Who are the REAL mis-fits?

Misfit is the label given by society to those humans who don’t match the criteria for ‘normal’ behavior, beliefs and desires.

Most so-called ‘normal’ people accept if they are to sport the ‘normal’ badge, they will be required to shape themselves into psychological, career and social boxes that we know deep down are not contoured to the freedom, spontaneity and genuine expression of the individual spirit.

The ‘normal’ illusion versus reality.

In other words to become normal will most likely require us to deny or suppress our individual and unique human spirit. And because this denial and suppression is SO painful we are driven to opiate ourselves with TV and material goods to stop us becoming neurotic about not being real.

The powers that be know that. They maintain control by forcing us to slave at the altar of money whilst hypnotically drawing us to all manner of stuff designed specifically to dumb us down.

The universal jigsaw puzzle

Imagine all life on earth as being an integral part of a huge multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. All members of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms are given a specific, unique structure and ‘shape’ that is designed to fit into the puzzle and complete the big picture. The fit is dependent on the unique structure of each part of the system maintaining it’s shape system.

Fitting into THIS puzzle should be easy because our given role is to be who we truly are</b> deep down beneath the programming and fully express our unique gifts, skills and talents.

However, the world hasn’t learned to work like that. We aren’t taught to explore and realize our true role.

Instead most of us are forced to squeeze ourselves into a distorted shape to fit the illusory big picture thus creating a global distortion. It’s a bit like the ‘ugly’ sister trying in vain to squeeze her foot into the shoe designed uniquely for Cinderella.

When we assume our proper, unique shape, and step into our own shoes, the entire world operates smoothly in harmonic orchestration, this is what we call REAL-FIT

How to tell if you’re a real-fit

If you’ve felt like a mis-fit for most of your life, or wondered why the world is so alien to your way of thinking and being; if you sense that society is unjustly organized; that people’s spirit is suppressed and that money as the primary goal has become a self-looping addiction, then you’re probably a REAL-FIT.

You’ve likely refused to squeeze yourself into a shape that you’ve known is NOT you and you’ve paid their price for being real.

Psychoanalyst and Social commentator, Dr Erich Fromm questioned the definition of normalcy in his paper ‘The Psychology of Normalcy’. He suggested that neurotic symptoms are not a ‘default’ on the part of the individual. Instead, they are a partial rejection of oppressive or alienating society.

So what the frack is considered normal in 21st century society?

As you read this list you will likely realize with gratitude just how abnormal [according to today’s standards] yet real [according to universal laws] you are.

And, you will be reminded once more of the degree of perverted thinking that is gripping the majority of people in our so-called ‘civilized’ society.

In ‘normal’ society all of these behaviors are going on all the time and until now have been commonly accepted as ‘how life is’.

The Real Mis-Fits Revealed

Below are some of the things that we have been taught are how life is. They are mostly considered ‘normal’ and acceptable to the majority of society despite the fact that they go against the laws of nature and true humanity. And most of you reading this, including the authors, will have bought into this normality in some way or another.

Land owned and fortressed by a few individuals rather than open and stewarded by all

Selfish-concern – I’m all right Jack and frack you, even if you are dying

Walking past a homeless person, salving your conscience by giving them money yet secretly judging them for being lazy, good for nothings

Believing that the Earth is an endless resource designed primarily for human consumption

Signing petitions virtually to save dolphins or end landfills and thinking you’ve done enough

Buying food and other items in disposable containers yet not repurposing them

Burning second-hand tires that could be used to produce walls for Earthship houses

Goods deliberately designed to fail or become obsolete to further profit interests of the manufacturers

Eating factory farmed meat that is produced with disregard for animal life and poisons us with chemicals and hormones

Eating food that is full of MSG because it seems to taste nicer

Microwaving food for speed and ‘efficiency’ while totally destroying all the enzymes in that food

Kidding ourselves that all-natural means healthy when anything from uranium to deadly snake venom can be defined rightfully as ‘natural’

Allowing the destruction of rainforests to grow soybean to feed cattle to satisfy our addiction for burgers and other cheap meat products

Big Corporates paying off law suits out of court with contingent ‘no publicity’ clauses so that they are still free to continue their ‘socially criminal’ activities

Justifying pouring huge amounts of money into military activities in the name of securing resources

Being opiated by the media to the point of mental numbness

One person driving a six-seat gas guzzling SUV

Far greater percentage of corporate investment in new weapons technology versus sustainable energy facilities

Harnessing natural, sustainable energy in the name of ‘green’ yet selling it at great profit to individuals

People grubbing a living on $1 a day while others spend $$$$ to buy an additional home that they use no more than two or three weeks a year

Gated communities to protect the resources of the have’s and have-more’s

Managed Healthcare that is more concerned with making a profit than making you well

Doctors recommending pharmaceuticals based on material incentive and rewards for them versus an untainted concern for what’s best for you

Greed – more for me even if it means less for ‘them’

Buying political influence for personal/corporate gain even at the expense of the greater good

The right-wing rich using illegal immigrants as virtual ‘slave’ labor whilst promoting tougher crackdowns on immigration

Persuading third world countries with offers of loans they can’t afford to develop huge infrastructure projects, which must be contracted to friends of the administration and result in huge debts and political and military blackmail

