Conscious Manifestations

I have been involved with the launch of a Drupal-powered website for a project called Grow Clean Air. This website is the latest incarnation of an effort that has been going on for nearly a decade to simultaneously reduce the global carbon footprint and empower farmers in Africa and India with sustainable agriculture and health practices.

The main things you can do at Grow Clean Air are:

Simultaneously Offset Your Carbon Footprint and Empower Communities in Africa and Asia to Change Their World and Yours
Demand more transparency from the exploding carbon market!
Discover the Facts about the Exploding Carbon Market
Offset your carbon (CO2) footprint by purchasing credits from India and Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
Find a List of Recommended Carbon Calculators

Here's a snippet from their site:

Don't simply offset your emissions when, at no extra cost, you can also visibly...

* be active in supporting sustainable community agriculture for developing countries in Africa and Asia
* contribute to the continued development of one of the most unique forestation projects in the world
* show your family and friends the live, up-to-the-minute results of where your intelligent money is working for them and for you
* empower focused and dedicated Small Groups in developing countries to create a brighter future on a local and global scale
* increase food quality standards for tens of thousands of participants in four countries (India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)
* feel good every time you read our latest newsletter or visit our site and discover what you have helped build
* do your part to make sure your children's children's children can breathe clean air

We deliver real results to you and the communities we work with, plain and simple.

The TIST Project, which actually empowers people th grow the trees and share the Best Practices in Small Groups, was started by Clean Air Action and is aided by The Institute for Environmental Innovation.

Grow Clean Air makes these credits available online for the consumer market in an effort to increase the overall positive impact of the TIST Program, allowing people around the world to quickly and easily offset their carbon footprint.

Very cool! If this interests you, find out why Grow Clean Air is a step ahead of the rest!

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!

Well, at long last Stuie has release his Redeemer's Club website. Though you cannot sign up yet, the site says that it will be opening late fall 2006.

Head on over and read about it.

Here is an excerpt from the front page:

"This site offers information and streaming videos and updates from Stuart Wilde, but mainly it's a social club for scallywags of a metaphysical bent, who like to lurk about in nice places, visiting with exotic people.

It's a trip up the Amazon or a day at the races. It's the craps tables at the MGM Grand or a journey to visit an eccentric fellow in a Celtic forest, whose fingers move at an extraordinary speed. It's dinner at the Ritz and it's egg sandwiches at 4am at the greasy spoon café just off the M4.

It's lurking... entertainment and redemption, transformation Stuie-style."

Ciao for 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!

I am a big fan of Stuart Wilde. I get a lot of hits on this website from people interested in his works. I am even thinking of doing a fan site for the fun of it. But that is to come.

You can see all the postings having to do with Stuie on my site here.

Below you will find links to some of my favorite books by Stuart Wilde. Courage to you!

If you can't see the suggested books, click here.

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!

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 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!

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.

A recent Slashdot article brought to my attention a a pilot project tha China commissioned the William McDonough and Partners firm to design. The goal is to create a sustainable city.

From the William McDonough and Partners website:

"The development of this new community is serving as a national prototype for the design of a sustainable village, an effort focused on creating a template for improving the quality of life for 800 million rural Chinese... The design of the village aspires to draw power from the sun, to maintain materials in closed-loop systems of technical and biological nutrition, and to create an intergenerational community of people productively engaged in restorative commerce. Its goal is to provide a higher quality of life for the villagers and to exemplify a more hopeful future for the children."

McDonough received press from the BBC regarding his book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.

Go McDonough and China! Best of luck in this worthy endeavor.

Bob Bauman of the Sovereign Society has some profound insights into the unfortunate events that have been unfolding lately in London. In the latest Offshore A-Letter he writes:

"The 18th century British philosopher, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), advanced his theory of the panopticon, a prison designed to keep the inmates under constant scrutiny. The imprisoned never knew who was watching and when. This theoretically reduced bad behavior because of the likelihood of getting caught. Orwell called this 'Big Brother.'

We are all under in the panopticon now, all or most of the time. In banks, in airports, on the street, we are all treated as suspects, while real terrorists go about their horrible carnage. And we are all liable to vary degrees of official summary judgment -- perhaps not so final and tragic as London's dead young Brazilian, but judgments all the same.

So, if the anti-terror warriors are right, Brits should feel much safer now that police have the right and power to deal lethally with suspected terrorists on the spot.

But somehow, they (and we) don't feel any safer. Why is that?"

You can read the whole story within a few days here when it is published on the site.

I suggest signing up for the A-Letter, as it is generally filled with insightful and informative views, geared towards privacy and financial freedom.

Today China revalued its currency, unpegging it from the US Dollar in favor of a basket of currencies including the Euro, US Dollar, Yes and other Asian currencies.

This is a much talked-about and anticipated event for world financial markets.

Already in the few hours since the revaluation, the USD to RMB ratio has gone from a previously stable 1 : 8.27 to 1 : 8.11, a change of 2.1 percent.

It will be interesting to see where it goes from here.

Here are a couple of articles on this topic:

China Broadcast: China Scraps Currency Peg to US Dollar

Washington Post: China Severs Its Currency's Link to Dollar

A Sovereign Society Offshore A-Letter led me to an article by Charley Reese on Lew Rockwell's website. The article, entitled "Mostly Fertilizer", provides an alternative view on terrorism from that of the mainstream media.

Here is a quote:

"Finally, I would remind you that mortality for our species is 100 percent. We're all going to die one way or another, so there is nothing a terrorist can do to us that isn't going to happen anyway. Do not live in fear. Do not let a bunch of opportunistic politicians, greedy entrepreneurs, burned-out Hollywood screenwriters and brain-deficient television people scare you into one minute of discomfort. The war on terrorism is 99 percent fertilizer."

Striking, indeed. If this piques your interest, read the full article.

I also recommend subscribing to the Offshore A-Letter.