IM CRYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO COMPLETLY BEAUTIFUL IN MY WHOLE LIFE. A MAN CAN YELL WE LOVE YOU IN A FIELD AND EVERYONE IN SIGHT YELLS IT BACK. I JUST GOT OUT OF REHAB FOR HEROIN AND IM HAVING ALOT OF DOUBTS ABOUT MY LIFE. BUT THIS JUST GAVE ME HOPE THAT THERE IS SOMEWHERE THAT I BELONG. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE PART OF OUR FAMILY. THIS IS TRULY REAL LOVE. i apologize it was all in caps lock i was crying so i sorta forgot lol. ive never cried because of beauty it feels wonderfull. thanks
+James Dean Hey dear James, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feeling. You, as such as all of Us, belong to this wonderful family where everyone is free from the mental slavery. I love you, and I wish you the best in life. Good vibes.
As a kid in the mid 90s, me and my dad picked up this guy hitch-hiking in the pouring rain in Vermont. He wanted a ride up this mountain road, and we dropped him off in this nondescript spot, he just kinda walked into the woods where there was a sign that just had a rainbow on it.
I just wanted you to know I may only be one person but I've been to going to gatherings since I was 14.i have watched so many documentaries about rainbow gatherings it ridiculous searching for something that I feel I could show somebody who never had been to a rainbow to spark there interest. You are the only one I have ever seen actually put together a video that 100% represents the whole imbodyment of rainbow and its purpose. I just wanted you to know I watched it from start to finish and it really moved me thank you for doing such a beautiful documentary it is a powerful video and I hope you make more.
oh man..that is very sad to hear for me...if every gathering is like that in the video, i never ever wanna go to any one ! and i am a hippie at heart !!!!!!! i love people,music,nature,animals. but i dont need to be touched by 10 people at the same time to feel peace or freedom. it looks very odd to me and even if we want to, we can not come together with 5000 people and love everyone dearly from the start. its not possible. and its good like that.
@@contact594 No it started in the UK in 72 also, all colours all countries, I was maybe 13 or 14 there were war vets from the US geodesic domes, kitchens o course, it changed my life
I can’t imagine what memories children take from their first gathering. I was 27 when I first went and I felt like a kid. It was probably one of the single most memorable experiences in my life. Thanks for sharing.
I went to the national rainbow gathering 2 years ago. It was one of the best experiences of my life. Working to help the others around you, digging shitters, baking bread, random pocket trades, hauling water, chopping wood. It's so beautiful. There is truly an air of love in the air. I hope to go again next year.
Everytime I watch this , i get goose bumps on my arms...It takes me back to my first gathering in the Cherokee National Forest in TN. These are my people! This is my Home. I've never experienced such a range of emotions like I do at the gathering.
The fact that the very next day after the ICT shooting these beautiful people recovered and were brought back to this wonderful state of peace... that is human nature and love at its most pure. ❤️❤️❤️ 🏳️🌈
I just got back from my first gathering, rainbow 2013. It was absolutely incredible. 90% of the people i met were extremely moving, not only would these people who have nothing more in there pocket than anyone else give you the shirt off their back but they would give you the warmth and love under it as well. The forest looked good and it was maintaned as well. Everywhere you turn people are offering you food friendship and love.can't wait for 2014 and to help clean and set up. We love you!
Awesome, im from Denmark Scandinavia, would be amazing to go , but i would never be accepted in the us, 44 yr old addict, 9 month Clean from heroin and Methadone and crack, but i would to be apart of this, and to help spread this community to the world, we all need this more now than ever. Im grateful for the rainbow in the sun after the rain under the blue skies. ❤❤
I went to a regional rainbow gathering in Arizona for three days. Played hand drums for hours on end. It was epic! There was the usual few annoying folks here and there but mostly a lot of great folks. I'll never forget the experience.
Loved this video! My parents took me to a Rainbow Gathering in the UK when I was a baby so I can't remember any of it, but I have been to similar events at an older age such as Green Gathering. I'm studying Event Management and currently writing my dissertation on the Rainbow Gatherings. This video has been my favourite thing to stumble across. So much love and hope for how a community of people from different backgrounds can live together peacefully and become a family!
It the early 90’s I experienced “rave camp” at a gathering thus I started going to raves,then to complete the circle I started taking friends from the rave scene to Rainbow Gatherings..Kentucky,Wyoming. I loved listening to my friends talk all the way home about the amazing times they had experienced.
I rolled with the GFE kitchen when I was 17 for a few gatherings in 96 or 97. I’ll never forget that jam session in Vermont where someone brought in a drum set and we all drank mushroom tea. That night healed some of the darkness in me.
I grew up wanting to be a hippie. I spent my youth seeking out "hippies" from the original generation. When I found the truth I became more disillusioned than I already was with "the establishment." I found a whole lot of dirty, lazy, disorganized, entitled weirdos. A good friend told me a story of trying to start her own commune in 69/70. She had a family farm and invited dozens of "hippies" to come and live with her. Together they would create their own utopia, unencumbered by society's expectations of them. Well, a farm takes work and pretty much nobody would work hard or succumb to a rigid schedule, which is often required of you on a farm. She said they would all lay around getting high, eventually referring to her as "the man" because she was more concerned with the harvest than getting high and having sex. Many of those people went on to have families in the early 80s, spawning the Millenials. They mostly sold out and ended up, themselves, actually working for the man. Many became government employees (because they loved unions) while others became the greediest generation of corporate leaders to ever exist. Now, their spawn have become a modern, albeit twisted, version of them. The Millenials even resent, or hate, their parents' generation, as hippies did their parents. The difference being, the hippies' parents were actually quite accomplished and fantastic. It is for this reason, and many others, that I refer to the Boomer/Hippie generation as HippieCrites. You can still find some of the hold outs living in small towns, or on coastal islands, with trashy properties and unkempt appearances. The generation as a whole is selfish, entitled and completely full of crap. I feel sad for the very few who truly believed and lived the philosophy properly, as they do not deserve the same criticism.
See the problem with what your saying is yes there are lazy hippies but there are alot non lazy ones as well. I would stay after many shows fiesties an helped pick up the mess trust me 70 % of the ppl who come are just coming to party but ther are a good number of us who put tons of work into these shows and gatherings. In a way we need to bring in the weekend warriors for multiple reasons one they are ones with money lol not to be blunt but it cost money to do anything second bringing in outside people makes the whole way of life grow it can open up a kids mind or can help ppl who feel they never found others like them. I totally agree that there alot lazy ppl but I no alot hippies that are not lazy at all some might move alittle slower than regular society lol but alot time you just need to find way to motivate an keep ppl on task. Trust me I totally understand what your saying there so many times iv bwn at shows an the parking lots end up trashed an garbage everywhere but most the time those are the ppl are the ones who only come to party its a hard subject but basically my point is your going to find lazy an crazy ppl in all aspects of life but you will also find good people ppl who work harder than most. I know I go three lots of funny situations because I'm a tree worker I get all kinds of tree huggers who don't understand how I could cut them down. That being said I don't work for these huge logging companies that tear forest apart. There are ways to log that actually benefit the Forrest an keep it alive. My point to saying whay I do is that I'm a hippy but also work my but off u promise most ppl nowadays couldn't handle the physical labor I endorse everyday. These gatherings are just about bringing ppl together the connections of tribes from threw out the lands. Things like that have happened in the native cultures forever. It just seem odd because we don't do that nowadays
Thank you for sharing your experience. All people are flawed & eventually they will grade on each other. I could never get past the dirt as a hippie. It was my generation.
You kind of left me hanging when you said you found the truth. I read on looking for your Christian conversion experience, but found none. Is there more to the story? I went to a Rainbow Gathering in about 72, but got saved from my sins by the blood of Jesus Christ a year or so later.
I really hope I can find the ones in Canada. The scene where people were in a close circle and were hugging a person in the middle made me cry. I often long for connection and community like this. I’ve been struggling with mental and physical problems for years and I’m really isolated. I can imagine how healing an experience like this would be for me.
