The Rainbow Vacation and leaving babylon for good

Tell me about how you feel about going back to babylon if you do or if you don't then tell me abou that.

If I am only truly free a few weeks out of the year, then why do I go back? Why don't we go home everyday?

 

because reality hits you and you have to pay bills, but it's great to escape babylon every now and then.

 

Last years gathering in CO was my first. I was happy to be there, yet the first day I was there I missed my kids back home, mainly because of the distance between us. After five days of being there I was partially ready to go, mainly to take a shower.

"Why don't we go Home everyday?" tuesdaystar asked?

How I see it, Home is within one's own self. In being in CO last year and in AR in a few days I am surrounded by those that are of like mind, yet, when I go back to 'Babylon' I know I take the spirit of the Gathering with me and keep it with me along my daily life, even though the majority of people I am around are not on the same page (nor reading out of the same book! Hell, we're not even sitting in the same library most of the time.) Anyway, like Bumble said above,reality hits us and we have bills, etc.

All that will be there regardless. Problems arise, bills are overdue, food needs to be put on the table. So be it. Be happy with all that has been given unto you and give what you have so others can feel that joy and love.

Blah blah blah.

I wrote an article on last years Rainbow that you can find on my website. I will be handing out the publication it is in in AR in a few days.

Peace and love.

Me

 

When I say leaving Babylon for good I basically mean being part of an IC (intentional community or "commune")


I have made myself have a job and pay bills from the start, the more money I make the more dissatisfied with life and the the ethics I'm forcing myself to work under.

I realize more and more that what I need in life grows on trees. In fact I mostly work so I can smoke trees.

I'd rather wwoof or homestead or earthship or ic my days away and then my rainbow vacation wouldnt be a vacation from the terror of life.

 

Barring people who are disabled or retired... Work is a FACT of life. You have to work to survive.

These rainbows who live on the road and spend life going from one gathering to a another aren't looking at the future or being very adult.

I hate the government and the injustices in life, but as an adult I have to deal with it. I have a family to take care of and a future to create for myself and the ones I love.

It is not realistic to retreat from "Babylon" permanently. There is no Utopia other than what you create in your heart and mind.

 

respectfully disagreeing with those who think that babylon is a necessary part of life.....
you see babyalon is a mind set - and when you think outside of the box (program), then presto you are no longer tethered there. Work is not babylon....but the mindset most people bring to it, sure is.

security is a mind set....no you do not have to go for security - yes you can live in the day - yes there are consequences, but no it is not irresponsible - far from it, it is living in the Now, outside the paradign of co-dependency, that builds all the programs that tell you - "you can't".

yes You can
but you best take back your power first.

yeee hah

aho life is an adventure - one must be willing to live with Change and be flexible enough to adapt ....there really is no alternative - those that do not...still must face change - they are just not prepared to adjust and will most likely perish when the Change becomes too much.

but what a fucking rush to jump fully Aware into the abyss and Know that you Can handle whatever comes.

have a wonderful life...you are your own personal creator and by your choices you draw to yourself what will Be.

And damn - this can be fun and you can leave behind all the guilts that this society would have you saddled with

Be That you Are !

love you all

Blessings Be along the Way

Namaste

 

I like what ya have to say brother! NICE!
Love & Light,
luvione*

 

Cheers oldwolf!

I'd like to elaborate work not being equal to babylon. When you work in babylon, you typically agree to trade your work for money at a fixed number of dollars and little or no info our input regarding the ethics and practices already in place.

Work is natural it is part of the symbiotic relationship between our humans.

It's not easy to find the hippiest "job" where you don't have to rip people off and throw away tons of needless garbage.

The best things in life are free, you have NO personal property, ONLY PERSONAL RESPONSIBLITY for the property in your hands. If you are using that responsibility to contribute to waste and destructive hive behavior why not transfer that use of power/time/work/money to contribute to healthfulness and betterment.

"Working" (often while sitting on your own ass) for paychecks and drive-thru starfucks paper cups and take out pizza boxes is not healthy. I mean if it's what you've got to do to make the day worth getting through, I'm not going to judge you for it... but I might ask you to think about it.

I've been a working yuppie for all of my days, buying my bulk earth-friendly cleaning products and fair trade goodies from the local coops, I just don't feel like it's enough, when I have not enough means to control the ethics behind the money I earn and still feeling the desire to purchase packaging. I need to take the next step in my personal responsibility.

 

Tuesdaystar, I can understand your position completely. I used to agoinize over the ungodly hours I would put into my job. Endless countdowns till the clock would tick ever so slowly towards the second I could zip out of there and head toward my little farm and log cabin. Trading my time here on earth for pieces of paper. I truly hated it, but trudged on to pay the bills and pay off my farm and home. Now I am happily retired, all the material things are paid for. I have a wonderful wife, life in the hills surrounded by nature and quietness, and I know now it was worth it, but didn't back then. I am sure there are easier ways to attain your happiness than the path I chose, and some of the things I had to do I am surely not proud of or happy about. Now I try to do all I can for Mother Earth, helping with our anti-mountaintop removal organizations and walking as gently as possible on our land. Disconnecting from the grid is our next goal as well as informing everyone we know and meet about conserving resourses and living lightly as possible on our fragile starship Earth.
What else can I do now?
I hope you find your path, maybe its the path less traveled?
Peaceful thoughts your way.... Farmout

 

Beautifuly put.

Light & Love,
Luvione

 

yes, bills are quite unfortunate, but in my opinion, if we are clever about the bills we incur, eventually we can work ourselves out of the seemingly perpetual babylonian debt tether and still have something to show for it.

 

Fact is, I have found that "work" in babylon is NOT necessary. After being a plumber for 10 years and recently selling my tools and van, I have found a way to live the way I want, LIGHTLY. This being one of the main points of rainbow I thought that maybe some folks may understand this, but I guess not. Bills in one form or another are a fact of life, but WE have the choice what bills we must pay and how we pay them. I live from my backpack, tent, and sleeping bag. I travel the country digging gems and crystals to trade at barter faires ( www.barterfaire.org , www.oldtimetradingcircle.org ) head shops and such or on street corners. I also make hemp jewlery, leather goods and other trinkets to sell and trade, and I am getting ready to move onto the side of a mountain with a spring and no electric. So you can leave babylon, you just have to want it bad enough.

How much are you willing to give up to live a truly peaceful life???