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Hello dear Willi, Thank you so much. Same to you. unbelievably fascinating what you've got up and running. I would be really happy to collaborate with you. I am searching people like you are. Together we can grow and change the world.
All the best, Fabio
Hello Willi; Thanks for the swift response . Woow,I have gone through your interviews and yes, they are awesome. About collaboration, we can establish a mutually beneficial collaboration where we can have you document ( both audio, written and video). We can also work on very awesome documentaries about Permaculture in Uganda and the overall beauty of the ''Pearl of Africa''. The materials and productions can be co-owned between our Institute and Your organisation. You can find out more about us and our programs via our website ; www.priug.org We can further refine this and have something really feasible and workable for both parties. We look forward to your suggestions;
Regards;
Gerald Jagwe
Web: www.priug.org
Howdy Alexis - Thanks for reaching out. If you are up to interview me for mutual traffic and good will, please let me know. My current project surrounds programming and launching {willipaul.studio}. If you can rec a Word Press tech, this would also assist. Best wishes from SillyCon Valley! WOX
...it wouldnt be a convergence without your creative ideas!
Jan Spenser , Eugene
Thanks, KISS 2018!
https://kiss2018.symbolicsound.com/
Madison & Kristin -
I look forward to the journey ahead with you both and hope that the interview can include the three of us.
My work sites include: https://www.planetshifter.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/the_chaos_era
Please send me your bios and any work that you care to share with the community.
Peace Sounds. Willi
ORBITING
Phenomenal. Your creativity is extraordinary. Bette
Love! Theresa Jump
Emily Beach Interview
"... walkable, sustainable, pedestrian-friendly ... people can walk from
where they live to all the goods and services they need ... adjacent
neighboring streets."
How about two blocks to shopping and transportation?
After the Great Chicago Fire, many residential areas were set up
with boulevards every fourth street. Residential housing was mainly
three-story walk-up apartments.
Storefronts lined the boulevards with apartments upstairs and most
had buses running.
City Parks:
Most cities have parks in the city. Chicago, of all places, has it
reversed:
Chicago's motto from 1830's: "Urbs in horto" "City in a Garden".
https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/about-us/history-chicagos-park
David Hoffman, Eugene Perm Guild
Hi Jan - The course outline is as follows: Define terms; Focus on Regenerative Mythology; Consider contemporary sources and examples; Discuss eBook examples; Draft New Ritual, initiation and tradition. A new eBook will be supplied.
Why make design new rituals, initiations and traditions? Frankly, because the old ones are worn-out and not longer play a part in the regenerative future that we are starting to manifest.
I will publish a new eBook ("reader") for this interactive presentation / workshop. We will discuss the old rituals, initiations and traditions and create a few new rituals, initiations and traditions. The results will be posted for the global community.
Live the convergence! Teach!
WOX
Got the picture. Thanks. And it was nice to sit down with an old friend and to make a new friend, and just to be comfortable together. I trust your time with your mother is nourishing and creative, even as it is sad. Treasure the time you have now-there will be time enough for mourning later.
Tony
WOX: Jacki - I am finalizing? an interview for Ms. Erin Axelrod, a Business Coach with LIFT.
http://www.lifteconomy.com/
Can I include this question? Need to know asap.... I am working with a beta testing group at Regenerative Dynamics (regenerativedynamics.com). Some early best practices for evolving regenerative organizations include worker autonomy, authenticity and purpose-driven decision making. Your feedback?
Hi Willi, I have been to a talk by Lift Economy and spoken with Kevin Bayuk on the phone several months ago. I told him what I was doing but never heard anything from them after that. I know they are doing that Next Economy MBA which is similar to my course but more involved, and more expensive. I'm going for a more accessible option and getting my principles out there. I'm not sure what your question is here. Are you just asking if you can mention it to them? Go ahead.
Jacki
WOX: Why won't they hire me in Silicon Valley
-I dunno, Willi. Hard to picture you becoming a cog in the big corporate wheel - I really thought your thinking was too far-ranging and operating on a different plane to be pent up like that. That head-holding pose makes me think this is wearing on you, and I'm sorry to think that. On this end, not a lot is happening. Chasing around behind my daughter (age 10), doing my history thing. Went to my first metal show in Virginia Beach a couple of days ago - I play poker with the bassist for Lamb Of God, who was among the bands. That's him getting his metal face on in the picture below with yours truly, the 60-year-old metal virgin, but he is actually a pretty mild type. I'm thinking about taking up transcendental meditation again, having let it lapse. The horror of being age 60 is full upon me and feels hot and scratchy, feel like I should do something a bit more profound than ganga. Better to be hot and scratchy then comfortable in 60, I guess. Don't want to go gentle into that good night-.
Willi, be of good cheer and take good care of yourself.
Selden
Hi Willi, thanks for your message and offer - not sure what you mean by interview but if you'd like to join the Echo Active online community, it'd be great to have you on board! https://echoactive.com is a social network for nature lovers and enviro-changemakers. We raise awareness about threatened species and ecosystems and work with eco-friendly businesses to create incentives for conservation. If you'd like to join our network, please send me your email address and I'll send you an invite. Alternatively, you can subscribe to our newsletter via the site. Cheers ??
David https://echoactive.com/
Your work sounds fascinating. I am definitely very interested in regenerative thinking and design. One possible space for collaboration is the upcoming festival "Pollinate" organized by Bloom Network in September at the Palace of Fine Arts. I'm part of the facilitation team. The organizers are just about to begin publicity. I'll send you more information soon.
WOX: Hi Kathia - Visited the event site! I would like to present a vision - and support the PR and fundraising effort. Perhaps an interview with an organizer or artist? WOX
Hey Willi: Our Resonance Studio has 7 stations I think you would dig. Three are our whisper instruments, 3 are our alterantions instruments and a couple are our Active Envions. Sessions area bout 2 hours. Come to Pasadena. Give you a session at half off as you are doing such great work in the world!