When you go to a rainbow gathering brothers and sisters you better realize that it's a privilege for us to gather and share whatever it is we need to, because in much of the world you can't do it. So, use the oppurtunity to make the world through your own actions a better place be idealistic but also realistic.
i was 17 at the gathering in Montana..yrs ago...1976, i believe.. i met Dennis Perrone there....we dropped acid and spent the 4th of july together..hiking and tripping... very cool experience.. changed my life.. Dennis was one of the writers for California's first Prop for Medical MArijuana..he was HArvey Milk's PArtner and friend.. i was fortunate to have met this man.
This is an amazing documentary. Renews my faith in humanity. Let's bring it on! Thanks so much for the post. I shared it with my friends and enemies on Facebook. Peace, love and Rainbows!
I love Gatherings. I was at one in Erie Pennsylvania, a regional gathering in Ithaca and many visits to Yasgurs which isn't a Rainbow Gathering but lots of love for sure. I have had the nothing but the best experiences at Gatherings and my life has changed and havent been able to get to one since Erie. I can't wait to be Welcomed Home, and hear the shouts of, "We Looooovvvee You" wherever you go. I will get back one day. Lots of love Rainbows :)
bunch of drug using dumbasses. They have no idea how to perform penance, austerity and Bhakti-Yoga. They have no idea what real intelligence is. They Don't understand the goal of controlling of the mind and senses. Mis-led Pseudo-spiritualist.
@Midnight Philosopher we are one with God but yet at the same time different. We are qualitatively the same but Quantitatively different. God does not become illusioned by Maya. His pasttimes are spiritual and he has his own forgetfulness he undergoes for the sake of enjoyment. Not like our foergetfulness. His is submerged in loving assoaction with his devotees. But yet at the same time he is still in control of all. He is inconceivable. To even consider yourself God is most foolish. Show me you are God. You hippies pretend to be humble, yet think you are God lol. You are a mini God. Part and parcel.
@Midnight Philosopher Wow, your replies to this man who actually wastes his time trying to make you understand the real deal, why drugs are bad and why centering one's spirituality around them isn't AT ALL the way just shows how completely ignorant you can be. "Size doesn't really matter", what do you measure your "size" in? Let me guess, points of DMT, tens of tabs of lsd, grams of mdma, deserts of peyote and all those funky dodgy alternative substances made in labs in China eager to fry your brain harder and give you a "better" understanding of the Universe. Your replies sound like you just read a sentence out of an article or a book and just slapped in here without even knowing how to read, while this man speaks to you from an educated perspective. I bet your brain has like 10 tabs left before you become a mushroom which is "one with the earth auuuuuuuummmmm". Real spirituality can be most easily seen in the buddhist monks and shaolins especially from Tibet. Not in fried out wannabe hippies pretending to be "Gods". If you were a God, like everyone else and you'd be also aware of this universal interconnected concsiousness then you wouldn't be an ignorant a-hole making smug remarks on youtube :) Before you even bother to reply to me and slap another remark or copy-pasted statement, skip to minute 6:44.
Happy Rainbow Family Gathering!! My mother is a Deadhead and she went to these when she was younger, and I am her daughter and I am here to remind you a revolution is coming. Rainbow family never dies. I will see you there one day.
Carrie Geren Scoggins [Official] you sound like a pessimist. Also if you were confident or your husband was in love you wouldnt have made it such a central topic. Its honnestly probably why hes your ex. However ive made my fair share of mistakes as well but just because there were bad stragglers in the scene doesnt mean it wasnt started with good intentions. Which is quite appararent here
Consider growing your own woods. By that, I mean study permaculture and your native ecology. There's more than enough city in the woods already. A large enough food forest that was properly maintained, could help a community like this out a lot after your gone. The Amish still do a lot by themselves and live a ( simple) life , I'm not sure why we dont.
I send all my positive vibrations to the Rainbow🌈 Gathering 2024 in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Uslar - Dinkelhausen! You are doing it right and are on the path to realization! 🔥 ☯ ☮
Travelled on grey rabbit bus from SFO to Seattle in 81 with a bunch of people heading to rainbow peace festival in Washington state.Lester the driver made sure we were all comfortable and it was beautiful,great memories 🙏
I attended a Rainbow Gathering at Hampi (India) 2016 December, I remember the climb I made post sunset, to be welcomed by a couple of ladies, saying welcome to the family. It was guided by a random stranger I met while I was riding along that area who got me there. But the next couple of night were something I still manage to pen it down. If some one from the family who were present there is seeing this. Please get in touch with me I would be overwhelmed to see you guys soon. Love
I've been to so many gatherings. Our very fav spot to meet is the Daniel Boone National Forest in Southern Kentucky. Omg its so beautiful there and the people are so great there. I can't wait to go back.
Governments do not want peace. A society based on kindness, understanding, where people share what they have and actually love each other makes most of the functions governments assume unnecessary. War, poverty, violence, control of thought, and many other things, are all employed to keep the population of this planet in servitude to those who sit in power. There is a way to change the status quo, but the minds of most people are so welded closed they are impossible to free. Love and Light.
I believe that it is the same with religion,all religions try to achieve "peace". Now I have put "peace" in quotations,because in my belief,when using the term "peace" in religious statue,I would say that peace would(Almost,not sure if I am right,please correct me if I am wrong. )Metaphorical statement.
Terrorists are governed by individuals exploiting religious concepts. Governments try to stop these people, and in the process damage the civilian population. Though the government does not benefit the people all the time, they are wholly and utterly necessary, to claim that a government should be dissolved is to wish more death and anarchy than ever seen before.
If you don't like or agree with the Rainbow Gathering than don't come, but there is no need to spread hate. I absolutely love and respect the gathering and what these people stand by. It's beautiful. Being hateful is exactly what the rainbow family is trying to prevent. I love the Rainbow Family Gathering, and I can't wait to attend my first next summer.
Rachel Marie I completely agree this is not really for me but I'd never say anything bad to my niece who would love to go to this with her husband and son and I'd even stop by on my bike ride to say hi to them and hang out for a minute just lime I'm a Christian but there's nothing in the world that would stop me from walking in a gay pride parade with my nephew hugging him with pride for him I believe the world could be a better place if people would live there lives the way they want while allowing others to do the same as long as no one is getting hurt in the process
@@StevensBorowsky You sound like someone that would be arguing with a diesel smoke blowing proud boy and get knocked out for being a "fascist" yourself.
wish we all can go back in time and live the hippie way of life. i have many hippie friends and glad i got to experience a gathering like this in 1978 in nelson BC Canada. i was 8 yrs old and my parents and i went camping and when we woke up in the morning,we were surrounded by a few hundred hippies! we had a blast! mom bought some pottery,and dad tasted their food. my dad was impressed on how well they made good food. and i got to meet lots of friends in my age group. and never had another one again in nelson BC. so sad. i just love this type of gathering and the openness of the hippie culture.
I Went to my first Rainbow in Greece this year. I loved it, To live in Oneness in the nature. Met so many wonderful people, I Love You Rainbow Family!!!
Dear brothers and sisters! I have just listened to this for a while and started to weep silently. We have a fullmoon celebration every month in order to keep the rainbow-feeling from wearing off after beeing back from a gathering . Of course magic can and does happen during this celebration and it's even close to coming home, but it won't put up with staying at a rainbow site for weeks with more time to really really come home. I do really miss you.
If I was not 60,I'd live like this.dont know if I could keep my ssi here.so i have beautiful garden on my patio! Every inch of it is covered with a plant or flower! Some veggies! Wonder if they grow food!
+IcyLittleBlades productivity declines around drugs. That's why. I mean if people want to live like that then fine, but if they want to live in "modern society" well things are going to clash.
