In my own life I’ve been feeling the pull to do whatever it is that I do. For many people in the younger generation, myself included, we are no longer defined by a single idea, field of study, or job description. We are not bound by the dogmas of one political party or religious institution. We of the younger generation are a conglomerate of world ambassadors living in the Age of Information. Yet this vague identity is often very confusing both for us and for former generations. From their perspective we are the generation reaping the benefits from their labor and dogma.

From our perspective, their labor and dogma got us into this mess in the first place.

Many young people today are wondering where their place is. Not because they aren’t necessarily qualified or talented, but because this place is terminally ill. We don’t sense it – we know it. Something is seriously wrong with society. A 24/7 sermon from preachers, politicians, and pundits keep the masses on track. But this culmination of greed and ignorance is coming to a head.

We did not come all this way just to hang out.

In the midst of the madness, an amnesiac society, a teetering ecology and economy, one can’t help but wonder if this is really why we came all the way to planet earth. There are times at night when I wonder what the hell I’m doing here, alive in this body. Sometimes when I wake up I feel that I should have woken up hours ago, before it’s even light. I feel the need to do something, anything. There is a need to believe that my creation has a place and a purpose.

Yet that is the reason we are here!

 We are here to change the very definition of what it means to be human. We are not consumers. We are not republican or democrat, Christian or Hindu. Those are merely identity codes in this matrix of reality-belief.

Reality is a program and we are the programers

We all want to be accepted. As individual parts of a much MUCH greater whole, our contribution can appear to be miniscule at best.

“Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.” Gandhi

The fact that life even exists in the first place, in this moment, is a miracle.

The best way to accelerate this miracle is get outside. If you ever need  something to tell you what to do, just look to nature – it’s doing it all the time. In these days of heavy external programing from outside sources like public school, religion, media, or grandparents,  the surest way to reboot is to go for a good long hike.

“Successful navigation of this most perilous time in human history requires psychologically and spiritually mature men and women who can engender a mature human species. For nature-based people, initiated adulthood is developed in intimate relationship with the earth, the larger organism who births and sustains us. For contemporary people whose culture discounts or even disdains an intimate relationship  with nature and soul, reaching psychological and spiritual maturity is challenging but possible, and never more necessary than now.”

-Bill Plotkin  Soulcraft

There is a divine creativity that nature expresses in the essence of Her being and she is a very willing teacher. There has never been a more crucial time for the emergence of creativity on large scale. Find the seat of your soul underneath a tree – meditate, breathe; call in your highest self and request guidance. Surrender.

We are the new leaders in this Great Shift. We came to participate, to co-create and to inspire. For all of us, there are times when we doubt our own divinity, or we worry the value of our seemingly small contributions. This is ok. This is part of the journey. Trust that the place where Spirit most needs you is where your greatest passions flourish. Celebrate in the infinite potential that your soul harbors. Be creative and don’t worry what comes – for our ripples travel vast distances, arriving in great waves along wide shores. We must believe that our value cannot be defined, for it is in that belief where our truest power and greatest contribution lies.

More to come…

Among it all is great challenge. We are being pushed to see past the catastrophy of unbridled greed and its effects on the planet and its people. Now, more than ever, we are being called upon by our highest selves, to connect with our truest nature, and fully own the very reasons why we came to this planet in the first place.

Feel blessed that the opportunity to step into our power has never been greater. All around us are the resources to truly know our greatest potential. Everywhere we look we may see that life is fast emerging out of the fire that engulfs our planet. It is time to envision the world we wish to inhabit. We can do this at the smallest levels. NEVER underestimate the power of thought. The alignment of thought with intention can do miraculous things. Science now proves that we change our very DNA – with our emotion!

The smallest strands of life that make up the physical essence of our being, obey our every wish and desire.

So what is it that we wish and desire? The capacity to change the world exists within our hearts and minds. No longer are we the victims of our fate but the weavers of our life-craft.

Please visit this blog often, as well as our website: www.themapmakers.org. Watch our videos. Share your thoughts with us. Sign up for our newsletter. This is a small piece of a much larger movement. Together we are powerful. Let us unite, discover our gifts, share our inspirations, and change the make-up of our being.

Further research and soul candy can be found here: http://www.in5d.com/spontaneous-evolution-has-arrived.html

The main focus is not necessarily the UFOs, but the self mastery one gains when one’s perception shifts and expands.

