ALL WAYS FREE, Summer 1993
Seeds for Thought
by David Practical
Which Corporate Communist Fascist Bastards?
The Rainbow Family of Living Light; from whence did we come? We were a vision, a concept of peace and harmony upon the fruited plain. An apolitical spiritual embodiment, amorphous if you like, yet tangible both physically and spiritually.
The focus was toward spiritual love, understanding and peaceful respect and it was working. It took years of living and practicing what was preached, and many of us saw and accepted the vision and started to walk the path, live and spread the vision:
Out of the death of Babylon, toward survival with God in the Cathedral of Nature; Peace Camps, Gardens and Peace Villages-- then someone copyrighted (Babylonized) the concept and folks lost faith.
We were going to open the West go East and return with people and resources to colonize, build our Mandala Villages, etc. What happened? We went East, received letters from secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to purchase all the land in the West we wanted. What happened?
Well? Forgetting our agreements of apoliticalness and peaceful respect we found greener pastures for our egos in Babylon and started playing with Connecticut Yankees, Eastern liberals, and outright socialist/communist oppressors. (Not all of the aforementioned are oppressors, mind you) I am not speaking here of affiliations with the recently fallen Soviet Communist-with-a-capitol-C-regime and the like, but of those people-- within Rainbow and in the larger alternative culture, as well-- who have taken the "New Age" concepts of universal love and planetary consciousness and twisted them into a seemingly politically correct conclusion that the form of government per se under which we live is corrupt and that it needs to be replaced by something else.
We were computerized and became guided by those with political aspirations rather than spiritual visions. Our history was rewritten to include all kinds of political campaigns, crusades and causes. Some of our "high holies" weren't happy, content and/or satisfied playing in the Cathedral, fulfilled by/with the blessings of God Spirit; they had to find a larger more visible stage, for they needed the acclaim and fame in and of the BEAST. They now come to the Gathering to recruit for their political beastial masters and lead our children into Babylon instead of being Pied Pipers and shepherds of Christ guiding folks home to Paradise to live and prosper in safety and worship our Creator-- rather than the creation- as intended.
Some "people" in the East (when we first went there) kept asking/saying "Why do or should we bow down to Drain (the Rainbow Farm in Oregon)? You bow to the East, not the West" (We used P.O. Box 5577 in Eugene so if someone found an old "Howdy Folks" they would also find a viable address). Anyway, they used this as an excuse to "decentralize" our amorphous structure. To regionalize, computerize, politicize, manipulate, usurp, diminish and redirect the vision from Heaven to Hell.
These happenings are not necessarily "their" fault for they are loyal to the dictates of others' hidden agendas. The fault lies with the rest of us: Both those that got carried away and those who were apathetic for, as in the society of the whole, freedom belongs to those who are ever-vigilant.
We wonder why each year it seems like fewer and fewer come to worship in the Cathedral, commune with God and each other as a family at its reunion, and more and more come for the party of death and the politics of destruction. On the other hand folks talk of spiritual healing. We gather together to pray for the healing of the whole planet. Yet in order to pray for one illness or another we're told we have to be right there where the illness is. This isn't spiritual, it's political, egotistical asteroid-alness.
Further, we claim to heal ourselves. We walk around dressed in white head to toe with clean hands and brushed hail talking in council about love, healing and respect.
We love everyone and can heal anyone except "those A-Campers." They are banished to the outer limits of the Gathering (our reality), pointed at, talked about and condemned.
We fail to keep in mind that alcohol is an addictive drug and folk become addicted through socially acceptable use and/or as a pain reliever. Be the pain emotional or from sore muscles, joints, bones and teeth, the addiction is real. It leads to emotional and societal problems and is curable through love, understanding and treatment, not through austerizations. The love and understanding (respect, if you will) has to come from the healers (which are or at least should be all of us.).
The brothers and sisters of A-Camp do not spend their time putting out fliers, conspiring on computers and playing "High Holy." They don't spend the Gathering walking around all dressed up talking about Peace, Love, and Respect. They spend an awful lot of time looking in vain for what the rest of us are babbling about. They just want to experience a little of what is being preached.
At the same time, and through it all, the Brothers and Sisters of the "A-Camp" are doing what the rest are preaching, to whit: SERVING. Digging shitters, compost pits, building kitchens and ovens, hauling supplies and holding our door when the wolf is blowing and being told "No coffee, no meat, no tobacco, and DAMN your BEER."
They serve from love asking only the same in return. While the Holier Than Thou-ists (HTT) are teaching love, respect, etc., and the Give-A-Fuck-Lessers are partying, the A crew is serving, drowning or at least floating their pain and sorrow while crying out to experience the vision.
In Vermont when they counted coup on Plunker' s bus, I (remembering Yuma and the burning of the "Rainbow Rider") said, "This is evolution, proof that the vision is working, for I remember when the bus would have been burnt, and Freddie said it was "nothing less than a miracle." They showed more love, more healing and more humor; than I've seen in a long long time.
I say right on and praise Jesus and a Toast to the "A I TEAM" and Let's not be as religious Christians- Judgemental and claiming to heal the healed or peach to the saved, but as spiritual Christ-ites, children of God walking in the light to New Jerusalem, for we are the chosen, the wandering tribes of Israel (Hosea 1; 2:23, 3:4, Ezra, etc.)
