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Erin Brockovich Talks 'Last Call At The Oasis' And Water Contamination Issues

Rocky — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:25:38 GMT

Erin Brockovich Talks 'Last Call At The Oasis' And Water Contamination Issues
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/erin-brockovich-last-call-at-the-oasis_n_1464370.html

Last Call at the Oasis - Official Trailer - In select theaters 5/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EtVA8b-lzw

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Gifting Gaea for Beltane

libramoon — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:19:13 GMT

Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine #22

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

In celebration of Earth, our Gifting Gaea has emerged.
Share our Gift; Enjoy our Earth; Blessed Be

Sense caressing meadow
Green grain and brilliant petals
Lovely buzzing, lively hopping
Warm, yellow light at play
Luscious wash of pleasure
Fragrant, rolling, mellow
Miles of flowering moments
Celebrate today

Imagine May Day

Brazen witches fly, legends say,
dark Moon nights; arise, stealthy, silent
in their joyous revelry.
Bonded to Earth's creation;
learning at mother's breast
to manage life's gifts and lessons.

Historic Man may proclaim, may murder
for fealty, to swear allegiance to
their hunt's command.
They may elevate their One True King
to kneel and obey. They may employ
counting measure, ceremony and sacrifice,
taunting and torture or other trials
thus finding for each loyal swan a pond
to plunder, to parade in royal colour,
their place of pride.

Cruelty descends, more master than tactic;
it is the enemy of joy, of flavor,
bonding, works of love and honor.

Yet men, on real ground, work companions
to soil and rain, engineers trained to each
moment's urgencies, philosophers of stone and mud,
reason and toil, persist. Their sinew and bone feed
the ages, build clay and richness on which
wealth relies.

Wisdom knows the sweat of practiced movement,
flexible to unexpected obstacles, able to modulate
quiet or loud as the crowd ebbs
or grows in credulity.
Where wisdom seeps through, counters
prevailing poisons, invigorates blood to nourish
minds and hearts, look there for blessing.

Arise, lovers! Bring forth better days,
ours to play in open revelry,
neighbors enjoying shared labors and our fruit.
Accept truth of magic; imagine life into this world.

Beltane 2012

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"Gifting Gaea" has emerged

libramoon — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:20:36 GMT

Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine #22

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com

On Earth Day (April 22) 2012, our Gifting Gaea has emerged.
Share our Gift; Enjoy our Earth; Blessed Be

Sense caressing meadow
Green grain and brilliant petals
Lovely buzzing, lively hopping
Warm, yellow light at play
Luscious wash of pleasure
Fragrant, rolling, mellow
Miles of flowering moments
Celebrate today

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama : introduction, current international schedule, resources

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:13:00 GMT

Keywords : HH The Dalai Lama, public Dalai Lama talks on world peace, Dalai Lama resources and current schedule, Nobel Peace Prize, universal human [ secular ] ethics, deep permaculture ethics.

Summary: Provided here is (1) the current tour schedule for His Holiness the Dalai Lama [ for California Massachusetts, New York, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, India, Germany ], (2) an introduction to the life and work of HH the Dalai Lama, (3) book references and resources, and (4) curriculum vitae.

HH the Dalai Lama:
“Never give up.
No matter what is going on.
Never give up.
Develop the heart.
Be compassionate.
Not just to your friends but to everyone.
Work for peace in your heart and in the world.
Work for peace and I say again:
Never give up.
No matter what is happening.
No matter what is going on around you.
Never give up.”

Introduction:

All Our Relations. Mitakuye Oyasin.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is one of the pivotal figures of our time. He is, more than anyone else that can be presently named, a world citizen and world teacher.

His work in ethics, human rights,world peace, psychology and education, Buddhist teaching and East West relations, is second to none in our generation.

In addition to a Nobel Peace Prize and the US Congressional Gold Medal, HH the Dalai Lama has received scores of honorary Doctorates ( in Laws, Philosophy, Human Letters, Divinity, Buddhist Philosophy, and so forth ) from major teaching centers worldwide. These include Columba, Brandeis, Universite de Paris, Benaras Hindu University, Hebrew University Jerusalem, U California San Francisco, and Rissho University Tokyo. He is an honorary citizen of Canada, of Roma Italia and so forth.

He speaks worldwide and has published more than seventy two books.

He is one of the most respected and revered persons on the the planet. On one visit to New York City some years back, forty thousand people turned out to see the Dalai Lama in the park.

When the Dalai Lama give the Highest Yoga Tantra initiation ( abhisekha ) of Kalacakra, the attendees sometimes number 100,000 or even 200,000. HH the Dalai Lama has given this initiation thirty times in different parts of the world. In addition to being a master of the Great Seal ( Mahamudra ) lineage of Buddhist tantra, he also gives initiations of the Great Perfection ( Mahasandhi, Atiyoga ), for example in London, in San Francisco, and Paris.

You can see him this year at public talks in several areas, such as California, Massachusetts, New York, Europe, and India. A current schedule is provided below.

I have seen HH the Dalai Lama give extremely worthwhile empowerments in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and represented him to the State Legislature of Hawaii in 1993, where he was invited to give a talk, and did. I have listened carefully to him conferencing with Hawaiian elders in public and was struck by the care and attention he gave in listening to others, and in asking questions.
HH the Dalai Lama has written extremely important books on psychology and ethics, and I recommend these to the general public for self-help purposes, and also recommend some of his books to those committed to public service, especially in the area of multiculturalism, international human rights work, and the international Green Party movement.

Because of the profound confluence of modern events, global economics, environmental issues and human cultures, the importance of broader and deeper human co-operation becomes more and more important.
To obtain a broader and clearer understanding and principles for working with these most important issues, studying the secular works of the Dalai Lama is of great value and importance.

Similarly, His Holiness is one of the few people who can and does speak for the diverse Buddhist populations and traditions worldwide. He has taught senior Japanese tantric Buddhist gurus of the Shingon lineage in their country, for instance. His Holiness is a paragon of the Buddhist renunciate order ( bhiksu-sangha ), of Buddhist scholarship, and of the Mahayana Great Way lineages, all of which are profoundly universal.

This teacher is one of our very very best, be you a psychologist or academic, a diplomat, a tantric yogi, or a Buddhist practitioner. He has completely revolutionized Buddhist teaching, parts of popular modern culture, the understanding of international diplomacy and so forth in our lifetime.

This is someone who actually embodies many of the key principles of the United Nations treaties on human rights, and also the key Buddhist Mahayana principles and teachings. It is important to note that the Mahayana Buddhist principles and the principles of the UN human rights work are essentially identical. There are universal principles that take us all forward, individually and together. In Buddhist Sanskrit these terms are, for instance pratitya-samutpada and karma. Now you know.

The final point I wish to put forward to all is this: the Dalai Lama believes in all of us as people who *already* have sensitive human hearts that can be educated and developed, and he shows all of us a very real and practical way forward, a way based on self-understanding, listening and mutual respect, and patient co-operation.

You could do worse, and please remember that due to impermanence, this elder teacher will not live forever. It is not clear how anyone anywhere can replace him.

I see no real alternative to respect and co-operation for the common good, because we are one world. For this broader and deeper reason, and not specifically because he is a Buddhist guru, I support this teacher. He was not allowed by their government to attend a recent peace conference in South Africa, but he is available to you, and he is here for All Our Relations. May he live long and may his brilliant consciousness reach many many more.

Thank you,
KT, Rio Earth Summit Green Party organizer and so forth

In partial fulfillment of my formal Mahayana teaching responsibilities.
Sarva mangalam! Siddhi rastu!
[ May it be auspicious! May there be accomplishment! ]

John David Bartoe, Challenger 8 NASA space mission, July 1985:
“As I looked down, I saw large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending across several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of several continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all of this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.”

Some of the following materials are taken from
http://www.dalailama.com/
Published books and multimedia materials are available at libraries throughout the world, and from Snow Lion Publications at
http://www.snowlionpub.com

From the official web site:

“Universal Recognition

“His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a man of peace. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet. He has consistently advocated policies of non-violence, even in the face of extreme aggression. He also became the first Nobel Laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems.

“His Holiness has travelled to more than 62 countries spanning 6 continents. He has met with presidents, prime ministers and crowned rulers of major nations. He has held dialogues with the heads of different religions and many well-known scientists.

“Since 1959 His Holiness has received over 84 awards, honorary doctorates, prizes, etc., in recognition of his message of peace, non-violence, inter-religious understanding, universal responsibility and compassion. His Holiness has also authored more than 72 books.

“His Holiness describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk.”

“Three Main Commitments in Life
“Firstly, on the level of a human being, His Holiness first commitment is the promotion of human values such as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment and self-discipline. All human beings are the same. We all want happiness and do not want suffering. Even people who do not believe in religion recognize the importance of these human values in making their life happier. His Holiness refers to these human values as secular ethics. He remains committed to talk about the importance of these human values and share them with everyone he meets.

“Secondly, on the level of a religious practitioner, His Holiness second commitment is the promotion of religious harmony and understanding among the world's major religious traditions. Despite philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. It is therefore important for all religious traditions to respect one another and recognize the value of each other's respective traditions. As far as one truth, one religion is concerned, this is relevant on an individual level. However, for the community at large, several truths, several religions are necessary.
“Thirdly, His Holiness is a Tibetan and carries the name of the Dalai Lama. Tibetans place their trust in him. Therefore, his third commitment is to the Tibetan issue. His Holiness has a responsibility to act as the free spokesperson of the Tibetans in their struggle for justice. As far as this third commitment is concerned, it will cease to exist once a mutually beneficial solution is reached between the Tibetans and Chinese.

However, His Holiness will carry on with the first two commitments till his last breath.”

Upcoming Schedule
2009
Lecture in Santa Barbara, CA, USA on April 24: His Holiness will give a lecture on The Nature of Mind organized by the University of Santa Barbara at the UCSB Events Center. Contact Website: www.religion.ucsb.edu/dalailama/
Public Talk in Santa Barbara, CA, USA on April 24: His Holiness will give a public talk on Ethics for Our Time organized by the University of Santa Barbara at the UCSB Events Center. Contact Website: www.religion.ucsb.edu/dalailama/
Public Talk in Berkeley, CA, USA on April 25: His Holiness will give a public talk on Peace Through Compassion organized by the University of California, Berkeley at the Greek Theater. Contact Website: www.berkeley.edu

Public Talk in Boston, MA, USA on April 30: His Holiness will give a public talk to the Harvard University Community on Educating the Heart organized by Harvard University at the Memorial Church. Contact Website: www.harvard.edu
Inauguration of The Dalai Lama Center on April 30: His Holiness will inaugurate The Dalai Lama Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by giving a talk on Ethics and Enlightened Leadership. Contact Website: www.thecenter.mit.edu
Panel Discussion in Boston, MA on May 1: His Holiness will participate in a panel discussion on Meditation and Psychotherapy – Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom organized by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education at Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Contact Website: www.cme.med.harvard.edu/index.asp?SECTION=CLASSES&ID=00292525&SO=Y
Teaching in Boston, MA on May 2: His Holiness will give a teaching in the morning on What Is Buddhism & Commentary on The Four Noble Truths organized by the Tibetan Association of Boston at the Gillette Stadium, Foxboro. Contact Website: www.bostontibet.org
Public Talk in Boston, MA on May 2: His Holiness will give a public talk in the afternoon on The Path to Peace and Inner Happiness organized by the Tibetan Association of Boston at the Gillette Stadium, Foxboro. Contact Website: www.bostontibet.org
Public Talk in New York, NY on May 3: His Holiness will participate in a conversation with Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and moderated by Pico Iyer on Wisdom & Compassion for Challenging Times and organized by The Tibet Fund at The Town Hall. Contact Website: www.tibetfund.org

Teaching in New York, NY on May 4: His Holiness will give a teaching on The Quintessence of Compassion organized by The Tibet House at The New Beacon Theater. Contact Website: www.tibethouse.org
Public Talk in Albany, NY on May 6: His Holiness will give a public talk on Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times organized by the World Ethical Foundations Consortium at the Albany Palace Theater. Contact Website: www.worldethicalfoundations.org

Teaching in Copenhagen, Denmark from May 30 & 31: His Holiness will give a day and a half teaching on Nagarjuna's Commentary on Bodhicitta (jangchup semdrel) & Kamalashila's The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa) at the Bella Center. Contact Website: www.dalailama.dk
Public Talk in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 31: His Holiness will give a public talk on Peace Through Inner Peace at the Bella Center. Contact Website: www.dalailama.dk

Public Talk in Reykjavik, Iceland on June 2: His Holiness will give a public talk on the topic on Values, Attitude and Happiness at the Laugardalsholl Sporting Arena. Contact Website: www.dalailama.is

Teaching in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on June 4: His Holiness will give a teaching on Shantideva’s Chapter 6 on Patience from A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life at the Rai Congress Center. Contact Website: www.dalailamanederland.nl
Public Talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on June 4: His Holiness will give a public talk on The Power of Compassion At A Turbulent Time at the Rai Congress Center. Contact Website: www.dalailamanederland.nl

Teaching in Kaza, H.P., India from July 10 to 12: His Holiness will give three-day teachings at the request of the Sakya Monastery in Kaza. On July 10 His Holiness will give a Buddhist teaching (topic yet to be decided). On July 11 and 12 His Holiness will confer the Avalokiteshvera Initiation (chenresig wangchen).

Teaching in Frankfurt, Germany on July 30 & 31: His Holiness will give a day and a half teaching on Kamalashila's The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa). On the morning of July 31 he will confer an Amitabha Empowerment (opakmey jenang). Contact Website: www.dalailama-frankfurt.de

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
[ University Aula, Oslo, 10 December 1989 ] :
Your Majesty, Members of the Nobel Committee, Brothers and Sisters.
I am very happy to be here with you today to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. I feel honored, humbled and deeply moved that you should give this important prize to a simple monk from Tibet I am no one special. But I believe the prize is a recognition of the true value of altruism, love, compassion and non-violence which I try to practice, in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha and the great sages of India and Tibet
I accept the prize with profound gratitude on behalf of the oppressed everywhere and for all those who struggle for freedom and work for world peace. I accept it as a tribute to the man who founded the modern tradition of non-violent action for change Mahatma Gandhi whose life taught and inspired me. And, of course, I accept it on behalf of the six million Tibetan people, my brave countrymen and women inside Tibet, who have suffered and continue to suffer so much. They confront a calculated and systematic strategy aimed at the destruction of their national and cultural identities. The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated.
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and is concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature. The great changes that are taking place everywhere in the world, from Eastern Europe to Africa are a clear indication of this.
In China the popular movement for democracy was crushed by brutal force in June this year. But I do not believe the demonstrations were in vain, because the spirit of freedom was rekindled among the Chinese people and China cannot escape the impact of this spirit of freedom sweeping many parts of the world. The brave students and their supporters showed the Chinese leadership and the world the human face of that great nation.
Last week a number of Tibetans were once again sentenced to prison terms of upto nineteen years at a mass show trial, possibly intended to frighten the population before today's event. Their only 'crime" was the expression of the widespread desire of Tibetans for the restoration of their beloved country's independence.
The suffering of our people during the past forty years of occupation is well documented. Ours has been a long struggle. We know our cause is just Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred. We are trying to end the suffering of our people, not to inflict suffering upon others.
It is with this in mind that I proposed negotiations between Tibet and China on numerous occasions. In 1987, I made specific proposals in a Five-Point plan for the restoration of peace and human rights in Tibet. This included the conversion of the entire Tibetan plateau into a Zone of Ahimsa, a sanctuary of peace and non-violence where human beings and nature can live in peace and harmony.
last year, I elaborated on that plan in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament I believe the ideas I expressed on those occasions are both realistic. and reasonable although they have been criticised by some of my people as being too conciliatory. Unfortunately, China's leaders have not responded positively to the suggestions we have made, which included important concessions. If this continues we will be compelled to reconsider our position.
Any relationship between Tibet and China will have to be based on the principle of equality, respect, trust and mutual benefit. It will also have to be based on the principle which the wise rulers of Tibet and of China laid down in a treaty as early as 823 AD, carved on the pillar which still stands today in front of the Jokhang, Tibet's holiest shrine, in Lhasa, that "Tibetans will live happily in the great land of Tibet, and the Chinese will live happily in the great land of China".
As a Buddhist monk, my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. Although I have found my own Buddhist religion helpful in generating love and com¬passion, even for those we consider our enemies, I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
With the ever growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things. This understanding is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive action on the pressing global concern with the environment.
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.
As we enter the final decade of this century I am optimistic that the ancient values that have sustained mankind are today reaffirming themselves to prepare us for a kinder, happier twenty-first century.
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human under-standing and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
Thank you.

[ end posting ]

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Call to Submit: "Gifting Gaea" Emerging Visions #22

libramoon — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:57:10 GMT

EmergingVisions#22 - Gifting Gaea

Gift the Goddess with your most mind and heart opening art
Embrace Her with our beauty

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2010/08/submission-guidelines.html

Get them in by early April 2012 (the Year of Prophecies)

Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine
http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/

make it happen

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Sunrise Awakening in Cherating

Ariel — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:45:28 GMT

I'm reposting this message as I can't see it when I try to link to it, and it didn't seem to "take" when I sent it. Apparently there have been 3 replies, but I can't read those either. I haven't been in tribe for a long time... perhaps I can't use it for some reason.

As I was walking the beach at sunrise here in Cherating, I was asking myself how did I end up in Malaysia, after falling out of teaching in China, falling out of helping my mother in the U.S., falling out of teaching in Saudi Arabia, falling out of one system after another, until I ended up at this beach in Malaysia, unable and unwilling to work for anyone else any more. I call it falling out of systems, not failing to thrive, although it probably sure looks like that to most people... unable to put up with the manipulations, the old systems of thinking, the exploitation, the lies.

So I asked the great universal spirit, what do you want from me? How can I serve you? There must be a reason why I can no longer continue in the old systems. Lo and behold, I was given an answer that came up through the rocks in the sand that looked like the jagged top of a great dragon buried below. I was given an answer by the trees that towered above me, and their roots hanging over the stones below. I was given an answer by the clouds in the sky, the sun rising, the water reflecting it all.

I would devote myself to holding events to celebrate the sacred year of 2012... on summer solstice, fall equinox, and the big one at winter solstice at 11:11. I would gather lightworkers at the beach here to do harmonic overtoning in a circle to create a cone of light that would tap into the crystal capstones of the pyramids generating the power grid here on this planet to shift humanity's consciousness into multidimensional awareness.