You are so ignorant...you say you live in a "Modern Society" and at the same time you embrace religion, governmental institutions, war, poverty, destruction of planet Earth, and you think that drugs are at fault? I've smoked 5 years of my life and my social integration was not affected, these people are not meeting because of drugs, they meet because they are tired of people that believe in fictional figures and wonder around the streets like robots, with nothing to show for except making their master rich...We are all the slaves of society, I used to work for 2$ per hour, and billions of people work for less, do you think that is the worth of human life? That is the society you praise?? You should contemplate on that! If drugs were controlled by the state do you think there would still be drug cartels? We choose in this life if we want to be parasites on this earth, or just another animal. I've seen more intelligent and moral conscious pets than humans and because of the stupidity of 70-80% of the population, the rest of us have to suffer, and where else to relax and get away from all that than Nature!?
von, if you ever do drugs like these .... individuals do, you do *not* get a hard-on. You might be _mentally_ interested but hydraulics will not work without Viagra or something like that (IE: pharmaceutical drugs, not recreational ones)
circa 74, Grassy Key, FL, these people literally saved my life. evidently there was/likely still is, a core group of Rainbow People who are no-mads and travel (like i did--hitchhiked 27,000 miles thru 41 states, canada and mexico over course of 5 years). well, said date i was particularly despondent after hitching from long island to meet my girlfriend who left me after an argument and was supposed to be in Coconut Grove, near miami, but when i got there i found out she'd just left for colorado, where i took off for later...but before that i met a viet vet and his girlfriend who were very liberal...so i went off with her, but only to pour out my woes after she drove me to buy a fifth of tequila, which i drank in 45 mins on a *two day* empty stomach, and consequently went mad and then wound up dry heaving the entire night. well, one of these rainbow people dudes stood by my side monitoring me ensuring i wouldn't fall asleep and go into a coma, therefore saving my life. however, it was sad to see in this doc how the forest service law enforcement branch manhandled these gentle people, all because of [an alleged!] law that claimed their gathering was illegal?! a clear violation of the constitutional right to *peacefully* assemble, as far as i can see. even if it was against the law doing so on government land (ie in a state park), why enforce it if no-one was hurting anyone else? it would be different if they were permanent squatters.. anyway, peace.love.peace to all the Rainbows! and to ALL human beings, unconditionally!
This just reminds me of how beautiful being at a gathering is, I so much Miss the gatherings as I have been in Babylon for many years. My life has changed in so many ways since I last was at a gathering. I may never go to another one yet I carry that same spirit within my heart and always will. Love you Brothers and sisters.
Thank you so much brothers ans sisters for this video. I was on the European Gatherings in 1986/87 and 90/91. This year it is in Germany. I wantet to go there, but I heard of trouble with Government. A new place was found in the mountains of "Harz". But it was the same thing there, ist was not allowed to make fire etc. So last night at fullmoon police came and about 1000 peacefully rainbow-warriors had to leave the place. There was no fullmoon-celebration. Police took cars and tents away... So I'll send all the family love an peace an hugs from Hamburg/Germany. I wanna come home ~♡~ 🤗💖🌈🌍🕊
I went to a R. Gathering in about 72 in a forest outside of Eugene some 20 miles. A group of roadies showed up who greeted one another by a sharp knuckle sandwich.
@@Acolis I do not know, but there were hippies which were more rowdy than other around Eugene, and who in some cases called themselves "Hog Farmers". These may have been remnants of the Pranksters who went cross country in Further, their hippie bus--Ken Kesey and Wavy Gravy, who made an appearance at Woodstock Festival.
I first heard about them in '82 when I was on the road to Montreal. I never heard of them again until I saw this documentary. I wish I knew where this sort of gathering was taking place when I was younger. It might have changed my life for the better. I hope they do find that dream for humanity's sake...
this 4th of july I can not be at the gathering but I will still observe silence until noon in hopes of joining the energy of the prayer circle of my family at the gathering.
Beautiful times. 💜 There was a community in Wales, UK ( Talley Valley ) called the Rainbow People. This goes back to early '70's, but they all lived there a long time, into this Century I'm sure. They built & lived in home made teepees, schooled their own kids. There was a documentary about them on BBC in the '80's ; I remember seeing my Nephew riding around camp on his bike. It wasn't an easy life for them, with UK wet weather , I don't know if they still exist there. If anyone knows? Hi Luca if you read this , you have been sorely missed by all the family, although I know you probably wouldn't believe me. ♡ Wishing you & your family much love.🐱☯️🏴
I was there at this gathering. It was magical. My name is Otter and if anyone knows Sparrow please tell her that Otter loves you and misses you. I would love to see her again. Peace and love. Otter.
i love this but started to cry when the ict came in i wondered will the world always be like this? even when we do nothing wrong? we get shot at and brought down ...
Try Kabbalah, it gets you into deeper states of consciousness without drugs, and brings a lot more cohesion to your life. The earth is crying out for it right now.
I was at the 1st gathering. At first we had to dodge rangers to get in. But later a ranger came and showed us how and where to build latrines. How to keep the water clean. You have to remember, the Rainbow people are like Martians to the work-a-day people. By being free and loving threatens their ways of life. So IMO, the Rainbow needs a bridge to the work-a-day world. a small group who can communicate "Rainbow" in a language the rangers and others can understand and listen to the Ranger's fears, needs and wants and be able to negotiate respectfully. The Rainbow gathering is pretty fragile which we saw when the rangers freaked and started shooting. How do you deal with freaked rangers with guns? I think strong negotiation might work but you have to meet them half way. May be have a Boy Scout and girl scout uniforms. Speak their language so they can understand you. Good luck Rainbows - you're on the right track.
@@hooh1644 Why fuck burning man? That would be very mean and you could get burnt. But if people are having fun why not let them have fun and just do something else. I don't watch Barney but I never said fuck that purple dinosaur.
@@hooh1644 Yea man fuck it. Fuck that gathering which only has music and decos over this gathering which lacks in these but has the same old drugs and wannabes.
Look at the world now!!! It started in the UK in 72 also, all colours all countries, I was maybe 13 or 14 there were war vets from the US geodesic domes, kitchens of. course, it changed my life
My religious group bought 28 acres next to the forest, improved the land, built a place where several thousand of our young women 12-18 years of age could go to commune with nature & God & the Rainbow Family located right next to our place ran around high, drunk, naked, screaming day & night & pretty much kicked our girls out of our own area. Our girls ended up camping at home in back yards. Thanks Rainbow Family. Selfish to the max.
Fact right there. They used to be pretty creepy and threatening when they set up in ocala, and I've heard of pretty dark shit happening there some years.
We're all humans, but some are damaged. Be wary of the damaged cells in all walks of life, because they exist in all. You can only try to heal them so much, and sometimes they're on a trajectory that can not be stopped, like a comet. Sometimes you have to let that comet burn out in the depths of outer space, alone, and alone.
Finally a place where children can be free and get out of the concete jungle, and enforcment agencies turn up and shoot at thier family. It breaks my heart, because we love you. p.s. It was a beautiful time watching this documentary!
News flash: Native Americans did this before the hippie, pride, movements. Raves as well. theyre doing basically what Native American also did with traditional dances, gatherings, prayers, etc etc. These are basically the only thing that could save our world and connecting people to their roots for healing.
archaic revival is needed. but most of humanity is filled with zombies that support a system of slavery and dont realize it. nothing will save this circus.
Not a Newsflash, we know this, and different cultures besides "native" Americans continued on with these practices in one form or another throughout Time.
There was actually a scientific discovery made on 9/11. There are satellites that measure the electro-magnetic field put out by the Earth and on the day there was a dramatic change in it. From there evidence has been seen that our thoughts and feelings literally manifest themselves outside of us in some form. Now imagine a gathering like this, with all that love and spiritual energy being put out by so many people at one place. Perhaps it's the only reason we're not extinct already.
i am david i am the white buffalo here i am.. i even have a rainbow suit... which i wear time to time... its good to see you guys have been working and have been faithful GOD BLESS YOU... its only the beginning.... Jesus is coming soon now my friends and family... hang in there and find happiness and peace with GOD..
I miss living in this culture! Now I walk amongst the 99% without a face covering and I smile at those who think I am spreading dis ease and I share that Love through being a visual example of the living Truth. Be strong Warriors of the light! Peace be with you!