Money printed and sold to the government for profit by a private organization

Peddling drugs that don’t cure diseases but manage symptoms

Prisons that punish rather than reform

Using goods, gadgets and gaud to present a fake view of who you are to the rest of the world

Expensive insurance that offers sweeping promises of security crippled by small print limitations and company profit policy that dictates paying out as little as possible

Transference of blame by society to solely individual responsibility with a blind refusal to see our contribution to all of society’s ails

Easy credit sold via ‘dreams can come true’ marketing with a disproportionate mention of the downside

Protecting corporate profit by preventing generic manufacture of drugs to make them financially available to those in need

Buying designer and low cost clothes produced in inhumane sweatshops

Treating workers like slaves because there are 2,000 other hopeful desperates waiting to step into their shoes

Promoting of earthly resource pillaging such as coal mining in the name of ‘jobs for our people’

Peddling food that is engineered to taste ‘better’ and thus becoming addictive and poisoning our systems

Fear and mistrust of strangers - confinement of trust to small nuclear family rather than embracing wider community

Being able to win a law suit based on the default of having more money to throw at a lawyer regardless of whether the case is just or not

Letting people die on the streets because there is an inadequate welfare or employment system

Media hypnosis that persuades you to buy things you don’t need but will dumb you down for a little while longer

Giving up civil liberties of freedom because we’ve been corralled into the fear pen

Believing the President of the US is the most powerful person in the world

Allowing Corporates to legally ‘purchase’ self interest through campaign contributions

Your every online activity being open to monitoring by government agencies

Children stuck indoors for hours playing video games as opposed to running around in the fresh air

Creating compliance out of fear generated by managed inflated hatred of a common enemy

Dumping litter in the national forest because you can’t afford garbage pick-up

No-Scavenging signs on local dumps preventing people from using discard to repurpose

Snake-oil peddling of ‘get rich without lifting a finger’ schemes

Cash rich opportunists buying up foreclosed property in the hopes of turning a quick buck

Building codes that don’t take into account the sustainability and viability of naturally built shelter homes

Preferring a manicured green bug-free lawn over a brown fertile food patch

And that’s just a few of the things that the majority of people in the Western world consider ‘normal’. What would you add to the list?

As George Bernard Shaw said the world was never changed by reasonable people because it takes an unreasonable person to go against the ‘norm’.

As more and more people wake up and begin to join together in movements that buck the system and the ‘norm’ we are on the dawn of a breakthrough. It is time for the mis-fits to rise up and say as Peter Finch said in the film ‘Network’ way back in ’76.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”

What can we do?

Each person has to choose their way or mixture of ways knowing truthfully that this is the best way for them to help shift themselves and the rest of the world in the right direction. Here are a few alternatives

We can insinuate our ideas into the society, working from within the system under the guise of normalcy, spreading subtle awareness and rallying others to a new way of thinking by making steady progressive changes in our own lives.

We can step out of society and reject the way it works whilst building a life and community of real-fits that is ready for tomorrow and a living example of what's possible.

We can take legal action, rebel, protest, object to, disobey the rules, get thrown in jail as ways to bring public attention to the cause.

We can play the system game to accumulate amounts of ‘money energy’ in order to plough it into changing the same system.

Each person must choose the way that works for them. and know that even if others’ methods aren’t right for us, they are our sisters and brothers in a vital time of human evolution and we must find a way to work together or we will fail. We are the vanguard. We are the pioneers. We are the guides.

To take this road requires great courage, and some of us may not survive long enough to see the results. The question we must ask ourselves of our every action,

Is this taking me closer to my intent and ultimately is it the right thing to do for the good of all life on earth, now and into the future?

If We Don't, Who Will?

Someone who just joined one of our groups wrote something that really summed up what is going on today...deep in the hearts of most of us.

"I would love nothing more than to feel what life is supposed to feel
like. Western society is suffocating my soul. To the woods! "

It's likely, given the current economic situation in most of the western world, that the dream of a nice house in the suburbs, a steady job, good income, stores full of food, a car or two in the driveway and a solid pension is slowly disappearing into the distance.

The problem is that most people don't want to know. They bury their heads in the sand and continue to hope that Obama-style change is really on the way, that this economic downturn is just a blip and that we will recover.

In the film, 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Professer Barnhardt is pleading with Klaatu to save the earth. He says:

"You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. This is our moment"

Humans seem to be programmed to take action only when the doo doo hits the fan . Acting at the precipice is too late.

What has to happen for evolution to occur BEFORE it's too late?

We need to evolve a new dream for the world. There are many resources in this world that are tightly held in the hands of the few. If we are to save the world, there has to be an 'epiphany' from out of those ranks.

Imagine if one of the 'powers that be' were to turn round like Tony Stark in 'Ironman' [an arms manufacturer who decides, after a heavy duty personal epiphany, to use his resources to save the world rather than destroy it] and realize that he or she doesn't need all the stored up riches they have.

Imagine if that person were to decide to use his or her resources to buy up huge tracts of land and hand them over to the people for rehabitation.

Imagine if everyone who had acres of tended lawned land were to offer to share that land for the purpose of sustaining life?

