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Left for Shambhala
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Arrived in Salmo BC
We got there pretty late due to a late departure, there was lots of fog on the drive up. -
Waited in line (could have just walked in)
I was allowed on property since August 1st as a Volunteer.
My tag for the event had said "Enviroment"
I was a level 1 worker. -
Got onto the grounds
The wind had blown one of their tents into the swamp, I went in and got it - There was an un-used tent. I used the tent that was un-used and a friend of a friend borrowed my dads tent... I went back to the line-up cause my friends were all there for the night until the next morning - Slept on the ground for some reason... -
Day 1 of Shambhala
I had a great time.
Smoked weed, drank a beer or two.
Ate good food. -
Night 1 Shambhala
Saw a friend who was too high. Calmed him down.
I was still generally level headed. -
Shambhala first work shift?
Went in for my shift and there was no shift manager around to tell us what or where to go.
So we sat around for an hour or so waiting for some direction.
People kept coming into the shed thinking we worked there although we didn't. Finally someone came and releaved us of working because the supervisor wasn't responding to his walkie. -
Shambhala Day 2
Got to watch Super Tall Paul at the Wish Tree at Midnight.
He was a beatboxer, Saxophone & Ukulele player, he was a mashup artist - It was fun to add in to his set from the crowd and dance around. He was a funny guy and made me laugh and was able to juggle a container of three tennis balls have them come out and go back into the container while juggling the container as well. -
Shambhala First Death
Standing next to the First Aid Tent early morning, on acid, wearing a gas mask...
30 minutes of attempting to recitate a heart. Was a weird experience. -
Kundalini continued
There was a tingling in the front part of my brain. When I focused on the tingling, it shot to the back of my skull.
When I realized I was thinking about my brain thinking - It started to do this splash domino effect and I could feel my brain working. -
Was supposed to work...
Was supposed to work day shift today... After experiencing a strange night.
Was unable to really bring myself to do such - So I decided to sleep on it.
I made arangments with the Enviromental Manager to work Enviroment until August 14th -
Unlocked my Kundalini
I took what was being called a special type of acid.
"Sacred Flower" I met a girl named Bea, she pulled me around the grounds for a while.
We were on our way to bed, when a friend of hers saw her and I ended up losing her...I found her tent but she was not there :( I ended up meditating in the dark woods by myself while everyone was screaming "Shambhala" it was all I could hear over the music repeatedly. It was here where I unlocked my Kundalini -
Shambhala Day 4
Without going to sleep I continued my day all the way into the night.
That morning I danced in the Fractal Forest with a topless lady. I worked a solid night shift with only two other people.
Again no shift supervisor but we got some treats to eat while we sorted through a huge amount of recyclables. -
Monday Morning
I went around the site and cleaned up garbage while meeting people.
I was saying good bye to every one I met and I had planned to go and start working my shift later that day, besides I was cleaning up the entire time anyways. A friend of mine wanted some socks, I went to go get him a pair. -
Getting stared at
I'm used to people looking at me oddly.
But when an entire town starts staring at you, it feels weird. Basically there I sat next to "satan" in Nelson, which I realized was pure Yang, large body of water, art communities.
And I am from Yin, I live across from a church and a hospital.
I am Yang and he was Yin?
It seemed like the entire town was wondering who I was. -
Security!
All of a sudden security rolled up on me.
The had "complaints" about me and they were following up on someone who matched my description. When they realized I was sober and was just expressing myself, they took a step back and contacted the "Higher Ups"
The "Higher Ups" decided I had to leave and was unable to go and say goodbye to my friends.
I was forced to leave behind my wallet, ID in lost and found and other possessions that were at various camps. -
Hitch a Ride
While on my way out of the grounds, I passed someone I spoke to earlier and said "I may join you."
Sitting at the front gate and a friend of mine drove by and I told him what had happened.
He stopped and opened his door, low and behold there was the person sitting who I said I would end up joining. He drove us to Nelson, BC. -
Nelson First Impression
I arrived in Nelson and had a good bag of weed to smoke.
So I asked the first hippy looking fellow if he wanted to smoke some weed and if he could roll it for me. I sat down next to him under an Oak tree on Baker street.
He told me he grew up on this street and was trying to get his life in order.
He seemed like a regular guy, then he told me that three days prior he did some acid and was possesed by Satan.
