Re: Revolutionary nomadic tribe

James,
Check out the relevant topics at 

http://carfreeuniverse.org/topics

like 
nomadism, walking..., community (the ic reachbook)

Get in touch with Frank Cook
http://www.wildroots.org/frank/
http://www.carfreeuniverse.org/Members/greenman/

and the rainbow tribe... (http://welcomehome.org)

Tenasi is a guy I met with Frank, and look what he's
up to now! http://www.artofunion.com/ (the red-haired
guy)

They're out there, walking around, all over-- this is
an old and timeless vision though now we all give it a
much greater focus on health of the individual,
*family*, society, and planet.

Here's a recent expression of it [from "the portable
Beat Reader", Ann Charters, Ed. p. xxix]:

In the novel (_Dharma Bums_ (1958)) Kerouac had Gary
Snyder (named Japhy Ryder), predict a future time in
America when the visions of the poets would
revolutionize the country. Talking to Keroac (Ray
Smith) outside the Berkeley cottage where Ginsberg
(Alvah Goldbook) had lived in the fall of 1955, Japhy
says:

"I've been reading Whitman, know what he says, *Cheer
up slaves, and horrify foreign despots*, he means
that's the attitude for the Bard, the Zen Lunacy bard
of old desert paths, see the whole thing is a world
full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to
subscribe to the general demand that they consume
production and therefore have to work for the
privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't want
anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least
new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and
general junk you always see a week later in the
garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of
work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see
a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or
even millions of young Americans wandering around with
rucksacks, going up to the mountains to pray, making
children laugh and old men glad, making young girls
happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics
who go about writing poems that happen to appear in
their heads for no reason and also by being kind and
also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of
eternal freedom to everybody and to all living
creatures, that's what I like about you Goldbook and
Smith [Ginsberg and Kerouac], you two guys from the
East Coast which I thought was dead."
   "We thought the *West* Coast was dead!"
   "You've really brought a fresh wind around
here...."

Gary Snyder is still here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder

If you start writing about your tribe, let us know,
and tell me if you make it to San Diego!

Colin




--- wanderer_james <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm starting a nomadic tribe, intended to both
> demonstrate alternatives 
> to mainstream society and promote the widespread
> sharing of information 
> on tribalism, biocentric ideas, and the threat of
> society. I'm looking 
> for good people interested in a somewhat minimalist
> tribe to travel 
> nationaly or globaly, supporting each other through
> non-mainstream 
> paths like art and music, and working to spread some
> of the messages 
> that a modern destructive society needs so
> desperately to hear. I'd 
> like to create a truly tribal experience, and I
> think that there's a 
> lot of fun to be had and good things to be
> accomplished. Knowledge of 
> tribalism, life sciences, and social problems a
> plus, but not 
> neccesary, there's plenty for all of us to learn. No
> hard drugs, 
> alchoholism, sexism, racism, or negative
> lifestyles/behaviors please. 
> 
> Like to explore a new path together? I'd love to
> hear from you.
> 
> James


 
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