Imagine if the forest service were to free up tracts of land for community earth villages...

Imagine if the people were to band together to reclaim and revitalize that land with self-sustaining simple earth-based communities, where homes are built out of natural and repurposed materials, harvesting and recycling rainwater, growing nutritious organic food and providing community education and care for the children.

This dream is not new... but realizing that dream requires that the most precious resource we know is divided out amongst the people... in a fair way so that they can begin to live closer to the earth, demanding little other than basic sustenance.

We dont' need much when we have the earth and good people around us.

We don't need TV, we need storytellers.

We dont' need Wal-Mart, we need to grow our own food and repurpose old stuff.

We don't need to look good or have a wardrobe full of designer shoes, we need to have the right clothing for the climate.

We don't need lawyers and accountants and doctors, we need carpenters, builders, healers, gardeners and wise elders.

We don't need two gas guzzling cars in our garage, we need horses, bicycles and our feet.

We don't need pharmaceuticals we need natural herbs and wellness promoting food.

We don't need gold and silver, we need useful, natural materials with which to clothe, feed and house ourselves.

We don't need to send our children to school or college we need to educate them in the ways of the spirit, inspiring them to find their purpose in this new world...

We need to return to a truly earth-based lifestyle and take joy in the simple abundance of gifts our mother earth has to offer us.

How can we effect this change on a mass level? How can we persuade the few that hold the resources that they don't need more than one home or huge tracts of lawned land doing no more than giving them an imagined sense of living close to the earth.

The shift in consciousness is already happening at an accelerated rate, but we need to speed it up. We need to sow these positive thought viruses into the world and rally more and more people to the cause.

What will happen if we don't?

Here's the horror scene that could manifest if we don't take action now to educate those that have the power to help change this world.

As resources dry up, planes, trucks and trains will stop running. Stores will no longer have food, lights won't come on at the flick of a switch and desperate people will begin to loot and pillage. The country will go under martial law. Will we go like lambs to the slaughter?

Do you remember Solzhenitsyn' s words from "The Gulag Archipelago "

And we sat there in our cells talking about, if only we had resisted them in the hallways, and in their vans. How we could have taken them down with sticks and pitforks ...."

Let's hope it doesn't come to this... Let's hope there is nothing to resist or revolt over and that the world will come to a peaceful, fair-to-all solution..

We must do what it takes to spread the world and take any measures that we can to begin to carve out a simpler lifestyle.

We're here in the woods,planting winter veggies, building a homemade greenhouse out of logs and plastic on the side of the house, heating it with an old discarded wood stove, topped with the inside of another discarded stove in which we can slow cook food. We're growing herbs for flavor and wheatgrass and sprouting seeds to provide nutrition. We don't own this land but we're doing what we can to survive simply.

And we're attracting people to come join us and hole up for the winter..and longer, working together to do what one or two cannot.

And we're taking solace from the energy of the forest that surrounds us, reminding ourselves that mother earth wants to save us...and that in this entire world, there is enough for all of us to have a simple life.. if only we can learn to live with less and share what we have.

What is your dream for the world and what are you or could you be doing to prepare?

with love and blessings

sunny

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THE ROCKY ROAD

to Enlightenment

We may think of men such as Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus as those who came to earth with a fully fledged enlightenment. Most men and women, however, do not reach this level of awareness in their entire lifetime.

If you think you’re enlightened you’re likely living an illusion!

What happens when you consider enlightenment not as a noun or something static, but as a movement, a verb, an ongoing process of waking up to reality and shedding the illusory defenses and pretences of our personalities?

The Rocky Road to Enlightenment is our path from life to death. Some of us live our entire lives in an illusion, unaware of anything other than the goals and desires of the materialistic illusory world.

And then something happens, a small spark, an awareness, an illumination. This is usually generated by a tiny nagging thought that occurs from time to time saying ‘there must be more’ or asking ‘this can’t be all there is’.

It can be sparked by something someone says, a line we read in a book or a blog like this or by an unexpected kindness or action on the part of someone else. The only real given is that once woken we cannot go back to sleep again.

And believe us, you will want to go back or you will know what we are talking about!

Waking up to reality is similar to the process of Neo taking the Red Pill and getting that life outside the Matrix is not so shiny shiny. We are so programmed to seek the illusion, and to draw comfort from it yet the illusion keeps us in a zombie like dream.

On the other hand living in reality allows us to be FULLY ALIVE.

Once started along the road, we will experience a series of small illuminations, often triggered by a ‘dark’ experience. And if we are waking up and aware then we recognize that frequently the darker and more traumatic the experience, the greater the illumination available to us. These illuminations become pathfinders, points of light that show us the next steps in our journey.

This journey is not about thinking spiritually or having a vast knowledge of spiritual texts or knowing the ‘how tos'. It is about having real experiences that face us with our egoic defenses and pretences and wake us up and engender a resolve to be and do differently. It’s about recognizing that these experiences, however uncomfortable we translate them to be, are showing us what needs to be addressed.

It is about seeing how we stop ourselves from more fully participating in honest and open relationship with our own thoughts, personality and subsequently with other people. It is about catching ourselves if we can and congratulating ourselves each time we do. It is about being humble, admitting our part in the game and respecting the other for facilitating in us this illumination, no matter how harshly it appears to cut you to the quick.