Alan Tower
Our Resonance Studio has 7 stations I think you would dig. Three are our whisper instruments, 3 are our alterantions instruments and a couple are our Active Envions. Sessions area bout 2 hours. Come to Pasadena. Give you a session at half off as you are doing such great work in the world! So good to hear from you! I have two things to discuss: 1. Can I send you 10-12 questions for an interview and 2. Can we look at producing my new MACHINE | NATURE (performance for video piece) at The Resonance Center? see draft plan? ;-)
Alan Tower - Founder of the social profit Green Music Network in San Francisco, with a career as a performer and producing 12 albums of original music, Tower is now drawn to bringing forward the power of sound itself for people's direct benefit. His team, with partner Kim Riccelli, design and build sonic forces of nature, which are acoustic instruments acting as 3D audio environments for altering our senses of time, silence and self to magnify inner harmony and expand life frames of reference. Their large scale projects are Gardens of Sound and a Sound Sanctuary Lab /Concert Hall.
alantower.net TheResonanceCenter.com
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An Artisan Market for Burlingame Avenue?"
Barbara Gurkoff, Hillsborough·6h agoNew
Vice Mayor Donna Colson told me that most of the commercial real estate in Burlingame's downtown areas is owned by local families. Willi Paul's article gives us many good ideas to think about. However nothing will change until residents get together as a community and create a real demand for change. In my humble opinion an empty store is an opportunity for a new local small business if a landlord can offer a reasonable rent. That is the engine of a vibrant capitalism.
Rosemarie Pero, Burlingame Gardens·2h agoNew
I'm sure these lovely older buildings are owned free and clear. Seems sad the local family owners can't reduce the rent so we can get back our smaller mom and pop shops. I miss the old Burlingame Ave with it's cute shops and small restaurants.
Malou Carreon, Downtown Burlingame·Just now
Yes, Stanley Lo represents a lot of Chinese investors. So I am not gong to be surprised to find out if that building has been sold. I agree that it should be a collective effort to afford change. If only the City realizes that having vendors with different offerings will in the end add to the City coffers. Just imagine if Burlingame becomes a destination because of the uniqueness of the store offerings.
WOX: Hi Oliver! For many years I have been analyzing and incorporating mythic themes and tools to bolster the permaculture and transition movements. Early on, I called this effort to make universal symbols, archetypes and stories: eco-alchemy or "The New Mythology." But recently, as the idea of resilience came into the mix, I re-formed my work to "Regenerative Mythology." This is my chosen topic for your podcast.
The over-all guide (or the "Big Picture") is this vision:
Regenerative Mythology - "Making Stories for Our Future"- Inaugural Vision and Call to Action by Willi Paul, Mythologist & Planetshifter.com
Regenerative Mythology (RM) is a new community-oriented approach to storytelling, folklore and mythology. "Regenerative" brings forth values that revitalize existing human and Nature resources with new visions for our evolving planet.
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2546
Recent examples of my work in regenerative mythology includes:
"Mother Earth Creed" by Willi Paul, The Regenerative Mythology Group
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2548
"The Mobile Maker-Stream Lab @ People's Tech Convergence" - "Regenerative Mythology" Journey #1. By Willi Paul & Planetshifter.com
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2547
"Sound Myths - Exploring a New Storytelling (Universal) Language" by Mythologist Willi Paul and Planetshifter.com
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2534
Bottomline: The challenge is to re-combine old and new elements to manifest new values and spark community change.
Please let me know what you think! Willi
Hey Willi, I love it! im sure I can put a great interview together around this. I'll write you again real soon to schedule an interview
Best, Oliver
Abundantedge.com
WOX: The image (for the Machin | Nature event) will be central to studio space request (RFP), PR and web. By the way, I will ask you to create an axiometric illustration in a fictitious meadow ecos that is surrounded by trees.
Hi Willi, ... you have a feature page on our site, and I've visited your website as well - we haven't seen or heard from you in a while! Please contact me at your convenience and let's talk! 248-818-4252. I look forward to it!
Cathleen Francois, Executive Director, GreeningDetroit.com
Hello Willi my dream is to establish a small 1ha Permaculture training centre in the Southern Cape of South Africa. Have you developed a Chatbot for Permaculture? I am thinking that a Chatbot could answer amazing questions and get people to immerse themselves in Permaculture quickly. One could start with the Permaculture Ethics and Values and the Permaculture Design Principles and overlay examples from the different geographical areas of the world. I completed the Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Program (SECP) at GIBS Business School and used all my assignments to scope out what I would like to achieve with a small Permaculture training centre in South Africa. My documents are in storage but I will be able to retrieve it electronically over the next few days.
Nici Richter
WOX: The crowdfunding mandate is a great way to build your business plan. Same info! Not sure how / where you would deploy the "chat box" but it is a intriguing idea. I use google groups to generate threads and discussion for my online workshops:
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2300
"Burn Baby Burn"
Divine Intervention commented on "Planetapocalypse" - Sound Myth #12
WOX: I seem to be gravitating more and more to my inner soul - not to the day day... creating prayer songs.....
"acknowledgement" - by the chaos era. produced by willi paul & planetshifter.com
acknowledgement =
grinder
float
transference
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2552
https://youtu.be/f6KTyHj_tJQ
https://soundcloud.com/the_chaos_era
Hi there, found the description of your (the chaos era) idea, very stimulating. Would have any input into your area of creation and hope to make something of real interest to someone. Thank you,
Monkye from Driverless Bus
Hi Willi, My colleague Charlotte has shared that you reached out regarding the interview, so I want to loop us all in and clear up any confusion. What we had discussed was an interview about your current projects for the Mother Earth News blog, rather than the magazine, and not pertaining to any employment services with Ogden Publications or any of its titles. If that is your understanding, I have made a connection to a producer of the podcast The Abundant Edge, which covers permaculture and social responsibility. I think this could be a better fit and if you are amenable to the idea of being interviewed for the podcast, I will make an introduction for you.
Kale, Mother Earth News
Hi Charlotte and Kale - Pleased count me in - and excited - to continue to contribute to the MEN blog and to the podcast.If you want me to upload new content to the blog in conjunction with the podcast, here are some new pieces to consider:
"Live Urgently" - What to do about Near Term Human Extinction plus an Interview with Guy McPherson
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2549
"The Mobile Maker-Stream Lab @ People's Tech Convergence" -
"Regenerative Mythology" Journey #1.
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2547
Regenerative Mythology - "Making Stories for Our Future"- Inaugural Vision and Call to Action
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2546
FYI - my LI Groups:
Regenerative Mythology
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13600876
New Mythology, Permaculture & Transition
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5080106
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Hello Will - Thanks for reaching out. I got lost down a rabbit hole. I listened to your sound cloud and you do have a very unique sound. While I am not open for new clients, I do often give out a lot of advise. Let me know what specifically you want from a manager. I usually work for hire and get paid in advance. Many times someone starting out has a friend or fan help them in the beginning. Oftentimes reaching out like you just did starts a conversation that is an awesome start! Cheers-
Elizabeth, LI
WOX: I am designing a piece for a live performance that includes samples, percussion, voice, etc. Political. I could use some help on venue options and connections in SF Bay Area. Thanks!
