by - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T07:33:47Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/feed/tag/by“Taking the Food Forest to City Hall” - International Permaculture Awareness Week. New Myth #78.https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/taking-the-food-forest-to-city-hall-international-permaculture2016-03-10T14:47:10.000Z2016-03-10T14:47:10.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p><strong>“Taking the Food Forest to City Hall”</strong> - International Permaculture Awareness Week. New Myth #78. Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media</p>
<p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2341" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2341</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2341" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868856832?profile=original" width="505" class="align-full"/></a></p></div>“Transition Community College” - A “Networked Localization” Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/transition-community-college-a-networked-localization-vision-by2015-12-15T14:21:05.000Z2015-12-15T14:21:05.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5">“Transition Community College”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">A “Networked Localization” Vision</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2323" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2323</a><br/></span></p>
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<div class="entry-content"><br/><p>One critical mandate for the Transition Movement in the present <b><a href="http://openmythsource.com/2012/07/29/the-cascadia-funnel-and-the-last-3-eras-on-earth-new-myth-25-by-willi-paul-openmythsource-com/">Chaos Era</a></b> is to create<b><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855">new myths</a></b> and associated rituals that guide us. What rituals do you participate in now; as a child? Do your stories speak to a world in turmoil? Who controls the narrative? This is a call for new rituals: a <b>universal s</b><b>haring and return</b> to family, city core, gardens, fields, water, soul and Nature.</p>
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<p><b>Ritual (2)</b></p>
<p>(a) A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual"><b>ritual</b></a> “is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and designed to influence preternatural entities or forces on behalf of the actors’ goals and interests.” Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community.</p>
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<p>(b) Semi-regular gathering of family or community members that share a Nature-based experience, value or dream often associated with formal roles and traditions. (W. Paul)</p>
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<p><b> </b>(c)<b> </b>A globally understood sign (i.e. – meaning) that mandates care for all cultures. (W. Paul)</p>
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<p><b> </b>(d) To come back home; re-integrate; initiate; honor and acknowledge the sacred in all things. (W. Paul)</p>
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<p><b>The Return of Ivory to Native Lands</b></p>
<p>In Chiang Mai, <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g293917-d1422414-Reviews-Thai_Elephant_Home-Chiang_Mai.html">Thailand</a>, elephants are healed and cared for on farms for visitors and locals alike. The big mammals are protected from poachers and considered sacred. Are they our equals? Can we see that Asian elephants and all earthly beings are part of a global family? That the return of stolen tusks from world-wide black markets is an act of healing, honor and learning with Nature. Tusk revenue returned to the farms support preservation and education. This program of “international return” to local care is a ritual of love, sharing and support.</p>
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<p><b>Soil Building</b></p>
<p>With neighbors we clear grass heavy lands with controlled fires and shovels as a safety precaution and for soil building, turning-over the burnt wood and ash, adding compost from the neighborhood bins and then re-planting. With permaculture, we share knowledge and resources to keep fire on our side and to obtain healthy soils and sustainable yields.</p>
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<p><b>Harvest Dance</b></p>
<p>Together we celebrate both Nature and Permaculture calendars, our union of science and spirit at last. Picking each crop as it matures, teaching the youth to dance, to sort, peel, prepare and cook for their sharing dance, a seasonal celebration.</p>
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<p><b>Taking Down the Fences</b></p>
<p>Localization in the back yard! From a pragmatic point of view, taking down your fences can mean better friendships with your neighborhoods, a heightened sharing opportunity! Property lines are gone, yielding larger gardens and shared yields! Here is a return to our extended family of humans and animals, increasing views and openings to a local horizon; building resilience, trust and sharing between often fearful and isolated strangers.</p>
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<p><b>The Convergence</b></p>
<p>The New College is born! The Convergence is a spirit recharger, a fun zone, full of agriculture lessons, dancing allowed! The Convergence brain thrust propels our union, sharing tech and spirit alike; accelerating our paradigm shift to a new land.</p>
<p><br/><b>Sharing Expo</b></p>
<p>Bring what you have, take what you need. Ask a question, make a friend! Extend the Good Will model? The Sharing Expo is a true “Win-Win”, building and sharing the new network all at once; dissolving capitalism with new rituals.</p>
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<p align="center"><i>Our swing dance in the mud<br/>Measuring, carrying, dumping, folding<br/>Packing, balling, throwing, spreading, smoothing<br/><strong>Community shaping</strong></i></p>
<p align="center"><i>Sacred is choosing the long view, <strong>re-loving Nature’s spirit</strong>, the shared view<br/>We are growing local heroes here</i></p>
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<p align="center">Excerpt: <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1906">The Cinnamon Cob Dance</a><strong>. Lyrics & Poster by W. Paul</strong></p>
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</div></div>“Does Mythology Still Matter?”https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/does-mythology-still-matter2016-02-29T03:34:41.000Z2016-02-29T03:34:41.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-6">“Does <span style="color: #993366;">Mythology</span> Still Matter?”</span></p>
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<p>Interview with <strong>Carridine Poran,</strong> <br/>Reaction by <strong>Willi Paul</strong>.</p>
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<p>Produced by <strong>Planetshifter.com Media</strong> (+ PDF)</p>
<p><br/><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2338" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2338</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2338" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868857158?profile=original" width="455" class="align-left" height="574"/></a></p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142584261?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Does Mythology Still Matter - Interview with Carridine Poran, Reaction by Willi Paul. Produced by Planetshifter.com Media.pdf</a></p></div>Permi-Rebels at the State Capital!!??https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/permi-rebels-at-the-state-capital2016-01-12T21:25:34.000Z2016-01-12T21:25:34.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/><span class="font-size-4">“The Permaculture Land Re-distribution and Lottery Act of 2019” - New Myth #76 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2328" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2328</a></span></p></div>“Sanctuary” - A Glossary and Questions for “Permaculture and Transition Children” by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media +PDFhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/sanctuary-a-glossary-and-questions-for-permaculture-and2015-11-21T16:23:41.000Z2015-11-21T16:23:41.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-6">“Sanctuary”</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">A Glossary and Questions for “Permaculture and Transition Children”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media +PDF</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2318" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2318</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2318" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868854892?profile=original" width="504"/></a></p><p class="attachment"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9142579857?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sanctuary” – A Glossary - Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media .pdf</a></p></div>“Water” – A Glossary for Creative Kids by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Mediahttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/water-a-glossary-for-creative-kids-by-willi-paul-planetshifter2015-06-16T22:12:26.000Z2015-06-16T22:12:26.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p>A <strong>sun shower</strong> is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining. These conditions often lead to the appearance of a rainbow, if the sun is at a low enough angle. The phenomenon has a wide range of sometimes remarkably similar folkloric names in cultures around the world. A common theme is that of clever animals and tricksters getting married or related to the devil, although many variations of parts of this theme exist.</p>