The steps are small, the path is uniquely yours and the road is eternal. Knowing how it works enables us to keep on track in the darkest of times.

Ram Dass [Professor Richard Alpert] in ‘Be Here Now’ his classic book, gives some useful pointers to the process of spiritual waking up.

Ram Dass was a big spiritual guru in the 60’s and subsequently suffered a stroke in his sixties, prompting him to rewrite his latest book ‘Still Here’. The book offers profound hindsight into his own process and is endearing in the way Dass observes himself and his egoic moves with humor. What’s really cool and a lesson to all of us is that after the stroke, Dass realized his journey of spiritual growth was far from done.

The topography of the road to enlightenment [adapted from Ram Dass]

YOU ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED
Each stage one can label must pass away. If you think you’re enlightened, you’re probably not.

IT GETS WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
The initial euphoria at waking up will often be followed by and leave a sense of loss or even a despair that may seem like the Dark Night of the Soul.

THE ROAD IS ROCKY
This process is NOT smooth. Each new height is followed by a new low and understanding this makes it much easier to ride the aves.

GLARING IMPERFECTIONS
As you get illuminations so your imperfections seem more glaring. Relax. You’re not getting more stuck in the illusion, you’re just more aware of it. But also take heart in the fact that, as the demons get fiercer the illumination get Sbrighter. Think of if as the sweet that comes after the medicine.

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
In the beginning you may see spiritual practice as something you do, like meditating for 40 minutes or giving to the poor or thinking abundantly. In time you realize mindfulness, being present and experiencing the moment IS spiritual practice. You can experience illumination as you pour a cup of coffee, wash the dishes or fire an employee. There is a Zen saying, "Before Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after Enlightenment, chop wood carry water.

THE 'I'M SO SPIRITUAL' TRAP
At some stage when you think you are being all good and spiritual you will get caught up in how ‘spiritual’ you are. In India this is called the Chain of Gold. The chain traps you in an inflated illusion of ‘oh I’m so spiritual’ that only exists up your own backside. We have to give up the illusion of total purity and holier than thou if we are ever to make progress.

AM I THERE YET?
Early in the journey you will I be probably wondering on a regular basis how long it will take or whether you have got it yet. and be saying to yourself ‘Oh if I do this course or read this book or meditate for x hours a day, I’ll get spiritual in two, three or four years' As you progress you realize that where you are going is ‘here’ and you will arrive ‘now’.

LAUGH AT YOURSELF
You will also start to get really serious about it all. Give it up. A cosmic sense of humor about your predicament, your resistance and your journey is an absolute requirement

NOTHING'S HAPPENING - IS THIS SPIRITUALITY?
At some phase you will experience a plateau, a sense that nothing is happening, in which case just continue chopping wood and carrying water or whatever equivalent you have in your life. Sweep floor, make beds. Fix car, drive to work. Write blog! Just keep on doing whatever YOUR Zen is!

INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT - NOT!
You may have been led to believe that enlightenment will come upon you like the flash that hit St Paul on the road to Damascus that your halo will sprout and everyone will notice your spiritual energy. Bullshit. This is very very rare. Most frequently it is just a slow peeling of layers, like an onion, only slower!

IN AND OUT
At times you will experience not just the up and down process but the ‘in and out’. You will feel the need to go inside and spend time examining and experiencing your own inner processes and sometimes getting just how yukky it really is in there [and how nice it could be]. And you will also feel the need to be out in the world, connecting with and experiencing yourself in relation to others. Both the in and the out are part of a total process and feed each other.

The rocky, stony road to enlightenment is full of challenges, obstacles and barriers that bring spiritual illuminations because it is in the facing of these and moving beyond them that we develop spiritual fortitude.

Enlightened people don't have to sit on a velvet cushion, holding their fingers in om-cars, chanting mantras and getting into yoga asanas. They're all great, but remember, enlightenment comes from being present in whatever life you life, no matter how ordinary.

And next time you scream at the guy who takes the parking space you were angling for or you think angry thoughts about your spouse, or you trip over something cos you’re not ‘here’… remember you’re human. We all are. Simply tell yourself 'life happens… what’s next?'

WE INVITE YOU TO SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THE COMMENTS

What illuminations have you experienced along the road?

How did they come about and what changed for you as a result?

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

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Light of Freedom

What is freedom?

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity"

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. knew that for change to happen the collective unconscious has to free itself from the exclusive ‘me and mine’ paradigm and embrace an all-inclusive ‘greater good’ concept. This is the path to personal freedom. It is a road less travelled.

Freedom comes when we release ourselves from the competition, stress, anger and envy that accompany the pursuit of individual excess at the expense of others

Freedom begins when we choose to work instead for universal abundance trusting that there is enough for all.

Freedom comes when we deprogram ourselves from the collective hypnosis of materialistic desire and stop accumulating and using stuff as a dumb down denial escape pod.

Freedom emerges as we learn to value the simple gifts of life such as fresh unpolluted water, clean air, a biodiversity of species, the life sustaining power of the trees, the grounding force of the earth and the joy of human connection.

