I’m really not sure either but I noticed your post was unanswered since July 20th. So I thought I could at least say hello and sorry for the delay. Cheers!
well, every one has something a little bit different to say. I think that for me a rainbow is some one with a close awareness to better the earth and/or themselves through alternative, loving, socail, and spiritual relatioships with each other and the people they meet. Most look for freedom and a lot look at there spirituality for guidance. Faith, although many faiths gather and many come to pray, and meditate a lot have noticed that no matter what you call your faith, we all strive for the same thing and share many comun facters in our faith and lifes. there are some "rainbows" that just go for the herb or the LSD but most real rainbow aren't there for the drugs although they can be a plus, it's an excuse for people that haven't found there way on the mother yet.
i think, personally, aliens and clones should also be allowed into rainbow gatherings..i mean, they dont have effing bellybuttons but they are intellegint beins
A rainbow is the last of of the american adventures, you can't ride the rails anymore, Jerry Garcia has passed & tour is not the adventure it once was. You can at the moment still travel & explore the americas forests & experience the community known as the rainbow family of living light.
i believe a rainbow is a person who understands this is the only earth we have, and if we don't take care of it, it will die and so will we. Love should always be the deciding factor in any decision made, because without love there is hate and with hate is war and death. whether people want to get high or not(getting high ain't my thing) shouldnot be a prerequesite for wanting a life free of the pressure of modern society. however, that being said, we still have to live in this world, and so should all do something to contribute to a better society leaving something behind for the next generation to continue. i used to live in a commune a long time ago and so i know what its like to live free but sometimes that freedom comes with a price. so the answer i believe is what are you willing to pay? not in money but ethically,morally and at times sexually. are people willing to go without creature comforts and camp out in the woods and not wear makeup and watch mtv and use the cellphone, or is modern society so ingrained in all of us that for a little while we go to gatherings and "forget" we need to go back to our jobs? anyone who wishes to reply may. im new here so take this as you will, i mean no harm or offense to anyone, just expressing my opinion at this point and time. love and peace
I am me.I am random act of kindness.I am love.I am your brother.I am your sister.i am good karma.I am the one that welcomes you home.I am free.I am one with the nature.------------I am Rainbow------------Loven you----Jody's Camp and co---------------
I've been hearing a lot lately about the qualifications for being a rainbow and so I just wanted to put in my two cents. I traveled with the Dead for a long time and the after Jerry went home I took the next logical step in to the Rainbow Family. I loved the idea of there being only one thing qualifying you to be a member, a belly button. I think that the idea of everyone being welcome is a beautiful thing but like any family, there are bad seeds, lost souls, violent people, and just out right scandalous assholes. I feel like if someone is only there to use it as a traveling crime spree, and we all know we have those elements in our family, or if the people in A- Camp that want nothing but to get drunk and then fight, rob, blow up cars, and bother everyone who tries to enter our home, I think that belly button or not, I don't want those people in my family, around my brothers and sister. I think it's kind of naive to believe that anyone with a belly button is welcome when there very presence is counter-productive to what we are trying to accomplish with our ever growing tribe. I truly believe in unconditional love for our fellow man and One Love for all but to me, although everyone deserves to be loved, not everyone deserves to be liked and tolerated. I know a lot of people don't agree with me on these issues but that's ok. I have had enough run ins with violent A-Campers and supposed "rainbows" who travel with us only as a good way to rob people and business's from town to town to know that my family is too damn special to me to be exposed to all of that. I love you all and can't wait to get back to where my heart still beats, my wonderful, beautiful, magical, Rainbow Family. One Love And All That Hippie Stuff, Sid, Sonya, Zach and Benjamin Marley
