Beauty, Resiliency and Vision in Times of Great Change

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
– Clarence Darrow

You don’t have to look very far to see that our old structures, systems and institutions are breaking down. Many people are waiting for things to return to “normal”. But, if we look closely we will see that our current ways of engaging in economic, environmental and energy issues, which support life and society, are fundamentally beyond repair. There are no band-aids, quick fixes or solutions available within the frame of our current way of thinking and viewing the world. What is needed is a whole new way of seeing and addressing these local and global issues.

As increasingly violent storms, earthquakes, fires and changing weather patterns emerge we are brought face to face with how closely connected and interdependent we are with the natural world. As our flawed economic system, requiring continued exploitation and debt, unravels we look for ways to protect our money and stuff, but learn that we have little or no control in a highly manipulated system, a winner take all monopoly game where the house is always going to win and the players guaranteed to loose. We have had a wild party and gotten drunk on ancient sunlight in the form of fossil fuels. Now, it’s the day after and our house is a mess, the landscape is looking like Mordor, and we are choking on the fumes of our revelry. Future generations will be left to clean up the mess left by our reckless consumption.

Without vision the people will perish.
– Proverbs

Read the entire letter from Michael here.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
– William James

Gratitude in times of loss and despair:
Occupy the Heart!

People are loosing their homes, jobs, savings, pensions and yes, even the vision they had for the future. We are coming face to face with the dissolution of our expectation of the continual expansion and growth of the economy and the American Dream, which is at the core of the destruction of our ecosystems. The comfort of control and predictability is dissolving as the structures and systems of our modern society break down and collapse. From an evolutionary perspective this may well be the best thing that could happen to us.

It has been said, “if we continue in the direction we’re going we’re liable to wind up where we are headed.” The direction we have been headed is clear to most scientists and that is the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. But, we have an opportunity right now to shift that direction by using gratitude as an access to our own awakening. As we challenge our preconceived notions about how things should be, we open to the awesome wonder and miracle of life itself. When we focus on things as they are, not as we think they should be, we bring ourselves into the present moment and arouse our ability to feel fully and awaken to our own aliveness… We don’t really know how things are going to turn out – even when they happen as we expect – we can use the elements of wonder and surprise to wake ourselves up and respond in a way that is appropriate to the current conditions and supports the kind of world and future we want to create...

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Upcoming Events

New Year's Gathering of the Tribes: Occupy the One Heart

One of the many inspiring things about the Occupy Movement is the putting aside of differences to share with and learn from and about our brothers and sisters. Let’s have a different kind of New Years this year? Instead of “gathering the usual suspects”, let’s open things up to include other members and groups within our community and invite them to come be a part of our sumptuous pot luck dinner and conscious and grounded dance.

Children, adults, youth, ecstatic dancers, soul motioners, 5Rhythmns practitioners, liberals, conservatives, progressives and anarchists – all are welcome… Don’t we basically all want the same things: Peace, freedom to be, health, education for ourselves and our children, a roof over our heads, food to nourish us and an opportunity to be creative in expressing our unique and magnificent and unique gifts to the world.

If you want this please write me and let me know how you would like to co-create this kind of an event – even if it is just, Yes, I would like to attend this event. Just email michael@WellofLight.com

Power of Reconciliation

I want to invite you all to join me in one of the most important gender reconciliation trainings available today. I am including a brochure on the professional facilitator training Offered by the Satyana Institute. www.satyana.org

For more information on the Professional Facilitator Training, Click here.

Moving Meditation News

Starting next month Moving Meditation News will become a separate quarterly newsletter from The Well of Light, focused on movement, meditation and ecstatic dance. Please watch for our upcoming newsletters.

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This month: Indigenous movement wave – with $25 donation to Conversations – Monthly wave program.

