From: Marcus L. Endicott Newsgroups: alt.gathering.rainbow Date: 03 Jan 93 10:35 PST Subject: Rainbow Bibliography/FAQ (Long) Message-ID: <1655800087@igc.apc.org> ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY/FAQ Original Version: 03 January 1993 ** ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY/FAQ CONTENTS ** RAINBOW FAQ NOTE ** RAINBOW FAMILY 1993 OFFICE ** RAINBOW COMPUTER CIRCLE ANCIENT HISTORY ** AWF.RAINBOWNEWS (APC/IGC/EcoNet/PeaceNet) ** MAILING LIST: alt.gathering.rainbow ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY (short form) ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY (long form) ** ** RAINBOW FAQ NOTE ** This is a provisional RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY/FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the USENET newsgroup >alt.gathering.rainbow<; I >mendicott@igc.apc.org< volunteer to focalize it until the annual Focalizer Council of the 1993 Turtle Island/North American Rainbow Family of Living Light World Peace and Healing Gathering of the Tribes, July 1-7. I am open to any and all council on this. I know virtually nothing about USENET FAQ conventions, and so will post revisions only to >alt.gathering.rainbow< until further notice. ** RAINBOW FAMILY 1993 OFFICE ** >Topic 81 Rainbow 1993 Office Opens >mrose alt.gathering.rainbow 3:17 pm Dec 10, 1992 > >RAINBOW FAMILY 1993 OFFICE IS OPEN! >The address is: >Rainbow Family of Living Light 1993 >P.O.Box 187 >Tateville, KY 42558 >Phone in Burnside, KY: 606-561-6185 (9 am to 11 pm, 7 days a week). > >Reminder: Expenses are high this year - P.O. Box costs approximately $28, >telephone hook-up $63 ( we did our own wiring to keep costs down), monthly >basic telephone charge $40+ a month (includes blocks on incoming collect and >outgoing long distance calls). > Plus scouts have a huge, multi-state area to look at so they need help >with gas money, and vehicle maintenance and funds for food for several >months. The scouts and the office need extra bedding too. Thanksgiving >council magic Hat collected $72 to open the bank. Costs to-date have already >exceeded the bank. These costs were paid out of private, nearly empty, >pockets. > Please help us get word out through all Focalizers to all Family. Please >try to do some early benefits. When sending contributions in, please label >as to office, scouts, seed camp, general fund...be specific so the office and >bank folks know your wishes. > Signed, Rainbow 1993 office > For all our relations ** RAINBOW COMPUTER CIRCLE ANCIENT HISTORY ** > "Silicon chips are crystals" (Bambam Udogu). > >Sisters & Brothers of the Rainbow Family of Living Light, Rainbow Warriors > waging peace, ecolutionary intelligence agents: computer circle know your > Self. Reality hackers one and all, dreamtime is now. > >The purpose of this COMPUTER CIRCLE CIRCULAR #1 is to establish a computer > network for Rainbow love & Jah god. Anarchy and decentralization are > important considerations. There should be a good bulletin board system > (bbs) operating as a continental hub, and others for the bioregional and > metropolitan communities. The job of hub could be rotated among the > regionals on a voluntary, concensus basis at special council at each > continental gathering, as per the newspaper ALL WAYS FREE; this MEANS that > NONE of these bbss can carry "Rainbow" in their names. This is to avoid > incessant wrangling with computer-phobes. In addition to hardware, > software, and hosts (sysops - system operators), attention must be paid to > security and legality. Basically, if you don't want someone, anyone to know > something, anything, don't post it on a bbs. Past bbss have included the > Rainbow Network on Barry Clements' Top Of The Rockies [303-963-3688] and the > Rainbow conference on Pami Singh's Collage Network [202-265-6046]. > >A conference entitled "Spectrum" has been established on the KKFI Radio > Wave - Radio Remote Bulletin Board System (RBBS-PC) for discussing the pros, > cons, and possibilities of bbss for the Rainbow Family. The password for > Spectrum is "love". > > data (816) 561-3650 > voice (816) 374-5760 > > sysop Tom Crane > mail 3707 Pennsylvania > Kansas City, MO 64111 > >With the exception of karmic shigellosis, bacilliary dysentery, the 1987 > North American Continental Rainbow Gathering in the Slickrock area of > Nantahala National Forest, Southern Appalachia, Katuah bioregion, was > cosmodelic as usual.The 1987-88 RAINBOW GUIDE, being coordinated by Great > Lakes Rainbow (POB 3433, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3433; 517-372-8490 or > 313-761-4242), should be available soon. The new ALL WAYS FREE is in > preparation by the Chicago Rainbow Circle (POB 11446, Chicago, IL 60611.)The > RAINBOW GUIDE and ALL WAYS FREE can always use more Babylonian energy > symbols, as well as other forms of energy! The 1988 Continental Gathering > will be in Texas; for information contact East Texas Rainbow (POB 630239, > Nacogdoches, TX 75961.) There will be a Computer Circle council there at > sunset on July 2 at Info/Rumor-Control. > >The following 67 addresses were manually (occularly?!) harvested from the > 1986-87 RAINBOW GUIDE (POB 7834, Newark, DE 19714). Please forgive > inadvertant omissions. This COMPUTER CIRCLE CIRCULAR #1 does not represent > the concensus of any tribal council of the Rainbow Family of Living Light > (POB 5577, Eugene, OR 97405.) One world, one heart. ** AWF.RAINBOWNEWS (APC/IGC/EcoNet/PeaceNet) ** >Topic 1 This Conference has been Renamed >notes awf.rainbownews 2:01 pm Dec 25, 1992 > >From: >Subject: This Conference has been Renamed > >As of 10-Dec-1992, this conference has been replaced by the conference: > > alt.gathering.rainbow > >Suggest you visit that conference. ** MAILING LIST: alt.gathering.rainbow ** >Topic 92 Mailing List-alt.gathering. >pfraterdeus alt.gathering.rainbow 1:44 am Jan 2, 1993 > >From: Peter Fraterdeus >Subject: Mailing List-alt.gathering. > >Attn: alt.gathering.rainbow > > Reply to: Mailing List-alt.gathering.rainbow >Send requests to be placed on the alt.G*.R* mailng list to: > >pfraterdeus@igc.org > >There is no