Healthy Culture, Creative Ritual,Cultural Activism, philosophy and religion, History, Music, Singing and song writing, Dance, Taoist Chi Gung practices, tensegrity, Breema and Tai Massage, Architecture, alternative building, and City Planning, Poetry, Cultural Transformation, wilderness preservation and wildcrafting, permaculture and similar farming practices,Herbalism, intentional community, Tantric/Taoist and similar sexual practices, raw food, MartialArts,Bioremediation,Mycoremediation,cognition,identity-politics,Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method and similar body oriented practices, Viktor Schauberger, Tesla, and other inventors, Plant Spirit Medicine, Animism, Shamanism, economics, mathematics, linguistics, Jungian psychology,Media Studies, ...more laterb
Music
Chico Cesar, Paolo Conte, Louie Armstrong, The Incredible String Band, Jimi Hendrix,Wyclef Jean,Tatar,Cui Jian,Smokey Robinson, Bing Crosby, Prince, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, the Kinks, Woody Guthrie, Jean Richie, Gillian Welch,Johnathan Richman,The New Lost City Ramblers,Robbie Robertson, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Rubin Blades,Astor Piazzola,Henryk Gorecki,Cheikh lo,Willie Nelson,Tribalistas, Lou Reed, the Pretenders, Ani Difranco, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, anything by Bach that has at least one Trumpet in it, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Ornette Coleman, Neil Young, Thelonious Monk,Captain Beefheart, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Johnny Cash, Laurie Anderson, Graham Central Station, Sly Stone, Public Enemy, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Chuck Berry, the Mighty Sparrow, the Jolly Boys, David Byrne, David Bowie, Thomas Tallis, Najma, Yousou N'dour, Taj Mahal, Robert Clay, Keb Mo, Nina Simone, Sara Vaughn, Charlie Christian, Billie Holliday, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Jimmy Cliff, Mattieu Bogaert,Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Zap Mama, Saul Williams, Leonard Cohen, I-P , Lauren Hill, Yousou N'dour, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Wu Man,Buffy Saint-Marie,Dolly Parton,Walela,Outkast,Tupac,Ulali, Grieg...ethnic, Folk, world music, jazz, country blues, experimental music.
Movies
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Money As Debt
Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.
Red Beard, Little Big Man, The Graduate, Life and Debt,CITY LIGHTS,A night at the Opera, Waking Life, Winter Soldier,Skirt Power,Once, Places for the Soul,Network,Derzu Ozala, Lilya 4-ever (this movie is so sad I could only bear to see it once but its pretty unforgetable), Thunder Heart,Sounder.
These are all books and authors that have influenced me at various times in my life though of course I dont agree with everything in any of them and didn't even at the time as enjoying them so much:¨A Pattern Language¨,¨The Timeless Way of Building¨, ¨The Nature of Order¨ series and other books by Christopher Alexander,¨Deschooling Society¨, ¨Medical Nemesis¨, Disabling Professions" and other things by Ivan Illich, Malidoma Some and Sobonfu Some books, Wendell Berry (essays);"Betrayal of the Self" and "The Insanity of Normality" by Arno Gruen, "No Contest", "Punished by Rewards" and other books by Alfie Kohn,"We Were Never Moderns" and other books by Bruno Latour,"perpetual prisoner machine" by Dyer, "War And Peace" and Anna Karenina By Tolstoy,Thoreau,Barbara Kingsolver,"In the Absence of the Sacred" (jerry Mander), "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karazamov"(Dostoyevsky), "Narcissus and Goldmund" (Hesse),"The