Free Personalized 5R type music wave or book — For $25 a month contribution to KVMR's Conversations you will receive a new dance cd or book each month you contribute... Or book and cd for $40 for both. Keep Conversations going and support the Well of Light. Thank you for your ongoing support. We need it now more than ever... May it come back to you a hundred fold.

Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.
– Unknown

New Podcasts

Click here to view the Podcasts page, and to listen to the following podcasts:

Kathy Altman & Lori Saltzman: Finding Wholeness: The 5 Rhythms Moving Meditation and Ecstatic Dance of Gabrielle Roth - A two hour special
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Kathy Altman - While highly trained in many forms of dance, it wasn't until Kathy's catalytic meeting with Gabrielle 30 years ago that her true callingfound her. As Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Kathy was the first person asked to help Gabrielle bring her work out into the world. Over the past 20 years Kathy's teaching has brought thousands of people back to the joy of their own, original movement. movingcenterschool.com/kathy-altman

Lori Saltzman - Since stumbling into a 5Rhythms workshop 25 years ago, Lori's full-time devotion has been helping people to recover the spirited dance they left behind or discover the dancer they never met. Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Lori¹s natural persistence and humor coaxes even the most reluctant people to let themselves move, shed tired old patterns that don¹t work anymore, and glimpse themselves with clear yet compassionate eyes. movingcenterschool.com/lori-saltzman

Alberto Villoldo: Ancient Medicine of the Amazon
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Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. is trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist. He began his research in the Amazon, working with medicine which led him to the high mountains of the Andes and the Inka medicine people, where he discovered a group of healers who specialized in treating illness before it manifested in the physical body. In 1984, Dr. Villoldo founded the Four Winds Society to bring the teachings of these master healers to the West. The Four Winds Society is preserving a thousand year old tradition of knowledge to achieve personal and planetary healing. Dr. Villoldo's many books include: Mending the Past, Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval; Shaman, Healer, Sage; and The First Story Ever Told. www.thefourwinds.com

Peter Gleick: The Bottled Water Myth
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Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute and one of the world's leading experts on water and climate issues. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick was named a MacArthur Fellow for his work and dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the BBC. He was elected both an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, and is author of many scientific papers and eight books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water, and Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. www.pacinst.org

John Travis: Finding Center
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John Travis has been a student of Vipassana since 1969. John has been teaching meditation since the mid 1980's. He leads retreats in Northern California and around the United States and abroad. John is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation Center in the Sierra Foothills, and is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Woodacre, Marin County, CA. www.johntravis.org

Chris Martenson: Crash Course
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Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist who speaks to audiences around the world on his Crash Course, a positive vision for how our lives can become more balanced, resilient, and sustainable. Chris began his career as a scientist, earning his PhD in Pathology from Duke Universtiy and an MBA from Cornell. He became vice president of a large international fortune 300 company and was living the American Dream. Chris was jolted out of complacency in 2001 and used his background in finance to investigate the working of our monetary system. This led to his Crash Course, which has received more than 2 million hits on the internet. ChrisMartenson.com

Richard Heinberg: The End Of Growth
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Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of eight books, journalist, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. His latest book is The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. www.richardheinberg.com

Youth on the Move: Part One: Generation Wake Up: How A New Generation Of Young People Is Coming Of Age And Changing Our World www.generationwakingup.org
Part 1- click here to listen

Joshua Gorman is a lifelong student of human development and transformational education with a focus on providing young people the experiences, knowledge, and skills they need to thrive in the twenty-first century. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Youth Action Network, and in 2008 co-founded Global Passageways, a network of individuals and organizations working in youth development and contemporary rites of passage. He is the Co-Coordinator of Generation Waking Up, and is also working to complete a book titled Generation Waking Up: How A New Generation Of Young People Is Coming Of Age And Changing Our World.

