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Rainbow Gatherings
by Butterfly Bill |
368 pages, 21 chapters, 152,000 words, with an index, written music to 10 Rainbow chants, and selections from the 1995 Rainbow Guide Mini-Manual
$20.00 plus postage
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"There is no authoritarian hierarchy here. We have a tribal anarchy where we take care of each other, because we recognize that we are All One. The Gathering works because each of us takes the responsibility for doing what needs to be done, and for teaching others." |
Since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light has been gathering in tens of thousands on National Forest lands in the weeks leading up to and following the Fourth of July every summer, and in smaller numbers at other times thruout the year. During these times they create temporary villages in the woods where they try to create a society that lives according to this ideal.
This society also encourages
non-violence
cooperative living
ecological responsibility
individual freedom
and overall – peace and love.
The gatherings are in all ways free; the people are free, and the gathering is free – there is no admission fee, and no money is exchanged within the gathering. They are open to all peaceful people, and no one is turned away. "The Rainbow is everybody who has a belly button." It reaches out to the whole spectrum of humanity.
This is a memoir of 14 summers of going to these Rainbow Gatherings, and some of the winters in between. It provides detailed descriptions of day-to-day living in this utopian experiment, and shows the ways these gatherers fail and succeed at actually attaining these ideals.
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by Mary Kohut
People of the Rainbow, a Nomadic Utopia
by Michael I. Niman
Judge Dave and the Rainbow People*
by David Sentelle
*This book is apparently out of print and only available used, at "rare book" prices.