LET US LIVE OUR VISION
Our vision, although being spiritual, is set; and we are living it on the material plane. This plane sometimes necessitates legal political action. This does not mean choosing sides and pointing fingers. It does necessitate a staunch and enlightened defense of the inalienable and God-given rights enumerated in and secured by the Constitution of these United States of America.
Keep in mind that the birth of the United States solidified, declared and certified in the Constitution for the first time in the known history of this planet a government created by the citizens of and unto themselves. This was a great revolutionary act and was meant to be exported throughout the world, but after the French Revolution blue-bloods (corporate bastards) of Europe got together and have ever since contained, curtailed, circumvented and co-opted the spread thereof.
We are the posterity of that movement and biblically the tribe of Manassas working towards a free sovereign citizenry living in/on paradise, communing with and worshipping God (whatever your concept of God is). There are, however, evil forces about Forces that are intent on raping the planet and enslaving the race.
The rights and liberties enumerated in and even the Constitution itself are/is being denied, curtailed, abolished; and some of us, rather that fight for these sovereign rights and striving responsibly to regain and sustain our liberty, would rather promote various forms of New Age "communism" as an alternative to our current form of government.
This is total idiocy or outright denial, for everything that any alternative form of government promises is already ours and guaranteed by our Constitution with one notable exception: THE RIGHT OF THE STATE TO RULE.
''They" talk and hide behind our spiritualness. "They" are anti-spirit, their God is the state, which they say is everyone. Not so- we (everyone) are the state. I say we already are the government we need to control our existing bureaucracy and public servants. There is no state as "they" understand it (the state has no rights of and in itself save the collective rights of the individuals that make up the state) and everything promised under other political concepts we already have and we can surely live without the rule of the State.
Proletariat control is just another bureaucracy and the only thing they will succeed in doing is ushering in fascism. So rather than replace one agent/agency/bureaucracy with another or accept repression of any kind, let us demand what is ours and spread individual sovereignty, rights and liberty to all sentient beings.
"Far be it when a philosopher can set foot upon any shore and say 'I am home.'." (Benjamin Franklin)
There is no elite, no party, corporate or royal right to rule guaranteed in our constitution. Quite the contrary, most, if not all, the above is forbidden in/by our Constitution.
Knowledge and the advancement of the human condition is the sum total of human existence. All research, etc. has been paid for by our, and our ancestors', taxes and WE THE PEOPLE OWN IT! God the Spirit, not the dollar, can shower us with Peace and Harmony, prosperity in paradise; and as with the "A-TEAM" all that is asked in return is love and respect.
The reason for pointing out the "communists" is that (as well as being available) this faction of the family is advocating another form of government.
Second this faction is trying to control and manipulate the family and use the Gathering to launch recruitment and campaigns and therefore politicize the Gathering and Family.
As I could not take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and deny some people their rights under said Constitution, neither can I stand by and watch the progressive enslavement of anyone (even the willing, let alone the unknowing) by anti-Christ-ical petticrats.
There is something contradictory about people who do not believe in the Constitution standing in the shade thereof and crying for its destruction and replacement with a proletariat bureaucratic dictatorship of the state (of mind, no doubt). These folks condemn everything with the exception of what they deem to be politically correct and attempt to rewrite history and try to focus our attention on past wrongs and old social idiocies over which we had no control and can't do anything about at present. I don't want to defend past wrongs, but I don't want them laid on me, either. "I don't want to feed you any bad vibrations, I don't wanna eat 'em, either." (Regis Mull) The finger of guilt matters not; it's the rectification of present injustices and the prevention of future ones that is at issue here.
The danger of focussing on these issues is that it leads a lot of young and impressionable minds into the political idiocy of "New-Age socialism." It keeps our attention from the wrongs of today, and distracts from the actions of the bureaucratic usurpers in power who keep promulgating regulations that deny our rights and usurp our liberty.
Laws and regulations have been enacted that allow foreign law enforcement and military personnel to function/operate within our borders (1988 Omnibus Drug Law). God-given herbal medications have been outlawed and replaced by synthesized forms controlled by the corporate communist fascist bastards.
The have declared what a church will consist of and what forms of worship are acceptable/tolerated and have even gotten so arrogant as to prohibit fraternization with Jesus Christ upon his return (14 CFR ch.V ss 1211.100108 inclusive; source 34 Fed. Reg. 11975, July 16, 1969).
Why, you say, would our proletarian petticrats assist as it were the current bureaucratic oppressors? The answer is quite simple -- they, like the current bureaucrats, want a well repressed, subservient, silent and obedient populace to rule over, and they intend to take (in some form gain) control, for to them revolution is but an exchange of power/control. "Freedom comes with responsibility, and only responsible people are free." (Stephen Principle, Omak Times 1981)
A state cannot function unless it can crush, ignore or control (manipulate its minorities. there has only been one successful revolution truly of, by and for the People (i.e. individual rights and liberties and we are losing more of it faster than we are spreading it.
Love and light
May you always be FREE
Nothing Specific's Twin Brother
David Practical