A stranger came up and asked him if Satan was still his room mate.
He replied "No" -
Without money
I had to sleep outside as I had no money or ID.
I had met this girl who seemed to have a connection to me, cause she stuck her hand out and I was able to feel the connection when I put my hand near hers.
She wanted to stay but her friends wouldn't allow her to. So the next morning she had left. -
Carrot Suit
Early in the morning of August 12th I had found a carrot suit on the ground and put it on.
I went around the place dancing in the suit with no more music playing, while I picked up garbage and did lots of fun stuff and met some really cool people. -
Nelson Day 2
While in Nelson I was able to use a computer at a Hostel called "Dancing Bear"
Which is actually a very nice hostel, one of the people staying there let me crash on one of the beds.
(He got in trouble for it though)
This same guy broke off his necklace and gave it to me to sell as Silver.
I made $15 and that was how much I needed to get into a club called Spirit Club. -
Spirit Club
I originally thought I had met Russel Brandt (And I may have) or I met his doppleganger who sounds and acts just like him...
So I approached the bar like "Hi I met Russle Brandt at Shambhala and I was told he is here"
But I couldn't go in because I had no Identification, derp. My friend showed up and I told him to tell a guy who looks like Russel Brandt that a very happy carrot is outside.
The fellow I was looking for came out of the club saying "Carrot, Carrot, Carrot" I had found a friend. -
Open Mic Night
Around Midnight-1am following August 12th I totally did an open Mic at a bar in fernies, where I did a comedy sketch/ beatboxing routine after making an ass of myself at the bar. Because I wasn't allowed in the Spirit Club. -
RCMP Abuse Power At Spirit Club
After I got the gemstone my friend started to enter the Club, a friend of his came flying out of the bar, she was fighting- the story goes she got pushed by the bouncer - She defended herself, during a fight on the way outside the bouncer was pulling her hair and losing to her. The owner of the Spirit Club got a couple shots in on the female himself, and then when RCMP arrived they threw her head against the wall a few times. After which she was taken up the stairs and thrown down a few stairs. -
Nelson Day 3
The next day I roamed around Nelson and met some cool people around the Waterfalls, there was a gathering of people. Later that night I went to the Spirit Club again.
A fellow came up and asked if I had $15 which I still did.
I wasn't able to get into the bar yet I said I was willing to give buddy the $15 (even though I needed food to eat...) Later on I asked him how I could get a stone. -
Apitite
Pronounced Api-date When I asked the fellow for a stone he sat me down on the ground.
He asked me if I was looking for drugs, I said "no like real stones" He asked me what my favorite colour was, I said "Orange"
He said "Your second Favorite colour?"
I responded "Blue." He put a large raw blue apitite in my hands.
I did some research and apparently this rock opens up your throat chakra.
I didn't know this and did a lot of beatboxing that night and freestyle rapping. -
Nelson Day 4
Discovering the rock I had and what it did I decided to talk to people about the rock.
While talking about it I met a stone collector traveler.
He had two pieces of apitite as well and knew much about stones. I met a girl named Erica Dee, when she sang it gave me goosebumps. I felt compelled to give her the stone as it seemed like the stone had power I couldn't explain.
We ended up giving her one of the stones from buddies collection. She got the oldest one with Heavy Metal in it. -
Stone man surprise
The guy who had the stone collection shortly after giving me the stone he called "The Abyss"
Then was freaked out as he spit up a glass bead. It was a weird thing to see happen, there was no blood and the bead was rather small.
I didn't see the stone man after that, I think he was afraid to be around me. -
Slept indoors & Babysitting
After meeting the girl who took all my stuff, she let me stay at her house for the night. When I woke up there was three kids so I helped make sure they weren't too rowdy. One of the girls sat on a guys face and stuck her tongue out at me, I am convinced she is Shiva re-incarnated,
That morning I got a nice pancake breakfast. -
Manifesting things
Shortly after I gave Erica Dee a piece of Apitite, the person nearest to us FOUND a piece of Apitite right at his knee!! Later that night while hanging out with the stone collector he handed me a stone after we crossed the street from Spirit Club after being told we couldn't hangout outside.
He opened his guitar case and apparently a new stone was inside it, he called it the Abyss and handed it to me saying it was mine. I asked a guy named "grey" what it was, he told me it was Tektite. -
My hat!
