devas and faeries

I don't know anything about devas or faeries....

But now, scary monsters and nice sprites, I wrote the book. No, wait, I think that was skrillex....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw&feature=relmfu

 

bye for awhile . gone to the rainbow , up that trail ...

 

I think I'd like to go up that trail too.

 

ya, me and my friend are going up that trail next year. I think you and LL should go. Sounds like fun.

 

What's this? Do tell me more...

 

It's the Rainbow Gathering. I have never been to one. So! I asked a friend of mine to go with me next year. I'm too chicken to go alone. I guess thousands of people go.:rockon: Ever been?

 

I ain't never been - ain't never heard of it, neither. I had to look it up. Interesting...could I take my laptop and my cell phone? What about my big electric fan to sleep with?

 

lol...I think the point of it is to get away from all that.
I had never heard of it 'til a month ago. And HELL, I missed Woodstock! My life has become so regimented/dull/boring. It'd be nice to just throw on an old pair o'; jeans a tshirt and a backpack and GO! Ya I know I'm not being realistic. What about my creaky knees and my lumbago. K so I'm kidding about the lumbago, I don't even know what it is. But really my knees are making noises I have never heard knees make. I'm ramblin'

 

if you go to a Rainbow Gathering be aware that there are unscupulous oppertunists in your midst. don't carry anything in that you won't mind losing. many law enforcement agencies focus on the Rainbow Gatherings so be careful bringing in anything illegally fun. your vehicle should be legal in every possible way. no burnt out signal lights, no dangling things hanging from your rear view mirror, no mud obscuring your license plate, all paperwork in order and obey every traffic law to the letter. the LEOs will use any excuse to pull you over and scatter your stuff all over the side of the road.

Rainbow Gathering are really cool scenes but you have to keep your wits about you.

oh and see if you can find out where the "back door" is. it's nicer if you can manage to avoid having to run the A Camp gauntlet. A Camp is the Alcohol Camp where the drunks live and it is always located at the "front gate". it's always located there so that the A Campers can harrass folks for money as they make their way up the path to the gathering proper. not all A Campers are assholes but enough of them are to make passing by their camp an unpleasant (and sometimes scary, especially for women) experience. women are advised not to run the A Camp gauntlet alone, especially at night.

 

So...you mean...people just, like, sit around? And, like, talk? That sounds kinda weird...

The guy I work with - the last guy left on my "team" - went to Woodstock. I didn't. However I've had other adventures since then...

And yeah, the old bod ain't what it used to be. If I run to catch my commuter train, I have tender knee joints the next day. It's genetic - my mom has bionic knees, and one sister had to stop jogging cuz it was too hard on her knees.

No lumbago, tho. Is that like a Winnebago?

So yeah, I dunno if I would do the rainbow thing or not...right now I would hafta say it's doubtful I'd be able to afford the trip. But things could change...

 

I didn't see this before I posted my reply to Windy. Jeezus...so ummm anything positive to report? What is it that makes it a "cool scene?"

 

the rainbow gathering, yeah... it's going to be somewhere in eastern washington I think. Gosh I would love to go... I live in the seattle area so I'm not that far, but I've got no license yet and none of my friends who have their own cars are even close to enjoying something like that.
I'll go next year though, and maybe I'll meet you all there

 

well, it's biggest conglomeration of multifaceted free form weirdness i've ever experienced. please don't misunderstand my warnings as discouragement. thousands of people show up at the National Rainbow Gatherings and most of them are good people. i've had some very profound psy experiences at Rainbow Gatherings. the July 4th Om-a-thon is an intense expression of the collective consciousness phenom. and oh boy! the drum jams!

 

dormouse you're a doll. Thanks. I was pretty adventurous in my younger years, but I think maybe I would just like to hit the om a thon on the 4th. Maybe bring my drum...:sunny:

 

LOL...there was a time I woulda loved A Camp, but I gave that up.

 

Yeah, I dunno...I think I might just stick with the more limited weirdness I encounter on Hipforums...

 

you wanna get there as early as possible so to experience "The Silence". see? the whole time you're there the noise is constant. with thousands of folks from different zones, with their biological clocks set for different hours, gathered in one place not only are general sounds of humanity heard 24/7 but there's always drummer drummers somewhere.

and then ... on the morning of July 4th ... it all goes silent and the silence in that time is profound because of the contrast. it's pretty cool. feels almost reverent.

unfortunately there's been new elements interjecting their free expression into the gatherings and being disrespectful not withstanding their free expression entails making as much noise as possible during The Silence, disrupting the Om-a-thon and otherwise be asspains. **shrug** hopefully that won't happen this year.

i won't be going to this years national Rainbow Gathering. i live in Florida and i just don't have the $$$ to travel that far. maybe next year IF i can find someOne to go with me.

 

BRAWK! BRAWK! BRAWK! chicken!

(just kidding.)

 

Uh huh...

So far I haven't read anything that makes the Rainbow Gathering sound like much more than a major, expensive pain in the butt. I guess I just have a different idea of fun...

 

Limited weirdness on hip forums? Since when..? XD