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2500 people standing in a circle, holding hands, chanting the mantra om on a mountain in northern Greece. A spontaneous ritual and in it a quiet prayer to nature, the wind and the creator, mixes with shouts and chaotic screaming with out any destination or meaning .From the center of the circle fire starts. Going fast upwards the fire cause people to shout for freedom comfort and release. makes people want to expose them self in public, hug with warmth one with each other. Far from the city, , from the of the consuming society and the materiastic reality the annual rainbow gathering is taking place.
For a period of three weeks people from different culture and backgrounds gather together in the wild nature. Living simple one with another, the live like an equal family that in it the try to bring to life values in favor of community and tribal commitment. There aren't any commitments or hierarchies. Decisions concerning the gathering are taking in an open talking circle, that in it every member is a friend with equal rights. The circle as a geometric shape with no being and never ending, makes the collective code of thinking and behaving. Twice a day the tribe eats together. At the end of the meal the magic hat passes between the guest. People are asked to leave donation that will pay for the 3 weeks stay in the gathering. All that happens in the camp is open for each participant and free of money. No publishing or marketing and still a couple of people gather in nature together. The information were and when the gathering will happen passes mainly from ear to mouth.
A variety of instrumental music, seminars of conciseness of body and soul, warmth and touching, and mainly a lot of meetings with a bunch of minority characters that have problems with discipline and order, looking for a brake from the expansive unfriendly reality, living in escape from the system, dreaming about a world of peace and love. I think that the rainbow gathering is an updated version in favor of the flower power and the hippies of the 60. Contrary to the hippies of the Woodstock generation, the freaks of today are less naive about there ability to change. In the past they believed in a global change, in the present hippies prefer to run away, and live in an old primitive way .
In the present postmodernism era, and in it is allowed to mix meat with milk, similar to it is the cocktail of religions and spiritual belief in the rainbow.Amotiones and connecting with the first basic instincts come in favor to the rational thinking and the mind. A lot of spirituality that in it they try to mix between Mohamed and the Buddha, trying to feel connected to the one with out prejedios or racism between a man and his friend. The urge to rebel and not except the materialistic society causes from one aspect to put away the intellectual knowledge, in favor of untrue sources, the drift with there personal imagination writing history again. Due to that there is a mixture of philosophies, beliefs of religiousness. A lot of lost Israelis go back towards there Jewish roots after a short intercourse with the new age. It is interesting to view that in there process of connecting with the god of Israel they choose to be tough judges about paganism and worshiping the lamp of gold.
I think that there is a dissonances in trying to live like the period of are ancestors. On the one side there is something romantic and naive about living like that but, at the same time that the world is going forward the rainbow people chose to go back. Neopaganisim this is how I would define the way of thinking like that. The question that I wonder about would like to raise deals with the evolutional gap between us in the digital period to are ancestors in the biblical time. Maybe people choose not to pay attention to the inner contradictions of thinking this way, and I ask myself are people aware to there personal charlatanism.
For me a rainbow gathering is like theater or a reality film. Tthe fact that I am a member makes me part of the group and clan and I must each time decide on the act fasade that I want to play. Its amazing to view how seriously people play the game. Every member- guest is glooming with light and love. The body language reflects sexual openness but actually there is a lot of puritan and conservative. People walking in nature massaging one another in front of the crowd.
A small organ has the man, the one that feeds it stays with an appetite the one that doesn't feed it stays full this is what hazal are ancestors fraise. I know it sounds a bit peculiar but because the body is free and veiled, the ergue for sex is putted away. Women are kissing on the mouth one another but they will not think of taking a step forward towards and act of lesbian love, men are hugging one another but dare you accuse them of being gay. Gathering there isn't sexual openness there is purity and a fixed structure of thinking, that uses the old religion and belief in order to keep the tradional parts between male and female.
In my day day I am a sarcastic character. This is how I chose, or chosen for me, to cope with the human reality and or life in this world, this is blended with some bitterness in it. I am not sure if my approach is doing me well, it is a well maneuvered reflex inside me that some times makes things easier and protects me me, and sometimes it blocks me from feeling and getting tuned with my heart. When I come to the rainbow, the cynical instinct signals me to run because I feel that there is to much love, peace and happiness that evolve from places of lies. It usually takes me some days to get connected with the land and feel compfterbol inside the pastoral nature. Then slowly I take off my shell , I become less judgmental with my approach towards the human environment. Slowly slowly the music, gets into my vaines. I become more open towards my friend. I forgive and become more compassionate towards the family and the tribe, and don't only look in the faults of the people and friends in front of me.
Similar to a group of people that life together , inside the rainbow develops mutual ideals, codes of behaving , style of dressing and speaking. On the one side the gathering brings to it people with a warm and kind heart that believe in peace and love and seek freedom and free thinking but, on the other hand in a group there are always leaders and decide how to act, and some people are more accepted in society then others. In the rainbow the ruling ideology speaks about open liberalism and excepting the different but I am sorry to say that some times this way of thinking turns into a fanatic conservative method that causes some of my friends to express aggressive urges and violent feelings.