Freedom begins when we stop following the route set up for us by those that think they know what’s best for us based on their own personal and often misguided ambitions and desires.

Freedom emerges as we choose to step onto the path that we intuitively feel is right for us. The more we follow our individual higher purpose, the freer we are to manifest and serve the world with our unique gifts.

Freedom does not just turn up in the collective unconscious of nations. It begins with a few individuals here and there and like the hundredth monkey syndrome, it starts to emerge in people all over the world.

Freedom begins when you break free from the prison of outdated dogmatic theologies and ideologies and the belief that God is a separate entity outside of and apart from yourself.

Freedom emerges when we begin to sense that God is the collective light of all life in this universe and the galaxies beyond. God is only as good, bountiful and forgiving as we are collectively and that our every action contributes to the godliness or otherwise of the world.

Freedom comes when you see another fall along the way, and instead of saying as the Pharisees did "what will happen to me if I stop and help this person?" you are compelled to ask "what will happen to this person if I don't stop and help?"

Freedom begins when your commitment to change is no longer motivated by selfish individual greed, but by a harmonic desire for the betterment and enrichment of all mankind through the healing of ourselves and our planet..

It is our experience that this way of being does not come upon us in a big bang. It's a long challenging journey and sometimes it feels almost impossible as we are tempted back into the matrix of illusion. But as they say, once awoken, there's no going back.

The journey seems to be made up of a series of illuminations that flicker on and off from experience to experience until we get the 'aha' and the light stays on. These illuminations allow us to see our path more clearly and encourage us to stay on course.

And we are constantly asking ourselves the question - what has to happen for us to take one more step on the road to freedom? How about you?

your fellow pathfinders
Sunny and Pierre Soleil

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What on Earth will become of us?

As people all around the globe celebrate Earth day, we are drawn to consider these emerging values for a more harmonic life on Earth. This is no dream. This is what is naturally emerging in the face of global shifts.

Power

When the majority begins to realize that those our current leaders are not evolutionarily mature enough to hold the positions they think they merit, power will be divested to those people who are conscious enough to understand that leadership is a stewardship, a sacred assignment to be used only for the greater good.

Leaders will be selected because their actions have shown them to be worthy stewards of all life on earth.

Like this they will be able to direct efficiently and wisely the urgent process of returning to earth and rebuilding our world

Love

As the challenges of the current system begins to affect more and more people, human compassion will surface in the face of loss and sadness. As more and more people begin to vibrate love in the face of hatred, fear, and loss, Love will emerge as a dominant force.

Knowledge

As access to information becomes more widely available global consciousness is already expanding. The mankind will make more informed decisions and begin thinking and acting from our core with integrity and consideration for the greater good

Action

Action will increase as awakened people throughout the world step-up their efforts towards laying the foundations for a renewed, more harmonious and sustainable world. As a result of their pathfinder accomplishments, others will be inspired to awaken and take up the mantle of their own action.

Cooperation

As we find ourselves increasingly beset by severely challenging situations, the inner urge and need to band together with others and live in harmonic cooperation will emerge.

People will desire and demand right human relationships as a natural way of life. Community spirit will revive as our lives become more localized.

Simplicity

When more and more systems falter or become uneconomically viable, people will be nudged to explore simpler more natural activities. We will find ourselves being nurtured by nature as we return to earthly pursuits such as camping.

The more time we spend in simple pursuits such as sitting round a fire with others the quicker we will lose our addiction to passive diversions such as watching TV.

We will learn to be more delighted by nature and people as we engage in wood gathering, camp fire cooking, conversation, laughter, dance, music making and storytelling.

Persistence

Persistence will emerge as a dominant human characteristic in the face of greater trials . This will be prompted by an increased awareness that time IS running out.

More people will get that we must act now if we are to preserve the earth for future generations

Creativity

As the mankind experiences increasing shortfalls in the material supply system, the creative spirit will be activated to design and adopt alternative renewable energy sources, new ways of food culture, ecological shelter building, non pollutant transport, natural healing and intentional community structure.

Organization will emerge harmonically to support and facilitate a symbiotic system as the mankind begins to let go of the need to control and dominate and recognize and accept his role as an integral part of all that is.

Thought for the Day

“One enlightened thought can change your whole day. One thought of appreciation, joy or gratitude can change your whole internal state. One enlightened thought can turn a half empty glass into a half full one, a challenge into an opportunity, and a stranger into a friend. One enlightened thought can open your heart and clear your vision of the future. So why not think one, just one, go on!” Steve Nobel

You can make a difference

If you are reading this, then you are a pathfinder; you have started the awakening process and with that awakening comes a responbibility to share what you know with others.

with love and blessings

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

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WORLD OF EYE

Enter the World of Eye Love You...

When you gaze out into the world with your eyes, you see each moment contained as a whole image...
When you dream your dreams you envision them fully and completely as a vision in your mind’s eye...

It is only the mind that separates, labels and divides.

When you gaze into another’s eye you are entering through the windows to their soul.

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What will happen when we look gently into each others’ souls through our eyes and CELEBRATE the differences? How will it be when we recognize the light in those eyes, the colors, hues, shades, and shadows.? What more can we achieve when embrace each other in a shared sense of being human, seeing eye to eye and emerging harmonically to orchestrate a new world vision?