@@kartikaalst7354 can I get some info from you? My wife and I are talking about after the kids graduate in a couple years dipping out on modern society finally.
Based on projected population growth and the lack of necessary resources needed to sustain that growth. I would say we have no chance to make it another 100 years. Dirty air, water, land and mother nature will make sure of that. This planet is already burning up and is dying, but most are too dumb and blind to see it. We are already drowning in sewage and garbage and nuclear waste. Denial is not a river in Africa.
Ghost story.....At the rainbow gathering in 2009 in Pennsylvania. I think thats the right year anyway. It was right before the loads of people showed up and we were camped away from everyone else, along side the main trail that goes from the parking area and leads down a large hill into the main clearing. It was dusk, so light was fading fast and we had a fire going, we were both sitting there having a pretty deep conversation about life and spirituality when we decided to head down the trail to the clearing to find some food. At this moment we were standing up and some people who had been walking down the trail stopped to take a break about 30 yards below us. Anna says hey do you hear that? I could clearly hear someone walking in the wood behind us, the thing is there was nothing out that way as we were quite a ways from the main clearing and facing the direction of all the lights and people. The foot steps could be heard coming from our left and below us, heading straight for those people who were taking a break on the trail. I looked and saw nothing where my eyes said i should be seeing what was making those steps. There was nothing to be seen and I could actually see where the steps were landing, leaves being kicked up and what not. What ever it was walked up to those people on the trail, whom were talking to each other never noticed anything, but the steps definitely slowed down as it made a turn going passed them, like it was checking them out, and then it came straight at me and anna. Anna was fumbling most of this time with her key chain trying to find a little flashlight she had, what ever was making those steps came right up to the other side of the fire pit without stopping just real slow and anna shown her light at it and said "hey", and it took off up the hill right past me. The entire time it sounded like an invisible child power walking, taking short steps but fast, and when it took off passed me it was still powerwalking just machine gun like steps.. if that makes any sense. There would have been no way for me to chase it it was so fast and we both took off running down the hill, on a funny note there are people at these festivals who remain stark naked the entire month of the gathering and roll in mud and what not, so me and anna are flying down the trail in terror no less and run right into this 6ft5 giant naked man and we all yelled in fright, good times.. No idea what it was, anna was really disturbed so i took a buddy back up and got the stuff and we moved camp that night. Ive had people tell me forest spirit, alien, ghost, elf, gnome. It seemed very robotic in a way, just very mechanical in its rhythmic step, like it couldn't come to a complete stop but could only slow its pace... Ive had things happen late at night, or in bed but never when i was standing up fully alert, observation mode, my brain struggling really hard to make sense of this two minute event..
Myskox W Well, actually the first Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, organized by and for returning Vietnam veterans, who wanted to celebrate the 4th of July, without all the noise and glorification of war. (I agree with the point you made -- I'm just adding some detail)
Wow just blows me away that 29 years after my last gathering - Vermont '91 - (which I scouted winter of '90 and proposed to site council) just blows me away - what a sweet suprise to see Joanie & Garrick & Fantuzi and Mike aka Nick Beat 😋 after all these years - big hugs you guys 🥰
Like a swarm of locusts , they land , play and party then leave a mess for the unfortunate local people to clean up ! Having a bus myself , but not part of the Rainbow Family , I would come into an area where there had been a gathering just weeks earlier and find the local people looking at me and my bus with disdain just because I had long hair , lived in a bus and traveled around doing my work .
"And these people will be known as warriors of the rainbow. And they will have feathers in their hair and grow their hair. And they will live and dye for the earth. They will do anything for nature. And they will get out there and help save the planet!"
Winter Star It's more of a prayer and a goal. While not everyone will fully embody this ideal, it will be in their hearts, and it will always remind them what we are here for. RAINBOW WARRIORS
As someone who was born in the 50's I think that one of the most disturbing things I have seen is how the park ranger morphed into some sort of special forces soldier. WTF?
They just want to feel big and powerful over peaceful people who they perceive as nothing more than dirty hippies. :( To people like them, it feels good to treat people like crap. Dont even ask me why. Its just sad.
IM CRYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO COMPLETLY BEAUTIFUL IN MY WHOLE LIFE. A MAN CAN YELL WE LOVE YOU IN A FIELD AND EVERYONE IN SIGHT YELLS IT BACK. I JUST GOT OUT OF REHAB FOR HEROIN AND IM HAVING ALOT OF DOUBTS ABOUT MY LIFE. BUT THIS JUST GAVE ME HOPE THAT THERE IS SOMEWHERE THAT I BELONG. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE PART OF OUR FAMILY. THIS IS TRULY REAL LOVE. i apologize it was all in caps lock i was crying so i sorta forgot lol. ive never cried because of beauty it feels wonderfull. thanks
+James Dean Hey dear James, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feeling. You, as such as all of Us, belong to this wonderful family where everyone is free from the mental slavery. I love you, and I wish you the best in life. Good vibes.
+James Dean we love you
+James Dean we love you
Former heroin addict myself , if you ever get the chance GO TO A GATHERING. Even regionals are amazing and help renew faith in humanity
me to man
As a kid in the mid 90s, me and my dad picked up this guy hitch-hiking in the pouring rain in Vermont. He wanted a ride up this mountain road, and we dropped him off in this nondescript spot, he just kinda walked into the woods where there was a sign that just had a rainbow on it.
Was it on smugglers notch?
this is my fav comment, a simple account of witnessing from the outside, of a kid viewing a strange man who was on the path home
@@jujulevine4705 l0l
#802
@@jujulevine4705 great perspective. i thought very similarly.
I just wanted you to know I may only be one person but I've been to going to gatherings since I was 14.i have watched so many documentaries about rainbow gatherings it ridiculous searching for something that I feel I could show somebody who never had been to a rainbow to spark there interest. You are the only one I have ever seen actually put together a video that 100% represents the whole imbodyment of rainbow and its purpose. I just wanted you to know I watched it from start to finish and it really moved me thank you for doing such a beautiful documentary it is a powerful video and I hope you make more.
Do they still go on now. They look like such fun. I did this with a group of friends when I was in my 20s and it was the best time in my life.
Every summer over the 4th!
@@contact594 no.
oh man..that is very sad to hear for me...if every gathering is like that in the video, i never ever wanna go to any one ! and i am a hippie at heart !!!!!!! i love people,music,nature,animals. but i dont need to be touched by 10 people at the same time to feel peace or freedom. it looks very odd to me and even if we want to, we can not come together with 5000 people and love everyone dearly from the start. its not possible. and its good like that.
@@contact594 No it started in the UK in 72 also, all colours all countries, I was maybe 13 or 14 there were war vets from the US geodesic domes, kitchens o course, it changed my life
We need this so badly in 2021. I wish my tribe could find this life. (Michigan Chippewa) please send us good energy.
We need an end to rainbow gatherings
@plaguex1 I agree and I am Turtle Mountain Chippewa (North Dakota).
I used to go to Rainbow Gatherings back in the 80's ..It was a great experience and I made many good friends I still have 30 years later !!
I can’t imagine what memories children take from their first gathering. I was 27 when I first went and I felt like a kid. It was probably one of the single most memorable experiences in my life. Thanks for sharing.
Children should not be attending psychedelic tripping gatherings. You can tell every adult there had no brain cells left.
I went to the national rainbow gathering 2 years ago. It was one of the best experiences of my life. Working to help the others around you, digging shitters, baking bread, random pocket trades, hauling water, chopping wood. It's so beautiful. There is truly an air of love in the air.
I hope to go again next year.
Everytime I watch this , i get goose bumps on my arms...It takes me back to my first gathering in the Cherokee National Forest in TN. These are my people! This is my Home. I've never experienced such a range of emotions like I do at the gathering.