A girl walks out of the Spirit Club, wearing MY HAT with my pin on it.
I tell her it's mine and she says "I have all your stuff'" I had a backpack with a new Artical Shirt in it, a Hologram a sketchbook and written word book.
She told me her friend convinced her to take the stuff cause I was some Albertan kid and my parents probably bought everything for me...
I found that new shirt in a GARBAGE and everything else I bartered for. Small world though, 10,000 people and I managed to find the one -
Nelson Day 5 Starts
I woke up and took off to find the rest of my stuff that I had left in a friends van.
My friend seemed to have dissappeared but he left my stuff at a house so I grabbed it and treked out to re-find the house I was at. While attempting to find the place I was mis-lead by some people and told to go up to the top of the hill where all the rich houses are. I don't know why I went up there, it didn't feel right. Yet there I was... -
Winlaw + Rainbow Gathering
The police drove me to the outskirt of Nelson and told me that the Rainbow Gathering was in Winlaw (The cop knew where the rainbow was...) The first person to pick me up turned out to be someone I actually exchanged a piece of CANDY with at Shambhala.
AGAIN another tiny "coincidence" On the way to Winlaw, I was picked up by someone with a very fast car. They told me their parents were running the Rainbow next to their house. He dropped me off in Winlaw. -
Arrived in Winlaw
First day in Winlaw I ended up seeing some friends, they were off to a different ranch in Winlaw.
I was still trying to find the Rainbow... I got direction it was down road from the Gas Station in Winlaw and just down stream with the river. I walked down the road and crossed a bridge, walked along the river; While walking along the river I noticed a small bog of water with like a rib cage inside it, it seemed out of place... Finally got to the end of the road and was allowed into the Gathering -
Doppleganger Possession?
The next thing I knew I was inside an open garage looking though these boxes of things, all the books were interesting and there was art and clothes that fit me. (I don't know why I put them on) I tried to knock on the house of the place but no one was home.
After a while a lady showed up with her dog asking me what I was doing
I responded with "I am from the future there is no time to explain"
Apparently this was the mother of my Doppleganger who had passed away earlier last year... -
Breaking and Entering (DANGER)
My doppleganger's mother called the police and the cops came and told me I could be charged with Breaking and Entering.
The mother gave the police a shirt to give to me, so I think she knew something was not as it seemed... One of the police officers was very nice, he took two pipes out of my pockets and asked me "Where did those pipes go!?"
I found them in a pocket of one of my bags he totally put them there... <3 The police officer told me I couldn't come back to Nelson for THREE DAYS. -
First day on the Rainbow
The first thing I did was started making a tree house so I wouldn't have to sleep on the ground.
Then meal time came, everyone gathered and the meal was distributed collectively to everyone who joined for the meal. After supper there was a large drum ceremony that took place.I ended up meeting three girls who I took an interest to, I was told I should dance around them so I did. While doing so it felt like I was contributing to this drum ceremony in some way it was strange. -
Staying up all night at the rainbow
Being a natural insomniac, I stayed up and waited to see if anyone else did.
There was were four other people up. The older guy who looked like Alan Moore, told me one of the lights was special and was powered by love.
It kept going on and off and flickering it was weird and seemed like he wasn't lying.
He told me he had atlantian technology and that he had some sort of special energy tables that I should try out. The girl who was there had a candle and the wax melted in spirals. -
Starting to lose my mind
This is when things started getting seriously fucked up.
I came to the conclusion that we were in a Lucid Dream, and it's why we were able to stay up without being tired.
It seemed like we could have been there forever or we could have done anything we wanted to. As long as you stayed hydrated and well fed, you could stay up. The next morning people awoke and things were regular, although it seemed like it was all still a dream even though I had not slept... -
Returned to the Rainbow...
I returned to the rainbow and stayed up on top of the hill...
I tried to goto sleep, I awoke to a knee in the stomach and an angry man named Al who gave me a piece of petrified wood when he had kicked me out the first time. He somehow knew I didn't have the piece of slate on my person.
He kept telling me to take a shot at him
He grabbed me by the throat, choking me out and saying he didn't want any witnesses.
He put me to the ground and while holding my throat punched me in the face 2-3 times. -
THIEF!
While sleep deprived I ended up going loopy.
I felt like everything in the universe was mine to find... I found a backpack and it was full of food, and I was hungry so I ate a bit and shared the rest with everyone else that was around me.
