I gave a hitch hiker a ride coming from a rainbow gathering. In the 1980s. He rode with me over an hour. Traded him a knife for a tie dyied t shirt. I never forgot him. When he left, I felt like I lost a best friend.
You were lucky you didn't end up dead. This kind of activity these days is not possible. Humanity has become the destroyer of Mother Earth and wilderness.
I went to a gathering and stayed for 2 weeks after sorting trash and cleaning up. It's mostly about drugs, partying, and the hippie aesthetic rather than real rejection of consumer culture. Still, I met some of the most incredible people of my life there and it was a surreal, fantastical experience.
I grew up in the rainbow I was born 1977 and we traveled for about 20 years going to almost all gatherings in that time. you are correct it is a false safe hood. All about drugs and partying. They never show camps like A camp that drink and get violent shoot guns off all night and fight and stab one another. They destroy every forest they enter. In 1994 I was walking in and was attacked and had my throat cut and was beat within a inch of my life. They are all fake. It's like fish safety in numbers the more people they have lthe less chance you have of getting caught some will get caught but the majority will not that is all it is. Out side of a gathering the wouldn't help you or tell you they love you like they would pretend to do at a gathering. It's a joke
If you've seen one facet of the gathering, you've seen one facet. The real treasure of any gathering is that it's a reflection of how you see the world at that particular time in your life. Your own lens. If you don't do drugs, you stop seeing the drugs. If you're a musician, the music is everywhere. If your heart is wide open, nothing short of miracles happen. If you're in a darker place, the Gathering may be a darker experience for you. The Gathering meets you where you're at in any given stage in life. I've been to over 20 years of gatherings, and it's different each time, depending on how I'm different that year. I've been there young and single, then with children, then with a rocky marriage, then single again with now older kids. I used to party, then went sober. Used to stay up all night drumming or volunteering everywhere. Then peaceful and quietly serving. I've taught and learned in many workshops, or just stayed mellow in my camp area. Each Gathering is a unique movie. My daughters and I have treasured being raised in gatherings and beg to go back every year. Feels like Home. 🌈
Haha well said. You forgot about the pretentious people that act like they are earth saving gods. I’ve been to two gatherings and I quickly grew out of them but yes decent nice enough people for to most part.
Oh Yes. Welcome home originated at the first gathering in '72. I was there at the gate when we first started saying it=== after the injunction was lifted and people started coming up from the parking lot. Burning Man adopted it, and welcome to it. The same spirit of relief in acceptance is present at both festivals.
Rainbow is awesome! Most people I met were kind and respectful. There are a few that aren’t (Usually A Campers) but it’s a great place to connect with other like minded individuals. Also nothing like those late night drum circles!
A small group of RP showed up at our soundsystem gathering. They didn't pay to get in, ate our food, used our materials, told us how great they are, ate their own food without sharing and took off.without offering to help with strike. .. great people... glad you came.
@@Wing_It_Wildflower can always hitch a ride on a container ship. pennies on the dollar. they might ask you pull a 6 hour watch shift, but for a free or discounted ride. I follow a couple channels of boat captains. It's a common thing. Not sure if that helped. Positive frequencies. Safe travels. I'd love to visit Australia, do some mineral hunting. however, I can't get a passport and would never pass customs
Yes, that's true, but unless you're working at "Hot Dog On A Stick" some uniforms can be FUN to wear, and even "Aspys" like me, want to fit in with a "hive" every once in a while. Plus not everyone "wears a uniform" ALL the time...Some folks even CHANGE uniforms. But if one likes UNIFORMITY---then "uniforms" are often going to be required.
Ive been to three gatherings and have enjoyed everyone. Growing up in the mid-50's my dad had a pharmacy on main street in Reno Nevada and it was at the very beginning of the Hippie culture so thousands of them traveled higway 80 heading for San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district. That's when i got involved with the 'free love' movement. When they would come into the drug store, my dad would always help them out. He didn't like the long hair thing but he also didn't like what Elvis did with his hips on stage, even at that my daddy was always kind and generous.
It's good to see a nurturing environment for them. This reminds me of when I was a little kid and the hippies would come down to my town and watch us during summer camp and at school too. I never saw hippies as druggies or whatever, they were always caring people. Probably smoked weed but I was too young to know. Alcohol was not seen.
not as much garbage that is dumped with 4 trash cash cans out of just one million dollar house that four people live in that could house half of these Americans?
@@gaylynnpalmer4274 Ok...your response is definitely geared towards one perspective that may be entirely true, but what I would like to know is, do these people leave the land littered and damaged as accused? Even on a scale that you may deem as being small?
@@72drowssap Big crowds at baseball games, concerts or parades always leave lots of trash behind. Why should a hippie gathering be any different? Because hippies are supposed to be cooler than everyone else? One difference is that baseball games and concerts hire cleanup crews to take away the mess. This hippie event wasn't organized well enough to do that. Some kids did try to clean up afterwards, but it wasn't enough. I also used to live near Henry Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland CA where the Dead came to play every year. The Deadheads were like an invading army, camping out early before the show, taking up all available parking spots, blaring loud music and pissing in alleys even though port-a-potties had been provided. I'm all for kids coming to my city to enjoy good music, but I'd like to see a bit more responsibility. But kids will be kids, I guess.
