myth - Blog - SCOCO Network2024-03-29T11:28:32Zhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/myth“Liana’s Sacred Hands” - New Myth #67 by Willi Paul, CommunityAlchemy.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/liana-s-sacred-hands-new-myth-67-by-willi-paul-communityalchemy2015-02-25T16:15:45.000Z2015-02-25T16:15:45.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd" style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_97.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-standard" /></span></div></div></div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span class="font-size-4">“<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2246">Liana’s Sacred Hands</a>” - New Myth #67 by Willi Paul, CommunityAlchemy.com</span></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><em>A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. Lianas are especially characteristic of tropical moist deciduous forests and rainforests, including temperate rainforests. Lianas can form bridges amidst the forest canopy, providing arboreal animals with paths across the forest. These bridges can protect weaker trees from strong winds.</em></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Dolio is the hero and journey maker for his people who reside 7 miles inland in the rain forest near Tamarindo, Province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. While most of what he knows about the west is apocalyptical, he is determined to deploy his jungle love to build additional income and a sacred union between the growing tourist trade and his extended family.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">What many call “eco-alchemy” is called something else in his native language; Dolio is practicing important transition strategies to stay healthy and knows his part in the balancing act for a new sacred Earth.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">One key idea for Dolio’s community is to live and work locally, keeping costs down - using abundant resources. A second guide is the caring for the community ethic from permaculture.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Liana is a multi-variety local rain forest woody vine that grows fast and has many uses in his village including lattice structure for the dome roofs, perimeter security and large baskets to carry dirt and food. Villagers wear the bright and colorful flowers when they are in bloom.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Dolio wants to create a sustainable village and sees a way to earn money for his people and share sacred values with the tourists on the beach through basket weaving workshops. But he is shielding westerners from his village at this time for health, legal and economic concerns.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The village council has adopted a resilience creed that means that they can teach and share goods and stories between the contrasting cultures using symbols, like vine baskets and flowers. The village understands the deeper spiritual power and service of their symbols and wants to bolster their use on the coast. Like on their new workshop banner, simple symbols do not need an interpreter.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Dolio wants to create a sustainable village and sees a way to earn money for his people and share sacred values with the tourists on the beach through basket weaving workshops. But he is shielding westerners from his village at this time for health, legal and economic concerns.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Please credit the <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2245">Davis Roundtable</a> participants for their ideas.</span></p></div>
“blood, soil, seed” – “An Integrated System to Create New Permaculture & Transition Rituals & Myths” by Willi Paul, CommunityAlchemy.com
“Similar to dozens of other community “food foreshttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/4961666-BlogPost-360362015-01-27T20:33:00.000Z2015-01-27T20:33:00.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field-label"> </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2240" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_91.jpg?width=496" width="496" class="align-center" alt="centerspace_91.jpg?width=496" /></a></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“blood, soil, seed” – “An Integrated System to Create New Permaculture & Transition Rituals & Myths” by Willi Paul, <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2240">CommunityAlchemy.com</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Similar to dozens of other community “<a href="http://fruitcruz.org/">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 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">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><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span><br /><span class="font-size-3">A <a href="http://planetshifter.com/node/1914">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 href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2156">new mythologies</a> begins with each individual, where we experience life and make choices, supported by our families. <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2237">Families gather together</a> in neighborhood or civic groups for friendship and seasonal events. It is with these stages that <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2157">new rituals can be created, performed, evaluated and refined</a>.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">New Mythology can be created by us in this synergy.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span><br /><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#993300;"><strong>A Map to New Rituals and Myths</strong></span></p><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span></p><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><p><span class="font-size-3">-- <a href="http://www.robynhitchcock.com/">Robyn Hitchcock</a>: <strong>ultra unbelievable love</strong></span></p></div>"Rebellion Coming.” Conversation on Creative Mythology with Willi Paul and Arthur George. From Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rebellion-coming-conversation-on-creative-mythology-with-willi2014-09-17T20:53:16.000Z2014-09-17T20:53:16.