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Hi Willi, Here is a revised version of the recommendation I wrote for you. Let me know if you need anything else. "Willi is ahead of his time. His source of inspiration is his desire to make the world a better place. An immense vision of people and places beyond the world we live in. Very creative. Lots of depth in his work. Passionate in his beliefs. He is great at connecting people online and making them feel part of something special. Very effective in identifying something that people believe in and inviting them to talk to each other creating great platforms. He has a knack of recognizing top members, bonding the group; planning events. Always aiming for steady growth and high participation. Has great experience in responding to difficult situations."
Malou
"music for basements" by the chaos era, by the chaos era
"nice music atmosphere in work"
Karigen, Soundcloud
I'm fascinated by the work you do. Over the last year, I've gone from running clinical programs to building a company, services, social presence and new model for mental health delivery. Because so much of this is new territory, I've worked to build a network of people who know what I don't. I'll be very happy to go through the links you've sent me. Thank you for connecting! Sounds like you have found a niche outlet for yourself. That's wonderful.
Nadine Wilches, LCSW, LI
WOX: It's often a challenge to let the spirit in and flow with an idea or vision! I do not know how this works! Or: a niche can be a corner! If my Bi-Polar experience can help, do let me know. More and more, I feel that I need to tackle the problems on a planetary level now - and not the local one that has transfixed me for so long....
WOX:
"https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2551 target="blank">Planetapocalypse - Indicator Symbols and Sound Archetypes." Sound Myth #12 by the chaos era & The Regenerative Mythology Group
This is great. Pair with archetypal duality of concomitant healing sound - Bird songs rain falling forest breezes etc
Bette
WHY is She being murdered? forgot to mention the daily bombardment from CHEMTRAILS!
Teryl Fadgen, No Till, Cover Crops, Soil & Health FB
I think that positive messaging is probably more effective than apocalypse. This has been discussed in the 1990s and early 2000s in considering why the conservation movement was not more successful at protecting the planet.
John Dennis LiuJohn and 18 others,Ecosystem Restoration Camps, FB
WOX:Please read the post. The messaging is balanced.
1. Melting Arctic sea ice does not materially raise sea levels, by itself.
2. A methane burp is unphysical. Clathrates have remained stable since before the PETM. Barring a Large Igneous Province Eruption, there's no evidence that they won't remain stable.
Dan Bailey , Climate CRISIS, FB
WOX: Thanks! Please do not stop at the front door!
Hi Willi, Your work is most important there is now.
Please keep me updated. See publications on my website for my work on fairy tales.
The Uses of Fairy Tales in Psychotherapy.
Would you like to connect sometime? Best regards,
Bette Kiernan, MFT
www.betteconsulting.com
"cool stuff... intriguing atmosphere"
commented on your track, "Firmamentum [Earth Journey] - Sound Myth #11
NºEASE
"Creepy bro, hope I'm never trapped in that basement...."
commented on your track, "music for basements" by the chaos era
Buelah
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The Mobile Maker-Stream Lab @ People's Tech Convergence" - "Regenerative Mythology" Journey #1
What a great idea! I think South Eugene has a stationary tool library, but making it mobile will help different neighborhoods with their regenerative projects. One year in the California North Bay, we planted over 700 gardens in one weekend! It was a 350.org event, and we couldn't have done it without our tool library.
~Debra Harrow, Eugene Perma
Hi Debra - Thanks for the feedback! I am still trying to define and actionize what I have just launched as "Regenerative Mythology." How do see the "regenerative vs. permaculture debate" in Eugene?
THXWOX
Neighbors helping put in a garden in a day.
No longer organized.
www.victorygardensforall.org.
Your Community Tool Library
Our Mission: We share home and garden tools with our community so we can
all build and grow together.
https://www.eugenetoolboxproject.org/
Depave promotes the transformation of over-paved places to overcome the
social and environmental impacts of pavement. {Portland}
http://depave.org/
David Hoffman
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Mother Earth Creed"
would add with love for the humans and all beings. thanks for posting willi.
the picture on the creed will be offensive to the christians. would be better to have a young girl there so as not to confuse. i would rather use honey than salt for the christians. i do not like to offend people, and this is not a light offence to them, it is a shocking never want to hear from you again offence. think that is no way to be effective.
Charlotte
Sorry but I believe the value in our Earth is that it was made by God not that the Earth is God
Dean Choat
Sharing this widely!!!
Myra L. Jackson
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Live Urgently" - What to do about Near Term Human Extinction plus an Interview with Guy McPherson
Good one. Glad that McPherson is clearsighted. Not so much for the masses... Denial (shock and trance), Anger (Shame and blame), Bargaining (Fix it! Sustainability!), Depression (Near-Term Mass Extinction), Acceptance (Emotional and intellectual challenge of facing the end.) Game over,
Patrick Horn
The solution that will bring benefits for everyone in the world. .Share!!
https://youtu.be/MbhPsKg6J9w
Equus energy 3D ENG
Algorithm for Writing New Global Myths for Nature-related Problems
Myths can lead to science:
"Ancient sky worshippers witnessed these celestial wonders, and far-flung cultures recorded the events in the great myths, sym-bols, and ritual practices of antiquity".
Introduction and:
"PART I. THE COSMIC THUNDERBOLT IN MYTH AND SCIENCE"
http://www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/01.1PART%20I_Ch1.pdf
David, PPG
Well, Willi, I'm puzzled. You gave us only the first question from your algorithm, "Does this involve ancient Gods and their family conflicts?"-and then you dismissed this with "[If yes,] STOP! This is a CLASSIC MYTH and is not supported by this algorithm."
Maybe I'm missing something (the rest of the algorithm is indeed missing unless we follow the web path), but those classic myths, all the tales of gods and their very familiar-sounding squabbles and family problems, are generally acknowledged to be psychological projections onto the big spiritual screen by us humans on our nanospiritual level (my spelling checker says I just made that word up-oh well)-and I agree in general. So, if we are not to take that god-based approach to understanding the dynamics, but some other approach more directly involving us humans, what's the difference?
