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April 27, 2009
What is Evolver? How would you explain it to your Grandma or the day laborers waiting for work?
Why would you come to an Evolver Regional Event? What sorts of things are happening there that make you want to spend your time there?
If you were to put on an Evolver regional event what would it be?
If you were an Evolver coordinator what would your focus be? How would you build your community, how would you bring people together and why?
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Is Evolver to be presented
— Apr 28, 2009
Is Evolver to be presented to our community at large or is it to remain in a hothouse of sorts, reserved only for a select few?
Do we have something to offer our entire community?
Are we presenting information to the uninformed masses or are we collaborating and facilitating discussion among peers?
What can we offer to the deaf, elderly, and "disabled" of various degrees, are we reaching out to these people?
Are we considering the native populations of our area?
How about immigrants?
Will we become involved with legislation?
Peace,
t23
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http://riogrande-santafe.blogspot.com/
Not an easy task
— Apr 29, 2009
This isn't always so easy to describe. I feel that it's something people are being called to, but if not, it may be a tough thin to explain. The whole idea of bringing all aspects of transformational culture -- the frontiers of science, art, ecology, technology and consciousness into one space -- as we work together to create new possibilities of what our world can be.
all aspects of transformational culture
— Apr 29, 2009
I have noticed the difficulty in describing it as I have been trying to describe, I finally have to break it down to some basics and tell them I am getting an introductory news letter together with more of a description and a link.
I think it will make more sense as it gets going and people can see it. I do think it is a good process though to try to put it into words. Maybe someone here will have just the right idea to get the idea across.
I love impossible exercises . . .
one thing though that makes it stand out from other social networks is the face to face aspect. And what goes with that is the visionary goals of transformation, again not just talk. I think that really makes Evolver stand out among the other sites, as far as when one is describing it to someone who doesn't know what it is.
Peace,
t23
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http://riogrande-santafe.blogspot.com/
to add
— Aug 20, 2009
I know this is an old discussion but I just joined and I'm running around commenting everywhere (I love this site).
Personally, I think Evolver is something that needs to be kept between other evolved people...for now. The reason it's hard to describe to the average person is that this site isn't for the average person. I know that sounds kind of horrible and elitist, but this place is perfect for people who are really actively TRYING to do something good for everyone. Jonathan is right, it's really something that you're called to.
I have long since believed that there are some people who are more evolved than others, and those that are should see it as our responsibility to help the masses who are less evolved. Communing together here is a great way to trade tips, encourage each other and shine together, so that when we go out into the world we're better prepared to care for and guide the more spiritually or intellectually challenged. I really think we should just share Evolver with other people who are on our level, so that everyone here can benefit as much as possible, and to pay it forward to everyone else.
Peace and light.
leave them
— Aug 20, 2009
You cant run around feeling it is your "responsibility to help the masses who are less evolved". Remember they may not want to be helped and they won't be open to any alternative views. If you run around trying to "help" these people you are no different than the religious zealots running around trying to cram bibles down peoples throats. If it wasn't for these "masses who are less evolved" then we couldn't possibly be awake. We need the sleeping masses so we can view the opposite. You need to be more Buddha like in nature, ie "it is what it is", or more appropriately "we are what we are". It doesn't matter who is more or less "evolved". By saying that you or we are more evolved than anyone else is very arrogant and self righteous. Nobody is more or less "evolved" than anyone else. It's only the stories we attach to things that make things what we want them to be. At the end of the day events just are, we are the ones who make them relevant or insignificant with our attitudes and opinions (stemming from emotions). What is relevant to you is insignificant to somebody else, and vice versa. After all, who is to say you are right and they are wrong??
I got really pissed off when you wrote "I really think we should just share Evolver with other people who are on our level, so that everyone here can benefit as much as possible, and to pay it forward to everyone else". What gives you the right to dictate who can or can't use evolver? To me the more "less evolved" people that use evolver the better, because then it means the masses are slowly awakening. Why would you want to hog that for yourself? But then, I guess I am just attaching my story to what you wrote, and I need to take my own advice... It is what it is. Your comments disappoint me though. For somebody who is supposedly "awake", you don't come across very enlightened at all.
How change comes
— Aug 20, 2009
When I was a very young girl, about 19, my second year in college, the hippies from New York and California were just beginning to trickle into Memphis and become a presence on the campus of Memphis State University.
The boys I knew, from across the river Arkansas where I hailed from and the jock boys from Memphis, made fun of the hippies and their hair and dress and "ways". I went up to a hippie guy in the student union and lied that if people stopped getting haircuts my father wouldn't be able to afford to send me to college, he was a barber. He wasn't. I thought I was being amusing, and I must have appeared to show great disdain for these mutations of the status quo.
The guy just smiled at me. A half hour later he came over to where I was sitting with my friends and laughing about my stupid little smug prank. He handed me a paper cup full of change. He said:
"I took up a collection from my hippie friends to help you." He was very gentle about it, and smiled warmly. We both laughed at his gesture, which really made mine look lame. I understood that immediately, but this guy had such a cool, calm, non-judgmental way of showing me that I got this sudden zoom golly in my heart realizing how stupid it was to make this guy the enemy.
That one little exchange between my naive, young, inexperienced self and that young man who was a few years ahead of me in shedding some of our culture's most destructive shackles was an early window opening on how things not only needed to be different, but could actually be different. I could write my own script for my life. I could participate in writing the script for my planet . . . a much more fun and saner script.
Six months later, I was hanging with the hippies, and my horizons became much sunnier and broader.
When an old time is over
and a new time is still dust
not yet a star
Everything is possible . . .
--Millie Neon
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