New Economy
5th graders speak about The Toolbox Project
MC Yogi: On Community and Culture
MC Yogi: Giving and Receiving Love
Lynx DeMuth: Importance of Expression
Joseph McCormick: Warriors, Lovers and Service
Erzsi Palko – On Dance and the Power Dynamic
Chris Berry – On Music, Community and Culture
Financial Goals
Documentary Series Promo Card
Community Yard Sale Fundraiser
Our friend Amien Griffen had a great idea to hold a community yard sale in which 30% of all the proceeds will be donated to The Human Celebration. I’m super grateful for this and am excited to see what comes of it! Thanks, Amien!
Here are the details:
Donate to The Human Celebration by cleaning out the closets and coming out for snacks, songs and fun at our community yard sale fundraiser.
- Sunday, April 11th
- Yardsale site: Corner of California St & Iowa (three blocks West of Ashland High School)
- Provide either, or both, your own table or drop-cloth to display your items for sale
- Please show up to set-up items between 9am and 11am
- No junk please, you must stay with your items (excluding breaks) and take them away on leaving
- Bring your own bank/cash for making change
- Mandatory 30 % of take on sold items go towards a fundraiser for the Human Celebration Project (meaning you can make money too) Learn more at www.humancelebration.com
- RVSP your space, contact Amien, yardsale host, (comment here if you are interested)
- Please bring your own refreshments, entertainers encouraged—let’s make it fun!
Our First Benefit Concert
The Rogue Fam Jam has graciously invited The Human Celebration to be their first benefit at the new local venue, Culture Works.
Here are the details:
Culture Works – 310 Oak St.
Tuesday, April 13th, 8:30 – late
$10, no one turned away, all ages
We would love to see you there. Raffle tickets will be sold, one for $3 and two for $5, for all the great gifts and suprises that will be available for the evening. Come down and get your boogy on and help raise some of our first seed money for The Human Celebration!
The Human Celebration on MySpace
The networking thickens…
TubeMogul
We signed up and launched our first video via TubeMogul today.
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Steve Barnard 02.23.10-1
The Documentary: Review & Call Out For Sponsors
Be The Sponsor For The Next Human Celebration Documentary Clip
Culture Works
See the video
Marla Love, Chris Decker and crew, Chris Iverson, Solus, Lynx & Janover, Chris Berry, Jason Cedar Miller, Dean Angermeier
A Review Of Our Journey With
The Human Celebration Documentary Series
The Human Celebration has been putting out clips of our documentary series on YouTube and broadcasting on FaceBook since December, 2009. Our first interview to kick things off was with Johan Ziems, awakening a passion of mine that started back in 2005 with an interview with Jason Hoops. You can see these interviews on our blog page The Human Celebration Clip Series 1-7. You’ll see that we were still dabbling in the idea of having a production agency called Rock Mouse Days, and producing all the Human Celebration media under that name. We were also still capping our videos off with “People made this – for the People” (unusual casing intended), in the spirit of really doing our work for the passion of celebrating human expression, not so everyone can be in awe and wonder of John Palmobo and Rory Finney’s video production skills.
Then one day Rory said, “I like the intent of doing this for the people, but not the tag line. Let’s start branding The Human Celebration.” Of course, this was the next step. So, Rock Mouse Days was essentially scrapped – really, what’s the point of having two names? So, I proceeded to play with creating a Human Celebration intro and “extro” (bookends) in AfterEffects. I actually first tried it out in iMovie for and interview clip of Prema Mayi, our most viewed video climbing now at 255 views. I still craved the creative capabilities that I was yearning for in AfterEffects, as the “extro” came out too light and was hard to read. So, my next interview with Brandon Bryant served as our new stomping grounds for trying out some AfterEffects magic. I was fairly pleased with it, and new I was deep inside a huge bowl of soup that I was yet to see the surface of, and that one day we’d all get a better view of a more consistent and mastered form for our documentary bookends. The next two clips from interviews with Amien Griffen and Johan Ziems developed this wonderfully. And then I released a new clip from our interview with Prema Mayi in which I first started using the image of circular entities making ripples in a golden, impressionistic image of the time/space continuum (that’s how I saw it, anyway). I loved this theme and thought it was a great compliment to the Human Celebration title logo. This got refined in a clip that recapped the two previous interview clips with Joseph McCormick, and then got rainbowedefied with our following interview with Travis Puntarelli, as he exclaimed that The Human Celebration is all the colors of the rainbow coming together and expressing as one, “Black, White, and everything in between.”