One time I was camping in Mississippi and this guy parked and came and asked me if I knew about the rainbow gatherings and if I had seen his daughter, and I said, dud good luck with that. 😅
1971 ... Peanut butter jars full of MDA and STP. And I though LSD was something. Nothing has been the same since. Decades and a lifetime later, I am grateful for that experience. And one that most of you will never know.
These pows are O. K. But if people could just for minute forget who they are and especially what others can do for them. "Happiness"... "There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path". Dalai Lama. If they could just learn to dance, sing and literally share their hearts, happiness and joy...as U don't need anything or anyone to make U happy. Besides laughter is infectious on it's own, it has it's own fragrance let it become your addiction... Peace... Love...Joy... Hahaa.
I hear the next gathering is going to be somewhere in the east coast. “The rainbow Gathering” on Facebook should provide exact info where near the start date (in the middle of June 2024)
Hey Ravyn it’s Nadia (you may have known me as Sparkle or Moth we met at Witts End on Big Island). This is a great documentary and you did a great job! I hope you’re doing well 💗
Sparkle!! Hey!! Thank you so much! Yeah I was going through some tough mental illness stuff back then! If you want you can email me at ravyn101@yahoo.com And I can give you my number. I’d love to catch up 🫂❤️ aloha 🌺
@Doctor Whowhotheowl That last part wouldn't surprise me one bit. I've grown distrustful towards these types of people over my lifetime. Everything in this video SEEMS all nice and cheery and colorful.. But something just feels deeply off.
I visited once as a 16yr old. I held babies all night and did “acrobatic feats” (I was a cheerleader). They fed me pot brownie, elderberry wine and handed me a joint for each flip. My friends and I left with a burlap bag full of joints 😂😂
Back in the late 80's I went to the first East Coast Rainbow Gathering in the Green Mountains in Vermont. In the morning I spent 4 hours hauling wood and water for one of the kitchens. Then it was breakfast time and I stood in the line with everyone else. The little girl in front of me got her scoop of food. Then I was given the same size scoop of food. I explained that the fire they were cooking on was my firewood, ands that the water they were cooking with was my water, and that I was going to need more food than a 60 pound girl. I was assured everyone got the same thing, because it's only fair. So I left, and went to town and the Chinese restaurant filled my belly for $5.00. Dunno who hauled their water and wood for lunch, but it wasn't me, or the 60 pound girl. Hippies are stupid.
Not stupid just drugged out. I find Bathing really helps people's thinking and outlook and many of them just don't bathe or wash their clothes. On the way I picked up a couple with Dreadlocks They smelled so bad I had to stop and throw up twice. Why do people have dreadlocks cause bathing is too hard?
Way to generalize. I know a lot of hippies. In my experience they are overwhelmingly brilliant, clean, and engaged. They also tend to be green vegans who are economic minimalists. They might not have a lot to eat, especially if they have taken a vow of service (which all of my neighbors have,) but what they have, they share. I have partaken of their hospitality many times. Sometimes I go out for food afterwards, because I'm not vegan and my body isn't satisfied with plant based foods, but I don't blame them for my needs. And, yes, some of them have dreads and smoke weed, but you can wash dreads, too. Some people are dirty, but not because they're hippies; rather, in spite of it. Or maybe they've been boondocking in a place where water hasn't been abundant. Maybe they were on their way to indoor plumbing and water heaters. But, yeah, take your superficial contact with two or three people and make sweeping judgments. That's always a good idea.
Seems like your view of service is perverted. You volunteered to haul wood for 4 hours then took it out on other volunteers when you didn't get your way? Very interesting that you're the one calling others stupid.
I don't think you understand the concept. Helping your community is chopping wood and carrying water with no expectations that you will receive more. You didn't have to do those things and you still would have gotten fed. There's definitely a lot more people that did a lot more work and received the same thing. You do the work so that those who are unable to work will get fed too. We're you told "oh you'll get more because you helped"? Probably not. So you helped in the first place for selfish reasons i.e. thinking you will get more than everyone else. Why not help just to help? It's a communal kitchen!?
And it was canceled because the “hippies” that went to left some trash and biological waste the event was canceled. A bunch a lame hipster roll playing as hippies. And I am glad they finally said no more.
Not that much different then the rest of society. Narcissistic abusers welcome as long as they have a smile and people reacting to their abuse aren't welcome
When these types of people talk about sharing resources they're usually dividing up resources that are not theirs. Kinda like all of the left over hippies in San Francisco that fighting any changes to zoning laws lest their property be worth less.
I can't believe you used OFFICIAL in all caps to describe this video. I am the arbiter of all OFFICIAL in all caps rainbow business. It was consensed in 1972 by the Hopi elders.
I went to the gatherings in the early 90’s..and learned nothing..maybe how to boil my dirty clothes in a pot then cook food in the same pot for hundreds of hippies.
That you learned nothing says more about you than it does about what you experienced at Gatherings. "You can lead a student to a classroom but you can't make him learn." What I've learned from attending Gatherings has been invaluable, and nowadays it informs how I live my life, how I see the world, how I envision the communities of the future, and what I intend to present to the world in my book.