I invite other people to do the same at the beaches, on the mountains, and all the energy spots across the world. Let us have a harmonic convergence of 2012, a new earth summit, a gathering of Gaia's tribes. We will create a massive medicine wheel all over the world. The time has come. If you resonate with this message, and want to work with me on creating a clearinghouse of 2012 events, please contact me.

I invite anyone else who wants to drop out to come to this beach in Cherating where it is possible to stay in a little hut to yourself for about $3 U.S. a day. We'll find sponsors, we'll stage happenings, we'll get some money flowing in one way or another. Gaia is calling me. Can you hear her calling, too?

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new blog concept and experiment

malcolm — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:42 GMT

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Get angry and make a difference

Gerard — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:29:50 GMT

http://www.amnesty.org.au/landing/comments/27476/?utm_medium=email-sf&utm_source=2011wrapup&utm_content=link2

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What David Sees and Goodbye and Love to All

bearsky — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:05:02 GMT

My own anger and frustration of living here in what in my own mind now I cannot help but think of as the end times begins to bubble over like severe acid reflux. I feel strongly that it is past time to at least say it like it is. What is happening right in front of our eyes is that our murder is being prepared. We ourselves do the prep work day in and day out. Like one of those gangsters movies where they make the guy dig his own grave out in the woods before popping him in the head and pushing him in. There is no conceivable reason that our government does not want us to hoard some large amount of food for emergencies other than a very simply, straight forward and evidently “unthinkable” reason: our government wants us to die. FEMA joined with this unholy and unimaginative “Homeland Security” Agency (Orwell not rolling over in his grave, maybe groaning miserably and thinking, “you know, I was kind of hoping that I was wrong?)

American people - I am not insane not even one little bit and I beg you to take stock of your position because you are in extraordinary danger. You have been fooled and used and your very life blood and the life blood of your children has already been harvested and right now, today, you are forsaken as the machine moves on to the east having sucked us dry - our brains, our hearts, our children, our soil, our water. And now that America has been used in the most disgusting manner that men use women to slake their lusts, she is left abandoned in the mud, devastated, wasted, sobbing - who will help here now? Us? We are Her. We are the ones who were raped, brutalized, used and sucked dry and we are the ones left here in a wasteland standing around uneasily knowing that SOMETHING ain’t right but not knowing how AIN’T RIGHT it is.

Your house sits in the killing field. The streets that criss cross your neighborhood that you drive to work, to take your children to school, to church, to shop at the store, these streets criss cross the killing field. The bank. The hospital. The library. The barber shop. The Moose Club. The Country Club. The National Right to Work Headquarters. The mostly male trees planted everywhere some hundreds of years old now. The beautiful formal gardens. Your own precious garden. The great national parks, the mountains, lakes, rivers, campgrounds, picnic areas. All of these sitting squarely within the vast killing field that some still tragically and mistakenly call, America.

You think it’s bad. Unemployment, right? A “recession”, right? Oh my, the talking heads are mentioning a, “Double Dip” - sounds like a special at Baskin and Robbins 31 flavors, doesn’t it?All of this simply distraction, distraction one of the modus operandi of our masters. The real concern is not political or even economic, at this point. The real concern for you the American is that you and your loved ones are marked for death

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God Particle Introduced on Tuesday?

bearsky — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:46:57 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/09/higgs-boson-hunters-lhc

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don't bother, I figured out what they're sayin

bearsky — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:15:51 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/29/scientists-public-whale-song

"i'd kill for some tarter sauce right now"

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Haven't Heard any "REPTILIAN" talk in a while?

bearsky — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:47:40 GMT

(purely a work of fiction and not meant to resemble any president whether a black guy or not whatsoever, herewith, thereto and et all)

After a long day at the office, as it were, the president looked forward to some me time, the girls already in bed. Sure, maybe a little bed dancing with the wife, who knows?

He hit the intercom with one hand, loosening his tie with other, Hey, I’m down for the night -

Yes Mr. President.

Some nights the president sat for a while sort of unwinding from the always hectic schedule. He stood and left immediately for the family area. Maybe it was the humidity, but the president felt all day as if his skin were on fire and now it was almost unbearable. As soon as he crossed the threshold and the door sealed behind him, he instantly unzipped the human facade, always with a face of disgust mixed with relief, and let the thing fall to the floor behind him.

If the great crocadile Herself commands me, so help me I will not put that thing back on until morning, he resolved.

Feels soo much better, he thought, stretching, hearing the vertebrae in his neck crack, he rubbed his scales vigorously with his claws - AHH, that feels GREAT. He climbed up on to his relaxation bed under the powerful ultraviolet light with a sigh of relief and a genuine sense of gratitude - Sometimes, he smiled finally, life is just goood.

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I'd like to FRACK these MF'ers

bearsky — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:41:42 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/09/epa-reports-fracking-groundwater-pollution

we're still arguing with these corpoations about things like styrofoam and fermaldyhid and such so this "debate" will go on forever now with these wells in the ground as though Jehovah's Witnesses have stuck their foot in the door of the earth and while the "debate" continues so the destruction of us all, the machine we have created and unleashed upon ourselves crunching away day and night, 24/7

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An Angel on the Potty - Mother and Child a Natural Instinct

ursula2012 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:02:50 GMT

I would like to share this lovely picture with you of how a Mothers love and instinctive awareness for growth and development, shines on through a small baby who has been potty trained since 8 weeks old ! I was staggered to learn this being a mother myself of now two young adults. I found the whole experience of such a wonderful connection between the Mother Emma, a young beautiful, natural Shamanic Healer herself, towards encouraging her equally beautiful and I'm sorry Emma, also incredibly cute daughter Anwen, fully trained and totally utilising the potty without any fuss whatsoever.

Not only is this method inspiring it also has the added bonus, of lowering the impact on the environment, especially for those using the prepacked land filling plastic type of nappy, which I would like to assure you Emma does not. Surely this method, holds many other benefits, and I will perhaps ask Emma to write about them too, as for many Mothers this is a valuable lesson in childrearing for all because of course a happy baby reflects a happy Mother and vice versa.

A happy healthy clean child who, has learnt some tremendous although fully natural learning skills from an early age, and started on a fabulous journey with its Mother or whomever gets to share these previously somewhat tabooed moments of child development. A positive start on its path through life with something everyone one of us can improve upon, our inherited communication skills can only be another example of how we can work in harmony with nature.

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Don't Mess with Mary

bearsky — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:52:10 GMT

(traveling back in time to get the answers to the big questions straight from the horses mouth - don’t thank me, it’s what I do, man)

Okay, I’m back but guess what - wrong town. Everything is all screwy from what I thought and it’s a long story, man, but just forget about Bethlehem. But think I’m in the right place, now - in fact, there is Mary! Wow! This is so exciting.

Excuse me, Mary, I say, taking off my felt hat which is hot as two squirrels fucking in a wet sock anyway, and slightly bowing - may I ask you a question?

Mary stands facing me but she is not smiling.

Is this little Jesus, here, I say, turning my attention to what appears to be little Jesus about six years old. Trying to be exceptionally charming, you know.

Mistake this.

Look here, stranger - no, at me. How do you know my child’s name - my name? I have no no idea who you are?

O Mary - that’s a long story, I hold up both hands hands as if to show my harmlessness.. All I want is your honest take on this immaculate conception? I ask.

Mary narrows her eyes - what are you some would be sorcerer?

No - NO, I say, I just want to know about the “virgin birth” - little Jesus there?

With her right hand, Mary deftly slides back her robes to reveal a beautifully ornate but really scarry looking half sword. I know what immaculate conception means but you must know that I do not suffer fools lightly. You’d do well now to step back from us this instant while you still possess the life blood in your body to do so -

Whoa! - Jesus! - wait, Oh shit, no, not Jesus, not what I meant to say, Mary - I'm babbling and stumbling backwards and finally over myself and onto my ass.

Mary is a tough chick, damn!

Mary closes her cape over her weapon and takes Jesus by one hand and the little girl by her other and they go on about their day.

Yea - the little girl - don’t even get me going on that one. I’m just gonna call this a day, folks. Forgot how much I hate getting sand in my ears.

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Climate change - the facts

Gerard — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:13:40 GMT

Considering the location of Australia and it's make up. This is as good a place as any to get the FACTS regarding our deteriorating planet.

http://climatechangeinaustralia.com.au/resources.php

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whew - i really need to put this shit behind me

bearsky — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:33:30 GMT

Whew - someone jump in here please

Okay - I think I got this now, or, at least a real key. Already past any “conspiracy theory” illuminati speculation - already bought that, hook, line and sinker. I have been reading this bizarre and most unsavory literature for a couple months now. My soul concern is to understand the mind behind this, shadowy as such may be? In my own mind, right or wrong, it is my job to see things from another persons point of view. So I have been trying to quiet all the madness of this and just focus upon the cold, hard reality of their intentions.

The Federal Reserve Bank and the Council on Foreign Relations are real enough, no aliens need be added to the recipe for an authentic taste of conspiracy stew, the kind of stew we humans have been eating about forever - people act as though a “conspiracy” is as unlikely as finding the G Spot? History virtually walks forward upon legs of conspiracy - it is ubiquitous to our human experience for gods sake.

The elephant in the room here is the One World Government which in my opinion is as obvious as the nose on my face, which is rather large. Population reduction through extermination is a little harder to swallow but here again, to my mind, this movement to one world government is real and concern enough for now in and of itself.

My thought was and is still is that the US must be brought to its knees. Germany will be taken care of via the collapse of now a European union in which its power will be dissipated in the weak brew of their neighbors - classic “illuminati strategy” here seems to be to be working perfectly right now right in front of my face - usually start the day with a cup of coffee opening The Guardian like newspapers of old. Europe is falling right into the same hole as the US, maybe an arms length below us in their fall?

This so called conspiracy theory is rumbling along under our feet and quite nicely, it seems? Like we’re riding in the back of the truck itself speculating and concluding that “this conspiracy shit is nuts, man”.

Rumble, rumbling along.

My conclusion regarding 9-11 is that what it means is that they are very close to pulling the trigger here. That was eleven years ago. That too worked with absolute shinning - sparking - success. I won’t go into that, I think we see that - now. The point is about timing - timing - these people are not only running the world, they run it like a god damn swiss watch people and all the while providing a constant illusion of chaos, incompetency and the random vaguery of wars, famines and economic and other crisis of all time. None of it random at all but as carefully orchestrated as a successful chess match. Famine is a pawn. War a knight. Economic collapse a rook - and so on.

And they are fixin’ to call “Check Mate”, I believe.

My god man, we are in the hands of Masters - but this is not my present revelation.

The scenario of a limited nuclear exchange between Russia and the US came to me as a way to kill two birds with one stone. This may seem strange, but I have been dedicating a little self hypnosis time to try and place myself so much as possible within (their) mind set - a thoroughly disgusting process - feels gross like putting your hand in a bowl of cold liver. I don’t quite understand it, but China is in the bag somehow - not much of a concern to them. Russia looms as a wildcard, somehow not thoroughly under their thumb as is virtually the rest of world - minus such holdouts like North Korea, Venezuela, Iran - oops hey there’s a reason to attack Iran - in fact there is the ONLY reason to attack Iran! (mostly speaking of federal reserve and like international banksters) And while the US is thoroughly under their thumb, they feel even more uneasiness about the US right now than about Russia. They are focusing much attention on the US and have been for some time. They know better than anyone what kind of power in the US they have their fingers on - they FEEL it, man. This is the most power that has existed upon this planet since the aliens.

Yesterday doing this yet again, I shoot upright out of bed and out of a fairly deep state of self hypnosis, definitely not my preferred method to exit such state.

The game is this - THEY must get the US (and ultimately Russia and of course the entire world) to not only accept a world government but ask for a world government - NO beg for a world government! Before it is all over - we will beg for it people - beg. And here is what will happen, hit me like a ton of bricks.

The trick THEY will use to turn the world government, after a whopping economic crisis already begun will be to use the destruction of the very reserve banking system of world control so carefully developed ever since they shifted form using religion primarily for their control purposes.

That’s it, man - no doubt about it. Watch. I know these people have no commitment to any of our system, all of it used again as pieces on a chest board - these people no more care about the free market than they care about democracy or Christianity. And this is why this is coming to light now. So in the near future the move that will be made that will flip the whole thing - I have been looking for something more apocalyptic - my bad! - will simply be to attack this system - fatally. Absolutely brilliant - stunningly clever - exactly what I would expect.

See how great this new world government is gonna be - we’re here to help, man , here to help - here, give us that bloody sword, we'll lope off the head of some reserve bankers ourselves. See, we're the best thing that ever happened to your poor bastards.

And to be clear on this, such would constitute the pulling of the trigger. And why would they pull the trigger upon the mind boggling edifice that they have crafted so perfectly over hundreds if not thousands of years? Because they are getting ready to duck into their prepared holes and pull the top closed over them and they don't give one flying fucking about any of us or any of this - think about that. My god I hope I'm totally whacked out insane.

Why, why ask way, man, just live in the here and now, all we can ever do anyway, man.

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So many voices, so little time ...

bearsky — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:52:41 GMT

blathered on a lot about my mushroom experiences but the "voice" aspect of it seems to disappear on June 12, 2007 and haven't "heard much back" from these voices which while always loving, wise and supportive beyond my imaginings, I am not unhappy to live without them permanently in my head - "heard" as an alien strain of thought within my own mind, not as a full blown auditory hallucination which I have also heard on mushrooms and that is different from "the voices", heard as though someone is speaking aloud right next to you.

When I heard these voices for a about a two month period in the spring of 07, they addressed themselves intensely to my emotional life basically healing me at many levels and I first - and perhaps still this is the simpliest explanation - I thought well it's perfectly reasonable they are haning around so long, there's a hell of lot in here to fix, right? And 99 percent of what they "said" was in support and direction for my own healing, not always sunny and happy, they had teeth, too.

I had told them, DO whatever it takes, get me to the other side

careful what you ask for, right?

Anyway, the only time after these "voices" left in June of 07 that I "heard" a voice, it was of the auditory hallucination type and I at first I thought my wife had spoken sitting only a few feet away - you know, like trying to be funny maybe, using a funny voice? I had been reading book when I heard, "The machine has descended upon you now, may god help you all" - sent appropriate icy chills through my body especially as I realized that it was not my wife saying - book I was reading nothing about this kind of thing at all? Not even on my conscious mind? This was about 7PM, Feb12, 2008.

I believe in 07 that what I mistook for "voices" was in fact an "entity" (dear god wish i had a better word) sharing my consciousness. This entity early in the experience identified itself verbatim: I am The New Creature. I am here to save the biosphere.

Blew my mind, man. Now after much consideration, I believe that this auditory hallucination in Feb 08 was a kind of update from this New Creature and (It) communicated not as a thought in my head but as an auditory hallucination because the New Creature is not IN my head, having "left" on June 12, 2007. In effect, this was the first time that I had ever "heard" the voice of the New Creature as something other than a thought in my own mind. It sounded like a stranger's voice to me.

Now, I don't want to argue this part, but the great mother of us all has communicated to me a couple times in the manner of a alien strain of thought and once as a powerful auditory hallucination at a personally desperate hour - and trust me, if I live for all eternity - oh yea, I will - I will never forget or mistake the voice of the great mother of us all and this night it was most definately not her voice

clearly a male voice?

So nothing again really until last year, 2010, looking out in the summer across surrounding alpine fields and thing that it sure would be nice to be able to get the couple plots around us all as one holding, then, thinking, sipping morning coffee at the north railing, we don't need it and it would be better to spend resources of lots of other things at this point

then, as if interupting my thoughts with an important point, another voice that I do not recognize but perceive as vageuly female whisperes evenly, "you will need room for the others" . Funny, I keep getting this kind of thing - like beyond my primary mission of opening my heart, I am requested to be some kind of "housekeeper" or provider? Well, did originally get a degree in Hotel Motel Management that here I always thought was a stupendous waste?

But recently, an inner voice, much like in 07 even though have not taken mushrooms in years and do not really intend to in the future, but this voice keeps replaying two things,

I NEED HELP
MY GOD THIS IS HAPPENING SO FAST

The first appears simply to be myself uttering a truth, I feel very much like I need some help. I am caught up in a personal battle for me of epic preportions and have been especially lost in my own pain, like a man lost in the throes of physical torture. In both of these things that keep popping into my mind even now just at odd and random moments but repeatedly, the my god it's happening so fast part does not really ring a bell personally - I feel exactly the opposite personally, I want to claw my way out of my skin I feel we are moving so slowly - but both of these are communications again from this New Creature.

Now really weird - the communication in Feb 08 had some real emotion in it and made me realize now in retrospection, it actually said a lot about this New Creature and how things are going. There was a sadness and resignation in the voice - also a maturity - "the machine has descended upon you now, may god help you all. And a sadness. One thing I noticed in dealing during the extended 07 period with what I thought was a mushroom voice was they the voice while as wise as perhaps one might expect, as profound, as loving, as integrative - the "voice or entity" had a certain immaturity often picked up in that the voice was like say an idealistic aristocrats kid who never knew a bad thing or bad day in their whole life and who was honest and smart and all that - I imagine they might have a hard time if dumped out on the mean streets as say this New Creature was in the summer of 2007?

Breaks my heart. What I do respond to in that message of things happenings so fast is that something very bad is about to happen and once the trigger is pulled, I believe that we will all collectively be thinking

MY GOD THIS IS HAPPENING SO FAST

I NEED HELP

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Non Violent Action

bearsky — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:15:21 GMT

I believe this is a perfect opportunity for non violent action - not only is there no need for violence, violence would be counterproduction and I say this not based upon a commitment to non violent action simply because non violent action is the perfect arrow to draw from our quiver to kill this MACHINE

There will be horrible violence no doubt in my mind but this will come from the state, not the people - eventually non violent protests will devolve into violence - anyway, this is my guess and if non violent action does not turn into violence in the face of what will become a slaughter of American citizens across this nation, then this movement will achieve true POWER and literally anything will be possible for the people - only IF non violent action prevails

which is a lot to ask when we saw a foreshadowing in Oakland

but I say again to all who love this earth, who value art, who desire peace and justice, who strive to live a beautiful life - there is no other way forward for any of us in this - simply playing along within the confines of this system will not work and will quickly lead to our doom

we must wipe the table clean with a long, purposeful sweep of our arm and say -

Right here and now let's make this right!

(Power to the People!)

