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Origin of the saying "Welcome Home" at The Rainbow Gathering. It was told to returning Vietnam Veterans in 1971 who were not feeling welcome at home...

Some were feeling like a Stranger in a Strange Land. Welcome Home, Brother... We LOVE you... I believe this is true because it was told to me by Mike Jensen while we were busy gathering rainbows.

Read More at: http://www.welcomehome.org/

the best modern website is at: https://2024rainbowgathering.blogspot.com/2024/07/updates-on-gathering-july-1st.html

for decades, the welcome home website was the place to go for information about upcoming gatherings... It's been abandoned for years and taking over by Facebook groups... But the most reliable source of information is the telephone hotline... 530-ITS-INFO / 530-487-4636. The more things change the more things stay the same... In the 1980s, the telephone hotline was the only place to go for instructions on how to get to the Gathering... Location: driving directions...

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My Experience Using the Ram Dass Artificial Intelligence Program - IT WAS WORTHY! They Had the AI Machine Read All of His Books and Transcripts of Lectures in Order to Learn What He Thought...

https://ramdass.ai/
For Example: I Asked:
Does God Exist?
The question of whether God exists is one that has been explored and contemplated by many throughout history. In my journey, what I've come to understand is that God is not something separate from us, but rather the essence of all that is. God is the One, the pure presence that permeates everything.
In the Indian spiritual tradition, there's a concept called "advait vad," which suggests that there is only God, and that each of us is an expression of that divine essence. This perspective leads us to see God not as an entity to be found or proven, but as the very fabric of existence itself. The universe is consciousness, and within this consciousness, we find the interconnectedness of all things.
It's not about believing in a God out there, but rather recognizing the divine within ourselves and in everything around us. This awareness doesn't necessarily come through intellectual understanding but through a deeper experience of being. As we let go of our attachments and surrender into the flow of life, we may find that what we call God is simply the love and presence that exists at the core of our being.
So, whether or not God exists in the way we traditionally conceive it, the divine presence is there in the love, in the compassion, and in the connection between all living things. It's about being here now and experiencing the oneness that is God. - RAM DASS AI

For Example: I Asked:
What should I do with my Life?

Answer: Ah, the question of what to do with one's life. It's a question that has been asked by many, and the answer is as unique as each individual who asks it.

You see, life is not a series of tasks to be completed, but rather a journey to be experienced. It's not about reaching a destination, but about the journey itself. It's about the process of becoming, of growing, of evolving.

Imagine that you have died and your life is about to be reviewed. What would you want to see? What would you want to have accomplished? What would you want to have experienced? This is your chance to do what others have failed to do. Look at the unloved one, the miserable one. This is your chance to do an act of love toward one who has had no love. This is your chance to do justice where intentional or unintentional injustice has been committed. This is your chance to give warmth and courage to one who feels only coldness, loneliness and death.

Now gently come back to your living body. With this feeling of respect and love, come back to your living body, and let this feeling remain with you, inside of you. Let it spread to each nerve, to each muscle, along every vein and artery. Let this feeling of respect and love spread inside you, throughout your entire organism, and then let it spread out into the world.

So, what should you do with your life? You should live it. You should experience it. You should love it. You should respect it. You should honor it. And most importantly, you should be true to yourself.

In the words of the Indian greeting, Namasta, "I honor the light within you." So, honor the light within yourself, and let it guide you on your journey through life.


SO... I Guess there was Some Wisdom in the Answer... But Will I go Back and ask more Questions? Not Today... but Maybe Later!




Remember Be Here Now... Except that the rent is due at the beginning of next month (the future) and you better get a job now and make some money so you don't become homeless... in that way time is very real...

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert... Read More at:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/05/ram-dass-was-psychedelics-researcher.html



A clown, a guru, and a doctor walk into a cabin. The clown says, “What I have in mind is eye care for 400,000.” The guru says “See here now.” The doctor says, “Brilliant. We can do that.” What actually transpired in 1978 was the start of Seva led by Dr. Brilliant with an eclectic group including Ram Dass, Wavy Gravy, Dr. "V", and Dr. Nicole Grasset. What came next was the landmark Nepal Blindness Survey using an Apple 2+ computer donated by Steve Jobs and a helicopter funded by a Grateful Dead concert. The story of Seva’s beginning is colorful and quirky, but the results are miraculous. Science, art, and spirituality are a potent blend that can transform lives! Witness for yourself the promise of ending avoidable blindness in Nepal and around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/seva.foundation



I Had a Dream: We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings...