However, there is plenty of activity taking place and I would like to share with you a short video we made today involving military jets and an unidentified flying object. Things are changing rapidly in this world and we are the ones who will foster this change.

My outlook will be different now, there’s no turning back.

I’ve been doing work trade on a permaculture farm for almost a week … and I’m hooked. Perhaps it’s the delicious food I pull right out of the earth, or the abundance of wildlife outside my doorstep, or the fact that the matrix is currently nowhere near my reality. Where I’m at, has something very important to teach me.

Aprovecho, a sustainable learning center, sits on a modest 40 acres in the hills of west central Oregon, outside Cottage Grove. Here, people from all backgrounds come to learn a variety of sustainable practices such as aquaculture, proper water harvesting, practical building design, and even pedal powered technology – ever grind your own wheat with a bicycle?

Before I came, I had only once before experienced permaculture while traveling in Ethiopia. I was staying at a small hostel which had transformed dead earth into a thriving oasis by mimicking nature through sustainable land use design. I watched as the owners took awe-struck villagers through the property, showing them innovative yet simple practices that obviously worked.  It was an incredible experience to witness the children process this new information like thirsty sponges. The term sustainable education sprang to mind.

On the other side of the planet, outside Cottage Grove, OR, Aprovecho has been working as a permaculture education center for over ten years. Ironically, many people who read this article have probably never even heard of permaculture before. But soon, they will. The concept and philosophies of permaculture are catching on fast, and the movement, is becoming a revolution.

The foundation of permaculture relies on the observation of patterns and systems and an understanding that nothing is independent.

This is useful wisdom for an expanding planet. More and more people are beginning to understand that their everyday actions are having great impact on other people halfway across the planet. For those seeking true sustainability, daily micro-management becomes essential. The processes that make up our day must be done consciously if we are to create a healthy future for the individual and the collective, which these days are one and the same.

Sustainable is a tricky word to define, especially in today’s green-market driven economy. Linguistically appealing terms such as all natural or self-sufficient have all but stigmatized historically traditional methods of conservation and practical science. The push for low-impact practices like car-pooling and water conservation have been obvious for years, but today have become synonymous with emotionally charged advertisements for hybrid cars and the monopolization of utility companies. A new earth conscious mind-set from society has been needed for decades, but only recently has our government seen the economic opportunity  to implement/sell these eco-friendly technologies to the public.

Hippies on the other hand have been screaming sustainable practices and “community mentality” since the 1960’s yet have been demonized as out-of-touch, impractical, and idealistic misfits in a consumer driven society. This same consumer driven society has brought us to where we are today, completely out of touch with our natural environment. The majority of us no longer grown our own food or even understand how it gets to our dinner table. The complexity of natural systems and cycles evades the general public. This results in a poor understanding of the earth we were once a part of.

In Oregon, over 90% of old growth forest has been clear cut. This has resulted in a huge explosion of blackberry bushes which grow best in areas with disturbed soil – another reason they are seen so frequently in ditches and vacant lots in towns and cities in the Pacific Northwest. One of my main duties as a work trader at Aprovecho is blackberry maintenance. Long tedious days of clipping, pruning, and de-rooting yield piles upon piles of blackberry vines.

Today, blackberries are considered an invasive species, much like scotch broom, a large yellow-flowered bush that grows throughout the country next to roads and highways. Both plants are soil rejuvenators, providing much needed nitrogen into the damaged soil for re-growth. Yet because of their invasive nature, toxic chemicals are being used to eradicate them, furthering damage to the soil.

Blackberries are but one example of the many problems we face and the impractical solutions we have created for solving them.

Sustainability is a mind-set, an evolving practice that encompasses all aspects of one’s lifestyle. External observation is paramount to understanding what actions we must take and why we must take them.  It’s not simply buying locally, it’s understanding a neighbor’s needs and lending support when possible. Going green isn’t just recycling, it’s rethinking.

Solutions are rarely arrived at before the problem becomes too big. Suddenly, the problem is much too big.

A ballooning global population is no longer upon us, it is us. We now find ourselves looking squarely in the face of some pretty disturbing realities: diminishing food chains, the end of oil as we know it, global drought, and an ever-broadening of the social classes.  As  time and globalization march ever forward, no longer  can we elude responsibility. There are no islands to escape to, save mars.