formal list, with an automatic sign-on, etc., but I'll pass your >name on to the support folks at igc.org. > >Peace and Pasta, Prosperity! >May the new year's grace fall on those who need it most! >...and the wealth of the spirit enrich us all! > >Petros ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ** I do not consider that every alternative or New Age publication would be appropriate here. I have included books about Rainbow Family, per se, about the broader Rainbow vision, and about the mythology and science of the rainbow. I would also like to include ones by prominent Rainbow Family elders, such as those by Medicine Story and Barry Plunker, but do not as of this writing have access to them. (Please email that information to ME >mendicott@igc.apc.org<, if you have it available.) [For purposes of this writing, Rainbow Family refers to those who self-identify as such.] Also, there are at least two books in preparation, one by Chuck Will and another by Barry, the family historian. (Please email ME any further information about these people or their projects.) ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY (short form) ** All Ways Free Council. ALL WAYS FREE. Eugene, Oregon: All Ways Free Council, semi-annual. (Newspaper) Boyer, Carl B. THE RAINBOW: FROM MYTH TO MATHEMATICS. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. (Paperback) Buenfil, Alberto Ruz. RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM. Sante Fe, New Mexico: Bear & Company, Inc., 1991. Translation of: Arcobaleno (Italian). (Paperback) Grimes, Mary "Thunder Woman," Ed. RAINBOW DREAM PROPHECY: A VISION OF HOPE. Ogbourne St. George, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Acorn Publishing, 1985. (Saddle stitched) Horstsman, Lee. RAINBOW ANTHOLOGY. Davenport, California: Lee Horstman, annual. (Photocopied) McFadden, Steven S.H. ANCIENT VOICES, CURRENT AFFAIRS: THE LEGEND OF THE RAINBOW WARRIORS. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear & Company, Inc., 1992. (Paperback) McGaa, Ed "Eagle Man." RAINBOW TRIBE: ORDINARY PEOPLE JOURNEYING ON THE RED ROAD. New York: HarperSanFrancisco/HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. (Paperback) Rainbow Guide Council. RAINBOW GUIDE. Madison, Wisconsin: Rainbow Guide Council, annual. (Saddle stitiched) Willoya, William & Vinson Brown. WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: STRANGE AND PROPHETIC DREAMS OF THE INDIANS. Happy Camp, California: Naturegraph Publishers, 1962. 1992 Printing. (Cloth & Paperback editons) ** RAINBOW BIBLIOGRAPHY (long form) ** WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: STRANGE AND PROPHETIC DREAMS OF THE INDIANS ==================================================================== by William Willoya and Vinson Brown Copyright @ 1962 by Naturegraph Publishers 1992 Printing Paper ISBN 9-911010-24-6 Cloth ISBN 0-911010-25-4 $7.95 Naturegraph Publishers, Inc. P.O.Box 1075 Happy Camp, California 96039 USA >TABLE OF CONTENTS > >FORWARD >I. THE RETURN OF THE SPIRIT >II. DREAM OF THE SIOUX PIPE BAG >III. INDIAN PROPHETIC VISIONS > A. Prophecy of Montezuma, Aztec King > B. Vision of Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crow > C. Prophecy of King Djojobojo > D. Prophecies of Krishna and Buddha > E. Vision of Deganawida, Prophet of the Iroquois > F. Visions of the Blackfeet and of an Assiniboine > G. Hopi Prophetic Visions > H. The Great Dream of Black Elk > I. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance >IV. AN ESKIMO IN SEARCH OF GOD >V. THE TASK OF THE WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW >APPENDIX > A. William Willoya, by Vinson Brown > B. The Peyote Religion > C. The Prophecy of Proudhon > D. Science and Prophetic Dreams > E. Understanding the Symbology of Prophetic Dreams > F. How Prophetic Dreams fit into Patterns >BIBLIOGRAPHY >ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS >INDEX [from the FORWARD, page 1] > >For the light of truth shines best through open minds. > [from APPENDIX - A. WILLIAM WILLOYA by Vinson Brown, page 81] > > Another reason why Willy can be of such help is because he still has a >lot of the old Indian Spirit, the spirit that comes from living in the >wilderness, from living close to nature. There is a great power in this >spirit, a power about which the white men know little. > > B. THE PEYOTE RELIGION > > The Peyote Religion, which also is called The Native American Church, is >an example of the need of the Indian to understand religion in his own way. >Members of this religious movement believe in Jesus and the Bible as coming >from God, but also believe that God sent the Indians the Peyote Woman, who >brought to them the peyote drug, used in their ceremonies. This drug, when >taken properly, with prayer, meditation and singing, brings visions to the >Indians who use it, and they say gives them directions and warnings from God. >The peyote button is taken from a cactus plant found in Mexico and the >southwestern United States. It is chewed, but has a bitter taste. The >peyote ceremony is generally held in a tipi, with a circle of Indians inside, >led by the Peyote Chief. A half moon of ashes, a drum and various other >ceremonial helpers (some of which are shown in our color plate) are used. >The ceremony usually lasts all night, with considerable singing and drum >beating. > The visions of those who take peyote are often very strange and >beautiful, as shown in our color plate. Colors of most brilliant shades may >appear and usually pulsate, probably in tune with the beat of the Peyote >Drummer. The fantastic experience gives evidence of transforming and >improving character when tied in with religion, but there seems to us to be >some danger that Indians and others who uses peyote might come to depend on >the drug too much, and not enough on their own efforts. The purification of >the hearts of men requires hard work and anything that helps this is good, >but should not be depended upon alone. Certainly peyote should be used with >great care, particularly as there is evidence it may be harmful to some >people, and not used at all where it is against