This I should not have done... The owner of the bag came up and made a HUGE scene like an asshole. I was ostracized and treated like a thief.
I was told I could not come back until next year... But I had traveled all that way... I got shipped out. -
Spiritual Journey
After being rejected from the Rainbow Gathering I ended up in the "National Park" in Winlaw.
It was there that I decided to try and light a fire, but the fire pit was filled with plastic, so I had to take it all out of there and put it in a garbage bag before I could start a fire. I was told I was supposed to go swimming and clean myself off but I didn't feel like submerging myself alone at night in a river... I started a fire but didn't have much for fire wood to keep it going. -
Journey continued
When my fire went out, I decided to walk back to the Rainbow for some reason...
On my way there two farm dogs barked and growled at me stopping me from proceeding down the road. I asked them if I could approach them and they stopped barking.
I walked up and this huge white wolf and large blood hound were acting like loving animals cuddling up to me as I showed no fear.
The family came out of their house and told me I should leave. I continued up the road to the gathering... -
Run away!
I was then threatened to be fed to a dog.
It was at this point that he stopped hitting me, let me go and walked me out off the property.
Instead of walking with them, I ran away. As I was walking down the road I saw a pack of wolves following me in a field, so I started to run again - Fuck that I'm not getting eatten by wolves. -
Need water
It was well past midnight at this point, I still had not slept in over two days. I had to find some clean water fast.
I resorted to drinking from some water that was being run onto some planters that hung around a cafe... I was cold so I curled up in a ball inside a structure.
While sitting there cold and alone, I peaked my head up and there was a large black dog.
He seemed happy to see me, and was very energetic. -
New dog friend
I looked at the dogs collar and his name was Richard.
So I hungout with Richard all morning, while I started trying to collect some bottles so I could get some money for some food. I played fetch with Richard as he took me on an adventure through Winlaw.
I was simply following the dog, eventually some people told the dog to go home so he did. -
Roaming around
Richard ended up returning later that day, while I was roaming around Winlaw.
I had found a very strange shed that had a locked door on it.
Yet the shed had tarps going down it when I inspected it more the tarps were attached to wooden dowels that allowed the tarp to roll up and it had hooks to hook into and keep the tarp up.
All of the walls of the shed were actually made out of window SCREEN.
It seemed like the only way into the shed was to break in. -
Didn't learn my lesson...
After looking at this shed for a while I determined the only thing to do was to punch in a screen and create a hole so I could enter the shed. I broke into the shed and inside was a bike, some lanterns, a car key and chest with some cooking wear in it, with a stove inside the shed...
This was a very weird shed...
When I exited the shed, someone saw me leaving and immediately took interest and threatened me with bear mace and a club... I went back to the Park to go get all my stuff and leave. -
Slept in town one more night
I slept in Winlaw for one more night and had planned to get an early start to the day.
I woke up and went to go try and find a shower I could use. I met a girl by the name of Marika.
She drove the same model subaru that my mother died in...
I learned while at the school in Winlaw that 32 000 litres of jet fuel had been spilt into the river upstream, so all the water I had been drinking was contaminated apparently. -
Time for a shower
Marika gave me a ride to the showers, but when we got there she noticed the people who were supposed to be cleaning up the jet fuel was gone. I decided since I had no towel that I wouldn't bother with a shower.
We drove back into the Main area of Winlaw, where while waiting outside the car I was attacked by the fellow who's food I shared. He had threatened for me to watch my back outside the rainbow, guess he wasn't kidding.
I locked myself inside Merika's car to escape being attacked. -
Being attacked again!
The guy who owned the shed, and the guy who saw me in the shed were also there ready to attack me if I didn't leave.
The guy who owned the shed thought I had stolen his dog, even though his dog had approached me... Merika knew all three of the people who were attacking me and she didn't understand how they could be so angry.
She agreed to drive me into Nelson where I got the rest of my stuff.
She offered to buy me a Greyhound ticket out of Nelson. -
Marika saves my life
Marika is a very kind soul, she purchased my greyhound ticket.
And gave Hamish $40 for his Yogurt and Rasberries that I shared... She paid for a $120 bus ticket for me to get home. -
Greyhound
I got on the greyhound around 7:30 on a trip back to Calgary and arrived back in my home town safely.