Those kids are growing rainbow because the afults are grown already.....rainbow is not skills for sustaining a Life.....Many skills need to be learned to manage your Life.... 💖
This is what it is all about . I was in a spiritualist church today in wigston Leicester. Led there by my father.the church of all nations. I witnessed what I’m all about. Love . No one knew me, but they knew I was coming. From here I start. It’s already spreading , I am the light all who believe in this will be protected and to everyone they no. And for the dark souls walking amongst us . 1chance saloon , so think carefully. Only those who trust in change will be left . Any dark souls who don’t trust in what I say. You will be shown to the world. Then you’ll no what darkness’s is all about. To the church of all nations no this I’m here to upgrade this world. With the power invested in me by our father creator of above and below. The universe has left this me as they know I won’t be going anywhere yet. This is the promised land Moses hoped he would reach . But after receiving gods commandments, witnessed celebrating of idols . He threw these commandments into the crowd, god had to teach him anger and all emotions have to be in balance. He is now, and is ready to lead his children to the promised land. Peace and love to all.🙏🌍✨🌟💫🏴
These have been going on forever...my friends used to go. I never went. Idunno, it's just not my scene, I guess. Maybe I was more of a punk or glam rocker at heart, not so hippy.
I went in Wa State once DRUGS sex and drumming. Nice people but most I met use drugs every day ALL DAY. They love to trade. Maybe they don't know "working is a sure fire money making scheme". I made friends with some Muslim men who said they were just there to look at the naked women. The kids are bright mostly cause hardly any of them attend regular school which I think is great.
I was and am a hippie but you'd never know it.. why you ask, because being a hippie was never about being a hippie. These people are mostly pretending to be part of something they can only wish they actually understand... They don't.
Who says the 60s did not usher in world peace? You have to consider timelines. The 350,000+ citizens of the U.S., for instance, could not all have come into agreement within a span of 1-2 decades. Such grand changes take time. I've been plugged into various such countercultures for the past 3 decades, I know what's going on behind the scenes, and let me definitively say that the 60s era was a critical spark that lit a fire that has been growing and expanding ever since. We don't see it everywhere yet because the very well-funded, opposing forces of capitalism and consumerism continue to push back against world peace. Nevertheless, the fires are still blazing, spreading, taking ever new forms. There are FAR more hippies in 2024 than there were in the 60s and 70s, they're just not so obvious because not all hippies wear traditionally hippie outfits. The world is continuing to evolve toward world peace, without a doubt.
My friend let one come to his house and soon after he had a house full, couldn’t get them to leave and they stole everything valuable and ran all bills up😂
Sadly, nearly a decade ago, someone claiming to represent Rainbow started actually signing paperwork when asked to do so by the authorities. I have no idea if the local Rainbow community has recovered from that, as I have not personally been back.
Looks like a Hippie commune version of a family dude ranch. Camping taken to a festival level. Looks like a fun week... They really could let the religion part go.... especially the patriarchal Jesus/Christian variety which is just a bunch of made up mythology anyway. Meditation and love is all you need for being a good citizen. Add music and all is well.
lol if it was not for thier clothes shoes hats, to the flour and Plastic dish tubes.cheep walmart 10$ each and lol and rope and sooooo on. this would not be possible. but it is so have fun for a weekend festival.lolololol
Born in 60. In the early 70's I looked up to hippies. In 76 at 16 strated to party. In 82 at 22 became a Deadhead. Everytime the Grateful Dead came to town I went to the shows. I had an internal struggle. In 95 Jerry died. By 96 at 36, I quit partying & became a Wharf Rat. I learned I'm a conservative. At 64 Deadheads DON'T Make America Great. Still like my Jerry tunes!
Could you imagine if 500 Palestinian just showed up to this gathering unannounced? The one thing that is for sure, is if these two groups met in this valley, the amount of diversity, love and understanding that would ensue would be legendary. Not!!
The audacity to call it official rainbow 😂 balls, that takes some real narcissism 😮 Thanks for taking the time to make a wonderful rainbow family of living light documentary. I love your lovely perspective, but if anything was annoying was watching the commercials at the start and you commercializing rainbow for your own gain. You were not asked for money coming in, you had to watch no commercials, no one ask you to pay them for filming them and my niece, yet you took it all and commercialized a noncommercial event. Trippy. Maybe you know not our ways well and that’s understandable. I beg you to make it free, like it was free for you. Don’t waste time. Take off the dumb commercials, unless you are starving to death or are a serious junky. Just think about it. Maybe some things shouldn’t be about money? You seem super spiritual. I get it, it fun to make vids and tictoks! Love it. Fun to share what’s around. I’ve been rainbow documentaries and art and stickers and interview folks since 2007 and been in rainbow documentaries and been going since 1997. I’m making another doc this year, but never have I once tried to profit from something freely given in the spirit of unity. Made like 8 documentaries, never once do I make folks waste life watching asinine commercials, but so many like you do. Many just come and take for advertiser dollars and likes…. But if you think it’s wise and cool to profit form others that have freely; that’s your karma. Or if you’re doing it to collect money and give back to the community that freely gave to you, that’s be righteous, otherwise seems Hella shallow and nefarious. 🧜🏽♂️
Hey what's this place look like when they live. I hope everyone's been vetted through the bsa only campers I trust. Even soldiering I was taught the no trace left behind but it seemed like people think it's a joke even when your life depends on it... shiiiiiiiiiit wonder why the bsa taught me that as a child.... was it war or environmental
Really the drums are the heartbeat of the earth and vermin love supreme (real name) has been a presidential candidate that’s known internationally. It cannot be any better than this is if you go and experience it, you will know that there is nothing better than this anywhere on this earth
Nudity does not equal sexual intentions. It's our natural form of being? Also at Rainbow Gatherings you have kid camps where they keep the kids away from the partying and discourage or don't allow naked people in the kid camps. You know there are like whole nudist communities right where families will bring their children and shit! My uncle and his family are nudist and although they are kinda strange doesn't mean their children haven't grown up healthy and procted from predatory things. And honestly raising a kid in NYC or pretty much any other major city they are way more exposed to serious drug use such as needles and rampant homelessness. At Rainbows you get cannabis and psychedelics which in my eyes are medicines and if you shelter kids from drugs forever when they eventually do run into them, which they definitely will, they will be informed and less likely to do harmful things or if they choose to use said drugs will hopefully be in a harm reduced way. The reason nudity and drugs are viewed as "bad" is because parents don't seem to want to explain these things to their children which again will totally backfire later on down the road. You tell a kid "don't do that" and what do they want to do instantly? That! But if you explain "hey don't use opiates because it dies this or that or if you wish to experiment with cannabis or psychedelics wait until you are 18 because brain development and make sure you are in a safe environment with people you trust or this or that might happen...here's a link on proper use about set/setting" or things like that seems like auch better way than just saying "Just say no!" Type of mentality.