The fact that the very next day after the ICT shooting these beautiful people recovered and were brought back to this wonderful state of peace... that is human nature and love at its most pure. ❤️❤️❤️ 🏳️🌈
I just got back from my first gathering, rainbow 2013. It was absolutely incredible. 90% of the people i met were extremely moving, not only would these people who have nothing more in there pocket than anyone else give you the shirt off their back but they would give you the warmth and love under it as well. The forest looked good and it was maintaned as well. Everywhere you turn people are offering you food friendship and love.can't wait for 2014 and to help clean and set up. We love you!
Awesome, im from Denmark Scandinavia, would be amazing to go , but i would never be accepted in the us, 44 yr old addict, 9 month Clean from heroin and Methadone and crack, but i would to be apart of this, and to help spread this community to the world, we all need this more now than ever. Im grateful for the rainbow in the sun after the rain under the blue skies. ❤❤
This just goes to show what the power of love can do and accomplish. Love and peace to you all.
I went to a regional rainbow gathering in Arizona for three days. Played hand drums for hours on end. It was epic! There was the usual few annoying folks here and there but mostly a lot of great folks. I'll never forget the experience.
Loved this video! My parents took me to a Rainbow Gathering in the UK when I was a baby so I can't remember any of it, but I have been to similar events at an older age such as Green Gathering. I'm studying Event Management and currently writing my dissertation on the Rainbow Gatherings. This video has been my favourite thing to stumble across. So much love and hope for how a community of people from different backgrounds can live together peacefully and become a family!
It the early 90’s I experienced “rave camp” at a gathering thus I started going to raves,then to complete the circle I started taking friends from the rave scene to Rainbow Gatherings..Kentucky,Wyoming.
I loved listening to my friends talk all the way home about the amazing times they had experienced.
Are there still gatherings??
I rolled with the GFE kitchen when I was 17 for a few gatherings in 96 or 97. I’ll never forget that jam session in Vermont where someone brought in a drum set and we all drank mushroom tea. That night healed some of the darkness in me.
I grew up wanting to be a hippie. I spent my youth seeking out "hippies" from the original generation. When I found the truth I became more disillusioned than I already was with "the establishment." I found a whole lot of dirty, lazy, disorganized, entitled weirdos. A good friend told me a story of trying to start her own commune in 69/70. She had a family farm and invited dozens of "hippies" to come and live with her. Together they would create their own utopia, unencumbered by society's expectations of them. Well, a farm takes work and pretty much nobody would work hard or succumb to a rigid schedule, which is often required of you on a farm. She said they would all lay around getting high, eventually referring to her as "the man" because she was more concerned with the harvest than getting high and having sex.
Many of those people went on to have families in the early 80s, spawning the Millenials. They mostly sold out and ended up, themselves, actually working for the man. Many became government employees (because they loved unions) while others became the greediest generation of corporate leaders to ever exist. Now, their spawn have become a modern, albeit twisted, version of them. The Millenials even resent, or hate, their parents' generation, as hippies did their parents. The difference being, the hippies' parents were actually quite accomplished and fantastic.
It is for this reason, and many others, that I refer to the Boomer/Hippie generation as HippieCrites. You can still find some of the hold outs living in small towns, or on coastal islands, with trashy properties and unkempt appearances. The generation as a whole is selfish, entitled and completely full of crap. I feel sad for the very few who truly believed and lived the philosophy properly, as they do not deserve the same criticism.
See the problem with what your saying is yes there are lazy hippies but there are alot non lazy ones as well. I would stay after many shows fiesties an helped pick up the mess trust me 70 % of the ppl who come are just coming to party but ther are a good number of us who put tons of work into these shows and gatherings. In a way we need to bring in the weekend warriors for multiple reasons one they are ones with money lol not to be blunt but it cost money to do anything second bringing in outside people makes the whole way of life grow it can open up a kids mind or can help ppl who feel they never found others like them. I totally agree that there alot lazy ppl but I no alot hippies that are not lazy at all some might move alittle slower than regular society lol but alot time you just need to find way to motivate an keep ppl on task. Trust me I totally understand what your saying there so many times iv bwn at shows an the parking lots end up trashed an garbage everywhere but most the time those are the ppl are the ones who only come to party its a hard subject but basically my point is your going to find lazy an crazy ppl in all aspects of life but you will also find good people ppl who work harder than most. I know I go three lots of funny situations because I'm a tree worker I get all kinds of tree huggers who don't understand how I could cut them down. That being said I don't work for these huge logging companies that tear forest apart. There are ways to log that actually benefit the Forrest an keep it alive. My point to saying whay I do is that I'm a hippy but also work my but off u promise most ppl nowadays couldn't handle the physical labor I endorse everyday. These gatherings are just about bringing ppl together the connections of tribes from threw out the lands. Things like that have happened in the native cultures forever. It just seem odd because we don't do that nowadays
Thank you for sharing your experience. All people are flawed & eventually they will grade on each other. I could never get past the dirt as a hippie. It was my generation.
You kind of left me hanging when you said you found the truth. I read on looking for your Christian conversion experience, but found none. Is there more to the story? I went to a Rainbow Gathering in about 72, but got saved from my sins by the blood of Jesus Christ a year or so later.
I really hope I can find the ones in Canada. The scene where people were in a close circle and were hugging a person in the middle made me cry. I often long for connection and community like this. I’ve been struggling with mental and physical problems for years and I’m really isolated. I can imagine how healing an experience like this would be for me.
Seek out tafino tribe
what province, they are in BC, Ontrario & Quebec, might also have an east coast gathering as well
I was at this event!!!! It was a most memorable experience.
Is this gathering still going on??
It was the most memorable experience that I ever had in my life I'll always love my family
Which family was this?
do you know when this was??? there’s a missing man in this video his mom has been desperately searching for him for years
When you go to a rainbow gathering brothers and sisters you better realize that it's a privilege for us to gather and share whatever it is we need to, because in much of the world you can't do it. So, use the oppurtunity to make the world through your own actions a better place be idealistic but also realistic.
@@CarrieGerenScogginsOfficial you can't be serious.
Lovin Ovens is one of the most magical places ever. Thank you for bringing these memories back as I work in babylon. I love you.
The man at 17:46 might be a missing child
how so?
So was it
Looks like they get arrested alot so wouldn't he be in the system
@@krystallo799 prison baby lol
His mom is looking for him
the man at 17:42 is possibly a missing child, yall need to help please find him
Has the child been found ?
He don't look missing to me
Shawn dickerson
i was 17 at the gathering in Montana..yrs ago...1976, i believe.. i met Dennis Perrone there....we dropped acid and spent the 4th of july together..hiking and tripping... very cool experience.. changed my life.. Dennis was one of the writers for California's first Prop for Medical MArijuana..he was HArvey Milk's PArtner and friend.. i was fortunate to have met this man.
This is an amazing documentary. Renews my faith in humanity. Let's bring it on! Thanks so much for the post. I shared it with my friends and enemies on Facebook. Peace, love and Rainbows!
Mahalo this brought back many memories...Blessings to you ALL...WE LOVE YOU...from Maui, Hawaii
I love Gatherings. I was at one in Erie Pennsylvania, a regional gathering in Ithaca and many visits to Yasgurs which isn't a Rainbow Gathering but lots of love for sure. I have had the nothing but the best experiences at Gatherings and my life has changed and havent been able to get to one since Erie. I can't wait to be Welcomed Home, and hear the shouts of, "We Looooovvvee You" wherever you go. I will get back one day. Lots of love Rainbows :)
This is the future! The hippies were right and the man knows it! Peace family.
bunch of drug using dumbasses. They have no idea how to perform penance, austerity and Bhakti-Yoga. They have no idea what real intelligence is. They Don't understand the goal of controlling of the mind and senses. Mis-led Pseudo-spiritualist.
@Midnight Philosopher we are one with God but yet at the same time different. We are qualitatively the same but Quantitatively different. God does not become illusioned by Maya. His pasttimes are spiritual and he has his own forgetfulness he undergoes for the sake of enjoyment. Not like our foergetfulness. His is submerged in loving assoaction with his devotees. But yet at the same time he is still in control of all.
He is inconceivable. To even consider yourself God is most foolish.
Show me you are God. You hippies pretend to be humble, yet think you are God lol.
