"When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears."
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Sunday September 5, 2010
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IN DISTRUST OF MOVEMENTS
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Category: Community
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Type: Reading
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By Wendell berry -- "We are involved now in a profound failure of imagination. Most of us cannot imagine the wheat beyond the bread, or the farmer beyond the wheat, or the farm beyond the farmer, or the history beyond the farm. Most people cannot imagine the forest and the forest economy that produced their houses and furniture and paper; or the landscapes, the streams and the weather that fill their pitchers and bathtubs and swimming pools with water. Most people appear to assume that when they have paid their money for these things they have entirely met their obligations." -- From the full text.
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Stalking Natural Spirit
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Category: Sustainability
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Type: Reading
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By Bill Cahalan
Stalking Natural Spirit: Toward a Creation-centered Spirituality is a moving, contemplative article with a call for personal and community action. "Peace on Earth has to include peace with Earth. Globally, we see expanding human numbers and consumption rates, along with relentlessly declining natural sources for such consumption. It is becoming clear to more and more people that we can not make peace with people whose air, water, cropland, and forests we are polluting or destroying."
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Interviews with Helen Palmer
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Category: Mindfulness
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Type: People
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Online conversations with Helen Palmer, well-known for her method of teaching about the Enneagram using the narrative, or oral tradition:
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The ManKind Project
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Category: Living
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Type: Resource
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ManKind Project™ (MKP) is an organization of men working together to improve their lives and help other men. It is a 501(c)(3) organization with certified organizational centers in 27 different communities in the United States, Canada and England. Its stated mission is to assist men in "reclaiming the sacred masculine for our time through initiation, training, and action in the world." The ManKind Project™ is a progressive and non-sectarian, non-partisan alternative to other men's organizations. The Project has two goals. The first is to initiate men into a mature masculinity, to lead lives of integrity, connection to feeling, and a renewed responsibility for their personal mission in the world. The second goal is to be of service to the community.
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MoveOn.org
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Category: Change
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Type: Reading
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MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Our nationwide network of more than 1,700,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.
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Co-op America
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Category: Sustainability
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Type: Resource
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The mission of Co-op America is to harness economic power -- the strength of consumers, businesses and the marketplace -- to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
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Authentic Enneagram
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Category: Mindfulness
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Type: Resource
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Official Web site of teachers Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.
From the site: "The Enneagram, a powerful and dynamic personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, provides the answers to these questions and much, much more. It tells us what motivates us, what basic coping strategies we adopt to survive and thrive, and what causes our relationships to flourish or flounder. In addition, the Enneagram provides a specific path of personal development and enrichment for each of the nine types -- ways to discover our highest qualities and purpose in life."
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Orion Magazine
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Category: Living
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Type: Reading
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The Orion Society's programs and publications seek to inform, inspire and engage civil society in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and community.
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What 1 percent might do.
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Category: Change
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Type: Reading
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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark interviewed in THE SUN MAGAZINE - August 2001. "...we each have to do our own part, and become responsible, civic-minded citizens: we have to realize that we won't be happy unless we try to do our part. And if a small portion of us simply do our part, that will be enough. That's all it would take: 1 percent of the people..."
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www.growbiointensive.org
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Category: Earth
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Type: Resource
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FROM THE ALAS BABYLON Mailing List:
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:38:11 -0000
From: "regenfreude"
Subject: the food thing, a plan: Ecology Action mini-ag
"The best plan for food scarcity/ security that I have ever come across..."
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Wendell Berry
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Category: Living
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Type: People
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The New York Times has called Wendell Berry the "prophet of rural America." He is a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky and the author of thirty-two books of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He has been a fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.
Links from ChangedMinds.org and other sites:
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Creative Resistance
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Category: Change
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Type: Resource
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This non profit site is dedicated to making injustices visible and to exploring how fundamental changes will occur.
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Another Turn of the Crank
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Category: Sustainability
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Type: Reading
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By Wendell Berry -- "One thing at least should be obvious to us all: the whole human population of the world cannot live on imported food. Some people somewhere are going to have to grow the food. And wherever food is grown the growing of it will raise the same two questions: How do you preserve the land in use? And how do you preserve the people who use the land?."