Rainbow gathering's are anything but earth friendly.They totally trash what is often pristine wilderness.Cause severe stress to local wildlife population's.Ive seen this first hand in Colorado after visiting Rainbow sights after they have left
I gave a hitch hiker a ride coming from a rainbow gathering. In the 1980s. He rode with me over an hour. Traded him a knife for a tie dyied t shirt. I never forgot him. When he left, I felt like I lost a best friend.
You should have gone with! ☺️
Best friends and Fish 🐟 both smell funny after three days.
Don't you miss the days when random strangers actually spoke to each other? Everybody seems so frigid these days.
Did y'all bang?
You were lucky you didn't end up dead. This kind of activity these days is not possible. Humanity has become the destroyer of Mother Earth and wilderness.
I went to a gathering and stayed for 2 weeks after sorting trash and cleaning up. It's mostly about drugs, partying, and the hippie aesthetic rather than real rejection of consumer culture. Still, I met some of the most incredible people of my life there and it was a surreal, fantastical experience.
What's "real" rejection of consumer culture to a gatekeeper like yourself?
Have you tried Buddhism? They actually practice what they preach
I grew up in the rainbow I was born 1977 and we traveled for about 20 years going to almost all gatherings in that time. you are correct it is a false safe hood. All about drugs and partying. They never show camps like A camp that drink and get violent shoot guns off all night and fight and stab one another. They destroy every forest they enter. In 1994 I was walking in and was attacked and had my throat cut and was beat within a inch of my life. They are all fake. It's like fish safety in numbers the more people they have lthe less chance you have of getting caught some will get caught but the majority will not that is all it is. Out side of a gathering the wouldn't help you or tell you they love you like they would pretend to do at a gathering. It's a joke
If you've seen one facet of the gathering, you've seen one facet. The real treasure of any gathering is that it's a reflection of how you see the world at that particular time in your life. Your own lens. If you don't do drugs, you stop seeing the drugs. If you're a musician, the music is everywhere. If your heart is wide open, nothing short of miracles happen. If you're in a darker place, the Gathering may be a darker experience for you. The Gathering meets you where you're at in any given stage in life. I've been to over 20 years of gatherings, and it's different each time, depending on how I'm different that year. I've been there young and single, then with children, then with a rocky marriage, then single again with now older kids. I used to party, then went sober. Used to stay up all night drumming or volunteering everywhere. Then peaceful and quietly serving. I've taught and learned in many workshops, or just stayed mellow in my camp area. Each Gathering is a unique movie. My daughters and I have treasured being raised in gatherings and beg to go back every year. Feels like Home. 🌈
Haha well said. You forgot about the pretentious people that act like they are earth saving gods. I’ve been to two gatherings and I quickly grew out of them but yes decent nice enough people for to most part.
Rainbow gatherings were great. My first in Montana 76, also did Oregon, Arizona, CA, Idaho. ♥♥♥♥♥ "Welcome Home" well before burning man.
Oh Yes. Welcome home originated at the first gathering in '72. I was there at the gate when we first started saying it=== after the injunction was lifted and people started coming up from the parking lot. Burning Man adopted it, and welcome to it. The same spirit of relief in acceptance is present at both festivals.
Rainbow is awesome! Most people I met were kind and respectful. There are a few that aren’t (Usually A Campers) but it’s a great place to connect with other like minded individuals. Also nothing like those late night drum circles!
A small group of RP showed up at our soundsystem gathering. They didn't pay to get in, ate our food, used our materials, told us how great they are, ate their own food without sharing and took off.without offering to help with strike. .. great people... glad you came.
Those would be Drainbows, not Rainbows.
Miss you River Man. Bless you all, safe travels. Positive frequencies. 💚🫀🧠👁👂🦉🍀🗺🔥🌬🌊🌈 If we can walk, we can dance. If we can talk, we can sing. 😜
I love all that your comment emenates!✨️💗💚💜🧡💛Nice to see a loving one here😊I left one up there somewhere 👆😂🫶 Love much love. Love eternal 1! 💓💯💥
New favourite saying👌👌😂🩷🤙!