<p>A <strong>rainbow</strong> is a phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multi-colored arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.</p>
<p>Fracking pollutes by placing stress on <strong>surface water</strong> and <strong>ground water</strong> supplies from the withdrawal of large volumes of water used in drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Each time a well is fractured ("fracked") it requires massive amounts of water. It is estimated that the average well will use 5.6 million gallons per frack. If you figure an average family of 4 in Ohio uses about 300 gallons of water per day, the water used in one fracture would supply one household with water for 51 years.</p>
<p><strong>Drought</strong> is an extended time when a region receives a deficiency in its water supply, whether atmospheric, surface or ground water. A drought can last for months or years. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region. Although droughts can persist for several years, even a short, intense drought can cause significant damage and harm to the local economy.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100322212504AAwuy6O" target="”blank”">Adhesion tension</a></strong> is how water molecules get together and march up and down the roots and leaves of the plants.</p>
<p><strong>Beaver dams</strong> are dams built by beavers to provide ponds as protection against predators such as coyotes, wolves, and bears, and to provide easy access to food during winter. These structures modify the natural environment in such a way that the overall ecosystem builds upon the change, making beavers a keystone species.</p>
<p>An <strong>iceberg</strong> is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice). As it drifts into shallower waters, it may come into contact with the seabed, a process referred to as seabed gouging by ice.</p>
<p>In meteorology, a <strong>cyclone</strong> is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth.</p>
<p>A <strong>waterspout</strong> is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water. In the common form, it is a non-supercell tornado over water. Most waterspouts do not suck up water; they are small and weak rotating columns of air over water.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://bark-out.org/project/nestle-water-bottling-proposal" target="”blank”">Nestle Water Bottling Proposal - </a></strong>Nestlé has proposed to bottle over 100 million gallons of water per year from Oxbow Springs, a publicly-owned water source in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The accompanying bottling plant would be built in the city of Cascade Locks and would strain existing water and transportation infrastructure, requiring millions of dollars of upgrades. Despite this, and the 200 semi-truck trips through town every day, city officials support the proposal based on Nestlé's promise of up to 50 new jobs. <strong><a href="http://www.bark-out.org/project/nestle-water-bottling-proposal" target="”blank”">Bark</a></strong> is a lead member of the Keep Nestlé Out of the Gorge Coalition, which represents many tens of thousands of concerned citizens who do not want Nestlé to take their water. Bark has facilitated over 94,000 people in telling state officials that the Oxbow Springs giveaway is not in the “public interest,” a standard by which the application is measured.</p>
<p>A <strong>fish ladder</strong>, also known as a fish way, fish pass or fish steps, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration (i.e. - can both live in fresh water and in the ocean). Most fish ways enable fish to pass around the barriers by swimming and leaping up a series of relatively low steps (hence the term ladder) into the waters on the other side. The velocity of water falling over the steps has to be great enough to attract the fish to the ladder, but it cannot be so great that it washes fish back downstream or exhausts them to the point of inability to continue their journey upriver.</p>
<p>A <strong>composting toilet</strong> is a type of dry toilet that uses a predominantly aerobic processing system to treat human excreta, by composting or managed aerobic decomposition. These toilets generally use little to no water and may be used as an alternative to flush toilets. The human excreta is usually mixed with sawdust, coconut coir or peat moss to facilitate aerobic processing, liquid absorption, and odor mitigation. Most composting toilets use slow, cold composting conditions, sometimes connected to a secondary external composting step.</p>
<p>A <strong>water cannon</strong> is a device that shoots a high-velocity stream of water. Typically, a water cannon can deliver a large volume of water, often over dozens of meters. They are used in firefighting, large vehicle washing and riot control.</p>
<p><strong>Bottled water</strong> is drinking water (e.g., well water, distilled water, mineral water, or spring water) packaged in plastic or glass water bottles. Bottled water may be carbonated or not. Sizes range from small single serving bottles to large carboys for water coolers. Homeless people often gather discarded empty water and pop bottles for a small cash reward.</p>
<p>An <strong>irrigation canal</strong> is a waterway, often man-made or enhanced, built for the purpose of carrying water from a source such as a lake, river, or stream, to soil used for farming or landscaping. An essential element of farming found in archaeological digs dating as far back as 4,000 BC, irrigation canals have often meant the difference between sustenance and starvation.</p>
<p><strong>Greywater</strong> (also spelled graywater) or sullage is defined as all wastewater streams generated from households or office buildings except for the wastewater from toilets. Sources of greywater include for example sinks, showers, baths, clothes washing machines or dish washers. As greywater contains many fewer pathogens than domestic wastewater, it is easier to treat and to recycle onsite for uses such as toilet flushing, landscape irrigation or even irrigation of crops.</p>
<p>A <strong>spritzer</strong> is a tall, chilled drink, usually made with white wine and seltzer, club soda or sparkling mineral water.</p>
<p>A <strong>water balloon</strong> or <strong>water bomb</strong> is a latex rubber balloon filled with water. They are commonly used in water balloon fights and as a practical joke device.</p>
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<p><strong>Other glossaries in the series by Planetshifter.com Media:</strong></p>
<p><strong>+</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2251" target="”blank”">Alchemy</a></strong>: A Glossary for Permaculture & Transition</p>
<p><strong>+</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2259" target="”blank”">Prosperity</a></strong>: A glossary featuring Permaculture, New Mythology, Bioneers, Transition USA, Green Peace and Daily Acts with Discussion Questions.</p>
<p><strong>+</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2215" target="”blank”">Light</a></strong>: A Glossary for Creative Writers.</p></div>“Transition Streets Launches in America!” Interview with Carolyne Stayton, Executive Director of Transition US by Willi Paul, Publisher and Transition Consultant at PlanetShifter.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/transition-streets-launches-in-america-interview-with-carolyne2015-06-27T16:56:40.000Z2015-06-27T16:56:40.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2282" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/74422770?profile=original" width="429" class="align-center" height="532"/></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span><font size="6">Launches in America!” </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span>Interview with Carolyne Stayton, Executive Director of Transition US </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span>by Willi Paul, Publisher and Transition Consultant at <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2282" target="_blank">PlanetShifter.com</a><br/></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>How does TS deal with <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2277" target="_blank">natural disaster planning</a>?</strong></p>
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<p>Currently Transition Streets helps build social cohesion almost as a by-product. We will be adding an optional emergency preparedness module to it - so look for that in the not-too-distant-future.</p>
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<p><strong>Do permaculture tools and ethics play role in your program? Any examples to share?</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Yes they do. The <a href="http://transitionus.org/transition-town-movement" target="_blank">Transition Towns Movement</a> (now in over 50 countries!) was founded on Permaculture design principles and these are present in all aspects of this work. Instead of looking at a landscape as Permaculture generally does, the Transition Movement looks at human settlement and observes its assets and flows. From that perspective it is easier to see the design or re-design possibilities.</p>
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<p>"Stacking functions" is a Permaculture principle and is evident in the Transition Streets transportation chapter in this one example, which encourages participants to think ahead before making single errands to consider what else might be accomplished in one outing. Also the social cohesion mentioned is a result of participating in Transition Streets and could be seen as "stacking functions".</p>