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Gimme an 'F'- and the Crowd Shouts 'F' - Gimme a 'U' - and they Shout 'U' - Gimme an 'N' - and they Shout 'N' --- What's That Spell? 'FUN' - What's That Spell? 'FUN' - What's That Spell? 'FUN' - Quotation of Wavy Gravy at the Ram Dass Funeral...

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...








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https://www.campwinnarainbow.org/


What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
"In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure."

In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. ~Neil Postman





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Read it and be inspired too. 

Here is an Excerpt from the Book... as they look at the Peabody Open Pit Coal Mine in Utah.

"Parking in the shade and concealment of a group of pinyon pines, the gang took a walk up the nearest knoll, armed with field glasses.

Their view from the knoll would be difficult to describe in any known terrestrial language. Bonnie thought of something like a Martian invasion, the War of the Worlds. Captain Smith was reminded of Kennecott's open-pit mine ("world's largest") near Magma, Utah. Dr. Sarvis thought of the plain of fire and of the oligarchs and oligopoly beyond: Peabody Coal only one arm of Anaconda Copper; Anaconda only a limb of United States Steel; U.S. Steel intertwined in incestuous embrace with the Pentagon, TVA, Standard Oil, General Dynamics, Dutch Shell, I. G. Farben-industrie; the whole conglomerated cartel spread out upon half the planet Earth like a global kraken, pan-tentacled, wall eyed and parrot beaked, its brain a bank of computer data centers, its blood the flow of money, its heart a radioactive dynamo, its language the technetronic monologue of numbers printed on magnetic tape.

But George Washington Hayduke, his thought was the clearest and simplest: Hayduke thought of Vietnam.

Peering thru the dust, the uproar, the movement, they could make out a pit two hundred feet deep, four hundred feet wide, a mile long, walled on one side by a seam of coal, where power shovels, ten stories high, as Smith had said, gouged at the earth, ripped the fossil rock from its matrix of soil and sandstone, dumped it in ten ton bites into the beds of haulers. Beyond the first machine, in a farther pit, they saw the top of a boom, the cables and pulley wheel of another alien invader at work, digging itself in deep, almost out of view. To the south they saw a third machine, bigger yet: it did not roll on wheels like a truck, or on endless treads like a tractor, but "walked" one foot at a time, towards its goal. The feet were a pair of steel base plates resembling pontoons, each as big as a boat, lifted first one, then the other, on eccentric gears, rotated forward, placed down and the cycle repeated. Waddling forward, ducklike, the enormous structure of powerhouse, control chassis, superstructure, crane, cables and ore bucket yawed from side to side. Like a factory walking. The machine was electrically powered; as it proceeded a seperate crew of men handled its umbilicus the power line, an "extension cord" thick as a man's thigh through which throbbed the voltage driving the engines in the powerhouse - enough juice, its builders liked to boast, to light a city of 90,000 humans. The cable crew, four men with truck, kept the line clear and also towed the transformer unit, mounted on an iron sledge, keeping pace with the dragline machine. Giant Earth Mover: the GEM of Arizona.

We are so small thought Bonnie. They are so huge. "

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The Kennecott Copper Mine Seldom Seen Smith speaks of
as viewed from space... easily twice as big as the Salt Lake City Airport.

Landslides have closed the mine for tourists but you may take a virtual tour at their website: http://www.kennecott.com/visitors-center and print the ever popular coloring book... of giant earth moving machines... 


Link to a Google Image Search for all the illustrations by Robert Crumb:
http://tinyurl.com/k9ahu2e
Dr Sarvis and Bonnie Abzug torch a billboard



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Photographs of the Rainbow Gathering 7/1/2014: Heber City, Utah in Uinta National Forest... High Elevation... 9,000 Feet Near Park City Utah...



Dancing Women in the Forest - Rainbow Gathering 2014 Utah
Dancing Women of the Forest...

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I feel positive with the meeting between
 the Mormon Youth of Salt Lake City 
and the Rainbow Gathering... 

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Fire Tending Meditation: a way to focus attention.

[MORE PICTURES BELOW THE STORY]

When at the Rainbow Gathering in Utah 2014 I was given the opportunity to focus my attention. Here is what happened...

