another violent & scary ocala

HO! soaring eagle....speaking truth

love you!

 

There are so many who come south in the winter who don't have a clue about rainbow. The elders just give up, because of the immensity of the problem.

A rainbow gathering should be initiated by a council being called by at least three rainbows who actually understand what are the elements of a good gathering (for example, if you put it out on the internet, it's guaranteed that there will be plenty of folks attending without a clue -- also the FS is also guaranteed to be there). I have long contended that Ocala should be ignored by family, and that others (again, it does take three to call a council) could step in -- those in the Panhandle, AL, MS, CA etc -- where a hippy can stay warm during the winter.

People should be finding out about rainbow from their local contacts, and then attending local events. Even road dogs can get connected in this way.

I love you all, but Ocala is schwag indeed.

gaia

 

only love talking here
when i was there at the gathering this year i spent a lot of time near the front gate and it was alot more mellow than any other year.(my dog ran off becase of fireworks)
and about the druggs doc and 2ci we have had councils. in those councils concense said not here because sooner or later somebody will get some then call it somthing other than it is like lsd. councils are how we govern ower selfs. if you want doc or 2ci
goto a show and get it. doc is a drivitive of meth it is addictive and verrry hard on the
body the high can last up to 10 days it depends on your body and the ingredants please remeber that anyone will show up at a gather. I know for afact that alot of poeple show up for drunken druged up partyand f&ck the peace and love.before my change into a pasafice i was there to drink fuck and fight. thanf ja for my change

 

opps on my wifes account. i am cowboy oger

 

i was at buck lake and we did not rejoyce about any problem at the iland.
matter of fact because there was talk of probems (waterbuffalos and no permit)
me and dirtymoma left bucklake came over to the gather and helped out where we could (i did a lot of shantasina work) if i want to rent a site and not stay at the gather that is my right. that idid go over and camp at the gather all that means is i missed my family. if you were not at buck lake you can not know what wasgoing on there. i was at both. what was happening at buck lake was small famly reuion not rainbow but there was some rainbows there. if you dont like that some of us have other lives than rainbow f&ck off and ask youself are you really a rainbow.

 

treasure oger "doc is a drivitive of meth it is addictive" just because something has amphetamine in the name does not mean its related to meth. DOC is not & surely is not addictive.

 

whats happening these days in Ocala is comparible to when the hippies in the 60's hired hells angels for security.

 

the gathering through my eyes was beautiful. beautiful people and Spirit.
long live rainbow, long live peacefully gathering in the woods,
long live peace and love,
and soon will BE our prayers answered,

don't bring attention to the shwag..
what i saw , what i experienced was the beauty of everything i ever hoped to see.

 

well how can u blame it on a-camp as i saw it there was 1 maybe 2 a-campers there mostly it was front gate crew i did first aid c.a.l.m. this year i agree abc soup should not be tollerated at the gathering i,ve seen first hand how mess up some of these kids become on doc 2ci etc... yes the people that bring this to the gathering should be 86,s from the gather i saw a couple of cases where the people were 86,s from the gather in peace and where asked not to come back so when they did come back the 86ing was not done nicely that second time which i agree with i wouldent myself wait for a second chance i,d rather beat them the first time so there won,t be a second time remember the first time shame on them the second time is shame on u, i don,t want the shame on me but those whom know me know i,m not easyly angered but if u get me started i,ll hurt someone, so if ur poisoning my fam if ur a childmollester or r taking photos of naked children being a preditor if i find u ur in troulbe until i get 86,s for protecting my fam. i like what i heard someone say about frount gate crew gardians of the gate gardians of the gathering there was local rednecks this year again shotting up frount gate again welp its better it happened the then in main circle just think how bad it could be if u chased r gardians away???????

 

^If people with psychedelic compounds should be banned, what about heroin and alcohol?

A camp has always been full of alcohol and a good few of old established A campers bring heroin to the gatherings every year a lot of us think that stuff is a lot more poison then a synthetic mescaline.

Just more A camp talk, everything you guys do you talk crap about how it is such valuable work for the family.
You guys sit around trying to score alcohol and say you are working for the family. bullshit your just feeding your addiction.

No the family wont fall apart without a bunch of drunks in the parking lot.

“just think how bad it could be if u chased r gardians away???????”

^We would just have some sober people greeting family with love as they come home. And shanta sena would put out a call to family if needed.
You A campers hide behind the family protection anyway if you were left with out the rest of the family the rednecks would pound you guys to nothing in a few days.

 

It is better for someone to be quiet and thought an idiot then for them to open their mouth and take away all doubt

 

Ummmm....More like Ocalas '06 and, from what I heard, '07?

 

obviously a very split issue here. I agree with soaring eagle and gobot. people should do thier research before they start calling things poisons. anyone who condones violence at a gathering is not rainbow. Not a hippy, not even a peaceful gatherer. They are gangsters plain & simple.

