world, many came to believe that Jesus would come soon to do the same thing. Jesus freak groups grew rapidly in counter-culture communities. They usually disapproved of some things that were considered basic in the counter-culture - pot smoking, non-married se* and protesting against the war. The basic viewpoint of most Jesus freak groups was socially conservative. Although most Jesus freaks did not think of themselves as political at all, they disapproved of protest - anything that might hint that people could make the world a better place by their own efforts. Only Jesus could do that at his coming. Jesus freak groups gave young people stability and hope as the counter-culture communities around them fell into moral chaos, but they didn't have the kind of moral leadership in the counter-culture that the leftwing groups once had. The Jesus freaks did not see their job as improving the scene, but as helping their converts to be in the scene but not of it. The same thing is true of the numerous eastern religious groups such as Krishna Consciousness that began to flourish at this time. They regarded the counter-culture not as something good in itself that should be developed, but as a hunting ground for converts. Among the Plains Indians when they were conquered by the whites, the Ghost Dance arose - the faith that an Indian Savior would appear who would renew the earth and bring back to life all the Indians that white guns and diseases had slain and all the buffalo the whites had destroyed. It would be sudden - all that would be necessary was to keep dancing the Ghost Dance - making that energy circle, dancing until very soon the power came that would redeem the land for the Indians. For some, the first Rainbow Gathering in Colorado was a Ghost Dance for the hippie movement. On July 3, 1972 Phil Coyote looked over the thousands of people he had helped prepare the way for in the Colorado mountains. These people had dared a National Guard road block to gather at the foot of Table Mountain, a holy mountain of the Arapaho Indians, ready to go to the top on the Fourth of July and make the silent circle as the spirit had said. The counter-culture was in decay. The non-religious protest movement that had given it purpose was too weak to stop the decay. So a spiritual renewal movement had brought these people to the Rainbow Gathering at Table Mountain. Phil tells his hope at that time - the hope of many who came - for the immediate redemption of the counter-culture, a vision straight out of the Ghost Dance: "I thought it was the end of an old world, the start of a new one. We expected things at the gathering too quick. We expected that the fences would come down around the world, the prisons would crumble, the cities would be gone and the buffalo would come back and Christ would return." The next day, the great circle on the mountain was held. There was no big, sudden, universal change. Phil Coyote comments, "A lot of different people went up to Table Mountain to wait for the world to end. It didn't." But Phil didn't go up the mountain to see what did happen. Apparently Table Mountain is a center in a mountain complex that might be compared to a human nervous system. This center would amplify the energy raised by this huge circle of intensely praying silent people as they gathered on the day of independence with the sun directly overhead. Many Rainbow people deeply enjoy the release of energy done by what Light Owl calls "a lot of strong praying." JaySun apparently considers the "boogying and praying" he did in Colorado to be different aspects of the same thing. The human energy was apparently supported by the energy from the natural world, The deepest feeling of Rainbow people seems to be that the inmost energy of humans, the sun, the mountains and the other natural objects is the same as what has been called period or spirits. Chuck 'Windsong told me, "Barry and I seen Christ appear on "able Mountain. At every gathering people have seen him ascend." I asked Chuck did he mean descend, but he insisted Christ' ascended from the earth. In other words, 'the earth we are on now is a sacred place as much as any far-off heaven or different state of consciousness. This sacredness is recognized in many ways, from praying on a mountaintop to picking up cigarette butts and waste paper from the ground after the gathering is over. I have used the word energy a lot. It is a frequent word in Rainbow. Someone will tell a friend, "I like our energy." Matt would not use cocaine because the greed of the coke dealers "fucked up the energy around the cocaine." Once when somebody started to crush a cockroach on a blanket at a gathering, the blanket's owner, nine-year-old Erica, came running to prevent the insect from being killed. "No!" she