the law. > There is considerable controversy over whether the drug compounds found >in peyote are harmful or not, though most authorities are agreed that they >are not habit-forming. use of the drug even in religious ceremonies is >banned in some states, but in Arizona recently the State Supreme Court >declared the law an unconstitutional infringement of religious freedom. >Followers of Peyote teach the leading of a life of purity. In fostering >ceremonies that use some of the old Indian ideas of religion, they probably >help preserve and rebuild some of the wonderful old Indian spirit that the >Indians were losing. Some of the Peyote dreams have been of a time coming ==================================================== >when all peoples would be united in brotherhood. If true, then Peyote itself ============================================================================= >is a step in this direction, and the followers of this religious movement are ============================================================================= >being made ready for something bigger and wider that will bring all peoples =========================================================================== >together in love and harmony. ============================= >ABOUT THIS BOOK AND ITS AUTHORS > > An Indian who read this book said: "It makes me feel strange. It makes >me proud of my people, but ashamed of my own life and wanting to improve it." >A white man who read it said: "I never knew the Indians had such feeling; I >never knew they had such strange and wonderful visions. That they tie all >together into a meaningful pattern makes me think there is something behind >them." Whether you are white, Indian or of any other race, you will find in >this book a new an exciting way to look at life and a promise of glory and >peace for all mankind. > The Oglala Sioux beaded bag shown in the upper right is a unique key to >this story, for somehow it started one of the remarkable visions told about >in this book and it started an unusual partnership of an Eskimo and a white >biologist in writing it. > The Eskimo, William Willoya, was born and educated in Alaska, but has >traveled in Europe and over much of North America, searching for the >fulfillment of a wondrous dream. How he found it is part of the story. > Vinson Brown, author of eighteen published books, has his M.A. in >biology from Stanford University and also minored in Anthropology at the >University of California. he has traveled in Asia, Central America, and over >much of western North America, visiting many Indian tribes and studying their >thoughts, dreams and customs with understanding and love. = = = RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARD AN ECOTOPIAN MILLENNIUM by Alberto Ruz Buenfil, 1945- Copyright @ 1991 by Alberto Ruz Buenfil Bear & Company, Inc., Santa Fe, NM 87504-2860 ISBN 0-939680-75-0 (pbk.) Translation of: Arcobaleno US$ 16.95 >Discover how the Woodstock Generation of the 1960s has become the Rainbow >Warriors of the 1990s! RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS recounts the spiritual >search of the post-war generation, which has tried to bring about a new >balance and harmony to a world in turmoil. The leaders of Greenpeace >International, Rainbow Gatherings, and eco-feminist communities worldwide >describe how legend and myth are transformed into the reality of historical >change as the Earth moves toward an "ecotopian millennium." >What Theodore Roszak's MAKING OF THE COUNTERCULTURE was to the '60s and '70s, >and Marilyn Ferguson's AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY was to the '80s, Alberto Ruz >Buenfil's RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS will be to the '90s. Weaving >together radical history, visionary politics, and Native American prophecy, >Alberto Ruz Buenfil's message is bold and clear: if the rainbow nation does >not become the mainstream of the 1990s, you can forget about the 21st >century. Jose Arguelles, author of THE MAYAN FACTOR and EARTH ASCENDING >Written in a clear and concise manner, RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS will >let you discover and even feel from a first-row seat the emergence and >maturation of some of the most extraordinary seeds of change in this world. >From the beatniks' spontaneous experiences of the '60s to the New Age >communities and events of the '80s, an ever-growing army of Rainbow Warriors >is actively preparing the way for a soon-to-come golden age of peace and >wisdom. Jean Hudon, director of Global Awareness in Action >The international Rainbow phenomenon is the most important social movement of >our time, and RAINBOW NATION WITHOUT BORDERS represents the first >comprehensive study of its origins and current developments. Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of HIGH TIMES magazine >Alberto Ruz Buenfil is a noted radical of the 1960s, who participated in >political protests worldwide. In 1973, he began a spiritual quest that took >him to India, the Middle East, the North American deserts, and northern >Africa, where he was initiated by many great spiritual teachers including the >Dalai Lama. He is founder of a land-based, eco-feminist-community in Mexico >and is a ceremonial leader for the opening of planetary sacred sites. >CONTENTS > >Acknowledgements and Dedication >Foreword by Starhawk >Prologue > >The Rainbow: A Universal Archetype > Roots of the Rainbow in Africa and Australia > Roots of the Rainbow in Asia > The Rainbow in Native America > European Roots of the Rainbow > The Rainbow in Science and Philosophy > Energy, the Rainbow, and the Aura > Color, Sound, and Perception > The Rainbow and the Psyche > The New Rainbow Movement > >Return of the Rainbow Warriors > The Task of the Warriors of the Rainbow > The Rainbow People > >Toward a New Tribalism: 1930-1970 > The Postwar Beat Generation > The Tribal Vision of Gary Snyder > The Living Theater Tribe > The Merry Pranksters > The Hog Farmers and Their Friends > The Diggers and Motherfuckers > Woodstock Nation > >The Birth of the Rainbow Tribes: 1970-1980 > The Rainbow Gatherings > Greenpeace International > For Christiania with Love > Pilgrimage to Huehuecoyotl > The Rainbow Communities in Spain > >Shining Specter of the Eighties > Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition > The Rainbow Networks in Mexico > The Rainbow Gatherings in Europe > Roots of the Gatherings > The Gatherings Expand > The Making of Pasta Scuitta > The Gathering's Magic > The Rainbow Alliance in European Politics > The Rainbow Banks > >Toward the New Millennium > The Myth of the Eternal Return > The Legend of the Fifth Sun > The Aquarian Conspiracy > The City of Ram > The New Age > Ecotopia Here and Now > For All Our Relations > >Appendix A: Rainbow Artists >Appendix B: Rainbow Songs, Chants, and Poems >Appendix C: Directory of Rainbow Resources >Notes >Bibliography >About the Author = = = ANCIENT VOICES, CURRENT AFFAIRS: THE LEGEND OF THE RAINBOW WARRIORS =================================================================== by Steven S.H. McFadden, 1948- (invocation by Dhyani Ywahoo) Copyright @ 1992 by Steven McFadden ISBN 1-879181-00-2 $9.95 Bear & Company, Inc. P.O. Drawer 2860 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2860 USA Tel: (505) 983-5968 (800) 932-3277 Fax: (505) 989-8386 >CONTENTS > >Illustrations >Acknowledgements >Invocation by Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo > >Prologue >Chapter 1. The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors >Chapter 2. Counsel of the Elders >Chapter 3. Rainbow Heritage, Rainbow Destiny >Chapter 4. A Legend Aroused >Chapter 5. A Calendar Calls >Chapter 6. On the Threshold of Myth >Chapter 7. The Message of the Hopi >Chapter 8. Seeing the Rainbow from Down Under: > The Tales of Alinta >Chapter 9. Blossoms Unfold in an Age of Flowers >Chapter 10. The Shambala Vision: > What It Means to Be a Spiritual Warrior >Epilogue > >General Resources >Floral Resources >Bibliography >About the Author [from the Prologue, pages 4-5] > > The various stories in this book are, in fact, one. Together they tell >a saga that is larger than the sum of their collective parts. The thread >that links them is the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, part of the emerging >myth of a New Age. In brief, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors says that >when the Earth becomes desperately sick through the doings of human beings, >some of the people will recognize that they are steadily destroying >themselves and their Earth Mother. With spiritual support, the Rainbow >Warriors - people of all colors and faiths - will come to the rescue, >eventually establishing a long and joyous reign of peace. > This modern myth suggests there will be no one hero in this time, no >George Washington or Joan of Arc to rescue us from the great dilemma we have >created. We must do it ourselves. In that sense, the Legend of the Rainbow >Warriors is, to use a modern term, a holistic myth, wherein we all have both >the opportunity and the responsibility to become spiritually awakened heroes. > The overall myth points out the general direction that we need to >travel: a direction in which there is full respect for the self, for others, >and for all the creations who share life upon the planet. By proceeding in >this direction, we will create a spiritually informed culture that uses >scientific technology to maintain freedom and enhance the balance of life. >From that perspective, this book is a journalist's dispatch on how the myth >of a New Age is unfolding in the world. > [from the Epilogue, pages 135-136] > > While I will venture no bold claim of ultimate truth for the conclusions >suggested in this book, I will say this: they are part of my truth. I offer >the legend of the Rainbow Warriors in the hope that it will raise helpful >questions for you, the reader: What is your myth? What gives your life >meaning? How are you acting to make your myth a living part of the world's >experience? If the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors speaks to you, what can >you do to make this myth real, to engage more directly in the ancient quest >of heroes and heroines: bringing heaven to Earth? > >GENERAL RESOURCES > >Sun Bear * >Bear Tribe Medicine Society >P.O.Box 9167 >Spokane, WA 99209 > >Greenpeace >P.O.Box 96099 >Washington, DC 20090-6099 > >Scott Guynup >Illustrator, Visionary Artist >707 Brunswick Drive >Waynesville, NC 28786 > >Brooke Medicine Eagle >Sky Lodge >P.O.Box 121 >Ovando, MT 59854 > >Medicine Story (Manitonquat) >Mettanokit Community >c/o Another Place >Route 123 >Greenville, NH 03048 > >Hunbatz Men >Communidad Indigena Maya >APDO Postal 7-013 >Merida 7 >Yucatan, Mexico > >Twylah Nitsch >Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge >12199 Brant Reservation Road >Brant, NY 14027-0136 > >Shambala Warrior Training >2130 Arapaho >Boulder, CO 80302 > >Oh Shinnah >Four Directions Foundation >P.O.Box 56-1685 >Miami, FL 33256-1685 > >Dhyani Ywahoo >Sunray Medicine Society >P.O.Box 308 >Bristol, VT 05443 > >* Before he passed away, Sun Bear asked the members of the Bear Tribe >Medicine Society to carry on his activities and teachings. >ABOUT THE AUTHOR > >Steven McFadden writes, counsels, and gardens from his home in rural New >Hampshire. A journalist, a farm activist, and an astrologer, Steven is also >a master in the Traditional Reiki system of healing. As director for the >Planetary Wisdom Keepers project, he has been meeting with learned elders >from around the world for a forthcoming book and video series. > Steven is the author of PROFILES IN WISDOM: NATIVE ELDERS SPEAK ABOUT >THE EARTH (1991) and coauthor with Trauger Groh of FARMS OF TOMORROW: >COMMUNITY SUPPORTED FARMS, FARM SUPPORTED COMMUNITIES (1990). He is also a >contributing writer to ECOLOGUE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CATALOGUE AND CONSUMER'S >GUIDE FOR A SAFE EARTH (1990). > Steven has worked with groups in both corporate and private settings >since 1975, and he travels widely to offer lectures and workshops. You may >contact him at: > > Chiron Communications > P.O.Box 481 > New Ipswich, NH 03071 >Native peoples from around the Earth have long prophesied the