What can WE do?

[Zionbrion]

This is a thread for ideas, to inspire us all. As we see all across the alt. media, governemnts are out of control, the enviornment is dying, war across the land, and maybe there is an alliance fighting it all for the good of all? But maybe there isn't. After years of the Fulford/Wilcok hopium I am starting to feel that nothing great is going to come from these magical insiders as they have promised for years now.
Today, I hear, is a great day for transformation in the positive direction, with the solar eclipse, spring equinox, and certain planetary alignments.
I will start a small list of things I think we can do individually that will make an impact on the power control structure that has enslaved this sweet little home we call Earth. Feel free to add whatever you think we can do as individuals to make a difference.

- surround yourself with good company. Like in Buddhism; the sangha, a community of like minded people who will fuel your own growth in a positive direction

- fill your belly with good, whole real food. For when our gut is sound, so can be our minds

- create your own garden of paradise: whether you are in the country or the city, create a space to grow some or all of your food, and when you gaze upon it feel your direct connection with all of life, and eat its bounty.

- prepare for the social chaos that may come in the years ahead, so that your mind may be sound it knowing you are prepared to ride out the storm.

- vote with your dollars: each one you spend can support your local community, or a large corporation that has no interest of yours at heart.

- breathe deeply as often as you remember, and through this recognize the true essence of who you are.

- think about what you love the most...and do it.

Feel free to share videos, thoughts, pictures, whatever inspires you, or will inspire others, to live a full life and lets crank up and awaken to a critical mass. :amen:

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[Zionbrion]

Oh, and this. Warning: explicit lyrics. :)
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[silverfish]

I just came on as I wanted to post this link and said to my self " where am I going to put it " and saw your new thread
I like it when things jump out at you like that ;)
I know this only goes a small way but it is the empowerment of the community and enthusiasm that lifted my heart

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31989615

Detroit Soup is a crowd-funding dinner which has raised more than $85,000 (£57,000) for start-ups in Motor City. Is it an idea which can only work in Detroit, or could it work anywhere?

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, and nearly 10 years after the civil war ended there is a listlessness among many of its people - a feeling that the country won't be back on its feet anytime soon and that there's nothing they can do about it.

"Kay garnay," they say, with a shrug of the shoulders. "What to do?"

In a country where the average age is just 21, the easy answer for many young people is to head off overseas to find work - often to the Gulf - but there's also a growing community of youth activists looking to make their mark on modern-day Nepal.

"The attitude of many young people is that they don't see a good future here," says Brabim Kumar - the newly elected president of AYON (The Association of Youth Organisations in Nepal).

"But when there is nothing, that's the opportunity - you can do many things when there is nothing."
Building something out of nothing is what Detroit Soup has been doing for the past five years in the US. Working in a city which has been in decline for decades, Soup's founder Amy Kaherl saw potential when others had given up hope.

So could a similar project be the spark that's needed in Nepal? Could it empower people by raising money to fund their "What if?" ideas, which might just transform their community
....... .......

"So we're allowing people who want to be entrepreneurs a space to do that - giving people the feeling that there isn't an ivory tower you have to climb to find someone who can help you."

Detroit Soup asks for a $5 (£3.30) donation on the door - Idea Fest is charging 100 Nepalese rupees (NPR), which is around $1 (66p). That's an affordable amount for young people in Kathmandu, says Kumar. "I told these young people if you're willing to pay 500 NPR to see a movie, you can spare 100 NPR for an event like this."

As the day of the event rolls round, the turn-out exceeds expectation, with nearly 300 people coming out, and putting their hand in their pocket to donate. To the organisers relief, the weather forecast turns out to be wrong, and the sun is shining - this is an outdoor, daytime event, as the electricity supply in Kathmandu is too unreliable for it to be held at night.
....
The winning pitcher, Suman Dhakal
"It's a big deal," says Suman Dhakal, who goes home with nearly $300 (£200) to put his plan into action.

"People are trusting us and they're hoping we can implement the idea. We're going to work hard and we won't let them down," he says before his friends drag him off and parade him around over their heads.

Kumar is beaming at the success of the first Idea Fest. "The thing about today is that this isn't down to one individual or group - every person who attended is responsible for this," he says.

[grannyfranny100]

There is a phenomena called learned helplessness which infects us. Begin to empower yourself with the enormous power of a smile. As you are out and about, target a stranger with a genuine smile of love and light. Not everyone will smile back but at least you will have cracked the shell of the helplessness ones as you have stepped out of the shell of your own sense of helplessness.

[Terra]

Nice post Zionbrion.

Feeling, thinking, doing all of that here on the South Coast. For a few days I have felt a change within, which in turn has had me busy out in the garden. Not like normal though...but like everything that I have been planning for so long (2+years) is starting to fall into place and come together.

Worked out last night, in 2014 we were growing 6 items of fruit and veg in the garden. By next year, 2016, fingers crossed we will be pushing 40+ items including eggs and honey (touch wood).

Am trying to do this years seed sowing by the moon (http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Moon_Planting.asp). Interested to see if it works.

Just ordered a Flow Hive and am joining the local beekeepers association here in West Sussex, to start beekeeping in 2016. Picking up some chestnut logs from a friends coppice on Monday and have ordered in loads of different mushroom spores. Have converted both gardens (front and back) to no-dig, wood-chipped Eden beds. ....next on the to do list: build a chicken coop, a kratzky hydroponic lettuce and watercress bed, and try aquaponics in barrels. :D

Change begins from within I believe, or rather more simply "Be The Change". When I do this, a heart-warming string of syncronicities begin to unfold and connect. Like following am invisible path through a swamp of stale normality. This isn't all the time, just now and then...for some reason the last few days has been this way again and I am very grateful for it.