@@Wing_It_Wildflower I believe it's a direct quote from Fantuzzi
@@Wing_It_Wildflower met ya'll at Project Earth, Harmony Park, with the community kitchen.
@@Wing_It_Wildflower can always hitch a ride on a container ship. pennies on the dollar. they might ask you pull a 6 hour watch shift, but for a free or discounted ride. I follow a couple channels of boat captains. It's a common thing. Not sure if that helped. Positive frequencies. Safe travels. I'd love to visit Australia, do some mineral hunting. however, I can't get a passport and would never pass customs
I was there. It was my 10th national. This video shows a very small aspect of rainbow. Lovin you.🙏🏾
My late uncle was an avid Rainbow. RIP, Mike, you were a real one. ❤
"Everybody wears a uniform"-G. Carlin.
Yes, that's true, but unless you're working at "Hot Dog On A Stick" some uniforms can be FUN to wear, and even "Aspys" like me, want to fit in with a "hive" every once in a while. Plus not everyone "wears a uniform" ALL the time...Some folks even CHANGE uniforms. But if one likes UNIFORMITY---then "uniforms" are often going to be required.
Ive been to three gatherings and have enjoyed everyone. Growing up in the mid-50's my dad had a pharmacy on main street in Reno Nevada and it was at the very beginning of the Hippie culture so thousands of them traveled higway 80 heading for San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district. That's when i got involved with the 'free love' movement. When they would come into the drug store, my dad would always help them out. He didn't like the long hair thing but he also didn't like what Elvis did with his hips on stage, even at that my daddy was always kind and generous.
haven't heard of one of these since 94 or 95, passing through Oregon and pickin up a couple dudes named Detroit and Squirrel lol, think I was 15
I can let my spirit free 🕊
I remember as a young kid the rainbow gathering was ran off by the locals in the next county.
In the 70's and 80's this is how most ppl enjoyed life....fun, and free to be who you are. Now....its hard to find.
😄😆😅🤣😂😉 I can't stop laughing this shit is funny
I went to my first Rainbow gathering in 1997 with some Buddhist Monks. One of the monks was an elder. It was such a beautiful experience.
Let me guess what race you all belong to. Any tips on Volvo reapair?
It's good to see a nurturing environment for them. This reminds me of when I was a little kid and the hippies would come down to my town and watch us during summer camp and at school too. I never saw hippies as druggies or whatever, they were always caring people. Probably smoked weed but I was too young to know. Alcohol was not seen.
The constipated buhdda joke was actually a really good one🌞🌿🌸🌈
Yes it WAS...I admit I never heard it before, and it was also pretty unexpected considering the kid's previous corny jokes.
These hippies had a gathering in Colorado, made a huge mess and left without bothering to clean up. So much for a band of nature lovers.
I am going to look this up because if what you say is true, this really sucks.
not as much garbage that is dumped with 4 trash cash cans out of just one million dollar house that four people live in that could house half of these Americans?
@@gaylynnpalmer4274 Ok...your response is definitely geared towards one perspective that may be entirely true, but what I would like to know is, do these people leave the land littered and damaged as accused? Even on a scale that you may deem as being small?
@@gaylynnpalmer4274 You're pulling a "fact" out of your ass. Were you there? Did you see for yourself how much trash was left behind?
@@72drowssap Big crowds at baseball games, concerts or parades always leave lots of trash behind. Why should a hippie gathering be any different? Because hippies are supposed to be cooler than everyone else?
One difference is that baseball games and concerts hire cleanup crews to take away the mess. This hippie event wasn't organized well enough to do that. Some kids did try to clean up afterwards, but it wasn't enough.
I also used to live near Henry Kaiser Auditorium in Oakland CA where the Dead came to play every year. The Deadheads were like an invading army, camping out early before the show, taking up all available parking spots, blaring loud music and pissing in alleys even though port-a-potties had been provided. I'm all for kids coming to my city to enjoy good music, but I'd like to see a bit more responsibility. But kids will be kids, I guess.
2001 was my first. Loving you. ❤
I miss those days of my life!!!
as long as they dont start selling tickets to attend for $1200 like burning man
i love my tribe. WE LOVE YOU!!
Rainbow Love Peace Freedom 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋
I like the kid who told the jokes. 🤪 🤪 🤪 🤪
I was at the first Gathering and five subsequently.
One time I was camping in Mississippi and this guy parked and came and asked me if I knew about the rainbow gatherings and if I had seen his daughter, and I said, dud good luck with that. 😅
1971 ... Peanut butter jars full of MDA and STP. And I though LSD was something. Nothing has been the same since. Decades and a lifetime later, I am grateful for that experience. And one that most of you will never know.
“I did drugs” “I’m cool”
The first gathering was in 1972
Welcome Home and We Love You! Stay High!
Wow the gathering has grown, met up with them in 1991 Joshua tree, good peeps✌🏾
When and whear is the next gathering I'd love to rainbow with y'all road go on for ever and party never ends
I live in England but I’d love to go here and experience this
No, you don't stay home.
