Great links and movement through the Middle Times

Transition Town New Zealand is well worth a good look. The group really has it together! Also, lots of our Humanity's Team teammates are part of it. They are lively and committed to co-creating a new way of being and doing on our planet - bravo! Below is one of the quotes on their site. Check it out if you have a moment. You won't be disappointed.

"Another world is not only possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."
Arundhati Roy
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Speaking of Humanity's Team, its core statement, "We are all One" - speaks to how transition towns and the co-creation of sustainable communities really work: with the awareness of being One as the core component of co-creating sustainable living. Even at the quantum physics level, this is so. Both Transition Towns and movements like Humanity's Team operate with this awareness and it works. Once this reality is accepted, you realize that the Diversity of humanity and all the interdependent parts of our planet speak - no sing - to this very thing...Oneness.

In May of 2010, Humanity's Team will present to the United Nations a Oneness Petition - along with a huge Oneness Mandala made up of pictures of folks from all over the planet, taken in real-time by Russell Maier - a young Canadian teammate who is cycling around the planet taking the pictures and creating the mandalas - and we shall be co-creating a Oneness Day on our planet...raising the awareness by the voices on the petition and the pictures on the Mandala.

Also, there is the Oneness Minute: it's been around with Humanity's Team for quite a while now. At 11:11, wherever you are, just stop for one moment and visualize Peace and Oneness. That energy becomes more powerful with every person who does it. Whether you meditate for that minute, or just close your eyes and see putting down their weapons and raising their voices to sing together, it will work. More on the Oneness minute to follow soon!

Here is the link to read about the Oneness Petition, sign it if you agree, then perhaps pass it on, or share it via the share button below this post, yes? Thanks either way! Then, I'll post the link to the Oneness Mandala.

Humanity's Team Oneness Petition - Deepak Chopra, James Dwyer, race car driver David Brabham (who is wearing a Humanity's Team patch on his sleeve & the logo on his helmet); Yoko Ono (our petition is on her home page); Marianne Williamson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and many more - many more everyday people being & doing extraordinary things.

The Oneness Mandala - This is Russ' blog. I guarantee you'll love it. I think he's in Italy right now.
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So, working together, we can do anything. We can co-create the most phenomenal new cultural story for our planet and our race (there is, after all, only one race: The Human One.)

Peace. We are the lyrics to a new song: raise your voices with me!

A word about meetings - any in your neck of the woods?

The first Tuesday of every month, our local garden nursery has a meeting of the organic gardeners club. This nursery also raises and sells pork and beef that are raised humanely and fed only grass and organic grains. Their chicken is the same as, of course, then the eggs.

The variety of people who attend the meeting run the gamut from conservative to liberal, red to blue - with all green of course. The beauty of it is that we all have something in common: a love for having good, fresh, organic food to feed ourselves and our families - and usually enough for friends and local senior centers or places that help children.

This night we had one of the women talk all about herbs. Now I consider myself (as an old hippie from Santa Cruz) fairly knowledgeable about herbs and such; but if I've learned nothing else over the years, it's that the more you learn...the more you research...the more you know there is yet to learn; and isn't that just the beauty of Life itself? Then we get to share it with others.

The sad thing for some is that when folks just know they are right and turn off their own ability to really listen to others (as if they are afraid to change their minds or allow new ideas and awareness to come in), then we have much of what is going on in our country today - where beliefs have become polarized and set in stone; and played upon and manipulated by those with an agenda.

By the end of the evening, I found myself having had several really grand conversations about GMs, pesticides, bills going through Congress to make owning seeds of your own illegal - especially organic ones; and I had other grand conversations about growing herbs and growing in big pots (my kitchen garden is a bit pathetic this year, as I think I planted in an area with more shade than sun.) I'm about to plant some organic broccoli, cabbage, and bok choy - in big pots.

So, do you have a place to go and share information and learn? On organics? On Peak Oil/Climate Change? On legislation that might be going through Congress that addresses our concerns as it applies to getting from where we are to a New Day of working together; addressing the needs of a post-carbon environment? Or any number of topics that can help grow sustainable communities?

Please, let me know and I'll post them! Do you have a store/a website/a blog that addresses any or all of the above? Let me know and we can link to one another - and grow the awareness that we're all out here and working together, yes?

I'm on twitter under TeamHumanityNet, so feel free to hook up. Cheers, eat well, learn, share, and prosper.