emergence of >rainbow warriors: individuals who, from all walks of life and from all >ethnic shades of the rainbow, come together to build a world that works for >everyone. As we experience the turbulence of personal and planetary changes >in out times, these ancient myths offer us inspiration and guidance. > >In ANCIENT VOICES, CURRENT AFFAIRS, veteran journalist Steven McFadden >details the myth of the rainbow warriors through the teachings of indigenous >peoples in the Americas, Australia, and Tibet. He then shows many ways that >this legend is emerging as part of our everyday reality. The original spirit >behind the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the ecological >movement, Greenpeace, the use of organic foods and flower essences, and >empowering strategies for how to lead lives as spiritual warriors - all point >toward the fusion of myth with current affairs and give us abundant hope for >the future. = = = RAINBOW TRIBE: ORDINARY PEOPLE JOURNEYING ON THE RED ROAD by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man ISBN 0-06-250611-0 (alk. paper) Copyright @ 1992 260 pages USA $15.00 Canada $20.00 UK P 9.99 net HarperSanFrancisco A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 USA > Ed McGaa was born on the Oglala Sioux reservation and is a registered >tribal member, OST 15287. Following the earning of an undergraduate degree, >he joined the Marine Corps to become a fighter pilot. Captain McGaa returned >from 110 combat missions and danced in six annual Sioux Sun Dances. The Sun >Dance led him to the seven Mother Earth ceremonies under the tutelage of >Chief Eagle Feather and Chief Fools Crow, two Sioux holy men. Eagle Man and >the Rainbow Tribe people discovered each other during preparations for the >Harmonic Convergence. Ed McGaa, Eagle Man holds a law degree from the >University of South Dakota and is the author of RED CLOUD (Dillon Press, >1971) and MOTHER EARTH SPIRITUALITY: NATIVE AMERICAN PATHS TO HEALING >OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD (Harper & Row, 1990). > > Books on spirituality and philosophy tend to generate many letters. The >author would very much appreciate the enclosure of a self-addressed stamped >envelope by readers who write to him. >CONTENTS > >Forward > >Part I: Origin of the Rainbow Tribe > >1. Reconnecting with the Natural Way > >2. Thunder Owl and the Rainbows > >3. Rainbow and Celtic Relationship > >Part II: Intrinsic Powers of Ceremony > >4. The Path of the Rainbow > >5. Rainbows in Sweat Lodge > >6. Rainbows in Vision Quest > >7. Rainbows Finding Their Natural Names and WOTAI Stones > >8. Rainbows Discovering Spirit Guides > >Part III: Discovering the Higher Mystical Realm > >9. Spirit-calling Ceremony > >10. Healing with Ceremony and Medicine > >Part IV: Rainbow Fire - Rainbow Spiritual Leadership > >11. Gatherings > >12. The Call to Lead > >Notes > >Suggested Readings >"Speaks of the unity of all races and all living things.... We all carry a >piece of the dream of world peace and harmony. RAINBOW TRIBE asks us to pull >together to make that vision a common reality." > - Jamie Sams, author of SACRED PATH CARDS(tm) and MEDICINE CARDS(tm) > >"Ed McGaa's book will help many people who feel lost find their way back to >their nation: The Rainbow Tribe." > - Sun Bear > >"Offers a message of spiritual unity and hope for a divided and disturbed >world. Carries the voices of many people speaking to the common spiritual >and ceremonial needs of humans from the ancient Celts and Indians to modern >Americans." > - Jack Weatherford, author of INDIAN GIVERS and NATIVE ROOTS > >"Ed McGaa truly has the vision of Eagle - he 'sees far,' and thus gives us, >through his words, a vision about making real White Buffalo Calf Woman's >urging to unite in holiness as a family of all our relations." > - Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of BUFFALO WOMAN COMES SINGING >Part One: Origin of the Rainbow Tribe > >These Two-legged will be called the Rainbow Tribe, for they are the product >of thousands of years of melding among the five original races. These >Children of Earth have been called together to open their hearts and to move >beyond the barriers of disconnection. The medicine they carry is the >Whirling Rainbow of Peace, which will mark the union of the five races as >one. > - Jamie Sams, OTHER COUNCIL FIRES WERE HERE BEFORE OURS > = = = THE RAINBOW: FROM MYTH TO MATHEMATICS ===================================== by Carl B. Boyer With New Color Illustrations and Commentary by Robert Greenler Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Copyright @ 1959 Sagamore Press, Inc. Copyright @ 1987 Princeton University Press First Princeton Paperback printing, 1987 >Contents > > Preface 7 > > I. The Beginnings 17 > > II. Greece and Rome 33 > > III. The Earlier Middle Ages 66 > > IV. European Revival 85 > > V. Medieval Triumph and Decline 110 > > VI. The Sixteenth Century 143 > > VII. Kepler and His Contemporaries 178 > >VIII. The Cartesian Theory and Its Reception 200 > > IX. The Age of Newton 233 > > X. A New Theory 269 > > XI. The Mathematician's Rainbow 294 > > Notes 323 > > Selected References 355 > > Index 367 > The rainbow has had hosts of admirers - more, perhaps, than any other >natural phenomenon - but it has had few biographers. This volume, which >contains a new section of color illustrations, is the first attempt to give a >full account of ideas on the rainbow from antiquity through our own times. >Beginning with Greek mythology, Carl Boyer has comber the scientific and >imaginative writings of every era to show how the story of the rainbow became >increasingly sophisticated. His last chapter is entitled "The >Mathematician's Rainbow." > This is the history of man's view of one physical phonomenon >sufficiently spectacular to attract the attention of primitive man and >sufficiently complex to attract that of the modern scientist. It would be >difficult to imagine a case history better adapted to demonstrate the >interest and value of the history of science. Carl Boyer has shown in >previous works his competence to deal with both science and the