Israelis and Germans are 2 power groups inside the European rainbow that keep themselves closed and isolated wiel at the same time the try to control and decide what direction the gathering shall go. The Israelis bring with them the middle eastern temperament, cause a lot of noise, not always obeying in keeping the rules and respecting the others. The germane are quiet and controlled, they bring with them the diseplant and the well for order. The Israelis tend to be loud with a lot of opens and a strong desire towards life. The Germans tent always to be serious, closed with complicated thoughts with them self's complicating the others. A lot of the time Israelis and Germans mix good one with the other but, sometimes there are fights between them. The Israelis are stubborn and not willing to give up, the Germans are also stubborn but they need to back up. Different from the past in the present the balance and power situation between the Jews and the Germans has changed.
In a decade of mass communication and media, it is easy to sense anger and aggressiveness towards photographers. When it concerns the camera and cameramen are approach as a society and as private individuals is ambivalent. On the one hand due to the barging into the personal space people don't like been fimed with out there knowledge, it is easy to turn rage to photographers, On the other hand who doesn't like to be famous? And who doesn't like to fall to nostalgic moments with the assistance of personal photos. In the rainbow because the human dynamics that in it each participant has the right to express and say what he feels, and then a long conversation starts that in it the ego will decide to put a veto and not allow my right to take photos.
Oi oi the ego, I never asked for permission to take photos because I always knew that it is useless. It took me some time to be brave and decide that I don't care, and when I like I take photos. A lot of nerves and anger are reflected to me at the moment I reveal my camera. People mind fuck about the fact that I steal from the people that I take photos energy of living, others accuse me of using there photos in a non appropriate way, curses are said to me. The man that photos is a messenger from Babylon from the people of the mean. The audience chooses to be against me in a violent verbal way, that doesn't turn to be a physical fight.
A man in his belief will live. My need to observe to frame doesn't wallow me to feel and experience as part of the clan, and I don't feel belonging. Even in an isolated minority society of rainbow people I find it hard to identifier with the group. I don't know if it my free well or faith, but I guess it isn't important because I feel this way almost all my life.
It is hard for me to express exactly yhe secret there is in a rainbow gathering but, in my heart there is a warm place for the right I had to be revealed to the rainbow and be part of the family. I wish to thank from the deepest parts of my heart to us human the progressive human society that is capable of creating alternatives to the known , and is seeking looking all the time for different alternatives.
Piko, Greece June 1997
For a period of three weeks people from different culture and backgrounds gather together in the wild nature. Living simple one with another, the live like an equal family that in it the try to bring to life values in favor of community and tribal commitment. There aren't any commitments or hierarchies. Decisions concerning the gathering are taking in an open talking circle, that in it every member is a friend with equal rights. The circle as a geometric shape with no being and never ending, makes the collective code of thinking and behaving. Twice a day the tribe eats together. At the end of the meal the magic hat passes between the guest. People are asked to leave donation that will pay for the 3 weeks stay in the gathering. All that happens in the camp is open for each participant and free of money. No publishing or marketing and still a couple of people gather in nature together. The information were and when the gathering will happen passes mainly from ear to mouth.
A variety of instrumental music, seminars of conciseness of body and soul, warmth and touching, and mainly a lot of meetings with a bunch of minority characters that have problems with discipline and order, looking for a brake from the expansive unfriendly reality, living in escape from the system, dreaming about a world of peace and love. I think that the rainbow gathering is an updated version in favor of the flower power and the hippies of the 60. Contrary to the hippies of the Woodstock generation, the freaks of today are less naive about there ability to change. In the past they believed in a global change, in the present hippies prefer to run away, and live in an old primitive way .
In the present postmodernism era, and in it is allowed to mix meat with milk, similar to it is the cocktail of religions and spiritual belief in the rainbow.Amotiones and connecting with the first basic instincts come in favor to the rational thinking and the mind. A lot of spirituality that in it they try to mix between Mohamed and the Buddha, trying to feel connected to the one with out prejedios or racism between a man and his friend. The urge to rebel and not except the materialistic society causes from one aspect to put away the intellectual knowledge, in favor of untrue sources, the drift with there personal imagination writing history again. Due to that there is a mixture of philosophies, beliefs of religiousness. A lot of lost Israelis go back towards there Jewish roots after a short intercourse with the new age. It is interesting to view that in there process of connecting with the god of Israel they choose to be tough judges about paganism and worshiping the lamp of gold.
