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Celebrating Nature, Culture, and Spirit
9/11 - Ten Years of Deception - by Paul Craig Roberts
In-depth observations on eye floaters – a challenge to ophthalmology - by Floco Tausin
Interview with Peter Gersten, the UFOlawyer, by John Wisniewski
new short novel - book review:
Gypsy Fire - by Liviu OlteanThe picaresque story (a short novel) of a young man from Romania who tries to start a new life in post-WWII Western Europe. His quest requires wit and guile, humility and humanity as he overcomes hardships and stereotypes to attain his goal. While learning how to be successful and happy, he also stumbles upon a neglected tragedy of the twentieth century, the holocaust of the Gypsies. From these experiences and events he not only learns how to deal with oppression and vicissitude, but also how to gain strength from adversity, how to fight to win against all odds.
“Hair standing on end”:
Prickle feelings in spirituality and holistic medicine
by Floco Tausin
Aries - Identity Reframe - Serve your Soul
by Guru Rattana
Updated and redesigned Alternative News and News Archive pages...
Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out.
Two interviews by John Wisniewski:
Improvisational music pioneer John Morgan Newbern
Paul Mason, author of The Life of The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Earth Day - 22 April 2011:
Three Things That You Can Do to Transform the Planet and Your Life
by Catriona McGregor (award-winning author, Partnering with Nature)
March 9, 2011: Dawn of the Unity Wave - by Carl Calleman, PhD
-- recalculates the end of the Mayan Calendar:
final phase, 9 March - 28 October 2011As of March 9, 2011, the ninth and highest wave of the Bolon Yokte Ku will be activated. It seems to me that the purpose of this particular wave of 13 x 18 = 234 days is to cap the entire evolution of the universe that so far has been propelled by the eighth lower waves. From what we know about the changing polarities of consciousness of the nine waves it will do so by providing energies that are conducive to the human beings cocreating unity consciousness.
Uranus in Aries: The Revolution of Consciousness - By Salvador Russo
The greatest revolution in human history begins March 11th, 2011 with the planet Uranus' entrance into the constellation of Aries. This is a pinnacle moment in human history that will come to be known as the Revolution of Consciousness. Unlike revolutions of old, this revolution will be centered in the hearts and minds of the men, women, and children that inhabit the planet Earth.
-- more astrology (March 2011 and beyond) from Dan Furst
The Divinity Pledge - Sue Nehme
David Wilcock interviews Graham Hancock (video): Setting History Free
Didgeriday - new music video from Strange Moon
Arab Revolution & the Mayan Calendar - Dr. Carl Calleman
Living Without Money - a new documentary by Line Halvorsen
What Gods Would Be Theirs? - a great new novel by Colin Shanafelt
Beautiful As You Are (video sound track by Strange Moon)
Makena video: slides and flute improvisation
Thirsty?
The gardens are beginning,
Growing from the darkest of places,
Stretching life into vast spaces.
The sun's rays gift breath.
Bringing greennesses to reality.
Knowing is finding water.
Roots penetrate deeply, sipping nectar,
Finding life, again, again.
- Ryan M. Anderson"The truth always passes through three stages; First, it is ridiculed, Second, it is violently opposed and finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Real Shift: not 2012, but 2011: now
New timing of Mayan Calendar points to 3/9/11 - 10/28/11 as Ninth Wave of Unity Consciousness
"The emanations from the singularities at the core of our universe and our galaxy, leading up to the 9th wave Universal consciousness and beyond provide a specific mechanism by which the positive timeline can be achieved – along which humanity shifts into non-dualistic, cosmic consciousness." - A. L. Webre
The Seeker's Manual: Aloneness, Connection and Freedom
Improvised music featuring Strange Moon
Flute and pennywhistle, group jams and solo improvisations:
Bamboo Grove, Green FireStrange Funk | Strange Yoga
Abyssinia
(featuring E. Neptune, flute)
All Night Blues
(featuring Axel on keyboards)... In mainstream political discourse and reporting today, the very word "conspiracy" has been co-opted by the official narrative. The term itself simply denotes planning in secret. What we can well imagine, though it is not revealed, is degraded to the status of fantasy. A plausible explanation, if it doesn't match the party line, is by default considered not fact but "theory." Yet conspiracy is the bread and butter of this series. With what intent?... read more
AltCulture Blog: The Story of Story
Maui Time: blog update | "Wailea" video
Let the wall fall into the moat
The civilization is in ruin
Use no force to correct things
But persevere in silence
The evil way is on the ascent
But it has no foundation
Within yourself the signs of tomorrow are ripenedalternative bumper stickers:
Emergency --> Emergence
S h i t --> S h i f t
Longing --> Belonging
Illusion --> Illumination
2013: How to Profit from the Prophets in the Coming End of the World
Book Review: Holotropic Breathwork, by Stan and Christina Grof
"But, ah, how the tides are turning. More and more of you are waking up, though some, still half-asleep, stagger across the deck as they watch the tempestuous storm of their world changing before them. The Controllers know that many of you are waking up—too many for their comfort.
It is, indeed, an interesting time to be alive!"Absolute Freedom: The Next Breath | True Speech | Natural Life | Music
Peak Oil Blog
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Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation - David McGowan, The Center for an Informed America
Tri Hita Karana Doctrine
In
accordance with Balinese Hindu philosophy, peace and tranquility are obtainable
in our lives only when we respect and observe the three harmonious relationships
known as the Tri Hita Karana Doctrine:
1. The Gods blessed life and created nature and all of its contents.
2. Nature offers sustenance to support the needs and activities of human beings.
3. Human beings have an obligation to establish a traditional village structure, to build temples in which to worship, to hold various ceremonies, to make daily offering, to preserve nature and to solve problems together.
Message from the Hopi People - People of Peace
We have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour and there are things to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in a good relation?
Where is your water?
Have you prepared your family?
Can you live from the Earth?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, and push off into the river, keep our eyes open, and our head above the water. See who is in there with you and Celebrate.
At this time in history, take nothing personally. Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over, Gather yourselves!
Banish the word ''struggle" from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. "We are the ones we've been waiting for..."
--The Elders, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona
Update
(spring 2006) from Hopi
How
to "Corrupt" the World
"The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants."
--Babatunde Olatunji
A New Story
--from Niles Eldredge, Dominion
The People came from the earth and were linked through the recesses of time with all other creatures. They were kin of the bacteria, the microscopic ones, the fungi, the plants, and the other animals. And they were nearest to the Apes: the orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees.
The
People, though, became self-aware and through time came to devise artifacts
and customs to help them live. In time, they left their ancestral home
and spread throughout the world. Everywhere they went they lived in and
were dependent upon their natural surroundings, which they acknowledged
openly.
Then the People came to control their own food supply. Everything changed. No longer at home in the local natural world, the People now lived in inner-directed settlements. They invented gods and declared dominion over all the natural world: the rivers and seas, the forests, the plains, the deserts, and the swamps.
The People prospered and their knowledge grew. But soon their numbers grew so great that they saw they had not, after all, truly left the natural world. They saw a limit to the natural resources, and to the production of their own food. They came to see that poisons of the waters, soils, and air threatened them. And they understood that the other creatures--their kin--were vital to their own survival.
The People acknowledged their true past and their newfound problems. They decided to use the very same tool that had brought them along so far: their cleverness. They saw that all creatures--including the People--face limitations and depend on the natural world.
The People decided to curb their population numbers. They determined to curtail environmental damage and the loss of other species. They decided to conserve the world's remaining ecosystems. And they embraced sustainable development, matching economic growth to the carrying capacities of their surroundings.
The People lived. And it was very good.
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