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Nature's Facebook Exodus!

nateure — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:19:28 GMT

I am no longer (and haven't been for a while) using tribe as my primary social networking site. I am using facebook and you can always reach me on gmail: artnaturemusic@gmail.com IF you really want to talk to me, call 775-303-5784. Blessings Nature

ANOTHER NATURE SUMMER ADVENTURE!

nateure — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:46:37 GMT

Greetings and SillyTations to you all, Nature (that's me) is off on another summer long adventure and he wants to let you know where he'll be dancing, playing, singing i.e. beatboxing, performing, dancing, creating art, practicing theta healing, raw fooding, and LOVING LAUGHING LIVING ALL THE WAY TO 2012! I LOVE YOU ALL! BLESSINGS NATURE www.joshuatreemusicfestival.com May 15-17th Red Lightning Burning Man Campout in Malibu, CA www.redlightning.org May 23-25th Chilla Vista Festival in Santa Barbara, CA (no website) May 31st Raw Spirit Festival www.rawspiritfest.org June 5-7th Health and Harmony Festival Harmonyfestival.com June 12-14th Raw Union Festival and Wedding rawunion.wordpress.com/ June 20-21st Rothbury Festival www.rothburyfestival.com July 2nd-5th Tribal Visions Festival www.myspace.com/tribalvisions2009 July 10-12th Emrgnsee Festival www.emrgnsee.com July 17-19th Mystic Garden Party www.mysticgardenparty.com July 23-26th Beloved Festival www.belovedfestival.com August 14th-17th Burning Man www.burningman.com August 31st- Sept 7th Bhakti Fest www.bhaktifest.com Sept. 11-13th Symbiosis Gathering Sept. 17-21st www.symbiosisgathering.com/2009 Earth Dance Sept. 25-27th www.earthdance.com

Nature's Hollywood Debut!

nateure — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:48:59 GMT

Check out this Flier! Mad LOVE AND LAUGHTER TO EVERYONE! BLess Nature

NATURE FOOLIN' AROUND ALL MONTH!

nateure — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:44:50 GMT

Door Perfomer and Atmospheric FUN Dancer @ FOOLS GOLD! - ANAHATASOUND.COM (CD RELEASE) April 1st Dancer/Performer/Mirror @ Temple of Mirrors WWW.ANT-Ten-NAE.net April 3rd THETA HEALING BASIC DNA REPEAT > ThetaHealing.com April 3-5th CATALYZING COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY > ART INSTALLATION w/ IAMUNIFIED.com, www.THEPUSHSF.COM April 4th- 28th DANCER @ WHO's YOUR MAMA! > WWW.HERMUSIC.ORG April 4th WWW.TopangaEARTHDAY.org > ART INSTALLATION April 18-19 ART INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE @ SHAMBHALLAH FUSION > www. SHAMBALLAHLA.COM APril 26th ART INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE and more @ BELTANE FESTIVAL > www.sacredwaterstream.com

NATURE PERFORMING LIVE, DIVINE PLAY ALL THE TIME!

nateure — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

From Now On I'm Dreamin' ON Cloud Nine Life is always Heavenly LIfe is always divine Gone with the wind No Beginning No end Everyone is family Everyone is Friends Growing the people garden

http://www.myspace.com/thetruthabouthalojones

nateure — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:42:55 GMT

http://www.myspace.com/thetruthabouthalojones

IF ANYONE CARES TO KNOW WHAT I'm DOING...

nateure — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:06:10 GMT

This Month: www.juicefastforpeace.com www.2012quantumleap.com www.sacredstreams.com Oh Yeah, Still apprenticing with ShamanShack.info Still Selling Superfoods: www.noblelifeelements.com/nature and more to come blessings nature

Grace Gratitude and PORNO!

nateure — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:03:49 GMT

"Zack and Miri make a Porno," isn't the likeliest of holiday films one would want to see on Thanksgiving, but it was the exact dose of humor that I needed to get me out of the fall funk. Kevin Smith couldn't be more raunchy or low brow and I couldn't be more thankful that such gross-out comedies exist in this world to remind us that a GIANT cosmic joke is at hand and we are all called to participate in the party. I am super grateful to all of my friends, family, acquaintances, guides, angels, fans, yogis, healers, musicians, and artists in my life that make it such a surreal psychadelic spiritual experience of the fourth dimension beyond the mundane and mediocre. I feel that Heaven on Earth is at the tips of our fingers, just beyond our full embrace, and if we harness the full power of the universe, we can catalyze these precious moments in our lifetime to create a reality far more beautiful, loving, and dream-like then we could have ever possibly imagined. We see it. We feel it. We know it's there. We care the vision in our minds and hearts, holding space for the entire human race to evolve to enlightened state of celestial ecstasy. Now, that Dr. King's dream has come true, it is time to dream deeper, further, and beyond present ideas of peace, love, and happiness. The never-ending story continues to unfold and yes, we are the writers. My personal Heaven begins here, in the new year> WWW.BELOVEDPRESENTS.COM Blessings LOVE GRATITUDE and NAMASTE to all the divine beings in the UNIVERSE Nature

