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A month after the Boston tragedy, now that the media have moved on to other distractions, it’s time to reconsider this difficult and painful theme. The national security state has, for a very long time, taken…

“Please Touch Community Garden (SF), Interview & Video Site Tour with Rob Joyce, Director.” By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine…

"Forest Vibrations * Sacred Lights", Children's Video:

New Myth #42 / Myth Lab #3. NewMythologist.com

New Myth #42 Video: http://youtu.be/7WWdve2VJmU

Myth Lab #3: …

Introduction to Nature’s Mystery Awareness School

“Come explore our magical world where your child will have the opportunity to learn directly from the land that sustains us. Here we will explore history, ecology, and native lore, as we deepen our nature awareness skills and uncover treasure all around.  Our curriculum is…

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.  – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Americans have always dreamed big dreams. Perhaps, having invented the phrase “American Dream,” we may well dream…

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Help Us Write New Myth #42 @ Myth Lab #3: Song & Paintings

Enter the Lab

Myth Lab is designed as an interactive, open source and iterative experience. One goal is clear: we need to build our own…

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I ended my previous blog by quoting George Kennan, the architect of the containment doctrine, who wrote in 1995 that there had never been “…the slightest danger of a Soviet military attack.” Significantly, he waited to admit that the Cold War had been a lie…

“Permaculture golf course is an oxymoron. In Scotland, home of golf, much of the course is “in the rough.” Permie fairways would be the multi-purpose savannah / pasture areas.”

David Hoffman, Eugene

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The Paradise Golf Course has been abandoned since the great Valley fire of 2034 smoked the…

http://madnessatthegates.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/barrys-blog-56-gatekeeping-in-the-desert-part-two/

To really understand the Cold War and its relevance to our contemporary world, we must take another detour through myth. The birth of the national security state coincided precisely with the peak popularity of western movies. Westerns had been central to the movies from…

http://madnessatthegates.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/barrys-blog-55-gatekeeping-in-the-desert-part-one/

Nestled on a quiet hillside among the saguaro cacti and ocotillo plants twenty miles south of Tucson, the Titan Missile Museum preserves one of the many bases that targeted the Soviet Union for over twenty years with bombs that could have destroyed all life on Earth. It is…

“ManPipe and the Ocean Clan. New Myth #39."

"Myth Lab 2 - Imprinting the Transition for the New Mythology."…

 

“Power, privilege, oppression, compassion!” Diversity Training on Race & Culture in Education on April 13-14, Portland, OR. Workshop by Mother Earth School & Mandala…

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The Myth of Equivalency, Part Two

Gatekeepers know what is expected of them, and they know each other very well. Here’s one gatekeeper (New York Times book reviewer Jacob Heilbrunn) praising another gatekeeper, Jonathan Kay:

Inside the World of…

The Myth of Equivalency, Part One

January 26^th, 2013 – NBC Political Director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd ridiculed election machine critics at a conference of vote-counters, saying that critics must be paranoid to fear that anyone would deliberately alter election results. Earlier he had tweeted: "The voting machine conspiracies belong in same category as the Trump birther garbage." Todd received applause from his audience of  state secretaries of…

New Myth #38: Halo and Kat Wing of Caledonia Alley

In 2042 the San Francisco Mission District is in bloom with organic cafes’, food forests and walking paths. The streets are all gone, as are the cars and trucks that once clogged Valencia and 16^th and the…

Myth Lab

A Transition Workshop Primer for Imprinting the

New…