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<p><strong>We are a consumer society (and planet!). What are the underlying values of “credit, spend, and throw-away?”</strong></p>
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<p>Credit, spend and throw-away don't really fit in a transitioned world where we live within the means of the earth's resources, where resources are truly cherished. We can see that more and more clearly in California, just how precious water is!</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"></p></div>My Quick Permie Chat with Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Educator and Businessman by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/my-quick-permie-chat-with-geoff-lawton-permaculture-educator-and2015-03-09T02:54:26.000Z2015-03-09T02:54:26.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3">My Quick Permie Chat with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geofflawton.com/sq/15449-geoff-lawton" target="”blank”">Geoff Lawton</a>, Permaculture Educator and Businessman by Willi Paul, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2250" target="”blank”">Planetshifter.com Magazine</a></span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Geoff is Managing Director of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://permaculturenews.org/" target="”blank”">The Permaculture Research Institute</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.permacultureconsultants.com/" target="”blank”">Permaculture Sustainability Consulting</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.geofflawton.com/sq/15449-geoff-lawton" target="”blank”">GeoffLawton.com</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>I recently sent Mr. Lawton some questions via LinkedIn. Here is the Q & A. -</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> The classic landfill on the outskirt of town. Rising higher and higher. Leaching chemicals. How can permaculture values revitalize this mess?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> We can harvest some gas from these site and we can lock them up into forest planting.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> What do you mean: “lock them up into forest planting?“</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Yes just that.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> What is your experience with fracking? Have you repaired toxic aquifers?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> We have helped protest fracking. If we installed enough water harvesting aquifer re-charge earthworks at the surface we can add continuous downward pressure on the aquifers.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Cool. Please give us a URL to a fracking protest that you participated in.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> You look it up on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://permaculturenews.org/PCnews.org" target="”blank”">permaculturenews.org</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> One of my interests is new community rituals that re-connect community with the sacred. Two such rituals are sharing expos and fall harvests. How do you see old and new rituals?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> We work with traditional tribal people on permaculture aid work projects where processes and protocol give people the ability to manage the inevitable dramas of life in a unified and predictable way.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> OK. So, in general, you believe that traditional tribal people do not practice rituals?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> I said what I said - please read it.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> After the “swales and cob benches” are done, driven by low-tech design principles, permaculture comes down to love to me. How do you express love for the land and your clients?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Appreciation of natural abundance in beautiful form.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Is there any news on permaculture-driven alternative medicines that you know of?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Yes we have a large plant data base on alternative medicines through our long-term working partnership with the late <a rel="nofollow" href="http://herbs-to-use.com/herbs-to-use.html" target="”blank”">Isabel Shipard</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Since my PDC, I find myself integrating other ideas and values with permaculture, like mythology and alchemy. Do you incorporate other things into your practice that are outside of permaculture? If so, why?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> We stick to proven science and not included meta-physics.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> That seems to be the standard permaculture line. But do you see a place for a personal spiritual connection to land design?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Only if you keep it personal and do not teach it.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Can permaculturists run and win local governmental offices? What is your political commitment(s) to date?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> No and none.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> That is a short answer, Mr. Lawton! Why can’t permies run and win local governmental offices?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> I have no political commitments. Sorry I am very busy with many things and may have read your question too quickly. So yes they can but I believe it is a waste of time to enter into a corrupt system and expect to be able to change it from within.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Permaculture doesn’t advocate storing food and weapons in a bomb shelter! But what are the main differences between permaculture and survivalists? Have you taught students from the survivalist camp?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Yes we consult and design for survivalists.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Please name a specific project and explain how your consultations differ?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/public-appearances" target="”blank’">Jack Spirko</a> is my biggest connection in recent years, I have (worked with the) Y2K crowd …, they are really just precise designs with survival oriented design elements.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Can you share any permaculture inspired games, songs, and myths?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> We do haste great participation parties at the end of PDC's.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> California is in a long-term drought. How would your firm go about producing a sustainable solution?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> Good permaculture design solutions.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>WP:</strong> Please offer up one specific solution to the CA drought and give us details.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>GL:</strong> N/A</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Other permaculture interviews by Willi -</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2199" target="”blank”">Interview with Koreen Brennan, Co-Organizer: 2014 North American Pe...</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2007" target="”blank”">Seeds & Ladders. A Conversation with Permaculture Designer Jenn...</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2168" target="”blank”">“THE MOTHER WHO PLANTS TREES.” An Indiegogo Agroforestry Project in...</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2138" target="”blank”">“Alley Allies Project” : Interview with Katie Hughes, Mill Street C...</a></span></p></div>Event Transcription Excerpt and Database - Santa Barbara Mythic Roundtable by Willi Paul. Granada Books, Santa Barbara, CA. 1/22/15https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/event-transcription-excerpt-and-database-santa-barbara-mythic2015-01-31T20:20:45.000Z2015-01-31T20:20:45.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
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<p>Bay area mythologist and entrepreneur Willi Paul presented the Santa Barbara Roundtable: “Mythic Roundtable: Tools and Inspiration for Creating New Myths” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 22 at the Granada Book Store, 1224 State St., Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>Paul read one his recently published “<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/56" target="”blank”">New Myths</a>” and engineered a live “<a href="http://openmythsource.com/myth-lab/" target="”blank">Myth Lab</a>” exercise that will helped to generate a new myth with the audience. Writers, artists, mythologists, storytellers, teachers and attended the Roundtable.</p>
<p>Paul is active in the sustainability, permaculture, transition, sacred nature, new alchemy and mythology spaces since the launch of <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/" target="”blank”">PlanetShifter.com Magazine</a> on Earth Day 2009.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;">CJ Jung, and James Hillman</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">personal transformation</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">Danny Deardorff</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">personal mythology</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">archetypes</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">symbols</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">permaculture</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">transition</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">internet</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">Willi Paul</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">alchemy</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">Nature</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">graffiti</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">chemical process of transformation</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">the journey to a new myth</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">folklore</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">anarchism</span><br/> <span style="color: #800000;">Greek mythology</span></p>