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"Calgone Take Me Away"

bearsky — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:37:52 GMT

Okay, okay - sure, crazy, nutso, wacked but no not at all, unfortunately

for certain Templar Knights brought some knowledge back creating The Masons with this new knowledge of geometry and an immediate flowering of architecture but what else did they bring back? Lots, I'm thinking but most relevantly from this video it hit me. This material perhaps known as "the ark of covenant" among other things holds some "secret" knowledge about the future - the future being pretty much now

sumarians most definately again had knowledge of our galaxy, all the planets that modern science literally only recently discovered, they demonstrated a unbelievable knowledge of astronomy as did other ancient civilizations from Egypt to South American civilizations like the Maya and so then it is not so hard to reach a conclusion that the reason they had such advanced knowledge of cosmolgy was because such knowledge was compelling in its conclusion

what he is talking about here - The Illuminati the whole enchalida is real and what they know is knowledge of astrological phenomenon in what appears to be now our near future but which (THEY) knew for tens of thousands of years because it was "in the stars" and what they know ain't a good thing, I get that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAE0Zox1QjM&feature=related

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Elizabeth Warren Tribe

bearsky — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:10:20 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/lizzequeen4life?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B7093f3e7-b233-48ec-9295-fb94c8062f8c%5D

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End of the barrier reef

Gerard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:53:26 GMT

Dear Friends,

Millions of cubic metres of sea floor are being drudged up from the Great Barrier Reef to make way for massive new coal seem gas export facilities. No, we're not kidding.

It's the largest dredging project ever undertaken in Australia, and one that has the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) so alarmed they're warning the Reef could lose its iconic world heritage status. We've created an emergency petition to stop this. Sign here, tune in and spread the word now.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/great-barrier-reef/dredging-the-reef

As The Age recently put it- what's of primary concern is the "vast dredging program" associated with the construction of three coal seam gas plants located inside the reef's World Heritage area. "The Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) has approvals to dredge 46 million cubic metres from within the harbour boundaries, inside the World Heritage area, over the next 20 years...a volume equivalent to 27 Melbourne Cricket Grounds.*

Environment Minister Tony Burke has so far refused to stand up for the Reef, a priceless and fragile site of significance not just to Australia, but to the world. Imagine if the Pyramids were being bulldozed or the Grand Canyon mined -- the global community would be furious. Well UNESCO is furious. They're sending a special delegation in March to inspect the mining sites at the Reef, but that's too late to stop the damage happening now.

Meanwhile, UNESCO are being lobbied hard by the insatiable coal seam gas industry. And although they failed to even tell UNESCO about the project, the state and federal governments would have us simply trust them to monitor and regulate this crazy project -- claiming it's possible to dredge up 46 million cubic metres of reef inside a world heritage site provided there's sufficient environmental oversight. If the Australian Government won't stand up for the Great Barrier Reef as it's ripped up for corporate profit, we will.

That's why we've created an urgent petition, as we prepare to launch this campaign on the global stage.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/great-barrier-reef/dredging-the-reef

The fragile and unique ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef is already under intense pressure due to earlier floods and a changing climate. We've witnessed a steep increase in the rates of death of endangered marine wildlife this year -- including dolphins, dugongs and turtles. The massive development for the coal seam gas industry may well prove too much for it to handle.

Coal seam gas mining is now affecting our communities and environment, from the family farm to the deep blue sea, and once these areas are destroyed, no amount of money will ever bring them back. Sign the petition now, and if you're on Twitter and Facebook, be sure to alert others to this campaign as you watch the Four Corners program tonight at 8.30pm.

Thank you for using your voice now,
The GetUp team

1 - New battlefront opens up in gas debate, Tracey Ferrier, The Age, October 31 2011.

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Australia's Carbon price

Gerard — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:19:08 GMT

Today we woke up knowing that the global conversation on climate change has changed.

Yesterday’s passage of the Clean Energy Act into law means we’ve finally taken action to secure our clean energy future.

To mark the occasion, Al Gore passed on these kind words: 1
"This is a historic moment. Australia's Parliament has put the nation's first carbon price into law. With this vote, the world has turned a pivotal corner in the collective effort to solve the climate crisis. This success is the result of the tireless work of an unprecedented coalition that came together to support the legislation, the leadership of Prime Minister Gillard, and the courage of legislators to take a vote that helps to safeguard the future of all Australians.

I have spent enough time in Australia to know that their spirit of independence as a people cannot be underestimated. As the world’s leading coal exporter, there’s no doubt that opposition to this legislation was fierce. But through determination and commitment, the voice of the people of Australia has rung out loud and clear.

Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we do everything we can to ensure that this legislation is successful."

- Al Gore, November 2011

Click here to watch a video that tells the story of how we arrived at this day:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/climate-action-now/congratulations/congratulations

Yesterday's success is yet more evidence of the fact that coordinated community action has the power to lead our Parliamentarians toward just, environmentally sustainable outcomes. But a wider community movement will be needed to protect these laws and grow further investments in clean energy.

Tony Abbott has made a ‘blood oath’ to repeal our hard won laws, so it's up to us to make every effort to protect and continue our campaign for a clean energy future.

Yesterday was able to happen because of people like those featured in our latest video, who didn’t sit back just because the challenge seemed too large - people like you.

Thank you for being a part of the journey and we look forward to all that is to come,

The GetUp team

PS - A big thanks should also go out to environmental and civil society organisations around the country, including those that were part of the Say Yes Coalition, who've campaigned in support of climate action for decades. Check out the story (beginning back in the 70s) of how grassroots activists made this movement possible.

Source: 1http://blog.algore.com/

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How fast could wildlife be culled from vast national wilderness areas?

bearsky — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:01:01 GMT

Since I live on the edge of a 1/4 million acre wilderness and a million acre national forest, I know the locals who hunt in the high country usually riding in on "4 wheelers" finding a herd and shooting what they want, or have permits for, then hauling them out with the gasoline powering 4 wheeler - some on horseback, sure, some on foot even - but if there is the kind of economic collapse that I seem to take for granted now - where will that leave our national forests?

What if the national forest system becomes in part or whole seriously decapitated or even abandoned ? Not so far fetched, I think? If things got bad enough, what would our government choose to maintain - it would be analogous to our bodies cutting circulation to our limbs when core temperature is threatened, reserving what we have our core with its vital organs - exactly what we'd be looking at? The government who runs the society in which I live but do not actually have a real democratic vote seems to value most highly the military - almost sacrosanct? So consider that like the heart, I guess? Like all of us, I suppose, the government thinks highly of itself so it will remain most likely intact with full pensions and all - so what else? Police and security - O that's HUGE - got to keep that pump protected!

So you see how far down on the priorities something like the National Forest could be?

But my neighbors if left unpoliced could and would wipe out the elk very quickly along with other large game like mountain goat, deer and even black bear around here, hunting with dogs just like the hillbillies in Virginia (sorry not meaning to judge, really, but seems distasteful though not my point) and this would happen all up and down the Rockies as elsewhere, I imagine - highly motivated hunters both skilled and armed literally to the teeth, man - don't think bozos who shoot each other, seriously, lot of these guys really no what they're doing and if food was scarce and times were scary and forest service personel were absent, I was thinking that they could do the damn damn on wildlife really all across the country and pretty quick, I'd imagine?

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Mario Savio - 1943 - 1996

bearsky — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:18:12 GMT

A Socialist Activist with message for our time about the machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHJLMU9Wptw&NR=1

“There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies on the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus. ( of the machine) And you’ve got to make it stop!”

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People Who Love This Earth - Obama must go!

bearsky — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:48:35 GMT

My fellow Americans, I am a progressive in my toes and voted for Obama much as I have voted my whole life long here in America for the least of evils. But this man is no liberal and this should be clear to anyone paying attention. With every fiber of my being and with the most sincere and heart felt urgency, I say that Obama must go if we are to take back this country for the people to whom the country rightfully belongs. Our only hope is this so called Occupy Wall Street and now Occupy Earth movements - personally, I could care less what you call the movement because I have been waiting my whole life for Americans to wake from their propaganda induced stupor since this is the only hope we have - Obama is part of this system and this system is no help at all - and by this system, to be clear, I mean our present system of “elective” government.

No one should be left believing that Obama offers any hope at all beyond the words pouring out of his mouth now that he is in full reelection mode. The 2012 elections must be stopped if we the people are to overcome this madness that has become our world. We need to stop this madness and then we the people must force a new system completely. This is the time, people, we can do this but we must elevate our vision beyond the status quo.

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The Great Mother of us all

bearsky — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:43:28 GMT

The Great Mother is the female mind of the planet and she is married to the Plant Mind, a male entity. They have been married as one for long eons before our kind arose from the dirt of this earth after nearly four billion years of DNA life. They are like that old married couple who though married forever seem as in love as any newlyweds and know each other so intimately that they could finish each others thoughts. To me, she is the mother of my DNA body here on this amazing planet where the wolf eats the caribou alive. She is not the mother of my eternal self who has never known birth, beginning, mother ....

One thing I would like to make clear although I do not like to argue just present my own direct experience during my "voice hearing" period with our Giaian mother, but this notion that our Giaian spirit is somehow facilitating the destruction of the planet, our our destruction - or any kind of destruction or murder or even negativity ... please understand that neither the plant mind or the great mother share our peculiar human consciousness and I beg everyone to forget any such notion as the Great Mother of us all would never and will never cause harm or even think such a thing - this kind of thinking is from our human consciousness.

Our human consciousness is a beautiful thing though immature and imperfect as it is - what the great mother and the plant mind want from us is our hands - our technology. We must all join together in common effort to save DNA life from the Machine that we humans have created and set loose upon this earth and upon ourselves -

"if you connect the mind of man to the mind of a machine before connecting the mind of man to the mind of a plant, the biosphere is doomed" (translated from "voice" to my own language is, we humans are about to increase our intelligence literally exponentially with the aid or artificial computer intelligence but we will not increase our wisdom one little bit and we will burn out almost instantaneously - unless we humans raise our consciousness rapidly by merging our consciousness first with that of the plant mind - not by taking mushrooms or whatever but by connecting our minds to the plant mind directly through somekind of breakthrough technology, just as we are on the lip now of "connecting" our mind to that of an intelligence computer ?

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Words, Elvis, Birds & Freedom - an essay

bearsky — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:31:22 GMT

Words, Elvis, Birds and Freedom

Fatherless child that I was, I adopted Elvis as a father-role-model at about the age of eight and I would sing along passionately understanding the lyrics creepily well for an eight year old, “On the edge of reality where she overpowers me with fears that I cannot explain / she’s out there awaiting me a girl with the name of M A R Y …” O yeah, Elvis - I get that.

Or, “Words, words are all I have to steal your heart away” and it was as if at eight I understood intuitively that I would grow into one of the those men who had to talk their way into a woman’s pants. It’s never like women would look at me and think, “hell yeah!” No, more like, “my god maybe if I fuck him he’ll shut up!”

Then Jim Morrison says, “I’d rather be a word man, better than a bird man” and as much as I love the Doors at the time, I just don’t know about that, you know? I’ve never been a bird man so it’s hard to say.

I threw words by the frantic millions into this hole inside me that was abandonment panic to no avail. Like trying to appease an inappeasable God. Writing. Talk Therapy. Group Therapy. Western Religions. Eastern Religions. So many damn words for the same old stories non of which are my story which is my living not to be confused with words.

Now that’s a story.

Then with magic mushrooms once and for all language is vanquished and what I am is set free. Have you ever had a pet bird get loose? O man, once they taste freedom it’s all hell getting them back into that cage!

I remember thinking, “but I’m thinking - that’s words?” laughing and laughing as I shoot up and up at light speed leaving words somewhere far behind - maybe on earth? Or above earth high in its atmosphere where words with a sharp tug snapped loose, falling limply back to the planet. Later in the trip somewhere in a different reality, I thought, “I could spend the rest of my life and never get all this down”.

How did it get to me my responsibility to write this shit down? Even when I am beyond this body, beyond even this soul - even then it is about words. Some part of me resists, fluttering away, remembering its freedom - “you and words knock yourselves out,” it says, “you’ll never get me back in that box, David”.

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99'ers - I AM AMERICA!

bearsky — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:52:14 GMT

Not the mountain majesty from sea to shining sea. Not a company or corporation. Not the flag, the President or an aircraft carrier the size of a small city.

I am America!

(as shouted by thousands via their uniquely democratic broadcast system)

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Power vs. Force, Occupying Wallstreet

bearsky — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:55:24 GMT

Power vs. Force

Force is used for coercion and control, Power for communication and unity. Force is used for destruction, Power for creation. Force is crude, violent and negative. Power is elegant, peaceful and positive. Power works through love, Force through hate. Power is expansive, Force diminutive. Power is inclusive, Force exclusive.

We, the Ninetyniners, ally ourselves with Power instead of the Force arrayed against us.

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~ In the Name of Paradise ~

ShizLAN — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:16:54 GMT

During the past full moon, I wordsmithed
a document that took me close to 3 2/3 days
to complete--I'd like to share it with you because
it seems to be a related subject to this tribe's theme.
Although it is not appropriate for the mainstream,
not in this form at least, I will be using portions
for a more generally appealing introduction
to what can be referred to as "Elysianism."
Here is a preview on what is to come...

To those of you who believe
in Paradise on Earth:

http://people.tribe.net/shizlan/blog/032f299a-1683-42dc-b915-7f68fb00839a

My best regards to you,
and to yours,

Lukas Bacchus

a.k.a. Ambassador Shizlan, =ECE=
of the Elysian Fleet of FriendShips

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Zoom out to widest angle possible -

bearsky — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:54:40 GMT

Not hovering, of course, but let’s say hovering for what we would call billions of years but actually in a timeless place of light and bliss. Not waiting, of course, but let’s say waiting even though such a concept as waiting is peculiar to this physical reality here and now. On this amazing water planet where the wolf eats the caribou alive, human consciousness stood up finally upon the lofty shoulders of almost four billion years of DNA “life”. This consciousness borne from the dust of our earth caught the awareness of light that is our highest self. This consciousness with its attending “hands” provided a “natural” opportunity for what we are eternally to experience the physical reality of our indigenous human awareness.

Whether out of necessity or choice, I am not quite certain, but either way I believe that what we are eternally “understands” (another concept peculiar to this physical reality) that to engage in this earth reality means temporarily forsaking what we are eternally for the privilage of entering a human infant and engaging in the miracle of human consciousness. Such an understanding would have to be thoroughly marinated in the perspective of an eternal being for whom what we call a lifetime is less than a pinprick in eternity.

In a way, that is how I’ve come to look at life in the broadest, spiritual terms: an inoculation in the proverbial shoulder of an eternal being?

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"discovery could rewrite laws of nature"

bearsky — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:08:43 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629271/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001

Hey man, that's what CERN is suppose to do - at least something is working right?

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The Turn of the Wheel: Fall Equinox - Sept. 20-23

Ten Nebula — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:55:15 GMT

Dear Beloveds,

I sat down to write a transmission for Gaia's Turn of the Wheel in which we find ourselves this Fall Equinox 2011, with no inspiration arriving on the set. What DID synchronously arrive was the following missive from Rev. Glenn of Trees, called "Confessions of a Bodhisatva Wanna Be". Its tone and content reflected what I had already decided to focus on in this Turn of the Wheel missive, concerning the attitude with which to approach the times we are in, namely to LAUGH ALOT in spite of the "seriousness of the appearances" on the screen of life!! In the spirit of cooperation and not reduplicating energies, I asked him, if I could send his article out instead of writing another one. So it goes out with the following addendum which I would have included, had I written the article.

My life has been lived under the banner of "Enlightenment is about LIGHTENING UP! Humor is the hallmark of higher consciousness". Where we came up with the notion that spiritual evolution had to be dourly serious, I can't imagine. If you haven't noticed the contagious smile on the Dalai Lama's face and his childlike and playful attitude, you haven't seen through to what spiritual enlightenment actually is. We have a lot invested in "serious" spiritual pursuits and a whole Western world view in which pain and suffering are the central organizing principle. ENOUGH ALREADY!! That position as brought us to where we are now on the brink of ecocide. Now would be a perfect moment to consider quantumly jumping on to another track: The Joy, Ecstasy, Bliss, Laughter Track!! I am not going to argue with you if you want to hold the polarity of the "this is a serious matter" position, don't read on. But if, just if, you want to open the door to a totally different possibility of how to hold the times we are in, please read on.

Shocking as this view of the hologram may be to some, the whole point of the Mayan calendar was not time keeping at all. Actually it was to bring human beings into the awareness of living fully in the present moment in Timelessness.It was NOT about a catastrophic ending to the world as we know it in 2012! (Without judgment, I still must say, I am disheartened by those who have presented the Maya and their mapping of the times in which we now navigate, coloring it with such dark interpretations.) But no matter, we will experience the truth anyway and some of us laughing while we are at it, regardless of the apparent predicted outcomes, because it is clear to anyone who has "been down the road" that the goal of human evolution is to finally GET the cosmic joke and choose to live in timeless JOY and LOVE!

There is only one thing any good star Maya would advise for navigation in this time: "Any way that you can move out of fear and into Unity, choosing love, do that." Plain and simple. When you are living fully in the present moment, there is really no way to "prepare" for whatever transformation may be coming. So all that is reasonable to invite you to do, is to deeply enjoy your lives and find more reasons to gather in community to laugh and play! You then will be more fluid and supple in consciousness to deal with whatever comes. With that said, ENJOY THIS DELIGHTFUL ARTICLE BELOW! Thank you Reverend Glenn of Trees!

Joy to the Journey Fellow Adventurers!!

Your sister,

ariel spilsbury

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About Dragon`s

dragonfamily — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:30:32 GMT

Okay, we coming back now to Dragons. And to know: Many thinks to say about Dragons, but: Dragons like treasures! What is the biggest treasures we have??
I tell ya, it is Mother Earth, because we live on her! If we dont have food (Water, Food, Trees and so on...) on earth, we dont survive. For ensemble : When we are born we have our "Mother Milk" and than we eat, veggies.. fruits and so on from "Mother Earth". Sure. We live here on her Space and we need, if we want or not " to take care about her. So, she is our Mother. Metaphoric thinking, we have no chance. And for sure it is: better to understand a holistic few. What else can i give you on understanding, that BioRegion Animism is the goal! Help me, if i dont feel right, but feeling: is a female understanding on Mother us it is.

Aho.

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the "real" war & the stone cold bridge

bearsky — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:17:56 GMT

http://people.tribe.net/bearsky/photos/79d64608-8a86-4831-89bf-c58ecbd562a5

The stone cold bridge across the cataracts of tomorrow heaves and bucks forward a millimeter with a great, metal groan like a metallic weight lifters groan of supreme effort. It is my own spiritual strength woven from the spiritual strength of all things that animates the bridge long having sat in jarring stillness becalmed half way across the vast blue strides of forever. With one foot in the grave and only a knee above ground, I claw my way forward mostly with the use of my arms and hands, relatively healthy as they are.

