Conscious Manifestations

This just in from Grow Clean Air:

Listen to this snippet on Grow Clean Air.

In this brief (2 min 42 sec) Ben Henneke (Clean Air Action) and Vannesa Henneke (I4EI) explain some of the things that make the TIST Program unique.

Three main points are highlighted:

1) TIST is perhaps the most effective carbon project in the world thanks to its revolutionary model for collecting data and presenting it transparently online.

2) TIST is perhaps the only carbon project in the world where you can actually see results as they happen. It is certainly the most transparent program currently in operation.

3) The Small Groups involved in the TIST Program verifiably receive the benefits (local and monetary) for their work.

Offset your carbon footprint at Grow Clean Air.

Below are the latest front page updates (since the last ones).

Of special note is the new section for learning Persian (Farsi).

SpanishRomance.com: A Variety of Spanish Language Content
English1010.com Free Audio and Written English Lessons Online
Tá Falado Free Brazilian Portuguese Podcast for Spanish Speakers
BetteratEnglish.com Better at English ESL/EFL Podcast for Real People
Loads of Podcasts in Spanish and Portuguese Languages
Top ESL/EFL/TESOL/TEFL/TESL and TOEFL Salad Websites
Verbs-Online.com Study French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, English with Verb Tools
Download Free FSI German Language Audio Courses
SpanishSense.com Learn Spanish on Your Terms Podcast
UMN's Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Newseum.com Free Front Page News from over 50 Countries in Loads of Languages
Learning Arabic Language from Didactiques Langues Publications
Learn Afrikaans Wikibook in English
WordChamp Language Toolbar for Firefox
Persian Grammar Book for Farsi Study on Google Books
Farsi/Persian Language Lessons, Reading and Dialogues for Study Materials
Free Learn Persian Flashcards in Sets from Flashcard Exchange
Free and Easy Persian/Farsi Lessons from EasyPersian.com
The Iran Podcast
BBCPersian.com BBC Persian News in Farsi
Wikipedia Language Portal
Free and Open Mandarin Chinese University Lectures from Archive.org
Free Mobile Phone Phrasebooks for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek and Portuguese
Fancy French: Learn to Speak, Read and Write French Online in Total Immersion with Free Podcast Downloads
Learn about the English Language at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rosetta Stone Learn UK British English Language Software Level 1 (Commercial)
itcansay.com Huge Database of Audio Samples for English Pronunciation Practice, Dictionary, Online Text Reader
Englishmate.com.cn English Mate Podcast for Learning English Online with Real Teachers

I thought I'd re-distribute the April edition of the Free Language Letter here:

Third Edition

Welcome to the third edition of The Free Language Letter.

New Resources

Since the last newsletter, 18 new resources for 7 languages have been added to the site:

Arabic

University of Chicago Arabic Circle Lectures Podcast
Madinah Arabic Beginner Language and Reading Courses

English

languagecaster.com Learn English through Soccer/Football Podcast
Breaking News English EFL/ESL Learning Podcast
Exam English Free Practice Tests

French

Learn French by Podcast
Easy French Poetry Podcast
BBC Languages French
Learn French Wikibook
The French École French for Beginners Podcast

German

Learn German Wikibook
MyDailyPhrase.com German Podcast

Italian

MyDailyPhrase.com Italian Podcast

Mandarin Chinese

Mobile Chinese Flashcards Cell Phone Software
Adsotrans Dynamic Chinese Annotation Website and Software Project

Spanish

Chile Podcast and Video Podcast
InstaSpanish.com's Insta Spanish Podcast

General Tools

BBC Better at Languages

Coming Soon...

Our First Podcast

The first Free Language Podcast show will be coming by the end of this month!

Commercial Language-Learning Resources

Within the next month we will be rolling out a better store with a larger selection of commercial language-learning products and services.

Full Stats from freelanguage.org

We will be posting the entire history of statistics for freelanguage.org within the next month. For now, you can see a hint on polyglot's blog.

12 New Languages

The list of potential languages to add to the site will be narrowed down to 12 and posted before the next newsletter!