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<p><br/> <strong>Archive for Santa Barbara Mythic Roundtable Materials</strong><br/> (pdf - see <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2241" target="_blank">end of post</a>)</p>
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<p>* Program Schedule</p>
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<p>* <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855" target="”blank”">The Transition River Lovers</a>. New Myth 18 by Willi Paul</p>
<p>* Transcription Excerpt - Santa Barbara Mythic Roundtable. 1/22/15.</p>
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<p>* Santa Barbara Mythic Roundtable Press Release by Ray Estrada</p>
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<p>Algae conjured up the Myth Stimulator apparatus while back country camping in Yosemite. The dome’s latex, interactive doom structure hold up the tent has been transmuted for high tech, mythic voyages. In a recent dream his ceiling came alive with images and sounds and he could touch and change the content at will.</p>
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<p>The internal ceiling surface of the chamber is constructed of a soft, pliable fabric that implants mikes, cams or other source data that is held up by external frame like a dome tent; contiguous or seamless ceiling “cage” wrapped in an egg shape like an enlarged jet cockpit; opaque when not in use.</p>
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<p>Chimera and Blazer have been dreaming in sleeping bags, wombed at H-P Innovation Lab 3, compiling code 24/7 and living off of brown bananas and kale smoothies. The three sponsors each have a stake in the new <b>JourneyMaker software</b> that aims to somehow integrate past, present and future through a new mythology lens.</p>
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<p>Many in the Valley see this project as the most important incubator tech in recent time. Team Prometheus EV cares less about technology patients than<b> initiating Gaia 2</b>.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">“Similar to dozens of other community “<a rel="nofollow" href="http://fruitcruz.org/" target="”blank”">food forests</a>” emerging in cities such as Seattle and Portland, the intention of the orchard is to inspire the community to gather together; to provide itself with a local source of fresh, nutritious food; to put to sustainable use our natural resources of rain, soil, and sunshine; and to spread knowledge of how to bring these techniques to more gardens. Proponents of the project hope its success will help lead to other community orchards in the area, such as along the new rail to trail line, or the Santa Cruz Riverwalk.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Humans-will-always-argue-which-myth-is-better/articleshow/45977196.cms?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=toimobile&utm_medium=referral" target="”blank”">Myth is subjective truth, your truth and my truth, not the truth</a>. ‘We communicate our truth through stories, symbols and rituals. We inherit them from our ancestors and pass them on to our children. Mythology is the study of these stories, symbols and rituals and the subjective truth they reveal. … if we value mythology, then we will value subjectivity, pay attention to other truths and expand our own truth. This is the power of myth….’</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://planetshifter.com/node/1914" target="”blank”">great tree</a> has been a symbol of choice of the permaculturists, Christians and many other religions for many years: solidarity, Nature, food, shelter, resilience. Trees are prominent anchors in kid stories, forest songs, farm legends and world myths.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">As we grow trees, enjoy their fruits and sing their praise, supporting our gardens with green houses (or hoop houses as shown in the illustration), we seed, water and enjoy rituals.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">The path to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2156" target="”blank”">new mythologies</a> begins with each individual, where we experience life and make choices, supported by our families. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2237" target="”blank”">Families gather together</a> in neighborhood or civic groups for friendship and seasonal events. It is with these stages that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2157" target="”blank”">new rituals can be created, performed, evaluated and refined</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">New Mythology can be created by us in this synergy.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Permaculture + Transition Values</strong> – <em>love of Nature and a local economy</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">New values drivers and edu-accelerators that replace worn-out religious practices</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Person</strong> - <em>where dreams, archetypes and symbols work</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Visions and pollination for a new planet start with each of us</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Family</strong> - <em>heritage maps and first rules to live by</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">We learn, test and change the generational wisdom with our parents and grandparents</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Neighborhood / Group / Town</strong> - <em>community growth and security</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Our second family where we build the day by day online and offline</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Ritual</strong> - <em>celebrating the sacred</em></span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Have you enjoyed a tree planting or sharing event yet?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>New Mythology</strong> – <em>universal stories, systems of value codes for how to live with the Planet</em></span> <br/><span class="font-size-3">We are the hoop house dance, the new soil generation and the sweat to see us through</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Every night I vibrate internally</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">That's my form of prayer</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">And the angels signal me</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">"Come over here, mister</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">Stretch out your glove..."</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Cartoon man in the real world</strong></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">You've got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">You got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">I got to nail it down</span><br/><span class="font-size-3">That ultra unbelievable love</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">-- <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.robynhitchcock.com/" target="”blank”">Robyn Hitchcock</a>: <strong>ultra unbelievable love</strong></span></p></div>“sounds symbols myths” - Interview with 4 New Composers plus 6 Sound Myths (SCORE). eBook #17 by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/sounds-symbols-myths-interview-with-4-new-composers-plus-6-sound2014-09-03T17:05:13.000Z2014-09-03T17:05:13.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_110.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-standard"/></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/ebook17/ebook17.pdf" target="”blank”">eBook #17</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">by Willi Paul, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://newmythologist.com/" target="”blank”">NewMythologist.com</a></span></p>
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<p>[ a ] <strong>Group Interview with 4 New Composers -</strong></p>
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<p><strong>George Earth</strong> - georgeearth.com<br/><strong>Logan W. Hayes</strong> - DnmxAudio.com<br/><strong>Mathew Cohen</strong> - matthewaccohen.com<br/><strong>Charlie Ekhaus</strong> - imdb.com/name/nm6326743</p>
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<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/OccupySound/index.html" target="”blank”">OccupySound: Soundtrack for a New Global Mythology</a></strong><br/>New Myth #58</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/jump/index.html" target="”blank”">Jump - Look – Jump</a></strong><br/>New Myth #59</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.communityalchemy.com/ninefingercanyon/index.html" target="”blank”">initiation @ nine finger canyon</a></strong><br/>New Myth #60</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/dusk/index.html" target="”blank”">DUSK - Sound – Symbol - SCORE Design for Children’s Permaculture St...</a></strong><br/>New Myth #61</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/dementia/index.html" target="”blank”">"resilience in our age of dementia" - permaculture sound cartoon. S...</a></strong><br/>New Myth #62</p>
