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)
For as long as human beings have been discovering the path to wholeness and connection within themselves, someone has wanted to put up signposts, detours, and toll booths on it.
On the roof we sit, observing clouds pass and birds fly by. There is more happening among us then meets the eye, however. Things that have been repressed for so long are bubbling to the surface. The Internet is simply another form of our mind, a mycelial network transmitting and receiving information at nearly lightspeed. It can be over-whelming! Where is your attention focused?
Exorcism - the act of driving out a dark spirit that has possessed a person or a place, by commanding it to leave in the name of a more powerful power, in our case the life of the Earth - this is one of the oldest of our human rituals. However, exorcisms are also embedded in the arts of our culture like little noticed but powerful micro-climates.
On Saturday, May 21, I had the most powerful and meaningful experience of my life. I witnessed The Rapture, and it was not at all what anyone fully imagined it would be.
Over the last several years, I have spiritually grown immensely. I learned to love and humbly respect all others more and more. My perception of others and Nature as separate from myself increasingly diminished.
I decided to write what could be my last blog on this planet today, only hours away from the earthly scheduled JC reunion. The raptures almost here is it? Well I think we might be jumping the gun a little early. While I still hold onto the possibility of the source returning to the lives of many who know it well, I truly believe any human prediction will be a lucky guess at best.
Announcing our doom and damnation? That’s as American as apple pie. We tell pollsters we believe in ghosts, angels and the Second Coming. The current style of apocalypses dates from the days of Jesus’ death 2000 years ago. The rapture was supposed to be hours away.
For the next seven months while Jenn builds her hypno-therapy practice in New York City, we are doing a kundalini awakening process. Exciting the third eye, while focusing on the nostrils, I thought of the "illuminati" symbol on the dollar bill.
I spent hours on making a video about this and then the program crashed and I lost it all.
Today, we live in an unprecedented sort of world—a reality completely inverted from any known in the historic past. Our world has been gutted of sense and consistency. Propriety, responsibility, even meaning itself have become jokes to exchange in the cynical dialogues that have replaced profound conversation.
There were hundreds of millions of Kindles and Nooks frozen in death, stuck on one page – “Why America Slept.” You can say one thing about us, we were a species that scribbled, texted, hologrammed and burst a blood vessel of pixels in the final years. Every last atrocity was broadcast virally. By 2015, every consumer could make a major feature film with a gadget fitted to the hand.
We have a schizophrenic feeling about water. We grow up with the loving mysterious frame of the blue lakes, of fluffy clouds and sunsets over oceans. Our youthful baptism grows into swimming and then into honeymooning on a white sand beach. We love water near us – how it seems to hold life in it.
To understand the true significance of the extraordinary world events that are unfolding around us, we must activate what Sat Yogis call our buddhi, our capacity for multidimensional integrative intelligence. When we do that, we become buddhas. Buddhas have access to the omniscient wisdom of the Akashic dimension and its unlimited storehouse of information.
Zombie movies and t.v. shows are a dime a dozen these days. People seem obsessed with the idea that one day, humanity will be wiped out by a virus that turns people into the undead, creating the central theme of most zombie-killing theatre today.
For millennia, we human beings lived in walled cities. That was where the power was. We were safe and warm inside the walls that kept the dark chaos of nature - out.
Wrote this on Yourtube News, a Ning site that is unfortunately going by the wayside like many other things due to lack of funding. It's hard to get people to pay for things past the initiatory price of the internet. But anyway, in order to preserve this post, I am re-creating it here.
The 'End' of the World..?
Posted by Riddle in a Rhyme on August 16, 2010 at 2:06pm
"Beyond the Shopocalypse, Part One" for Reality Sandwich, goes back to our basic faith. Good to do that once in a while, Amen? Tony Torn directs, Jonathan Phillips interviews. Savitri and I try to respond, and Lena Nighstar Talen is hidden mysteriously within the frame of the shot... And love the Coney footage, with the Mermaid Parade coming up soon...
I think of the global human-ecological dilemma as a scaled up model of "Musical Chairs." You walk in a circle around chairs in a zombie-like manner as music plays. When it abruptly stops everyone jumps for a chair, yet there’s an ever-diminishing number of chairs so someone gets literally assed-out.
"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
