This is a very special year. It ends in lucky "11" -- which I feel signifies hope.
I am ready to create a magical, beautiful year. Please, feel free, feel hope, feel your creative energy surge. We can co-create this year to be the year we've always hoped for.
Peace (and a very, merry New Year to you [plural]),
L.
Here is the nascence of a theoretical treatise of sorts that I expect will be interminably ongoing. Please feel free to keep randomly checking it for expounded additions, tweeks, and other radical augmentations; and please excuse it's rough and probably error-ridden haphazardness (just for now), as I was pressed to upload what I had before a particular lecture.
So like everyone I know is talking about this mayan calendar thing and how the whole world is gonna collapse or something on 2012. At first I didn't believe it, but then after doing some research on the internet, like, OMG!!
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged saved my life, I think.
I was 22, finishing college, and was terrified that I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. Society was in shambles and no one cared! People talked about nonsense, politicians were de-evolving nations, cats and dogs, living together!
MapMaking is a continuing process. As we collectively go through this time of acceleration, many of us are changing and transforming in radical ways. Some of us are doing this consciously, some not so consciously. If we choose to change, the first step is to make it a conscious change.
We have the ability and capacity to change everything. We can use certain influences that have previously been against our own individual thought, i.e. television. It is becoming more commonly known that information, along with the power of individual choice are spreading like fire. We have the power to show the world, the collective, another reality.
I have been back from Ethiopia for just over 5 weeks now. I have begun to settle again into what I once thought of as normal and what I now think of as a damn interesting game of energy exchange.
This morning, I received this email from an Ethiopian priest, one of the first Ethiopians we met on our trip and one who overwhelmed us with his kindness and hospitality. An excerpt:
The backpacker inside of me wants to see it all, the philanthropist wants to help all who I encounter along the way, the prophet wants to share the learned truths, and the cynic wonders if any of it matters in the first place. Thus the quandary I often find myself in.
It is no mystery that what we place in our body has a great and profound relationship with our external world. Just like all living beings, our physical bodies require air, food, and water; it is the quality of these staples that determine our state of health and vitality, as well of course, as our mental state of well-being.
Salka Vida is a new community in the process of forming in Costa Rica. We just set up a network site to facilitate communication, answer questions, help build our connections and get things rolling:
"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