<p><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://communityalchemy.com/LGW/index.html" target="”blank”">"lawyers, guns and water" - a permaculture sound comic</a></strong><br/>New Myth #64</p>
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<p>"Last month we took up to much too message, an undoable scale."</p>
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<p>"Ya right. The <strong>“Food Forests on Mars”</strong> campaign!"</p>
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<p>Sponsored by North Bay City Lands Conversion Group was underwritten by <strong><a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="blank">Permaculture Principle #6</a></strong>.</p>
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<p>"Not sure that "Make the least change for the greatest effect" was the result?"</p>
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<p>"Maybe sometimes we should just make the case instead of propagating silly slogans?!"</p>
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<p>Two months ago, the crew did the <strong>“seed library on wheels”</strong> campaign. The truck was robbed twice.</p>
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<p>Permaculture Propaganda Lab's ( <strong>PPL</strong>) strategy for their case strapped clients is often simple: pick one principle or ethic from permaculture and design a campaign for the client.</p>
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<p>Weaving Nature lore, sustainability and human subjects in the NorCal biosphere, PPL works a new campaign per month for food, concert tickets or fresh fish - to name of few things bartered.</p>
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<p>The seed bomb factory on the first floor was closed down by the feeds late last year after an all-night Psilocybin-drenched rave and an early morning product demonstration got out of hand.</p>
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<p>In 2019, multiple NorCal tipping points are fracking the permie scene as the rich consolidate power, make higher fences and force the poor to fight for their injustice.</p>
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<p><strong>The Perma Store</strong> has brought their visions, wares and woes to PPL for an outreach transfusion after buying up the <strong>Dollar Store</strong> franchise in 2017 and seeing sales of permaculture tools go down by 24%.</p>
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<p>"Let's lease the 14 NorCal bill boards from <strong>Zippy’s Sign Mafia</strong> and go with:"</p>
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<p><strong>"Grow It - Eat It - Compost it @ The Perma Store."</strong></p>
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<p>"Thankfully some sign locations are in urban settings. Few can afford the train or auto travel charges at this point.</p>
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<p>"Sounds like <strong>Principle #7</strong> fits ok here: "Start with the smallest systems and build on your successes, with variations."</p>
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<p>"What comes after the billboard?"</p>
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<p><strong>”One dollar Perma Store Hella tattoos!”</strong></p>
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<p>* * * * * * *</p></div>“Words, Color, Sound Samples: Symbols for Kids Art”, Video Short by Willi Paul, openmythsource.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/words-color-sound-samples-symbols-for-kids-art-video-short-by2013-11-30T15:59:35.000Z2013-11-30T15:59:35.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/2AYNpe7wc2Q"><img class="alignnone wp-image-3602" alt="dirt2" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/dirt2.png?w=347&h=291" width="347" height="291"/></a></p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>“Words, Color, Sound Samples: Symbols for Kids Art”, Video Short by Willi Paul, openmythsource.com</strong></span></h1>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #993300;">art lesson with colors, sound samples & words for children</span></h1>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Video: <strong><a href="http://youtu.be/2AYNpe7wc2Q" target="blank">http://youtu.be/2AYNpe7wc2Q</a></strong></span></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #993300;"><strong>Words:</strong></span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">house</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">rules &</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">kids</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">& hope</span></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">hands</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">& sky</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">& dirt</span></h2>
<p></p></div>“Understanding Redundancy” – A Brief Lesson for Children by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/understanding-redundancy-a-brief-lesson-for-children-by-willi2014-01-13T00:31:20.000Z2014-01-13T00:31:20.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><img title="" alt="" src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/safe_1.png"/></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“Understanding Redundancy” – A Brief Lesson for Children by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">It is important to connect the concepts of resilience and redundancy to grow and share our growing Transition. For this lesson, understand resilience as the ability of a community to become healthy and successful after something bad happens.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">From Permaculture (<a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="_parent" rel="nofollow">Primary Principles for Functional Design – #5</a>), redundancy design requires that each part of the any critical social, food or energy system is supported by multiple back-ups. Redundancy protects us when one or more traditional processes or components fail.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Redundancy is also about the recovery phase after an emergency as we work together to return our lives to a safe operational place.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">*******</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Here are some examples of redundancy:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">- Back-up life support equipment and staffing plans at relief clinics</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Building your house on stilts for protection against high water and predators</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Squirrels saving nuts in multiple locations</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- A Seed Library – preserving different genetic strains to guard against altered / toxic invader seeds</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Community Food Forest – multiple crops that all supply vitamin, protein or other nutritional needs</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Solar batteries that support home heating and cooling when traditional power sources fail</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">- Teaching multiple tribe members how to lead and teach important skills, including local land design methods, participatory governance and other Post-Chaos Era community needs</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Note</strong>: This lesson is itself is an example of redundancy as the Internet multiplies the available number of sites that kids that can read this work and implement its wisdom.</span></p></div>"Sedona Spells: Kid's Nature Cartoon." Video Short by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/sedona-spells-kid-s-nature-cartoon-video-short-by-willi-paul2013-11-19T16:39:29.000Z2013-11-19T16:39:29.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/sVq1Ah46vXo"><img alt="centerspace" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/centerspace1.png" width="258" height="332"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> <a title=""Sedona Spells: Kid's Nature Cartoon." Video Short by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com" href="http://youtu.be/sVq1Ah46vXo" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/sVq1Ah46vXo</a></strong></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;" class="font-size-6">The Spell</span></h1>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">sedona spells</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">v o r t e x h a z e</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">1 2 4</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">c a c t u s p o t i o n s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">p r i c k</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">s t r e a m b a n k s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">r e d s a i n t s</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">ha!</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">you!</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">u p s i d e d o w n t r e e</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">b e a n e s t n o w!</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">s u n 's</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">s o u l f u l</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">a r c h</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">u p t o o u r k n e e s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">f l o a t i n g f o r e s t k e y s!</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">u l t r a t e r r a s p a w n</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">r o o t s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">o l d w i n g s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">t o w e r s k i e s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">t u n n e l b o y s</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">c i r c l e c l o c k s</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">r e l e a s e u s</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">t w i n e</h2>
