The New Age Gypsies-- A Sign of the Coming Times?
I posted a follow up to my 2 previous comments to JMG regarding festival culture, etc.
"Hey JMG, no reply necessary to this. Just a follow up on my earlier 2 comments to this post.
An example of what I mean by the festivals perhaps spawning something more has already happened in Britain:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210747/21st-century-Gypsies-New-Age-Travellers-adopt-horse-drawn-caravans-love-Facebook-long-solar-powered.html
"The New Age Gypsies" started out as basically people traveling from festival to festival during the summer. They all dressed up and drove vans and went by caravan, dressing up in costumes the whole time, etc. 20 years later, many are still doing it, and they use cell phones and lap tops same as most people do-- yet they've dropped the gas engines completely. They actually build and use vardos that are pulled by horses. They've drastically down-sized their energy usage and "gone voluntarily into poverty."
That was sort of what I was trying to get at in my comments. Its not the festivals themselves I see as a new spirituality. I didn't mean to create that impression. I meant that they might inspire people to take a radical turn in their lives to living a very different way.
My husband and I go to a couple festivals each summer as our one "treat"-- but we live in a small townhouse and have (as I've mentioned in other comments) a community that gardens and raises chickens and preserves food and shares other resources together. We've changed our lives.
So---! Yeah, just wanted to give you the heads up about a couple of intriguing trends I've noticed.
Meanwhile, October and November were remarkable here in the Pacific Northwest as we had lots of extra sunshine. This last week, we had 9 inches of snow in central Willamette valley, its in the 20s by day and teens to single digits at night! Very freaky. "
Seriously, follow the link to see what I mean-- lots of pretty pictures, and if you like gypsy vardos, you'll love this. I'm really intrigued and wondering if something similar couldn't happen here in the U.S. We certainly have far more open land to squat upon!
"Hey JMG, no reply necessary to this. Just a follow up on my earlier 2 comments to this post.
An example of what I mean by the festivals perhaps spawning something more has already happened in Britain:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210747/21st-century-Gypsies-New-Age-Travellers-adopt-horse-drawn-caravans-love-Facebook-long-solar-powered.html
"The New Age Gypsies" started out as basically people traveling from festival to festival during the summer. They all dressed up and drove vans and went by caravan, dressing up in costumes the whole time, etc. 20 years later, many are still doing it, and they use cell phones and lap tops same as most people do-- yet they've dropped the gas engines completely. They actually build and use vardos that are pulled by horses. They've drastically down-sized their energy usage and "gone voluntarily into poverty."
That was sort of what I was trying to get at in my comments. Its not the festivals themselves I see as a new spirituality. I didn't mean to create that impression. I meant that they might inspire people to take a radical turn in their lives to living a very different way.
My husband and I go to a couple festivals each summer as our one "treat"-- but we live in a small townhouse and have (as I've mentioned in other comments) a community that gardens and raises chickens and preserves food and shares other resources together. We've changed our lives.
So---! Yeah, just wanted to give you the heads up about a couple of intriguing trends I've noticed.
Meanwhile, October and November were remarkable here in the Pacific Northwest as we had lots of extra sunshine. This last week, we had 9 inches of snow in central Willamette valley, its in the 20s by day and teens to single digits at night! Very freaky. "
Seriously, follow the link to see what I mean-- lots of pretty pictures, and if you like gypsy vardos, you'll love this. I'm really intrigued and wondering if something similar couldn't happen here in the U.S. We certainly have far more open land to squat upon!