Our following interview with Solus Soulsinger somehow blue the lid in the animation department as I experimented deeper and deeper with all I could do with AfterEffects. Now the circles show up as little dancing figures, looking more like nuclear activity, that connect our subject with all of the surrounding existence. The second clip I put out from this interview refined and enriched this even more as I added some syncopated visuals to go with the music. Some would say that maybe there’s a bit too much going on on the screen and the intro is just a bit too long. I agree, and I’m also not doing it to please people – I’m doing it because it feels good and it’s damn fun making all that crazy AfterEffects animation with these super rad interviews. Opening the pandora’s box of creativity is a process, and sometimes all the paints get spilled out a once, making chaos and wild spontaneity on the canvas, so consider it thusly. I also enjoyed creating a custom film burnout and misty white-out transition with these two clips. On the content, Solus has great things to say about connecting with the Earth and really asking ourselves what our relationship is with the Earth – really great stuff.
All and all, I’m SOOO thankful for all the great things people have had to share. I feel wealthy with all this dynamic, authentic and ever so wise and innocent human expression.
On top of all this, and what we’ve recently gathered at Culture Works, we’ve been getting great, more intimate and juicy interviews with people like Joyce Segers (running for US Congress), Benjamin Grundy (watsu and massage therapist), Leslie Lanes (on Board of Directors for the Rose Circle, a mentoring support group for youths), and Steven Barnard (created Art Kids). So, our stock in video is growing exponentially.
We definitely plan on having something up for public view by April, possibly at the Ashland Art Center and Culture Works.
Culture Works
Now, the lid has truly been blown for our documentary series with the opening of the new venue here in Ashland – Culture Works. The Human Celebration has been present for all events since the doors have opened on March 2nd, kicking it off with a rockin’, thumpin’, very sweet show with Solus opening. Cornflower followed with his masterful beat boxing symphony of a “Journey Into Sound”, and then Lynx & Janover taking the stage (beatbox, digital composition, percussion and hammer dulcimer) for the bulk of the evening – BRILLIANT. Rory and I filmed interviews with Lynx and Janover after the show, AND got great footage of the show itself, building some excellent footage bank for our larger project. So, from then on we’ve been there every night. If Rory wasn’t able to make it, I would show up and grab someone with a nice camera and say, “Want to do an interview with me for The Human Celebration documentary series?” I’ve had some great angels show up so far, as well as use of the most perfect interview space next door at the Zen West Floatation Center. We had great interviews there with Jason Cedar Miller, of A Town Infusion, and Dean Angermeier, of the Rogue Suspects.
Although, I’d say one my most favorite experience so far is our interview with Chris Berry (clips to come) in the tiny “green room” in the back stage zone. It was the only quiet room (until Zen West came along) with all the dishwashing, stage breaking down and DJing that was going on after their show. We set up a nice tight shot and had a totally thrilling interview with Chris – a superb icing to his knee bending performance that made me actually stop dancing for a moment to stare into space and ponder that this moment was actually happening. Chris’s performance, really more an enactment of fully liberated Divine expression through a human on Earth, totally blew me away and I was taken with gratitude for having such great culture in our little community here in Ashland, Oregon. What a gift. Much thanks to Chris Decker, Marla Love, Solus, Chris Iverson, and the rest of your beautiful family that I’m looking forward to knowing more.
Culture Works’ Mission Statement
Our mission is to serve our community with “conscious” entertainment and healthy food, supporting a lifestyle that promotes infinite sustainability and true vibrant health.
Sponsor the Human Celebration Documentary Series
So, now that we’ve got the ball rolling, we’re ready to see if anyone would like some air time with one of our inspiring and thrilling documentary series clips. We have an advisory board meeting on Wed at 6 at the Ashland Art Center, so details on this will probably shuffle out between now and then.
Please contact us at activate@humancelebration.com if you have interest in sponsoring the Human Celebration documentary series or if you have any questions that need answering. If you know of any companies or businesses that you love and think would want to support our organization, then please, inspire me.
