Rainbow gathering

[Bruno]

I have been to an electronic music festival that a similar vibe. I'd
recommend it to anyone who enjoys nature, psychedelia and a nice beach.

https://universoparalello.org/en/

Of course, it may seem to many as a big party. It isn't that "roots", since
it's pretty crowded, especially on New Year's Eve. But even so I could
enjoy my time there, swimming in the hot Atlantic water and enjoying some
good music. Electronic music, at least in Brazil, became the biggest
gathering events for New Age youth.

2017-03-16 8:46 GMT-05:00 Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com>:

> Re-sending this as I think I originally only replied to David.
>
> The Gathering…  I used to go when I was younger but the appeal wore off a
> bit after the first 5 or 6, and when I got over the excitement of living in
> Golden Gate Park and selling drugs/panhandling on Haight street eventually
> gets old.
>
> The article in the link is nice, and the photos are beautiful, but there
> is a lot left unsaid, and like most accounts of The Gathering, it is
> completely romanticized.  The majority of people there are not naked unless
> you’re in the bathing area, that’s not very practical since you’re in the
> woods all the time with a lot of bugs and sharp branches.  There are
> usually a few dudes wandering around nude trying to hug everyone that
> people tend to avoid.  Of course, there are a lot of people using
> psychedelic drugs, but there are way, WAY, more people trying to bum drugs
> off people as they walk by on the paths.  A huge number of homeless people
> and travelers congregate at the national on the 4th of July every year,
> as well as the regionals that take place throughout the year all over the
> US.  For people that enjoy the community and the lifestyle, and aren’t just
> looking for a free version of Burning Man, the regionals are a lot better.
> They have much fewer people, and it feels much more like a community than a
> huge mass of people hoping to party.
>
>
>
> Aside from a brief sentence about “real rules or currency” he passes over
> one of the coolest things before getting in to the nudity, which is the
> rule against money (and it *is *a rule, it is just gently enforced
> without people being too overbearing about it). Obviously, there are people
> paying cash to each other for things in private, but there is a general
> understanding that all commerce will be done through barter – the use of
> cash in the open was taboo.  There is a huge trade circle that sets up
> daily, where people will set things out for people to see and make offers
> on.  For the most part, people were hoping to trade their stuff for drugs,
> but there is a lot of fun to be had bartering and looking through the
> things people had laid out on their blankets.  I still have a pair of
> antique Smith & Wesson handcuffs I got in exchange for a Conflict t-shirt I
> was wearing that a kid from Phoenix took a liking to.  He even helped me
> put on some sunscreen since I was going to have to be shirtless for about
> an hour as I made my way back to my camp.  This was the closest I came to
> walking around naked at Rainbow.
>
>
>
> Sorry for the big post, it’s hard to explain the Rainbow phenomenon in a
> few words, and like the vice article - which relies mostly on some pretty
> pictures - I still haven’t done it justice at all.  Below is the official
> link if people are interested in going or looking into it a bit further.
>
>
>
> http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/sites/annual-site.html
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *<owner-pynchon-l at waste.org> on behalf of David Morris <
> fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 8:53 AM
> *To: *Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Rainbow Family Anarchy
>
>
>
> https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/rainbow-gathering-
> gallery-876?utm_source=dmfb
>
>
>
> The Rainbow Family is an anarchist, utopian, new age community that comes
> together during Rainbow Gatherings. The emphasis during those gatherings is
> on freedom and love. There is no entrance fee, no hierarchy and no actual
> organisation behind the gatherings. Everyone is responsible for planning
> and setting up the event – scouting the location, cooking, providing
> first-aid supplies and peacekeeping. The costs are covered by donations
> from the attendees during the gathering, who spend their days giving and
> taking workshops at the gathering, dancing, meditating, sitting in council
> circles, women's circles and drum circles or doing herb walks, yoga, tantra
> or psychedelic drugs.
>
>
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