 

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both

 

The Forest Service both Wildlife Management and LEO's (Law Enforcement Officers) agree that when the Ocala Gathering happens, The Rainbow Family becomes an additional "Town,city, village" whatever you want to call it. The amount of people who gather is one of the largest regional gatherings that happens ever year. They know and prefer if we can police ourselves and sign a permit. It makes things go easier. It's all about co-operation. The "violence" at this years gathering was not as dramatic as people rumor it to be. In every town, city or village there are disfunctional people. Most Rainbows are. Every town has it's drunks & homeless, who fly a sign or spare change for beer. Lots of town drunks have jobs and drink at night till they pass out. Why should The Rainbow Family be any different. Some kind of protective force/power has to exist to enforce the peace. Whatever you think the answer to "Drainbows, perverts & child molesters, rednecks locals and Local Law Enforcement" coming into a gathering. I personally invite you to work The Front Gate...or park cars, be the first to see the LEO's roll in and take a ticket for the family.I've stood between rednecks with guns and my family... captured more than one murder suspect. Don't tell me I can't be me... I dare you to live a day in the shoes of another...PEACE!!!

 

Amen

 

So there it is. Now they actually even admit to policing. I jus think its absolutely silly that a few pretty harmless psychedelic phenethylamines, and or amphetamines are being "banned". What kind of hippies are you when you ban a psychedelic experience. if you do the research LSD is theoretically worse on your head than 2c-B or I by comparison. LSD affects 12 nerves, whereas the 2c-'s only use 6 or so. Now you do have to get dosages right, but my main point is one that is brought up many times in history. blame the people, not the drugs, blame the fuck-ups, not the substance. Come on you people act like you've never seen a beligerent drunk before, or someone freaking out on LSD, or someone tweaked outta there brain. The well known old drugs cause problems too, they have just been around for a really long time, and people have perfected the dosages. I have seen firsthand some great & horrible things because of these drugs, but the same goes for mushrooms, and LSD. So how can you persecute those who choose to use these things. Which are non-nuerotoxic substances. "for all who choose to use the word poison" the last i checked most poisons caused long term physical damage to the brain or body. These drugs do nothing of that nature. So be careful who you take advice from if your an Ocala goer, because alot of h8ters like to spread false knowledge. Basically don't go to Ocala unless you want to join a gang, get mean stares, or seperate yourself from the hooligans. Cant we all just get along. Since we have hippy mobsters & hippy police out there now, we might as well elect a rainbow president too. I bet that "raven" character would like the job. He seems to like control. Oh well, at least i won't be out there to see it. have fun ya'll & hail to the drainbows.

 

I've read Whistler's reports on AGR, ie http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gathering.rainbow/browse_thread/thread/4bba7a13dcae6f7a/fd87db1a3b565827?hl=en#fd87db1a3b565827 His accounts seem reasonable to me, and I am certainly not one who often accuses that grouchy ol' fart of reasonableness.

And these are not the people who run the Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center to that town, or to whom that town entrusts its security.

Enforce the peace? This sounds perrilously close to fucking for virginity

That's a half dozen problems. I'm aware of more. Might require at least a half dozen answers, not jut the answer. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

 

Is the Green & Purple Kitchen mentioned in this atricle in any way related to the one from back in the early '90s?

March 03, 2008
A taste of life with the Rainbow Family

By SARA KIESLER
Staff Writer



OCALA -- They pull up in their old cars and new SUVs, beat-up vans and hitched rides, then park along a path and pitch a tent.

Maybe they'll leave tomorrow. Maybe they'll stay for three months.

Regardless -- time stands still at a Rainbow Family gathering in Ocala National Forest. Yes, days come and go as the sun rises and sets. And sure, time passes with the daily calls from family kitchens for breakfast, for midday meals, for nightly handouts while gathering around the drums at Main Circle.

But there is no TV reminding you that a half hour of your life has passed, no radio promising a block of music before it drones on into commercials, no clocks or cell phones to display the date and time with fervent accuracy.

Only you and the time you get up, the trek you make, the random exchanges with new friends and the sleepiness that will eventually come, at some hour into the darkness.

I had been fearful and nervous as we pulled into Ocala, wondering exactly which mile marker would lead us to the family gathering. So many media reports had told tales of an assault -- an unexpected result of a gathering that meets every year across the nation and world to pray for peace and practice communal living.

We spot a group of young women sitting outside of a convenience store munching on food. The sisters tell us the way, warn of "aggroheads" at the entrance, or aggressors, and the "street kids" at camp, or homeless young.

This doesn't help my fears.