NATURE IN LA!

nateure — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:51:54 GMT

To my Beloved Tribe Family, I've been out of touch because tribe has been down so much. FUCK! Anywayz, Freshly back from Raw Spirit Festival and another successful installation at 'We the People' last weekend, I will be doing another installation at LA Burning Man decom on Saturday as well as a permaculture workshop and beatbox performance. Then I'll be attending Elevate Film Festival on Sunday. I'm also promoting superfoods like crazy. They have changed me, healed me, and are helping EVOLVE. IF you don't know, then check'em out already <www.noblelifeelements.com/nature LA is bursting at the seems with opportunity and I plan to live my life long dream of acting down here, among other things that I will disclose later. A Couple other things i am promoting right now: 1st ever Rainbow Raw Games: www.rawgames.org David Wolfe Retreat in Hawaii: www.thesunkitchen.com Please contact me with any questions or just to say HI, chances are I miss you and would love to hear from you. Blessings Bliss Beauty Heaven on Earth! Now! Nature

Nature's BELOVED!

nateure — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:22:16 GMT

On the day of my birth, I want to celebrate you, Friends, Family, and even Foes For it is you that complete me And make me whole All of you gave birth to this artist Through inspiration imagination and dreaming new realities into being I will keep on believing that anything is possible As long as we take another leap of faith together AS ONE! Our work is never done And why should it be When creating beauty is so much fun and love the eternal mystery keeps us dancing in Freedom's embrace This poem is laced with traces of healing Hopefully Helping us Evolve in health, Happiness, wisdom, and wealth As my Mother says before we dine All is divine Except for that which i have not yet made peace And the music will make the war inside Cease I promise Blissful Kisses and Ecstatic Well Wishes As The Nature Beat Grows On News and Events: New Website: www.noblelifeelements.com/nature August 24-25th Yoga Health Festival August 26-28th Democratic National Convention Sept. 12-14th Raw Spirit Festival Sept. 16-21 Daka/Dakinin Training? October 5th Elevate Film Festival? November 14-16th Green Festival November 20-23rd Raw Olympics Dec. 12-14th Eco-Gift Expo

Nature's Alex Grey Poem

nateure — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:30:18 GMT

Inspired by the vision meditation Alex led this weekend @ Harmony Festival. Following reading the poem allowed, Alex Said, "WOW! That's What We're Talking About." Organic All Divine Being Sculpture Human Animal Alien Nature Being Insect Aquatic Mammal Forrest Creature telling the story of Creation Mythic Monster Divine Beast Radical Reptile Floral Puck Dyonesian Demon Abstract Angelic Healer Evolved Entheogenic Entity Aya Allah Ama Mama Manifested in all forms Merging together to be the super supreme cosmic universal Deity Representing everything in existence evolving ever after Forever Forming fun shapes of symmetry synthesizing synergizing symbiotically creating ecstatic love bliss Blooming Blossoming Birthing Beauty Beyond all consciousness

A Picture says a Thousand Words!

nateure — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:23:54 GMT

www.pixievisionproductions.com/gallery/lib2008/IMG_1143_small Thank you for taking this picture pixie and thank you everyone who participated in our installation, It was truly a cosmic blessing to be apart of such an event, we already can't wait until next year. Next Up: Emerald Nature will be co-creating the Eco-Village at Harmony. Please come co-create with us. Bring flowers, crystals, sticks, branches, mini-shrines, small altar pieces, feathers, leaves, anything green, moss, seeds, etc. We're going for best temporary eco-village ever. Love Light and Laughter Nature

Nature's Comedy Freak Show! PART 2

nateure — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:45:31 GMT

5 New Characters (That I made up a while ago) and a commercial break to Boot! Please share, forward, post, and send the video to anyone and everyone. Comments and constructive criticism are appreciated. love light laughter and KRUMPING! Nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azrX0nbUAw8

Nature's Comedy Freak Show!

nateure — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:29:26 GMT

This is only the beginning! Please post comments, questions, constructive criticism, and ideas. Thank you. Blessings nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTNeug-GrBA

Nature's BACK from Hawaii (not Nigeria!)