shouted. "I don't want that kind of energy in my blanket!" The world is felt as all alive with everything radiating energy - good or bad that can connect it to everything else. And there is trust that the most basic energy is good. Of course not enough energy was raised on Table Mountain to transform the world in a moment. But there was enough generated to begin to drive away the darkness that had fallen on the counter-culture. A long, slow process began there of individuals changing and communities trying to form, using the Rainbow Gatherings as a focus. It is not being done by a spectacular, apocalyptic force from the outside, but by slow, steady work - like digging a latrine at a gathering. The Rainbow Family links together many thousands of people - more all the time. The Family is assuming the moral leadership among counter-culture youth that the left-wing groups had in the sixties. When I hitch around the USA, many young people who pick me up have heard of the gathering and wish they could go. If they know nothing else about Rainbow, they believe It stands for share what you have and don't steal." Best wishes, Jodey (postmark 1/28/91). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This letter from Jodey was included in the 1996 Rainbow Anthology. http://www.starsrainbowrideboard.org/welcomehome_mirror/rainbow/
2ème partie: ------------ "Further Letters On Rainbow's Origins - Part II" "Jackson Phelan was one of the people who was sent out by Don Kelsey - called Mountain Don in Barry Plunker's book, "Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?"' Jackson and the others went out to ask everyone they knew to come to a gathering in the mountains near Nederland, Colorado in the summer of 1968. There were rumors that an asteroid called Icarus was going to hit the earth and that the safest place would be there in the mountains around Nederland, near Boulder. However, Jackson says that Don Kelsey never said anything of the kind and he ((Jackson)) never told that to anybody. Jackson went to the 'Up Against the Wall Motherfuckersl-- they were a group of anarchists who lived on the lower east side of New York. Ben Morea of the U.A.W./Motherfuckers was at the June 1967 convention of Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) and in December, 1967 U.A.W./Motherfuckers was recognized as a chapter of SDS. The Motherfuckers has a group of young people staying with them who took on an identity of their own as the STP family. The STP'ers went to this gathering in the Colorado mountains that Don Kelsey called. John Johnson - now well-known in Rainbow as John Buffalo met the STP family there in Colorado in the summer of 1968 and he became part of STP. He does a lot of the security for Rainbow now, and hopes to do a kitchen. Barry Plunker and his first wife Ellen were at that gathering in the mountains that Don Kelsey called. They went on to New York. About 2,000 people in all showed up that summer. Some vigilantes came and tried to make them leave. They hit Don Kelsey over the head with a rifle. However people stayed camped there near Nederland all summer and through the fall. Jackson Phelan says that he stayed in Boulder over the winter. He worked part of the time in a restaurant. ((Then)) that summer of 1969 the gathering started up again in the mountains near Nederland. Barry Plunker hitch-hiked from New York sometime in late June and early July. Jackson says he believes it was before the space ship landed on the moon ((on 7/21/69)). He went camping in the mountains with Barry. Another person showed up who was important in the early days of Rainbow - Michael Bison Bear. He had been to the Woodstock festival ((of 7/_--,/69)). He left the gathering in Colorado and went off to the Big Sur region of California and camped with the Salmon Creek Family ((around late Aug. 169)). Barry left Boulder shortly after that...he went to Alaska and then down to Big Sur to be with Michael Bear and the Salmon Creek family. When hunting season began in early fall, the Salmon Creek Family started being harassed by hunters so they moved up to Marble Mount, Washington. Barry and Michael Bear and part of the Salmon Creek Family became the Marble Mount Outlaws. They set up the camps called Love One and Love Two and Love Three to take draft dodgers and deserters across the border to Canada. They went down to the Renaissance Fair in Portland, Oregon and met up with Garrick Beck and the Temple Tribe and began the discussions with him that led to the Vortex free rock festival near Portland over Labor Day weekend', 1970, and then ((onward)) to the July, 1972 ((first)) Rainbow Gathering near Granby, Colorado. Best wishes, Jodey (postmark 1/28/91)." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This letter from Jodey was included in the 1996 Rainbow Anthology http://www.starsrainbowrideboard.org/welcomehome_mirror/rainbow/ More from 72- What is the Rainbow Family of Living Light? What is the Rainbow Family of Living Light? First of all, be prepared for a different answer from each person who responds. Rainbow is different things to different people. Most of us, though not all, who consider ourselves part of the Rainbow Family, have attended the Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes, which takes place from July 1 - 7 every year. The first gathering was in 1972, the invitation to it reading as follows: We, who are brothers & sisters, children of God, families of life on earth, friends of nature & of all people, children of humankind calling ourselves Rainbow Family Tribe, humbly invite: All races, peoples, tribes, communes, men, women, children, individuals -- out of love. All nations & national leaders -- out of respect All religions & religious leaders -- out of faith All politicians -- out of charity to join with us in gathering together for the purpose of expressing our sincere desire that there shall be peace on earth, harmony among all people. This gathering to take place beginning July 1, 1972, near Aspen, Colorado - or between Aspen & the Hopi & Navaho lands - on 3000 acres of land that we hope to purchase or acquire for this gathering -- & to hold open worship, prayer, chanting or whatever is the want or desire of the people, for three days, but upon the fourth day of July at noon to ask that there be a meditative, contemplative silence wherein we, the invited people of the world may consider & give honour & respect to anyone or anything that has aided in the positive evolution of humankind & nature upon this, our most beloved & beautiful world -- asking blessing upon we people of this world & hope that we people can effectively proceed to evolve, expand, & live in harmony & peace. - Amen - The 3000 acres never materialized, and the first gathering took place partly on private land offered for temporary use, and partly on National Forest land. As you can see, this was intended to be a onetime event. However, people liked it so much that gatherings continued to happen annually on federal lands, each year in a different state. The length of the gathering has since expanded beyond the original four-day span. For many years, there was only the one gathering, and the spiritual focus was foremost in the minds of everyone who attended. Most folks were identified with the "hippie" movement of the times, engaged in establishing alternative social, economic, spiritual, political, and/or environmental consciousness. Many were involved either in the Peace movement in the cities or the communal, back-to-the-land movement in the country. In either case, exploration of alternative spiritual systems and states of consciousness was often a common theme. Sometime around the mid-1980s, folks who felt it was too far or too long to the annual gathering started coming together for smaller, regional gatherings. People all over the country developed local and regional bonds. In the past few years, the spiritual focus has been less obvious, due to the huge influx of people who may not realize the central purpose of the gatherings. These folks may come to party, to hang out, to find like-minded people, to gain support for their political causes, or whatever. Who knows? (I sure don't, since I haven't spoken with all of them.) The interesting thing is that we all consider ourselves to be part of a huge, extended family, no matter what our reason for gathering, no matter what our spiritual or religious or political or economic or social views may be. And many people who have not yet had an opportunity to attend a gathering also feel they are part of this family. Another interesting thing is that there is no formal organizational structure. There are no membership qualifications, no fees or dues, no leaders, and virtually no rules other than the one of "peaceful respect." Each year, individuals take personal responsibility and work together with others on whatever they are inspired to do, from office work, to scouting, to building the kitchens at the gatherings, to hauling in food and first-aid supplies, to peacekeeping, etc. Every project undertaken operates essentially on a consensus basis. Participation, communication, and cooperation are how things get done. It is nothing short of miraculous. The gatherings are free and non-commercial, and everyone is welcome. Each person is asked to bring their own camping equipment (this all takes place in remote areas of the National Forest), their own cup, bowl, and spoon, and whatever they might want to share to help the gathering happen (tarps, shovels, musical instruments, bulk food, etc.). No one will