Valerie Love is a young changemaker in the areas of youth empowerment, sustainability, and vibrant local economies. She has managed campaigns at Clean Water Action, worked to build local food systems with Buy Fresh Buy Local, consulted with local governments to increase socially and environmentally responsible purchasing, and facilitated workshops exploring transformational
leadership for social change. Currently, Valerie works with Generation Waking Up on the development of the WakeUp experience, an interactive, multimedia, peer-led educational workshop that moves young people into inspired action.

Piya Banerjee graduated with a B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of Washington. She has worked a variety of positions post-graduation including Management Consultant, GMAT Instructor, and Public Relations and Development Manager for an education-based non-profit in Hyderabad, India. She is also a lifelong student of human development, yoga, and music and now works as a Core Team member of Generation Waking Up.

Part Two: Waging Nonviolence
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Waging Nonviolence is a source for news, analysis, and original reporting about nonviolent activism, as well as for discussion of the theory behind it. www.wagingnonviolence.org

Bryan Farrell is a New York-based writer and editor for Waging Nonviolence, ablog that covers nonviolent action around the world. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Mother Jones, Slate, Grist and Earth Island Journal.

Eric Stoner is a New York-based freelance journalist and an adjunct professor at St. Peter's College. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Sojourners, In These Times, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. He edits and writes for Waging Nonviolence, a blog that covers nonviolent actions and campaigns around the world.

Part Three: The Boys to Men Project: with Barry Friedman
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Boys to Men was created to guide adolescent boys on their journey to manhood. Their mission is to help boys become better men.
www.btmgv.com

Conversations Co-Host, Stephanie Van Hook, Michael Nagler, and you: Lessons learned Ten years after 9/11
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Join Conversations Host Michael Stone as he talks with Professor Michael Nagler, Metta Center Director Stephanie Van Hook and you the listener in this interactive discussion about what we can learn from 9/11 and our global actions of the past 10 years. Would a Non-Violent approach have worked, has the world become safer as a result of our actions, what is the best way forward from here? Join us in the dialogue of remembrance and vision... Is it possible to move towards a non-violent future?

Stephanie N. Van Hook is a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Benin. Her interests in nonviolence and forgiveness have intersected with activists and academics working for nonviolent social change in the global peace and justice community. She studied conflict resolution at Portland State University in Oregon and is currently co-director of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. www.mettacenter.org

Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, He is the author of several books, including America Without Violence, Upanishads, and Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Dr. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society and the advisory board of Tikkun magazine. He is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education in Berkeley, California. www.mettacenter.org

Brian Swimme and Ivone Gebara: The Universe Story - The unification of science and religion
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Brian Swimme, PhD, is a cosmologist, and the author of the Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry), The Universe is a Green Dragon and the video series The Canticle of the Cosmos and Earth’s Imagination. He co-authored the new book Journey of the Universe with Mary Evelyn Tucker and the storyteller in the new film by the same name.

Ivone Gebara, PhD, is a Brazilian Sister of Our Lady (Canoneses of St. Augustine) and one of Latin America's leading theologians, writing from the perspective of ecofeminism and liberation theology. Gebara claims that ecofeminism is born of "daily life" and thus considers garbage in the street, inadequate health care, and other daily survival crises faced by poor women to be central issues in ecofeminist liberation theology.

Special Show on Gender Equality and Reconciliation
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with Warren Farrell, Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg, Elisa Parker and Michael Stone
The future of humanity will be decided not by relations between nations, but by relations between women and men. D.H. Lawrence

Warren Farrell: Dr. Warren Farrell's books on male-female issues have made contributions in twelve fields. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. His most recent books are Father and Child Reunion, and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. His research on Father and Child Reunion, finding what is optimal for children of divorce, has led to his doing expert witness work in child custody cases. Dr. Farrell is the only man in the US elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. www.warrenfarrell.org

