Terence McKenna - “I believe that the lost secret of human emergence..the undefined catalyst that took a very bright monkey and turned that species into a self-reflecting dreamer..that catalyst has to be sought in these alkaloids in the food chain that were catalyzing higher states of intellectual activity.”
In a world that is plagued by the decisions of yesterday and the ongoing struggles of today anything that is making sincere efforts towards cultivating a sustainable future is always worth sharing. One such effort is that which is taking place at SHFT.com.
Open your heart, discover who you really are! We are offering special prices for the month of DECEMBER, for the 16TH-18TH, and the 30TH- JAN 1ST. NOW is the time for transformation! Share this experience with us!(more)
The earth can be seen as a meta-organism composed of super-organisms, such as human beings. We host somewhere between 2000-2500 different species, most of which reside in our guts. Females have more diversity than males, and those extra species tend to live in the birth canal where one of their functions is to coat babies as they are born.
This little film shows Tuesday's simulcast between the London and New York OCCUPY communities. I flew out to the encampment at St. Paul's Cathedral, and we sang the 99% song together, across the Atlantic - what a wonderful moment! That made the whole London visit worth it - when Londoners held up a sheet to show the Stop Shopping Choir from Wall Street.
Join critically acclaimed author, KtB editor, and OccupyWriters.com founder Jeff Sharlet and the unstoppable evangelists of anti-consumerism Reverend Billy and Savitri D for a discussion about religion and politics in the Occupy movement and beyond.(more)
On September 24 I decided to do my small part to Occupy Wall Street. This was during the time in the protest when they were concerned about having enough food and enough dietary variety. After a brief e-mail exchange with someone I decided upon a course of action.
There's a term for the present American system: "Totalizing." That means that consumerism/militarism comes all the way across the landscape - into every nook and cranny. It kills all the smaller systems, like the neighborhood economies, the gift-economies.
Let's get up from our computer, get out of our cars, come down from whatever fundamentalism keeps our America old and violent and profit-taking - and go down to the public square that sits there covered with pigeon shit and the shadow of a soldier on a horse - and sing the 1st Amendment! Start our culture over! REVOLUJAH!
Ancient myth actually allowed for anomalies like Zombies, Vampires, Giants ect... Of course they didn't know it as myth, no because of the fact that ancient people (rural people especially) were unaware of the reality model handed down by The Romans, these apparent fairytales were a part of life, facts.
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense! When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won't be separate powers anymore.
Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? … are things so bad?
Previewing the Women's Worlds conference, I interviewed Eternia ("Canada's dopest female MC" according to Exclaim! mag). We talked about social change, vulnerability and being able to open up and heal ('hurt people hurt people') but also about braggadocio and 'going to war'. And a bit about 'gender characteristics'. See the video below (interview mixed w/ her music).
What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, this is now an American fact of life. Yes - corporate researchers have discovered a circuit in our brains that actuates our shopping.
Very few of us know how much we must change. We talk of climate change but not human change. We look through a window and envision a completely different vision of life on this Earth. And then that window actually is a door. We open it and we walk to our first task – and that might be gentle sustaining love, or a shout of horror.
Sometimes people come up to me and ask “The Church of Earthalujah...what is that? Is it a political rally? Is it a real church? Is it a comedy sketch? What is it?!”
"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