be turned away because of lacks in these areas, however. The Magic Hat is passed at mealtimes and around camp. Donations are used to buy food in bulk for the kitchens and whatever else may be necessary for the communal well-being (plywood covers and lime for the latrines, first aid supplies, etc.). Besides the work that goes on to help the gathering happen, there's also lots of accoustical music, drumming, dancing, workshops, herb-walks, council circles, sister circles, brother circles, brother-sister circles, people hanging out, people bartering, people enjoying nature, people meditating, chanting, and praying, people talking politics, people talking spiritual and personal growth, people visioning the future, people doing bodywork and other healing work, ... The list could go on forever. For me personally, the Rainbow Family is where I have found my greatest opportunities to learn, to grow, to celebrate, to be one with my fellow beings and my mother Earth, to serve, to pray, to play. The gatherings for me are living theater, evolution in process, creativity manifest. I am passionately in love. Picture twenty thousand people in a sunlit meadow, standing silent in prayer, holding hands in one huge, unbroken circle. Picture a parade of children approaching, singing songs, their countenances bright with enthusiasm and face paint, baloons and banners waving in the breeze. Picture the breaking of the silence with a cheer from the circle, then the silence returning once again, to grow slowly into a thrum of voices united in a single OM reverberating through the valley and on to the hills beyond. Hold the OM in your mind. Let it spread through and around and in you. Feel it pass from hand to hand and heart to heart. The magic, the connection you feel is the essence of the Rainbow Family of Living Light. Peace, love, and light, Carla http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/info/carla-whatis.html Further Letters On Rainbow's Origins - Part III ....the birth of Rainbow ((was)) at Vortex I in 1970...if you've heard from others ((besides the writer, Rainbow Hawk, plus he mentions Jodey Bateman)) who were there I wouldn't mind having their, current addresses. Maybe Peter Blue Cloud ((would)) be a good source ... as the Rainbow Temple Family were some of the originators of Vortex I. Maybe some of the folks from the Brotherhood of Light ((could help))...(partially where the name Rainbow Family of Living Light evolved from). Or some of The Family Thing folks. And The Electric Circus folks, the Good Earth Commune, The Marble Mount Outlaws, etc.,...all of whom were parts of the first councils. ((Also)) the Sunnyvale Farm Commune and a fair number of folks from Takilma, the Mystic Arts Commune, Morning Star, Wheelers Ranch, etc. The first council was about 450 folks and they were representative of just about every alternative group on the Coast, so it's kind of hard to remember them all, but those are some of the key-ones, Oh yea! The Clear Light Corncob folks too. Most of us did a big caravan leaving Vortex I (the first Rainbow Peace Caravan, but we didn't call it that then) over to the Sky River II Festival (on Maggies Farm). ...Actually ((as well as the group names not presently remembered)), you can't leave out the' Eagle Scouts, for their donation of the Rainbow Tipi Circle was the major reason we chose Rainbow...((as part of an umbrella name)).((, there were already 20,000-30,000 folks there who had all agreed (via an announcement from the stage and a huge cheer) that the whole West Coast alternative movement had decided to unite under the symbol of the Rainbow. ...The Rainbow Family/Tribes part reached an easy 100% agreement at Vortex I, but a number of folks had a hard time on the "of Living Light" part...but it passed by simple majority. Those objecting thought it a bit too pretentious and in many ways hipstory has proven them right. I've personally always preferred Warriors of the Rainbow ((per the Hopi(?) Indian prophecy, 'There will come a tribe of people from all cultures who believe in deeds, not words, and who will restore the earth to its former beauty. This tribe will be called Warriors of the Rainbow.')) and Rainbow Tribes (though Dart of the reason for the inclusion of "Family" came from two communities I was a part of). The Gathering of the Tribes part of the Gatherings name ((the full name being The Rainbow Family of Living Light Gathering of the Tribes and World Peace and Healing Celebration)) came from an event titled the Gathering of the Tribes in Golden Gate Park during the Summer of Love (1967) and with so many Bay Area folks involved with Rainbow from the get-go it was almost a foregone conclusion that that title would stick with , us forever (I wholeheartedly supported that one too). ...for the most part it's endless good news coming in and that's always a good energy boost and an inspiration to do more and better. Give everybody my love and hugs. Meta Tontay ((Walk in Peace)), Rainbow Hawk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This letter from Rainbow Hawk was included in the 1996 Rainbow Anthology. http://www.starsrainbowrideboard.org/welcomehome_mirror/rainbow/ [/PHP]