history of >science, and this book is authoritative and eminently thought-provoking. > - Robert P. Mulhauf, Smithsonisn Institution > > "[THE RAINBOW] is the most comprehensive mathematical study of the >rainbow ever published." > - F. Lanier Graham in THE RAINBOW > > "Carl B. Boyer . . . demonstrates the infinite attention to detail >necessary for the historical scholar, shows us that he has the objectivity of >the true scientist, and possesses the analytical tools of the mathematician: >but he has written primarily a biography, the biography of the rainbow." > - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW > > "[This book] traces man's attempts to explain the cause of the rainbow, >from ancient myths down to contemporary physical theories. . . . The >complete history . . . is not only a fascinating intellectual puzzle, but a >study in human personalities, conflicts and emotions as well." > - THE BALTIMORE MORNING SUN > > Carl B. Boyer was Professor of Mathematics at Brooklyn College. He is >the author of several books, including A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS (Princeton >Paperback) and THE HISTORY OF THE CALCULUS AND ITS CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT >(Dover). = = = >Reproduced without permission from RAINBOW DREAM PROPHECY: A VISION OF HOPE >(Acorn Publishing, March House, Ogbourne St. George, Marlborough, Wiltshire; >Tel. 067 284 200). Rainbow Bridge The strength of shared vision will make our world over in light. Take the Rainbow Prophesy, copy it three times over, (a quality copy machine will guarantee maintaining clarity of print and message), keep one for yourself, and then mail a copy to three people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to light in the Rainbow Dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace. Love, Thunder Woman Prophesies of Intertribal Societies of the Native American Indians [Transcribed from a tape of a lecture given by Harley Swiftdeer in April 1983. Introduction by Aleran.] Throughout the ages humanity has sought out the prophesies of the spiritually gifted to instill a clear hope and vision into life. During this time many prophesies come to us trying to lead us in many different directions. Some prophesy points to disaster, hopelessness, and the annihilation of mankind. But other prophesies create a vision of joyful transformation through quantum leaps into love and light. We are dreamers and we create physical reality through the thought-forms we hold. As things stand now, the human race is dreaming a hell. But as individuals and as a collective humanity it is our potential to dream of paradise and to create the kingdom of heaven on our Mother Earth. Could it be that the pain in our hearts caused by the hell we have created will spur us on into visions and creations of a world formed in love? It is my prayer and dream, along with a multitude of others who have taught me to dream the Rainbow dream, that each and everyone of you learn to dream both while awake and sleeping, the dream of unity and love through divine transformation. This prophesy on the following pages is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to dream it together. For More Information: Summer Camp Mary Grimes "Thunder Woman" c/o Lula Mae Ball 6923 Crittenden Indianapolis, IN 46220 317-255-8356 Winter Camp Mary Grimes "Thunder Woman" c/o Chira Morgan Chiron Hygiene Center 840 Brown Trail Bedford, TX 76022 817-268-0197 The Prophesy These prophesies cannot be traced to any specific tribe for they came from intertribal Medicine Societies. The Medicine Societies involved in channeling the prophesies are the women's societies of the Crystal Skull and the Black Widow. 1980 The year of the creation of the teachings of the Eight Great Powers and the introduction, and the giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count. The Starmaiden Circle and Flowering Tree Teachings which began the evolution of the distribution of the wheels and keys (the esoteric teachings of the North American Indians) of Turtle Island. It was in that year that the major beginning wheels and keys were given away. 1981 The year of the planting of the light seeds of the Hokseda (the higher self). Many teachers of the Eight Great Powers began to plant their seeds of light about the development of the higher self and began to open the teachings to the Rainbow People also known as Meti (mixed blood - the Rainbow People). 1982 The year of fertilization, the year of planting, the year of going within these seeds of light in order to see the potentiality, the road map that a person can use. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the year of finding one's path with heart and many many have done this. 1983 The year of fruition, the year of seeking perfection, growth and development. Most importantly this is the year of trust and innocence as being totally open, when people are listening and teachers are talking to teachers. When mythologies of the world and all Eight Great Powers are finally revealing secrets and the teachings within the mythologies are brought out into the open. Because of this there was a great deal of joy amongst teachers. 1984 This year is critical. The year of the animal. The year of Tuwalananie, the dark force. The reason for this is that for three years seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones inside each of the Eight Great Powers who have taught deliberate lies in myth, who have used the power of wheels to gain control of people to gain followers, to gain disciples, to gain devotees, are going to be very threatened by the awakening of the consciousness of the RAINBOW PEOPLE because the Rainbow People exist in every country, in every nation, in every land. In other words the Sun Dancers are going to be strong enough. The dark forces will be extremely threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see some of the most strong technological advances known to humanity occurring this year and these very technological advances are going to be a tremendous threat as well as a blessing to the survival of humanity. Now, what