Of Course, To Understand This Chant It Would Be Handy To Know Who Ram Dass Was and To Have Seen the Country Joe and the Fish Performance of Fixing to Die Rag at Woodstock...
and THIS is What Wavy Gravy is Doing NOW...
https://www.campwinnarainbow.org/
Camp Winnarainbow is a socially minded, justice focused organization founded by Hippy Icon, Flower Geezer, Poet, Activist Wavy Gravy in 1975. Wavy was later joined by his wife Jahanara, who has been a very important part of creating who we are as a Camp Winnarainbow community. Utilizing all the ideals and teachings they learned through traveling the world, being a part of their Hog Farm community, and their devotion to “do something good for a change”, the philosophies and values of Camp Winnarainbow were created. Through the years our culture and traditions have been created from the inspiration and ingenuity of the staff and campers who have become the Winnarainbow community. Our motto is Toward the Fun!
Winnarainbow is fortunate to rent our facility in Laytonville from the Black Oak Ranch every summer. The land, with it’s sacred Black Oak trees, beautiful Streeter Creek, wide open field and surrounding mountains are very much a part of the Camp experience. We at Camp acknowledge that we are on Cahto Wylaki Tribal Lands. We also pay respect to the Yuki, Concow Maidu, Little Lake and other Pomo, Nomlaki, and Pit River People’s and extend this respect to all Tribal communities of our region. To read about why our camper’s sleep in tipi’s, which are traditional lodging for the Native People’s of the Plains, please read our We Stand In Responsibility to Be Change page.
A 2nd generation of leaders have been mentored by Wavy and Jah to step into their roles at Camp. This new leadership brings with them the wisdom from Wavy and Jah and a fierce dedication to continue to grow Camp Winnarainbow’s vision to meet the complex world of today and the future. Together we CAN create a peaceful, sustainable, harmonious World!
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"My Story" - READ RAM DASS
I just found this poem,
written by Ram Dass after Jerry died.
All these years,
The Dead concerts have been spirit
Deep connections into...
Living Vibrant Love
Now The high priest has split.
The Tao Te Ching speaks of the best leader as one who leaves
The people thinking they did it all themselves.
Jerry was that kind of a leader.
He turned the power back to the people.
He, and the band...they have never really bought into
****SUPERSTARDOM****
They have seen themselves
In the magical mix of the moment
That allowed each person at the gathering to feel safe enough to
So now Jerry has dropped his body...
And here we are... still.
Through him and his mythic playmates came the sound that Connected us to our deeper selves...
This was our spiritual practice... our doorway...
Genuinely ours... and it worked...
Now Jerry isn't
And we are...still.
So... has all that free form ecstasy
That we garnered from an otherwise shadow world
Transformed us? Or made us more free?
Or Has it just left us a group of
Sad Grateful Dead addicts
For sure we will grieve the monumental loss of our friend...Jerry
For a long...long...long...time.
Most likely we will go through some powerful depression
And despair...
We may even court cynicism...
After all...it's not easy to lose your connection.
But Jerry's legacy to us is more profound than all of that.
He is in us...
Just as we have been in him.
We have all been not a tribe... or a family,
But a bubble of awareness
Riding upon the ocean of sound
That is in and beyond the sounds we ear hear.
Now it's up to us to co-create other safe spaces
Where we can listen to hear what Jerry heard
And to allow our love-light to Shine.
Jerry is gone in one form, But...like the magician that he is,
He has explosively been transformed into
A million Jerrys... One...improvising in each of our hearts. Jerry...We express our gratefulness...
By becoming the memory of you.
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