See our YouTube channel for all of our releases so far:
http://www.youtube.com/HumanCelebration
Without any extra promoting with video promotion tools, we’ve gathered over 1,000 views over the past few months, and we’re getting ready to start taking them on by the truck load – like a thousand per day.
We’re all really excited about this great project and we’re looking forward to having some of our first events at the new Culture Works venue and showing some of our documentary clips in public. So, stay tuned.
Goodness
Goodness is one of those things that the more you try to wrap your hands around it the more it slips between your fingers. You really just have to let go, and it is.
The Essence of Tanran Tonglen
Through Tenabah – Reiki Master William Bagley
The Tanran Symbol
Tonglen is a meditation practice that was given to Earth by Bodhisattva Atisha the Thrice Born. He is called, “Thrice Born,” because he studied with three Buddhist masters and mastered each of the practices all the way up to full enlightenment. I find this interesting in that it suggests that there are degrees of enlightenment and that enlightenment can be enriched through further practice. From what he learned from the three masters that he studied with, he developed the Tonglen practice. The following is a variation of this practice.
(1) Lie down in a comfortable position with spine loose and straight. Lift up your knees by placing the soles of your feet on the ground. Notice how the lower spine loosens and flattens. Breathe into the stretching and relaxing feeling that this small movement creates, then gently and slowly slide your legs back into lying down position. Next slide your arms along the floor so that you place your hands together above the top of your head (they are still touching the floor, so it is above in reference to the top of your head, not above in reference to moving away from the floor). Notice what areas relax and open up as you do this simple movement. Breathe into these areas and let the relaxation naturally deepen by itself. Then return your hands back to the side of the body. Then gently roll your head from side to side, inhaling as you move on way and exhaling as you move the other ways. Make the movement slow enough so that your inhale or exhale ends when your neck has rolled as far as it can in one direction (without strain, you are not meant to push to your edge as in Hatha Yoga). It may take a few rolls before you synchronize your breathing and your movement. Then gently pause and bring your head to center. Notice what areas have opened up and relaxed, breath into the belly on the inhale, expanding the belly in synchronization with the inhale. On the exhale, relax the belly. Allow the belly to soften as you exhale. Imagine it is like an air filled balloon that has a slow leak and is gently deflating. See if you can have the exhale be uniform, so that the same amount of air comes out across the length of the exhale. Try to notice if you are pushing the exhale, trying to force the air out, or doing one quick burst of exhaling. One way to release this pattern is to make the exhale as long as possible without straining and/or to softly intone a “ha” sound and sustain this sound across the whole exhale. This calms down the “fight, flight, or freeze” reflex associated with fear. If this breathing is done properly and the room is not too cold, the belly should feel a little warmer. Stay with this preliminary practice until it does get warm. If you need a little help in this, place your hands (without them touching each other) on the belly. This will form an energy healing circuit that will help the belly to warm up and relax. You may wish to put some pillows under your elbows so that you can do this in comfort.
(2) Visualize the Tanran Symbol at the Heart Chakra (between the lungs where the sternum or breast bone is). Visualize rays of Golden Light and Red Light coming from the Heart Chakra. Visualize it radiating in all directions and touching all sentient beings. Feel it touching strangers, then people in your town, then family, then friends, and then anyone who has upset you, hurt you, or provoked you to feel anger, made you feel sad, or made you feel afraid. Notice anyone who makes you feel resistance to radiating compassion upon them. Notice the resistance, let it be there, and see if you can do the practice anyway. If you cannot seem to do it, then simply intend to do it.
(3) Visualize yourself out in space, looking at the world, notice the clouds floating over the continents. Now with intention and visualization, choose to see the emotional clouds floating over the world. Notice that where there are wars, there are dark black and dark reddish black clouds. These are the hell realm energies of anger and warfare that sometimes get expressed in the human realm. There are different color clouds of energy for sadness and for fear, bright radiant points of light where a single meditator is his or her practice, and generally bright color clouds when people are happy in the usual way. Take time to feel the energies on this level. Let go of any part of the mind that wants to know if what you are seeing is real or unreal, play with this perception, give yourself permission to feel it as if it were real. If you do not see any colors, then simply intend to feel them, just as you can follow a description in a book when you are reading a story.