Be that as it may, in this regard I highly recommend Barbara Marx Hubbard's book, Consciousness Evolution, first written in the 1990s and updated just 3 or 4 years ago or so for the 21st century. The basic thesis is that whereas biological and prebiological evolution had been unconscious from the Big Bang until just a few decades ago, evolution has now become a conscious process because we humans recognize our role in it-we know that our actions can affect the evolutionary process for better or worse. (Or leave off the value-loaded words there.) As such, Homo sapiens is right now evolving into whatever the next loop of the evolutionary spiral is. Hubbard uses the term Homo universalis, but the name of course does not matter.
She is very optimistic, as am I, that as the new species (if you want to think of it that way) we will grow into our wisdom-that indeed we are already doing so-and thus will consciously guide evolution in positive directions, not crashing the entire biosphere along with ourselves.
Willi asks, "god-based approach to understanding....? Whose God?"
By that I mean the older explanation of why things happen (preceding the now birthing conscious evolution), which said that forces outside ourselves did things to us. The earliest versions of this had assorted gods and goddesses (anyone's deities-they're all the same, by whatever name) doing nasty things to humanity (volcanoes, earthquakes, droughts, epidemics, on and on), out of punishment, spite, or just for the hell of it (all very un-divine motivations, for sure). Later (with the scientific age) the gods were replaced by unconscious, random forces, still outside ourselves-tectonic plate shifts, blooms of bacteria, etc.etc. We just happened to get in the way.
Certainly there were worldviews, mostly in the East (+ the American first nations), that affirmed the oneness of all, including humanity and consciousness and divinity; it took quantum physics in the west to demonstrate that oneness within the scientific method, and even now most folks with a western, dualistic mentality of nature-vs.-us just don't get the implications of quantum physics-though more and more are getting it, as Barbara Marx Hubbard (among a good many other writers) are noting.
Um, all due respect, but my perspective is that our nanospiritual spaces are not void at all. There's plenty there, as much as on any other level of spirituality.
Pete Benson
Thanks for the feedback and your recommendation, Pete. As I cannot claim to be a software engineer, this vision is a naive probe. I assume you read the entire algorithm: https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2543/
Not sure what you mean re: god-based approach to understanding....?
To be clear, my long-held thesis is that the classic myths are fading (commercialized) and new myths are required. Our nanospiritual spaces are volid.
You can read mine here: https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/56
WOX
Transition Accelerator Tool #1. Consensus Re-Skilling (Prototype) Community Alchemy # 9. Willi Paul
If mankind survives, this is the only way to go.
Max Mustermann, YT
"music for basements" by the chaos era
"...Is that spectral synth....??? if so what was the image... cool textures mate :)"
KillaManZilla commented on your track
Regenerative Mythology – "Making Stories for Our Future"- Inaugural Vision and Call to Action
Cris Kott, Permies: I have thus far been unimpressed by your posts, Willi. I can't really get at what you're trying to accomplish, as to put into practice what you're discussing would feel cultlike.
WOX: But you keeping coming back! Many would say that your permaculture is a cult. Or a prepper movement?
CK: I don't think you're using the word "mythology" correctly.
Chris - I have the freedom and voice to use the word in any way that I choose. Are you trying to silence me, in this forum!?
We already have successors to ancient mythologies and religions. It's called mass media. We worship at the altar of Hollywood, and sip from the Grey Cup as a holy thing. Our gods and archetypes are athletes, "musicians," and human archetypes taken from the pages of graphic novels. No stories you could tell would be as compelling, or your stories would be published, or up on the big screen.
WOX:You sound angry and judgmental. As if I am trying to corrupt my vision with your "big screen!" My work stands out. Leading edge.
Obviously you haven't spent a respectable amount of time with it. Try this and come back refreshed?
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/56
CK:Are you trying to crowdsource material for a permaculture-based religion?
WOX: That's a ridiculous charge, Chris. Look up the definition of regenerative!
CK:We already have at least one good book, and it was written by Bill Mollison. And we have a path forward. It is permaculture.
WOX: Back to the real cult? Permaculture has been surpassed by many better ideas.... think?
CK:We don't need anything more than that as a whole, and it's somewhat presumptive to think that new stories are better than the ones I already like, and have shaped my life and understanding.
WOX: You have made your choices. Leave the future to others.
"when war came to town" sound fable by the chaos era
"cool track !!"
Oruam, SC
Hi Willi, I'm wondering if you would be willing to share your draft business plan in a format that doesn't require logging into Linked In. Some of us here at Aprovecho have been developing a network-based business plan for permaculture/forestry/natural building practictioners. Sounds like we're on the same wavelength! Would love to see more.
Have you found some leads for places to live in Eugene?
Thanks
Abby Colehour
Hi Jacki - I am excited to find your vision and offering. Please understand that I wish to build-out my Regenerative Enterprise vision asap! Please see feedback in-line:
I've looked over your draft and website and it looks like we are working along the same lines. I have talked to several other thought leaders who have similar visions for a cooperative consultancy/educational platform/community. What they are all missing is a viable business model.
Yes, I need a business model or business plan that could include the following elements:
Objectives
A schedule and timetable for implementation
A marketing plan
Financial plan (budget, amount requested, other contributions, etc.)
Curriculum vitae of any and all involved partners
Willi
That is why I am creating my online course, Regenerative Enterprise Design, so I can lead people through that design process en mass. I am super busy right now working on the course as well as creating multiple Regenerative Enterprises as proof of concept and examples.
Busy, got that! But why not promote these current Regenerative Enterprises now?
I am really close to getting the first lesson done and up on my website. I should have up in the next two weeks (knock on wood). My preference in working with you would be to give you my course and one extra consulting session up front to get you started (it comes with one consulting session at the end) in exchange for promoting it with an interview. I can't do the interview until I have something to present though.
Good – but how can we get started now? I can assist in the development of the course, rigjht?
I think you have much to present now. *See below.
My plan is to release the first lesson to a few expert "alpha testers" for free in exchange for feedback and then release a beta version at a discounted rate once I have lessons 1-3 done in a couple months. The whole course would be done in early 2019 at which point I'd start charging full price. I want to wait to do an interview until I at least have the beta version out. I'll put you on my list for alpha testers and contact you as soon as it is ready to enroll.
Happy to conduct the interview when you are set. *A second idea for your consideration is to collaborate on a Planetshifter.com article right now looking at your bio, the evolving course, the current slate of Regenerative Enterprises in the pipeline and the alpha testing process. This is good outreach and can help get you and your course deeper into the NorCal / Global market.
