by David Michael Green

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Any American who’s been on the planet for more than a few years has lived through a series of economic ups and downs – what economists call the business cycle. These booms and busts seem to follow one another as inevitably as sunset does sunrise.

Phil Gramm hasn’t apparently noticed, but we’re now pretty deep into an economic downturn – whether or not it officially qualifies as a recession yet o... read more

I use the following on quote every page of Exquisite Safaris: "If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time but if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." -Indigenous Saying

I believe it represents the exact message that Barack Obama is communicating when he asks you to believe in hope.

Please consider the possibility of a world where everyone collaborates in peace.

-Vidourle

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Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonizatio... read more

The following principles emerged from several years' work with social change leaders in Satyana's Leading with Spirit program. We offer these not as definitive truths, but rather as key learnings and guidelines that, taken together, comprise a useful framework for "spiritual activism."

1. Transformation of motivation from anger/fear/despair to compassion/love/purpose. This is a vital challenge for today's social change movement. This is not to deny the noble emotion of appropriate ange... read more

Areas of Continental U.S. crossed by 3 or more nuclear clouds, 1951-62. Reprinted with permission of Richard L. Miller, Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing.

Nevada Test Site on Google Earth: snipurl.com/1vq61

Fallout from the April 25, 1953 test named Simon blanketed upstate New York during a particularly violent rainstorm. During the storm, scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York documented alarmingly high levels of radioactive fallout.... read more

When a Luxury Vacation Cultivates Philanthropy by Jennifer Alsever -New York Times Sunday December 9, 2007

Doing charity work while on vacation no longer has to mean backbreaking labor and dorm-like accommodations. A new kind of philanthropic travel lets wealthy vacationers do good works while still enjoying plush hotel suites and fine restaurants.

More luxury tour operators now offer philanthropic-minded trips to places like Kenya, Cambodia and Vietnam that incorporate visits to local ... read more

<- Future President of a free Burma

So often in our world we tend to think of strength as a quality that arises from a place of firm determination and a will to succeed no matter the cost. Even though we might want to think of a strong woman as being defined in this way, what really makes a woman confident is her capacity for listening to her true self and being able to call upon her feminine wisdom to any situation that may arise. A woman does not need to step into an assertive role or a... read more

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"Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire." -Teilhard de Chardin

There are times when we share with others a special, fully interconnected consciousness. When great music thrills us, or we are mutually inspired by an awesome sunset, or when we fall in love, we are transported temporarily into a shared world which is remarkable.

This state of ... read more

I was a young person then, some twelve years old. My family was moving from a more settled part of a Southern town out to the edge of town where the new house was still being built. The house, not yet finished, was situated on a slight incline. Down below was a small creek and there across the creek was a meadow. It was an early afternoon in May when I first looked down over the scene and saw the meadow. The field was covered with lilies rising above the thick grass. A magic moment, this expe... read more

Tsarism represents an intermediate form between European monarchism and Asian despotism, being, possibly, closer to the latter of these two.
Leon Trotsky, Russia's Social Development and Tsarism

by Robert Anton Wilson

How, how, how did we ever get ourselves in a predicament where an Oriental-style despot controls American medicine and most doctors fear to prescribe what they think best for their patients? Why, over 200 years after a war to liberate ourselves from a half-mad k... read more

The Prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle

"Nearly every culture I know prophesies that in the late 1990's we entered a period of remarkable transition. At monasteries in the Himalayas, ceremonial sites in Indonesia, and indigenous reservations in North America, from the depths of the Amazon to the peaks of the Andes, and into the ancient Mayan cities of Central America, I have heard that ours is a special moment in human history, and that each of us was born at this time because we have a m... read more

Excerpt From European Lawsuit Against RJR Nabisco

Learn more:
www.dunwalke.com/3_RJR_Nabisco.htm

Footnotes:
www.dunwalke.com/resources...s.html#13d

If you like spy novels, you will find that the European Union’s presentation of fact to be far more fascinating than fiction. One of the complaints filed in the case describes a rich RJR history of business with Latin American drug cartels, Italian and Russian mafia, and Saddam Hussein’s family to name a few.