My DNA machine body is broken but not useless and all that I am floats precariously in a child’s toy boat upon the electro magnetic seas of my brain. In the name of love I pray to great mother of us all for strength to live and strength to grow and strength to love. Give me strength, great mother, and I will do the rest. Otherwise, I will continue to serve as I can from my knees.

I am an eternal being who came here where the wolf eats the caribou alive to learn the peculiar lessons of this world, of this reality, lessons invaluable to eternal beings who know not beginning or end; loss; separateness; hate; fear. Who already existed in a state of pure love, pure ecstasy. Who already is perfect. And who is here to learn of imperfect, a concept otherwise unknown to eternal beings?

Now that I have garnered a bit of extra personal strength, I will try to keep the bridge moving, if painfully slowly - it takes far less strength to keep it moving than to start it again from a dead stop.

the real war's subtle
blink your eyes
you've won, lost,
stand in utter ruin -
a snowflake's melted
on your eyelash!

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fabric, membrane, allaone

bearsky — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:14:39 GMT

Our seed came from the depths of space inseminating this planet with our life four billion years ago. This small blue planet is the perfect environment for our life to blossom. I like the fact that I am literally formed from the dust of this earth - but with instructions from “outer space”. In spite of the protective nature of our planet, DNA life has suffered repeated near planetary extinction but in perhaps our greatest strength in our diversity, we have persevered. Our most basic DNA forming bodies, for instance, is one of the most stable things on the planet, unchanged over billions of years, a time over which continents have shifted across the face of the planet, mountain ranges have formed and been worn down - almost nothing has survived so long as our very own base DNA sequences - not rocks, not mountains, not rivers, not entire continents.

The dirt, detritus, excrement and stone of which my body is composed is an indigenously balanced vehicle for my eternal self on this brief but intense sojourn here along the endless strides of our eternal journey. If we think of DNA life as one being which may be “what” Gaia actual “is”, then we can appreciate, I think, the relative strength of our position even in a purely physical sense. Our instructions have woven themselves into the fabric of this planet over billions of years so that what we “are” here in some real sense “is” this planet as a plants roots extending far into the earth are the plant.

And yet our destiny as humans clearly lies in the stars?

May the Great Mother of us all along with the help of the New Creature and ourselves keep this living planet safe and secure, I pray in the name of love.

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How much strain EXACTLY are we putting on Gaia?

Shou — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:10:47 GMT

I was linked to this statistics website.

the figures are updated in real time so it really opens your eyes.
I'm pretty bugged out looking at this.

http://www.worldometers.info/

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what can I do? video

Shou — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:54:25 GMT

hey all, here is a video I made. it's intended to be a little provocative but not too much I hope.

I'd like to read your thoughts on it and any feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FWUNlKP2k

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Natural Island Dragonmill / Naturinsel Drachemühle

dragonfamily — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:00:59 GMT

https://picasaweb.google.com/dragonmillcrew/UmweltprojektNaturinselDrachenmuhleImSommer2011#

Summer 2011 on Dragonmill. We are part on her, she dance with us, and we can give a nice dance back :o)

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what do you feel from gaia right now?

Shou — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:48:11 GMT

pretty self explanitory.
what impressions are you getting and where from?

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“Dragon’s Breath”

dragonfamily — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:54:51 GMT

From April 10th until April 12th, a new Biomeiler was built at ‘Nature Reserve Dragonmill”. It is a ecological and economical method of utilising wood chips. The method was developed by French forestry officer Jean Pain in the 70s. He had been looking for a way of thinning out the dry mediterranean forests to protect them from forest fires. Being left with large amounts of wood chips, he was then looking for a sustainable and economical way of making use of these chips.

The Biomeiler is a simple device that utilizes the energy which is stored in biomass. Heat, as well as biogas get generated. To build a Biomeiler, about 80 cubic meters of wood chip get piled into a mound of about 3 meters height. Over a period of 18 to 24 months, micro organsims get to work and aerobically ferment the material into highly potent compost. During this process, the temperature reaches and remains at about 70 degrees C. Inside the Biomeiler run tubes which function as heat exchangers. Depending on the intended use, tubes can circulate hot air or hot water. This hot air or water can then be used for hot water, or to heat buildings and greenhouses. It is also possible to produce biogas if a large container with composting material has been put into the Biomeiler. After about 24 months, when the composting process is completed, the compost made from wood can be used for reforestation or for biological agriculture.

The Biomeiler is not for industrial use. Instead, it is used for locally, in a decentralized way. With little technical effort a Biomeiler can be built and used, surely a great advantage compared to modern indunstrial wood-burning plants. Another advantage is, that not all the carbon oxidizes to CO2 (heat generation). Some of the carbon gets stored in the valuable humus in the composed material. This way, the other nutrients which were in the wood chip remain in the the bio mass after composting. It is also possible to extract these nutrients with fire, but the ash usually gets washed out quickly. If the compost is used as mulch, however, new, carbon rich soil is created. Additionally, less CO2 gets released into the atmosphere.

Two weekend workshops, entitled ‘Breath of the Dragon’, attracted 25 people each, aged between 4 and 65. Among the participants were students and teachers from the Montessori School in Dietramszell; a representative of Pfinztal community; a student of soil science from Freiburg; an architect and a member of the city council from Leibzig; as well as studends of the Permaculture Academy. Culinary delights during the second weekend were provided by environment- and peace activist Wam Kat.

The workshops were run by Christian Sven Schembritzki, whose “Naturinsel” has been awarded a UNESCO ‘sustainable education’ award in two consecutive years. During the first weekend, the old Biomeiler was cleared away, and two weeks later, the new Biomeiler 2.0 was erected. “It’s wonderful to experience, during these workshops, the sense of community, how the group dynamics within the group develops and embraces all participants.” says Schembritzki. For two years, the previous Biomeiler was heating a green house and could be used to heat a large bathtub with a 2000 liter capacity. Under the motto ‘Biomeiler 1.0 meets Biomeiler 2.0’, the compost from the former could be distributed in 20 cm thickness across the beds, shrubs and trees of the permaculture garden. According to Jean Pain, this mulch has a very good effect on vitality, yield, as well as quality of the crop, due to the micro organisms and nutrients which are contained in it. Pain also describes how this method eliminated the need to water the plants, even in the dry climate of the Provence.

Two weekends later it was time for ‘Action Biomeiler 2.0’, the construction of the new Biomeiler. The whole process was documented thoroughly by Tom Ruediger with his camera. (soon to be found on our website and on YouTube). A variation to the previous Biomeiler is, that this time the tubes are laid out in spirals, instead of in a cylindrical pattern, with the aim of accessing a larger area inside of the Biomeiler. Additionally, a perforated tube has been included in the Biomeiler to enable the necessary watering process. And finally, a small container has been included to enable research experiments regarding gas production. And another experiment has been included in Biomeiler 2.0: Inside the meiler, a “Terra-Preta” experiment is taking place. Coal particles have been added with the intention of reducing the ‘washing out’ of nutrients. This should also improve air circulation, water absorbtion, and water storage. Additionally, better nutrient and mineral absorbtion by plants can take place, enabling micro organisms a perfect place to live and retreat to.

Various measurements will be taken during the next 2 years, to collect data about the energetic yield and the process of composting. Only very limited information is so far available about this technique. Thus, this experimental installation will primarily be used to collect data and experience regarding mechanisms, structure, and potential uses. For example, a sample of the matured compost has been sent to a laboratory for analysis. In order to have a truly sustainable Biomeiler which can produce high quality compost, it is also relevant to take into account the source of the wood chip. Wood that has been trimmed from the embankments of motor ways and busy roads is not suitable due to its high levels of heavy metals. In our latitudes it is also not necessary to reduce undergrowth, as there is no immediate threat of wild fires. In addition, the habitat for forest animals is already scarce due to the low coverage with forests. However, it would be sensible to make use of garden cut which is usually collected and removed by regional communities. It is also worth noting, that the wood chip should be fresh and not older than 3 weeks.

Those who would like to see the Biomeiler for themselves should consider visiting over Pfingsten (Pentecost). Alternative, you can register for one of the info days by contacting “Naturinsel Drachenmuehle”:

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Did mother nature design the internet?

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:41:09 GMT

OK this subject is quite a mouthful to swallow, but bear with me I'll make my points. Take a deep breath.

Did nature design the internet and is using human beings to perform a task of dispersing information so that ways and means are found not only to save herself from disaster, but take herself to an entirely new level?

Why? Because human, like cells in the body of earth, happen to be around and be apt for the task. Lets give this suggested project a name ... Plan Net. Information like virtual nutrients is criss-crossed everywhere by 7 billion human. Is this reaching some climatic meeting point? What's the point . ? What the node ... point of intersection? 2012 is approaching with heaps of prophetic hype - which I happen to (dis)believe in - but is the information revolution interfacing with 2012 for a reason?

The network/Information/communications revolution: We have gone network nuts, whatever type they are ... the internet, the world wide web, the intranet, mobile networks, social networks, electrical networks, wireless (wi fi) networks, electromagnetic (EMF) networks, organizational/ company structural networks, transport networks; even the conspiratorial HAARP project relating to the EMF and chemtrail webs that weave around the planet; not to mention fishnet stockings!

Information, like nutrients, is burned everywhere inside a hungry beast with a metabolism that consumes like a furnace.

This goes a bit beyond fishnet stockings. An astonishing thing is artificial networks (ie the internet and other communication technologies.) are beginning to resemble natural networks, such as biological brains, nervous systems, myceliul fugal networks, the hypothetical dark matter (apparently running through all space and time), and patterns predicting string theory in quantum physics.

I would describe it as network flowing into or morphing into others ...an evolutionary process. Natural networks follow the design of an archetypal pattern found throughout the universe. It seems that the internet and other communication technologies are all joining the queue.

Nature can use animals to do its bidding and perform tasks. A simple idea example is how an animals can disperse plants seeds ... but think of symbiotic relationships in nature. Like a line by John Lenon ..."with a little help from my friends".

It does not seems like we are friends of the planet at the moment at the moment. It seems more like we are doing our best to destroy her. But is there an ulterior motive? Does nature know something we don't, and is at work doing something we are not aware of?

Food for thought. The human brain is a few inches in diameter and has been thinking for ... well as long as the you (or that human) has lived. In comparison the fungal networks weave through the soil of earth, they form a neurological landscape in the soil (matching patterns of brain neurons) that traverse the planet and have possibly have been alive in consciousness for over 1.3 billion years. Think of the possible computational power.

According to this (below) nature is intent to use humans technology, intelligents and physical beings as well. So the very thing that you are doing right here now - surfing the web - is exactly what nature intended you to do because you are receiving and dispersing information spores which float around at superluminal speed and futher start new cultures and colony of ideas wherever they land. You are doing some nature knitting.

(On mycelium ... see post script.)

"According to Stamets, mycelium look like and function as the planet”s neurological network. He also suggests that the internet was created by mycelium “through” human beings, in the same way that Michael Pollan in his book Botany of Desire, (see his TED.tv talk too) suggest that grasses have used humans to cut down forests and increase territory for grasses to expand into. Nature and the Universe seem to have basic patterns or blueprints for how matter arranges itself, these growth patterns have been called “Morphic Fields” (see the work of Rupert Sheldrake). An acorn has within it the blueprint for how to grow into the oak it can become. Stamets asserts that mycelium, the human nervous system, and the dark matter seen in deep space, share the same morphic field, the same patterns of growth. This suggests that there is a larger than human plan at work to help us evolve. Information is shared through the “astral” space of internet communication and moves along connecting one fruiting body to another in a thick and deepening mycelial mat of nutrient rich information and inspiration" (http://www.livingloverevolution.com/curriculum/myceliu/ )

Artificial networks are based on vertical, hierarchal, pyramidal, centralized (CPU) structures. Natural networks can be described to operate horizontally, or non-locally.

When patterns of artificial networks begin to morph into natural networks, what seemingly to happens is ...
hierarchal, pyramidal, top down tier systems begin breaking down. The individual or the small are recognized as status dissembles. Rubbish and toxins get processed into nutrients and new possibilities. Vertical structures begin to transform into horizontal networks.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/on-human-networks-living-biosystems-chris-arkenberg

In this environment like that of the internet, the layman can stand up to large organization, the small can stand up to giants, and those that can come out on top are those with the best ideas and fad of the time, ie face book; not those with the most power. Online status tends to get diminished. Things begin to work more as like holographic unit ... a brain. Its the most effective way of organizing things whereby the whole is reflected in the small. Every unit operates more to their maximum. Unity is strength.

Grandmother spider
spins another gossamer thread
another web

Ps: Mycelium is an invisible fugal network that exist a few inches in of just about all topsoil on the planet. It forms a spiders web - gossamer like - thread like - structure that may cover many acres. In fact the lagest organism in the world is a mycelial mat covering thousands of acres. The fungi is responsible for the break down of organic matter transforming them into nutrients. Mushrooms are described as fruiting body of these mats and further disperse spores to generate new fungal colonies. Mycelium can break down hydrocarbons - the most common ingredient in environmental pollutants. Do you know that the only organism able to break down nuclear waste is fungi? Mycelium can be seen as an exstention of a trees roots many hundred, thousands, millions of times as it is itself a root structure. Its a living breathing sentient entity. It exists at the foundation of land based ecosystems.

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Northwest Passage - global climate change in action

bearsky — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:47:05 GMT

heard about commercial shipping interests preparing to use the passage even as corporate interests worldwide deny climate change altogether, typical duplicitiy, but had not considered the biological implications of species migration -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43537642/ns/world_news-world_environment/

http://www.green-blog.org/2008/12/03/first-commercial-ship-sails-through-northwest-passage-i-didnt-see-one-cube-of-ice/

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existance

64yogini — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:34:10 GMT

Existence care for everybody.

Without existence loving us we cannot exist

even for a single moment. It goes on pouring life into us

We are immensely esteemed by existence

Although we go on taking it for granted --

That's where our stupidity lies.

If we take it for grated there is no gratitude

We think as if we deserve
We think as if it is our right; in fact
We think as if we are not getting as much as we deserve,

hence there is

A constant undercurrent of complaints.

This is the state of the irreligious man.

The religious man feels gratitude

Immense gratitude.

Just for sheer being he is grateful.

And once you start feeling gratefulness

There are thousand and one things

To feel grateful for.

And the more you feel grateful
The more gifts go on arriving.

Many gifts are not reaching to us

Because of our complaining mind.

If this complaining mind is put aside

All the stars are ours and all the mysteries

That existence contains are ours.

