How do we put the "Peace" back in Rainbow???

All Im gonna say is I thought i had seen and heard it all but Shawnee takes the cake.
What kind of MORON takes a gun to a gathering? And then uses it to "scare people away"?
Wa. regional several weeks earlier.
Why would supposed Shanti Sena duct tape a local kid who had been caught stealing, let alone duct tape him to the PEACE POLE?
Where is the peace? Where is the teaching?
What the fuck are we doing in the forest???
Family everywhere need to council now, and fix this before it gets worse. This is a Family crisis.
There just seems to be a lack of dedicated family to teach at these regionals. I saw a lot of crusty kids travelin and few teachers.

Input?

 

I hate to say it.
I left the family 2 years ago. I keep contact with some friends and I'm still open to making rainbow friends on a 1 to 1 basis.

But the rainbow family has always been intolerant and recently the intolerance is just growing. So many people yelling what "rainbow" is or isn't.

 

That is just plain fucked up. No one needs a gun at a Rainbow Gathering.

I dunno. Maybe ask him? Far better to take the kid to his/her parents and have a nice long chat about peace and love. Mauybe take some eats to share. Instead of pushing away, draw them in and hug them. Even if what their kid did is wrong, you still love them.

The peace is within you to share. Teach whomever you want to teach.

Times are changing.

 

just because hippies are playing in the woods doesn't mean the rest of societies issues get left behind-


Sad to hear it was a intense camp out for you, ebbs and flows highs and lows-

Only good things to come!
:love:

 

Is there a set of guidelines or rules on having a Rainbow Gathering? I figure if you don't like how one you went to happened, then go start one of your own.

 

Yes there are "rules" or "guidelines" that were agreed upon a long time ago by consensus, while no one is bound to these it is respecting everyones space and respecting those that did council on these issues.
Lets look at rap 107 from the gathering mini manual: http://www.perkel.com/rainbow/mini.htm

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  [*]Rainbow RAP 107 - Please protect our land!
  [*]Harm no living thing : use only down dead wood, cut no living trees.
  [*]Drop no litter of any kind. Separate trash for recycling and deposit at collection sites. Put only vegetable matter in compost pits. PROTECT OUR WATER!
  [*]Use no soap in or within 50 feet of water areas.
  [*]Do not pee or poop in or near water areas.
  [*]Do not camp above springs. PROTECT OUR HEALTH!
  [*]Use your own cup, bowl, spoon and wash them thoroughly, including a bleach dip.
  [*]Use only latrine trenches. Clean up after children and pets. Cover feces and toilet paper with dirt and ashes. Wash hands. (Break the Fly connection! Feces - Fly - Food You!)
  [*]Visit CALM if you feel ill. Especially if you might have a communicable disease.
  [*]Drink only water that has been boiled briskly for ten minutes.
  [*]Keep your camp secure. "Tempt not, lest ye be lifted from."
  [*]Pets should stay home. Be responsible for your animals. Keep them out of kitchens - foods - fights.
  [*]Discourage all forms of drug overindulgence.
  [*]Participate in Shanti-Sena workshops and activities.
  [*]Weapons are inappropriate.
  [*]Donate to magic hat. Our power combined is many times our power separate.
  [*]Confront the Rainbow with an open heart and you will see the Vision!

Now as for one of the gatherings I did have a hand in focalizing and it sounds like you never have. Its a treat to deal with LEO's ranging from wood cops to state, dealing with NFS biologists and fire prevention since we were in the height of our fire season.
So logan if you would like to learn more please feel free to ask.
My issue is the "Mob" mentality. We are supposed to be peaceful but not weak, I understand that certain actions need to be dealt with but people need to think for a minute before doing something just as dumb. Duct taping anyone for any reason to the peace pole is horrible. Is nothing sacred to the kids that are supposed to be inheriting the spiritual history of the gathering of the tribes? Until respect is shown NFS and local LEO's will always have problems with Rainbow.

 

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there's been neg. incidents happening all through the years - and mostly unless you were exactly there you don't know much . you wouldn't know the hand of peace that touches those moments , because it is a quiet spirit .

 

i havent been to may gatherings....but after the last one i went to i wasnt excited bout the next....even the first i went to was a lil ....judgemental of sorts....i have to say i kinda gave up on finding the peace in the woods due to things like this. its very unfortunate that it has went that way

 

Which gathering was that Gmama?

 

Wv and WY, PA last year....

 

Would this situation not have occured if those asked to leave the campfire had just left ,showing some courtesy? Has it been determined A-campers destroyed their vehicle?

 

I think my brother said it best, Dogs in the tea house, guns in the church.

 

theas things have tsken on s life of there own teach people cindly sure but a gathering isnt what you want it to be its what we all want it to be you cant controal this thing it is what it is becos of groop mentality and will alwase continue to change in difrent and uncontroalble and is inpredictable one way to help things go smoothly is to teach peolle things like barry your shit cleen up the woods walk lightly and so on but all i can do is live the lifesyle and ceep trying what ever i can i feed people and cleen up i teach who will listen not evreyone will tho guys and were all inclusive cant chage that can we? so just ceep trying thats all you can do lovin you

 

How do we put the "Peace" back in Rainbow???


Bring more acid

 

well, i was gonna give rainbow gatherings another chance but it seems that general disrespect is becoming the rule instead of the rarity. i've been hearing about more and more drunken brawls and unpleasant encounters with deliberately disruptive "Death Camp kids". apparently when rude people want to be rude at gatherings peaceful folks are suppose to be tolerant. if you don't feel tolerant of drunks and deliberately disruptive brats you're "not rainbow".

 

when you've given up , you won't feel a thing .

peace happens not so much with tolerance as it does personal engagement . personally , my usual bliss is open to disruption . i deal with it in one moment and resume bliss the next .

i also note that sometimes i eat humble pie to make peace which can leave a residual bitter anger in me that may rise later on when i is just chewing the cud . so what . peace to that , too .

perfection is that rainbow in de sky or an eye .
otherwise , we get schizo theatre .