(4) Visualize yourself breathing in all the dark and sorrow filled energy from the world and taking it directly into your Heart Chakra, feel the support of the Tanran Symbol as you do this, and then visualize the Heart transmuting the anger, fear, and sadness into compassion, appreciation, and gratitude. Visualize it as bright luminous energy. Breathe in more of the dark energy and breathe out the bright energy. Notice how it feels that you have a Heart that can do this.
(5) Choose one person with whom you have emotional tension with. Visualize their aura surrounding them. It will be much like looking at the atmosphere of the planet Earth in the previous exercise. Visualize yourself breathing in his or her dark energy and exhaling out bright energy. Even if they seem to be sending more and more negativity your way, feel grateful for the opportunity to send back bright energy in exchange for their dark energy. Feel grateful that you have a heart that can do this. Feel grateful that you have an opportunity to feel your Heart transmutation muscle working the way that it can. Notice how breathing this way changes him or her when you breathe this way. Please remember, however, that you cannot make them change their attitude. He or she has sacred free choice and will only change to the degree that he or she allows. You are merely offering loving acceptance to them as a space that he or she can work with. You are changing the energies of the environment to be supportive of his or her change and to feed his or her own true nature. He or she will change from what you do, provided that you do not have the aggression that tries to make him or her change. Thank them for the opportunity to end karma for both of you.
(6) Tune into some emotional issue or pain that you have, before trying to get rid of the pain in some way, let it be where it is. As much as possible without strain, let the pain be there and feel yourself radiating emotional acceptance. You do not have to do anything with the pain other than accept it. You do not have to act out the pain or do something with the pain or react from the pain. Feel the vibration of this pain, the emotional tone and quality. Use this vibration to tune into everyone who has the same pain on the planet. Use this pain as a source of empathetic compassion for all those people who feel the same way that you do. Imaginatively and intuitively feel them right now, all over the planet. If you have lost a lover, whether from divorce, death, or misunderstanding, feel you can now deeply, fully, and directly know what all the rejected or abandoned lovers are feeling right now. Feel your kinship and commonality with them. Notice their energy field or atmosphere around them, notice the colors in the aura, and then breathe in their energy and your own energy into your heart, let it transmute, and then radiate out compassion, appreciation, and gratitude towards them. Notice how the feeling that you are not alone in your pain, that your pain is not unique, and that you are not in an isolated situation dissolves some of the painful feeling. It reduces a kind of self centered feeling and dissolves a feeling of separateness from others. By using our pain as a basis for compassion, the pain starts to dissolve. The isolation behind the pain, which keeps the pain going, ends.
The exercise cannot be used to strategically end our pain. It is not an impersonal technique to wipe out pain. When we try to make the pain go away, it remains, because we have not shifted how we feel about our identity or how we form our sense of self. We are still in a subject versus object struggle with some element of our experience, namely our pain. This sense of separateness sustains a subtle cause of our pain. The Tonglen practice reverses our usual approach to pain. We would rather breathe out our pain and take in pleasure. But in Tonglen we breathe in the pain of others and breathe out our compassion, appreciate, gratitude, and, yes, even joy. Through giving those things, they grow stronger. Through taking on pain in this manner, our defensiveness dissolves, our isolation ends, and our empathy expands. This shift in our energies invites others to shift. If they were karmaically magnetized to struggle with us, then our not struggling with them collapses the karmic feedback loop and sets both you and them free.
Paradoxically, taking on the pain of others in this manner is not painful. This is because pain is “empty of self”. Nothing has substantial existence, but arises due to causes and conditions. When these causes and conditions end, then pain ends also. Pain needs a kind of defensive isolation to play off of in order to sustain itself. When we shift our relationship to pain, then one of the causes and conditions that sustain pain at least weakens and therefore pain softens, and sometimes completely dissolves away. Tonglen ends the some of the roots of pain on several subtle levels, very rapidly and very immediately. We learn something of our relationship to our world and the sentient beings that inhabit it. This learning continues, then, to infuse our relationship with others. It allows us to feel the wisdom behind the triple vow of a bodhisattva or dakini, to master all the dharma practices, to help liberate all sentient beings when possible, and to discover the unity of the world of enlightenment and world of sorrow.
Unlike other meditations, Tonglen interacts within others within the web of interdependence and karma that we live our lives within. Not isolated from others, it helps us and helps those we have the most difficulty with. We learn transmuting love within all our relationships.