While staying at the Welcome Home Kitchen, the Fire Tender wanted to go to another kitchen and trade a cooler filled with coffee for pizza. He asked if someone would watch the fire while he was gone. SOMEONE had to be there... I volunteered. I Said "I'll be here. I'll be the responsable adult. I can do that, I have done that."

he said "Great" and Left with the cooler filled with coffee.

So I took over and made sure we didn't burn down the forest. I also collected wood, placed it carefully on the fire arranging the logs so that they would burn without causing a lot of smoke AND I invited arriving people to help themselves to a cup of coffe or clean drinking water... and to take a break and relax around the fire.

This is a classic way to focus attention as the placement of logs on the fire is very similar to Zen Gardening with sand...

So, during this time... I asked for a Really Big Idea... I had attended Rainbow Gatherings before and I wanted each visit to be different. It's pointless and boring to keep on repeating experiences... so, this time I wanted to get a really big Idea...

and here it is: A SolarFire powered Desalinization Machine. Use a driftwood fire to power a steam engine. Use the force from the steam engine to drive a water pump. Pump seawater thru a pipe in the fire and into a long black pipe with a reflector that focuses sunlight on the pipe. When the water boils, it expands in volume... at the end of the pipe, steam will be billowing out with a great deal of force. Use that force to drive an electricity generating turbine. Collect the steam and let it turn back into a liquid... The result is Pure H20, NaCl and Electricity... all valuable and sellable.

Clean safe drinking water is a big problem. We could use the collected steam for drinking, bathing, livestock, gardens... AND making Ice for a really great Scotch on the Rocks.

To make this pracital, the location of the machine would need to be near a big pile of driftwood. On Agate Beach in California, I have seen a pile of driftwood that covers the entire beach for about a half a mile... In other locations, use watever resource is available. For Example: In Saudi Arabia it would make more sense to burn oil or gas...

So, during my meditation I Got my really big idea...

Later, the fire tender returned and his mission to get pizza was successful.

Much later I was sitting by the fire and another Rainbow Gatherer approached... He said mockingly: "Have you been sitting in that same spot for two days?" Which was true, I did spend a couple of days at the Welcome Home Tent.

I replied: "No, I also worked as the fire tender... That gave me an opportunity to Focus My Attention... [said slowly] Focus... My... Attention... "

The fire tender was listening and he nodded with understanding... Later we ended up hanging out together and he was a fine fellow... He was also very interested in being in the Cleanup Crew... I assume he got paid a lot in valuable stuff left behind.

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Long ago I was playing the drums with some Buddhists at an anti-war protest march... I asked them why we were playing such an odd rhythm... They said that it requires that you Focus Your Attention... It's true... That experience was quite different than bang out a 4/4 on the big bass drum... I also did that at the same protest, our goal was to get George Bush the Father to remember that we didn't LIKE his war... and there were people playing the drums 24 hours a day in Lafayette Park to remind him... His only choices were to listen or flee...


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The Cook from the Welcome Home Kitchen

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Map creator "Sibling" helps plan the Gathering

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Man named "Tree Hugger" and "Sibling" designing the Map

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"Sibling" with the Rangers plan 
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Bus Parking Lot

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Family enjoying the Drumming

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Distant view of Bus Parking Lot
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Trail to Main Circle

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Tents, everywhere Tents...

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The Map... a copy was given to all 
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Parade on July 4th 2014
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Tents in a Field of 
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 Flower Painting
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bottle of water, log for sitting

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Bus Village

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Often, there is a divide between 
performer and audience... 
It's better when the audience is the performer. 

For Example I played harmonica in a Rainbow Gathering band in the big shady spot on main meadow... and lead a group sing along... 
"You are my Sunshine".

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Signs, no doubt they say something important 
but I didn't read them...

Reposted from: http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/

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Where the Gathering will be in 2014
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Two Paths... Bus Route Below
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The 2014 rainbow family of living light world peace and healing gathering will take place July 1-7, 2014, in Utah.

Coordinates: N 40.42588 W 111.16520 

Ignore all rumors of cancellation or organization! Live Lightly with the Land and People!

Rainbow Gathering 2014 Utah

links to other webpages:
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/sites/annual-site.html
The website above has the best information, year after year...

https://www.facebook.com/theerainbowhawk
Rainbow Hawk was very useful for information about the Yucatan 2012 Gathering. Thanks!


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The World Tapping Circle
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Greg Vanderlaan at Heber City Utah in 2014

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Parking Lot at the Rainbow Gathering

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Mike J

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