Intro Song = "Arcane". Outro Song = "Firebrand". Both by Kevin MacLeod. Available under Creative Commons Attribution License. Five call-in questions from Fenesha Hubbard:
Q1: What are some tips to turn our yard into paradise? A1: A wonderful, free resource and great "gateway" to permaculture/regenerative design is ---> www.geofflawton.com. Urban dwellers, in particular, will benefit from video #3 "Abundant Urban Gardens." Q2: Please define "rewilding." A2: The literal definition of "rewilding" is: the restoration of an area of land to its natural, uncultivated state; reinstaing the role of keystone species to human society where the expression of this role appears lacking. My metaphorical/internal use of the words is: an invitation to remember that we are a gloriously complex interconnected network of systems that work together; an opportunity to reverse the effects of what happened to us in this over-industrialization; a unification of who we are. Rewilding is a state of mind that says, "I know who I am in essence, and I know that it is not an artificial, plywood manufactured fake kind of assembly line knock-off." It is the opposite of the prevailing mechanistic view of life. It is rawness of being, which I liken to a lion's roar. Q3: How do I know if someone has heightened sensitivity? A3: I talk about heightened sensitivity -- or high perception -- in two ways. One way is body-based sensitivity, thoroughly explained in Dr. Elaine Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person. 20-25% of all living organisms are born with Sensory Processing Sensitivity, which means having a nervous system that is more refined and receptive. Imagine some or all of your five physical senses being "amped up." Gifts and challenges accompany this trait. A free, 27-question self-test can be found at www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm. The second, less common form of heightened sensitivity is empathic sensitivity, which goes beyond physicality. Meta-body. It is a subtle, nuanced ability to feel as if another. Empaths can experience the felt state of another, and often benefit from learning how to master their boundaries and manage their energetic well-being. One of my favorite related resources is Rose Rosetree's Empowered By Empathy. Q4: Please share the Victor Lebow citation/quote from Episode 1. A4: Here is Lebow's 1955 strategy for hyper-consumption, which our culture has enthusiastically adopted... with much of the world following our example. Tune in next week for my answer to question 5 about alternatives to hyper-consumption. Intro Song = "Arcane". Outro Song = "Firebrand". Both by Kevin MacLeod. Available under Creative Commons Attribution License. SHOW NOTES:
* Last month I attended New Media Expo, to learn about podcasting. * While there, I met Chris Brogan, author of "The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits and World Dominators" (affiliate link), due out March 17, 2014. * For entrepreneurial mentorship, I recommend the Owner Mastery Foundation Group (OMFG). * Monchu = Okinawan for "one family." * Jill blogs about permaculture at www.withintenttolive.blogspot.com. * PoeticFlow: Shadow behavior. Seeking a savior. From ourselves. I want to loose a LOVE story, about Nature's GLORY, and how She gives us EV-E-RY-THING. Everything we've ever sipped, eaten, worn, written on, lathered with, lived in… ALL of our basic needs are met by Her resources. Rich forces of good, wood, vegetable, fruit, oil, cotton, seasonings, paper, pigment… where do we think these commodities come from? Wal-Mart? Not originally. The earbuds or speakers you're using to listen to this RIGHT NOW, were sourced from something deep down inside Her. It's right to pause... and calmly reflect on those gifts. With thanks. She offers up PHYSICAL ELEMENTS for our human experiments and, honestly, the least we can do is respectfully acknowledge the Living Source from which our luxuries flow. If we could hear the pulse that beats behind the purchase, would we feel differently about it? Intro Song = "Arcane". Outro Song = "Firebrand". Both by Kevin MacLeod. Available under Creative Commons Attribution License. SHOW NOTES:
(2) Understandings of how nature works; and (3) A design approach.
(2) People-Care; and (3) Fair-Share.
PoeticFlow: She is brutalized, for our supersized existence. Big houses, cars and closets to ease the pain of shrunken meaning and ALIVENESS. But it doesn’t work. The pain of separation is still there. So we continue our bubbly chatter Turn, and stuff, our faces. nom-nom-nom… let’s think of new places to pillage, strip and chew to the bone. Home, desolated home. ... (with a wee bit more to record), this is what I sound like?!
Came out of nowhere last night. I did consider just whispering to you, but that might be a little weird. Sooo, I'm hunkered down with hot Apple Cider Vinegar tea, lemon and honey. And a burning message to share with you! Or is that a fever? Normally, the shows will come out on Mondays. But this initial one will come as soon as my voice returns. Which I trust will be soon. I also trust this unwanted delay comes with a benefit of some sort. Even if just the reminder to me to be more at ease with beginnings. I've been figuring out how to make those three words true for the past several years. There's been lots of shifting, and while that's been going on, I've been vague and quiet about the best ways I can serve you. (And if any of you are entrepreneurial, and are trying to figure this out for yourself, the "magic formula" can be found at the intersection between your delight/expertise and the world's need/void.)
There is a lot of treasure to be found at that intersection. Here's what I discovered there which, interestingly, is also what I have to "offer":
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The question "How are you?" is PROFOUND. But it has been watered-down to a synonym for "Hello." Forced or fake auto-responses of obligated okay-ness are expected. (And if you are going through something tragic, it really doesn't matter! Every social encounter OPENS with this well-established Ritual of Insincerity.) The question "How are you?" prompts an answer that begins with "I AM _____________." This means many times each day, you are invited to SPEAK THE MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT that can be spoken of yourself. And the socially-expected thing to do, is be QUICK + SLICK with your answer. For a change... TAKE YOUR TIME, and tell your truth. ✍🏾 |