The Tanran symbol is a symbol for perfect balance. If you have not received a Reiki attunement, then you can still experience some benefit by visualizing the symbol and asking the Reiki Guides to bless and energize this symbol. The symbol is two triangles interlocking, like the Star of David, with a circle inside the middle with a plus sign in the center of the circle (like a pie cut into four equal parts). A circle cross within a six pointed star. This support helps balance and center us so that we will not get overwhelmed with the energies we pick up. It is a little energy insurance that makes the practice go a little smoother.
Namaste.
International Humanities Center
This a great resource.
The Big Picture – Overview of The Human Celebration
This is a work in progress. Looking good so far. Oh, and here’s our new print logo!
For more information on our curriculum, see Education Program Proposal.
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Solus Soulsinger 2.19.10-2
Okay – I’m pretty stoked with this one. It feels really great to put this out. Solus has a couple things to say here that are really important to me. Connecting into the life source energy in the Earth has been on my mind in a particular way since I saw Avatar. This is our inheritance as Humans that through our hearts and through our human facility we can connect into a great field of love and life that is all around us and in us. It travels from the core of the Earth to the center of the cosmos and back. By moving it through ourselves in, the love and life transform into light (information/truth/human expression). It is simply a choice as to whether to step into this or not. Both choices are in perfection. Both choices bring the viewers focus into greater realization. Both choices will inevitably bring all beings back into wholeness – just through a different end of the rabbit hole.
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Solus Soulsinger 2.19.10-1
Cornflower performs “Celebrate this Life Jam” @ Tease 1/23/2010
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Travis Puntarelli 2.11.10
Education Curriculum Proposal
This represents the proposed breadth of
education programs offered, in house and in
programs The Human Celebration sponsors.
Art Classes
◊ Drawing
◊ Water Color
◊ Acrylics
◊ Clay
◊ Sewing
◊ Assemblage
◊ Culture Studies
◊ Art as Therapy (focused study)
Theatre
◊ Children, Adults and Mixed Abilities
◊ Screen Plays
◊ Improvisation
◊ Dance
◊ Speech
Writing
◊ Creative
◊ Writing for Theatre
◊ Writing as Therapy
Music
◊ Quire
◊ Guitar
◊ Wind Ensemble
◊ String Ensemble
◊ Culture Jam
Earth Ed
◊ Herbology
◊ Sustainable Edible Horticulture
◊ Eco Tech & Building
◊ Stewardship Philosophy
Personal Development
◊ Emotional Hygiene
◊ Communication Ed
◊ Spiritual Phylosophy
◊ Physical Ed
– - Diet
– - Exercise and Wellness Practices
◊ Literature and Mythology
◊ Youth Groups
– - Boys, Girls and mixed
Other – Support Groups
Make a Suggestion!!
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Joseph McCormick 12.30.09-3
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Prema Mayi 1.12.10-2
Educo
Education derives from the verb educo, or educe, which means “to draw forth from within.”
educo, educere, eduxi, eductus, v
conjugation: 3
1. bring up
2. draw up
3. lead out
A Tribute to Gabrielle Bouliane
This is a tribute and honoring of the life, gifts, and passing of an angel, Gabrielle Bouliane.
My dear friend, Solus Soulsinger, shared her triumphant, wake up call performance – her last – just this evening. I was very moved and knew I had to share this with the Human Celebration. The performance was recorded December 5th, 2009, and she passed away in the night on January 29th, 2010. God speed – may lotus and rose petals bless her path as she travels the path of her bardo, continuing to grace our world and other’s with her brilliant spirit.
Here’s a couple quotes I found searching here name online.
Enjoy!
And remember, if you’re not living your truest, most thrilling heart’s passions RIGHT NOW, then when?
From Elena Cala Buscarino
of Buffalo Rising
“This morning, Buffalo Rising learned of the death of one of our own from the not-so-distant past, Gabrielle Bouliane. Gabrielle was a poet and videographer with a tremendous life force. She was a force – a no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip, tell-it-like-it-is, real life woman – all wrapped in a sensitive understanding of the human condition.
Yeah, Gabrielle saw life for what it was, sometimes with a cynics eye, but she made it beautiful for others through her artistic talents.