Elisa Parker is the co-founder, producer and host of the award winning program, See Jane Do. As a social change organization, See Jane Do redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change. Serving as an activist for women, social justice, and the environment, Elisa's work takes her around the world to discover and share the extraordinary stories and solutions in each of us. Elisa reports for KVMR and has produced and hosted various radio and television programs that inform, engage and entertain the listener. Elisa also holds years of experience in working with cutting edge organizations in order to reach their highest potential and unleash the talents of their team leaders and staff. She holds a BA in Communications and a MA in Organization Development. Elisa lives in the Sierra Foothills with her husband and two daughters. www.seejanedo.com

Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg has been a spiritually based activist since the '60's beginning with the civil rights movement. In the '70's she turned her focus inward and began the journey to wholeness, integrating the masculine and feminine within and examining the unconscious attitudes and conditioning in her personality. Recognizing the need for women to find their voices and claim their power, she began in the early '80's to work through women's circles and activities to bring feminine wisdom to bear on the world. In 2002 she became a co-founder of Gather the Women (Gatherthewomen.org) In 2009 she initiated a conversation about the major loss throughout civilization at the repression and degradation of women's wisdom and contributions, which led to the birth to Women Waking the World.

Michael Stone is the host and producer of KVMR's award winning Conversations, which brings you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment. Prior to starting Conversations he was the founder and director of Mastery of Management International (MMI) an international Organizational Development Consulting firm whose purpose was to "bring heart and meaning into the world of work". Michael also leads moving mediation classes and workshops based on the work of Gabrielle Roth. Michael is an active member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance and many other environmental and social justice organizations.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
– William A. Ward

Articles

'You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring'

Last Tuesday, I awoke in lower Manhattan to the whirring of helicopters overhead, a war-zone sound that persisted all day and then started up again that Thursday morning, the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and a big day of demonstrations in New York City. It was one of the dozens of ways you could tell that the authorities take Occupy Wall Street seriously, even if they profoundly mistake what kind of danger it poses. If you ever doubted whether you were powerful or you mattered, just look at the reaction to people like you (or your children) camped out in parks from Oakland to Portland, Tucson to Manhattan.

To read the full article, click here.

Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill instead of money) was “a concept whose time was coming—or merely a fringe idea.” Her response:

“[T]ime dollars could be to long-term care what windmills and solar panels are to the nation’s energy supply: a small, unconventional, even noble way of serving the few, but nothing to be relied upon to meet the needs of the masses.”

To read the full article, click here.

We Are All Occupiers

Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know that this protest is not a battle for territory. We're not fighting for the right to occupy a park here or there. We are fighting for justice. Justice, not just for the people of the United States, but for everybody.

What you have achieved since September 17th, when the Occupy movement began in the United States, is to introduce a new imagination, a new political language into the heart of empire. You have reintroduced the right to dream into a system that tried to turn everybody into zombies mesmerized into equating mindless consumerism with happiness and fulfillment.

To read the full article, click here.

Back to the Future with Electric Cars

Electric cars have been around a long time but are finally coming into their own. Now, the race is on to build an electric car for the mainstream. Host Bruce Gellerman asks auto writer Jim Motavalli what our future cars might be, and what they share with the past.

To listen to the podcast, or to read the full article, click here.

Huge Increase In Global CO2 Emissions

living on the earth

Global carbon dioxide emissions increased by six percent in 2010. The Department of Energy’s Tom Boden tells host Bruce Gellerman that the increase is larger than the worst-case scenario suggested by United Nations scientists.

To listen to the podcast, or to read the full article, click here.

Here Comes the Sun

Paul Krugman
CommonDreams.org

For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months — has powered an ever-expanding range of applications, from faxes to Facebook.

To read the full article, click here.

10 Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything

Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the diminishing fortunes of the middle class. The media blackout was especially remarkable given that issues like jobs and corporate influence on elections topped the list of concerns for most Americans.

Occupy Wall Street changed that. In fact, it may represent the best hope in years that “we the people” will step up to take on the critical challenges of our time. Here’s how the Occupy movement is already changing everything.

