Introducing the Fabulous Neutrinos...

Build rafts from scrap and travel the world, support your family by playing music on the street, and make the best of magical dog bites!

I was vaguely familiar with the band name "Flying Neutrinos" but thanks to the Metafilter links, I've been introduced to this amazing family. I plan on reading Poppa Neutrino's bio The Happiest Man in the World as soon as I can get my boot to Powells.


MORE THAN RAFTS, MORE THAN MUSIC (from the MostFacinating.com article)

The Neutrinos see their various raft projects as a model of what can be done with creativity, resourcefulness and effort; not necessarily money. They hope to make people aware of not just the potential for living on water, but also the potential for living outside of the commonly accepted norms. Their voluminous website offers many elaborations on these ideas. One section discusses "the four jailers," and how to escape them. The jailers are described as the four major forces that entrap people: landlords, bosses, mates, and the self. Betsy mentions that long ago, she and Poppa vowed to never take a job working for someone else. "We consider time freedom essential to the spiritual path."

Another section describes methods for reprogramming one's "inner software," and how to make positive contributions to the world. According to Betsy, the rafts, the band and other adventures have been "merely foils for our inner work," with the higher goal of creating more meaningful and fulfilling lives.

One doesn't have to directly participate in Poppa and Betsy's projects to live the Neutrino life. Their website says that anyone who stays true to their deepest desires and who lives by their own script is indeed a Neutrino. Poppa collectively refers to all people who live in this way as Neutrinoland. He says that Neutrinoland is "an idea whose time has not quite yet come," but he believes there is a growing need in the world for freer living. "Something terrible is happening in this country...the fascistic, cruel, demeaning nature...and it's because we don't have time. It's because we're all battling for space. We've become adversaries to each other, and once we get out of the space problem, then we can take the time to recuperate, rest and think."

Floating Neutrinos on Most Facinating
Poppa Neutrino in the New Yorker
Floating Neutrinos Site