nateure — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:59:11 GMT

Freaks, Family, Friends, Fun-aholics, and all-around beautiful people, New Temporary E-mail: nateure@excite.com #- 775-303-5784 First, Love, Gratitude, Light, Healing, and super amounts of fun to all. I am so blessed to be apart of such a large community of co-creative visionaries, artists, healers, musicians, builders, organizers, activists, producers, dancers, and spiritual beings on all paths from all walks of life. THANK YOU! Sorry for all the confusion. The day I flew back to the mainland, some hooligan hijacked my g-mail account and sent almost all of you a wonderful message stating that I was stranded in Nigeria and needed all your money. Well, they got one part right. I do need all your money, but for purely altruistic and philathropic endeavors. Anywayz, After surviving the islands by the skin of my teeth (I got a nasty staph infection the week before I left), I've returned to do another art installation tour. All pieces are open to community participation and collaboration. Here are the confirmed dates: Joshua Tree Music Festival May 16-18th Lightining in a bottle Santa Barbara, CA May 23-25 Village Building Convergence Portland, OR May 27-June 1st Health and Harmony Festival w/ Eco-Village Northern CA June 6-8 Sonic Bloom Colorado June 20-22 Emrgnsee Salem, oR July 16, 17, 18th Water in the Desert Portland, OR July 26th Beloved Festival Oregon Coast August 15, 16, 17

Nature's Been Seduced by Pele

nateure — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:17:41 GMT

Have you ever stood a few feet from slow flowing lava and just stared in awe and wonder as the earth formed itself? I did it for the first time this past week and my life is forever changed, but my life is changing constantly so this isn't anything out of the ordinary. After a month of permaculture courses, I decided to stay and take a position of management at the Hawaiian Sanctuary in as there resident permaculturist. I'm no expert, but I need the experience and the owner of the land offered me a sweet deal. I can try it for a month and if that works out, then he is only asking for a 3 month commitment after that and we shall proceed from there. The land is by no means finished, but is ripe for more permaculture courses and gatherings. I hope to be organizing some of those and facilitating them in the future if everything works out. Right now, I love it. It's the most challenging thing I've ever done and I'm still loving it. Don't worry, I wont forget my family on the mainland, and once the first month is up, I'm aloud to have visitors, so book your tickets now if you want a cheap and FUN place to kick it on the Big Island as spring and summer approach. I love you all.....more to come soon... Perma-Nature

Nature 01.01

nateure — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:56:45 GMT

Nature 01.01 One Year in 1111 words. (how cosmic and spiritual. OH MY GODDESS!) The game I’m currently playing: www.consciousgoodsalliance.com A game we can all play: www.givinggame.org Come OUT and play on the Big Island, HI: www.livingmandala.com I wonder if it’s possible to turn loving all of you, thanking all of you, and staying connected to all of you into a full-time ‘green’ and sustainable livelihood. Time will only tell. All the same, THANK YOU for making this the best and most challenging year ever. The love and beauty were off the charts! I can’t wait for another round of freaky fun, art, music, dancing, healing, yoga, permaculture, performance art, and neo-techno tribal shamanism. Presently as present as I can be on a computer after a long night of working with Amazonian Medicine. Feeling like reciting poetry, singing, playing, praying, and basically being everything I ever wanted to be to the fullest. I realize it may take lifetimes to master being, but since I have forever and an eternity, I’ll settle in for the ride and take my sweet time. Here it is, 2007 wrapped up in stream of consciousness. January was full of doubt and worry as I worked at Harvey’s Comedy Club giving away free tickets. I was losing my interest in comedy by the day. I soon quit and moved on to landscaping. That didn’t last long either, since it was the middle of winter and I was let go for what appeared to be no reason, except that I didn’t know absolutely everything about landscaping. February was more promising as I put together a 2-hour comedy performance with my now good friend Dave Clay. The performance was a great success, agents from Comedy Central were there, and the rest shall we say, is history. NOT! Still, the show was good, people laughed, and my love of comedic performing was reborn! March can be summed up in two phrases: Metamedia Cooperation and Kundalini Dance. I organized and booked the music for the multi-media event at the University of Oregon’s Art Museum, which was something that I never thought I would be doing. Thanks to Jair, I had an enlightening experience about who I was and what I really wanted to do with my life, be an ARTIST! I continued my Kundalini Dance training, but was unable to become certified due to financial reasons. I plan to finish my training this year and become a fully-fledged facilitator. Dance Floors beware! April took me back to school at Gaia University where I began to pursue my masters in permaculture education with a focus in art and shamanism. What I came to realize though, is that all I wanted to do was master myself. Good Luck! Again, I have an eternity. Right after that, I decided to showcase whatever talent I have on famecast.com and finally put my art out to a larger audience. Thanks all who voted and watch out for more performances to come. May was a month of metaphysical mayhem and madness as I finished my first permaculture design course with Starhawk and attended my 3rd Village Building Convergence. Both were nothing short of life changing experiences. Thank you Portland for being a pillar of light in America. June was full-on as I produced my first event, “Night of the Goddess.” At June Bug Jamboree Festival I built a tree altar and medicine wheel. Here, two spontaneous ceremonies took place and a powerful talking circle of local educators and visionaries. I still consider the GardeNest that I built at Emrgnsee my crowning achievement of the year and hope to create more art of a similar style on a larger scale. Thank you again to Jody, Shira, Tucker, Gratidude, and the rest of the Emrgnsee team for helping to make that possible. Entheos Gathering in Canada on Solstice set the standard for all future festivals to come. Thank you Byron, Akhenthek, Raq-Elf, margot, Eyen, Daryl, Luna, mate, Sobey, SeJay and the entire Light Ship for a truly next level experience. Intention 8.5 showed me what community is really all about. The Sun Shine Coast is where it’s AT! In July, I finally committed to my spiritual path and became a Daimista (santodaime.org). Blessings to all the divine beings everywhere. Life! Health! Happiness! Open Paths! Health in the body! Peace in the spirit! Love in the Heart! Collaborating with Emerald Installations @ Island Festival showed me that I was definitely being guided by spirit to fulfill my highest purpose as an artist, dancer, creator of sacred space, and all around Fun Fool! The installation we did at Horning’s Hideout comes in a close second if not a tie to what we created at Emrgnsee. Super Happy to have worked with all of you there and hope to do it again. Water in the Desert the same weekend was a pleasure, but I’ll never do 2 festivals in one weekend, ever again! Shambhala was definitely dreamy and delicious, but I struggled to create the highest vision I had to build a worthy water altar and portal that lead everyone to pray for the purification and freedom of all the water on earth. Spending two weeks in jail afterward for having ONE 2 year old mushroom that was an altar item in a box with a crystal and being fined $1,600 was no fun, but to be honest, I think I learned more about myself there, than I would have at Burning Man this year. Sorry! A word of advice: don’t spend your birthday in jail, and don’t give border patrol any reason to ever search your vehicle. Symbiosis taught me that you definitely can’t do everything at once, but that you can easily make people’s day simply by being yourself. Practicing and pursuing performance Heart-Core is the next step. October was depressing and dreary as I waited for work to manifest and finally got my wish when one of my friends e-mailed me a link to the conscious goods alliance, a veggie oil bus with 14 sponsors. I should be so lucky. We kicked it in the bay area for almost a month after green fest before heading through the SW. You can see my blog and pictures for that current adventure @ Consciousgoodsalliance.com Alas, after almost being annihilated on the freeway by a semi, our veggie bus made it to Albuquerque,NM where it is currently being fixed. Hopefully we’ll be back on the road by January 10th, but I’m going to let spirit decide that one. In the mean time, check out what I’m doing in February: www.livingmandala.com Love, Serve, Heal, Educate, Entertain, Free All Sentient Beings! PEACE! Nature

