So why not pope Ratzinger in the corners? I have missed every folk fest so far. I guess "it's not as hard when you don't know what your missing" has been my motto for sometime now.
The festival is not overated and I am ANGRY at anonymous you. The festival is a place of artists and always has been. Have you ever been.
The festival like all experiences is relative. Many people of a similar free spirit mind have come together and decided that this weekend is the time that they will go completely insane and celebrate the cosmos in a pagan way. They have communally and unconsciously generated a once-a-year religious experience of unparalled importance.
This phenomena is happening now because an overall lack in real spiritual and religious experience in our society after the collapse of the church. Mind-blowing festivals are spontaneaously happening all over the world to fill the gap. And the Prarie Nation has chosen Popes Hill as the place.
So if you are one of us who worships the sun then come and fest with us. For us this festival is important. We are the shining ones and this is where we shine. You in the darkness cannot judge.
When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace shall guide the planets, and love will steer the stars This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ....
Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more forces of derision Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelations And the mind's true liberation
Wow, I can hardly stand that I missed it now, thanks "captain goldstar" whoever you are! Thanks for helping me realize I live in a spirit forsaken, super, mono-culture that boredom's peaks at some festival on a hill, in the praries, once a year, and I miss every year =/. What kind of artist am I!
Macro, Im sad to hear you have never been to the festival. But remember. Its relative. The manitoba festival works for those people who choose to let it work for them. Its the concept that s important. The concept of a ritualized release and re-alignment to the law of nature through sun worship and intoxication.
I guess you could do the same job yourself but to me its more fun and more energy is generated by the masses of people who all have more or less the same goal in mind. I also find that the consumption of intoxicants is very helful for the task and the fact that most people are under the influence makes it that much easier.
But if you re dead set on doing it yourself and without intoxicants try this way: fast for a day, go out in the country, bring a drum or music device with trance inducing drums on it, find a spot where you can see the sun rise. Now sit in this spot after you ve fasted and dance for as long as you can. Think about your life and the existence of reality until your thoughts have disapeared all together and then dance again. Repeat. Watch the sun as it rises and sets.
Shit, what am I doing sitting here writing this. See you on the hill.
my folk fest experiences have been internal-- if you want to have fun/see god, etc, you can. i once did zoomers and drummed for about six hours until the sun came up and then fell in love (briefly) w/ a beautiful woman who got me high.
however... in our spiritually dead, mindlessly consumer based, mile a minute high speed culture, i find things like folk fest just give a bunch of people who already get drunk/high/fucked up every chance they have another chance to get even more fucked up than usual.
but in traditional/agrarian cultures, those times of feast/revelry were exceptional-- something to be indulged in a few times a year as relief from the intense labour of regular life.
but yet i'm still going tomorrow, and i'm sure i'll have a great time.
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So why not pope Ratzinger in the corners? I have missed every folk fest so far. I guess "it's not as hard when you don't know what your missing" has been my motto for sometime now.
it's over-rated, but at least they're involving good artists now.
The festival is not overated and I am ANGRY at anonymous you. The festival is a place of artists and always has been. Have you ever been.
The festival like all experiences is relative. Many people of a similar free spirit mind have come together and decided that this weekend is the time that they will go completely insane and celebrate the cosmos in a pagan way. They have communally and unconsciously generated a once-a-year religious experience of unparalled importance.
This phenomena is happening now because an overall lack in real spiritual and religious experience in our society after the collapse of the church. Mind-blowing festivals are spontaneaously happening all over the world to fill the gap. And the Prarie Nation has chosen Popes Hill as the place.
So if you are one of us who worships the sun then come and fest with us. For us this festival is important. We are the shining ones and this is where we shine. You in the darkness cannot judge.
was that an excerpt from "Hair"?
No. This is an excerpt from Hair:
When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace shall guide the planets, and love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ....
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more forces of derision
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelations
And the mind's true liberation
Sounds good to me.
Wow, I can hardly stand that I missed it now, thanks "captain goldstar" whoever you are! Thanks for helping me realize I live in a spirit forsaken, super, mono-culture that boredom's peaks at some festival on a hill, in the praries, once a year, and I miss every year =/. What kind of artist am I!
Is that second one REALLY from hair? I never saw it.
Macro, Im sad to hear you have never been to the festival. But remember. Its relative. The manitoba festival works for those people who choose to let it work for them. Its the concept that s important. The concept of a ritualized release and re-alignment to the law of nature through sun worship and intoxication.
I guess you could do the same job yourself but to me its more fun and more energy is generated by the masses of people who all have more or less the same goal in mind. I also find that the consumption of intoxicants is very helful for the task and the fact that most people are under the influence makes it that much easier.
But if you re dead set on doing it yourself and without intoxicants try this way:
fast for a day, go out in the country, bring a drum or music device with trance inducing drums on it, find a spot where you can see the sun rise. Now sit in this spot after you ve fasted and dance for as long as you can. Think about your life and the existence of reality until your thoughts have disapeared all together and then dance again. Repeat. Watch the sun as it rises and sets.
Shit, what am I doing sitting here writing this. See you on the hill.
my folk fest experiences have been internal-- if you want to have fun/see god, etc, you can. i once did zoomers and drummed for about six hours until the sun came up and then fell in love (briefly) w/ a beautiful woman who got me high.
however... in our spiritually dead, mindlessly consumer based, mile a minute high speed culture, i find things like folk fest just give a bunch of people who already get drunk/high/fucked up every chance they have another chance to get even more fucked up than usual.
but in traditional/agrarian cultures, those times of feast/revelry were exceptional-- something to be indulged in a few times a year as relief from the intense labour of regular life.
but yet i'm still going tomorrow, and i'm sure i'll have a great time.
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