Reçu d'une Amie: --------------- La Famille rainbow globale , comme il fallait s'en douter en voyant, un peu partout, l'afflux de drainbows inconscients de ce qu'est la "philosophie" et le "but" du Rainbow, ne parvient pas, cette fois, à s'unir pour la Vision du Lieu du rassemblement en Angleterre; elle demande que chacun des "vrais" soit en méditation ce dimanche à 19h. pour l'aide à cette Vision consensus . Ensuite , et ensuite seulement, chat à l'adresse indiquée. Comme tout le monde, de nos jours, a été "obligé" par Babylone de comprendre un peu la langue "internationale" anglaise (que faire, autrement, pour "vivre rainbow" partout ?), voici le texte de leur Appel: **************************************************** A Call for Help to the Global Rainbow Family from the English Rainbows **Love and Light** Dear Rainbows, Your help is needed. The European Rainbow gathering is due to be happening in England in July, but a site has not been found, and although there seems to be a lot of talking between the English rainbows and lots of efforts being made, at times there also seems to be a lack of listening, respect and a communal vision. To help to heal these troubles we are hoping to have a national/European/international group focused meditation followed by a virtual chat room discussion on Sunday (21st May). The intention of the meditation is to help the English rainbows reconnect with their hearts and therefore also reconnect with each other, the Earth, ancestors, guides and spirit. It is hoped that the focussing of rainbow consciousness on Earth will help the English rainbows to raise their own groupconsciousness, so that they can once again hear the land speak to them and they become ready to learn the directions to the gathering site. We sincerely and respectfully ask the global rainbow family to join us for this focussing of energy. We are calling for rainbows to meditate at around 7pm (UK time) on Sunday 21st May 2006, with a chat room discussion afterwards at http://rainbowinfo.net/cgi-bin/chat1/chat.pl If 7pm (UK time) is not suitable or doesn't feel right to you please be free to be guided to a better time, I am sure it will join with the group focus whatever time it is sent. The meditation will not take place in the chat room, as it is important to make space where you can connect to the land; however the chat room will be used AFTER the meditation to share any inspirations/ideas. Any inspirations/ideas that arise DURING meditation can be written down on paper, so they are not forgotten, and shared later. It is sincerely hoped that rainbows from around the world will come forward to help the England rainbows, and that hopefully a global focussing of energy will also lead to the strengthening group consciousness and energy of the international rainbow family. ***Love and Light to you All*** Thank you, Tracy (Location: England) (rainbowhippychick@hotmail.com)
Merci mes amours pour les superbes cartes avec les petits mots doux que vous m'avez envoyé, cela fait chaud au coeur et me touche profondément !!! Vous étes des z'adorables tout plein, et sachez que même si la distance nous sépare quelque peu, vous étes toujours présent dans mon coeur et j'espère que le temps viendra assez vite où je pourrais à nouveau vous serrer dans mes bras pour vous hugger tendrement comme il se doit et jouer et chanter et danser et aimer et rire et sourire et sourire encore et encore et encore jusqu'à.... bon on va se calmer mais vous avez compris ce que je voulais dire hein ? hihihi Je vous aime du fond du coeur et vous envoie mille milliards de mille millions de gros bisous tout doux. Dans l'Amour et la Lumière....
bonjour à tous! est-ce que qqun sait où en sont les discussions pr le rainbow de cet été? je n'ai pa pu participer à la discussion de la semaine dernière. finalement, où en sont les anglais? va-t-il y avoir quelque chose en espagne? je ne sais pourquoi de mon côté le bouche à oreille ne fonctionne plus, ça me désespère... bisous à tous
Moi aussi Pomme j'attend les instructions du Rainbow en Angleterre d'autant plus que je ne pourrai pas f?ter les feux de Beltan le 21 juin!..ö moins que...
Voici le flyer de l'invitation au Rainbow européen avec les dates. Le lieu n'a pas encore été trouvé et le scouting continue : http://rainbowinfo.net/images/EnglandInvite06.pdf ... et encore plein d'amour pour notre très cher Sushumna !