I get your excitement and desire to get started asap, however, I need time to provide proper support and don't want to feel rushed. Your list of elements for a business plan is a good start, but I would not consider a business plan that only includes those elements a Regenerative Enterprise, hence why I think my course is essential for moving the ball forward on these big vision projects so many people want to see happen. I don't want to "promote these current Regenerative Enterprises" because I do not trust that people who think they have a Regenerative Enterprise are actually operating in the paradigm I want to promote. To be certain, I will only promote those who have actually gone through my course and completed a full Regenerative Enterprise Design Canvas (my agile alternative to a business plan). Basically, I have boundaries and am being careful not to partner with people who want to cross them. This is not something people operating in the old paradigm, which is so prevalent in the Permaculture movement, want to hear. I am operating in the Integral paradigm, not post-modernism. I will be able to explain all of this much better in my course with polished content. I promise I will have something powerful to share with you and will be able to support you much better in a week or two. Please email me again if you don't hear back from me by the 15th. Thanks!
Jacki Saorsail
Mythology is Losing the War" - An Online Discussion
"Mythology has moved online and is still alive and strong"
G+ Member
I would like to have us discuss a wider set of myths than those indicated Willi!
I would like to draw on the pluriverse of myths and I would like us to understand the term 'Myths' as I once heard it explained in a feminist storytelling situation as 'Muthos logos', Mythology as the 'logos' of the 'Mother'. As a way of communicating, transacting and relaying arising out of the narratives of mitochondrrial Eve; As the way of she who is the older parent and so any of herstories are submerged in the dark and obscure hadalpelagic zones of storytelling, but which, like some of the creatures of this zone, are extraordinary, adapted to the murkiness in weird and wonderful ways and carry secrets of our origins that we possibly have yet to tell.
What might be the other characteristics of Muthos Logos mythology?
What are the pluriversal stories which give other options to those patterned by Joseph Campbell?
Are there dominant myths which give rise to dominant archetypes which are currently draining the lifeblood of our imaginations?
Mama D
Since there isn't any discussion or even discourse in that linked item it would seem no active thinking has occurred by the poster.
The "content" shows me that the poster has no concept of mythology nor the meaning of it, very much like those people today who are constantly looking at their phone screen, the valid points are completely missed or just missing completely.
The lists that are there have nothing to go with them, making them mindless drivel to simply be ignored by the cognizant people.
If you actually have something to say, then say it and give evidence of your "proof".
Redhawk
You frame the evolution of cognition as combat between what has passed and what is now?
What is the point of contextualising it this way?
What we now refer to as mythology was once simply what humans had come up with in seeking answers about ourselves and the world around us through telling stories that some people decided to take frighteningly literally. Mythologies are still useful cultural compendia, filled with fables (or parables) that attempt to convey wisdom through analogy.
I clicked the link. I saw the itemised list of grievances. Where was the discussion?
Chris Kott
Your work looks awesome!
Michael Margolis, Get Storied
Dear Willi, We appreciate your dedication to posting stories on the CrossPollinators News and Stories page. Our web traffic for the last 6+ months for this section have dropped significantly. In order to make sure that we are providing the best value to the community on the CrossPollinators platform we have decided to shutdown the News and Stories section until further evaluation is done. While we really want to be able to do everything, focusing on a few things that have proven to work for the community is the best way for more users to understand what they can come to the platform to do. It pains me to have to shut this down and say goodbye to this special corner of the site. I hope you understand the difficult decision we have to make. With gratitude.
Crystal Huang, thexpollinators.com
Nuclear holocaust is rather a bummer. Thanks for the read!
Cheth Rowe
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Spagyric Secrets" by the chaos era
"Awesome effects !"
Donatas Bagackas, SC
I'm blown away! Your offering and experience is impressive. You are a renaissance man! Wishing you the best of everything!
Wendy Albrecht, LI
Hello Willi! I really appreciate you reaching out and connecting here on LinkedIn. I gratefully accept your Energy and you Shining your Light into my network. You are a very interesting individual, and I see we have a lot in common. I took 5 years of Ancient Greek and believe Mythology is more than just stories. I also believe that we have lost "touch" with Mother Earth, and need to reconnect and protect her, for our own Salavation! I am certain you subscribe to the "7 Generations Principle" of the Uroquois. So you know, I used to be a nuclear and aerospace engineer, designing spacecraft to send astronauts to Mars and Jupiter!
Based on what I have seen, I would recommend you connect to a couple of great people I know, Bo Lockwood and Larry Green:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bolockwood/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrygreene1/
They also are attempting to change/shape the world in their own way. They believe this can only be accomplished by bringing on board influential people and creating strong partnerships with decision makers if possible.
Now back to your branding on LinkedIn as a Creative consultant. This can be done to fit the "expectations of the real business world" without compromising your Authentic Self. We will need to leverage a wider variety of your creations, if they exist. I understand the challenge, Willi. And no, you should not be selling your Soul to the corporate world. You are making a difference, one person at a time, and we have to believe that is is making a Difference and bringing the World closer to Perfection?
The real challenge is to embrace and share your Vision, within the existing accepted Corporate system. You need to start speaking "business lango" so the people of influence start paying attention. Unfortunately, few listen to Reason but many feel the pocketbook. Fortunately, there is a growing understanding and movement towards of more Holistic approach to business with Respect for our Planet Earth.
Not sure what you mean by cliques?
WOX: Visionary Author
Inspirational Speaker
Regenerating Humanity
Systems Change Consultant
Social Impact Marketing Communications
Jean-Michel: Sending you Light and Love on your Journey
Hi Paul, great to connect, thank you. I was intrigued by your term "planet shifter", which a read of your website, explains. I was wondering if you had come across Jeremy Griffith (biological scientist) who wrote Freedom? Prof Harry Prosen, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and former Chair, Psychiatry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin, rates this treaties "right up there", as "greatest of all books". Harry is only one of many who have been blown away by the explanations in Freedom, which bring extraordinary understanding and subsequent healing of us (it worked wonders on me!) and our troubled human condition. Look forward to hearing from you again! :)
James Moffett, LI
WOX: Hi James! No, have not heard about Freedom but the web site(s) are now open on my browser for later. For better or worse, I have been promoting permaculture via my mythology work, and have missed stuff along the way. I am working on a piece right now about an emergency symbolic language for refugees. Partially entitle: "Reverse Evolution."