Prophet" (Gibran),"One Hundred Years of Solitude", collected poetry of Aime Cesaire,Robinson Jeffers, "A Thousand Splended Suns" Hosseini, "What is the What?", "Moby Dick", "Manchild in the Promised land","Invisible Man", "Collected Poetry or Robert Frost", "The wisdom of insecurity" (Allan Watts), all the Castaneda Books, Rene Schwaller de Lubicz,"The Color Purple", "The Tao te Ching", Chuang tzu (translated by Thomas Merton), Paul Feyerabend's books, Morris Bermans trilogy on human consciousness, Mantak and Meenewan Chias many books, "Transforming your Dragons" (jose stevens), "A language Older than Words" (Derrick Jensen), Rumi, Mary Oliver, "Natural way of Farming" and ¨One Straw Revolution¨(Fukuokua), ¨The Mirage of Health¨ and ¨Man Adapting¨, (Rene Dubois), Black Elk Speaks, In Search of the Primitive (Diamond),¨The Decline of the West¨ (Spengler),¨Science and Sanity"(Korzybski),¨Wholeness and the Implicate Order¨ (David Bohm), ¨Faust¨ (one and two) and ¨On Color¨ by Goethe, various Lewis Mumford Books, Les Miserables" and ¨The Hunchback or Notre Dame¨ (Hugo), "Cradle to Cradle","The Listening Book",Credo Mutwa, Many of Jungs works, "Where Mathematics comes from" and "Philosophy in the Flesh" by George Lakoff, ¨Structure of Evil¨ (Ernst Becker), ¨The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness¨. ¨The Art of Love" and ¨To Have or to Be", by Erich Fromm, Sandman Series (Neil Gaiman),"Plant Spirit Medicine",¨Mere Christianity", ¨the Chronicles of Narnia¨ and outer space trilogy by C.S.Lewis, ¨The Book of Songs¨, "The I-Ching", Chairs" by Galen Crantz, Persona by R. Hopcke, The Body Electric (Becker), Samuel Hahnumen's works,¨Humanure Handbook¨(Jenkins), Soundscape (Shafer),"Instinctive Nurtrition"(Severen Schaefer) ¨Autobiography of Malcolm X¨,The Color Purple, "Dharma Bums",¨Empress Orchid¨, ¨Men of Maize¨, ¨As You Like it¨, ¨Mutant Message Down Under¨,¨The Prophet¨,¨The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bichamberal Mind¨, ¨Brave New World¨, ¨Down and Out in Paris and London¨, "Mircocosmos"(Margilus and Sagen), ¨Mutual Aid¨,"Mycelium Running" (Stamets) ¨The Old Man and the Sea¨, ¨Anthems of the Decades¨(Mazisi), ¨Egyptian Mysteries,The Gospels, the Book of Job, Songs of Solomon, "There Are Two Lives: Poems By Children of Japan¨, ¨Miracles: Poems by Children of the English-Speaking World¨, ¨the Divine Comedy¨, ¨The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood","The Once and Future King", Complete Poetry of Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott,The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Empedocles,¨Works and Days¨, ¨Escape from Intimacy¨ (Anne Wilson Shaef), ¨The Lord of The Dawn¨, Chinua Achebe, Manuel Bandieras,Garcia Lorca, Cesar Vallejo,"Lost World of the Kalajari","I Was a Savage", "The Dark is Rising" series,The "Song of Albion","Lord of the Rings", and "His Dark Materials" Trilogies,The ¨Great Brain¨ books, ¨Soup¨,"The Wizard of Earthsea" series and "Always coming Home" LeGuin, William Blake, ¨The Art of War¨ (Sun Tzu),¨The Chronicles of Prydain¨, Complete poetry of Vasco Popa", Francis Ponge,"The Way Buildings Learn" (Stewart Brand),"Democracy in America", ¨Living Energies¨,various Krishnamurti Books, ¨the spell of the sensuous¨,Technitions of the Sacred", "Poems for the Millennium¨ and "Shaking the Pumking" (all edited by Rothenberg)Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence¨,¨Long Walk to Freedom¨ (Mandela), ¨The Holographic Paradigm¨,Paul Oliver, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Wolf, ¨A Theory of Architecture¨ (Nikos Salingaros), ¨The Divine Horsemen" (Maya Deren) more later...
