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Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held
in outdoor settings, and espousing and practicing ideals of peace, love,
harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to
mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media.
Rainbow Gatherings and the "Rainbow Family of Living Light" are an
expression of a Utopian impulse, combined with bohemianism and hippie
culture, with roots clearly traceable to the 1960s counterculture.
Mainstream society is viewed as "Babylon," connoting the participants'
widely held belief that modern lifestyles and systems of government are
unhealthy and out of harmony with the natural systems of planet Earth.
The original Rainbow Gathering was in 1972, and has been held annually in
the United States from July 1 - 7 every year on National Forest land. Other
regional and national gatherings are held throughout the year, in the
United States and throu