Acting Thankful for almost Everything and Buying Nothing for radical Reasons

nateure — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:30:23 GMT

Present Preface: My new digs/mission/project/journey: www.consciousgoodsalliance.com After months off the tribe radar, it's time to re-emerge amidst the time of year when all our bodies, minds, and souls want to do is rest, relax, and practice Chill-Assana! This is difficult to write because of these opposing forces within my being. Welcome to the paradox of our lives and the struggle to live in balance with nature (not me, the other one, the BIG ONE). Saying thank you to all of you will never be enough. I want you all to feel it in every action I take every day of my life. Please allow time to heal and patience for this to fully manifest. As changing the world becomes more and more a journey than a destination, I dwell between the worlds of hope and despair where the worlds of activism and circus collide in the real life adventure of saving the world. I mean this in the most literal sense as that seems to be what we are here to do in one way shape or form if we are at all awake to the state of planet earth. Some may say that all that it takes is a shift in perception, consciousness, and frame of mind. Maybe I need to take more action than breathing deeply, being in love with the world, and going to "Work." We are surrounded by free medicine and health care, but we either take too much or not enough. The solutions are everywhere, but are hard to get to or access is being denied by the powers that be. If any of this sounds confusing or random, it’s because I’ve recently picked up Derrick Jensen’s Endgame: Volume II: Resistance (www.derrickjensen.org/) and although I’ve read his writing before and know the gist of his rallying cry to end civilization, this time is a bit different. I struggle and wonder if we are really doing enough. Am I really doing absolutely everything I can with every ounce of my being to help, to heal, to change, to evolve, to give back, to balance, to serve, to free, ad infinitum? Are we just trying to sustain what isn’t work (as most green capitalists are) or are we really on the long road back to living in harmony with the earth and all the “other” beings that live here? Actually, I know I’m not and it’s sad, it hurts, and it’s painful on so many levels. Today, I am grateful for so much it’s ridiculous, but I’m not grateful for the legacy of violence that got us here, nor am I grateful for our countries over consumption, nor am I grateful for all the shopping malls that are being flooded today. In fact, even though my gratitude outweighs everything that is happening that fills me with violent thoughts of resistance and revolution, I’m inclined to question my peaceful pacifist playful nature as the most effective way to “be the change.” Dancing anyone? I know this letter has been like a game of racket ball, but all of you know I love games and all I’m asking is that you play with me. Please….and thank you.

