Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 27, 2010
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Jalaluddin Rumi
Some Introductory Notes
It is a burning of the heart that I want; it is this burning that is everything, more precious than the empire of the world, because it calls God secretly in the night. — Rumi
Jalaluddin Rumi was born in Afghanistan in 1207 and died in Konya Turkey on December 17, 1273. He was the founder of the Mevlevi Order of the Whirling Dervishes and is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual teachers of all time — one of the True Human Beings... "a brilliant intelligence, an ecstatic, a careful worker in the world, a teacher, a magnificent poet, and a constant Friend of the soul's evolving."
Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 26, 2010
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Raffi Khatchadourian, Letter from India, “The Laughing Guru,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2010, p. 56
ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM INDIA about Dr. Madan Kataria and laughter yoga. In the pantheon of celebrity doctors, Madan Lal Kataria has claimed for himself what is surely the strangest mantle. He is a physician who has transformed himself into the leader of an international movement that promotes laughter as a cure for just about any ailment - physical, psychological, or spiritual. He is known as the Guru of Giggling. Estimates of the number of people who engage regularly in Kataria’s exercises are as high as two hundred and fifty thousand, but there is really no way to gather precise figures.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 19, 2010
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by Marcia Sherman, Ph.D.
Although most intellectuals today look at our world as if it were linear with three dimensions because that's what science can see and measure, I'd like to postulate the idea our existence may be circular. Generations ago, our limited perspective believed our planet was flat and the sun revolved around the earth, yet science was finally able to convince the Catholic Church and then the rest of humanity otherwise. Yet, doesn't it strike you as strange, while science was proving our earth is round and we are actually circumventing the sun, they were, by the same revelation, actually disproving their own theories of everything moves in a straight line and has a beginning and an end?
How could both be true at the same time? Welcome to the world of dualism.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 04, 2010
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I want to let you know about the upcoming Central Coast Bioneers Conference on October 15-17 at Cal Poly. Our Outside Now Nature Academy students have traveled to the San Raphael Bioneers Conference for the past two years and we're excited that this year there will be a local Bioneers event. Last year we heard Michael Pollan and a myriad of other speakers at the conference . . . it's incredibly inspiring!
We're excited that Jon Young will be returning to the Central Coast to speak at this conference. There will also be a session on the Ecology of Leadership as well as girls rites of passage to name just a few of the sessions offered this year. Outside Now is pleased to be involved in the Youth Program piece of the conference.
I'm helping the organizers of this conference get the word out. They'd like to come talk to groups and explain what Bioneers is all about. They'll provide you with event, program and speaker information as well as scheduling for the upcoming October 2010 event. The presentation will take 20-30 minutes and can be part of a regularly scheduled group meeting or a special meeting.
I invite you to check out the attached flyer and call 548-0597 to schedule a presentation. Please pass on this e-mail and flyer to others who may be interested.
I look forward to seeing you in October at the conference!
Donna Helete
Executive Director
Outside Now
(805) 541-9900
www.outsidenow.org
Posted by: bobbanner
on Aug 03, 2010
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Contact: Stacey Hunt
Ecologistics, Inc.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Jul 29, 2010
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About a decade ago I wrote a short essay called “Truth-telling as an Aphrodisiac.”[http://hopedance.org/home/other-news/851] I wrote it primarily to shake up the lies, white or otherwise, that couples often do with each other which chips away at the necessary intimacy that makes for juicy sexual playing.
My peculiar attitude is that the deeper one can be with truth-telling (of oneself and the other) one then can enter into deeper avenues of the heart and the art of sex play so love can emerge more deeply and more profound.
Posted by: bobbanner
on Jul 29, 2010
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I Wanted To Study Chemistry
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on Jul 29, 2010
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Canoeing across the lake
Somewhere between the laughing of the loons and deep throated song of bull frog
I left
And there was just this opening
Where there was a lake
With laughing loons and deep throated song of bull frog.
- Dede Amescua
Posted by: barbwish
on Jul 26, 2010
I was excited about the possibility of working in groups at the conference; in fact, that was one of my motivations for going there. I loved the idea that it was a people’s conference and I wondered how that might play out, how the promise of consensus would become a reality. I was intrigued by this quote from the official cmpcc website (cmpcc is the acronym in Spanish for the complete name of the People’s World Conference): “The People’s World Conference is truly striving to involve as many people as possible. The core work of the Conference will be done in Working Groups. Each one will start their work via email, building consensus and putting forward proposals, which will be considered and enriched in the meetings in person that will take place during the actual conference in Cochabamba. The idea is to construct in Cochabamba in an inclusive and participative way a grand “Peoples' Accord to save life and Mother Earth.”
Posted by: bobbanner
on Jul 21, 2010
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New Mexico Business Weekly - by Rachel Sams NMBW Associate Editor
Randy Siner | NMBW
For Donald Sarich, president and CEO of Permaculture Credit Union in Santa
Fe, money is like water.
"Water can be very erosive, if it comes in quickly, it can erode the
soil away", he said. "Money can be the same way."
Channeling resources back into the local community can improve an economy's
health, Sarich said.
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