The Blog Grows

There are now three bloggers over at the Free Language Blog:

• polyglot
• opal myth
• transcombouge

If you are interested in blogging about your language-learning experiences here, you are invited to request a BETA user account on Free Language. As mentioned in last month's Free Language Letter, when Free Language V3 is launched, revenue sharing for users will be implemented.

Current Languages

A quick list of all 12 languages for which resources are currently available on the site:

• Arabic
• Cantonese
• English
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Mandarin Chinese
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Suggest a Resource

If you have a favorite language-learning resource (or manage a website of your own) that is not listed on Free Language, please let us know by suggesting a resource.

Até a proxima.

The Free Language Community
http://freelanguage.org

A new lecture called Ego-Personality and Letting Go was published today on Heart of the Initiate.

This lecture was actually recorded live today at one of the Ayahuasca workshop in Bahia, Brazil! Pretty darn cool.

Here is a snippet:

"We are all here in a desire to explore a shamanic path, an experience with shamanism. By shamanism, specifically in a shamanic ceremony, we will be ingesting a shamanic plant medicine that has been used for thousands of years in indigenous cultures to bring us to a place of consciousness beyond what our normal daily awake experience is.

The recommendations that many of you have read about or heard about have to do with this concept of "letting go" as you enter into this shamanic ceremony. In many ways, the shamanic path has to do with letting go, it's a relaxing to a potential within yourself that you are not accustomed to, that you have not experienced in your day to day life."

Read more and listen to the lecture...

We just put up two new lectures on the Heart of the Initiate website given live last week at the Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops!

The first lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare is from March 14th, 2007, and is called The Four Sicknesses of Humanity.

The second lecture by Ralph Miller is from March 16th, 2007, and is called Plant-Human Intervention.

Please have a look at these two new lectures fresh and live from our Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

eBay, Google, Moby - they are all acting to prevent what could potentially damage the quality of the Internet in the USA.

The issue is called Net Neutrality.

SavetheInternet.com covers the basics of what it is about and why it is not a good idea.

If you are from the States, you can let your voice be heard in a number of ways, including petitions on MoveOn.org and FreePress.net.

If you feel so inclined, do act now!

On March 15th, Stuart Wilde wrote a new article regarding the death of Princess Diana.

Toward the end of the article, he writes something rather interesting and personally-revealing:

"My thinking has changed dramatically. I see that our collective karma will take us to wherever we are going, and the only way to exit the karma of conflicts and power struggles is to be humble and express love for everyone all the way. I breathe love into people's hearts as I pass them in the street. I also breathe love for a few minutes to the world in general at the beginning of my daily meditation. Whether these are the actions of a hyper-ventilating fool naively hoping for the best or sensible actions that really work I can't say. But if you exude a bit of love each day for a few continuous weeks, your etheric gradually changes. You exit the combative, hard world of dogma to a softer, more accepting place. It seems like a good idea."

Give the entire article a read!

Also have a look my Stuart Wilde book recommendations!

This article from Peace and Justice dot org is a sort of summary of some of the top points of Kurt Vonnegut's speech to Ohio State University.

It seems that this speech was the last paid speech Kurt will do.

Read it here.

I had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Wilde at an ayahuasca workshop last November. My encounter with him left me feeling empowered - mostly, because I saw that the truth I need to find is inside of me, not inside of someone else.

Through the last decade, Stuart has guided my spiritual life to a great degree. I have looked to his works for answers, truth and hope. I have not been let down.

So when Stuart adds new postings to his website, I get excited! Not just because of the free information (something I am obviously fond of) he provides through that medium, but because it usually contains a nice treat for my "spiritual" life.

Indeed, since January of 2006, he has been pretty active:

The Diana Story Update
Mysterious Orbs
Tales Bounced off the Lonely Road
Free Thinking Helps
The Journey Beyond Enlightenment

Below is an excerpt from this last article:

"The ego creates for itself an ivory tower of self-importance that is sustained by the biophontons in the individual's etheric, and from that place we often expect something or someone to come and raise us up even further. People wait to be discovered or they hope that a great being will appear to raise them up the spiritual ladder towards heaven. It is natural for the ego to seek spiritual importance — it wants to be the chosen one, the specially selected radiant being that is here to redeem the rest of us mere mortals. All of this is very nice but a bit daft." Continue to the article on StuartWilde.com.