EYE OF THE TRIBE PHOTO GALLERY

We are fascinated by eyes, and so it seems are the members of Tribe, for the eye features so strongly in so many of your albums. As a tribute to you we have gathered eyes from all across Tribe and beyond and placed them in the photo gallery people.tribe.net/windwaterclear/photos

EYE FACTS

We have also researched some interesting eye-facts from the role of the eye in mythology and the mating process to the amazing discoveries of NLP eye-accessing cues. Enjoy!

With love and respect

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

SOUL EYES

The eyes are often referred to as the windows of our soul or the mirrors of our mind.

Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is quoted as saying, 'Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi' (The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter).

EYE MYTHOLOGY

In Egyptian mythology the Eye of Horus became an important symbol of power. Horus fought with Seth for the throne of Egypt. In this battle one of his eyes was injured and later it was healed by Hathor. This healing of the eye became a symbol of renewal.

In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, the Eye (often with the addition of an enclosing triangle) was an explicit image of the Christian Trinity. A 1525 Jacopo Pontormo painting uses the Eye of Providence in a triangle as a symbol of the Christian Trinity

In Vedic mythology the sun is referred to the `eye of the gods' or the ‘eye of the world’ Its gaze penetrates all it reaches. The sun is guardian of all beings, animate or inanimate. It observes the good and evil actions of men

In the Bible we also find references to the eye as an indicator of good or evil. Matthew 6:22-23

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.

THE EYE OF PROVIDENCE

The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye, is a symbol showing an eye surrounded by rays of light and usually enclosed by a triangle. It is sometimes interpreted as representing the eye of God keeping watch on humankind

On the Great Seal of the United States [as seen on the dollar bill] The Eye is positioned above an unfinished pyramid with thirteen steps, representing the original thirteen states and the future growth of the country. The lowest level of the pyramid shows the year 1776 in Roman numerals. The combined implication is that the Eye, or God, favors the prosperity of the United States.

NLP EYE ACCESSING CUES

Did you know that your eye movements give away the structure of your thoughts?

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, creators of Neuro Linguistic Programming [NLP] discovered through extensive research that the direction a persons eyes move in indicates HOW a person is thinking.

They could tell from where someone placed their eyes whether they were imagining a future or past event, internally re-hearing a sound or making up a sound, talking to themselves, or attending to their feelings.

Eyes moving up and to their right indicates that they are creating a visual image

Eyes moving up and to their left indicates that they are remembering a visual image.

Eyes moving up frequently indicate the person is a visual thinker. If they are moving their eyes back and forth and looking up, they are probably visualising a 'movie' of images.

If you want to get your message across, use visual words and in particular use images and diagrams.

Eyes moving towards their right ear indicates they are constructing a sound

Eyes moving towards their left ear indicates they are remembering a sound

Eyes moving frequently towards the ears, left or right indicate a person is an auditory thinker. They may respond better to auditory explanations than visuals or diagrams

Eyes looking down and to their right indicate that they are processing feelings. People who do this frequently may need time to process what you are saying and benefit from experiential ‘learning’.

Instead of demonstrating something to them, or telling them about it, let them try it out for themselves.

Eyes looking down and to their left indicate they are talking to themselves.

[all the above directions may be reversed in a left-hander]

EYE CONTACT

Eye contact often increases significantly when we are listening, and especially when we are paying close attention to what the other person is saying.

Less eye contact is used when talking, particularly by people who are visual thinkers as they stare into the distance or upwards as they 'see' what they are talking about.

POWER EYES

When done without blinking, contracted pupils and an immobile face, eye contact can indicate domination, aggression and use of power. In such circumstances a staring competition can ensue, with the first person to look away admitting defeat.

LIARS’ EYES

Sometimes liars, knowing that low eye contact is a sign of lying, will over-compensate and look at you for a longer than usual period. Often this is done without blinking as they force themselves into this act. They may smile with the mouth, but not with the eyes as this is more difficult.

LOVERS’ EYES

We look more at people we like and like people who look at us more. When done with doe eyes and smiles, it is a sign of attraction.

Lovers will stare into each others eyes for a long period. Humans are only one of two primate species who mate face to face. Eye contact is vital to this process.

Looking at a person, breaking eye contact and then looking immediately back at them is a classic flirting action considered a sign of attraction.

CONTRIBUTE TO EYE OF THE TRIBE [pictures and comments!!!]

We inv-eye-te you contribute eye pictures to the gallery and add to the comments on this blog any interesting eye facts you wish to share…

Please email your eye pics to pierre@harmonicemergence.org

If you see your eye in the gallery, please add a comment to the photo – we’d like to know more about your eyes. And if we’ve used your eye and named it wrongly, let us know what you want to call it and it is done.

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Indigenous Rights of Responsibility

JFK reminded us to ask not what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country.

The indigenous peoples knew this instinctively in relation to the planet.

They didn't look for what they could take but what they could do to safeguard the universe they lived in.

The indigenous philosophy considers all actions in relation to how that action will affect the world 7 generations along. This is what we call having a 'greater than self' awareness and motivation in our way of living.

The Bill of Rights, long revered by us all, actually has a destructive side as it perpetrates self importance and selfishness by focusing on the rights of the individual.

