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Back to Babylon...
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Hello lovely people,
After a crazy bus ride of 10 hours (the chauffeur is practising to become a race coureur..) I arrived safely back in busy Bangkok. Back to Babylon (city life), they call it at the Rainbow! And boy yes I did. A picked me up at the bus station and it took us over an hour through traffic jams to get to her friends place, a beautiful 3 story building with 4 bedrooms with own bathrooms, big flat screen tv, aircon etc. Quite a change after spending 3 weeks sleeping in a tent on the beach without proper shower, toilet and other luxuries!
But before I tell you about my babylon stories I would love to tell you more about my Rainbow moments at the gathering...
Some people told me my last email sounded a bit strange with all the love-things and so on. not all all like me etc. I guess much of the rainbow vibes were put into that email when writing it as I was fully amazed by it all. Nothing to worry, it really is not a sekt at all.
To tell you all, this email will take you a day to read, so I will try to keep it short(er).
How do things work during a Rainbow Gathering (this time about 800 people).There are different Focalisers to keep things organised, e.g. in the kitchen, money raised by the magic hat, digging more shit pits if needed, food trasnsport every day. Twice a day a group of people is cooking in the kitchen. When food is almost ready "food circle" is called out, which is repeated across the grounds by tam-tam so everyone can hear. People gather at the big food circle place. After a short but strong ceremony (people join hands in a circle, Ohm 3x and thank for the food they are given), people sit in big circles and food is served. At the beginning or end of food people make announcements about anything, general stuff or doing a workshop. During the day several workshops are giving and you are free to attend them when you think it is interesting. Music is played whenever, songs are sung, arcobatics is practised on the beach. Toilets (shitpits) are dug in the forest to use, drinking water you can take from the river stream on site, special shower (river water) and washing up places have been made, all with natural material as much as possible. At this gathering there was also a meditation hut, Popcorner (where popcorn was made every night on a selfmade oven by using clay), Chai kitchen (special tea served) and lots more. Camp fires everywhere, music all night. Just a beautiful admosphere.
What have I been doing there? And how did I feel to be there?
Above all I made the right decision to go back to Thailand for this. Would not have wanted to miss this. magical, special, eye-opening it has been. After my first confusing week at the Rainbow (see earlier email) and good talks with Roman and others I changed my attitude and tried to let things flow a bit more. Feeling less strange, listening lots and taking time to relaxe in between. Not listening to my old "I have to do something, be busy" feeling. Also had a good think about me joining the walk to China and decided against it, to extreme for me, I was not in it with my heart. Will meet Roman another time again for sure. Also felt I wanted to stay at the Rainbow gathering longer, much more to learn and experience.
Met many beautiful people, Rob (Aussie Brother, great first Rainbow night), Carmen who gave me her tent, Bella, Gopal and their love son Jai (knowledge of good nutricion and lots more we shared), Martijn (my dutch neighbour), Angelo and Jiulia (thank you for the hair wrap and teaching me to do my own!), Armand (short but powerful moment), Jo (who taught me about foot reflexology), Tim and Nina (good Chai!), Djib (great Thai Sister) and many more. I have not been very active on this gathering, mostly listening and learning a lot. My mind has been very active though, figuring out what I want to do. I switched from walking to China, joining group to Laos, working for NGO in Kuraburi to staying at Djibs house for a while (after my time with A and Stefan). All the time trying really hard to truely listen to my heart. It is nog always easy, but when it works, it really feels very peaceful and calming inside.
That is the end of my Rainbow Adventure. Will definately attend another one at some point!
love and hugs!
Angie
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