We spot mile marker 29 and pull off onto the road behind a trio of men hauling trees and wood in a big, gray truck. They pay no attention until we turn right onto the dirt path leading to the gathering. Suddenly, there is an understanding, an immediate shoe-string of connection tied from our hearts to theirs. They turn. We flip peace signs and shout hellos.

Welcome Home, the man with black dreads mouths. Such a simple greeting helps my fears quickly dissolve. We had arrived.

The Rainbow Family is the largest non-organization of non-members making homes out of forests across the nation and world to pray for peace and love. Officials say more than 500 gathered in Ocala this year at a little slice of the forest called "Syracuse Island." That's 500 "Welcome Homes" called to entering cars and trucks.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office released a Feb. 18 report of a victim being hit in the back of the head at the gathering, which begins in mid-February but started for some as early as November. The only attack I encounter is from a dirty, young, decked out head to toe in tie-dye family member named Run Away. Jovially shoveling fistfuls of dirt down my back, he deems me "way too clean."

It's like Kimberly "Mama Turtle" Reyes says: There are a lot of misconceptions of the Rainbow, but there's only one requirement for being welcomed into the family.

You've got to have a belly button.

"Truth is it's a really quick exercise on how to become conscious, how to be nonviolent, how to live on the land, and how to look each other in the eyes and not be afraid," she says, "and stay in love."

'A SPIRITUAL ESSENCE'



The moon is begging howls on this night, all lit up in its blue-black blanket and casting long shadows behind the forest pines. Past the oldest potato soup on record at the Green and Purple Kitchen is Thatch Hut Theater.

"Gypsy" Joe Hocking has taken the stage among the neon pink, blue and green bracelets encircling the campfire. He plays old jazz, bluegrass, some of Johnny Cash's finest.

The 25-year-old from Massachusetts likes the sustainability in the woods, but is tired of people who say they don't buy into the system and smoke cigarettes, supporting corporations.

"I don't have a car, a house, or an apartment. Just my guitar," he says.

Others point out hypocrisies, too. A man who only uses the name Olive Owl walks away from the Council, an impromptu gathering to discuss issues of concern or hopes for change. He wants to change the us and them mentality of some of his fellow family: us vs. the outside world, us vs. law enforcement, us vs. the alcohol-allowed, sometimes aggressive "A-Camp" guarding the entrance to the gathering.

A lot of people in the family start out feeling separated, says Robert "Flute Man" Barnes, Nashville. He went out looking for a way of life and found the Rainbow Family.

"The family gave me hope. I found I was worthy of being alive," Barnes says over kettle corn popping at Iris Kitchen. "There's a spiritual essence about us that goes beyond our personal life."

That spirituality can be shared many ways. It's in the random pocket trades of knick-knacks and beads, it's in the hellos from every passerby. It's at the drum circle, where hippie chicks in skirts and bikini tops dance; where no one leads the songs tonight; where some are high on drugs and others are high on life.

Chaos ensued early into the gathering this month when the U.S. Forest Service asked the Rainbow Family to leave their first camp, Duck Pond, because of an overload of damage from ATV drivers, said some of the family members and Forest Service Spokeswoman Heather Callahan.

But some things never change. You lend a brother a spare tent, he points you to the Grateful Dread Kitchen where the veggie burgers are hot off the grill. You throw some organic dried fruit into homemade banana bread, and the next kitchen offers you some rice pudding.

There's no requirement of giving to get. But that's what you do in family. Share a hug, food or laughter like it's your favorite family holiday.

'BABYLON' CAN WAIT



Rain and winds hit hard on the tops of tents at night. There is no Weather Channel here to tell us whether they are tornado-force or simply loud and never-ending throughout the dark forest.

Next day, the clouds break about 10 a.m. and the Florida sun shines. I wander from one camp to the next, kitchen to kitchen, basking in the individuality and togetherness that these woods-bound children and adults call "family."

At the Iris Kitchen, wooden poles hold up shelves loaded with bags of turnips, onions, potatoes, tofu, cranberries, cherries. Nearby stroll home-schooled children, dogs and wanderers.

At the Grateful Dread Kitchen, William "Willie" Roberts welcomes the rednecks, the road dogs, the vegans, the old granola hippies, and everybody cooks what they eat. They're making lasagna and chocolate-wheat pancakes tonight; they're proud to be the last camp on the trail so everyone that's coming is coming to see them.

Bellies fill and some who came simply for the weekend, like Skye "Captain Cupcake" Campbell and his son Lotus will head back to "Babylon" come Monday for school and work.

But as they have done for 13 years in Ocala, some of the family will stay on. They'll wake up tomorrow, spread some love, and relish a family that shares.

sara.kiesler@news-jrnl.com

 

I am homeless now and heading to Ocala. I am very interrested in learning how to live in the woods peacfully and meeting as many of the old timers and new timers that know the true way of the rainbow. I long to hear the beautiful sound of Welcome Home again. Loving you. woody