Hi Willy, I am still developing
jump4meaning.com, a platform for jobs and projects for transition, creative and respectful economy...but I am still having some difficulties with developers...anyway I liked your profile and enjoy to be in your net. I am mostly in Portuguese and Spanish regions, but my dream is to build a worldwide connected network in to promote changing and iniciativas, giving opportunities to increasing awareness glocally..All the best!!
Karen Raicher
Willi - I can connect you to many folks- when will your web site be completed? What is s partnership? How about am interview for Planetshifter.com?
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mythbrain" self-portrait by willi paul" - dedicated to the joseph campbell foundation
This is such a captivating image to map the inner landscape. Bravo! Do you think that beneath the whole image the word Collective can be placed? I enjoy putting EVERYTHING back into the Cauldron of memory.
Thanks, Long ago Jung's small map of the the self and aspects of inner landscape were my rule of thumb in the poetic wilderness. This image and naming has that sweet simplicity and usefulness. (: Maps maintain the crucial landmarks for orientation. (: Thanks Willi.
Okka Wikka, https://www.okkawikka.com/
Hi Willi, thanks for reaching out! Sounds like quite a project! My experience includes designing for archetypes, including some sound design, but not designing exclusively for sound – although I'm certainly curious and open.
Natasha Margot Blum, Insights for Innovation // Design Research, Strategy + Storytelling (LI)
Sound Myths - Exploring a New Storytelling (Universal) Language
Cauldron of memory! That's beautiful!
Nandu Menon, FB
Hi Will, the project seems fascinating. Two people come to mind, Jarryd Lowder and Bruce Wands. I will stay alert. Cheers!
Claudia Jacques, LI
Hi Willi, As an amateur songwriter/musician and trained semiotician, I do have a personal understanding of this realm, but never with the intent to create a musical language, the likes of which can be extremely complex depending on its desired functionalities!
Universality is almost impossible when dealing with language, as difference is one of the core principles necessary not only to create understanding, but also to ensure the evolution of a language, something which does not come easily with "designed" languages due to their centralized, non-generative nature.
A sound-based, universal language sounds like what we already have if we consider musical notation and all its modalities as a feeling-oriented primary modelling system; so, perhaps you're seeking to create a secondary modelling system based upon this with a syntactic basis that somehow aligns itself with translations of archetypal feeling-tones? Therefore, something that can be repurposed by others in a systematic manner?
Do you have a more detailed writeup about what you're trying to accomplish? I see you've written about sound myths on your website, but I would appreciate being directed to some sort of overarching aim/goal document as I'm short on time right now, writing a thesis about ecosemiotic relations in smart cities.
In general I would recommend connecting with specifically musical semioticians and perhaps analytical linguists and musical therapists. Sadly I'm not in a position to recommend others as I don't know such people!
Ian Weatherseed, LI, Semiotics + Experience Design + Permaculture + P2P Tech
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Preparing for the Inevitable: Thoughts on the Coming Crises and How to Intelligently Prepare" - Interview with Co-Presenter Robert Bolman by Willi Paul. At Dharmalaya, Eugene, OR. March 18
- excerpt -
... teetering between hope and apocalypse...
Thanks awesome put it right on fb !
brilliant .!
Nico Morros
Hi Willi, I think it was mostly successful. There were 20-25 people. We probably spent too large a portion of the time discussing the problems and too little time discussing solutions. The problem is that the problems are vast and complicated - requiring a lot of explanation. But the solutions are few and far between. For starters, there's only so much we can do on a local level and we can't achieve anything on a state or national level. We did get a decent audio recording that will supposedly be put on line soon. I'll try to alert you when it's up.
Rob
The four crises topic overlooks a major one: proliferation of Radio Frequency/Microwaves via wireless smart meters, cell phones, towers, E tablets, smart TVs
causing worldwide degradation of sentients including humans, plants, birds, bees and trees.
Kathy Ging
Saw and listened to tracks on your soundcloud account. Hoping to make an audio contribution. Thank you for writing back.
I'm sorry to say I did not produce the sound. It is a shortwave radio frequency channel marker sound. I frequently use various sound sources from Shortwave radio. For example, the piece: Metal Urgency, all of the sounds, except the metal, & works sounds, are sourced from shortwave radio. The sound sample I sent to you, whilst not yet used in a piece, represents some of the types of sounds in my archive.
I listened to and enjoyed Savanna sound myth #3. What I would possibly add: Crows, close up and distant sounds of individual crows calling out and responding to each other. As a background sound. Wild Dogs, whilst African Wild Dogs don't bark, they do have a range of unique sounds. Helicopters. They are everywhere. Gradual fade up sound of an approaching helicopter and a long Slow Doppler sound as the helicopter fades away.
The sounds would probably be added to an existing section.
Thank you also for listening, liking and following back on SoundCloud. Kind Regards, Brian
pressureworks@gmail.com
Greetings! I like the rough distortion of the byte.
How did you produce it?
Tell me how this process feels there?
https://www.planetshifter.com/myth/2501/
WOX
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Stream Soil Bark Canopy Sky" - SoundDream Journey by the chaos era. Kid's video & questions.
Love it, I like the what u did with this one, the whole concept!
XIT Beatz, YouTube
Quite beautiful and surprising juxtaposition
James Osborne, SC
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Sanctify - Article and Interview" on Mythology with Muhammad Maroof Shah, Kashmir
Noted. Hope you keep exploring more of the strange but our own world of myth.
Muhammad Maroof Shah
Thanks for the link Willi, Recognizing all the value you bring to Earths Systems.
Maurice Small, LI
Using VR to Reduce Addiction to Violence - A Treatment Model
a very good platform for discussion. my initial reaction is that is doesn't do anything to curb the blood thirst be it reality or VR; but if we eat meat for sure there is a place for that type of blood thirst...not to mention protecting boarders if need be. the US is an ecosystem - you can peer up these violent minded entitled adult children with animals to slaughter (lots of targets here) and also give them perspective if they have it in them. for sure the NRA should be a part of all this. i have more respect for the person that knows how to hunt and eat his kill, than the person that has a favorite restaurant or organic store they like to frequent. a measuring in degrees of separation from dirty work (i.e. slaughter, war participation, logging, fishing, agriculture, waste management, etc.) to one's own person should be a factor in communal unity.
Mark Biddy, NYC
Who owns guns? Women for Self Defense.
One of the fastest growing demographics is women (not just men) buying guns, getting Concealed Carry Permits and taking classes.
