RAVE- Peace, Love, Unity and Respect =)

[puredawn]

Okay, so immediately after leaving the Mormon Church I started Raving. I experimented with Ecstacy and LSD, Marijuana and others. Electronic music (and the drugs) took my consciousness to a different dimension, one in which I had never thought possible in fact.

This movement was the movement of the New Age Hippies and I'm wondering if any of you were a part of it?

I was a broken youth, lost and destroyed, my parents had disowned me (by heart, not law and we're making great progress now- 7 years later) and I had never felt accepted growing up. I hated high school, was completely opposed to popularity, in complete opposition to mainstream in fact. I found other "lost souls" in the rave scene. I found the similar wounded hearts of ostracization. We were the outcasts, finally found in the comfort of each other, finding God in the glory of the trance state, reconnecting with the Dionysus in each of us, realigned with the universe manifested as auditory beauty: MUSIC. (I am a musician and a poet. =)


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The ecstasy reminded us that we were all sprites, and faeries, loving creatures... LOVED creatures. The hardness of the Piscean age had pushed us to burrow so deeply into the sand, we'd forgotten what it felt like to feel so openly, for some they'd forgotten what it felt to feel at all. I'm not condoning drug use in ANY way but for me it was a part of my journey and nearly neccessarily so, for in a place of complete darkness, I found a flush of love, for a moment.

The problem as with all utopian concepts was CHANGE, drugs changed the authentic initial innocence, age hardened us, business corrupted us, dj's became distracted by egotistical fame, dancers lost in the distractions of pleasure. We don't call them Raves anymore.

The motto for the Rave Scene was the acronym P.L.U.R. Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. I think, honestly, that this movement is a very important key in the movement of the Indigo/Aquarius Movement. What do you beautiful people think?

[StrayLight]

The problem as with all utopian concepts was CHANGE, drugs changed the authentic initial innocence, age hardened us, business corrupted us, dj's became distracted by egotistical fame, dancers lost in the distractions of pleasure. We don't call them Raves anymore.

The motto for the Rave Scene was the acronym P.L.U.R. Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. I think, honestly, that this movement is a very important key in the movement of the Indigo/Aquarius Movement. What do you beautiful people think?

I like to think of the Rave movement as one of the embryonic stages of where we were, and how we are evolving as Indigos. I don't necessarily think it is a bad thing that the culture has changed. In the case of evolution and maturing with our senses and intellect, it is certainly not something to regard as a negative direction. The Rave movement was the groundbreaking for many Indigos, and in some cases, it took a chemical influence to awaken what was latent in our depths. Once freed, we danced out of the music and lights provided and more importantly, started making our own. Now our stage is the world...

[emma]

Peace love and unity, feeling the love was all it was about. Then greed took over, again, we should not be allowed to have fun without someone profiting from it or being in control of it!! Interesting fact Ecstasy 19th least harmful drug - Alcohol 3rd.

But to have been there was something I am truly glad not to have missed...

[reason]

SO who wants to throw a rave?

[jdxad]

I've been with multiple groups that fall under a category we call Pure PLUR. No drugs needed, no judgmental dancers, no words in the music. ANY type of music. We danced for the level you can reach dancing. Dancing shamelessly. I don't think its all gone. The innocence is till there in some areas.
As far as connecting it with the transition, I don't know. I never really tried to connect the two. I've always realized the potential in the atmosphere at a nice rave, but I never imagined how that could help anyone. Outside of being like, for lack of a better word, a mind cleanser. After a rave I feel clean again. New again and ready to take on the world. Especially a long one. So maybe raves help us to cope with the many times we realize that we're not quite like other people. Not that people on other energy levels aren't equally important, but the fact that we tend to be more sensitive to our surrounding leads us to build up emotion. And sometimes we need an outlet before we reach rage or desperation. It could be like indigo therapy sessions. After all I feel there have always been indigos. Popping up all through history. And even though they dance wasn't always called rave, its been there too.

[MiamiSound]

I loved the scene. I hated the big retarded baggy UFO pants and the visors.

You would find the New Rave scene interesting.
its more about meaning in life.

[Dannii]

Im still raver! lol, its my 10 year anniversary this year since my first time in the middle of a forest! woop!

[Dannii]

and yes, ive always thought there was a connection between them. the way of life and the energy you can feel from the others reminds me of the indigos and is hard to put into words.