To read the full article, click here.

Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

To read the full article, click here.

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For it is in giving that we receive.
St. Francis of Assisi

We need your support to continue to provide Conversations, The Well of Light and other up to date information on what is happening in the environmental, spiritual, and social justice arenas. If you get value from these offerings I invite you to support their continuation by funding them. Your contribution makes a difference and so do you. Thank you for being a supporter of Conversations...

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Blessings,
michael

You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Upcoming Shows on Conversations

November 29th
Peter Sale: Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist’s View the Crisis We Face

Peter F. Sale is Assistant Director of Institute for Water, Environment, and Health at United Nations University and is University Professor Emeritus at University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Coral Reef Fishes, and Marine Metapopulations.

December 6th
Charles Eisenstein: Time Banks and Alternative Economic Systems

Charles Eisenstein is a Professor, lecturer and workshop leader. He is the author of The Ascent of Humanity, the soon to be released Sacred Economics, and two influential essays on money: Money and the Crisis of Civilization and Money and The Turning of Age. A faculty member of Goddard College, he speaks and writes about civilization, economics, and the evolution of human consciousness. www.ascentofhumanity.com

December 13th
John Perkins: The Underbelly of Exploitative Capitalism

John Perkins is the bestselling author of the classic expose’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and a former chief economist of a major consulting firm. His latest book, Hoodwinked, examines the power of Wall Street, Corporations, and their influence on government policy worldwide. www.johnperkins.org

Conversations airs every Tuesday at 1pm PST on KVMR.
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Videos

Arundhati Roy: We Are All Occupiers

John Liu Plenary at Bioneers 2011

Paul Stamets Plenary at Bioneers 2011

99% v 1%: The Data Behind the Occupy Movement

The Pachamama Alliance: Our 2011 Annual Luncheon Fundraiser

Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love

TEDxSF - Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude

The 99% Versus The 1% Explained In 5 Minutes

The Single Most Important Robert Reich Clip You Can Share Today

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
— Mohandas K. Gandhi

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"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
- Albert Schweitzer

Poetry Corner

– e.e. cummings

Having loved enough and lost enough,
I'm no longer searching
just opening,

no longer trying to make sense of pain
but trying to be a soft and sturdy home
in which real things can land.

These are the irritations
that rub into a pearl.

So we can talk for a while
but then we must listen,
the way rocks listen to the sea.

And we can churn at all that goes wrong
but then we must lay all distractions
down and water every living seed.

And yes, on nights like tonight
I too feel alone. But seldom do I
face it squarely enough
to see that it's a door
into the endless breath
that has no breather,
into the surf that human
shells call God.

– Mark Nepo

Book of the Month

Navigating The Coming Chaos, by Carolyn Baker
Review by Craig K. Comstock, The Huffington Post

Many of us just turn off when confronted by looming predicaments, and why not? What in the world can we do? Quite a lot, says Carolyn Baker. Not to save civilization, but to prepare, in our hearts and minds, for its possible or impending decline.

Back when the northern hemisphere was living with the habit of nuclear threat, it seemed counter-intuitive to me that, as Joanna Macy advised, the expression of grief could lead to social action. Our predicament then justified grieving, but wouldn't the release of those caged feelings lead to sadness, melancholia, paralyzing depression?

Continue reading here.

The Baby Boomer Diet, by Donna Gates
Review by JE Jones

If you read just one book this coming year about health, diet and healthy aging, I would highly recommend The Baby Boomer Diet by Donna Gates. Baby boomers expect to live longer, and they probably will, but will they also be healthier? Are baby boomers focusing on the wrong things in their search for eternal youth, like anti-wrinkle creams or the latest vitamin supplement? The Baby Boomer Diet brings the anti-aging discussion back where it can really do some good - to improving our health from the inside out so we either don’t ever get the degenerative diseases so common today, or we can improve the ones we may have.

Continue reading here.

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