Rainbow valley was awesome, this is something different
? Why? Because. I love you I can feel my heart beat because I love you 🌈🌄🌬
These pows are O. K. But if people could just for minute forget who they are and especially what others can do for them. "Happiness"... "There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path". Dalai Lama. If they could just learn to dance, sing and literally share their hearts, happiness and joy...as U don't need anything or anyone to make U happy. Besides laughter is infectious on it's own, it has it's own fragrance let it become your addiction... Peace... Love...Joy... Hahaa.
Well said ☺️✌🏼🌸🌺🌻
When and where is the next gathering
somewhere between Maine and Pennsylvania, see ya there!
I hear the next gathering is going to be somewhere in the east coast.
“The rainbow Gathering” on Facebook should provide exact info where near the start date (in the middle of June 2024)
soon we will hammer the house with the rainbow. one love love each other wisp?
Peace rainbow.
Hey Ravyn it’s Nadia (you may have known me as Sparkle or Moth we met at Witts End on Big Island). This is a great documentary and you did a great job! I hope you’re doing well 💗
Dumb names
Sparkle!! Hey!! Thank you so much! Yeah I was going through some tough mental illness stuff back then! If you want you can email me at ravyn101@yahoo.com
And I can give you my number. I’d love to catch up 🫂❤️ aloha 🌺
Love Lovin Oven Always the best bread and zuzus
I'm wondering if there's any Rainbow friends in the town of Marysville, California?
Sharing amongst each other typically means you give but doesn’t mean you get when you need something
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Very groovy indeed!
much love
That party ended in the late 90s...I'm not sure what this is
@Doctor Whowhotheowl You have mistaken them for Putin soldiers
@Doctor Whowhotheowl That last part wouldn't surprise me one bit. I've grown distrustful towards these types of people over my lifetime. Everything in this video SEEMS all nice and cheery and colorful.. But something just feels deeply off.
@@breakingfree7244 They do to much LSD that's why they seem "off"
@@scar3xcr0 Are you sure bruh.. I don't think anyone looked like they were tripping. Plus there's kids around wtf are you talking about
Infinite mind for thinking. Love forever. Have fun.
I'm not the secret leader.
Imagine the stench....
Grew up at these, honestly people take care of themselves a lot more than is stereotyped and it's not that bad
Isn’t this the same gathering that got pissed off and kicked vice out for trying to document the gathering???
Seems like vice was trying to commodify the experience.
@@CAKESLAPPA Exactly. Also, camera crews are just generally unwelcome at Gatherings.
David Julti?
That looks like Rolling Thunder's hat.
7:51 :-)
Where is this?
Routt national forest Colorado. Every year the location changes :)
I visited once as a 16yr old. I held babies all night and did “acrobatic feats” (I was a cheerleader). They fed me pot brownie, elderberry wine and handed me a joint for each flip.
My friends and I left with a burlap bag full of joints 😂😂
Why do they all sound zoned out and like children?
Back in the late 80's I went to the first East Coast Rainbow Gathering in the Green Mountains in Vermont. In the morning I spent 4 hours hauling wood and water for one of the kitchens. Then it was breakfast time and I stood in the line with everyone else. The little girl in front of me got her scoop of food. Then I was given the same size scoop of food. I explained that the fire they were cooking on was my firewood, ands that the water they were cooking with was my water, and that I was going to need more food than a 60 pound girl. I was assured everyone got the same thing, because it's only fair. So I left, and went to town and the Chinese restaurant filled my belly for $5.00. Dunno who hauled their water and wood for lunch, but it wasn't me, or the 60 pound girl. Hippies are stupid.
Not stupid just drugged out. I find Bathing really helps people's thinking and outlook and many of them just don't bathe or wash their clothes. On the way I picked up a couple with Dreadlocks They smelled so bad I had to stop and throw up twice. Why do people have dreadlocks cause bathing is too hard?
Why did the hippies cross the road?
Because everyone else was too smart to crossed by them.
Way to generalize. I know a lot of hippies. In my experience they are overwhelmingly brilliant, clean, and engaged. They also tend to be green vegans who are economic minimalists. They might not have a lot to eat, especially if they have taken a vow of service (which all of my neighbors have,) but what they have, they share. I have partaken of their hospitality many times. Sometimes I go out for food afterwards, because I'm not vegan and my body isn't satisfied with plant based foods, but I don't blame them for my needs.
And, yes, some of them have dreads and smoke weed, but you can wash dreads, too. Some people are dirty, but not because they're hippies; rather, in spite of it. Or maybe they've been boondocking in a place where water hasn't been abundant. Maybe they were on their way to indoor plumbing and water heaters.
But, yeah, take your superficial contact with two or three people and make sweeping judgments. That's always a good idea.
Seems like your view of service is perverted. You volunteered to haul wood for 4 hours then took it out on other volunteers when you didn't get your way? Very interesting that you're the one calling others stupid.
I don't think you understand the concept. Helping your community is chopping wood and carrying water with no expectations that you will receive more. You didn't have to do those things and you still would have gotten fed. There's definitely a lot more people that did a lot more work and received the same thing. You do the work so that those who are unable to work will get fed too. We're you told "oh you'll get more because you helped"? Probably not. So you helped in the first place for selfish reasons i.e. thinking you will get more than everyone else. Why not help just to help? It's a communal kitchen!?
Nice cute dolled up version of the real show folks. Shit goes on. They didn't show all the feds either.