The... read more

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Operator: Thank you for calling Pizza
Hut. May I have your national ID
number?


Customer: Hi, I'd like to place an
order.


Operator: I must have your NIDN first,
sir.


Customer: My National ID Number, yeah,
hold on, eh, it's .


Operator: Thank you Mr. Smith. I see you
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Someone asked whether consciousness (chih chio) is an inward stirring of something spiritual (hsin shih ling) or due to the activity of Chhi (chhi chih wei)? The philosopher answered: 'It is not entirely a question of Chhi (matter-energy), because the principle of consciousness exists already. Li (essence) has no consciousness (li wei chih chio), but when Li is combined with Chhi, then consciousness arises'.” (Chu Hsi Chhuan Shu, 12th cent. A.D.“

We are told that documentaries should be produced objectively, never-mind that the camera itself merely provides a proxy of subjective experience, and can lie through omission just as easily as our eyes can.

Apparently Jan Kounen didn’t come in to school that day, and for that we can be happy:
www.alterati.com/blog/

Though The Other World provides some interesting and rather traditional “talking head” interviews with the likes of Alex Grey, Moebius, Jeremy Narby (the aut... read more

Burning Man is a cosmic happening, taking place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

Pictures from Burning Man 2007
www.exquisitesafaris.com/index..._2007/

Geoff Dyer in his book Yoga For People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It attempts to explain the Mystery of Burning Man at the tearful climax of his book: "A friend once described Burning Man as a place where everyone can become whatever they want to be. It was the sexiest, the most glamorous... read more

Read:
personallifemedia.com/podcast...res.html
www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...ravel/

Listen:
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In this episode Mark Michael Lewis, CEO of SmartPowerDrinks.com, interviews David Chamberlain from ExquisiteSafaris.com about combining luxury travel to exot... read more

Pictures by Vidourle:
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Ancient Tribal Ritual for the 21st Century
www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...itual/

Rama
www.ramaquotes.com/

One who practices meditation is learning to still their thoughts and trying to get on a regular schedule with meditation, which may take a while.

If you are starting to meditate, I suggest that you set up a schedule for yourself. ... read more

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha by Dean Chamberlain www.deanchamberlain.com

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By Jason Miller

6/10/07

Each day untold millions of US Americans unwittingly immerse themselves in an intellectual, social, cultural, economic, political and spiritual cesspool so rancid and toxic that even microbes with the most voracious appetites for human waste, vomit, and inanimate ... read more

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"Experience teaches only the teachable". -Aldous Huxley

The Bush administration is adamant about developing and building a new generation of nuclear weapons (they're calling it the "Reliable Replacement Warhead" (RRW) program). There's a chance to kill that terrible idea, but it's up to the Senate.

Right now, Senate leaders are drafting their spending bill that could terminate the nu... read more

Travel Philanthropy is more than a mere luxury or diversion; it is a source of deep personal fulfillment, providing a powerful connection to the world in which we live.

Learn more: travelmatters.wordpress.com/about/

Noting the UN World Tourism Organization was forecasting a billion annual arrivals in just four years, LeLaulu said poorer countries "had the most desirable destinations but needed help to ensure tourism revenues could benefit local people."

The best way to ensure visitor income went to the local people, he added, "was to help communities at destinations develop the skills and capacity needed to attract tourists."

www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...ze_... read more

A BRIEF SUMMARY
www.disclosureproject.org/ES-Di...-2.htm

Copyright Steven M. Greer,M.D. – March 2001

For most people, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe is a mere philosophical musing — something of academic interest but of no practical importance. Even evidence that we are currently being visited by non-human advanced life forms seems to many to be an irrelevancy in a world of global warming, crushing poverty and the threat of war. In t... read more