What if we were to adopt a new bill? We propose we create a Bill of Responsibility

The Bill of Responsibility would require us all to act not from a desire to get what is rightfully ours but from a desire to help ensure that all living things can flourish and play their part. It requires us to act from a 'beyond self' consideration at all times.

It requires us to drop self importance in favour of the greater good. It requires us to share and care for all life in the same way we would care for own. It requires us to ensure that there is enough for all.

In an indigenous tribe no one person is more valuable than another. No person hoards belongings or covets those of another. No one person is ever left without shelter, food,care, companionship and a feeling of belonging.

The words 'mine, mine, mine and private, private, private are not a part of their sensibility. Contrast how our lives are today. The more we focus on our individual rights the more grasping and selfish we become.

This is the thinking that has destroyed all so-called great civilisations and it will and already is destroying ours if we do not stop flying to dizzy heights of acquisition and come back down to earth.

The more time we spend in communion with and awareness of Mother Earth,the more we begin to access the indigenous spirit that is in all of us as we walk more lightly on the earth, show more respect and awe for every living aspect as part of the fabric of our existence, not as a resource for our selfish needs.

As people tune into the natural order of life's harmony so their own emergence becomes more harmonic and like that they can be a member of life's orchestra rather than a bunch of discordant solo instruments.

with love and blessings
in the spirit of cooperation, family and global community

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

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A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

We think this is so harmonically tuned to the spirit of Tribe and all of the mankind who are working towards a more peaceful, abundant, natural and consciously emerging planet. We trust you will feel the sentiment of it and pass it on...

with love and blessings

in the spirit of cooperation, family and global community

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

A SPIRITUAL C * NSP * R* CY

On the surface of the world right now there is
war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,

something else is happening deep down.

An inner emergence is taking place.

And certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent awakening.
From the inside out. From the ground up.

This is a Global operation.
A Spiritual C * nsp * r * cy.
There are 'sleepers' awakening in every nation on the planet.

You won’t see us on the T.V .
You won’t read about us in the newspaper
You won’t hear about us on the radio

We don’t seek any glory
We don’t wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles

Some of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes

in every country and culture of the world;
in cities big and small, mountains and valleys;

in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

You could pass by one of us on the street
and not even notice

We go undercover
We insinuate into the system

from behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done

During the day some of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront and at any hour
is where the real work takes a place

Some might call us the Conscious Warriors
Rainbow Warriors of Light, Spiritual Activists,
Lightworkers, Shamans, Helians [healing beings]

However we know ourselves as,
we are slowly creating a new world

with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy

Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence or The Celestial Concourse Administration...
Whether it's the CSI or the CCA or our own deepest access to global consciousness
We are all dropping soft, secret love b *m b s when no one is looking

Poems * Hugs * Music * Photography * Movies * Gifting * Kind words * Smiles * Inspiration * Meditation & prayer * Compassion * Workshops * Community Gatherings * Dance * Social alternatives * Websites * Blogs * Random acts of kindness and outgoing concern for the whole before self

We each express ourselves in our own unique ways
with our own unique gifts and talents

Be the change you want to see in the world
That is the motto that fills our hearts.

We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the
power of all the oceans combined.

Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates
shall be moved ....

Love is the new religion of the 21st century
You don’t have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it

It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings..

Be the change you want to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you

We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.

All are welcome
The door is open

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2012 Consciousness

Harmonic Emergence

Something magical is happening all over the world as what we label '2012 consciousness' begins to spread.

This energy has been gaining momentum for many years.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

The first major wave of awareness came for many in the sixties hippie flower power love and peace anti war movement. It was an early warning that left a massive imprint in all who were around at the time and in all the stories and music and words passed down through the generations.

Throughoutht the sixties and seventies small groups of people were exploring the human potential movement and expanding their awareness seeding the energy out in small trickles.

HARMONIC CONVERGENCE - A MILESTONE

And then in August 1987 a series of Harmonic Convergence events took place at sacred locations all around the world.

Harmonic Convergence was a major initiating surge of 2012 consciousness inspired by the book The Mayan Factor by Jose Arguelles.

Harmonic Convergence was many things for many people, but fundamentally it was about people agreeing to come together and a sparking of awareness that change was necessary. It was a budding of mass consciousness.

Interesting that this awareness should emerge during the Reagan and Thatcher grab grab grab, me, me, me consciousness. The paradigm was about raking in the most precious for the individual. It was a time of great plenty and a time of great greed. And when times are good we become complacent...but the message did not die...

Throughout the 80's and 90's the roots of this consciousness were strengthening and evolving, emerging in the forms of all the new age, rainbow, alternative, spiritual movements that are on offer.

THE FUTURE WARRIORS OF THE EARTH

The message was also passed on in the genetic lineage of the children of the sixties flower children providing them with information and awarenesses to prepare them for the major part they will be called on to play as a new world emerges.

TURBULENT TIMES

We all know of the forces that are disturbing and threatening our very existence on this planet. We have all in some way contributed to it and we are all very aware of the changes we need to enact for this planet to survive...

And there is BIG TIME HOPE...

