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The Youth of Today
The media often paint a dark picture of today's youth, but T Stokes'
report on a recent English New Age Festival gives cause for optimism.
The current generation of leaders have left us embroiled in pointless
bloody war and on the brink of environmental catastrophe. By contrast
many young people share a constructive desire for positive improvement.
Big Chill New Age Festival 2007
by T Stokes
150 plus of Britain's top healers were invited to attend this years
Big-Chill August music festival held in the magnificent grounds
of Eastnoor castle, England, among the rolling Malvern hills, this
was the biggest and best yet.
The intensity of so many musical funsters of all ages gathered
so close, with the music, the laughter, the heat, and all clamped
tightly between the earth of Malvern's and the quickly changing
sky, produced an atmosphere which radiated an aura of intense spirituality,
to all those who gathered to "listen to the rainbow".
Many of the young see what a mess us adults have made of the world,
with needless wars on far off countries, the ready acceptance of
bombing, pollution, propaganda, with intentional global destruction,
with the politicians and religious leaders not listening and out
of touch with the electorate, and they want out. They see doctors
as just pill pushers for the drug companies, and they hunger for
real medicine, real politics and real live spiritual teachings,
which are from real people not from thousands of year old books.
Their only voice is their music, and music transcends all barriers
of race colour and religion, to these youngsters who see themselves
as disenfranchised, a weekend away with their own kind is an opportunity
not to be missed. They see political and religious parties as remote
elitist and divisive, and the young want no barriers between the
peoples of the New Britain, they share a unique ability in the bonding
process which puts us adults to shame.
Many of these youngsters saved for months for this weekend, some
on student loans, Many scrounged a small tent and a sleeping bag,
and headed off for what turned out to be an amazing weekend with
so many sampling from food stalls from all over the world, the sheer
range of clothes, toys and other buyable commodities was incredible,
the colourful carnival costumes, the sky lanterns, the feel from
the very ground itself was unforgettable.
The healing zone offered various therapies, including everything
from dietary advice, acupressure osteopathy and homeopathy to astrology
charts, and auric healing, for those sleeping on the ground the
massages were much
in demand, As was hangover cures, sunburn and mosquito bite potions.
For me as a holistic palmist, every kind of problem was seen and
aired that weekend, from a tourettes syndrome sufferer, student
debt, young love anxiety, workplace bullying, dietary worries to
those increasing numbers of
the young with self esteem issues. I almost felt the Malvern hills
awoke from their slumbers with the noise of
their laughter, the saying from my childhood, children should be
seen and not heard, Has been stifled, by the young who are demanding
a voice, and that their voices be heard, and music is just the start
of their communal voice,
the rainbow has also long been seen and not heard, But no more.
We ignore these rainbow children at our peril. For truly these
children of Aquarius are about to speak and take over and run the
world on new humanitarian lines, and they are from every colour
of the rainbow, Politicians can no longer divide up and breed for
hatred and war.
Just as when John F. Kennedy was killed people said "where
were you " ? So will it be said of the Big-Chill 2007. "where
were you " ? For me I am all festivalled out for now, but I
desperately hope for my next years invite.
T. Stokes palmist@fsmail.net
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