Meltdown Memories:
picasaweb.google.com/exquisi...down2007
www.goagil.com/albums/mem...OV09220.mpg
www.jantima.it/GoaGil-Mem...8May07.html
www.goagil.com/photogalle...eltdown2007

Redefining the Ancient Tribal Ritual for the 21st Century
www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...itual/

Future Kontact:
di.onys.us/2007-festival-g... read more

Intersections of Inspiration at the Azama Project -Ecuador by DC

At its most basic, money is a tool that enables us to meet our individual needs. As a form of potential energy that empowers us to generate change, it is neither good nor bad. Yet many people react emotionally to issues concerning finances, unconsciously condemning currency itself, the manner in which money is spent, and people who live lives of financial abundance. Individuals who are rich in gifts such as high intelligence ... read more

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The Exquisite Safaris philanthropic mission includes a guided visit to a humanitarian outreach project into every private, luxury, epicurean experience we create. These personal introductions create authentic cross cultural friendships that generate trust, respect, and generous donations funding philanthropic travel projects worldwide.

Exquisite Safaris is the pioneer in private, luxury, philant... read more

"Philanthropic Travel: Leaving a place stronger than you found it--without the sweat investment."

www.exquisitesafaris.com/index...ravel/

Do-good travel doesn't have to be a gritty exercise in banging nails into the side of a house or digging ditches. That's textbook "voluntourism," where travel is coupled with hard labor in support of a humanitarian cause.

Exquisite Safaris, on the other hand, is a private luxury tour company that cr... read more

TRY IT:
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What is JAJAH? Better than Skype!

JAJAH Voice service allows you to activate cheap international calls from your mobile phone, even if you're outside your own country.

JAJAH is an innovative and simple way to make cheap phone calls using the Internet without headphones, microphones or having to install any software at all.

JAJAH connects two standard telephone machines, whether they are landline or mobile, local or anywhere else in the... read more

The Law Of Attraction

The law of attraction is surprisingly simple: Like attracts like. It becomes a bit more complicated when it comes to training our minds to think in ways that will bring what we desire into our lives. The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” describes the same law. This well-known term explains that we create the circumstances our mind dwells upon, whether positive or negative. So our goal is to practice consistent presence of mind to make sure our thoughts are always dire... read more

Watch the video:
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Bombs by Faithless

We think we're heroes, we think we're kings
We plan all kinds of fabulous things
Oh look how great we have become

Key in the door, the moment I've been longing for
Before my bag hit the floor
My adorable children were shot screaming for a kiss
And a story they're a gift to this world
My only claim to glory
I surely never knew sweeter days
Blows my mind like munitions
I'm amaz... read more

"Actively seeking the road less traveled along the path of my life has absolutely accelerated my awakening." -dadave

"Experience teaches only the teachable". -Aldous Huxley

A new documentary explores the insights of six contemporary spiritual teachers and their experiences on the path to spiritual awakening.

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Ad Council CEO: Helping Americans Aspire to Give
By: Tom Watson

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Peggy Conlon is CEO of the Ad Council, which each year mobilizes more than $1.7 billion of advertising time and space, the creative services of over 50 major advertising agencies, and related financial support from hundreds of corporations, all in service o... read more

"The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women. When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.

I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and opressio... read more

Click here for the BBC video documentary:
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In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.

In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organize... read more

In all regions of the world, a new source of international development aid called “Philanthropic Travel” is evolving. Civic-minded travelers and Exquisite Safaris are giving financial resources, time, and talent to further the well being of the host communities that they visit. This emerging voluntary movement is helping to support and empower local and indigenous communities by providing jobs, skills, business and home ownership, and lasting improvements in health care, education, and enviro... read more

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Wine
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Everything in the universe is made of energy. What differentiates one form of energy from another is the speed at which it vibrates. For example, light vibrates at a very high frequency, and something like a rock vibrates at a lower frequency but a frequency nonetheless. Human beings also vibrate at different frequencies. Our thoughts and feelings can determine the frequency at which we vibrate, and our vibration goes out into the world and attracts to us energy moving at a similar frequency.... read more

Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives giant corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easil... read more

Sign Your Own Permission Slip
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When we were children, few words were more exciting to hear than the phrase "field trip." Field trips were a break from schoolwork and an opportunity to go on an adventure with friends. Now that we are grown ups, taking a field trip can be just as fun and memorable - if only we were willing to sign our own permission slips so we could go on one.