[Satisfiction]

My Story:
I got into the scene late (23) after leaving the Christian Church. I was taught and brought into the scene with the P.L.U.R. perspective, though this kind of died out due to a few things that was happening in New Zealand at the same time*. I went into it with the attitude of opening up my mind to new things, feelings and perspectives, and had a brilliant time until my rave friends group broke up.

I tried to continue with other friends, but they were not of the true P.L.U.R. attitude and I quickly sank into the darker side of the rave scene, drug abuse - doing it just to get 'high', rather than the mind-opening experience it had once been. I eventually left it all behind after almost dying from a drug over dose.

It was an amazing step forward in my journey and really pushed me into seeking God and spirituality on my own steam. But I would warn people about the darker side, and pray that people choose their friends wisely, always give drugs the respect they deserve and if you are going to take drugs, take them for the reason to expand and enlighten their mind, rather than to get high.

*1. The lowering of the drinking age to 18 lead to an influx of newbies on the scene without anyone to lead them in the practise of P.L.U.R.
2. The introduction of legal party pill highs which were BZP based and did not give the loved up high that MDMA does
3. The change in the main music played from vocal and uplifting trance to house
All culminated in quite a shift in the NZ party scene.

[h0bby1]

i know the rave movment a lot, i have lots of friend in it, and i know some DJ and sound systems =) i never miss one when there are some around =)

[h0bby1]

i don't come from any church thought lol i don't know any ravers or sound systeme linked to any church either lol but well the feeling is the same

[Dannii]

yep! i still get my fluffy boots out and my whistle! i cant imagine my life without music. it just wouldnt work

[thenomadicartist]

I think that the RAVE movement, as respectable as it is, is honestly an Indigo mockery.

The "hippies" who drop acid to "enlighten themselves", to "become open-minded" are actually kind of trying to become what we already are, don't cha think?

I've never done LSD, so I am sorry if I sound ignorant. I am, however, a frequent cannabis user and have experimented with morning glory, amphetamines, and plenty of other pills.

I've talked to hippies, and they seem to connect with me. They think that they have the same mindset as them, and at times I do wonder if I do...

but they just don't have that little life force that I have. Mine is natural. Theirs is synthesized, it's been molded into it overtime and drugs.

Don't mistake yourself as one of them. They are amazing people, but they aren't one of us.

[Amur]

Well I was in church and they had better parties than at a rave because of peoples egoistical nature or something or then it was that SOCIETY GOVERMENTAL MEDIA WASHIE WASHIE IMAGE BULLSHIT that everyone wears to 'be cool' or something that kinda ruined it for me but I got a bit disappointed, though there's been great raves and great after parties in alot of dimensions

[raveheart]

After raving for 12 years, I have found no other place on this earth that I can feel more at home, than at a Rave. The scene has changed but it's purpose still remains the same to this day. My life has forever changed since my first event and I can honestly say it is also what triggered the "awakening" within me. Some of the best moments of my life have been sitting in the stands at the coliseum and watching the energy flow over the crowd like a soft colored wave, a blanket of light. One cannot explain the feeling to someone who has not been and had the "experience".

[{{d*@*b}}]

Ravers aren't hippies. Totally different movement.

I started going to raves in 93 when I was 14. It played a major part in my development as a person. There is nothing like what happened in those days anymore. It was systematically elliminated because the youth culture was tapping into something the people in control didn't like. I think it is a very particular trait of my generation to escape and create a new society. I have also been involved in the underground hardcore punk scene and it was a similar movement. The young people at the time yearned for a healthier society and activley went about it. Then all the stereotyping and comercialism took hold. I saw how the police would shoot rubber bullets and detonate tear gas on peaceful people trying to come together to celebrate life. I saw the prices raise to thirty bucks a ticket to go to some corperate sponsered b.s. I saw people start to accept the stereotypes and ruin themselves with drugs. I had friends die of over doses and get lost in a world of meth and coke. It wasn't really about that at first. It wasn't about looking back to the sixties either. It was about developping a positive vision of an independant future and using technology for positive, spiritual, purposes.It wasn't about k-holes and ufo pants at first. It wasn't about clothes and drugs. Unfortunately now in NYC with the rave act and caberet laws it has become impossible to have a real rave anymore. The last real one I went to was in Chicago in 2001. I miss those types of events and the energy around that movement.

[Dannii]

Bump

[johnstevens]


Interesting stuff.