EDU-LIGHT-AINMENT!

nateure — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:42:09 GMT

Entheos Ecstatic Experience: Edu-light-ainment! You would think that experiencing extraterrestrial contact, communication, and communion would be a separate occurance or different from making love to the universe, but I'm here to tell you, " Not only are they the same thing, but they can happen at the same time!" Exploring the Seedpod (seedpod.ca) calendar has been a little more of a 'close encounter' than I had expected, but what else do you expect when a bunch of meta-design geniuses decide to co-create and culture-craft the future. From media guru Sijay James' question, "what do you want to create?" to David Aaron's explanation of plants containing higher spiritual intelligence, to Luna Ravenchildes facilitation of trance dance, and back through the circle of life tribal council with Sobey One played to the soundtrack of sweet sound healing melodies composed by Byron Dreamweaver and Akhentek, Entheos Gathering was a force beyond the control of mere mortal mundane human existence. To put it lightly, "We are merely puppets in a game of galactic circus balancing acts." After rounding up a few bags of trash and recycling at Emrgnsee the Monday before solstice, I was whisked away by one of my teachers, Luna Ravenchilde (exstasisdance.com) to the real land of Elves, Faeries, and other fabulous forest creatures: OH! CANADA! What started as a regular old road trip to a festival to build a dome, listen in on a conference, and dance the night away; slowly turned into a mystical science fiction journey through time, space, and the wasteland of western civilization to board the Lightship Entheos in the middle of nowhere. Granted, Cherryville is only 6 hours from Vancouver, but it kinda felt like a refugee camp of the future. Being surrounded by cow patties gave it a nice rustic feel and drinking straight from the stream made me feel like a true wild man. Deep in these misty forested mountains next to a pristine flowing stream and a rushing rapid river, lay the cattle grounds where a few hundred psychonauts would explore the many realms of reality on the dance floor to transcend the fear paradigm of consciousness and catalyze the making of a legendary mobile temporary autonomous zone known only as Entheos Gathering. Festivals or Gatherings on the outside can just seem like a big party with a bunch of freaks running around pretending that true freedom exists in an almost totally military dominated world and then slowly but surely everyone sobers up and goes back to their day jobs. What if a bunch of freaks gathering intentionally in the woods to celebrate everything from the water we drink to the simple ability to dance actually did make a difference, changed lives, and was in fact orchestrated by the cosmic final frontier forces that are working desperately to shock the world into balance? Entheos was in every way, the exact, complete, and total opposite of what the military industrial complex stands for. Therefore, energetically we are talking about spiritual warfare on a battleground of sound. Who ever makes the danciest dance music in the galaxy, wins. Is there another way to describe it that would make more sense, more true, more real? If you find out, lemme know, eh? Other than my last three years at the City Repair Projects Village Building Convergence in Portland, OR, I have never seen such a group of bright, creative, and conscious people come together in such harmony to create something larger than themselves, even if it is just temporary, or is it? Already, after a successful launch of Lightship Entheos, there is talk of expansion, evolution, education, and of course, extraterrestrial encounters beyond tantric crystal energy super cosmic sex with giant voluptuous mushroom goddess inside a geodesic dome decorated with spiral Mandela stretch fabric, tree branches, and fresh cedar. A lot can happen when one says a prayer, tones into the medicine, and ingests a drop of pure L.ight S.entient D.esign from Switzerland. Can I just say real quick that gay tribal fashion designers from India are my new favorite faeries. Nothing like a good old fashion psychedelic journey to take the edge off this ridiculous rambunctious ride through illusory dimensions of duality. Seriously though, with all due respect, Entheos Gathering 5 (4 to go until 2012) was the next level in ecstatic experiences of underground dance culture. They covered all their bases: best and fastest dance music on the planet (check), visionary art (check), conference on everything from the design paradigm to trance-formational dance workshops (check), low environmental impact (check), organic food and treats, minus the sausage fest stand (check), hemp toilet paper (check) and clean free drinkable water directly from the source (double check)! There may be oil wars happening everywhere, chemical plants imploding, malaria spreading in Africa, cancer creeping around every corner, and demons in the White House, But as long as we can gather as one in the forests of this world and dance our dreams awake, fly on the wings of sound waves, and eat the food of the gods; then there is something far greater than all of us that we must step back from our daily lives to recognize in complete reverence and miraculous awe knowing that everything we ever hoped the world to be, can be if we choose to create it that way.