Allowing yourself to get stuck in your routine can make life seem boring. Ad... read more

The universe can often relay messages to us through signs. Often, we are too busy to stop and consider what may or may not be a sign. We may ask the universe for guidance, yet fail to recognize the sign it sends us in response. Learning the subtle language of signs can help you interpret the guidance the universe sends your way. We all have been blessed with a connection that allows the universe to communicate directly with us. To be able to understand the information relayed over that connec... read more

The Philanthropic Travel Foundation
www.philanthropictravel.org

Our mission is to connect people from around the world at the heart. Please join us at a humanitarian outreach program for a half-day of fulfilling and intense personal discovery next time you are enjoying the luxury of exotic travel. Our planning resources are free to travelers and non-profit organizations.

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More on travel philanthropy, altruistic travel and giv... read more

The first thing I remember
I was lying In my bed
I couldn't of been no more
Than one or two
I remember there's a radio
Comin' from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it's late in the evening
And the music s seeping through

The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I'm feeling all right
I'm with my boys
I'm with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue
Some guys were shootin pool
And I heard the sound
Of a cappella groups, y... read more

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" If we could take a journey, make a pilgrimage together, without any intent or purpose, without seeking anything, perhaps on returning we might find that our hearts had unknowingly been changed. I think it worth trying. Any intent or purpose, any motive or goal, implies effort -- a conscious or unconscious endeavor to arrive, to achieve. I would like to suggest that we take a journey together in which none of these elements exist.

If we can take such a journey... read more

What is Philanthropic Travel?

Philanthropic travel is more than a mere luxury or diversion; it is a source of deep personal fulfillment, providing a powerful connection to the world in which we live.

As travelers develop ties to their favorite destinations and look for ways to give back to the communities they visit, philanthropic travel introduces open-hearted travelers to local residents and helps them understand the challenges of the people in the places they visit.

Philanthrop... read more

To understand now click here:
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or here:
www.truemajority.org/bensbbs/

Principles:

1. Attack World Hunger and Poverty as if Our Life Depends on It: It Does.
Anchor our foreign policy in the compassion for the poor that unites all the world's religions. Reduce the debts of impoverished countries. Shift foreign aid from buying weapons to feeding people.

2. Champion the Rights of Every Child, Woman and Man.
Make America stand for justice, n... read more

May the road rise to meet you;
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His Hand.

— an Irish blessing

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius

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Outside the Cathedral in Chartres, France
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Are you: - Impulsive? - Risk-taking? - Distractible? - Sensation-seeking? - Insightful or Intuitive? Do you: - Crave risk and excitement? - Have an addictive personality? - Rebel against authority? - Think differently?
Break Out & Express Your Fire. Discover and master the fiery temperament shared by great leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and AD/HD-ers. Then you are a DaVinci. Discover the secret genius that drives risk-takers, rebels, entrepreneurs, artists and ad/hd-ers to achieve greatness... read more

Traveling has always been the biggest dream for Vladimir.

www.yarets.com/index_eng.html

He started his numerous journeys in 1967. The first space to conquer was the whole territory of the USSR - from Belarus to Magadan. Soviet militia was strongly against issuing the driving license to the deaf biker, which, nevertheless, did not stop him from continuing the trip. Having returned home with a pack of newspaper cuts witnessing his unique 'marathon' Yarets showed them to local auth... read more

World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.

www.worldcommunitygrid.org/view...ow.do

*** Participants of World Community Grid contribute computer time that normally would go to waste. This is the ultimate win-win situation. Your computer accesses World Community Grid's computing power to advance projects that benefit humanity. We provide the software that does it all for free, and you become part... read more