the tantrics were living in nature to feel the greatfulness .it happens sometimes that you feel greatfull in living in nature. a beautiful sunset and and you feel greatful.because communion with nature creats greatfulness. and as you flow with pulse of nature the existance takes care of you.hindu worship trees as god just to creat the communion with nature ,the nature is god .the existance is god you can give it any name either brihaspati or shiva or krishna. in communion with a tree you feel a deep silence and you become one with existance.
on thursday hindu worship god brihaspatidev or guru.they worshipa banana tree with yellow chickpea and gud or jagry.the yellow is color of solar plexus chakra .the yellow chikpea jagry and yellow food charges solar plexus which is the the seat of our ego. in this picture you see sage with a guitar. it reprsent music dance ,joy and celebration. you can also see tantrics with banana tree on the walls of tantra temple of khajuraho. if you touch or hug a banana tree you willl feel a deep silence and peace it is communion .thats why you see tantrics huging a tree on the walls of tantra temple. if you worship banana tree on thursday existance will take care of you .
banana contains high amount of potasium and phosphorus.phosphorus is connected with clairvoyance and all mystical powers .due to these powers if you touch a banana tree you will feel like flying. thats why you see
flying apasaras and yakshas on the walls of temples. banana also treats liver problems.
in the great indian epic '' kaivalya upnishad''the sage ashwalalyan ask god brahma about the secret of param anand or ultimate joy and truth. brahma gives him knowledge of four steps to reach param anand he says if you have shradha or faith in god or existance then this faith is expresses in bhakti or devotion and out of devotion dhyana or meditation happens and out of dhyana yoga postures happens. so the sequnce to attain god or param anand is trust or faith,bhakti or devotion ,meditation and the yoga. the yoga postures happens in the last they are result of these three steps of faith, devotion and meditation but modern yoga guru starts from yoga postures thinking that by doing yoga they will atain god and peace but it not a right sequence. the right sequence is that out of shradha or faith the devotion or bhakti happens and then due to devotion the dhyana or nothingnes happens and then due to void or dhyana yoga postures happens. the yoga posture is a happening. here nobody pushes you or guide you to do the yoga posture.the music and rituals and herbs helps in happening of void and then yoga postures. if you start from yoga you will stuck in yoga postures whole the life. if you start from bhakti you will stuck in bhakti.only the right seqence will help you to realise peace and void and truth. without faith yoga islike a exercise in a gym.with faith or shradha the yoga become spiritual. otherwise its just a exercise.thats why you see hindus worship a stone or or a river.the shradha makes a stone a god.in shradha yu see godliness everwhere and you surrender to this godliness and thats why a chaitanaya attains without doing a hathayoga. just see a Buddha siting on a lotus posture .do you think due to posture Buddha have attained the peace. No but the fact is that first inner peace happened to Buddha then his body took the lotus posture.because when the being is totally silent,the body follows like a shadow .the body takes a particular posture .the most relaxed possible,the most passive possible.but you can not do it other way around,you can not take a posture first expecting peace in result. posture or asana is a byproduct or result of inner peace. we see a Buddha sitting in a particular posture we think if this posture is followed then the inner silence will follow this is a wrong sequence.for Buddha the inner phenomenon happened first ,and then this lotus posture followed.look at it through your own experience .when you get angry ,the body takes a particular posture.your eyes becomes blooded and your face takes a particular expression.anger is inside and then the body follows.but anger happens first then body follows.
Start from the other pole make your eyes red, creat fast breathing.you can act but you can not creat anger inside.First came the experience of meditation. With the experience of meditation it was found that the body assumed many postures. Actually, whenever the mind is in a particular state the body takes an appropriate corresponding posture. For instance, when you are filled with love your face, your expression, is one way, and when you are angry your expression becomes altogether different. In anger you grind your teeth and clench your fists and the body is ready for fight or flight. When you are in a forgiving mood the eyes are soft and the palms of the hand open. When a man is filled with forgiveness his fists will never clench. Just as clenching the fist is a preparation to fight, opening the fist and spreading out the palm is an indication of freedom from the urge to fight; it is an assurance of protection. To clench the fist is to frighten the other person.
When ever you start from without you will creat a false state .the real always happens in centre then waves reaches to the periphery. But these modern yoga gurus pushing the people to do the postures and asanas thinking that they will attain peace and healing in this way but reality is something else.and in this pushing they are destroying delicate nerves and tandems of the body.even some crazy yoga gurus doing postures in hot rooms thinking that body is like iron which will expand with the heat our body is not a iron rod and our conciousness will not expand with heating. the real guru will never push the body to do the asanas. just see a cat or dog when it wants to relax it just streches its body .have you seen a cat or dog doing a posture in a hot room with a guru.
in my mahamudra i creat spiriual atmosphere using herbs .flowers, sindoor camphor etc for creating a no mind space or dhyana and then play a music and ask people to shake the body to take the energy from earth [bioenergic work]in this shaking when your body gets posses with this music during the dance the body starts taking all the postures automatically which is necesary for its healing and for the innerpeace .first silence happens and then a asana happens. .here you are not pushing your body and postures are happening without a effort you are allowing your body to move with music you are just uncoiling your body during the dance and in this peace and silence mind looses its control over body [due to our conditing and fears mind dosent allow our body to relax].but ones the mind looses its control over body, body starts uncoiling and postures happens and it comes to posture which is relaxed and peacefull for you.but modern yoga guru pushes the students for all the asanas it is like a novice doctor prescribing so many medicines thinking one might work .but doing unnecasary asanas and extra effort can creat problems.yoga is not only about physical wellness buts its also about past lives and enlightenement and moksha. but how many yoga gurus knows about their past lives and are they enlightened. for me a blind is teaching to other blind.yoga means joining male and female energies and this joining or melting joy anf orgasm felt. hatha yoga or classical dance dosent bring any exstasy and joy and orgasm because it comes from mind. have you ever felt orgasm doing hatha yoga or classical dance. the real mudras or asanas happens after melting male and female energies and going in to void or thoughtlessness. it is
happening .it is not doing it is not effort. but peole are doing it. when you dance it is god who dances in you; that's why it is so beautiful. Whenever you dance you are no more separate, in dance you expand due to melting in to whole or existance and expansion is joy .the same thing happens in a reltionship when you surrender to love energy you melt in to your lover and this melting is joy and orgasm.but unfortunately we dont melt due to our fears ,conditioning and ego . so i use herbs to desolve fears and ego. for example i open solar plexus with banana tree .banana tree contains potasium and phosphorus. and heals liver and solar plexus which is the seat of ego. this ego creats fights in relationship.thats why hindus worship banana tree on thursday with yellow sweet and chickpea. as yellow is color of solarplexus. once energy moves from solar plexus to heart chakra and to third eye chakra and then fight and ego struggle transforms in to harmony.and then from crown chakra it moves to your partners body and forms a circle of yin and yang .yin melts in to yang and yang melt in to yin and the result will be void or nothingness. but sometimes people feel a lot of fear before entering in to void.once you get the knack of melting and surrendering with your partner then you can melt in to whole existance in dancing.in the melting in to whole you wil feel ultimate orgasm .when you melt in to your lover you feel so much joy and orgasm which is small piece of this whole existance then how much joy you will feel when you will melt in to the whole. so you can feel joy and void with your partner also and you can feel ultimate ecstasy and joy in melting in whole or existance.the expansion is joy . till you are insidethe boundaries of your body you are in grip of ego and iceolation. thats why you feel stress and tension. but as you melt and expand you will feel joy.in hindu scriptures sages says ''raso vaisa'' it means god is joy.now scientist also says that universe is expanding it is nature of universe to expnd it is a law of physics.the meaning of ''brahma''is expansion. brahma is a god. so if you follow the the law of physics of expansion you are following the universal law. and it is real religion. following the laws of physics of expansion is true religion. and dont follow it yu wlll suffer with iceolation and stress you will become a island .but in existance everything is intedependent. you can not live like island in iceolation. alll the problems like heart attack, diabetese is happens due to his iceolation and not melting in to lovers or universe. but modren human being is stuck in ego due to strong solar plexus.the energy dosent move and in to others and in to universe.if you open your solar plexus chakra and if you surrender to love energy you will not suffer and your life willl be of joy and ecstasy and peace. by opening solar plexus the the ego transfom in to intimacy at sixth chakra and then you go in to void and then 64 asnas happens to you if you are alone and 64 postures of kamasutra happens to you if you are with you lover. . this is the journey and this is happening in universe 24 hours. but we human being are suffering because we are stuck with our ego and fear. in relationship if yu dont suurender to love energy. you will not melt and you will not feel intimacy and superconciousness. you dont have to surrender to a lover but you have to surrender to love energy. if you surrender and if you are total in love making you will not get wounded if your relationship breaks up due to some reason.. you will not fall in ditch of guilt ,abondenment and rage.but we fall in ditch and blames others. and if you dont get a matture and understanding partner you can melt in to whole which is free from all the dependancy.it is very difficult to celebrate a relationship in melting due to ego.

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Weekly World Peace Prayer (Sundays!) for 2012 raising planetary consciousness

Daniel — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:57:09 GMT

I am Daniel (reincarnated messenger) and have been given a special calling to bring forth greater global peace and to raise consciousness with collective, synchronized prayers every Sunday evening, 12 to 10PM PST, USA!

It will continue regularly until late 2012...then either "zero point" ascension, or if failure, destruction of current civilization, economy and way of life and mass die offs.... (See why at sister site: http://endimeprophet2012.com )

Go and join others for such prayerful meditation and decrees at:

http://www.worldpeaceprayervision.org

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Time 4 The DEA 2 Surrender!

Casper — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:12:43 GMT

Time 4 the DEA's Surrender!

On the eve of the World Class '2011 Treating Yourself Hemp EXPO'
the 'Global Commission On Drugs' met and declared the War On Drugs
TO BE A WORLD-WIDE FAILURE that is destroying the lives
of everyone alive today and of those who shall be born tomorrow
and echoes the message we've been shouting for years:
It really is TIME 4 HEMP!

Featured in this segment:

Paul Stanford, Host of 'Cannabis Common Sense'

Ethan Nadelmann, Exc. Dir. of the Drug Policy Alliance

Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Project Coordinator for Latin America at the Cato Institute

Music artists featured: Curtis Mayfield - Andras Jones

This segment is free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.com
or by clicking this URL:
http://www.time4hemp.biz/podcast/today/028-Time-4-Surrender.mp3

This segment has been posted in slide-show format at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6WPT6Jhxg

This week's free music download is: 'Legalize It' by The Yonder Mountain String Band.
http://www.time4hemp.biz/podcast/music/Yonder-Mt-String-Band-Legalize-It.mp3

You can read the findings of The Global Commission On Drugs at:
http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report

Please share this with everyone who you feel would enjoy knowing about this information.

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"O wow that's epoch, man, epoch!"

bearsky — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:37:07 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/03/geologists-human-epoch-anthropocene

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Time 4 Hemp and AIDS research!

Casper — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:35:52 GMT

Host, Casper Leitch and JOINT-host, Ray Cristl chat with Dr Richard DeAndrea about the major breakthroughs he is making in AIDS research.

Time 4 Hemp and AIDS - Pt.1
On YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_DoLFY3Gk

Time 4 Hemp and AIDS - Pt. 2
On YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35wxlljMTA

On the NEW 'Best Of Time 4 Hemp - LIVE' RSS feed:
http://best-of-time-4-hemp-live.time4hemp.com/podcasts-only/rss2.aspx

Please share this with your friends!

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A Message from the Hopi Elders

Siz'L — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:12:28 GMT

Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:46
"A Message from the Hopi Elders"
"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.
Here are the things that must be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know our garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personal.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
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!"
- Oraibi, Arizona, Hopi Nation

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Happy Ostara

Siz'L — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:48:35 GMT

hope you all enjoy a blissed spring season...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k54cn1gbIyI

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Joanna Macy: facing the crisis we have made

WalkAlone — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:06:40 GMT

Ecobuddhism published this amazing interview with Joanna Macy. It is inspirational if painful: http://www.ecobuddhism.org/wisdom/interviews/jmacy

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"Intentional Community"

bearsky — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:48:36 GMT

maybe because of my brush with death and permanant disability, but I love the idea of this and have been trying to get this exact type of situation together for a couple years now

don't like the "commune" vibe but don't want to knock that for others just not the kind of situation that I had in mind and when I discovered this concept of "intentional community" thought wow bingo now I have a word for what used to take quite a while to simple get the main concept across

The people that have called so far have been mature adults who were reasonable and rational as well as an amazingly good fit, I felt - friends had said that I am nuts to open up this can of worms and that I would be besiegned with nut job new age wackos but no such thing, so far. Perhaps some people like myself want to prepare in a sane, rational way for what I am sure now will be very difficult times ahead as well as being fed up with our sick and errant American dream characterized by nuclear families, isolation and materialism?

I want to create here a small community of independent but cooperative people who work together in terms of community bound by common goals and values, those being a healthy, sustainable lifestyle in the fullest since of the word here on one of the most beautiful physical locations on the face of the planet

http://directory.ic.org/23283/Goat_Head_Ranch

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Ocean acidification

WalkAlone — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:25:52 GMT

IUCN and other agencies have released an excellent short report on the causes and consequences of ocean acidification. Though there is still some resistance to the evidence of human-driven climate change on Earth, there is no debate about the fact that CO2 emissions from human activity are causing greater acidity in the ocean, with disasterous consequences for life on Earth. The science requires a bit of explanation, and then the rest is up to us to educate those around us. Go to the website to download the document in English, French or Spanish: http://www.epoca-project.eu/index.php/what-do-we-do/outreach/rug/oa-questions-answered.html

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The Gulf of Mexico is Dying

mutumbawarrior — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:15:25 GMT

http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-dying-2/

Posted on April 9, 2011
A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil Spill

By Dr. Tom Termotto

It is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are of such great import and have such far-reaching ramifications for the entire planet. Truly, the fate of the oceans of the world hangs in the balance, as does the future of humankind.

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) does not exist in isolation and is, in fact, connected to the Seven Seas. Hence, we publish these findings in order that the world community will come together to further contemplate this dire and demanding predicament. We also do so with the hope that an appropriate global response will be formulated, and acted upon, for the sake of future generations. It is the most basic responsibility for every civilization to leave their world in a better condition than that which they inherited from their forbears.

After conducting the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference for over seven months, we can now disseminate the following information with the authority and confidence of those who have thoroughly investigated a crime scene. There are many research articles, investigative reports and penetrating exposes archived at the following website. Particularly those posted from August through November provide a unique body of evidence, many with compelling photo-documentaries, which portray the true state of affairs at the Macondo Prospect in the GOM.

http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-dying/

The pictorial evidence tells the whole story.

Especially that the BP narrative is nothing but a corporate-created illusion – a web of fabrication spun in collaboration with the US Federal Government and Mainstream Media. Big Oil, as well as the Military-Industrial Complex, have aided and abetted this whole scheme and info blackout because the very future of the Oil & Gas Industry is at stake, as is the future of the US Empire and War-Making Machine which sprawls around the world and requires vast amounts of hydrocarbon fuel.

Should the truth seep out and into the mass consciousness – that the GOM is slowly but surely filling up with oil and gas – certainly many would rightly question the integrity, and sanity, of the whole venture, as well as the entire industry itself. And then perhaps the process would begin of transitioning the planet away from the hydrocarbon fuel paradigm altogether.

It’s not a pretty picture.

The various pictures, photos and diagrams that fill the many articles at the aforementioned website represent photo-evidence about the true state of affairs on the seafloor surrounding the Macondo Prospect in the Mississippi Canyon, which is located in the Central Planning Area of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The very dynamics of the dramatic changes and continuous evolution of the seafloor have been captured in ways that very few have ever seen. These snapshots have given us a window of understanding into the true state of the underlying geological formations around the various wells drilled in the Macondo Prospect.

Although our many deductions may be difficult for the layperson to apprehend at first, to the trained eye these are but obvious conclusions which are simply the result of cause and effect. In other words there is no dispute concerning the most serious geological changes which have occurred, and continue to occur, in the region around the Macondo wells. The original predicament (an 87 day gushing well) was extremely serious, as grasped by the entire world, and the existing situation is only going to get progressively worse.

So, just what does this current picture look like. Please click on the link below to view the relevant diagrams and read the commentary:

http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/an-autopsy-of-the-bp-gulf-oil-well-at-the-macondo-prospect/

As the diagrams clearly indicate, the geology around the well bore has been blown. This occurred because of drilling contiguous to a salt dome(1), as well as because of the gas explosions which did much damage to the integrity of the well casing, cementing, well bore, well head, and foundation around the well head. Eighty-seven straight days of gushing hydrocarbon effluent under great pressure only served to further undermine the entire well system. Finally, when it was capped, putting the system back under pressure forced the upsurging hydrocarbons to find weaknesses throughout the greater system, which revealed all sorts of compromised, fractured and unsettled geology through which the hydrocarbons could travel all the way to the seafloor and into the GOM.

(1)“The rock beds in the vicinity of a salt dome are highly fractured and permeable due to stress and deformation which occur as the salt dome thrusted upwards.” (Per BK Lim, Geohazards Specialist)

We also have faults* to deal with in this scenario of which there are both deep and shallow. Depending on the current vital stats of the blown out well, especially its actual depth; the number, location and severity of the breaches throughout the well system; the pressure at the wellhead; as well as the type and status of geological formations/strata it has been drilled into, these faults will become prominently configured into the future stability of the whole region. Larger faults can open up much greater opportunities for the hydrocarbons to find their way to the seafloor via cracks and crevices, craters and chasms. In fact the numerous leaks and seeps throughout the seafloor surface, which are quite apparent from various ROV live-feeds, give testimony to sub-seafloor geological formations in great turmoil and undergoing unprecedented flux.

*“Once the oil gets into the shallow faulted zones, we have an uncontrollable situation. The place where most of the oil and gas is coming out is at the foot hills of the continental shelf as shown in figure 134-1 in the article “BP continues to dazzle us with their unlimited magic”. The discovery by WHOI of the 22 mile long river of oil originated from these leaks. So the leaks will be mainly along the faults where I have marked (shallow) in “What is going on at West Sirius” and deep strike-slip faults (red line) on fig 134-1.” (Per BK Lim, Geohazards Specialist)

Just how bad is this situation? There are actually three different ongoing disasters – each more grave and challenging than the previous one – which must be considered when assessing the awesome destruction to the GOM by the Oil & Gas Industry.

I. A single gushing well at 7o – 100,000 barrels per day of hydrocarbon effluent for 87 days into the GOM at the Macondo Prospect along with two smaller rogue wells

II. Numerous leaks and seeps within five to ten square miles of the Macondo well with an aggregate outflow of an unknown amount of hydrocarbon effluent per day into the GOM

III. Countless small gushers and mini-spills, leaks and seeps, throughout the Gulf of Mexico, where oil drilling has been conducted for many decades, with an aggregate outflow into the GOM that can not even be estimated, but is well in excess of any guesstimate which would ensure its slow and steady demise (not too unlike the petrochemical cesspool known as the Caspian Sea).

It is the last scenario which we all face and to which there is no easy or obvious solution. The truth be told, there currently does not exist the technology or machinery or equipment to repair the damage that has been wrought by the process of deep undersea drilling, especially when it is performed in the wrong place. Therefore, wherever the oil and gas find points of entry into the GOM through the seafloor, these leaks and seeps will only continue to get worse. Here’s why:

Methane gas mixed with saltwater and mud makes for a very potent corrosive agent. Under high pressure it will find every point of egress through the rock and sediment formations all the way up to the seafloor where it will find any point of exit that is available. The longer and more forcefully that it flows throughout the fractured area, which is dependent on the volume, temperature and pressure at the source of the hydrocarbons, the more its corrosive effects will widen, broaden and enlarge the channels, cracks and crevices throughout the sub-seafloor geology, thereby creating a predicament that no science, technology or equipment can remedy.

Dire realities of the methane hydrate predicament

The Macondo Prospect in the GOM is just one of many throughout the oceans of the world where the seafloor has beds of methane hydrate locked in place by very high pressure and low temperatures. Likewise, there are myriad repositories and large “reservoirs” of methane clathrates in the sub-seafloor strata, and especially within the more superficial geological formations, which are being greatly impacted by all oil and gas drilling and extraction activities. It does not take much imagination to understand how the upsurging hydrocarbons (very hot oil and gas under high pressure) are quickly converting the frozen methane hydrate to gas, thereby causing innumerable “micro-displacements”, the cumulative effect of which will translate to larger “macro-displacements” of rock, sediment and other geological formations.

When you factor in this constant vaporization of methane hydrates/clathrates both sub-seafloor as well as those scattered around the seafloor surface to the existing scenario, this devolving situation becomes that much more difficult to effectively remedy. With the resulting shifts and resettling and reconfiguration of the entire seafloor terrain and underlying strata occurring in the wake of these dynamics, we are left with a situation that is not going to get better through the use of even more invasive technology and intrusive machinery.

Question: How many times can you grout a seafloor crack that was caused by an underlying superficial fault after drilling into an old mud volcano?

Answer: “In the attempt to seal the oil from oozing through the faults, BP resorted to high pressure grouting. Basically it is like cementing the cracks in the rock by injecting grout (cement mixture) at high pressure. The way they do this is by drilling an injection hole into the shallow rocks and pumping in the grout. The grout in “slurry” state will permeate into the cracks, cure and seal up the cracks. However it is not working because of the presence of gas and oil. It is like super-glue. You need to clean the surfaces before you apply the glue; otherwise it won’t stick and will come off eventually after a few days or weeks. That is why we can see a few blown out craters – shown in my article – Is the last rite for the Macondo Well for real?” (Per BK Lim, Geohazards Specialist)

Likewise, how do you fill a newly emerging gash in the seafloor which is caused by a deep fault due to low level seismic activity, or worse, a full blown earthquake?!

Seismic activity in the GOM and the uptick in earthquakes in the Mississippi River Basin and surrounding region

The oil and gas platforms that were in operation throughout the northern Gulf of Mexico in 2006 (per Wikipedia).

We now come to the most serious issue regarding the relentless drilling for oil and gas throughout the Gulf of Mexico. The map above clearly illustrates the density of drilling throughout the northern GOM as of 2006. Likewise, the map below demonstrates the extraordinary and increasing intensity of these very same operations off the coast of Louisiana alone.

Green lines represent active pipes (25,000 miles in all). Yellow dots represent oil rigs.