Look into the many cases of Self Defense, much more than reported. "Protective Effects of Gun Ownership"Such as:
"CDC Study: Use of Firearms for Self-Defense is 'Important Crime Deterrent'"
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent
Goesto: National Academy of Sciences
"Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence"
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to-reduce-the-threat-of-firearm-related-violence
https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/1
"Protective Effects of Gun Ownership
Estimates of gun use for self-defense vary widely, in part due to definitional differences for self-defensive gun use; different data sources; and questions about accuracy of data, particularly when self-reported. The NCVS has estimated 60,000 to 120,000 defensive uses of guns per year. On the basis of data from 1992 and 1994, the NCVS found 116,000 incidents (McDowall et al., 1998). Another body of research estimated annual gun use for self-defense to be much higher, up to 2.5 million incidents, suggesting that self-defense can be an important crime deterrent (Kleck and Gertz, 1995). Some studies on the association between self-defensive gun use and injury or loss to the victim have found less loss and injury when a firearm is used (Kleck, 2001b)."
All scenarios happen. This is why proper instruction and lots of practice in real life scenarios is stressed for Concealed Carriers.
Perhaps your list that starts with Criminals, Vigilantes should also include Self Defense. Fair is fair.
David Hoffman
Thanks for the stats, David. These days I think I default more to my gut. I wonder how many self-defense situations end up bad for the victim because their gun is turned on them?
WOX
This is an interesting idea, Willi, but I wonder if there is a chance it will be misused in the same way the people who ran those planes into the World Trade Center trained on a Microsoft flying training program. How do you keep it from becoming entertainment, like Grand Theft Auto? I guess I am missing the content of the software and how the outcomes in a VR world differ from a real one and what benefit can therefore be derived. The whole VR idea is no doubt going to become more and more important as we go forward. Seems like it might be good to treat mental illness, too. Anyhow, I think it admirable that you're bending your thinking to this issue and how it might be a serious game changer in society. Keep pounding on this potential.
Selden Richardson
No mp3s, but you can get (maybe) white labels from the Munich office in a few weeks. Try emailing them...I actually don't know who's doing promo.
Except I bet they can't do it, since you're in a licensee's territory. But I will give you a password for a page that I'm working on for press. It's got tons of writing that willl act as a cure to the world's insomnia. Give me a week or two. It's terribly boring stuff, but it will make it easier for the occasional press person.
I did an artist's playlist for ECM, and it's up somewhere, along with copious annotation. I haven't seen it, but I hear it's up.
And...the music is good, but it's not overwhelming. Keep the bar low, or where it's always been---
The new one I'm working on is going to be pretty darn good, I have to say. Lots of electricity. Large Sound Collider.
Steve Tibbetts
"The highest concern of all the mythologies, ceremonials, ethical systems, and social organizations of the agriculturally based societies has ever been that of suppressing the manifestations of individualism; and this has been generally achieved by compelling or persuading people to identify themselves not with their own interests, intuitions, or modes of experience, but with archetypes of behavior and systems of sentiment developed and maintained in the public domain. (2018, 130)"
Joseph Campbell in his essay "Symbol Without Meaning" in The Flight of the Wild Gander.
Hey Willi, Check out the first principle, 'Solidarity', which talks about the Community as Hero.
Solidarity. Sharing Cities represents a revived story about cities that recognizes community as the heroic protagonist in urban transformation. Aristotle, the leading philosopher during Athens' golden age, believed that the city existed for the well-being of its people. In this story, people work together for the common good rather than compete for scarce resources. This age-old wisdom challenges popular narratives that portray high technology and competitive markets as heroes in the story of cities. A Sharing City is of, by and for all people no matter their race, class, gender, sexual orientation, or ability. In other words, Sharing Cities are primarily civic, with residents focused on taking care of each other, their city, and partner cities too. Their primary function is to produce residents capable of working together for the common good, the foundational skill that makes all other things possible in society. Looking forward, and to paraphrase the Buddhist monk Thích Nhât Hanh, the next Buddha will be community. A multitude of loving, human-scale communities managed by capable residents is how we'll protect all life on earth. The solution is us. https://www.shareable.net/blog/10-core-principles-for-sharing-cities
Peter Ruddock, TPA
11 core principles for Sharing Cities
https://www.shareable.net/blog/10-core-principles-for-sharing-cities
As I understand, there is a difference between Miths and Legends, being the firsts invention not demostrable and sometime pernicious to humanity like the "New Age" believes of Asrology, Tarot and Cristal power. About the other, I think they in a long time to eventually come, we have the legends based in reality of the founders of Permaculture and best practitioners like Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Geof Geoff Lawton and John Dennis Liu. The rest is for us to restore and inhabit Planet Earth as Ecology teaches and demand.
Pedro Di Girólamo Armanet, FB
Hi Pedro - These are different things. Legends are more local or regional people and tales while myths are global. You mentions permaculture heroes but now see the community as the hero. This is a recent work that may inform this discussion: "New Testament" - Innovations for Mythology in the Chaos Age: 2009 – 2018. eResource #40 from Willi Paul and Planetshifter.com - https://tinyurl.com/y97zwf7v
WOX
Hi Willi... Given your expertise, I thought it would be nice to connect with you here on LinkedIn. My new book, "Living the Hero's Journey," is based on the work of Joseph Campbell.
~ Will, willcraig.com
Hola + thx. I am a trained Jungian art therapist and a Earth thumper politico. Now semi-retired. SUPPORT WIKILEAKS PLEASE.
Bonnie Davis DiPietro, LI
Hello, I"m a longtime writer of travel stories and student of mythology, having studies with Martin Shaw for a year time program he conducted in Pt Reyes California. I'd love to join this group.
Katrina Howell
Hi Willi, Thanks for the links, I'll be sure to check your stuff out soon. I'm glad you are active in the realm of myth. I have similar focus! My current need is to secure more financial security via clients and projects. If you have any connections in portland Oregon / southern WA / or CA that want holistic land regeneration, I'm taking on new projects now. Also starting to transition my marketing from home scale to restoration/conservation/ag scale for farmers, nonprofits, or municipalities.
I'm doing my own deep research into Tim Leary's 8 brain circuits and the ET Higher Intelligence / metaprogramming in myth and direct practice for Increased Intelligence. I'm wondering where that lineage of thought petered out,,, I just found the thread via Robert Anton Wilson and will be following it further. It's nice to connect in the synchronicitous realms of Jung and your message and digital presence is emanating that sort of connection and openness to me. Thanks for the spark. Interested to know how we might catch flame. I'm intrigued. How do you like to conduct interviews? I think that could be fun.