You are a mini God. Part and parcel.
Bruh...they're in power now....no?
@Midnight Philosopher Wow, your replies to this man who actually wastes his time trying to make you understand the real deal, why drugs are bad and why centering one's spirituality around them isn't AT ALL the way just shows how completely ignorant you can be. "Size doesn't really matter", what do you measure your "size" in? Let me guess, points of DMT, tens of tabs of lsd, grams of mdma, deserts of peyote and all those funky dodgy alternative substances made in labs in China eager to fry your brain harder and give you a "better" understanding of the Universe. Your replies sound like you just read a sentence out of an article or a book and just slapped in here without even knowing how to read, while this man speaks to you from an educated perspective. I bet your brain has like 10 tabs left before you become a mushroom which is "one with the earth auuuuuuuummmmm".
Real spirituality can be most easily seen in the buddhist monks and shaolins especially from Tibet. Not in fried out wannabe hippies pretending to be "Gods".
If you were a God, like everyone else and you'd be also aware of this universal interconnected concsiousness then you wouldn't be an ignorant a-hole making smug remarks on youtube :)
Before you even bother to reply to me and slap another remark or copy-pasted statement, skip to minute 6:44.
@Midnight Philosopher Gods in embryo
Happy Rainbow Family Gathering!! My mother is a Deadhead and she went to these when she was younger, and I am her daughter and I am here to remind you a revolution is coming. Rainbow family never dies. I will see you there one day.
❤️🧡💛
I would love love love love to come to the rainbow gatherings and chill with these wonderful people
Carrie Geren Scoggins [Official] you sound like a pessimist. Also if you were confident or your husband was in love you wouldnt have made it such a central topic. Its honnestly probably why hes your ex. However ive made my fair share of mistakes as well but just because there were bad stragglers in the scene doesnt mean it wasnt started with good intentions. Which is quite appararent here
I knew there were ppl like me out there that just said fuck it let's go build a random city in the woods
We're all those people, really
Consider growing your own woods.
By that, I mean study permaculture and your native ecology. There's more than enough city in the woods already. A large enough food forest that was properly maintained, could help a community like this out a lot after your gone. The Amish still do a lot by themselves and live a ( simple) life , I'm not sure why we dont.
I send all my positive vibrations to the Rainbow🌈 Gathering 2024 in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Uslar - Dinkelhausen!
You are doing it right and are on the path to realization! 🔥 ☯ ☮
Travelled on grey rabbit bus from SFO to Seattle in 81 with a bunch of people heading to rainbow peace festival in Washington state.Lester the driver made sure we were all comfortable and it was beautiful,great memories 🙏
If only the whole world could be on the same frequency of love...
Sounds boring.
So we each build that frequency on our own, we hook up with other people gettin there too, and soon we build a world of Love and Light!🌈
It is the love of the flesh and the love of themselves they are involved in.
@@RuththeTruther True Love is only found in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Never heard of this before.
My people, I so belong here. ❤
I attended a Rainbow Gathering at Hampi (India) 2016 December, I remember the climb I made post sunset, to be welcomed by a couple of ladies, saying welcome to the family. It was guided by a random stranger I met while I was riding along that area who got me there. But the next couple of night were something I still manage to pen it down. If some one from the family who were present there is seeing this. Please get in touch with me I would be overwhelmed to see you guys soon. Love
I've been to so many gatherings. Our very fav spot to meet is the Daniel Boone National Forest in Southern Kentucky. Omg its so beautiful there and the people are so great there. I can't wait to go back.
Governments do not want peace. A society based on kindness, understanding, where people share what they have and actually love each other makes most of the functions governments assume unnecessary. War, poverty, violence, control of thought, and many other things, are all employed to keep the population of this planet in servitude to those who sit in power. There is a way to change the status quo, but the minds of most people are so welded closed they are impossible to free. Love and Light.
I believe that it is the same with religion,all religions try to achieve "peace".
Now I have put "peace" in quotations,because in my belief,when using the term "peace" in religious statue,I would say that peace would(Almost,not sure if I am right,please correct me if I am wrong. )Metaphorical statement.
Terrorists are governed by individuals exploiting religious concepts. Governments try to stop these people, and in the process damage the civilian population. Though the government does not benefit the people all the time, they are wholly and utterly necessary, to claim that a government should be dissolved is to wish more death and anarchy than ever seen before.
The man constructing with the girl at minute 17:42 may be a missing child please help us find him
Been found?
shawn dickerson
It's a wonderful experience, can't wait for next year!!
That dude at the end closed it perfectly. How much more destruction before we finally change our ways?
My first gathering was 1977 in the Gila National Forest, Love my Rainbow Family 🌈🌞🌈
Mine was '72 at Estes Park, CO. I was 16 and had hitchhiked from PA.
If you don't like or agree with the Rainbow Gathering than don't come, but there is no need to spread hate.
I absolutely love and respect the gathering and what these people stand by. It's beautiful.
Being hateful is exactly what the rainbow family is trying to prevent.
I love the Rainbow Family Gathering, and I can't wait to attend my first next summer.
Rachel Marie I completely agree this is not really for me but I'd never say anything bad to my niece who would love to go to this with her husband and son and I'd even stop by on my bike ride to say hi to them and hang out for a minute just lime I'm a Christian but there's nothing in the world that would stop me from walking in a gay pride parade with my nephew hugging him with pride for him I believe the world could be a better place if people would live there lives the way they want while allowing others to do the same as long as no one is getting hurt in the process
By denying people's feelings and demanding manditory "love" you are inherently fascist and hateful
Wonderfully put. Please let's be friends. Xx
haha sure! Friends we are!
@@StevensBorowsky You sound like someone that would be arguing with a diesel smoke blowing proud boy and get knocked out for being a "fascist" yourself.
wish we all can go back in time and live the hippie way of life. i have many hippie friends and glad i got to experience a gathering like this in 1978 in nelson BC Canada. i was 8 yrs old and my parents and i went camping and when we woke up in the morning,we were surrounded by a few hundred hippies! we had a blast! mom bought some pottery,and dad tasted their food. my dad was impressed on how well they made good food. and i got to meet lots of friends in my age group. and never had another one again in nelson BC. so sad. i just love this type of gathering and the openness of the hippie culture.
I Went to my first Rainbow in Greece this year. I loved it, To live in Oneness in the nature. Met so many wonderful people, I Love You Rainbow Family!!!
I am Apache and they were on my reservation one time....I was so drawn to them...
I am as well! , and white river ? 🙂
Dear brothers and sisters!
I have just listened to this for a while and started to weep silently.
We have a fullmoon celebration every month in order to keep the rainbow-feeling from wearing off after beeing back from a gathering .
Of course magic can and does happen during this celebration and it's even close to coming home, but it won't put up with staying at a rainbow site for weeks with more time to really really come home.
I do really miss you.
Big Piney, Wyoming in the summer of 1994. There were over 13,000 people there from everywhere!!! This is a must-do in life.
This is everything that burning man is not.
a few minutes into it I cried my eyes out because this is what I've been missing. The energy is over powering!
If I was not 60,I'd live like this.dont know if I could keep my ssi here.so i have beautiful garden on my patio! Every inch of it is covered with a plant or flower! Some veggies! Wonder if they grow food!
I love the dance since I have one eighth indain in me!
did you find what you were looking for?
I feel recharged after watching this. thanks.
welcome home❤I was in Zimbabwe rainbow gathering 2000.
It was good experience for me 🌈
All anxiety comes from the thought that this is only happening to you! We're all in this together so we might as well gather!
Every single time people are free and peaceful, the damn government just won't have it.
Makes me so mad. Literally every time!
+IcyLittleBlades productivity declines around drugs. That's why. I mean if people want to live like that then fine, but if they want to live in "modern society" well things are going to clash.
productivity for whom? These people are productive enough for their own lives.