De retour du rassemblement d'angleterre, je viens tous ici vous saluer et vous faire partager ce que nous y avons vécu... (dans un laps de temps relativement court!) Le lieu était superbe, une immense prairie vallonnée, avec des petits murés de pierre pour séparer les parcelles de champs, des moutons broutant paisiblement une herbe bien verte et bien grasse, et qui étaient bien au chaud sous leur grosse laine, eux! Le temps était à la pluie avec des raffales de vent au moment où nous y étions, alors il est difficile d'être vraiment détendu dans ces conditions là. Chacun portant quatre ou cinq pulls, ça fait entre 8 et 10 couches de vêtements entre nous pour les hugs! Il y avait des frères et soeurs avec des vêtement incroyables. Il y en avait un qui avait accroché pleins de rubans à ses bras, à ses jambes, et sur son châpeau. Tous ces rubans volaient au vent, accompagné par le son de petites clochettes qu'il s'était encore accroché aux chevilles. Il y en avait un autre qui s'était mis des fleurs dans sa longue barbe tressée et dans ses cheveux longs, avec des badges partout de toutes les couleurs. On a vu beaucoup de musiciens avec des instruments peu communs. Il y avait les guitares et les derboukas, bien sur, mais aussi une vielle à roue, une cornemuse, une clarinette, un saxophone, un hautbois médiéval... Qu'il était bon de se faire de grands hugs tout au long du chemin pour venir, sur place, et pour repartir, bref, toutes les raisons sont bonnes pour s'embrasser! J'avoue que nous avons rencontré très peu d'anglais, beaucoup d'allemands, de français, des espagnols, des italiens, des tchèques, des hongrois, une australienne, une américaine, des suédoises, et un brother de "sa mère", parcequ'il est tout le temps sur les routes, qu'il parle pleins de langues, et que son pays d'origine n'a aucune importance nous a-t-il confié. Au food circle, nous avons chanté et dansé en une immense farandole qui tournait très vite. C'était vraiment réjouissant. La nourriture était délicieuse et saine, comme toujours dans les rassemblements. C'était juste dommage de recevoir la fumée des cigarettes dans le nez, DANS UN RASSEMBLEMENT DE LA FAMILLE DE L' ARC EN CIEL!!! Et en plus, par un vieux de la vieille, français, dont ce n'est pas la première expérience. Et ben bravo pour l'exemple! C'est la première fois que je voyais autant de fumeurs (herbe et cigarettes confondues) dans un rassemblement. La fille à côté de moi me disait qu'elle ne les voyait pas, et moi j'en ai compté au moins 20!!! Rien que dans mon champs de vision! Comment peut-on être si proche, au même moment, au même endroit, et avoir un point de vu si différent? Le meilleur moment, c'était le grand calin au sommet de la colline. Tous allongés les uns et les unes sur les autres, on riait, on chantait doucement, on se caressait librement, l'un avait apporté pleins de couvertures pour tous nous protéger du vent et du froid, et juste à coté, il y avait un petit couple d'amoureux. Ca faisait, un grand tas, et un petit tas. Pour conclure, je ne regrette pas les dixaines d'heures de voyage, même pour deux jours seulement sur place! Mais évidemment, j'aspire à mieux! Il est bon d'acceuillir quelqu'un dans ses bras et de lui faire un hug, mais j'ajoute que "personne" ne m'a dit "bienvenu" ou ne m'a fait un hug d'elle même une seule fois! (Et pourtant je suis si jolie et je sens si bon!), plus de soleil, plus de couleurs, et plus du tout de fumée dans le nez! Que l'arc-en-ciel illumine toutes nos existences, Paix, Amour, Conscience * * *
La vie est belle! Tout à l'heure, dans un petit café parisien, un vieux hippy vient s'assoire à ma table. Je lui dit que je reviens du rassemblement rainbow d'angleterre, il me dit que la première fois qu'il a rencontré la "famille", c'était en 68 à Avignon. Ils avaient un bus, faisaient la manche pour gagner un peu d'argent en journée, et préparaient le repas de chaque soir avec cet argent. C'était la fête, les filles dansaient, me racontait-il avec un regard dans le vague, plein de nostalgie. Il m'a demandé si on avait fait tous l'amour au rainbow, comme dans son bon vieux temps quoi. Je lui est raconté notre calin et ça l'a illuminé. Et le tout, comme disent les plus sages, c'est pas de faire l'amour, mais d'ETRE Amour. Puis il est partit en m'offrant mon café et une jolie bague... et moi je lui est chanté une chanson! Voilà, c'est pas compliqué la vie! Merci l'arc-en-ciel!
Et moi, tout a l'heure dans un cafe parisien, j'ai rencontre un peintre qui me racontait ses voyages avec sa femme "une ancienne hippy" disait-il! C'est elle qui lui a tout appris : Comment ?tre heureux, rencontrer des gens interessants et me?me peindre. Ne sont-ils pas incroyables ces hippies?
Juste pour vous dire que c'est toujours une Joie et un Bonheur de vous revoir et d'avoir pu partager ces instants merveilleux en votre compagnie à la taverne médiévale. Je vous aime ! Dans l'Amour et la Lumière...
Salut! Juste une petite note pour signaler à ceux qui ne le sauraient pas encore, l'existence d'un nouveau forum Rainbow : http://rainbowfamily.aceboard.fr/ Nous espérons vous y accueillir bientôt ! Tout de bon à vous tous !