Nor did they show the city based drug dealers that were quite obviously not Rainbow.
drugs are drugs
You'll smell them way before you see them😂😂
And it was canceled because the “hippies” that went to left some trash and biological waste the event was canceled. A bunch a lame hipster roll playing as hippies. And I am glad they finally said no more.
Maybe incorporating the Navajo Traditional Teachings
and here I thought it was people that could never make work work.
The new earth order
I met a rainbow girl back in 2008, she went by the name of Morning Star. I have tried to find her numerous times to no avail. I miss her dearly.
Not that much different then the rest of society. Narcissistic abusers welcome as long as they have a smile and people reacting to their abuse aren't welcome
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MY RELIGION IS PEACE ✌️🌎
OR
MY RELIGION IS LOVE.❤🌍
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Before Quebec
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All you need is LOVE❤
When these types of people talk about sharing resources they're usually dividing up resources that are not theirs.
Kinda like all of the left over hippies in San Francisco that fighting any changes to zoning laws lest their property be worth less.
Resources belong to noone. They are given freely by Earth. Something the white man never understood.
I can't believe you used OFFICIAL in all caps to describe this video. I am the arbiter of all OFFICIAL in all caps rainbow business. It was consensed in 1972 by the Hopi elders.
I am the arbiter of all official rainbow business. It was consensed by BOTH of davidresler's mother's tits in Minnesota in 2018.
I went to the gatherings in the early 90’s..and learned nothing..maybe how to boil my dirty clothes in a pot then cook food in the same pot for hundreds of hippies.
eating dirty hippy underwear stew ?
That you learned nothing says more about you than it does about what you experienced at Gatherings. "You can lead a student to a classroom but you can't make him learn." What I've learned from attending Gatherings has been invaluable, and nowadays it informs how I live my life, how I see the world, how I envision the communities of the future, and what I intend to present to the world in my book.
Rainbow Ja!
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Those kids are growing rainbow because the afults are grown already.....rainbow is not skills for sustaining a Life.....Many skills need to be learned to manage your Life.... 💖
This is what it is all about . I was in a spiritualist church today in wigston Leicester. Led there by my father.the church of all nations. I witnessed what I’m all about. Love . No one knew me, but they knew I was coming. From here I start. It’s already spreading , I am the light all who believe in this will be protected and to everyone they no. And for the dark souls walking amongst us . 1chance saloon , so think carefully. Only those who trust in change will be left . Any dark souls who don’t trust in what I say. You will be shown to the world. Then you’ll no what darkness’s is all about. To the church of all nations no this I’m here to upgrade this world. With the power invested in me by our father creator of above and below. The universe has left this me as they know I won’t be going anywhere yet. This is the promised land Moses hoped he would reach . But after receiving gods commandments, witnessed celebrating of idols . He threw these commandments into the crowd, god had to teach him anger and all emotions have to be in balance. He is now, and is ready to lead his children to the promised land. Peace and love to all.🙏🌍✨🌟💫🏴
They're a bunch of thieves. Don't be conned.😢
Like the white colonials ? Yes, dear natives. Don't be conned.
Where is the FROG HEALER? Eric Heilbron ✨🕊✨
These have been going on forever...my friends used to go. I never went. Idunno, it's just not my scene, I guess. Maybe I was more of a punk or glam rocker at heart, not so hippy.
Unfortunately the island of misfit toys sank under the rising sea levels, thankfully these toys were spared.
I went in Wa State once DRUGS sex and drumming. Nice people but most I met use drugs every day ALL DAY. They love to trade. Maybe they don't know "working is a sure fire money making scheme". I made friends with some Muslim men who said they were just there to look at the naked women. The kids are bright mostly cause hardly any of them attend regular school which I think is great.
War still is. The moral compass of these people is what we are suffering from now. Gods laws.
Nice Freakshow...
I was and am a hippie but you'd never know it.. why you ask, because being a hippie was never about being a hippie. These people are mostly pretending to be part of something they can only wish they actually understand... They don't.
And you do know?
Right.
If the counter culture of the sixties didn't usher in an age of world peace and harmony its beyond naive to think these gatherings will.
Who says the 60s did not usher in world peace? You have to consider timelines. The 350,000+ citizens of the U.S., for instance, could not all have come into agreement within a span of 1-2 decades. Such grand changes take time. I've been plugged into various such countercultures for the past 3 decades, I know what's going on behind the scenes, and let me definitively say that the 60s era was a critical spark that lit a fire that has been growing and expanding ever since. We don't see it everywhere yet because the very well-funded, opposing forces of capitalism and consumerism continue to push back against world peace. Nevertheless, the fires are still blazing, spreading, taking ever new forms. There are FAR more hippies in 2024 than there were in the 60s and 70s, they're just not so obvious because not all hippies wear traditionally hippie outfits. The world is continuing to evolve toward world peace, without a doubt.
My friend let one come to his house and soon after he had a house full, couldn’t get them to leave and they stole everything valuable and ran all bills up😂
Don't believe that bullshit
Sadly, nearly a decade ago, someone claiming to represent Rainbow started actually signing paperwork when asked to do so by the authorities.
I have no idea if the local Rainbow community has recovered from that, as I have not personally been back.
We don't acknowledge any leaders. No individual has the authority to sign such a permit.
i want to go so bad.