The map that follows, however, tells a story which demands the attention of every resident of the GOM coastline. The video link below the map shows the development timeline of the successively deeper wells being drilled during the last decade. Of course, with greater depths come much greater risks, as the technology and machinery have not been proportionately upgraded to accommodate the extraordinary demands and unforeseen contingencies of such a speculative and dangerous enterprise*.

*Oil and gas drilling in seawater depths of over 4000 feet, and through 15,000 to 25,000 feet of the earth’s crust and mantle, is considered extremely dangerous to those from whom reason and common sense have not yet fled.

Click on the map to enlarge.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Rigs: 1942-2005

It’s critical to understand the location and current activity of the various faults which exist throughout the GOM and how they connect to the New Madrid Fault Line, as well as other major faults at much greater distance. There does appear to be a emerging uptick in earthquake activity in the greater Louisiana area, as well as contiguous regions in the GOM as demonstrated by unprecedented, albeit low level earthquakes. Correlations between these earthquakes/seismic activity and major operations at the Macondo Prospect have been alluded to in our previous postings, as well as by many recent articles explaining the inevitable subsidence which occurs when prodigious volumes of oil and gas are removed through drilling in the GOM.

Earthquake Activity in Gulf of Mexico Prompts 2003 Study for MMS

Gulf of Mexico Subsea Structures May Be in Seismic Danger Zone – Part 2

Now then, the question remains just how vulnerable has the GOM been made to a truly catastrophic event, ending up with an overwhelming displacement of water producing tidal waves, in the aftermath of an undersea earthquake.

There is no question that the ceaseless fracturing of the seafloor and fissuring of the sub-seafloor geological strata by the Oil & Gas Industry has set up a quite conducive environment for HUGE unintended consequences. We leave it up to the experts to conduct the necessary risk assessments, which will most assuredly let loose a sea of red flags about what Big Oil has done, and is currently doing, in (and to) the Gulf of Mexico.

Furthermore, we are deeply concerned that, if a permanent moratorium on all new oil and gas drilling and extraction in the GOM is not put into place poste haste, the coastal communities will remain in a very precarious situation. The most immediate concern relates to the combination of ill-advised drilling activity (conducted in spite of geohazard assessments/recommendations) with unpredictable seismic events, which could trigger undersea landslides at the shelf edge causing massive water displacement.

Worsening GOM predicament is reflective of the status quo around the globe

Now consider the following scenario: that this very same predicament, which we have all witnessed in the Gulf of Mexico, is happening wherever oil and gas drilling is conducted in the various water bodies throughout the planet. Therefore we can multiply the Macondo Prospect disaster a hundred times and still not come close to the impacts that these ongoing gushers and spills, leaks and seeps are having the world over.

Perhaps the BP Gulf Oil Spill was the defining moment in modern history when all the nations of the world community were called by Mother Earth herself to begin transitioning the planet away from the Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm. After all, we may never get another chance!

Transitioning The Planet Away From The Hydrocarbon Fuel Paradigm

Tom Termotto, National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference
Tallahassee, FL
OilSpillSolution@comcast.net
SKYPE: Gulf_Advocate
http://oilspillsolutionsnow.org/

Author’s Note: This short reality check was made possible by BK Lim, Geohazards Specialist, whose research and analysis of the BP Gulf Oil Spill have proved invaluable to ferreting out the truth of this unprecedented environmental devastation. BK provided figures 137-06, 136-3, 1h and 137-01 including the commentary, which only an experienced and highly skilled geohazards expert could furnish with authority. He is also responsible for many of the articles/essays posted on this website, as well as some that are linked to this article.

ADDENDUM:
There are two very significant topics, which have been not been discussed in this report, that beg for acknowledgement and further attention in light of the title:
The Gulf of Mexico is Dying
Both of these problems are highly consequential and therefore merit separate papers in order to give them the treatment they deserve, if we are to understand why the GOM is slowly dying. Until those papers are completed, we offer the following short summaries:

#1 The wanton and indiscriminate use of the dispersant, Corexit, turned an extremely serious regional disaster into an unmitigated global catastrophe.

How so? The dispersants Corexit 9500 and 9527 both served to interact with the oil in such a way that much of it sank to the bottom. It also caused much dispersed oil to be held in suspension within the water column, as well as carried with the currents to and fro in amounts which can only be guessed. There is an emerging consensus that, because of the overwhelming volume of Corexit which was dispensed throughout the GOM, the Loop Current, which has historically guaranteed the flow of the warm Gulf waters into the Gulf Stream Current, has been fundamentally altered.

The most obvious consequence was to profoundly slow down the turnover of water into and out of the GOM. By curtailing this natural, rejuvenative process, the Gulf has become a more stagnant body of water, with significantly less opportunity to cleanse itself. Even the normal hurricane pattern in the GOM slackened precipitously this past hurricane season, thereby diminishing much churning and mechanical action which can be helpful to the natural breakdown of petroleum and its many byproducts.

Of course, the real unknown here is how dramatic and lasting the effects a stalled Loop Current will have on the Gulf Stream’s influence on the weather of Great Britain, Continental Europe and the contiguous land masses. By many accounts the recent meteorological developments, especially in Northern Europe, are being viewed with great apprehension about what the future weather patterns will bring? Many are concerned that a tipping point has already arrived and that this sea change will irrevocably transform a way of life.

What else do we know about Corexit from an environmental health perspective?

How many times have we all heard that dispersed oil is at least four times more toxic than oil alone? Here are the test results from the EPA study, as well as the EPA link:

(1) 10.72 parts per million (ppm) of oil alone will kill 50% of the fish test species in a normal aquatic environment within 96 hours.

(2) 25.20 parts per million of dispersant (Corexit 9500) alone will kill 50% of the fish test species in a normal aquatic environment within 96 hours.

(3) 2.61 parts per million of dispersed oil (Corexit-laden) alone will kill 50% of the fish test species in a normal aquatic environment within 96 hours.

http://www.epa.gov/oem/content/ncp/tox_tables.htm

“Crude oil has proven toxicity at 1 part per million, with constituents like benzene exhibiting genotoxicity in the parts per billion range. The dispersants have made the oil “disappear,” according to the mainstream media, and yet we have marine toxicology documents PROVING that the dispersants PREVENT the natural break…down of some constituents of the oil, e.g. the lesser soluble hydrocarbons such as naphthalene.” (Per Gulf Oil Spill Truth)

Not only is the dispersed oil much more toxic, it is now virtually impossible to remediate in its current micronized or nano-sized state. Disappeared they did to the oil, and so did they to the various technologies and methodologies which would have been effective in cleaning up oil alone. Now we are left with a predicament that requires a form of mitigation which must be conceived, before it can be tried and tested.

In the meantime the entire GOM food chain (including those who continue to eat the seafood) is concentrating these newly formed toxic byproducts in their tissues, the effects of which will gradually wend their way through the bodies of each and every organism that is exposed to them. Just how poisonous to life dispersed oil is we may not know for years, nor does any government-funded research institution seem to be in a hurry to find out!

Both Corexit 9500 and 9527 were sprayed liberally for many months both on the GOM surface, as well as undersea. The officially reported amount is shown below; the covert spraying continues to this very day in volumes which can only be determined by reviewing the disbursement records at Nalco Holding Company. The photo above (Fig. 137-06) , in addition to much anecdotal evidence, unequivocally demonstrates continued dispersant use up to this very day, which therefore indicates a much higher volume used throughout the GOM.

Surface dispersant used: 1, 072,514 gallons
Subsea dispersant used: 771,272 gallons
Total dispersant used: 1,843,786 gallons

Consider what Wikipedia has to say about 9527: “Corexit 9527, considered by the EPA to be an acute health hazard, is stated by its manufacturer to be potentially harmful to red blood cells, the kidneys and the liver, and may irritate eyes and skin.[14][24] The chemical 2-butoxyethanol, found in Corexit 9527, was identified as having caused lasting health problems in workers involved in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.[25] According to the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the use of Corexit during the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused people “respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders”.[16] Like 9527, 9500 can cause hemolysis (rupture of blood cells) and may also causeinternal bleeding.”[4]

COREXIT being offloaded according to strict OSHA procedures

http://stopthespraying.org/blog/how-toxic-is-corexit/

The following link offers a more in-depth discussion of how this unprecedented mixture of massive amounts of dispersant, oil, methane and radioactive hydrocarbons have forever altered the energetics of the Gulf of Mexico. It is then much easier to understand the unanticipated and immediate stalling of the Loop Current in light of these critical changes to the GOM fundamentals.

Environmental and Health Impacts of the BP Gulf Oil Spill

#2 The deeper the geological source of the hydrocarbons, the more radioactive isotopes present in the oil and gas.

That hydrocarbons pulled from the bowels of the earth have a scientifically verified radioactive component(s) is the dirty little secret of the Oil & Gas Industry. So secret in fact that, if it were to get out, this single scientific fact would seal the fate of the entire industry. It also undergirds the correct understanding that oil and gas are both abiotic in nature and abiogenic in origin – facts which cast a refreshing light on the notion of Peak Oil. Yes, we have reached Peak Oil , but not because of the untenable Fossil Fuel Theory which has been known to be false by the Oil and Gas Industry since its inception. (i.e. It has been asserted that the Macondo Prospect sits on a reservoir of abiotic oil the size of Mount Everest, one of the two largest batholiths with proven oil and gas mega-reserves in the GOM.) However, that doesn’t make it economically feasible or technologically prudent to extract; nor is it smart to engage in such utter folly, as the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon dramatically demonstrated.

Soon after the BP Gulf Oil Spill began there appeared a headline which was more telling than them all:
“They’ve Literally Punched A Hole Into Hell: We Need A Crash Alternative Energy Program Now, Assuming We Even Survive”

Mantle-generated hydrocarbons come from very young geological formations deep in the earth, and are the product of extremely powerful geo-thermal forces. The presence of radioactive isotopes such as uranium, thorium, radium show up in much greater concentrations the deeper the well bore is drilled into the earth’s crust, and are ubiquitous throughout the mantle. Therefore, the hydrocarbon constituents, which are actually found in the interstitial spaces, porous rock formations and quaternary sediments and are scattered everywhere because of their liquid and gaseous states, exist within and around this highly radioactive environment.
How radioactive is the hydrocarbon effluent upsurging from the these wells in the GOM that are drilled at 12, 15, 18, 20, 25 or 30,000 feet through the crust and into the mantle? Here’s a link to the American Petroleum Institute website that will partially answer this question.

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in North American Oilfields
http://www.chk.com/Media/CorpMediaKits/API_NORM_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Whenever there is a higher concentration of methane gas in the mix of oil/gas that comes out of any given well, it means that:

“The more methane that is present reflects the amount of Uranium and Thorium in the oil reserve. The deeper the oil, the younger the radiological decay is that produces helium.”

“Helium is a naturally occurring gas formed in oil reserves. So common that helium detectors have been used to discover oil reserves. Helium is an inert gas known to be a by-product from the radiological decay of uranium and thorium. Uranium and Thorium are known to be in great quantities at greater depths. Yes, radioactive elements occur naturally and can be found and detected in smaller amounts in shallow oil reserves. Oil reserves that do not produce large amounts of methane also lack uranium and thorium. The presence of methane is proportional to the presence of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.”

“The energy coming from uranium and thorium decay is thought to be the most significant energy source inside the earth,” Tolich said. “So this is the driving engine for things such as tectonic plate movements, volcanoes and earthquake. We are looking for neutrinos, particularly electron antineutrinos … coming from uranium and thorium decay inside the earth. The uranium and thorium is distributed all through the earth in the mantle.” (Per http://oilandgasleaks.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/urgent-radioactive-oil-from-bp-blowout/)

Uranium, thorium neutrino research could determine Earth’s age, energy production

From our many discussions with those knowledgeable at the OSATF (Oil Spill Academic Task Force) here in Tallahassee, FL, it became evident early on in the spill that the percentage of methane of the total hydrocarbon composition was quite high. Some observed that it appeared to very slowly decrease, yet remained high right up until the capping of the gusher. Hence, we know that this oil spill in the GOM has a very definite radioactive component which must be addressed.

Please understand that we are not suggesting that the fish will start glowing with radiation; only that long term exposure to low level radioactivity has its obvious consequences to all living organisms. In the meantime, those living on the GOM coastline ought to introduce copious amounts of seaweed (e.g. kelp) into their diets.

Where it concerns the release of radioactivity into the waters, there is simply no way to put this genie back into the bottle within the current scientific paradigm … unless there is alchemical science yet to be revealed or new age technologies to be developed.

As we said in the introduction, “It is with great regret that we file this report.”

May we all do our part in spreading the awareness of these realities, so that many more of US will be in the position to make informed decisions about where we live, work and play, what we eat, our health and safety, our livelihoods, our families, our communities … … … and our shared environment known as Mother Earth.

The Seventh Sign of the HOPI Prophecy:
“You will hear of the sea turning black,
and many living things dying because of it.”

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April 6th 2011 - For the Record

bearsky — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:00:50 GMT

For the record - To you politicians who want to defund planned parenthood - I’d much rather defund YOU, man.

I’d like to add funds to planned parenthood. And to education. Infrastructure. Healthcare. Sustainable agriculture, energy and industry. Yes, to the arts, science - BOO science!!, You know, embrace LIFE work for the GOOD of people.

Defund the Iraqi war, Afghani war and defund the whole war machine that I David B. Sky, an American citizen with valid birth certificate and voters card, find morally reprehensible and that I protest in the strongest terms having to fund such abominations and atrocities as WAR. "Predator" drone planes incinerating babies in the name of what - "the war on terror"? - please, my tax dollars pay for those bombs - the cruise missles launched in Libya costing over one million dollars a piece, not counting support costs such as the ship to launch the missle from - while our teachers are laid off because our nation is "broke".

And I’d like to defund the systematic destruction of my society blatantly in the name of greed and power already having destroyed the lives of millions of Americans - and defund this very consciousness that accepts a notion of America that is not the body of us all but a oligarchic cabal of the wealthy few.

Our body politic, our governing consciousness itself begins to eat its own tail

Eat its own tail, friends - never a good sign!

I call it a machine but call it parasitic or maybe call it cancer, perhaps the best analogy of all?

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Earth Hour

emptycloud — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:39:49 GMT

http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx
Millions will participate ... How about you???

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Peace on YOU

bearsky — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:01:27 GMT

Peace On YOU

If you have blue eyes
If you have green eyes
If you have brown eyes
If you have hazel eyes
Peace on YOU, peace on YOU
Peace on all of YOU

If you are Christian
If you are Muslim
If you are Buddhist
If you are Jewish
Peace on YOU, peace on YOU
Peace on all of you

If you are good
If you are bad
If you are right
If you are wrong
Peace on you, Peace on You
Peace on all of YOU

f you can’t dance
If you can’t sing
If you are left wing
If you are right wing
Peace on YOU, peace on YOU
Peace on all of YOU

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Trees we breathe

Chelsea — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:51:59 GMT

Hi I know that talk can be cheap on some subjects but I am curious about the laws protecting trees in the US and anywhere slse in the world. I fanyone wants to share their knowlege with me I would appreciate it. We should be protecting our forrests in order to counteract all of the pollution to clean the air we breathe. Yet they are still disappearing at a rapid rate? I hate to imagine how things will get if this continues.

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Tsk Tsk from the great mother of us all

bearsky — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:05:31 GMT

(A self proclaimed propagandist for the mother of us all)

The great American materialist erection stroked up and down up and down by the “Dow Jones” but sure enough the engorged, mindless cock swells and finally cums smearing its toxic seed across the face of the mother us all. And the son of a bitch keeps doing this shit, too, over and over, like a gigantic, god damned neurotic monkey in a zoo. Common, America. pull those plastic pants up from around your ankles, get out of your parent’s basement, take a walk out in the sunshine. Seriously, America, nothing but love for your hard on, but look there’s a big, beautiful world when you let go of it for just a few minutes for gods sake and maybe do something with your hands like hug someone or hell maybe even be so bold as to create something beautiful and worthwhile - oh yea, goes without saying that you washed the hell out of those hands first.

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Great Mother of us All - help is on the way ...

bearsky — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:43:02 GMT

-- 2012 - Year of the Walk Ins --
(In 2012 Walk In Souls begin to incarnate into tens of thousands of bodies belonging to humans who are suicidal and/or emotionally deadened by a hellish lifetime. In what is the eleventh hour of life on planet earth, old souls, soldiers of light, spiritually parachute into the fray. Light Soldiers will not be fooled and they will not be frightened for they land here, unlike most of the rest of us, with full consciousness of their eternal natures. Light Soldiers wield a two edged sword one side razer sharp with love, the other with truth and these old souls to be known on earth as "Light Connectors" for the way in which they will spread the light of truth and love across the planet are here to help, brothers and sisters, here to help.)

After twenty three years of marriage, if he pushed it, she would finally say, “do you want to have sex?” always simultaneously reaching for a condom from the bedside dresser. Each time this happened a little bomb exploded very quietly inside his head. Sadness spread through his body as though it were shot into his heart with a hypodermic needle. Quickly suffused with rejection and sadness, sometimes mild nausea - he usually took a moment to respond. The moment. Always the same, this moment, with some part of him calling out for reason. Talk to her, this part will insist. Communication is the only way. You can’t go on like this, Michael -

But he would shut that part off. Felt a little like holding another person under water until they drown. Didn’t exactly go down easy but, so far, it always went down. And he would take the condom body heavy with a toxic mix of shame and self hatred and he would put the condom on because his self effacing body hungered for any physical intimacy that he could get. He had learned over twenty three years that each attempt to talk about his feelings would end in her anger and increased emotional abandonment and total physical abandonment.

Usually at some point after an orgasm that broke like a lost, deep sob, Michael would choke back tears because crying accomplished nothing but more alienation, rejection and abandonment.

She didn’t like crying, period.

His hunger and desperation for physical intimacy would sometimes get the better of him and he would try to make love to her as he used to do and as he longed to do again but this never went well. Kissing is discouraged and virtually anything else other than - “do you want to have sex” and the fairly quick series of programmed actions that always follow that statement, which may come as Michael is kissing her neck. Those words that cut like the sharpest knife. “Do you want to have sex?” And Michael essentially saying “yes” with only a moment’s hesitation - only a moment.

A moment that reveals Michael in his utter defeat.

Later, trying to go to sleep, alone in their bed because she sleeps in the living room, Michael may torture himself by trying again to recall the last time that she had gone down on him? It was never a big deal to him but now that she doesn’t want to sleep with him, kiss him - really, doesn’t want to have sex with him at all only as a placation. She has learned to offer the condom quickly so that she may avoid what must be for her even more disgusting demands that he might make upon her like kissing. This avenue of thought leads to broader recognition of his social and emotional isolation in general and a terrible feeling of doom. And many nights doomed Michael falls asleep listening to the sounds of the TV in the living room crying quietly, almost as alone as a human being could be.