Spring is here! Yeeehaa!

Wishing all Avalonians a great growing year :tea:

[Zionbrion]

You can start a time based currency in your community:
In economics, a time-based currency is an alternative currency where the unit of exchange is the person-hour. Some time-based currencies value everyone’s contributions equally: one hour equals one service credit. In these systems, one person volunteers to work for an hour for another person; thus, they are credited with one hour, which they can redeem for an hour of service from another volunteer.

[Bluegreen]

Walk barefoot
Look at the stars
:happy:

[Aspen]

Take responsibility for your own mental and physical health. When you get sick, don't run to the doctor. Learn how to dry herbs and mix them up for yourself. (There are DVDs out there on that.) In Canada herbalists are no longer permitted to mix herbs and sell them to people. Frequent the health food stores. Eat organic. Eat local. By nonflouridated toothpaste, deodorant without aluminium. Frequent Farmer's Markets. Buy healthy meat. It is a way of showing noncompliance with the agenda of the cabal.
It is a way of learning active resistance and not handing our personal power over to others.

[Meggings]

What can we do? LEND A HAND
(translated from the French: http://ducielalaterre.org/fichiers/amour/tendre_la_main_htc___EN.php)

How can we encourage beings who, at this time, are completely discouraged by all that they see, but who have not yet turned to their soul, towards what we call spirituality?

“By trying to have them understand the beauty of life, and all that is positive within them. If these beings constantly nourish their shadow parts, of course they will not perceive the Light!

You must therefore try to make them understand all that is beautiful in them, like love, and that they not see only ugliness, violence, suffering and all that is obscurity.

Before being really able to make these beings understand, you must yourselves have worked much on your shadowy corners. ...

Give confidence! Give hope to men! Right now, humanity has no more confidence and hope, it has the impression of turning in circles and that it cannot find the exit door. Your current world removes hope from these beings who have staked so much on their future.

Hope is life! If you remove hope from men they can no longer live because they have no more confidence, therefore, give hope to those around you! As you say on Earth: Boost their morale constantly! Try to elevate their vibratory frequency! You know that words have great power, a power that can calm beings and that can generate joy in them.

For human beings, when all hope has disappeared, there still remains deep within them a small light. This little light is that of hope and confidence and it is perhaps up to you to make it so that this light can shine more for human beings who are a little lost, lost within themselves, lost in relation to the exterior, lost in relation to their brothers, their co-workers, and their affective and friendly relations.

Some beings no longer have any affective or friendly relationships because they are completely enclosed in their frustrations, their revolts, in their sadness, in their violence, and in their inner anger.

Even if it is not always easy to help them, you can only [give] joy and gentleness to suffering, peace and serenity to violence, all the Love that you can give them to a lack of Love - but each time that you do this, you must be ready to do it; you must have sufficient force, Love, and Light inside you.

If you do it and you are not sufficiently prepared, you risk being absorbed by that person who will pour waves of somber light upon you, waves of sadness, waves of suffering, and waves of violence.

If you are ready, even without pronouncing many words, you can accomplish miracles upon these beings who believe they are lost to themselves, lost to society.

Lending a hand is also this!”

[Earthlink]

Once again the very simple solution to most problems rears its' ugly head : )

And these figures are from a relatively small city, the one near here called Ottawa. Imagine what the difference would be like in New York?!?!?!?

... or if we spent THE MAJORITY of our time and money on local, while ignoring ALL of the chain stores?????

[grannyfranny100]

Jesse Venture had an amusing one. Get a "none of the above" option on election ballots. I bet the turn out will be better and the winner will always know he really lost to "none of the above." Wonder how the mainstream, world wide, would react to us laughing at our politicians.

[Earthlink]

(I've had a few, so, take this with a grain of salt ... and a slice of lemon and an once and a half of tequila)

Even while money is the only thing that makes anyone do anything these days, it has never mattered whether it was Squall Mart and their crapola products made to the least possible specification factory produced garbage, or, numerous guilds and trades and schools of relevance to several fields of study to have a collective assembly in just being ourselves as a cast numbering in the billions globally, all interconnected, and producing the highest quality foods and merchandise and buildings and infrastructure imaginable, and all under the same roof.

Either of those scenarios will produce, theoretically, similar, but different, results, depending on who you are in this food chain, however they are both one as viable as the other.

What, it's too much work?

What do you know of work, when uttering the sentence "tell them all to _______" has become too much of an expenditure of calories? You're too ****ing lazy at that point to ever even deserve the right to use that four letter word "work".

Look around. Nothing's working any more. Instead of a cast of millions or billions, of proud people by the way, in Brotherhoods and Guilds, this Squall Mart "mentality" has reduced it all to a tiny decimal now. And they've even named it too, because of this squalor. This has given rise to the new term in our lexicon known as the 99. And that has even been further defined, where several times now I've read about the "actual numbers" and they're calling it the 99.9999 vs the 0.0001

There's two old proverbs I'd like to remind us of right now, one of them an old Jewish proverb which says that a half truth is still a whole lie, and the other is a far more important proverb right now, and that is the old Turkish proverb which says that it doesn't matter how far you've walked down the wrong road: turn around!