is also a Heyoka (trickster) is that 1984 is also the year that we must establish balance and harmony between the light and the dark forces. It's going to be interesting and that's why we have this sense of urgency because it is getting short. Grace Walking Stick is the head seer and visionary of the Black Widow Society. She said that there will be a major crisis to put us on the brink of nuclear war and the only thing that will stop it - is that the dark force is trying to create an artificial sun - nuclear war - that we must exert the influence, the SUN DANCERS, the RAINBOW PEOPLE, by smoking our pipes, of gathering together and of sharing our medicine for solar power, for world peace, and whatever else happens we MUST not give energy in protesting or being against something because if you take the amount of energy you spend marching, talking, writing letters against things and instead put an equal amount or double amount of energy with what you are for, we can change it. Example: INSTEAD OF PROTESTING URANIUM, PROMOTE SOLAR. 1985 The year of human to human communication. The year when the human family finally becomes a human if we get through 1984. [This booklet is being produced in May 1985 - HOORAY!!! We made it!!!] Then there will be more teachers and more teachings brought out to open format than has ever been seen on this planet in the first fifty thousand years. Because then we will re- establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars. So mark that down because it will happen. The first wave will come from Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second wave will come from Sirius. Ruby Morning Star was the head seer of the Crystal Skull Society. She said that in 1985 you will see a total change in the concept of what we call the United Nations. Instead of political opposition and struggle it will change names and become the new circle of law - the Eight Great Powers. 1986 When Tagashala and the enlightened teachers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds. We will see our memory circles. All kivas and sacred power spots will come alive in 1986 and be totally awakened. The inner room of the Great Pyramid will be opened. The order of the Golden Dawn will have ceremonies there again for the first time in 20,000 years. The Temple of the Sun in Palenque will be refurbished, reawakened and ceremonies will begin again. The old traditional ceremonies that are still applicable for today's world will be renewed. Many of the ceremonies that are so-called traditionalists, but are trying to keep us locked in the past and will not function today will fall. It will be hard for some of the people of the medicine societies because they don't know any other way. They're going to have to change or die. Many teachers who have been seen as great teachers, who have literally kept us in the dark as worshippers of the sacrament orders will physically die and go over because it's the only way they can find the light in 1986 and many teachers will be seen for what they were and they will be the farmers, the laborers, and the gas station attendants and they will be seen as the real teachers because the Tagashala will be fully awakened. 1987 144,000 Sun Dance enlightened teachers will totally awaken in their dream mindbodies. They will begin to meet in their own feathered serpent or winged serpent wheels and become a major force of the light to help the rest of humanity to dance their dream awake. A Sun Dance teacher is any human being who has awakened, who has balanced their shields, who has gained the dream mindbody and who honors all paths, all teachers, and all ways, I look for the day when I can sit down with my pipe and the Buddhists with theirs. You will see me sit down with my dagger and my Sufi drum, with my sword, my Shinto way, and my pipe, my Indian way. We're going to put our Soul out on the table and say "I love you all." This is a sacred dance. That's what 1987 is about. That's a Sun Dancer. You cannot say that you have the only true way, for all ways are true. In 1987, 144,000 enlightened souls will sit down in gathering together circles saying "here it is Brothers and Sisters. Openly, totally - Come and receive it." A lot of these are going to be so-called common people and not the teachers you see up there now. On August 17, 1987 the various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the RAINBOW LIGHTS will be seen in dreams all over the world and Those Rainbow Light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity. 1988 We will sit in a new circle of law. Civil and social law will tumble. All civil and social laws by whatever governments will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject the laws. Science will once again become metaphysics, will once again become magic. They will discover four laws that will help them jump from natural to magical law and transcend the time/space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are magical laws and cosmic laws. 1989 We will once again see the way to continue a new dream. We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual Great Sleeper-Dreamer form. And so you will see some very, very powerful, totally enlightened Masters in 1989 and that's the year of the second coming of the Christ spoken of in the Book of Revelations and it will be the awakening of a new circle, a new design of energy movement for humanity. Christ means a circle. So the second coming of the sacred circle is all enlightened humans dancing as one consciousness. 