Neriah Lothamer is a cultural archivist and visionary activist. Since 1967 he has produced, promoted, and recorded alternative culture events. His background includes attending Catholic seminary and training in Neurolinguistic Programming, Nonviolent Communication and Ericksonian hypnosis. He is a coauthor of Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves as well as the author of a new book published in May 2005, entitled Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny, An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmament.

Neriah has facilitated encounter groups, consensus communities, Rainbow gatherings, rock and roll shows, and alternative festivals. His activist experiences include video recording, networking, publicity, and public speaking for causes including the Kent State University strikes, the Denver Moratorium on the Vietnam War, the Black Hills Alliance, resistance to the relocation of the Hopi-Dineh tribes, the Headwaters Alliance, and the California and Oregon Medical Marijuana and Hemp initiatives.

Born in Michigan in 1946, Neriah is the father of six children and grandfather of six. As a member of the “Boomer” generation he was born into the lower middle class affluent generation that boomed in the United States after World War II. He was exposed to television, movies, drive-ins, fast foods, consumerism, multi-media, mass education and a Catholic childhood, Neriah was the class valedictorian in eighth grade. He spent the next 2 years in a junior seminary of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in San Antonio. He returned to Colorado, finished high school and began college at the University of Colorado.

The Vietnam War got his attention and he began to get involved in the anti-war protests, helping in the nation-wide Kent State Strikes, he joined thousands on his campus in Boulder Colorado in shutting that university down. Participating in the Denver Moratorium on the war, Neriah began to learn how to organize. His interest in the alternative culture, led him into mysticism, communities, psychedelics, environmentalism, and festival organizing.

In 1972 Neriah went to the first Rainbow Family of Living Light Gathering of the Tribes in the wilderness outside of Granby Colorado. His whole life changed as saw 40,000 others like him who had hiked the 8 miles up to the gathering. He became a visionary on a Rainbow trail that led to facilitating many types of prayer gatherings but especially those like the Rainbow gatherings that stood on their First Amendment rights to peacefully assemble, pray for peace, petition the government for grievances, and address war and environmental issues. He began his archiving of the alternative culture with the gatherings and then fairs, festivals, political rallies; eventually recording rock and roll concerts.

Neriah has been in a band, owned and run a grassroots recording studio, engineered and mixed sound reinforcement for concerts, studio recorded and mixed many bands, live mixed 3-4 cameras while recording performances, and is developing a multimedia website based on the Global Awakening.

His interest in personal growth got him involved in leading encounter groups and facilitating retreats, workshops, and personal growth events. Neriah has given speeches on various causes as well as personal growth; he now speaks and writes of both and how politics and personal growth relate to the evolution of humanity. Neriah is unique in this field because his approach as a “non-expert”, just-common-sense person keeps the language down to earth about stuff everybody everyday now faces in our world. He shows what is happening to us and in our world, why and how it happens, and how to deal with it in our daily life. His experience gives him an insight into the real heart and soul of the problems in everyone’s life today.

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Neriah’s favorite hobby with electronic toys is Adobe Photoshop; he maks mystical computer collages of images and adds his own touch. He is combining images and poems together and plans on eventually releasing a book of them. To view some of his works click here:
Neriah's Artwork Photo Gallery or Slideshow of Neriah's Artwork