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INTERBEING
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Category: Mindfulness
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Type: Resource
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By THICH NHAT HANH -- "When we see the good and the bad, the wondrous and the deep suffering, we have to live in a way that we can make peace between ourselves and the world. Understanding is the fruit of meditation. Understanding is the basis of everything."
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The One Bowl Book
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Category: Living
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Type: Reading
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By Don Gerrard -- One Bowl eating offers a unique approach to dieting. Rather than being one more technique that forces the body to lose weight, One Bowl eating teaches you how to listen to your body's internal signals and use them to maintain your most appropriate weight. One Bowl eating does not control, force or dominate. It is receptive. It listens to life and responds.
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The Peace Project
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Category: Change
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Type: Resource
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A philosophy based on a CD, The Peace Project, that encourages youth and adults to intentionally slow down their accelerated pace in order to connect more fully with self and others. - Frank A. DiLallo
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Primalseeds.org
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Category: Sustainability
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Type: Resource
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Primal Seeds exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security. It is a response to industrial biopiracy, control of the global seed supply and of our food. This evolving tool is designed to empower individuals to participate in the creation of tomorrow.
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What One Sees Without Eyes
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Category: Mindfulness
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Type: Reading
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"I saw with my eyes until I was eight years old. For more than thirty-five years now I have been blind, completely blind. I know that this experience is my greatest happiness."
Excerpt of an essay by Jacques Lusseyran.
From What One Sees Without Eyes, selected writings of Jacques Lusseyran, © 1999 by Parabola Books, published in the UK by Floris Books. This essay also appears in its complete form in Lusseyran's book: Against the Pollution of the I and The Best Spiritual Writing of 2000
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The New Renaissance
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Category: Change
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Type: Reading
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A powerful article/speech by Daniel Quinn, at the Ismael.org site. Daniel calls this speech "a concise expression of the basic message of all my books."
"The extraordinary thing that is going to happen in the next two or three decades is not that the human race is going to become extinct. The extraordinary thing that's going to happen in the next two or three decades is that a great second renaissance is going to occur. A great and astounding renaissance.
Nothing less than that is going to save us."
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Eckhart Tolle
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Category: Mindfulness
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Type: People
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Eckhart Tolle's book THE POWER OF NOW is inspiring people all over the world to understand what is really meant by mindfulness, and to begin living in the present, instead of habitually focused on past and future concerns.
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Project Renaissance
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Category: Living
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Type: Resource
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Core Mission: To enable as many human beings as possible to become more than a match for the situations, opportunities and problems or difficulties that they find around them, and to enjoy a richer quality of life and experience.
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THOUGHTS IN THE PRESENCE OF FEAR
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Category: Change
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Type: Reading
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By Wendell Berry -- "What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders."
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Father Junipero Serra Rest Stop
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Category: Living
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Type: People
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"At an exit off of Interstate 280 in the Peninsula town of Hillsborough lies a little miracle of the world, the Crystal Springs Safety Rest Area, better known as the Father Junipero Serra Rest Stop. This little rest stop has a couple of interesting stories to it that makes you want to believe human nature hasn't all gone to hell, that one person can truly make a difference... Visit here when you are ready to take a few minutes to relax and really read about how one human being can live in a way that affects the lives of so many others... Write to Jerry and tell him what you think. I'll bet you'll thank him, as have the rest of us.
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Land Trust Alliance (LTA)
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Category: Living
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Type: Resource
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Since its founding in 1982, the Land Trust Alliance (LTA) has helped build a strong land trust movement in America that now includes more than 1,260 conservation organizations. LTA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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Consciousness and Consumerism
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Category: Living
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Type: Reading
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By Randy Weeks -- "If we are willing to consume without care, we cannot expect the items we consume to have been created with care... We can awaken, though, and help to wake each other. One by one is how it's done. No TV evangelism, no campaigns, programs or political platforms. Change your mind and change the world."
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