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<p></p></div>“Oh, PermaTrans, where art thou?” : Rant by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/oh-permatrans-where-art-thou-rant-by-willi-paul-planetshifter2013-11-02T19:02:25.000Z2013-11-02T19:02:25.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><h2 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-7" style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2147" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;">“Oh, PermaTrans, where art thou?” : Rant by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine</span></a></span></h2>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong><a href="http://youtu.be/7WWdve2VJmU" target="”blank”">Children</a>! </strong>Are we passing the buck – and our kids – into crazy crowd funding bashes in the hope for the next best green thing?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>A Unified Movement? </strong>Where? The Occupy Movement is fried, where are we going?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Getting beyond the listservs, pundits, and U Tubes</strong>: how about a new “national newspaper”? Transition Television? Where is permaculture’s mega hit rock band? I can’t hear you!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Spiritual Now?! </strong>Forget the religion block from “Permie control” in Australia; without this healing power, we are just farmers.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Capitalism vs. Transition? </strong>perpetuating profit lust while disguising our greed as global conscious change is ugly.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Heroes and Business Women? </strong>Too many expensive and redundant events, groups and classes; not enough grass-roots labs and initiatives, urgh?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Our Collective Consciousness. </strong>How do you define, measure, evaluate and shape this yack?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Where are our <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855" target="”blank”">debated visions of the future</a>? </strong>Big templates for change? Have you heard any feedback from the recent 2013 NorCal Transition – Permaculture Convergence?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Painful. </strong>Permaculturists are still using unpaid interns and volunteers to grow their markets!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Politics? </strong>How many of the runners for Fall City Council elections are including Permaculture or Transition ideas? I can’t hear you!</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Get More:</strong> <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1976" target="”blank”">Permaculture 2012: Four Problems in Need of Integrated Solutions by Willi</a></span></p>
</div></div>“Cougar Stalks Deer. Interview with Eugene’s Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga, Nature’s Mystery Awareness School” by NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/cougar-stalks-deer-interview-with-eugene-s-nathaniel-nordin2013-05-05T15:35:47.000Z2013-05-05T15:35:47.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
<h3><a rel="nofollow" href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natures-mystery.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3176" alt="Natures-Mystery" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natures-mystery.jpg?w=640"/></a></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b><a rel="nofollow" href="http://naturesmystery.org/">Introduction to Nature’s Mystery Awareness School</a></b></span></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2">“Come explore our magical world where your child will have the opportunity to learn directly from the land that sustains us. Here we will explore history, ecology, and native lore, as we deepen our nature awareness skills and uncover treasure all around. Our curriculum is specifically designed for families interested in alternative educational models as applied to outdoor exploration. Current programs are based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Tom Brown, Jon Young, and many Indigenous traditions from around the world. Through our exploration of rhythm and pattern of our inner and outer environment, we will work toward the creation of a peaceful, socially sustainable, and environmentally regenerative future for all.”</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Interview with </b><strong>Nathaniel by Willi -</strong></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Where do you experience the most “deep reverence” in your daily life?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">Every morning I meditate, quiet and still, in a hidden parcel of woods, on the edge of town. Here I am approached by many curious animals. I feel the reflection of their movements reverberating through my own blood and in a few precious moments I am able to really feel, on the experiential level, the universal interconnection of life. This is something I feel most deeply when I am able to share it with children.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Is magic spiritual? Is mystery magic? </b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">There is nothing that is unrelated to mystery, magic, or spirit. Of course the each of them are deeply subjective terms. To me the sun rising in the morning is a cosmic expression of divine spirituality, as is the fact that we can draw ancient sunlight out of the earth and use it to power our machines of destruction. Every action we perform is a manipulation of the energy and elements of creation. Every impulse that arises within us is a call to perform an act of magic. Sometimes that impulse is used to satisfy a selfish desire, sometimes it draws us closer to a path of service toward others. A kind thought, a small sacrifice for the benefit of someone in need, anything that tends toward balance and harmony, within ourselves and amongst all living beings, these appear to be expressions of our higher self, which many of us perceive as spirit. Forces of chaos and destruction are equally magical and mysterious to me. Darkness and light are both beautiful and necessary forces in our experience as human beings. Whatever terms we use to describe these forces in our lives, we are working with them at all times. The more important question for me is: “How can we do so to best serve the highest good?”</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>You write: “Early childhood is naturally a time of great wonder and enchantment.” How do you support and deliver wonder and enchantment at Nature’s Mystery Awareness School? What forces can work against this?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">There are many ways to support wonder and enchantment in the life of a child. It is our primary task as instructors of Nature’s Mystery Awareness School to model goodness, love, and reverence for all life. If we ourselves are enchanted by the world around us, we excite curiosity in the heart of the children under our care. We choose to focus beyond the purely material elements of life and place a great deal of importance on the development of the imagination. Einstein once said that “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He is, of course, not the first to have figured that out. Children are reminding us of this fact on an ongoing basis. Most of us are just too busy, most of the time, to give the matter adequate attention. Otherwise we would be much more careful about the type of environment we allow to fuel our children’s imagination. </span></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2">Busyness, or distraction, is perhaps the greatest threat to our work as environmental educators, as well as to the health and vitality of the human being. If we were able to create the time and space to deeply consider the impact of each of our daily actions, we would certainly not be committing the absolutely insane level of ecological destruction that we are currently engaged in and finding the other essential source of support for our children’s development, exposure to the beauty of a naturally complex ecosystem, would not be so great a challenge. Nature’s Mystery is very fortunate to have many supportive friends and neighbors in our community who support our work and allow us access to their land. We have the ability to explore small parcels of wetlands and watersheds, meadows and woodland, in town as well as farms, old-growth forests, botanical sanctuaries, and permaculture communities in the surrounding area.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>Can you tell us more about how mystery works: In Nature? In daydreams? In play?</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">A few days before I launched my pilot program: “Blue Heron” (named after a nature program I had the great privilege to experience in my younger days); I had one child enrolled. I needed five students just to cover the cost of the insurance and the company wanted their check that day in order to have the policy in place in time. On my way to check my email on the morning I was thinking perhaps the time wasn’t right when a Great Blue Heron swooped down out of the sky just over my head. A few moments later, I received a phone call from a parent wanting to register two more children. I ended up with ten kids by day one. Some people call such synchronicities coincidence, but they happen in my life far too often to dismiss. We’ll be playing a game of Cougar Stalks Deer with the kids, where I take on the role of the deer and they try to sneak up on me a kid will see an animal sign they think might be a cougar, we’ll stop to look and a deer will come bounding out of the forest. Someone will be telling a story about a raptor and we will look up to see a bald eagle flying over head. The more you stop to give it your attention, the more you will see these kind of things are happening all the time.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><b>How do your instructors and programs ‘foster a infinitely deeper attunement of our natural senses to the world around us?’</b></span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2">Through a wide variety of daily practice. We use a number of games and activities that stimulate and activate different senses in different ways. There are for anyone interested in developing their own awareness skills I highly recommend the Kamana Naturalist training, put out by Jon Young. I also owe a great deal to the work of Tom Brown, Rudolf Steiner and many of my own mentors and teachers. If you happen to be in the Eugene area, you can contact me for personal nature mentorship opportunities for any age. Check out <a rel="nofollow" href="http://naturesmystery.org/" target="_blank">naturesmystery.org</a> for more information.</span></h3>