Another Vibration of Electronic Expression

nateure — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:44:16 GMT

Deep in the voids of vast paranoia There are these moments when electronic expression of what is written Doesn't quite fit in the mold of the whole story being told how do i remain bold as it all unfolds i need a beat here to hold your attention a messenger on a mission with permission it's all about the subtle divine intervention or is that intermission now that we've passed the threshold of multiple dimensions There is something crimson that I don't quite understand I don't know if i'll ever be a man because bein' a boy is too much fun I know I have relations to the people of the sun I pray for the days when i forget what the word gun means that it even exists is as absurd as swear words being considered vulgur Sometimes all I want to hear is a cat purr on my chest rest and relax before i'm back on the attack makin' up for what I lack if anything the only thing is that everything is singing keep on believing and all the blessings we will be receiving will go far beyond imagining whatever it is you were thinking watching waiting winking energy expresses it self simply by being like currents of electricity flow through time and space with no agenda no final destination another vibration of electronic expression

Immersed in Emergence

nateure — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:12 GMT

There is something about being apart of a new emerging culture that feels so old, so primitive, so primal and so instinctual that one would almost think time and space only existed to those who truly believed in them. In our temporal three-dimensional reality that we experience every day, the norm to mainstream society is a state dominated by fearful illusions. Time is a linear, mechanical, money making machine and space is just somewhere that is ‘out there’ and/or ‘in between’ objects that are actually in perpetual motion whether we perceive them that way or not. How does one step beyond that in order to transcend and experience the truth of being that is timeless and spaceless? I guess it’s all relative or dependent upon ones own individual perception of the reality in which they choose to live. Being someone who moves between these many worlds, I have to be honest and say that things can become quite confusing sometimes, but without any mystery, this story would be quite boring. The latest in the mystery led me to the luminal festival vortex space of Emrgnsee Music Festival, held just outside Salem, OR where I built my second installment in the Earth Meditation Consciousness 2012 series. My intention remained the same as before, ‘listen to the land to see what needs to be created, and be a channel for the divine to come through,’ and boy did it ever. In the middle of the field where the Interchill and Native State Records ‘Sound Garden’ was to be installed, there lay a large pile of woodland debris densely packed together and ready to be burned and danced around. I saw something a little different. Rather than think about what I was going to do or build, I started taking apart the pile and simply listening to the elements. As the pile thinned and came lower to the ground, I noticed a shape emerging from the pile that looked quite femme-iliar. I stared at the mound of materials and laughed loudly enough to echo into the woods nearby and allow all the other creatures to hear my ironic discovery come to the forefront of my conscience. A giant yoni had risen from the ground and I was destined to create a GardeNest out of the rubble in order to return to the garden from which I came. The informal fun name of the piece became the “Woggle Wooga Weega Whaga.” I spent two days building, using only raw organic materials I found from the land and following the plan of intuition and intention. When I had to leave to go to “work” on Friday, the GardeNest was presentable, but I learned later that people didn’t really get a sense of what it was until we finished it in the playshop I fa-silly-tated on Saturday. I barely made it back in time after a long night of singing, dancing, praying, drinking medicine, and waking early for a film shoot the following morning for the romantic comedy, Simple Connections. I arrived an hour late, rounded up as many people as I could and without having to say almost anything even vaguely describing what I was trying to create, a group of about 10 people finished building the GardeNest within an hour. The cellular memory of the collective tribe instantly remembered how our ancestors once lived and within moments, a portal into another dimension was created for people to experience our ‘ancient future.’ Later that evening I performed a sacred clown ritual involving an elaborate red and white costume, a mala mantra, reiki meditation activation, and ingesting one of my favorite Fun-theogens. As soon as I exited the womb I transformed into the ultimate trickster, interacting with people in ways that I never had before and instantly turned every situation I entered into one of mystical magical merriment. At least, that’s what I was going for and the routine seemed to be well received by most since everyone returned rather ridiculous reactions in my reflections direction, which must have meant I was having a positive affect on the freaky underground dance tribe. Talk about time travel! Possessing, controlling, and maintaining an energy that is beyond oneself can be challenging, but it also offers an opportunity to completely surrender to whatever might be happening at any given moment and opening up channels and pathways to ecstasy and happiness with an effortless ease you may have never known was there or might have thought lay somewhere beyond the reaches of what you allow yourself to experience. As I danced to the Glitch Mob in the middle of the night, I thought to myself, “What a bunch of fools we all are Dancing under the stars In search of something beyond ourselves We simply move to the music Hoping that something will pop out of the nights sky Reassuring us that we are not alone