Aprovecho is the first stop of many. For the next 6 months, my partner and I will be visiting multiple alternative education centers and sustainability  programs in the United States – the end product, a documentary about sustainable education.

As a former educator, I believe that holistic education, above all else, is the foundation for a sustainable society and planet. As we collectively move into a new understanding of humanity’s role on Gaia, we must be certain that our youth are not only understanding this change, but are also spearheading it. New insights in education are being made every day. Teachers are coming forward with innovative new ideas and for a healthy planet to grow, these ideas must be shared. Students must be encouraged to think outside the conventional, because our future will be anything but.

The way I figure it, if society is doomed to collapse, then all me and my friends gotta do is hold out until the shit has come off the fan. But then my friend Kenny was like, “Stupid, the apocalypse is forever, man!”

That really got me thinking. Will there even be food during the apocalypse or will everyone have to grow their own food, and how the hell do you even GROW cereal?

So I started writing down everything that came into my head, ideas and preparations for the time to come….let me know if i missed anything.

revelations:-

-It will be harder to find friends on facebook after 2012

-There could be massive unemployment because everyone is trying to grow cereal and they won’t have enough time to go to work because they will be too tired from all their sustainable living.

-cars will be replaced with horses.

-it will be harder and more expensive for the average person to rent barns for their horses.

-In the case of total economic collapse, there could be strikes. NFL and MLB teams refusing to play could lead to major suicides in Chicago.

-people who are not ready to enter into the 4th dimension may very well get trapped in the 2nd dimension.

-pole reversal could put a permanent end to American Idol.

-California will be totally fucked.

-So will Paris Hilton.

-Solar flares will wipe out the power grid, which will wipe out the internet, which will make everyone stupid again.

-Stupid people get angry fast.

-Statistics say that dumb people have way more babies than not so dumb people.

-Population explosion!

-Too many people + no electrical grid=boredom=more sex=more people

-Population explosion times 10 million

-scientists won’t know what to do with all the new people and they will give up being scientists.

-life will become more confusing because scientists won’t be around to tell us how the world works.

-Jihad.

-When Jesus comes back, he’s probably gonna be pretty disappointed in a lot of people.

-Life goes on.

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A new reality is smacking us in the face.

After a three day trip to Trout Lake, WA, which encompassed more than a dozen first-hand UFO sightings as well as a tangible introduction to the “Orb Phenomenon“,  I am once again in a state of questioning everything I once knew to be real…

Since my visit away from assumed normality, I have been bombarded wtih synchronicities, radical insights, glimpses into the multi-verse as well as a new understanding about myself as a multi-dimensional being. Newness abounds and the clutches of a once fear-attatched reality becomes ever-looser.

Energy is everywhere and everyday we are understanding more how our own energy affects that which is around us.

The shaman’s science is creeping ever-closer in conjunction with modern day quantum physics. Spirits and light-beings pass through the fourth dimension like electrons in two places simultaneously – eager for the subjective observer with camera  - clear mind and intent.

Deep meditation reveals collective secrets withheld for millenia and web bot predictions laugh in relation.

We are in this karma clearing phase which is good news for those of us on Humanity’s bandwagon, bad for those who deny co-creation. The Creator Gods are beginning to wake up and life is about to take on a whole new meaning.

We are undergoing a massive healing transition, one that is undeniable, unavoidable, -

Everything about us, our very concept of who we are and why we are here is being challenged. We go deep, deep into the seat of the soul and sit in the silence of who we REALLY are and consciously choose how we will, from this moment on, create anything we can possibly imagine.

We choose not enslavement but empowerment – sovereignty from system, communion with community, delight in divinity. This new reality is rapidly RAPIDLY emerging.

As this time of acceleration brings us and like-minded individuals closer together, we begin the process of what role we have to play in this new global community and what foundations we will build for a successful integration.

I leave you with a brief discussion about community and some of the rolls yet to be analyzed. Enjoy!

The Fountainhead saved my life, I think.

I was 22, finishing college, and was terrified that I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. Society was in shambles and no one cared! People talked about nonsense, politicians were de-evolving nations, cats and dogs, living together!