Happy reading!

Little by little things are coming together with my whole concious manifestations web world.

Currently, the sites that I have up and running to some degree or another are:

Free Music Software Application Info
Free Language
Free the Sounds
Free Wiki (Current biggest hitter.)
Free Reality
Anonymous Photo
My China Blog
Small World Servers

There are so many more that I want to do, but there is also so much work that I have left to do on these sites!

Depending on what day it is and what I am most interested in working on, I work on a given site, updating the content, adding more feeds, doing design work, tweaking out Drupal mods, etc.

Today I opened up the comments for this site conscious manifestations because I want to let people give me feedback about what they see in my sites, what they like, what they don't like, etc. I am currently moderating and apporving these comments manually in order to prevent spam.

I am amazed at how quickly Google and other engines pick up things that I put on this site! I put up a link 24 hours ago to a new site that I am doing with a friend (not a conscious manifestation, but a side project about our travels) called Transcombouge and already the search engines have indexed it and the content is up on the engines! This is a site that had not even been indexed before!

One thing I am pondering on right now is how to best keep a blog for these sites. Should I keep one blog for all the sites here on cmanifestations.net and send people here from the other sites to this site to catch up on what the latest happenings are for that site? Or should I just keep a blog on each site and let them stay on site for the blog info? Both seem to have their advantages and disadvantages. It is a lot of work to keep up all those blogs, and it is a lot easier to keep one central one here. But it is really nice to keep people on the site to get the blog info...

At any rate, I am rambling.

The point is that lately (as in the last few days), I have decided that I am going to share on this site much more about what is going on behind the scenes with the building of the conscious manifestations network. It is a unique recipe that I have come up with that will hopefully bring in enough money through affiliates and text ads to pay for the domain names and hosting and my time.

I want to share with people how this process is unfolding because, if and when I am successful with these sites, I would like to have the info out there for free for people who might also be interested in doing what I am doing, which is essentially making a living by putting out free information about all the things that I am interested in, holding the energetic concept that if I give it all for free, people will come and I will make enough on clicks here and there that I can continue to disseminate free information for people to benefit from.

I would like people to have a virtual roadmap of how I did it so they can know intimately how they can do it as well. It is a powerful feeling to be able to work on what you are interested in all day, putting all of it out there for free for the rest of the world to benefit from.

That is today's ramble. Things are going to get more personal now. I hope you enjoy!

:)

Here is part 8 of the Redemption Songs. It is pretty deep, so be ready.

Incarnations & Cataclysms: Redemption Songs Part Eight

For the rest of these, look a little further down the page.

From Slashdot:

"Harvey Danger, a Seattle based rock band, has released their newest album Little by little for free mp3 download. They are doing this partially as an Internet publicity experiment, and partially as a stand against the Music Industry's attack on filesharing. From their website, 'In preparing to self-release our new album, we thought long and hard about how best to use the internet. Given our unusual history, and a long-held sense that the practice now being demonized by the music biz as "illegal" file sharing can be a friend to the independent musician, we have decided to embrace the indisputable fact of music in the 21st century, put our money where our mouth is, and make our record, Little By Little..., available for download via Bittorrent, and at our website. We're not streaming, or offering 30-second song samples, or annoying you with digital rights management software; we're putting up the whole record, for free, forever. Full stop. Please help yourself; if you like it, please share with friends.' I suggest you check it out."

I think this is the wave of the future for musicians - the ones worth listening to will gain recognition not for the big marketing budget behind them but for the quality of their music. Through the Free(dom) Software and Open Source movements, we are all learning new and open ways to make a living. Bravo Harvey Danger!

From an article I can across:

"The day before hurricane Rita hit Texas, last Friday, I saw on TV something that disturbed me... It was a fat Texas guy swimming in the waves off Galveston. He'd apparently decided the high surf was a good thing to jump into, so he went for a prehurricane swim. Two cops saw him, waded into the surf and arrested him. When I saw it the guy was standing there in orange trunks being astonished as the cops put handcuffs on him and hauled him away.