I think that there is a dissonances in trying to live like the period of are ancestors. On the one side there is something romantic and naive about living like that but, at the same time that the world is going forward the rainbow people chose to go back. Neopaganisim this is how I would define the way of thinking like that. The question that I wonder about would like to raise deals with the evolutional gap between us in the digital period to are ancestors in the biblical time. Maybe people choose not to pay attention to the inner contradictions of thinking this way, and I ask myself are people aware to there personal charlatanism.
For me a rainbow gathering is like theater or a reality film. Tthe fact that I am a member makes me part of the group and clan and I must each time decide on the act fasade that I want to play. Its amazing to view how seriously people play the game. Every member- guest is glooming with light and love. The body language reflects sexual openness but actually there is a lot of puritan and conservative. People walking in nature massaging one another in front of the crowd.
A small organ has the man, the one that feeds it stays with an appetite the one that doesn't feed it stays full this is what hazal are ancestors fraise. I know it sounds a bit peculiar but because the body is free and veiled, the ergue for sex is putted away. Women are kissing on the mouth one another but they will not think of taking a step forward towards and act of lesbian love, men are hugging one another but dare you accuse them of being gay. Gathering there isn't sexual openness there is purity and a fixed structure of thinking, that uses the old religion and belief in order to keep the tradional parts between male and female.
In my day day I am a sarcastic character. This is how I chose, or chosen for me, to cope with the human reality and or life in this world, this is blended with some bitterness in it. I am not sure if my approach is doing me well, it is a well maneuvered reflex inside me that some times makes things easier and protects me me, and sometimes it blocks me from feeling and getting tuned with my heart. When I come to the rainbow, the cynical instinct signals me to run because I feel that there is to much love, peace and happiness that evolve from places of lies. It usually takes me some days to get connected with the land and feel compfterbol inside the pastoral nature. Then slowly I take off my shell , I become less judgmental with my approach towards the human environment. Slowly slowly the music, gets into my vaines. I become more open towards my friend. I forgive and become more compassionate towards the family and the tribe, and don't only look in the faults of the people and friends in front of me.
Similar to a group of people that life together , inside the rainbow develops mutual ideals, codes of behaving , style of dressing and speaking. On the one side the gathering brings to it people with a warm and kind heart that believe in peace and love and seek freedom and free thinking but, on the other hand in a group there are always leaders and decide how to act, and some people are more accepted in society then others. In the rainbow the ruling ideology speaks about open liberalism and excepting the different but I am sorry to say that some times this way of thinking turns into a fanatic conservative method that causes some of my friends to express aggressive urges and violent feelings.
Israelis and Germans are 2 power groups inside the European rainbow that keep themselves closed and isolated wiel at the same time the try to control and decide what direction the gathering shall go. The Israelis bring with them the middle eastern temperament, cause a lot of noise, not always obeying in keeping the rules and respecting the others. The germane are quiet and controlled, they bring with them the diseplant and the well for order. The Israelis tend to be loud with a lot of opens and a strong desire towards life. The Germans tent always to be serious, closed with complicated thoughts with them self's complicating the others. A lot of the time Israelis and Germans mix good one with the other but, sometimes there are fights between them. The Israelis are stubborn and not willing to give up, the Germans are also stubborn but they need to back up. Different from the past in the present the balance and power situation between the Jews and the Germans has changed.
In a decade of mass communication and media, it is easy to sense anger and aggressiveness towards photographers. When it concerns the camera and cameramen are approach as a society and as private individuals is ambivalent. On the one hand due to the barging into the personal space people don't like been fimed with out there knowledge, it is easy to turn rage to photographers, On the other hand who doesn't like to be famous? And who doesn't like to fall to nostalgic moments with the assistance of personal photos. In the rainbow because the human dynamics that in it each participant has the right to express and say what he feels, and then a long conversation starts that in it the ego will decide to put a veto and not allow my right to take photos.
Oi oi the ego, I never asked for permission to take photos because I always knew that it is useless. It took me some time to be brave and decide that I don't care, and when I like I take photos. A lot of nerves and anger are reflected to me at the moment I reveal my camera. People mind fuck about the fact that I steal from the people that I take photos energy of living, others accuse me of using there photos in a non appropriate way, curses are said to me. The man that photos is a messenger from Babylon from the people of the mean. The audience chooses to be against me in a violent verbal way, that doesn't turn to be a physical fight.
A man in his belief will live. My need to observe to frame doesn't wallow me to feel and experience as part of the clan, and I don't feel belonging. Even in an isolated minority society of rainbow people I find it hard to identifier with the group. I don't know if it my free well or faith, but I guess it isn't important because I feel this way almost all my life.
It is hard for me to express exactly yhe secret there is in a rainbow gathering but, in my heart there is a warm place for the right I had to be revealed to the rainbow and be part of the family. I wish to thank from the deepest parts of my heart to us human the progressive human society that is capable of creating alternatives to the known , and is seeking looking all the time for different alternatives.
Piko, Greece June 1997