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<h3><span class="font-size-2"><strong>Bio – Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span class="font-size-2">A long-time Environmental Educator, Instructor with Whole Earth Nature School, and Waldorf Teacher-in-Training, <strong>Nathaniel</strong> spent much of his childhood wandering 1200 acres of meadows and forests, learning from his elders and developing a deep reverence for the more-than-human world. His life has been an ongoing exploration of alternative educational models including those in “developing” nations, which rely heavily on the interaction between children and the natural world. <strong>Nathaniel</strong> holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon and an Ecovillage and Permacultural Certification from Lost Valley Educational Center. He brings patience, joy, and an intimate appreciation for the ecological interdependence of life.</span></h3></div>"Tattoo Alchemy" - A fun test in the future for kids 10 - 14 years old by NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/tattoo-alchemy-a-fun-test-in-the-future-for-kids-10-14-years-old2013-02-11T20:04:12.000Z2013-02-11T20:04:12.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p><span class="font-size-4">"Tattoo Alchemy" - A fun test in the future for kids 10 - 14 years old by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5" style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://wp.me/p14SHM-LQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;">http://wp.me/p14SHM-LQ</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">At each tattoo (or symbol) there is a question....</span></p>
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<p><br/><span class="font-size-4">"Tattoo Alchemy"</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">fracking</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">cob oven</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">permaculture</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">revolution mollison</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">food truck</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">condor</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">A-Frame</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">compost</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">yurt</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">farmers market</span><br/><span class="font-size-4">resilience</span></p></div>New Animation Model & Case Study for Transition Children by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/new-animation-model-case-study-for-transition-children-by-willi2013-01-06T18:52:03.000Z2013-01-06T18:52:03.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><h2><strong><a href="http://wp.me/p14SHM-KG" target="_blank">Purpose of this Project</a>:</strong></h2>
<p>We need to create new consciousness with the images and messages that we make.</p>
<p>Today’s children are super smart and have a great hunger for new stories and myths - to create and share them with other kids globally. So I am an advocate for creating new tools for kids: sound bites or sound tracks, essays, stories. I have published 34 new myths using this sound, text, imagery, vision , alchemy and new myth frame work.</p>
<p><strong>Images!</strong> Children are bombarded 24 hours a day. They need a need perspective or process to break the consumption drone. Something more personal and magical like the new alchemy which is a “change experience.” This model helps to redefine and illuminate new alchemies and proposes integrations in through several creative steps.</p>
<p>The act of working with this model (solo or in collaboration) is <strong>an alchemic act</strong>. Integrated output plus vision is the heart of the tool. The final format (pdf, avi, etc.) of the resulting artistic piece is of less significance.</p>
<h2><strong>The Base Model:</strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/test2-008.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2898 alignnone" alt="test2 008" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/test2-008.jpg" width="384" height="265"/></a></p>
<p><strong>The New Animation Model alchemy is driven by two stages and the alchemic synergy between: </strong></p>
<p>1. Text, images and sounds and</p>
<p>2. Vision(s)</p>
<h2><strong>Defining the Terms:</strong></h2>
<h2><span><strong>Sound</strong></span></h2>
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<p>To me, sounds are the least understood but hold the highest alchemic potential for children's creativity. As <strong>imagine connectors</strong>, sounds are the connection to past worlds and a future sonic glue. Children can create soundtracks and musical lattices for their own visions. Soon gone are the corporate jingles and processed top 40 hit making from the"old days?" ;-)</p>
<h2><strong>Text</strong></h2>
<p><img class=" wp-image-2910 alignnone" alt="text base" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/text-base.jpg" width="324" height="301"/></p>
<p>Perhaps the best understood, most rigid and traditional element for new animations, text are the quickest to deploy use in creative projects. As text / sub-text, credits, titles, etc., children can understand the meanings, placement and legal function of labels and captions with little training. But letters, words and phrases are also doors to deeper meanings (i.e. - poetry) and alchemic in combination with the other elements.</p>
<h2><strong>Images</strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/images-2.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2923 alignnone" alt="images 2" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/images-2.jpg" width="384" height="287"/></a></p>
<p>Images are the third major component for alchemic recombination in this model. Like text, images are also a rigid and machine controlled / traditional element for new animations. Images without sound can invite us to add our own inner voice or upload a soundtrack or over-power us with an historic or family references.</p>
<h2><strong>Alchemy</strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/alchemy-2.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2929 alignnone" alt="alchemy 2" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/alchemy-2.jpg" width="338" height="255"/></a></p>
<p>It is often interesting to watch a child playing a video game or listening to a tune. Where is the alchemic change in each? It could be argued that the more text, sound and image elements that kid has to brings to the experience the better? The model speaks to <strong>an active creative process</strong> - not a reactive one. Commercial television with it's 1950's routines and soap operatic, brain numbing control is one counter-example to the goals of the animation model.</p>
<h2><strong>Vision</strong></h2>
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<p>A child's vision can be fueled by many things: heroes, memories, material wants, a global view or fear. This animation process can be key to both the start. middle or return stages of a journey to test the world and return home to tell the tale. Vision is best summed up as hope and a willingness to fight for your dreams. Joseph Campbell's work is key here.</p>
<h2><strong>New Myths</strong></h2>
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<p>There is no more controversial piece of the model than the proposed resultant or the New Myths. And this comes with a multiple premises: including that the <strong>classic myths</strong> can longer stir our creativity and initiate our children's journey. And two: there is <strong>a sacred symbol or ritual</strong> that binds all people together.</p>
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<h1><strong>Case Study: The Edges of Nature</strong></h1>
<p><a title="“Pescadero breach deemed a success” By Samantha Weigel Daily Journal correspondent " href="http://smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?type=lnews&title=Pescadero%20breach%20deemed%20a%20success&id=1760627" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a>: “Pescadero breach deemed a success”<br/>By Samantha Weigel Daily Journal correspondent</p>
<h2><strong>Text</strong></h2>
<p>The ongoing momentum of state and federal marine conservation agencies geared toward preserving the Pescadero lagoon and preventing fish kills was determined to have paid off in early December.</p>