Looks like a Hippie commune version of a family dude ranch. Camping taken to a festival level. Looks like a fun week... They really could let the religion part go.... especially the patriarchal Jesus/Christian variety which is just a bunch of made up mythology anyway. Meditation and love is all you need for being a good citizen. Add music and all is well.
This hippie gathering could not exist without a capitalist community, how ironic. Change my mind.
Official means they only show you what they want.lol
lol if it was not for thier clothes shoes hats, to the flour and Plastic dish tubes.cheep walmart 10$ each and lol and rope and sooooo on. this would not be possible. but it is so have fun for a weekend festival.lolololol
Yall ever make kool-aid ?
Y'all ever see wicker man
@@kaitoi138 😳😱. BOTH versions!
Born in 60. In the early 70's I looked up to hippies. In 76 at 16 strated to party. In 82 at 22 became a Deadhead. Everytime the Grateful Dead came to town I went to the shows. I had an internal struggle. In 95 Jerry died. By 96 at 36, I quit partying & became a Wharf Rat. I learned I'm a conservative. At 64 Deadheads DON'T Make America Great. Still like my Jerry tunes!
Kinda Middle Ages society attitudes…with an income, for a while, but hey, whatever feels good 😊
Grunge
Could you imagine if 500 Palestinian just showed up to this gathering unannounced?
The one thing that is for sure, is if these two groups met in this valley, the amount of diversity, love and understanding that would ensue would be legendary. Not!!
aand straight outta left field: this guy.
Surprised they don't have cholera and other infectious disease outbreaks there.
The audacity to call it official rainbow 😂 balls, that takes some real narcissism 😮
Thanks for taking the time to make a wonderful rainbow family of living light documentary.
I love your lovely perspective, but if anything was annoying was watching the commercials at the start and you commercializing rainbow for your own gain.
You were not asked for money coming in, you had to watch no commercials, no one ask you to pay them for filming them and my niece, yet you took it all and commercialized a noncommercial event. Trippy. Maybe you know not our ways well and that’s understandable.
I beg you to make it free, like it was free for you. Don’t waste time. Take off the dumb commercials, unless you are starving to death or are a serious junky.
Just think about it. Maybe some things shouldn’t be about money?
You seem super spiritual. I get it, it fun to make vids and tictoks! Love it. Fun to share what’s around. I’ve been rainbow documentaries and art and stickers and interview folks since 2007 and been in rainbow documentaries and been going since 1997. I’m making another doc this year, but never have I once tried to profit from something freely given in the spirit of unity. Made like 8 documentaries, never once do I make folks waste life watching asinine commercials, but so many like you do. Many just come and take for advertiser dollars and likes…. But if you think it’s wise and cool to profit form others that have freely; that’s your karma. Or if you’re doing it to collect money and give back to the community that freely gave to you, that’s be righteous, otherwise seems Hella shallow and nefarious. 🧜🏽♂️
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Anarchy: no god, no state, no patriarchy...
Anarchy - No Patriarchy... realy? You are already lost!
Anarchy; (literal) “anti archons”
Anti ; not consisting of, opposing
Archon; rulers, leaders
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Hey what's this place look like when they live. I hope everyone's been vetted through the bsa only campers I trust. Even soldiering I was taught the no trace left behind but it seemed like people think it's a joke even when your life depends on it... shiiiiiiiiiit wonder why the bsa taught me that as a child.... was it war or environmental
I posted above what they did to national forest in our area.
If they got rid of the incessant, random beating of percussion instruments and stopped using bizarre made up names, it'd be a lot better.
Really the drums are the heartbeat of the earth and vermin love supreme (real name) has been a presidential candidate that’s known internationally.
It cannot be any better than this is if you go and experience it, you will know that there is nothing better than this anywhere on this earth
😂I love the ethos but the permanent percussion would definitely bring out my dark side eventually
CPS should be called on anyone that brings children to these events..
There’s so much nudity and drugs there. It’s really not appropriate for kids.
Bull shit...
Nudity does not equal sexual intentions. It's our natural form of being? Also at Rainbow Gatherings you have kid camps where they keep the kids away from the partying and discourage or don't allow naked people in the kid camps. You know there are like whole nudist communities right where families will bring their children and shit! My uncle and his family are nudist and although they are kinda strange doesn't mean their children haven't grown up healthy and procted from predatory things. And honestly raising a kid in NYC or pretty much any other major city they are way more exposed to serious drug use such as needles and rampant homelessness. At Rainbows you get cannabis and psychedelics which in my eyes are medicines and if you shelter kids from drugs forever when they eventually do run into them, which they definitely will, they will be informed and less likely to do harmful things or if they choose to use said drugs will hopefully be in a harm reduced way. The reason nudity and drugs are viewed as "bad" is because parents don't seem to want to explain these things to their children which again will totally backfire later on down the road. You tell a kid "don't do that" and what do they want to do instantly? That! But if you explain "hey don't use opiates because it dies this or that or if you wish to experiment with cannabis or psychedelics wait until you are 18 because brain development and make sure you are in a safe environment with people you trust or this or that might happen...here's a link on proper use about set/setting" or things like that seems like auch better way than just saying "Just say no!" Type of mentality.
Rainbow gathering's are anything but earth friendly.They totally trash what is often pristine wilderness.Cause severe stress to local wildlife population's.Ive seen this first hand in Colorado after visiting Rainbow sights after they have left
I hope they stay out of Colorado!!