We Gather in Temples of Divine Nectar

nateure — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:54:08 GMT

If you wish to combat to dark forces of militarism, totalitarianism, and fascism. Look no further than the revolutionary film, "Divine Nectar." Nothing says, "make love, not war" like a good old fashion female ejaculation video. Sexologist Tallulah Sulis (www.tallulahsulis.com) and Visionary Artist Davin Skonberg (www.shamaneyes.net) have combined forces to create an adult film that goes beyond simply educating women about their G-spots and how to squirt their juices all over their lover. They have revealed the truth about female sexuality and the spiritual magic that Amrita (divine nectar) holds. Their mission isn't one of mental masturbation or grotesque glorification, but one of education, liberation, and humanities divine birthright to experience their true nature of ecstatic bliss. Having direct experience of both the video and the individuals producing this work of art, I can say with a clear conscience and open heart that this film is a milestone landmark in adult cinema. After hosting a successful all night release party for the film complete with opening puja, shamanic goddess invocation, spoken word, belly dancing, hoop dancing, mystical dub, bassy breaks, and psychadelic dub to finish off the night; I felt like we were entering a new era in sexual freedom. And now for something completely different. Last weekend, I made it all the way out to the Columbia Gorge on 40 acres of land in rural Mosier, OR to participate and perform @ the 4th Annual Junebug Jamboree Festival (junebugfest.org), a fundraiser for ecological restoration and a new non-profit called Earth Community Alliance. There I installed my first experimental eco-art project that I have so cleverly titled Earth Meditation Consciousness 2012, a play on E=MC2. I know, brilliant, right? HA! What can I say? I love to play with acronyms. Anyway, I had no idea what was going to come through as my practice involved listening deeply to the land and her spirits to see what needed to be created there. What came through was surprising simple: a medicine wheel, a tree altar shrine, and a rock formation spiral all made from raw organic materials I found on site. Two powerful drumming, singing, dancing, and prayer circles followed over the weekend. One was specifically intentional for the bees and the other happened naturally after a ritual at the main stage where we did a larger version of the bee dance. The Gods must haven’t been listening because it proceeded to rain all weekend. Someone else must have been asking for a little water for their land after such a dry winter in the usually saturated and soaked Pacific Northwest. Also accompanying me in visions of a new world was my friend Violet who started to make the first pieces of her traveling art installation, Temple of the Sacred Mother (www.tribes.tribe.net/sacredmother), a traveling tree of life made of prayer flags that people will write their visions of the new world on in order to directly manifest the beauty and magic we collectively want to create in our ancient future. Another surprise was my back up vocal performance with Sara Tone and Dave AM Professor, members of the art collective Space Ship Earth. Their website describes them quite well. “Space Ship Earth Collective started within a community of friends sharing a vision of peace and healing for all humanity. From that vision came the motivation to collectively organize our unique talents and gifts into specialized offerings. We recognize the value of the individual and the individual’s relationship to their local and global community. In turn we direct our actions and abilities in response to our local and global situation. We recognize the jewel of humanity within the spirit, art and science of all culture.” Needless to say, I was honored and I’m still reeling from the whole experience. Sunday, we had a special guest from Portland State University, founder of the Portland International Initiative for Ecology Culture and Learning, Pramod Parajuli (www.piiecl.pdx.edu). Once again we sat in circle around the medicine wheel with other educators who were there that weekend to discuss partnerships, alliances, projects, ideas, and possible futures. Ironically enough the conversation came all the way back around to use the metaphor of divine nectar as an exact and direct link to what is happening on earth right now with relation to humans and their environment. Now that’s comedy. Keep an eye out for future blogs containing rich information about this weekends mind-blowing visionary festival Emrgnsee (www.emrgnsee.com), the opening of the Crystal Temple (www.crystaltemple.org) in Portland, OR, Entheos Gathering (www.entheosgathering.com), and Intention Gathering (www.intentiongathering.com), both happening in Canada. Blessings to all those beating away at essence of existence.

The Re-emerging Village

nateure — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:08:28 GMT

The Re-emerging Village We seem to be essentially extracting ecstatic educational experiences of enlightenment from life in order to lead a more meaningful and happy life, No? Well that’s one of the thoughts that comes to mind after graduating from a permaculture design course (www.earthactivisttraining.org), surviving another 10 day Village Building Convergence in Portland, OR, producing an event featuring the visionary erotic film “Divine Nectar,” (www.tallulahsulis.com) and witnessing Amma Chi www.amma.org hug another 1,000 people outside Seattle this weekend. In this particular spiritual niche of evolving reality, everything is changing all the time just as everything stays the same. Every year for the past seven years, the Village Building Convergence (VBC) produced by the City Repair Project (www.cityrepair.org) aims to change the world one neighborhood at a time by hosting natural building workshops, urban permaculture demonstration sites, community democracy gatherings, ecological public art creations, and sacred space placemaking for ten days all over the city. An ambitious attempt to reclaim what has been lost in the imposition of the colonial grid and a catalyst for community connections; the VBC proves that anything is possible. This year’s theme was 7 Generations Beyond: A 200 Year Story of Portland. 23 sites in all 4 quadrants of Portland were full of people every day playing with cob, a natural building material made of straw, clay, and sand; planting food forests, painting intersections, transforming garages into puppet theatres, and creating outdoor community gathering spaces. Free workshops were held all day every day on everything from greywater principles, to whole systems theory, bioswales, singing circles, natural paint making, regenerative design, and how to grow all your own food in 2 and half years. Highlights at night were speakers Jon Young of Trackers Northwest (trackersnw.com), Penny Livingston- Stark, Paul Stamets (www.fungiperfecti.com), StarHawk (www.starhawk.org), and author of The Left Hand of God: Taking our Country Back from the Religious Right, Rabbi Michael Lerner. Toss in the Extra Action Marching Band, The Foghorn Stringband, and the Everyone Orchestra for some entertainment, and you have one of the most exciting evolutionary events in the country, if not the world. For the past 3 years in attendance I have been filled with hope and joy knowing that where ever we are going in the future, the potential for humanity to heal itself is unbound and all we need is the time to slowly allow for these great changes to occur. 2012 may be the date everyone is putting their money on, but if you ask me, there is still no time like the present to create whatever beauty you think might be lacking in this world. The VBC is testament to the kaordia of the cosmos and a perfect example of the microcosm as macrocosm. In just ten days time, you can experience the full spectrum of society and culture. This doesn’t happen every day, but we’re at a unique moment in time where the truth of our reality is being revealed to us in so many multi-faceted ways at such high-speed rates that to deny the existence of some higher power beyond what our puny egos perceive as every day life seems quite preposterous and laughable. To anyone riding the edge of their sanity and whose conscience is leaning towards apocalypse I say, “Come to Portland and experience all the possibilities of a future beyond civilization.”