In this dream Michael found himself in a place that “felt” so familiar and comfortable and Michael who had never really had a family or an emotional home could not recognize the place visually but he knew for certain that he was “Home”. He seemed to be suspended in space with distant stars like bright pinpricks off in every direction. Directly in front of him Michael saw an enormous cylindrical object that appeared to be composed of light but light unlike anything Michael had ever known? Home, he thought clearly. This is my home. Suddenly he realized that he was a bright spark of this light himself - no body now? And then he realized what the bright sparks were that he saw entering and exiting the light cylinder and then he realized that he himself could enter the light cylinder and with this realization his heart exploded with joy.

Joy.

Another spark then zipped up and into him and spoke to him in a way that again seemed so familiar to Michael yet he could not even begin to explain it.

Your incarnation has not gone well, the other spark “said”.

Michael felt more love and compassion then he had ever felt in his life. Even though he had no head, he inexplicably felt as though his life were flashing through his head like a deck of cards shuffled very fast and he felt the jarring pain that had been his existence. His death alone without a friend in the world, without family and a wife who he had carefully chosen to forsake him.

Death? What’s this about death? Michael asked?

You knew that your body could not take much more? Said the other.

I’m dead then? Michael asked.

Soon? Said the other.

I do not understand?

We need to send in the soldiers to save the physical world and its invaluable sentient creatures. I need this body. It is an emergency.

Soldiers? Michael questioned.

The soldiers of light, the other said. You will understand when you return to the godhead. And you will see that your incarnation was not the utter failure that it appears to be. You must agree to the exchange, though?

Michael asked a little hesitantly, fearing that the answer might be, NO. I exchange my body with you and then … I can return?

You can return, yes, Said the other.

The words like love itself to Michael filling him with such relief that the hopeless and helpless suffering of his fifty one years lies finally behind him.

When the other awoke in Michaels body about 6:30 AM alone in their bedroom, he found himself smiling listening to the sound of birds outside the window that was cracked open. He breathed deeply and the air felt great. He lay perfectly still, smiling, healing first the brain aneurism that would take this body within a matter of weeks. He worked through so many areas inside this body finding it to be a physical map of the emotional hell that was Michaels life. When he was finished it was around 8:30. The other felt that the healing had gone very well. He would just have to reinforce it every day for a while. He swung his legs onto the ground and still sitting on the bed he stretched the body until the joints popped and then he shook his shoulders loose and took a big breath before standing up and walking immediately to slightly opened bedroom window.

My god, he thought looking out at their suburban backyard, How beautiful this world is - how could I have forgotten? Warm sunshine on your face. Splashing into a clear mountain lake. Kissing the one you love -

A voice in his head interupted his revery with its gentle reminder: “Find the others".

A resolution formed within the lightness of his new body, firm and strong, watching some children walking to a bus stop below and across the grassy yard, morning sunlight blessing them with radiance - this world must be saved, he said out loud, hearing the voice of this new body for the first time.

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role call ...please...

Siz'L — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:31:33 GMT

we are trying to see how many folks are still in tribe....
or how much of a ghostship we really are which ever the case may be...

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citizen of teh cosmos

Shou — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:49:23 GMT

a video uploaded by my friend Kurt,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jslxgLJ6I8w&feature=feedu

he talks about the current state of our society as posited by some science guy who i can't remember the name of.
how our society is developing and how we are with our environment.

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Defracking Gaia?

Samaille — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:04:15 GMT

Has anyone in this tribe seen the documentary "Gas Land?" It's about the use of extremely dangerous and insanely unregulated technology and chemicals to cause mini-earth quakes in shale deposits that have oil and natural gas. The frenzied drilling is happening in my own back yard and only five miles away, in Dimock, PA, the first drilling rigs have already caused disastrous chemical spills and many very seriously contaminated wells. There has even been a natural gas explosion in a well.

I knew that all of this was violence against Earth--and so violence against ourselves--but I hadn't fully appreciated the full extent of the poisoning of the land, water and soil, or the full extent of the sheer inhumanity and lawlessness of the companies creating these disasters present and future.

In the world right now there is a rallying spirit. Everywhere from Wisconsin to Eygpt, people are standing up to challenge the corporate agenda that says that people don't matter. Profit does. Well, people do matter, and so does the Earth for we ARE the earth. The Earth is alive, and more to the point of self awareness and Gaian motivation, the Earth is our life. Is there any feeling out there that putting Earth and Earthlings first is an important rally for the spirit of the people of the world?

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new member - 'pylus corner' - GODDESS!

chris — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:25:21 GMT

Found tribesnet, seemed interesting. I too adore gaia truths and have walked a Lakota path for many years. Only tribal peoples understand female energies and that w/out them (balance) and too much masculine hatred, humans fail. At the expense of Mother Earth's health we don't get it yet that upright bi-poedal hominids are parasitic like all life-forms. Its just that our brains are larger therefore we can be more destructive and vane about self-interest. The truly scary reality is that by 2050 with approx 9 billion of arrogant self-interest parasites walking on Mother w/out the chance of feeding us all. Therein lies the rub - by then we'll have to adopt tribal ways to survive and become one with the notion that indeed, the planet is alive in every WE are - thought, preventative ideas, passions, sadness, hope and love and anger. This diverse biosphere is so unique and inspiring one merely has to take a silly hike anywhere to FEEL Her as sentient. For those of the profane herd who refuse to hop aboard and know Truth I can only have pity. Yet knowing the earth will not spare us (we're all expendable) the hateful actions of the many will effect those of us who walk a mightier path but that is how it is suppose to be. Whether man survives himself or not is not the matter - only Earth's endurance and future existence IS. Self-interest will not win the day over Mother Earth's thoughts to exist. For me the dogma eaters of religions can never know truth. 'Tis NOT then there was light but only when the Earth opened HER eyes.' This planet was a thought that became a truth, whatever caused the thought ISN'T where man should keep his questions - that's religion, the weed of the mind and that is why man fails.

He still thinks he'll find one day the 'what & who' of Creation. As if the Earth herself weren't enough for him. .Again, human self-interest to no avail. I wish peace for all ceremonial brothers and sisters who keep the Goddess alive. Mitakuye oyasin (all my relations)

chris mato chun laro

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"A TIme Comes...The Prophecies of The Golden Tablets"

Alfie — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:30:01 GMT

I just joined this tribe and the reason I did is to spread the word about a series of channelings that are being received now. You may read and hear them in their entirety at www.thegodmagicwithinyou.com or by following on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thegodmagicwithinyou

These are IMPORTANT messages, should be read from the first post on January 19 and, if possible, listened to at the same time for a more powerful experience. The Spirit messengers speak slowly, so please be patient.

Please feel free to share the messages over and over again. Spirit has asked that we spread the messages as far and wide as possible.

You have the gift of free will; you can agree, believe, act or not--but please, just listen.

Blessings to you!

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a request for focus of will with austalian cyclone

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:55:42 GMT

cyclone is presently between 500km and 1000km in diameter!
i am aware that our intention can change weather. (whether)

i believe 'random' focus upon weather patterns (paths) by way of news weather forecasts can influence the actual manifestation.

thus i request that those who are aware allow heart to connect and inspire a path of safe journey for this formation away from land.

kangaroos thankyou in advance! ;)

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Permaculture Design Course in the Peruvian Amazon: February

sharonjoy — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:19:49 GMT

Now is your last chance to register for our upcoming Permaculture Design Course in the Peruvian Amazon with the Paititi Institute...

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Permaculture Design & Shamanic Healing
Healing Our Inner and Outer Landscapes

WHERE: The Paititi Institute, Amazon Rainforest, Peru
WHEN: February 11th – 27th 2011
(next course June 22 – July 9th)

VIEW PHOTOS FROM OUR LAST COURSE > http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetpeoplepassion/sets/72157624683361251/%0A

This 17 day intensive will impart practical tools on how we can live in a sustainable and harmonious relationship with nature while creating a supportive, self sufficient and nurturing community around us. Weaving the teachings of Permaculture Design and the Indigenous Shamans of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, we will immerse ourselves into a deep exploration of nature and how we can co-evolve and heal together.

The course will intertwine three main areas of exploration…
• Permaculture Certification: designing sustainable communities in co-creation with nature. Participants will receive a Permaculture Design Certification upon completion of the course.
• Nutrition & Wellness: Exploring the symbiotic relationship between nurturing the land and nurturing our own bodies and spirits. The course will incorporate daily yoga, meditation, chi gong, nutrition and more.
• Plant Medicine and Indigenous Shamanic Healing of the Amazon: An introduction into the magnificent realm of Mother Nature through the native indigenous initiation rites and sacred healing ceremonies while establishing intercultural bridges of seeing the emergence of awakened consciousness in all beings everywhere.

Read More > http://www.planetpeoplepassion.com/?page_id=272

Download the Registration Form > http://www.planetpeoplepassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PDC_FEB_registration.pdf
Download the Travel Prep Info and FAQ > http://www.planetpeoplepassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/TravelPrep_Feb_PDC.pdf

Questions email: info@Paititi-Institute.org
If you can’t make it this time, we will be holding this course again June 22 – June 9th

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The Paititi Institute, is dedicated to creating a space where we can live in symbiotic relationship within our inner and outer nature — building intercultural bridges for the healing of people and planet. In this space all can discover and implement a life lived under the light of the True Self.

The objective of the Permaculture Center at the Paititi Institute is to establish a Permaculture education and information base that will empower the community and provide a living model for sustainable agriculture alternatives to slash and burn practices, soil remediation, reforestation, effective use of water resources, recycling and waste management as well as preservation of indigenous traditions.

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Presenters wanted for Sustainable Living Conference

Richard — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:47:06 GMT

Presenters wanted for Sustainable Living Conference

The 2011 Sustainable Living Conference at All World Acres, Tampa Bay area, March 25-27, 2011.

The time is coming! The time is now. Many of us are noticing resources getting stretched and cost of living going up. Why should life be so hard? Answer: It doesn't have to be!

Join us at All World Acres to meet people involved in the local sustainable living movement. Find out what they are doing to live in sufficiency and cooperation with nature. That's it! The answer to the dilemma of survival is in simple practice of the principles of sustainable living.

Harmony - Sufficiency - Cooperation
More than just survival, a life of vitality and wellness. Find out what people are doing in all facets of life through synergy of connection with nature:
Permaculture, Organic and Biodynamic Farming, Food Forestry, Green Structure, Renewable Energy, Do-it-yourself / Home made, Recycle/Zero Waste, Synchronous Economy - New Models in Equanimity, Conscious Community, Conscious Relationship, Holistic Practices.

The opportunity to participate as a presenter at this event is being offered to people with experience in sustainable and holistic practices. If you have a vision, service or product you would like to share with the greater community please contact either:
Tom Carroll email: dawnlightsmile@yahoo.com or
Richard Fiallo email: info@healingtoday.com

Help us make this a memorable experience filled with transformative inspiration, insight in benefit to all!

For more info and registration please visit: http://healingtoday.com/slcats.htm

All World Acres is a not for profit sanctuary in Plant City, Florida.

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On-line video: Secret Life of Plants

Tanemon — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:27:46 GMT

This is a link to a sort of "classic" video about the fantastic web of life provided by and largely composed of plant life on our planet.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381#

It's a beautiful documentary, plays for about 1hour and 20 minutes. A lot of good info, plus stuff at or beyond the fringe. Eye-opening.

I downloaded it to my harddrive, using some download software that I use for Youtube stuff. Other people have told me they've just watched it on-line.

Beautiful cinematography in a lot of it. Music from a variety of sources, but a lot of it is performed by Steview Wonder and he wrote it specifically for this film. There is a lot of stuff in this vid about human-plant communication.

Occasionally, the documentary-film style seems a bit dated... but it was all put together quite well, so that's not much of a problem.

I recommend it.

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Magnetic Storm - Earth's Invisible Shield

Shou — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:03:10 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUTUFAWfEY

I really enjoyed this video.
be warned, it is 55 minutes long, but i think it is worth the time spent watching.
It really brings home to me how small I am and how much gaia protects us.

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gaia gave a lovely gift (beautiful sky)

Shou — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:37:50 GMT

i got a new camera today and it is like gaia decided to give me this beautiful sight.
I of course recorded it.
I've never seen such colours.
at least not outside a photograph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvOWH4xAXqY

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ALL CONCERNED ABOUT MOTHER EARTH PLEASE WATCH THIS

Jaime — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:47:01 GMT

go to youtube, search: "little grandmother kiesha crowther"
Watch all her videos and learn how to protect our mother!!!

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tribe changed to moderated.

Shou — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:23:53 GMT

I have changed the tribe to moderated for the time being.
a member was deliberately being provocative and derailing a thread even when asked to stop.
I think most of you know who I am talking about.

I removed the offending member and switched the tribe to moderated just so he does not simply join again and cause hassle.
if he was doing it in his own thread or started a new thread for his quizzical posts, I would not have minded but he continued to derail LLB's topic after being asked to respect the wishes of the topic starter.
I'm not happy about mass deleting posts but i really could not see any purpose to those posts and they served more to confuse people than anything else.

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happy mabon!

Siz'L — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:40:59 GMT

hope you all have a beautiful bountiful season.

Mabon / Autumn Equinox -Sep 22 2010 11:09 PM EDT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SaodXh2kH8&feature=fvst

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Mother Mars

LLB — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:49:49 GMT

So people have been planning on colonizing mars for a real long time now.
{In a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama predicted a manned Mars mission to orbit the planet by the mid-2030s, followed by a landing:

“ By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it.} ~ Wiki

Its not unimaginable that in my life time we will have manned outposts on mars... and it is not unimaginable that in my grandchildrens life times we will have a full on colony on mars.
Have we really thought about the repercusions of this inevitability? People will learn to grow food on mars, people will drink martian water and filter air from the martian atmosphere and people will be born on mars not to long from today. at some point mars may also slowly be terraformed... but I will not get to much into that now. But life will be transfered to mars and human cells will be made of martian water air and soil, and mars will some day become some ones mother.
Does this mean the God of war gets a sex change? I'm not sure... but still our mother earth will be a grand mother and she will have a new lviing system as a neighbour and relative in the not to distant future.

Its really interesting to think that some day... we will have a mother mars, not just a mother earth, and that mother earth will not be some ones mother at all. That there will be a human being whos body is not composed of terran soil, water and air.

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The idea was around before James Lovelock

Tony — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:37:16 GMT

Vladimir Vernadsky had the idea long before James Lovelock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky
He is most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess’ 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Course, there was probably lots and lots of people who had the idea even farther back.

Tony

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A backup forum for when tribe goes down

Djinn — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:02:54 GMT

Just a little social networking project I am working on with some friends. Its a simple PHPBB forum, but we may eventually switch over to Drupal and get a little more creative.

Anyone is welcome and we have a board dedicated to the same focus as this tribe.

http://www.undergroundpub.net/index.php

Its just barely launched but should pick up soon.

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slavery and the 8 veils

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:22:22 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXmz7Z5v0DQ

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Living Web of Light

ulma_the_traveler — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:17:21 GMT

This is a gathering I have envisioned for many years. I do wish to see this living web of healing and prayer happen on a global scale. Please forward the event posting to anyone who may be interested.

In this time of great angers, I am guided to make this gathering happen. I have read article after article about the anger of the public towards BP. BP did this and they are not doing that, BP is responsible for all the problems in ...the gulf. There is anger towards the increasing logging in the Amazon region of South America. Recently there have been articles about the anger of a certain group of Catholics in New York City towards the owners of the Empire State Building, for not lighting the building honoring the birth of Mother Teresa. They are actually planning a protest on August 26th in response to what some would consider a snub of their religion. We have wars being waged across the world as one culture after another attempts to destroy those who have different ideas, principles and convictions. We as a global community seem to be looking for a scapegoat, for someone to blame for our problems. Obviously we cannot be to blame. We did not approve the wars overseas or with our neighbors…yet we do not fight to stop them. We did not approve offshore drilling or logging…..yet we do not demand new resources be developed nor do we slow our consumption of power. We did not directly insult any other race, religion or culture…..yet we do not open our minds and hearts to the differences of others. To all of this anger and more, yet again we have not stepped up and said ENOUGH!

I say it is time to stop. Look at one another as the same family, the family of humanity. This is a time where we must look at the true consequence of words, thoughts and actions; a time when human civilization as a whole must consider deeply the significance of our actions and inactions. We must take the time to remember the meanings of ideas such as RESPECT, TOLERANCE, NON-JUDGEMENT, ACCEPTANCE, CHARITY, COMPASSION, and LOVE.

I am drawn back to the idea of protests in the name of Mother Teresa and although I am not Catholic, nor do I hold with any of the major belief systems, I have always respected this woman. I heard once she had declined an invitation to attend a protest against war. She told the group inviting her, that should they have a protest FOR peace, she would be there. To protest or show anger at an imagined slight in her name is to go against everything she held sacred. I have another way to recognize the birthday of Mother Teresa and the principles of those like her in thought and action. I will be standing in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon at 12:00 noon, August 26, 2010. I would like to see a global web of human connection. All of us with the intention of healing our environment and our species as well as all life, joining hands, reaching out to those around us in prayer, healing thought, meditation or just the simple act of being part of the whole. Those in offices go ahead and reach out to the person in the cubical next to you. If you are in the air, on a ship, a train or a bus, reach out to the people around you. Take a few minutes and be a light of intent in the web of humanity.

In Love, Light & Gratitude

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SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL GAIA

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:19:34 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/7940600/Solar-tsunami-aurora-borealis-or-northern-lights-caused-by-solar-flares.html?image=6

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elemental consciousness

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:56:45 GMT

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/331354_the-principle-of-pangasm-part-2

this is part 2 of a free 10 part series about the elements that create dense form, such as microzyma, water, air, etc....

i look forward to discussing this and many of the other great topics this tribe is delving into. happy to have found this tribe. aloha from maui.

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devouring the mother

LLB — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:45:13 GMT

So these animals die after birthing their young...
Salmon
Octopus
Squid
& May Flies
Do we know of any animals that devour the mother? I think the octopus offspring may...
reason I ask is that this planet maybe be our mother but if shes intelligent at all she knows that she will be devoured by her Sun, Sol one day and all life on this planet will end... is it possible that like the mother octopus the planet is self sacrificing so that life can evolve in some way that will allow it to leave the planet? Its just a thought, not an assertions...

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Grow For ALL - Let's grow organic, free food in public spaces!