You are so ignorant...you say you live in a "Modern Society" and at the same time you embrace religion, governmental institutions, war, poverty, destruction of planet Earth, and you think that drugs are at fault? I've smoked 5 years of my life and my social integration was not affected, these people are not meeting because of drugs, they meet because they are tired of people that believe in fictional figures and wonder around the streets like robots, with nothing to show for except making their master rich...We are all the slaves of society, I used to work for 2$ per hour, and billions of people work for less, do you think that is the worth of human life? That is the society you praise?? You should contemplate on that! If drugs were controlled by the state do you think there would still be drug cartels? We choose in this life if we want to be parasites on this earth, or just another animal. I've seen more intelligent and moral conscious pets than humans and because of the stupidity of 70-80% of the population, the rest of us have to suffer, and where else to relax and get away from all that than Nature!?
warioman91 bull.
infopocalypse blahg even more productive than any line towing sheep
Beautiful people, beautiful vibes. :)
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
It's just like Gathering of the Juggalos but with less grease paint and more gray hair.
Pause at exactly 6:46 Dude on the far right is high as *FUCK*
WOW! Your right! He looks like a zombie!
It's called camping... w/ a hard-on.
von, if you ever do drugs like these .... individuals do, you do *not* get a hard-on. You might be _mentally_ interested but hydraulics will not work without Viagra or something like that (IE: pharmaceutical drugs, not recreational ones)
circa 74, Grassy Key, FL, these people literally saved my life.
evidently there was/likely still is, a core group of Rainbow People who are no-mads and travel (like i did--hitchhiked 27,000 miles thru 41 states, canada and mexico over course of 5 years).
well, said date i was particularly despondent after hitching from long island to meet my girlfriend who left me after an argument and was supposed to be in Coconut Grove, near miami, but when i got there i found out she'd just left for colorado, where i took off for later...but before that i met a viet vet and his girlfriend who were very liberal...so i went off with her, but only to pour out my woes after she drove me to buy a fifth of tequila, which i drank in 45 mins on a *two day* empty stomach, and consequently went mad and then wound up dry heaving the entire night. well, one of these rainbow people dudes stood by my side monitoring me ensuring i wouldn't fall asleep and go into a coma, therefore saving my life.
however, it was sad to see in this doc how the forest service law enforcement branch manhandled these gentle people, all because of [an alleged!] law that claimed their gathering was illegal?! a clear violation of the constitutional right to *peacefully* assemble, as far as i can see. even if it was against the law doing so on government land (ie in a state park), why enforce it if no-one was hurting anyone else? it would be different if they were permanent squatters..
anyway,
peace.love.peace to all the Rainbows!
and to ALL human beings, unconditionally!
***** - welcome! and thank you for recognizing! similar wavelength evidently..
+ChaosRiku - OM to that! :)
This just reminds me of how beautiful being at a gathering is, I so much Miss the gatherings as I have been in Babylon for many years. My life has changed in so many ways since I last was at a gathering. I may never go to another one yet I carry that same spirit within my heart and always will. Love you Brothers and sisters.
💜 Welcome home! Same with being stuck in Babylon... sucks. I miss the trees, the stories and the people of our community. I love you Brother.
Thank you so much brothers ans sisters for this video. I was on the European Gatherings in 1986/87 and 90/91.
This year it is in Germany. I wantet to go there, but I heard of trouble with Government. A new place was found in the mountains of "Harz". But it was the same thing there, ist was not allowed to make fire etc. So last night at fullmoon police came and about 1000 peacefully rainbow-warriors had to leave the place. There was no fullmoon-celebration. Police took cars and tents away...
So I'll send all the family love an peace an hugs from Hamburg/Germany.
I wanna come home ~♡~
🤗💖🌈🌍🕊
the happy face everyones wearing looks athousand times better than any tie or suit or rolex could ever
The Rainbow people have shown me nothing but kindness ♥️☮
I went to a R. Gathering in about 72 in a forest outside of Eugene some 20 miles. A group of roadies showed up who greeted one another by a sharp knuckle sandwich.
@@ralphowen3367 must have been people from A Camp
@@Acolis I do not know, but there were hippies which were more rowdy than other around Eugene, and who in some cases called themselves "Hog Farmers". These may have been remnants of the Pranksters who went cross country in Further, their hippie bus--Ken Kesey and Wavy Gravy, who made an appearance at Woodstock Festival.
And yet where is their Christian witness of having been saved from sin by the Lord Jesus Christ? It is strangely absent.
I first heard about them in '82 when I was on the road to Montreal. I never heard of them again until I saw this documentary. I wish I knew where this sort of gathering was taking place when I was younger. It might have changed my life for the better. I hope they do find that dream for humanity's sake...
Ohhhh i love this so much!!! Ahhh reminds me of who I am, so so so overjoyed I stumbled across this tonight :))))
Me too.
this 4th of july I can not be at the gathering but I will still observe silence until noon in hopes of joining the energy of the prayer circle of my family at the gathering.
thank you. this video make me feel happy. like out there is people who know how to live and whats real happiness. I wanna be part of that one day :)
Beautiful times. 💜 There was a community in Wales, UK ( Talley Valley ) called the Rainbow People. This goes back to early '70's, but they all lived there a long time, into this Century I'm sure.
They built & lived in home made teepees, schooled their own kids. There was a documentary about them on BBC in the '80's ; I remember seeing my Nephew riding around camp on his bike.
It wasn't an easy life for them, with UK wet weather , I don't know if they still exist there. If anyone knows?
Hi Luca if you read this , you have been sorely missed by all the family, although I know you probably wouldn't believe me.
♡ Wishing you & your family much love.🐱☯️🏴
I was there at this gathering. It was magical. My name is Otter and if anyone knows Sparrow please tell her that Otter loves you and misses you. I would love to see her again. Peace and love. Otter.
i love this but started to cry when the ict came in i wondered will the world always be like this? even when we do nothing wrong? we get shot at and brought down ...
Try Kabbalah, it gets you into deeper states of consciousness without drugs, and brings a lot more cohesion to your life. The earth is crying out for it right now.
I was at the 1st gathering. At first we had to dodge rangers to get in. But later a ranger came and showed us how and where to build latrines. How to keep the water clean. You have to remember, the Rainbow people are like Martians to the work-a-day people. By being free and loving threatens their ways of life. So IMO, the Rainbow needs a bridge to the work-a-day world. a small group who can communicate "Rainbow" in a language the rangers and others can understand and listen to the Ranger's fears, needs and wants and be able to negotiate respectfully. The Rainbow gathering is pretty fragile which we saw when the rangers freaked and started shooting. How do you deal with freaked rangers with guns? I think strong negotiation might work but you have to meet them half way. May be have a Boy Scout and girl scout uniforms. Speak their language so they can understand you. Good luck Rainbows - you're on the right track.
me too ...i hope not .untill we get back to the divine femine it will be this way .
This is the real deal. What the Burning Man WISHES it were.
Fuck burning man
@@hooh1644 Why fuck burning man? That would be very mean and you could get burnt. But if people are having fun why not let them have fun and just do something else. I don't watch Barney but I never said fuck that purple dinosaur.
@@hooh1644 Yea man fuck it. Fuck that gathering which only has music and decos over this gathering which lacks in these but has the same old drugs and wannabes.
Look at the world now!!! It started in the UK in 72 also, all colours all countries, I was maybe 13 or 14 there were war vets from the US geodesic domes, kitchens of. course, it changed my life
My religious group bought 28 acres next to the forest, improved the land, built a place where several thousand of our young women 12-18 years of age could go to commune with nature & God & the Rainbow Family located right next to our place ran around high, drunk, naked, screaming day & night & pretty much kicked our girls out of our own area. Our girls ended up camping at home in back yards. Thanks Rainbow Family. Selfish to the max.
A real white buffalo was born this year 2024 in Yellowstone National Park.
My daughter took off with them. Some are good, some aren't.
Can you share more about this?
Fact right there. They used to be pretty creepy and threatening when they set up in ocala, and I've heard of pretty dark shit happening there some years.
East coast heads are more sketchy. Western scenes are more inspiring across the board.