2012 CONSCIOUSNESS - HARMONIC EMERGENCE

Because in the next three years, we will be putting down a stronger set of roots, reaching deeper into the psyche of mankind evolving a strain that is stronger, more resistant, more aware and more adaptive and can survive and flourish no matter what brings us.

This is the root that is becoming 2012 consciousness. As the world experiences turbulence, economically, societally and physically life is finding its way.

COMPETITION DISSOLVES INTO COOPERATION

What is emerging is a harmonic of what we call the Helian nation... [healing beings] the consciousness raisers of our times be they ecologists, alternative fuel technologists, lightworkers, yogis, eco-builders, intentional communities, the rainbow people, the shamanic teachers, herbalists, survivalists, you name it.. it's out there in some form or another... and it's POWERFUL.

And what’s happening now as we move into these next vital three years is that all the diverse schools are dissolving competition and embracing cooperation. This is significant.

OTHER CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDS

As we lose the 'me, my event, my work' consciousness and adopt an 'our, everyone's, collaborative tribal' consciousness so we are more able to merge... united in the one fundamental sense that drives us all.

And that one fundamental driver is the recognition that our goal is not just the survival and flourishing of mankind, not just saving my community or family versus yours, not me or you...BUT the survival of we the people, all of us, one mankind and all life that is part of our system.

The next three years will, we sense strongly, reveal a mass emergence from all over the world, from many schools of thought, from within all religions... of people banding together in service of a far greater goal than their own cause, method or way.... the survival of our planet for all generations of all life to come.

HARMONIC EMERGENCE - BIG FROG MOUNTAIN 2012

And we are trailblazing the path towards a gathering on the back of the Big Frog in 2012... a harmonic of humans, treading lightly, interweaving with the forest and being as one, communing in celebration of what's possible when we come together in one harmonic emergence... as we return to earth.... readying ourselves to be begin anew.

Sunny and Pierre Soleil

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Around the Fire

The Art of Transformation


This piece was sent to us by a friend.

It echoes so much of how we feel about community, gathering, fire and seasonal celebrations.

Haven't you noticed how most once religious festivals like Christmas, Valentines and Easter are no longer celebrating the spiritual - the birth of Christ consciousness, love, and a resurrection of hope for this world.

Instead they are commercially dominated dates which are all about spending money on stuff. Maybe Christmas should be renamed 'Stuffmas' as it no longer seems to have anything to do with the original sentiment.

We're realizing more and more just how vital it is for us to begin to live more by the natural cycles of life which in the indigenous spirit were always cause for celebration and prayer.

The solstices and equinoxes and full moons could be marvelous opportunities for gathering together in community and celebrating the simple events of 'life on earth' and all that sustains us.

We hope you'll join us for the next New Moon on May 9th and 10th here on the GA/TN borders where we will be creating a community bonfire and inviting people to come celebrate the emergence of the new crops from the ground, with a promise of a bounteous future..

with love and blessings
Sunny and Pierre Soleil

from The Art of Transformation: Around the Fire

by Morwen Two Feathers

The fire flickered, flames leaping and undulating, blazing heat melting the surrounding snow. Overhead the swaying trees danced with the stars. A few feet from where we stood the river flowed, bearing silent witness in the frigid night.

It was Winter Solstice, and nearly 200 intrepid people had hiked into the woods to celebrate the rebirth of the sun at the darkest time of year.

Long ago, the collective life of the community was made coherent with celebrations like this. Attuning to nature's cycles and the cycles of human life, tribal cultures gathered regularly to sing, dance, play music, and tell stories.

There was no "audience." Culture was not a spectator sport. Every member of the tribe, even babies bundled on their parent's backs, was a participant in creating the tribe's culture. Everyone with a body danced. Everyone with a voice sang.

Somewhere along the line in western culture, this changed. Role differentiation is a hallmark of cultural development. As the division of labor proceeds in economics, so does it develop in the arts. Individuals specialize. Music, dance, drawing, storytelling, become something done by the few for the entertainment of the many. The role of audience is born.

We can look around and see the resulting fragmentation of modern life. We can look inside and feel it. Entire industries are built upon the professionalization of art, the creation of audience which is also market.

This can be observed in other areas of society as well: business, politics, and religion all have audiences in the form of consumers, citizens, and congregations.

Celebrities and experts capture our attention and define our reality. Sometimes it seems we are spectators of our own lives.

There is growing recognition that our culture is in need of healing, being made whole. And while I'm not suggesting that the answer to our cultural fragmentation is to stop patronizing the arts, I do think that one way we can begin to reconnect that which has become disconnected is to stop watching and participate together in singing, dancing, music-making, story-telling, and creating beauty.

Standing around the bonfire singing with my neighbors, I felt part of a tribe. It didn't matter that some of the singing was off-key. The community is strong enough to hold all the voices.

Now, as the waters rise with melting snow, the seed planted that Winter Solstice night is quickening. My roots in this community grow deeper. I'm looking forward to meeting you around the fire in the days to come"

And we're looking forward to meeting you around a fire very soon...
Our next informal Just Camping Gathering is a Bealtaine Community Bonfire to celebrate the new crop season. Full Moon May 9/10 GA/TN Borders
All are welcome - room for camping


Sunny and Pierre Soleil
Clearwater Family

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