<Sigh>It bothers me when someone places all of A-camp in a box or when people wish they could exclude those who obviously need more healing from Rainbow. How can you say that everyone deserves to be loved & still want to exclude anyone? What if your child gets into bad drugs & becomes a violent person...do you cut that child completely out of your family or do you try to help him/her as much as you can without placing others in harm's way? I think that the Rainbow Family of Living Light is undefinable; tho for me Rainbow Gatherings will always be about healing, about standing up for the US Constitutional Right to Gather, and about Unconditional Love (and I'm sorry Friend of the Hammock but IMO if you place conditions, it is no longer unconditional love)
Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a secondary rainbow is seen, which is a second, fainter arc, outside the primary arc, with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside. OOoooh, you mean THAT kind of Rainbow! We-el, in that case... Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held in outdoor settings, and espousing and practicing ideals of peace, love, harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media. Rainbow Gatherings and the "Rainbow Family of Living Light" are an expression of a Utopian impulse, combined with bohemianism and hippie culture, with roots clearly traceable to the 1960s counterculture. Mainstream society is viewed as "Babylon," connoting the participants' widely held belief that modern lifestyles and systems of government are unhealthy and out of harmony with the natural systems of planet Earth. The original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and has been held annually in the United States from July 1 - 7 every year on National Forest land. Other regional and national gatherings are held throughout the year, in the United States and throughout the rest of the world. The largest Rainbow Gatherings pose significant logistical challenges, providing up to 30,000 people with food, water, sanitation, medical care, and order in remote settings. Relations with law enforcement and local communities are frequently at issue. Media coverage is often unfavorable, focusing on drug use, nudity, and the countercultural aspects of the assemblage. Nevertheless, the Gatherings have proven durable phenomena for 36 years. History The first Rainbow gathering, a four-day event in Colorado in 1972, was organized by youth counterculture "tribes" based in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Twenty thousand people faced police roadblocks, threatening civil disobedience, and were allowed onto National Forest land. This was intended to be a onetime event; however, a second gathering in Wyoming the following year materialized at which point an annual event was declared. The length of the gatherings has since expanded beyond the original four-day span as have the number and frequency of the gatherings. Social aspects Values The Rainbow Family has no leaders, no structure, no official spokespersons, no official documents, and no membership. Documents are produced as needed and maintained by various groups, and certain themes are consistently seen in this Rainbow literature: [3], [4], [5] Love Peace Non-violence Environmentalism Non-consumerism and non-commercialism Volunteerism Respect for others Consensus process Diversity Consensus process Gatherings are governed by councils, which use consensus process for making decisions. According to the Mini-manual, "Recognized Rainbow rules come from only one source, main Counsel at the annual national gatherings."[6] Talking circles are also a feature of rainbow gatherings. Each participant in the circle talks in turn, all the others present listening in silence. A ceremonial stick or feather is passed from person to person around the circle to mark their role as the speaker. If they don't wish to speak, they may hold or pass the stick in silence.[4] Creativity and Spirituality One of the central features of the annual United States gathering is silent meditation the morning of the Fourth of July, with attendees gathering in a circle in the Main Meadow. At noon the entire assembly begins a collective "Om" which is ended with whooping and a celebration. A parade of children comes from the Kiddie Village, singing and dancing into the middle of the circle.[5] The gathering's greeting to new arrivals is "Welcome Home!" and "We Love You!" Many spiritual traditions are represented, often with their own kitchen, from Hare Krishnas to Orthodox Jews to many varieties of Christianity and much more.[6] Creative events may include variety shows, campfire singing, fire-juggling, and large or small art projects. At one gathering, a cable car was rigged to carry groups of four at speed across a meadow. Faerie Camp was "alive with hundreds of bells and oddly illuminated objects." Musicians and music pervade all Gatherings, at kitchens, on the trails, and at campfires.[7] lol, How's that? By the way, all info courtesy Wikipedia.. hehe.
Gotta love wiki.... "Snickers bars have emerged as a semi-standardized unit of exchange at some gatherings"
If u r with rainbow family your rainbow unless u want ta fight, to wit u r not...until you chill then u r...its magic...love ya...peace