Gabrielle was the champion of all poets and people, a worker of words. May she rest well and never be forgotten.”
From Gabrielle Bouliane
of Art Voice
“I got a phone call late Friday night letting me know that an old friend of mine, Gabrielle Bouliane, had lost her fight with cancer down in Austin, TX. I’d known her for well over 20 years, though the last contact I had with her was to send her the lyrics to a Loretta Lynn song on Facebook as she traveled through Tennessee on her way to Texas last year. She was a Steam Donkeys insider from way back, with all the benefits and liabilities such a position imposes.
But then, she was a lot of things to a lot of people, and her circle of friends was huge. A passionate and compassionate soul who spread a lot of love from her hometown in Buffalo to her adopted homes in Seattle and Austin, Gabrielle really hit her stride as a slam poet whose performances left audiences spellbound. She was always a champion of other artists, too, and a fervent promoter of the form. Plus, she had a discerning eye for a good cowboy boot.
Her sad passing has left a hole in many people’s hearts. Circle this Valentine’s Day for the tribute/benefit being held in her honor at Nietzsche’s, 248 Allen St., 2-8pm.
Here’s a video (above) of her final public performance, recorded December 5, 2009, at the Austin Poetry Slam, shortly after being diagnosed with stage four cancer late last year.”
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Johan Ziems – 12.17.09-3
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Amien Griffen 01.26.10
Business Plan and Concept Development
For a Non-For-Profit Umbrella Organization Called
The Human Celebration
- To celebrate Human expression
- To create – as well as promote other – artistic, cultural, community and self development education programs
- To have space provided to us for this purpose
- To Honor our Human race through free, readily available education
- To create scholarship programs for various projects that we both create and sponsor out to
• Punch cards and applications given to instructors to manage and hand out to students
• Instructors keep track of how many classes have been payed with the card and are given an equal value in Federal Reserve Notes, or any other appropriate forms of valuable materials of trade, on a cyclical basis (monthly).
• Work trade programs for certain financial brackets
(working at a local farm or other skilled need)
• Those of the lowest income brackets automatically qualify for programs of the self development, emotional education and communication skill courses
• Other project based scholarships for groups and individuals needing materials, housing and basic needs in order to be supported for development - To include the marginalized population of our community
- To document the experience and liberation of each individuals process in expressing themselves
- Stage 1 – locally (US West Coast)
- Stage 2 – globally
- To redefine and re-educate the meaning of worth
- That each person is inherently worthy
- Worth comes from being who you are to the fullest that you can be
• Not by the doing of any particular set of standardized achievements - To create creative engagements that enfold some of the most peripheral forms of our society with those emersed in societal standards
- Engagement events like concerts and dinner benefits
- An Annual E-book and downloadable feature length video documentary of the interviews and projects that have been discovered or created by the Human Celebration
- Sustainably formed community farms that have art installations amongst a portion of the crops that serve as public parks for people to come and learn how to honor the land, promote physical health, and appreciate artistic creative expression
- To ultimately create a complete freedom and celebration of expression that allows populations to exist free of social struggle
- By the unification of each person truly honoring, believing in and supporting one another to be who they are to their fullest potential
- By Creating a freely circulating pool of resources that in itself is honored and celebrated
- By understanding that the truly grounding reason for our resources’ existence is not for the material gain or collection of it, but for the most readily and efficient use of it so that human sustainability and expression can occur as freely and easily as possible
- By understanding that without fully supporting and celebrating our development and expression as a people, we will eventually, and surely, cease to exist
- To sustain an ethos that is Pro-Life, by which all decisions are measured and emotional processes are developed
- Either a process is truly Pro-Life, or it is premised in one or some combination of greed (sadness), control (fear), or destruction (anger)
Some wise words from John Mayer
Sing Along!!
Is there anyone who
Ever remembers changing there mind from
The paint on a sign?
Is there anyone who really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time
Everyone believes
In how they think it ought to be
Everyone believes
And they’re not going easily
Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching under water
You never can hit who you’re trying for
Some need the exhibition
And some have to know they tried
It’s the chemical weapon
For the war that’s raging on inside
Everyone believes
From emptiness to everything
Everyone believes
And no ones going quietly
We’re never gonna win the world
We’re never gonna stop the war
We’re never gonna beat this
If belief is what we’re fighting for
What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand
Belief can
Belief can
What puts the folded flag inside his mother’s hand
Belief can
Belief can
Activate Human Celebration NOW
Okay – I’m ready to blow the doors open on this…
WHO’S WITH ME?