We're all humans, but some are damaged. Be wary of the damaged cells in all walks of life, because they exist in all. You can only try to heal them so much, and sometimes they're on a trajectory that can not be stopped, like a comet. Sometimes you have to let that comet burn out in the depths of outer space, alone, and alone.
Started hearing of Rainbow when I was 17. 31 now. *passes good vibes and 420*. Smoking herb since 13. Greetings from a fellow Rainbow brother.
Peace to all, man how much I miss those Rainbow Gatherings. Peace to all forever and ever and ever
Finally a place where children can be free and get out of the concete jungle, and enforcment agencies turn up and shoot at thier family. It breaks my heart, because we love you.
p.s. It was a beautiful time watching this documentary!
News flash: Native Americans did this before the hippie, pride, movements. Raves as well. theyre doing basically what Native American also did with traditional dances, gatherings, prayers, etc etc. These are basically the only thing that could save our world and connecting people to their roots for healing.
archaic revival is needed. but most of humanity is filled with zombies that support a system of slavery and dont realize it. nothing will save this circus.
Not a Newsflash, we know this, and different cultures besides "native" Americans continued on with these practices in one form or another throughout Time.
I attended the gathering at Over land Resevoir close to Paonia Colorado for 3 days There was 10,000 people celebrating freedom and living in peace
Thank you for creating this beautiful piece of art ! Love from Berlin, Germany.
You're right, without the others, we would all be dead. If everyone did feel that, we would be much more opened to live in a fair way.
There was actually a scientific discovery made on 9/11. There are satellites that measure the electro-magnetic field put out by the Earth and on the day there was a dramatic change in it. From there evidence has been seen that our thoughts and feelings literally manifest themselves outside of us in some form. Now imagine a gathering like this, with all that love and spiritual energy being put out by so many people at one place. Perhaps it's the only reason we're not extinct already.
This is why Rainbow Gatherings will save the earth and the humanity!
Oh dear.
A bunch of disgusting dirty hippies.
Humanity is lower then demons in perversion and cruelty.
No there wasn’t…hippies
i am david i am the white buffalo here i am.. i even have a rainbow suit... which i wear time to time... its good to see you guys have been working and have been faithful GOD BLESS YOU... its only the beginning.... Jesus is coming soon now my friends and family... hang in there and find happiness and peace with GOD..
Come to a gathering David. This year is on the Minnesota Wisconsin border near lake superior. Peace and Love
We need this now in April 2020!! My little home is transforming now into a place of peace from this fascist government.
socialalt Welcome Home: I did 2 Gathering's - 1978 Oregon & 1984 Likely, California.
What country do you live in?
Same from Michigan. 2021. Saginaw Chippewa here.
I miss living in this culture! Now I walk amongst the 99% without a face covering and I smile at those who think I am spreading dis ease and I share that Love through being a visual example of the living Truth. Be strong Warriors of the light! Peace be with you!
I really want to become a part of this. It's like all the ideology I hold wrapped into one group of people
I can help you it's very easy to they are very welcoming.
I want to too😊
@@kartikaalst7354 can I get some info from you? My wife and I are talking about after the kids graduate in a couple years dipping out on modern society finally.
Me too!
@@kartikaalst7354 Can you help me too?
There are many people headed that way that will happily give you a ride. See you there! We love you!!
As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover.
It is absolute soul, absolute wilderness, absolute
No wheres even close. Generic Isotopes maybe.. but doubtful.
Love it!
This is how it will be in three hundred years.The future,the money rulers do'nt want.
Based on projected population growth and the lack of necessary resources needed to sustain that growth. I would say we have no chance to make it another 100 years. Dirty air, water, land and mother nature will make sure of that. This planet is already burning up and is dying, but most are too dumb and blind to see it. We are already drowning in sewage and garbage and nuclear waste. Denial is not a river in Africa.
Brings back memories. I went to the Rainbow Gathering in California in 1984. It was cool.
Ghost story.....At the rainbow gathering in 2009 in Pennsylvania. I think thats the right year anyway. It was right before the loads of people showed up and we were camped away from everyone else, along side the main trail that goes from the parking area and leads down a large hill into the main clearing. It was dusk, so light was fading fast and we had a fire going, we were both sitting there having a pretty deep conversation about life and spirituality when we decided to head down the trail to the clearing to find some food. At this moment we were standing up and some people who had been walking down the trail stopped to take a break about 30 yards below us. Anna says hey do you hear that? I could clearly hear someone walking in the wood behind us, the thing is there was nothing out that way as we were quite a ways from the main clearing and facing the direction of all the lights and people. The foot steps could be heard coming from our left and below us, heading straight for those people who were taking a break on the trail. I looked and saw nothing where my eyes said i should be seeing what was making those steps. There was nothing to be seen and I could actually see where the steps were landing, leaves being kicked up and what not. What ever it was walked up to those people on the trail, whom were talking to each other never noticed anything, but the steps definitely slowed down as it made a turn going passed them, like it was checking them out, and then it came straight at me and anna. Anna was fumbling most of this time with her key chain trying to find a little flashlight she had, what ever was making those steps came right up to the other side of the fire pit without stopping just real slow and anna shown her light at it and said "hey", and it took off up the hill right past me. The entire time it sounded like an invisible child power walking, taking short steps but fast, and when it took off passed me it was still powerwalking just machine gun like steps.. if that makes any sense. There would have been no way for me to chase it it was so fast and we both took off running down the hill, on a funny note there are people at these festivals who remain stark naked the entire month of the gathering and roll in mud and what not, so me and anna are flying down the trail in terror no less and run right into this 6ft5 giant naked man and we all yelled in fright, good times.. No idea what it was, anna was really disturbed so i took a buddy back up and got the stuff and we moved camp that night. Ive had people tell me forest spirit, alien, ghost, elf, gnome. It seemed very robotic in a way, just very mechanical in its rhythmic step, like it couldn't come to a complete stop but could only slow its pace... Ive had things happen late at night, or in bed but never when i was standing up fully alert, observation mode, my brain struggling really hard to make sense of this two minute event..
6:45 I couldn't wipe that look off my face either bud
It seems as if they seem to be going back to the hippie days. free.. natural spirit.. love.. peace and harmony.
we've been around all the time my friend. Ever since the sprouting of life.
Come around, and then you'll see it's not "they", it's we :)
Myskox W
Well, actually the first Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, organized by and for returning Vietnam veterans, who wanted to celebrate the 4th of July, without all the noise and glorification of war.
(I agree with the point you made -- I'm just adding some detail)
+Myskox W come around where to
+mysox W I second that, where to? lol
Wow just blows me away that 29 years after my last gathering - Vermont '91 - (which I scouted winter of '90 and proposed to site council) just blows me away - what a sweet suprise to see Joanie & Garrick & Fantuzi and Mike aka Nick Beat 😋 after all these years - big hugs you guys 🥰
Like a swarm of locusts , they land , play and party then leave a mess for the unfortunate local people to clean up !
Having a bus myself , but not part of the Rainbow Family , I would come into an area where there had been a gathering just weeks earlier and find the local people looking at me and my bus with disdain just because I had long hair , lived in a bus and traveled around doing my work .
Awe! You kids are so CUTE!!
"And these people will be known as warriors of the rainbow. And they will have feathers in their hair and grow their hair. And they will live and dye for the earth. They will do anything for nature. And they will get out there and help save the planet!"
Gina Holly That is the "ideal"....it's harder for people to walk that talk.
Winter Star It's more of a prayer and a goal.
While not everyone will fully embody this ideal, it will be in their hearts, and it will always remind them what we are here for.
RAINBOW WARRIORS
Yes and Amen.
My first Rainbow Gathering was 1994. I found some acid and it forever changed my life...
For the good I hope lol
I wish somebody from this community would contact me. I would love to experience this awesome gathering with these free people.
As someone who was born in the 50's I think that one of the most disturbing things I have seen is how the park ranger morphed into some sort of special forces soldier. WTF?
They just want to feel big and powerful over peaceful people who they perceive as nothing more than dirty hippies. :( To people like them, it feels good to treat people like crap. Dont even ask me why. Its just sad.