But there is always hope in the recognition of self – like looking into the looking-glass of life and meeting someone’s confident gaze that you do in fact exist.

Who is John Galt?

Six years later, against all odds, I have great hope for where the collective is heading. Every day I meet more and more people who have begun to wake up out of the virtual reality that chronic mass delusion has created. For those of us who have taken the challenge of challenging our beliefs about “reality”, there is much in store for us. At this moment I believe, there is an army that is emerging out of a hyperly complex system, deep in the bowels of the collective unconscious. It is a rolling over – it is an uprise of unconsciousness and inaction, it is the creation of co-creation, a separation of the ego and a new formation of new ideas and spiritual awakenings.

I could go on and on… this wasn’t meant to be some dissertation or a call to action. Just a recognition of hope and a recognition of like-minded individuals, that we are not alone, that things are changing, that WE are changing, that evolution is our birthright.

Over time, our thoughts and feelings become affected by the toxins that we indirectly and regularly consume. As our collective consciousness expands, we are beginning to understand that the planet’s state of well-being is in direct relationship with our own. Many of us are retreating back into nature to renew what is inherently ours: a profound connection between the macro and the micro/ a communication between Man and his Cells – a communion between Human and Gaia.

Yesterday was my final day of a week-long raw foods diet. This diet was culminated with a vision quest with the aid of San Pedro Cactus deep in the forests of Washington state. San Pedro grows predominantly in the Andes mountains of South America and just like its North American cousin peyote, it is rich with mescaline and other healing properties. It has been used by shaman for thousands of years. Recently, western doctors, under the guidance of shamanic discipline and technique, have used san pedro to remedy diseases ranging from arthritis to cancer.

On a mental level, san pedro helps us to formulate a more sophisticated perception of reality. Like many true hallucinogens (magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, ibogaine) it guides the user into deeper states of consciousness. As one shaman describes: “San Pedro heals by fundamentally changing our perception of reality – our belief in what is real and possible for us – so we understand our true power and the healing abilities we have. “It shows us reality as it actually is, not how we think it is.”

“It changes what we think of as real so we see the power we humans have: we can manifest whatever we choose – if we believe we can.”

http://finalizations.com/san-pedro-the-miracle-healer.html

There is much taking place of which we are not aware.

Altered states of consciousness (taking san pedro, jumping out of an airplane, meditation, traveling) expand our filters of reality; altered states allow us to take in more information about the world at once. Most of us live under the law of expectation – we go into our day expecting to go to work, expecting to see people in the city, expecting things to happen as they’ve always happened.

Other people however are on their own “expectational adventures” and they use their own reality filters. Their reality is dependent on their beliefs about their own day-to-day life. All of our expectations come from a deeply imbedded idea of who we think we are and how we think we fit in with the rest of the world.

Collective expectations are what we are now currently agreed upon. We agree that our particular culture speaks this particular language, that money is of this value, and that gravity does what gravity is supposed to do. We expect certain things to exist. We expect certain things do not exist.

When we enter into an altered state of consciousness, we begin seeing more than we expect to see.

Multiple realities are happening all around us and they are all taking place at once. Every reality has its own certain truth and validity for the particular person who is experiencing it and believes it to be true. With that in mind, the collective reality isn’t necessarily true or necessarily good, but that still doesn’t not make it a reality for many people.

Becoming conscious is witnessing what we don’t expect to see. It is empowering one’s self to choose to be the creator rather than the created…not the garden but the gardener. Imagine your mind as a garden and imagine everything else as a potential seed that is constantly bombarding your mind. Everything you focus your attention on becomes planted in your garden and begins to grow. It is the gardener’s job to cultivate the seeds which enter his garden, it is his job to pull the weeds and that which does not serve him. We have the power to manage our gardens as diligently as we choose. The more carefully we process the external world, the more creative we can become with our filters. We can choose any reality we desire, but that desire must be made conscious, and then, it must be put into action.

I came away from this san pedro experience feeling fresh and revitalized. Synchronicities have already begun to stack up. The future looks hopeful.

I challenge the individual to maintain and cultivate how we choose to see the world. Place yourself out of your expectations, breath consciously and with intent. The more I do this, the more I find that certain things really start to stand out. Individuals make eye contact and a conversation leads to synchronicity. Reality expands on many levels…