A Permy of ONE!

nateure — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:45:12 GMT

The Humanimalienaturevolution presents: A PERMY OF ONE! "Where exactly is Gaia University?" They ask. "Everywhere!" I reply with a smile. Let us step into the flow of a permaculture design course with the one and only Starhawk ( starhawk.org). That's where I find myself less than a month after joining the master's program at the infantile Gaia University (gaiauniversity.org ). Yes, you read correctly. Don't worry, I can hardly believe it myself, then again; my name is Nature. My first deep question of my new found liberated education, "I wonder what the correlation is between wet dreams and sweat lodges?" Ah, the mysteries one ponders while dropping the kids off at the playground inside the first public compost toilet in Portland, OR. Especially after spending the previous evening praying for awakening, healing, consciousness, presence, and love. Only to open my eyes to the sticky stark reality that my dreams were a little juicier than I had expected. At least I got lucky in the dreamtime two nights in a row without shame, guilt, or unwanted pregnancy. Anyway, my point is that most people wouldn't consider "giving back" to the earth a revolutionary act, but after 14 billion years of evolution we've finally learned how to properly process our fecal produce by using it to fertilize our next crop of scrumptious consumption. Personally, this new excremental experience left me feeling quite empowered, like I had actually accomplished something and taken another step toward the far off distant land of Permatopia. Now, how do I empower others to join the ranks of the permaculture world changing supernatural resource (thank you Lynx) task force? First, program this God forsaken machine to recognize the word permaculture not only as grammatically correct, but also as meaningful and righteous. Words have feelings too you know. If you're not hip to the lingo, permaculture is a design system which utilizes a systems thinking approach to create sustainable human habitats by analyzing and duplicating nature's patterns. In this case, the experiment is happening at Tryon Life Community Farm ( tryonfarm.org), an urban eco-village intentional community, a non-profit experiential environmental education center (how's that for redundant), and a sustainability demonstration site. My former home, I return to pass through another initiation into the realms of change, transformation, and creating heaven on earth. Well, heaven on mother earth (H.O.M.E.) according to a bunch of treehugging dirtworshippers. Can you believe the computer doesn't recognize the word treehugging either? We don't know exactly what we're doing with all this earth care, people care, fair shares stuff and we sure as hell don't have all the answers, but we know one thing: We're having a lot more fun than those guys down at the pentagon. This column hopes and aspires to incite inspiration, laughter, and gaia-logues (yes, gaia-logues) around the issues and ideas mentioned above as well as document one beings journey of creating their own reality within the multi-verse of worlds available for us to experience in all their ecstatic loving glory here on spaceship earth. More merriment and mayhem to come as we go deeper down the rabbit hole. For my next trick, clean water! E-mail: shamanature@gmail.com

Effortless Learning

nateure — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:41:20 GMT

If it's really all inside of me Why do I have to keep reading? between the lines is where everything I be seeing Displaying to distopia is for those who can't cope But I know where to grow and get the best dope the weeds we like to smoke are no joke but they make us laugh Even my best seems half-ass The best medicine is free to the masses So why is everyone hoarding their stashes? Smash your glasses and see past the precipous We are so prosperous that it sickens us to even think What we would have if we knew it's all just passing by in the blink of an eye no reason to ask why but delight in the question wonder create confections decorations show us the world that's in your mind so we may all delight in divine signs of symmetry This sacred geometry business is just a simplex description design that is just fine and dandy Every day I can taste the sweet candy pouring out of everything like willy wonka but witha lota funka and lunka, plooka, plunka I smell a skunk and I know it's time to find a place of no taste or smell Couldn't you tell that someone's ringin' the bell pullin' our chain If this is all really a game then let's play nice dance like mice under a full moon at midnight I'm in the business of shining a light and in the midst of all this madness It's what feels real and right