I thought: Oh no, this is isn't good. This is authority, not responsibility.

You'd have to be crazy, in my judgment, to decide you were going to go swim in the ocean as a hurricane comes. But in the America where I grew up, you were allowed to be crazy. You had the right...

Government has real duties in disaster. Maintaining the peace is a primary one. But if we demand that our government protect us from all the weather all the time, if we demand that it protect us from rain and hail, if we make government and politicians pay a terrible price for not getting us out of every flood zone and rescuing us from every wave, we're going to lose a lot more than we gain. If we give government all authority then we are giving them all power."

Read the entire article.

A recent article on Slashdot brings to my attention once again the severe pitfalls of the Diebold voting system used in the last US Presidential Election.

All I can ask myself is "What about the votes?!". I mean, really, the software is apparently accessible and all as all software that is online is, but why are more people not concerned with what the heck the real results were as far as who won the election and what the heck we should do about that!

Just for thoughts.

Stuart Wilde has finally released a couple of new postings on his site in the New from Stuart Wilde area: The Jeweled Cog (Redemption Songs Part Four) and Groundhog Day of Disappointing People (Redemption Songs Part Five). These are the latest in a series of Redemption Songs from the Redeemer's Club, all of which I find terribly interesting.

For the heck of it, here is the complete list for your clicking access:

The Trick of Free Will (Redemption Songs Part One)
The Getting of Wisdom (Redemption Songs Part Two)
The Electricity of the Ivory Tower (Redemption Songs Part Three)
The Jeweled Cog (Redemption Songs Part Four)
Groundhog Day of Disappointing People (Redemption Songs Part Five)

This comes at a time when I am planning on creating a Stuart Wilde fan site at a domain I recently acquired: stuartwilde.info - this is in the works and I hope to have it up and running before I meet Stuie in Brazil in November.

The way I see it, his current site is good and gets the info out there, but provides no way for fans to interact, share their thoughts and feelings on what he writes and how it affects their lives, to get in touch with each other and work to move out of the sphere together. I would like to provide the online tools for this to be possible, bringing together seekers and fringe dwellers from all over the world.

In addition, with proper permission I will be translating some of his work into Spanish, French and Portuguese (to begin - later German, Italian and Mandarin) in order to make the content released on his website available to a wider audience.

This is all to come - for now just keep on reading up on his latest!

This article talks about the plans for the world's largest solar energy array to use the Stirling Engine.

Plans involve a 20,000 dish array on 4,500 acres of land that would be capable of generating 500 megawatts of electricity.

This is more than all the current US solar energy projects combined.

I came across a new article on Stuart Wilde's website regarding the 2005 London bombings.

The article has some information about one of the CCTV images circulated by the Metropolitain Police. It seems that the image is questionable...

Check it out.

Anonymouse.org offers several free services to let users surf the web, send email, and post to news groups anonymously.

From their English site:

"Many mice surf the web under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous. Unfortunately, it isn't so. Every time you visit a site for a piece of cheese, you leave a calling card that reveals where you're coming from, what kind of computer you have, and other details. And many cats keep logs of all your visits, so that they can catch you! This service allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information. It is fast, it is easy, and it is free."

For those of you interested in privacy out there, have a look.

Site is also available in German.

From FreetheSounds.org:

"The new server is up and running strong! I have installed a fresh Drupal 4.6.2 install and am currently configuring it to the max for user options galore, categories, personal blogs, syndication, user customization and much more. This will take a few days - you've hung in this long so please be patient just a little while longer.

In addition, a new version of Broadcast Machine has been released and it appears to work flawlessly on the server. I am now setting this up as well so that we can all share torrents for files larger than 3 MB (Under 3 MB can be shared through this part of the site). In addition, once this is up and running, I will be looking into getting a script written that will automatically submit the torrents from this site to Archive.org, in order that they be readily accesible for fast downloads.

I am working lots on all of this, and the result should be up by the end of July, beginning of August.

We will have a sweet and simple, super light-weight theme that improves the navigation and the loading time.

For now, please bookmark this site and come back at the beginning of August!

Look forward to collaborating with you all soon..."

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