1990 A powerful year and it's really hard for me to talk about it. I am a great dreamer but I don't know if I dream that large. We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness. Many of the enemies of the humans shall begin to drop away. In 1990 you will see the Twelve Sacred Driver Wheels of each of the Eight Sacred Powers stored and put together to create the figure 8 of infinity sign. And 1990 will begin through the Feathered Serpent Medicine Wheels those groups of seventeen Great Sleeper Dreamers. The first migration to the next world will begin, leaving behind on this planet another world of enlightened humanity to join the many already on other planets throughout our universe. When you speak of this migration to other planets, are you speaking of the creation of a new race? Another dream, another dance, another series of dances in another dream in another world. What's the difference between this world and the new creation? It is those that go on ahead that are the pathfinders. There are always the pioneers, there are always the people that choose to do it the hard way in a sense. In other words, they're totally willing to sacrifice and to step out on the path of total unknown simply because it's a pleasure to make it known. 1991 For those who stay here on Grandmother Earth, they will totally gain the light of the Great Light Wheel. That there will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle. In 1991 all the seeds will be planted. 1992 The earth will have its true reality formed. It will join the sisterhood of planets, the Daughters of Copper-woman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything. 1993 We will see a whole new way of perfection. There will be plants on this Grandmother Earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen. Starvation on the earth - all those things will be gone. 1994 There will be a total balance and harmony. All beings will be balanced fives or enlightened fives - a six. And they will still be in their physical bodies. 1995 The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it to be when they came from the stars. 1996 The second migration to the new world will occur leaving behind on Grandmother Earth those who are choosing to continue to hold the power on this planet within the space of all the Sacred Twelve. All of these people who choose to remain after the second migration will begin to establish this planet & use the collective unconscious to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve, all the planets, and there is a whole lot I don't even know. There is more that I am not supposed to talk about yet. 1997 The dream will be actualized and this planet will hold its space in the great Council of planets and become part of the Universal enlightened Brotherhood and Sisterhood of humanity because there is an organization that is inter- galactic that is known as the Great International Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Humanity and Keepers of the Light Circles. It's happened on many planets and it's expected to happen on a lot of other planets. 1998 There will be a movement in 1998 when population will be the population. The Circle of Law will hold the image of fast thought necessary to allow this planet to become a starship. (Is this fun? Not bad for a bunch of ignorant savages.) 1999 The third migration will leave this planet for the other new world and this planet will now be a starship, a spaceship, have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity that's living here because, see, it's been a starship all along floating around a central sun but not in harmony with sister planets. 2000 In the year 2000 the Great Spirit will have left its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and thus the prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now. The Hopi Prophecy This Prophecy does not give specific dates but refers to certain symbolic events which will have a world-wide influence. The final stage, called the "Great Day of Purification," has also been described as a "mystery egg," in which the forces of the swastika and the Sun, plus a third force symbolized by the color red, culminate either in TOTAL REBIRTH or TOTAL ANNIHILATION - we don't know which yet, but the choice is ours. War and natural catastrophe may be involved. The degree of violence will be determined by the degree of inequity caused among the peoples of the world and in the balance of Nature. That it will be very violent is now almost taken for granted among traditional Hopi, but man may still lessen the violence by correcting his treatment of Nature and his fellow man. Ancient spiritually-based communities, such as the Hopi, must especially be preserved and not forced to abandon their wise way of life and the natural resources they have vowed to protect. The Hopi play a key role in the survival of the human race, through their vital communion with the unseen forces that hold Nature in balance, as an example of a practical alternative to the suicidal man-made system, and as a fulcrum of world events. The pattern is simple. "The whole world will shake and turn against those who are hindering the Hopi." The man-made system now destroying the Hopi is deeply involved in similar violations throughout the world. The devastating reversal predicted in the Prophecies is part of the natural order. If those who thrive from that system, its money and its laws, can manage to stop it from destroying Hopi, then many may be able to survive the Day of Purification and enter a NEW AGE of PEACE. But if no one is left to continue the Hopi Way, then the hope for such an age is in vain. Planetary Round Table Network To bring in and attune to the new harmonic etheric energies birthing the body of the New Earth. To meet in Circles the first Wednesday each month at 8pm for ONE HOUR'S SILENCE TO RECEIVE HIGHER GUIDANCE. Weekly gatherings may be preferred. If planetary cleansing becomes more severe these Round Table circles will be a major network through which help and guidance will be relayed to others. To dedicate ourselves to the Return of Harmony and Sacredness to all things, to all people and to the Earth. MICHAEL IRVING of Acorn Publishing offers to travels anywhere where there is sufficient interest to (1) talk to groups about the Planetary Round Table Network, and/or (2) give a one day Workshop entitled 'ATTUNEMENT TO THE NEW EARTH: Self and Planetary Healing.' Tel. Michael/Heather on U.K. 067 284 200. = = = RAINBOW ANTHOLOGY ================= Lee Horstman's continuously updated RAINBOW ANTHOLOGY contains among other things topographic maps of all past North American continental gathering sites. 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