For the paperback edition of his new book Life Inc., Douglas Rushkoff asked me to write a couple of pages about Evolver. Here's a draft of the text. It'd be great to get your comments, especially as we're trying to refine our language for describing Evolver for the launch of the Evolver Social Movement.
I'm working on some of the text for the Evolver Social Movement, and in it, I'm writing some of the things we want to accomplish, such as sustaining/improving Evolver and RS, putting on Evolver festivals and conferences, creating complimentary currency systems, supporting regional communities, and doing partnerships on campaigns important to us (like preserving the rain forest).
It's probably just the end of winter, but today I feel so hopeful and nostalgic for what's to come. Does that make any sense? Can one be nostalgic for the future?
Lately on this site there's been so much talk of money and logistics, planning ahead. It has to happen, but it often feels so harsh to me. And I do have $5.00, by the way.
Don't tell me this doesn't hit home. If you don't laugh at yourself at least once, you haven't been paying attention.
Me, I laughed twice: the second time because this shows beyond the shadow of a doubt we're making more of an impact than Official Culture likes to admit.
The quote on the Evolver home page says, “Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for.” - Hopi Elders. I love this quote. It must be part of the Evolver network’s intention or it surely wouldn’t be quoted on this homepage.
I want to spark a radically new approach to that experience known as joy. And to start a project with you that will give us all the best – and surest ways – to get there.
Do you ever feel disconnected from the world? Like every force in the universe is steadily moving against you, forcing you in the other direction? Thats how I felt this weekend. I felt as if doing the same old shit, following the same path over and over, was leading me down the wrong path.
Even when i was around my friends, I was alone. I felt so cold, empty.
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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The other day I had a good friend ask me, "Why the fuck do you care so much about the people in the world, or for that matter what happens in the world?"
Regardless of the pervading trends of narcissistic nihilism, the necessity and need for the participation in Beauty and Great Art has never gone away. As expressed by the Symbolist writer G.-Albert Aurier in the early 1890’s,
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
In most ancient cultures, there was no separation between shaman and stargazer. In my own desire to synthesize the languages of astrology and shamanism, I was drawn early on to the models of Shamanic Astrology and Evolutionary Astrology. Both perspectives focus on the karmic dynamics and evolutionary intent of the soul.