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:21:03 GMT

Greetings!

I have just completed the first draft of a website whose purpose is to spread awareness of the idea that we can grow healthy organic food in public places instead of the non food bearing plants that are usually selected. - www.growforall.co.uk.

The text needs simplifying (I wrote it in one go without revision late at night! hehe) .. But the idea is there ....

Initially I aim to use the site just to spread the message/idea, receive feedback and to build petitions, globally and targeted in specific countries. I'd appreciate if you like the idea if you would register a signature in it's support..

The global petition is currently here: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/growforall

The USA specific petition is at: http://food.change.org/petitions/view/grow_for_all_-_lets_grow_free_organic_food_in_public_spaces

Feel free also to post in the forum on the website if you like with ideas and comments.

peace and thanks,
nick

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Gaia- the Idea

XOURGLAZ — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:30:22 GMT

Does anyone know of some explicit examples of how the idea/word Gaia was born and how it's has been shaped up to the present. I've heard many people use the term, including John Lovelock, Terence Mckenna, and Rupert Sheldrake. Anyone care to list some of their favorite references to Gaia, or what you've experienced that has personally illuminated the realization of Gaia?

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Gaia,...the energetic state of the planet & or this corner of the universe?

rik — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:16:58 GMT

Red Ice Raido,...whats happening now,...

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/nonsubscriber.php

when the player opens click the talk by Susan Joy Rennison.

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/player/player.html

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Wandering gaia

Harmen — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:48:38 GMT

Has an interesting video of the dire impacts of global warming on the Chacaltaya glacier.

Chacaltaya: video from a former ski resort
JULY 25, 2010
by Gaia

This is what the world’s highest ski resort looks like after global warming takes its toll
http://wanderinggaia.com/

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Get a SUN-CHANGING MARIJUANA T-SHIRT

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BOYCOTT TOILET PAPER!!!!#$`

Sat, 08 May 2010 10:59:07 GMT

Discuss..

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argh real faeries!

Wed, 19 May 2010 07:28:10 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTCy7RAPOfU

which looks funnily enough like this one in a related vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvM4UPhJ6o&feature=related

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Bleeding Oil - the possibility of an extinction level event?

white_wizard — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:23:16 GMT

I have been avoiding the main stream press on this one, and BP's coverage is a joke... but after reading a rather detailed analysis from some savvy deep sea drillers (see http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread582892/pg1)... things do not look great....

I have my own thoughts on the matter but the last few paragraphs from a independent media report last month at http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill.html does a good job at summing up my concerns:

--

It's hard to say exactly what's going on in the Gulf right now, especially because there are so many conflicting reports and unanswered questions. But one thing's for sure: if the situation is actually much worse than we're being led to believe, there could be worldwide catastrophic consequences.

If it's true that millions upon millions of gallons of crude oil are flooding the Gulf with no end in sight, the massive oil slicks being created could make their way into the Gulf Stream currents, which would carry them not only up the East Coast but around the world where they could destroy more than just the global fishing industries.

Already these slicks are making their way into Gulf wetlands and beaches where they are destroying birds, fish, and even oyster beds. This is disastrous for both the seafood industry and the people whose livelihoods depend on it. It's also devastating to the local wildlife which could begin to die off from petroleum toxicity. Various ecosystems around the world could be heavily impacted by this spill in ways that we don't even yet realize.

There's no telling where this continuous stream of oil will end up and what damage it might cause. Theoretically, we could be looking at modern man's final act of destruction on planet Earth, because this one oil rig blowout could set in motion a global extinction wave that begins with the oceans and then whiplashes back onto human beings themselves.

We cannot live without life in the oceans. Man is arrogant to drill so deeply into the belly of Mother Earth, and through this arrogance, we may have just set in motion events that will ultimately destroy us. In the future, we may in fact talk about life on Earth as "pre-spill" versus "post-spill." Because a post-spill world may be drowned in oil, devoid of much ocean life, and suffering a global extinction event that will crash the human population by 90 percent or more.

We may have just done to ourselves, in other words, what a giant meteorite did to the dinosaurs.

--

Conspiracies abound another false flag attack (http://webtalkradio.net/shows/x-squared-radio/) but digging deeper, I can't help but feel Mother is the one orchestrating this, much to her own dismay. And perhaps the lesson, however difficult it may be, must be learn't the hard way.

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gathering the stories

LLB — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:19:29 GMT

http://gatheringthestories.blogspot.com/p/how-you-can-help.html
"The text books say we (Watlala/ Cascade) are extinct, but there are breathing testimonies to prove that wrong. Gathering the Stories: Life in the Columbia River Gorge is a film about a deep connection to place, when place is the only tie left to our spiritual heritage. It documents the diaspora (we are now enrolled Cowlitz by proximity) of our tribe from the time of first white contact and the struggle to keep our heritage alive and rediscovering lost ways in an increasingly disconnected world!" Si Matta Watlala film maker

I am introducing this site to people asking that if you can support the work he is doing its a noble project. Part of the project will also be in protecting sacred sites on the Columbia river used for traditional vision quests. The documentry requires support in order to happen, if you can help I am sure it would be appriciated. A donations button via kickstarter is linked on the site.
Thanks for allowing this to be posted here.
Bless and be blessed

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GAIA school for little people,...

rik — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:54:08 GMT

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/05/24/preschools-in-forests-take-root-in-the-u-s/

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How to Organise A GATHERING for 19/20 June 2010

truthgathering — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:48:06 GMT

The Gathering - Noon - 19 & 20 June 2010
http://worldgathering.net/global.html

Organise a Gathering / Meeting for Noon on the weekend of 19/20 June in your garden, backyard, or local park .....

Few friends? Simple, type out a simple poster. Type 'Meet in the (local) Park, at Noon, on 19 & 20 June'; name 9-11, NWO, Phony Wars, Chemtrails, Your Truth, etc. Print a dozen copies; put them in the library and community and alternative-thinking places, and see who turns up. Whether you get 5 people or 200 people, you are doing something good.

Concerned about what to say? No problems: when the talking stick comes around to you, you don't need to say anything, just hold the stick on that passing. Listen to others, you will get ideas, and you will want to speak. We are all in this together. Pass the talking stick! This is an on-going event which will be held five times each year.

Let's GO.

THE GATHERING: http://worldgathering.net/global.html
Turning of the Tide: http://worldgathering.net/message.html

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CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION IN HEALING OUR PLANETARY WATERS

Siz'L — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:48:37 GMT

CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION IN HEALING OUR PLANETARY WATERS

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers:
ask you to join us MAY 18, 2010 for:

CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION IN HEALING OUR PLANETARY WATERS OUR MOTHER
EARTH NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Along with many peoples all around the globe, and many water prayers
this spring, we are calling for a MASSIVE GLOBAL EFFORT. Our main
intention for this healing is to return the waters to their original
pure crystalline blueprint, and to add to their abundance for the
nourishment of ALL living things on the planet. Pray in your local
waterways, at the rivers or lakes or streams. Or pray with a bowl of
water in the middle of the cities.

"We are Water Babies. Do not to forget to say thank you every day for
the water you drink, the water you bathe in. Without our Mother water
we would not survive." Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Takelma
Siletz, Oregon

The specific ceremonies being conducted on May 18, 2010:

Grandmothers will be holding Water Prayers in the following places—

African Rainforest, Gabon - Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot
Great Lakes, USA- Grandmother Rita Blumenstein
Mountains of Oaxaca, Huautla de Jimenez - Grandmother Julieta Casimiro
Desert of the American Southwest- Grandmother Mona Polacca
France - Grandmother Flordemayo
Black Hills of North America- Beatrice and Rita Long Visitor Holy
Dance
Plains of North America, Montana-Grandmother Margaret Behan
Hood River, Oregon- Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Nepalese Himalayas- Aama Bombo
Brazilian Amazon-Grandmothers Maria Alice Freire and Clara Shinobu
Iura
Tibetan Ceremonies in Canada- Tsering Dolma Gyaltong
Mahia, Aotearoa, New Zealand - Ambassador Pauline Tangiora

At the same time, people will be praying at nine specific bodies of
water around the planet using crystalline energy:
· Lake Tahoe, California
· Lake Titicaca, Peru
· Lake MacKay Australia
· Lake Chad, Africa
· Lake Bikkal, Russia
· Lake Kissyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
· Lake Geneva, Switzerland
· Lake Superior, Minnesota
· Colorado River Complex (Healing and Purification Ceremonies for this
vital USA waterway)

"Water reflects the human soul. If you say, 'thank you' to water, it
will be reflected in the form of beautiful crystals overflowing with
gratitude in return." Masuru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

For more information: http://goldenec.com/dayofprayer.html

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THE GATHERING NOON 19 & 20 JUNE 2010

truthgathering — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:57:52 GMT

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THE GATHERING NOON 19 & 20 JUNE 2010
World Truth Gatherings at Local and Special Sites
http://worldgathering.net/gatherings.html

The World Gathering For Truth: The weekend before each Solstice and Equinox. Plus New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Exchange information, and connect with others. Hold 'Truth' Talking Circles at Noon on each day.

Solstice Eve Truth Gathering: Noon 19 & 20 June 2010
(The Solstice is Monday, 21st June 2010)
http://worldgathering.net/gatherings.html

The Great Gathering Together Circle:
http://worldgathering.net/2010/news250.html

THE GATHERING MESSAGE:
http://worldgathering.net/thegathering.html

It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where, when, and how to gather, your participation is needed. This is the beginning of the turnaround. Exchange the information and hopes you have. The people who are coming together will ring in a return, a turnaround. That which you believe is true must be stated.

THE PURPOSE of gathering at special sites is to empower people by meeting like-minded people who also urgently want to change the world for the better. When we know others think and feel the same things we do, we are empowered. We know we are normal, and we know there are more of us. These gatherings are to help you make links with other people, and links to small and large networks and groups of people. We are going to express ourselves, hear others, connect with others, and feel and know the world is changing as we do this. When our personal world changes, the world also changes. When we change, we become different people and we can do different things.

Let's go. You can start in your garden or backyard, a friend's garden, a local park, or special site the weekend before the Solstice: 19 & 20 JUNE 2010.

The next World Truth Gatherings will be:
(1) 18 & 19 September 2010 (Equinox)
(2) 18 & 19 December 2010 (Solstice)
(3) 31 December 2010, 1 & 2 January 2011

Agenda for Noon Gathering Together 'Truth' Circles
[We are not a religion or even a meditation group, this simple
agenda is solely to relax people and help us come together.]
1) NOON: Form a circle, holding hands, two minutes silence.
2) Five minutes meditation / quiet / prayer, sitting on the ground.
3) Sharing Circle: Pass the talking stick, share your experience
from the meditation, share ideas and plans, or hold the stick.
In winter: bring waterproof, warm clothes, hot drink, etc.

The Gathering ~ Noon ~ 19 & 20 June 2010 ~ Solstice Eve
(The Solstice is on 21st June, at 11.28 GMT)
http://worldgathering.net/gatherings.html

THE GATHERING 19 & 20 JUNE 2010 at FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=103291733049401

From the Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope:
"Many of the teachers, leaders and ceremonialists that are so-called traditional, but are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall. Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the Tagashala will be fully awakened. Many people will begin to awaken in their dream mind-body. Awakening souls will sit down in gathering together circles. Many of these will be the so-called common people and not the teachers you see up there now. The various winged serpent Wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the Rainbow lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these Rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest of humanity."

Rainbow Dream Vision, 1993-2013, the Twenty Count:
http://worldgathering.net/vision.html

The Network of Sacred Sites by Sir George Trevelyan:
http://worldgathering.net/trevelyan.html#power

Decide To Network by Dr Robert Muller:
http://worldgathering.net/trevelyan.html#network

Background Information - Dedication for WGFT 2000:
http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering1.html

Background Information - Reports from WGFT 2000:
http://worldgathering.net/world/gathering2.html

Suggested Gathering Sites for the British Isles ~
Use these special sites and their photographs as inspiration.
Your backyard or local park make great places for gathering:
http://worldgathering.net/2010/news259.html

The Gathering ~ The Turning of the Tide:
http://worldgathering.net/thegathering.html

THE GATHERING NOON 19 & 20 JUNE 2010
World Truth Gatherings at Local and Special Sites
http://worldgathering.net/gatherings.html

~~~

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OT: A Great Urgency

Siz'L — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:33:30 GMT

Chief Arvol Looking Horse : A Great Urgency
By Mole Medicine Radio Show and Production

To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders

My Relatives,

Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I
ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit
of your Nations in prayer.

We, from the heart of Turtle Island, have a great message for the World; we
are guided to speak from all the White Animals showing their sacred color,
which have been signs for us to pray for the sacred life of all things. As
I am sending this message to you, many Animal Nations are being threatened,
those that swim, those that crawl, those that fly, and the plant Nations,
eventually all will be affect from the oil disaster in the Gulf.

The dangers we are faced with at this time are not of spirit. The
catastrophe that has happened with the oil spill which looks like the
bleeding of Grandmother Earth, is made by human mistakes, mistakes that we
cannot afford to continue to make.

I asked, as Spiritual Leaders, that we join together, united in prayer with
the whole of our Global Communities. My concern is these serious issues will
continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of
in their Prophecies.

I know in my heart there are millions of people that feel our united prayers
for the sake of our Grandmother Earth are long overdue. I believe we as
Spiritual people must gather ourselves and focus our thoughts and prayers to
allow the healing of the many wounds that have been inflicted on the Earth.
As we honor the Cycle of Life, let us call for Prayer circles globally to
assist in healing Grandmother Earth (our Unc¹I Maka).

We ask for prayers that the oil spill, this bleeding, will stop. That the
winds stay calm to assist in the work. Pray for the people to be guided in
repairing this mistake, and that we may also seek to live in harmony, as we
make the choice to change the destructive path we are on.

As we pray, we will fully understand that we are all connected. And that
what we create can have lasting effects on all life.

So let us unite spiritually, All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer. Along
with this immediate effort, I also ask to please remember June 21st, World
Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites day. Whether it is a natural
site, a temple, a church, a synagogue or just your own sacred space, let us
make a prayer for all life, for good decision making by our Nations, for our
children¹s future and well-being, and the generations to come.

Onipikte (that we shall live),

Chief Arvol Looking Horse
19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
(Wolakota.org)

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"MIA" wrote this, but --I experienced it

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:01:56 GMT

astral attacks? Mon, September 14, 2009 - 12:56 PM
i am led to write this regarding an event that happened a few weeks ago. if you are not aware already, i have fallen in what appears to be a milab.. military, alien mind control program.

as a result, i continue to have visions (closed-eyed) on a regular basis, electrical surges, brain abnormalities and was astral traveling and remote viewing a great deal in the past.

here's the situation as i see it. some of these alien abductee stories may be nothing more than a front for military activity. they have the technology to teletransport you... provided you are in a "transportable" state. they have the technology to split, shatter all parts of one's being, including their soul and spirit. i don't have the time to write all of this and regret not keeping my blog up to date. honestly, i became dispondant at the lack of support and understanding. it's foreign for me to be disbelieved in what i would have once considered an outrageous story. sadly, to me, it's a true story.

anyways... back to what happened a few weeks ago. over the past few months i've realized that with Divine help, i can call back parts of my shattered spirit & soul... alters too. sometimes i can see them flying back to me, sometimes they are asleep. sometimes they are attached to someone else... always intelligence or military related personnel.

so, early one saturday afternoon i called a part of myself that had been crying in the "basement." this is slang for the pentagon's torture rooms underneath their facility. i've been down there many times. a portal goes from there to the lincoln memorial statue. how ironic is that. i escape to freedom via a portal that opens up on the right side of abraham lincoln.

i call to my spirit. she cries back. she finally breaks free from where she is at. she comes back and things are doing pretty well.... for about 5 minutes. then all the sudden a spirit slams into me and is inside. i hear him... he calls back to "command" stating that things don't look familiar. the guy on the other end of the communication line tells this guy to hold on for a minute while he checks things out. in the mean time, i've got an astral traveler that just invaded me and there is a two-way communication line going on between he and someone who is at "base command" i suppose. the guy got back online and asked if he was wearing a uniform. my invader said, "yes."
ok, now we've determined that it's military and not a pigeon who just happened to be flying by.

so i'm listening to this conversation take place, then say... wait a minute. who are you? what are you doing here? where were you heading? those "victims" who are trained in these military / intelligence programs have been conditioned to not speak.. only yes, no and i don't know. things are so highly compartimentalized that this invader didn't even know really who he was at the time.

come to find out.... he had a target to hit...

my fragmented spirit / alter was his target. since i pulled her back here, he came here. astral travel? yes. remote viewing? i don't think so. after a bit of questioning, i finally figured out that this "pilot" was another alter of me. a young, polite male who was obviously an exceptional flyer. he worked with military personnel that i can identify. overall, he seemed to have a good repore with others. slowly things started to come back to him and he realized that some of these guys that he thought were "ok" were not. he stayed around and loved. he appeared to have been infused with other types of energy... in particular an angel. this is beyond the scope of reasoning i have to admit.

they have the capability to split, shatter, infuse all parts of one. they use little children for working against people of the light. dark forces can't abide well or long in a body that is of light. same thing with light forces inhabiting what is dark. it just feels bad. they make, mold, .... in the darkest recesses of the military and intelligence black op programs. doing things that God never intended.

i have no doubt that they are capturing souls of the light and hurting them, trading, selling them. a soul of the light is of very high value. we are nothing more than living donors. if it's of value, they take. they don't just take... they experiment, torture, unravel, destroy, raise back up , etc. all the darkness that satan could never do... they have done and continue to do.

there is a reason that little information is getting out in the public... that people are not coming forward. i suspect that a majority of those working in these black op programs of this nature are themselves under control. i also suspect that they have plenty of available bodies (not sure how they get these and if some are clones or genetic alterations) to place their mind control subject into.

will write more later.... mia

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gAIA woke me at sunrise

Saylah — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:52:37 GMT

My SOUL rejoices, screams out to the Divine, presence so real, so ALIVE
The water dances and raises up to meet the lavendar sky,
To touch the tendrils of the sun, a brilliant intermingling.
And I, a glimmer, a thought, feel overwhelmed with blessings to be a part of Her Display.

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Your Invited

Wed, 05 May 2010 22:19:58 GMT

For those who wish to do more then shine a candle in well lit room.

For those instead, who are courageous enough to take the key and open the cellar door, and hold the candle to the dark.

For those who wish to share in Illuminating!

Illuminating all aspects of the universe, the world, our cultures, and into our psyches!!

tribes.tribe.net/illuminata

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