As of now, the Human Celebration is but a concept, a beam light in each of our eyes and hearts. So, guess what that means – we all have the opportunity to build this into a Super Heroes Organization from the ground up!
So, I’m looking for a team to come together to allow this to happen with grace and perfect, authentic power.
Do you…
- Have good communication skills
- Have good organization skills
- Want to volunteer, be on the board or advisory panel for a non-for-profit umbrella organization that empowers people to fully express their innate creative nature in an enfolding community
- Feel in alignment, agreement and honor with the Human Celebration Precepts
- Want to be interviewed by the Human Celebration
- Feel ready to do whatever it takes to live your greatest passions and dreams no matter what it takes, NOW
?
Who’s ready to come together, breath together, with me on this? The Human Celebration is a movement of humanity that is going to come forth through Human expression one way or another. It’s simply up to us whether we will join with it in re-growing the Eden of Heaven on Earth once again, or…
what really is the alternative?
(Understood that each of us has their own way of bringing this that may not be within the Human Celebration Organization.)
Is your passion activated in a way that it could be channeled through this project?
Tell me about it – BRING IT ON!
I’m ready to hear from you – call me and tell me what your piece of the puzzle is. Without you, we are incomplete.
John Palombo
541.778.1365
activate(at)humancelebration.com
?
Who’s ready to come together, breath together, with me on this? The Human Celebration is a movement of humanity that is going to come forth through Human expression one way or another. It’s simply up to us whether we will join with it in re-growing the Eden of Heaven on Earth once again, or…
what really is the alternative?
(Understood that each of us has their own way of bringing this that may not be within the Human Celebration Organization.)
Is your passion activated in a way that it could be channeled through this project?
Tell me about it – BRING IT ON!
I’m ready to hear from you – call me and tell me what your piece of the puzzle is. Without you, we are incomplete.
John Palombo
541.778.1365
activate(at)humancelebration.com
The Human Celebration Clip Series • Brandon Bryant 01.22.10
Education
It dawned on me last week that The I’ve Got Change Program is really something that needs to be built into a public education program with it’s own location.
There are a variety of skills that the average Human is not adequately equipped with knowledge of on our planet. Some of which are responsible communication skills, emotional understanding/hygiene, and that freedom of Human Expression is inherent in our design (not something you have to fight or suffer for in order to deserve). It is our responsibility to allow this understanding to exist on our planet, to honor each person by gifting them the respect of an integral member of a whole who’s unique expression is needed and fostered by all. Essentially, having the decency to properly educate our own people is a necessity to existing as a people at all. The fact that organizations have gone so far as to control and dominate Human cultures so much that they are stamped out and intentionally kept from being truly free to independently and fully express themselves is a true disgrace. We often hear of funding being cut from the already inadequate public educational systems in America, and diverted for the destruction of our own race. These organizations are even aware to their parasitic nature to our race, yet they so masterfully hide themselves from us by making us believe that they don’t exist. What we see is a facade of fancy, tough men and women that are supposedly biting the bullet for the Human race by completely devastating our planet and controlling whole countries to attempt to save them from some supposed principle of living. The idea that politicians (and war lords) are game show hosts has been one of the most accurate statements of the 20th century.
It is our responsibility to fully free our human race to fully expressing our inherit nature. To do this we must have compassion and forgiveness for all of our family members; to know that confusion is a part of the process of learning and growing; to extend an open hand, an open heart, an open ear, and an open mind; to honor each person with transparent, active and authentic communication, respect and trust. These are essentials to our living – inherit to our design. We must simply begin, now.