Written, filmed, or voice recorded? It would be great if we are able to capture an articulate flow moment. They show up every once and a while, and I like the idea of securing them in the form of sharable content. Your myth writing e-workshop sounds quite fun. I have been interested in getting some sort of accountability game started for creative writing and content generation. Seems like your system might be a nice one to engage with. I just applied to be in your google group.
-Nick Lake-
Www.earthecology.org
Www.sourceconservation.org
Thank you for your own invaluable work at this time of unprecedented change.
Eva Rider, LI
Appreciate all you do.
Erik Ohlsen, Author|Publisher, www.storyscapes.us
Hey Willi,
I got your email, intriguing stuff (I'm way into mythology personally). Thanks for all your great planet-shifting work :)
Nils Palsson, TransitionUS
"Crypto Currency for Permaculture?"
An Interview with Steve Cran, Green Warrior Permaculture
I like the idea of a crypto-currency based on real ("estate") value rather than fossil-fueled digital "mining", and land-based production. Should be an entertaining experience to devise a working example of such. And I look forward to examples of tiny-housed farm communities in our human-starved Oregon landscapes. It could be the only way we can stave off total urbanization and it's conjoined twin agro-industrialization. One Planet Oregon is an attempt in that direction based on the Welsh example, and I'd hope we all get to understand what they're trying to do and help get it done.
Rick Valley, EU Perm
And what's to stop people from floating loans using this latest unofficial currency? Why is this unofficial currency scheme any better than the countless earlier schemes that we've seen here and there, now and then? What's to stop a group from setting up a "bank" and offering loans in the unofficial currency? What's to stop some mentally ill person who thinks that happiness is proportional to one's bank balance from amassing trillions of the unofficial currency units and becoming one of the new plutocrats, then wanting to amass still more because he still isn't happy? (These folks are always "he".)
Do you really feel that buying one's home with a mortgage is bad? Or financing a car purchase? All due respect, but I feel that switching from one currency to another will not even touch the problems arising from excessive debt. It's the excess that's the problem.
Pete Benson
Andrew Langford For permaculture (and the rest of the world-change movement) I suggest currencies that use the holochain architecture - a super-advanced and decentralized architecture that is designed to avoid the pitfalls of the current block-chain speculation machines ... check it out ...http://holohackers.org/
Andrew Langford
Hi Willi, so great to be connected with you. The work you have done and continue to do is incredible. I love that we share many of the same interests including, permaculture, sustainability, transformation and beyond. My purpose right now is really empowering resilient-driven leaders and change-makers to high performance health in their inner and outer nature. I focus a lot on helping to restore the gut microbiome with my clients I work with and sharing the vital interconnection of our inner nature to the biome of the soil. I am excited to explore some ways in which we could potentially collaborate. Any ideas to start?
Breanne Gibson, LI
Hi Willi, This is fascinating work (new theory of mythology) and I would imagine the work being done at the Schumacher Institute (UK) and by Vandana Shiva (India) would really resonate with you. Best of luck--we need these stories now more than ever!
April Heaslip, LI
- Marilyn Schultz Interview Questions -
I am working on an integrated theory of new mythology that includes permaculture, environmental and sound archetypes and sound myths.
There are multitudes of creation myths and apocalyptic groups boiling up and over from our subconscious to our consciousness. We are in a grey zone between the two, with each vision and energy and manifestation fighting the psyche.
Does Joseph Campbell's work offer us insight into this struggle? Are there gaps and missing innovations in his canon that need to be addressed to update and make mythology vibrant again?
How is classic mythology supporting new social initiations? Rituals?
How do sound archetypes contribute to the initiation, journey and (community) hero from Campbell?
Can a "Sound Myth" be a series of integrated Sound Archetypes that have a universal theme and message?
If we can feel the power of myth from storytellers, then why not from content pulsed by sound archetypes?
How can Permaculture break-out of its "new farming" label and manifest its community values sharing values for a new mythology?
What is a mythic experience? It online or offline? Universal? Fiction?
Archetypical sound is an alchemical or transmutation process, where the recombining of elements and the interactive process is more important than the product. Also examine myth in soundscapes - or how the imagination of each listener both creates and recombines a story and how the meanings evolve as each collaboration changes the forces. These fragments can be re-mixed as each new group is created.
My understanding of sound archetypes is that an archetype resides in the subconscious and couples with a sound in the consciousness to become an archetypical sound. How do you know when you hear / feel a sound archetype?
How do we translate or transmute sound archetypes into visual cues, messages, initiations and global meanings?
Are sound archetypes connected to memories and new feelings?
Can a sound archetype help to create a new language, code, or meme?
What components in rock music utilize sound archetypes (vs. metaphors)?
VR is prescribed; man-made. It's not about anything new. Playing a war game in a goggle is not a challenging or celebratory act. Not a community event.
How are you using VR personally and educationally?
"Target = Blank: A Critique of Nextdoor.com"
Willi, you hit the nail on the head with many topics here. I am an action person. When the past complaints about dog poop in the parks and downtown came up, I suggested people go to City Hall and present it to council...I was the only one who showed up. I spoke for 3 minutes, shared community concerns, gave some suggestions and lo and behold, the council heard me and acted on it. I may be called "The Crazy Poop Lady" now, and I don't even own a dog, but my point is that some issues are best directed to those who can actually do something about them. They are good listeners. Chatting on a topic is one thing. Asking for help from those who can make it happen just makes sense.
Well said and presented, Willi. I can not disagree with one thing. I would like to also elaborate on the most important sentence in your text: "Get out of virtual neighborhood and into real life". AMEN! Not just with Nextdoor, but everywhere. Society is turning into nameless and faceless rhetoric. Harmful. Antisocial. Sad.
What is Nextdoor? It's a company that's beholden to it's investors with a focus on generating revenue selling ads and data. Period. Are they here to support someone's idea of a utopian society? Frankly, I don't want to see political rhetoric coming up on my feed when I come here. I get enough of that on the news and social media. When you start a post here or any other community board, all bets are off. Expect to be challenged or encounter someone with an opposite opinion, otherwise don't start a thread. We don't own this site - we're only guests. Nextdoor - their house, their rules.
Next door is a police tool for gentrifiers from the
East Bay Express in Oakland