About me:
About me 1:
“Truth is the First casualty of War. It is also the first condition of Peace”
“Everybody has a piece of the Truth and every body has a piece of the Lie.”
“Violence doesn’t work. Non-violence doesn’t work either. Maybe Healthy Culture will work”
—I-P
We all live in, are infected by, and suffer from, a sick Culture of Apart-ness, of Alienation. This culture, like all culture is comprised of Cosmology, Identity, Ritual, and Infrastructure. In the case of the dominant culture this means; a Cosmology of Apart-ness, an Identity-Politics of Apart-ness, Rituals of (inner and outer) Apart- ness, and Infrastructures of Apart-ness. Education (formal and informal) is the transmission of culture, and in our case it is the transmission of this sick culture. The factional political paradigms or our time (including those based on race, gender, class, political party, nationality, even species) are all symptoms of, rather than cures for, this condition of sick culture. As such, none of them have any potential at all for changing anything that matters in any sustainable way. We have no time for this.
Since sick culture is the problem, it follows that Healthy Culture is the solution. So what is Healthy Culture and how does it manifest on the collective, political Level? Glad you asked. This question is explored on my two motime blogs :integralscience.motime.com and lifedancelog.motime.com. There I write of an extremely small, but vital and replicable, Cultural Pilot Project that is currently going on in the cultural microclimate of Twin Oaks Intentional community in Virginia,(soon to move to England perhaps) involving the practice of Healthy Culture; its cosmology of Togetherness (Integral Science), its Identity-Politics of Togetherness (Individual-Personhood), it’s Rituals of Togetherness (Life-Dance rituals) and its Infrastructure of Togetherness.
About me 2:
Practitioner of Healthy Culture that is, The Culture of Togetherness. A lot of what I say, sing, write and do is an expression of this culture and of the cosmology (which I call Integral Science),Identity Politics (Individual-Personhood), ritual, and Infrastructure that constitute it. Dancer around the Tree of Life. Writer and singer of songs, player of music. Interested in the inner and outer transfomation and healing. Sincere, kind, funny, a very creative, brilliant and deliberate person. On the path with Heart and Resolved to dancing up hill against the prevailing avalanche of false surviving, bad faith,factional identities, fear-based motivations, and the privitization of reality.
Who I'd like to meet: whoever is intrigued, or even better, excited, by some, or even better, by all of the above. Are you up for an adventure of inner and outer healing, of Living-Friendship, of good sense, goodtaste, good faith and good will? I am I-P and I would like to dance with you.
I wanted to let you know that on March 15th,16th, and 17th We are having our Green Living Expo at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Come and learn about how to improve and preserve our environment and quality of life. Check out my Myspace for more info!
Thank you for your friend invite. I already knew that the way that society is going is not working, but what eluded me was knowing what to do. Not only can all of the work you have done help me on a personal level, but also help me answer that question as well. I appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully answer any questions and listen to suggestions.
MY NIGGA!!!!
WHAT'S POPPIN...{{I MISS U}} HOWS FRANCE OR WHEREEVA DA HELL U WENT??? WELL HOPE IT'S ALL GOOD JUS SHOIN U SUM LOVE RETURN IT IIGHT {{PEACE}} IMANI
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings and deeds are listened to by all that is.
I want bitter friends, bold friends
I want friends that will tell me the truth
And stand up to me
I want friends that have my best interest at heart
Even if it will hurt
I want friends to embolden me
Console me
Be with me
When life is hard and decisions are harder
I want friends that
Will shake me
Smack me around if that is what it takes to help me survive
They say that being a true friend
Hurts them more than it hurts me
Because true friends go through your pain
Your suffering
Like it is their own
That why I want my friends
Thanks for reading. You were right on with your take on my poem. And writing ("releasing") it really did bring me peace. Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!!!
hey horus, thanx for accepting me. johnny told me you were really cool and since johnny is really cool and said you were well then i guess you are. :) ok peace out!