Re-education is an aspect to our process. Anyone who is an adult now and has realized something about their Divine Identity is going through a re-education process. Ask any of them and they will tell you it is a re-birthing experience. Like being weaned from a toxic drug, the human mind and ego go through a purging of false identity similar to death. When the mind finally releases all of the false structures and paradigm of the psychosis that has bound it, it will think it is going to surely die in the process. The wonderful thing is that when this happens we experience our true selves for a moment, and at that moment one realizes how silly it is that we’ve struggled for so long. All we had to do is let go of attempting to control everything and trying to be something that we are not. We are not slaves to an organization. It is simply not our design to function as such. Our inherit vitality will outlive any such sadomasochistic tendency that feeds upon our race. Essential life spirit is powerful beyond what your mind can comprehend. Even where we lay pavement, nature swallows the minerals and returns them back to the natural life cycle. Such will occur to the paradigm of control and consumption. It will be swallowed up by it’s own destruction. In the end/beginning, it will see how silly it was swallowing it’s own tale all the while.
A Word From Will Smith
I just found this to be very inspiring. I had it on our Face Book page for a while and realized it needed to live here on the blog. The Human Celebration is about a movement. It is not just one single entity, insular or separate. It is a movement of the Human Spirit, alive in Human Expression, vital to Human Existence. It is about all of us putting everything we have into this moment, together, on this planet, Earth – to express fully our gifts to the world so that it can be what it is meant for: fully realized, liberated and potentialized creative Human Expression.
Fanna-Fi-Allah at Baba Farid’s urs 2007
Ashland, Oregon, local made history with her ability to simultaneously sing raga and hold down the tabla science of Fanna-fi-Alllah Sufi Qawwali Party. A “god gift” the masters would say.
I saw these beautiful expressers at the Mystic Garden Party last year and the air truly filled with Divine spirit, devotion, reverence, and mutual celebration of each other.
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Opperations Wish List
There are a few things we could really use here.
!! Terabyte External Hard Drive !! Soon !!
Two 2 GB Memory Cards for ’09 iMac
2 GB SD Cards
Tripods
Microphones
Digital Audio Recording Devices (Card Media Preferred)
Hosting and Domain Registration
Blank DVDs
Healthy Snack Food
Wacom Pad
Digital Still/Video Camera
Small Budget for New Print Marketing Materials
Childcare
The Human Celebration YouTube Channel
Link: Human Celebration YouTube Channel
I’ve made all attempts to embed the channel here on the blog, but you just can’t put scripts on a post that is not privatly hosted – so LET’S GET SOME HOSTING!
Enjoy, John
Racial Ailment Identification
• Judging, dividing, controlling by force and thereby cutting off essential
honor to a part of your own race is a form of self mutilation and cannibalism.
I put this into the precepts earlier, and I just decided to take it out and state it here in it’s own post. I think it’s important to bring consciousness to how materialistic consumerism at such highly obsessive degrees that we cannibalize our own race is a serious – and yet silly and cliché – existential virus to humankind.
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Non-Profit Guides
“Non-profit guides are free Web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups.
Our guides are designed to assist established US-based non-profits through the grant-writing process.”
Oregon Arts Commission
I had a meeting today with Jeffery Jones – advertising and marketing consultant.
He mentioned the Oregon Arts Commission, and said our project would be right up their alley – and that they give grants!
http://www.oregonartscommission.org
Looks intriguing – each piece coming together one step at a time.
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Ashland Art Center Proposal
Held in Creative Spaces
Starter Project
- Three months
- Five staff members
- Twenty to twenty-five attendees
- Will include an engagement project for each department
- – Performance, Showing Event, Poetry and Short Story Reading
Space Usage
- Downstairs only
- – Rope from post at JP Graphics to post by bathroom hall
- – Must have escort to cleanup and bathroom
Supplies
- All supplies will be donated
- Art supplies will be incorporated into Creative Spaces supplies for general use and to give back to AAC
Annual Project
- Three three month programs
- One month breaks
- Collective Annual Engagement
- – In December
- – Performance, showing event, poetry and short story reading
- – Book publishing of collected works
- – Print production of gift cards and matted prints
- – CD produced of collected works
Security Staff
- Street clothed
- – No open weapons
- Two Roles (two people or more)
- – Empathic, Hakomy trained moderator
- – Official with credentials
- Check all bags in at the door
Insurance
- Has slip and trip and equipment insurance
Host/Attendee Ratio
- 1 to 4
Block Printing Supplies
- Amy Godder – talk to Julia
Next Board Meeting
- Jan. 17th
Qualified Codes of Conduct
- No Apostatizing (soap boxing)
Board
- #1 responsibility is to raise funds
Advisory Panel
- For specialized advice