<p>Eighteen years ago, experts began to recognize a significant impediment at the lagoon winding under Highway 1 that resulted in the death of hundreds of steelhead trout. The population of steelhead trout has diminished from 600,000 in the 1980s to a scant 200,000, said Chuck Bonham, director of the California Department of Fish and Game. During yearly months of disconnect, the temperature of the lagoon rises and decreases oxygen levels in the water, affecting the procreation and resiliency of the native fish. As the fresh water rises above a layer of salt water, the water column begins to stratify and creates unsafe conditions for endangered and threatened coastal marine life.</p>
<p>Representatives from California State Parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, California Fish and Game and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are among the participating organizations. After receiving permits from the various government agencies, Patrick Rutten, a representative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Restoration Center, put his plan to restore the lagoon into action Oct. 4.</p>
<p>Based on an appropriate tide schedule, the daytime breach occurred when the sunlight was at its highest and allowed photosynthesis to help raise the oxygen level in the water, Rutten said.</p>
<p>“For the first time since 2000, no fish kills occurred in the Pescadero lagoon following the breach of the sandbar,” said Jim Milbury, spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.</p>
<p>Approximately 40 volunteers convened at the lagoon to begin the day-long process of manually breaching the 75-foot gap between the lagoon and the ocean. Using shovels, the volunteers were able to forge a channel allowing the warm fresh water and the cooler ocean water to mix. As expected, this effort was short-lived and the channel closed within a few days with nominal effect. After continuing to monitor the post-breach decreasing water quality in the lagoon, it was determined a second breach would be necessary, Rutten said.</p>
<p>Supported by the fraternal service organization the Native Sons of the Golden West, an excavator was rented to conduct a more substantial breach a few weeks later, Rutten said.</p>
<p>“It hurts our feelings when people say it’s only 200 or 500 steelhead dying [each year]; any fish kill is too much,” said Tim Frahm, Native Son of the Golden West member.</p>
<p>After six hours of excavating an extensive aqueduct, the lagoon breached significantly.</p>
<p>“We lowered the volume of the lagoon by a full ‘foot’ and created a channel that introduced cold, oxygenated seawater into the lagoon. The lagoon lowering also stopped water from flooding the marsh and tules, which prevented a water quality issue from setting up,” Rutten said.</p>
<p>This time, the channel lasted just more than a week and the water quality improved for a minimum of two weeks, Rutten said. By substantially lowering the water volume, Rutten and his colleagues “reset” the lagoon by decreasing the temperature and mixing the stratified water column with oxygenated water. Seemingly temporary, the breach essentially bought time until the lagoon naturally breached on Nov. 30, Rutten said.</p>
<p>“We had no fish kill and subsequent water quality monitoring indicated the lagoon had high quality steelhead conditions from the surface to the bottom,” Rutten said.</p>
<p>This timely success will likely have no direct impact on future years’ stratification and poor water quality in the lagoon. However, a permit has been issued for a third breach, fish kills have currently been prevented and information has been gathered that will assist in determining a long-term solution. A major factor in assuring continued support of the lagoon relies on the formation of an independent science panel.</p>
<p>“The science panel process is proceeding well. Dr. John Largier, University of California [Davis] Bodega Marine Lab, has volunteered to chair the science panel. John is a recognized expert in estuarine science and I have a high degree of confidence in John’s leadership and scientific expertise,” Rutten said.</p>
<p>The information gathered by monitoring the water quality that affects healthy estuary conditions before and after the breach, and eyewitness accounts of the variability in fish kills will be provided to the panel to govern future planning.</p>
<p>“We absolutely learned a lot about how we will conduct the 2013 breach. We did collect a substantial amount of water quality data that will be provided to the science panel,” Rutten said.</p>
<p>Perhaps just as significant as the physical results, was the ability for the various organizations to conquer the years of bureaucratic dissonance and get to work.</p>
<p>“From NOAA’s perspective, the breach was an absolute success,” Rutten said. “This was the first ‘management’ effort in 18 years to prevent a fish kill and it worked.”</p>
<h2><strong> Images</strong></h2>
<p><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/dual.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2933 alignnone" alt="dual" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/dual.jpg" width="313" height="415"/></a></p>
<h2><strong>Sound</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Play "<a title="http://communityalchemy.com/rumblings/rumblings.mp3 " href="http://communityalchemy.com/rumblings/rumblings.mp3">rumblings</a>"</strong></p>
<p><b>Questions: Enguaging the Animation Model to Stimulate New Myths</b></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the inputs and outputs in the steelhead case study?</li>
<li>Could this project be successful without the cooperation of many agencies and local citizens?</li>
<li>What is an estuary? Could this place be a symbol for a larger message?</li>
<li>Why do so many people value a few hundred steelhead? Are these fish sacred?</li>
<li>How does the steelhead ecosystem mirror the human ecosystem that is trying to save it?</li>
<li>What is the cause or campaign here?</li>
<li>How is alchemy in play in the estuary?</li>
<li>Could the steelhead and its journey be a mythical character in your myth?</li>
<li>Which formats seems to stand-out for your piece? Power Point? Video? Illustrated essay?</li>
<li>Is there a ecosystem in your area that needs your assistance? Your vision?</li>
<li>Permaculture Principles talk about "The Edge" - how does this transition area play in the the estuary case?</li>
<li>How to capture and incorporate the sounds of the ocean, beach, splashing creek, birds, workers?</li>
<li>Are you ready to be a hero?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong> </strong></p></div>Activating the New Alchemy at the Reskilling & Sharing Expo (video interviews)https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/activating-the-new-alchemy-at-the-reskilling-sharing-expo-video2012-08-13T14:06:47.000Z2012-08-13T14:06:47.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Neighbors Sharing Stories! </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Permaculture, Transition Values and Music integrated in free share event.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">Key: How is Transition Palo Alto Building</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4">Cascadia through thier stories?</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3">Video: <a href="http://youtu.be/1tJrDiqhDu8" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/1tJrDiqhDu8</a></span><br/><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868849649?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="400" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868849649?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400"/></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p></div>Permaculture as Story Incubator. Commentary by Willi Paul, newmythologist.comhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/group/new-global-mythology/forum/topics/permaculture-as-story-incubator-commentary-by-willi-paul2012-11-12T01:22:29.000Z2012-11-12T01:22:29.000ZWilli Paulhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><strong>I spent time walking the land at <a title="http://mariesfarm.com/ " href="http://mariesfarm.com/" target="_blank">Marie’s Farm</a> this morning and relished her wet socks and bird calls and visions of spiral rows of new fruit trees to come. 108 acres just shy of Pescadero, CA and the Pacific, the place offers a critical balance between old machine parts, imaginal yurt chats and seed starts. Patrick and I are scheming mythic: we see an online exhibit of illustrations and new Nature-based myths in April and then a Nature-infused perma-arts conference in June. Tents required.</strong></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><strong>Our re-integration of permaculture’s land design with the Nature-Arts is a profound intersection to explore and work; to revive personal stories and gang-up to produce new community myths. I love the ritual of the A-Frame march to locate the contour of a hillside. Or our hydro-sense that water will disappear then percolates into a pond. Never forget that PDC foot trance for cob oven smiles.</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><strong>Perhaps the best artsy connection to permaculture is the harvest ritual. Hands digging for roots, baskets full from months of labor, cleaning, canning, storing. Eating together. How can this wondrous cyclical Nature routine be just a chore?!</strong></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><strong>To stifle this multiple thread and creative spirit in our permaculture work is to cut the cord to those coming next. We need to “pass the mud back” and sing to create the future we want to be.</strong></span></h3>
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