Archive for Inspiration
City of the Dead, Ceremonial Healing
Ancient Tribal Traditions Survive in Modern Festivities For eons we humans have called on our ancestors in times of trouble, and that need still exists today. Making peace with the past is essential for making peace [...]
Standing Rock One Year Later, Victory for the People
“It is easy to be grateful when things are going our way, but to be thankful in the hardest of times is a true sign of strength, nobility, and grace.” -Chief Phil Lane Background: Few recognize [...]
Emotional Intelligence is Better Than Artificial Intelligence
Everything technology offers is a reflection of the technology that we, as humans are. [...]
Summer of Love Turns 50 With a Global Call to Action
Martin Luther King stated that “hatred can not drive out hatred, only love can do that”, but what does that love look like when it is put into action? The Summer of Love in 1967 gave [...]
Ancient Trickster Wisdom for Uncertain Times
Sometimes you need to break the tradition in order to keep the tradition alive and the accepted tradition breaker is the clown. – Hopi Scholar Michael Kaboti This was one of the first teachings I learnt from [...]
Cooperation 2.0 for Global Solutions
Political and social upheaval across the globe signify that a major paradigm shift is under way. It has become very clear that we are living in accelerated times! Democracy is not without flaw, it is a process that must [...]
Creating Culture: A Village Way of Life
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller ― Spring is here, and with it comes plans for [...]
Happiness is Letting Go of Outcomes
All of us have had to reconcile when things didn’t go our way, and sometimes that is more important than getting what we originally wanted. Somewhere in our past as children we learned that crying or [...]
Gardening the Spirit: A tale of plants, people & saving the world.
Today I met a man who made me miss the island of Kauai even more than the growing well of ache I began to feel as soon as I lost sight of her. Being in Bali, [...]
Street Art that Changes the way we see the World
From cave drawings to urban graffiti, images and words shape the way we perceive the world. It is adequately established that our environment effects us in fundamental ways, and that visual art literally changes our consciousness [...]