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2214" target="_blank"><img width="496" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8095728082,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" height="343" alt="8095728082?profile=original" /></a></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong>"<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2214">Rebellion Coming</a>.” Conversation on Creative Mythology with Willi Paul and Arthur George. From Planetshifter.com Magazine </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p><span class="font-size-4" style="color:#ff0000;"> .... EXCERPT .... ></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Arthur:</span></strong></p><p><strong>What do you consider to be good examples of modern myths qualifying as “creative mythology” that others have created, and why?</strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Willi: </strong></span></p><p></p><p>Peter Gabriel’s - <strong>Last Temptation of Christ</strong><br /> U2 – <strong>Joshua Tree</strong><br /> Bruce Cockburn – <strong>Nothing but a Burning Light</strong><br /> REM – <strong>Murmur</strong><br /> Led Zeppelin – <strong>Mothership</strong></p><p></p><p>To various degrees, these musical journeys come from the places where the artists lived and worked as they built themes, symbols and Heroes and brought critical challenges to our consciousness in transitory times.</p><p></p><p></p></div>“Grid Town” (Permaculture Station) for the Post-Chaos Era + SYMBO Message 1.0 [video]. New Myth #65. By Willi Paul, Community Alchemy.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/grid-town-permaculture-station-for-the-post-chaos-era-symbo2014-08-28T12:29:31.000Z2014-08-28T12:29:31.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-label"></div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_103.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-standard align-center" /></div></div></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>“Grid Town” (Permaculture Station) for the Post-Chaos Era + SYMBO Message 1.0 [video]. New Myth #65. By Willi Paul, <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2208">Community Alchemy.com</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p>No one can predict how global warming will roll-out. It is our <strong>man-made, anti-Mother Nature monster cross to bear</strong> and any settlement types after the Chaos Era ends will need to be well-panned, compact, secure and localized.</p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2208" target="_blank">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2208</a></span></p></div>"lawyers, guns and water" - a permaculture sound comic. New Myth #64 - Willi Paul, CommunityAlchemy.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lawyers-guns-and-water-a-permaculture-sound-comic-new-myth-642014-08-20T00:39:20.000Z2014-08-20T00:39:20.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-5"><b>"lawyers, guns and water" - <a href="http://youtu.be/SM5RjmC4W8Y">a permaculture sound comic</a>. </b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><b><br /><span class="font-size-3">New Myth #64 - Willi Paul, <a href="http://communityalchemy.com/LGW/CommunityAlchemy.com">CommunityAlchemy.com</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Watch the LGW Video <a href="http://youtu.be/SM5RjmC4W8Y">here</a>.</b></span></p><p><b><img src="http://communityalchemy.com/LGW/SCORE.jpg" alt="" width="637" height="997" /></b></p><p>* * * * * * * </p><p><br /><b>“Groundwater is like a bank account. You can’t take out more than you put in on an ongoing basis.”</b></p><p>“<a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/06/02/drought-drives-drilling-frenzy-for-groundwater-in-california/">Scientists are already sounding alarm bells</a> about pumping too much groundwater. State water managers estimate that water tables in some parts of the Valley have dropped 100 feet below historical lows. As water levels sink, the land can sink, too — in some places by about a foot per year. Groundwater pumping could also put more stress on the San Andreas Fault. “If you own property, you can dig a well and you can pump as much groundwater as you a want,” says Famiglietti, “even if that means you are drawing water in from beneath your neighbor’s property into your well. So it’s not unlike having several straws in a glass, and everyone drinking at the same time, and no one really watching the level.”</p><p></p><p>That could change. SB 1168 making its way through the state legislature could, for the first time ever, require local agencies to track, and in some cases, even restrict groundwater pumping. Some farmers oppose it, saying it’s a violation of their property rights. But retired attorney and water activist Jerry Cadagan says counties should be thinking hard right now about the permits they’re giving to farmers to drill thousands of new wells. “You’ve got to put reasonable restrictions so people are only pumping out a reasonable amount of water that underlies their land,” says Cadagan, who lives in Stanislaus County, and is suing farmers there for drilling wells without considering the environmental impact.</p><p><br />* * * * * * * </p><p><br /><b>Sound Sample Credits</b> -</p><p></p><p>Floor_trading6.wav<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/touchassembly/sounds/146320/">https://www.freesound.org/people/touchassembly/sounds/146320/</a></p><p>GunRange_Mega3.wav<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/touchassembly/sounds/145580/">https://www.freesound.org/people/touchassembly/sounds/145580/</a></p><p>gurgle.aiff<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/eirons/sounds/117084/">https://www.freesound.org/people/eirons/sounds/117084/</a></p><p>Gas wird angezündet<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/mwirth/sounds/137174/">https://www.freesound.org/people/mwirth/sounds/137174/</a></p><p>Shopping -- At The Check out --.wav<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/illtype/sounds/83835/">https://www.freesound.org/people/illtype/sounds/83835/</a></p><p>Working with shovel.wav<br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/Ohrwurm/sounds/64416/">https://www.freesound.org/people/Ohrwurm/sounds/64416/</a></p><p>Anthony Bowman<br /><a href="https://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/AnthonyBowmanThisLandIsYourLand/ThisLandIsYourLand.mp3">https://ia600307.us.archive.org/5/items/AnthonyBowmanThisLandIsYourLand/ThisLandIsYourLand.mp3</a></p><p></p><p><b><a href="mailto:pscompub@gmail.com">Contact Mr. Paul</a></b></p><p>copyright 2014: willi paul, planetshifter.com media</p></div>“The Permaculture Grid.” A Prototype. New Myth #63 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-permaculture-grid-a-prototype-new-myth-63-by-willi-paul2014-08-16T21:50:12.000Z2014-08-16T21:50:12.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2205" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_98.png?width=500" width="500" class="align-center" alt="centerspace_98.png?width=500" /></a></div></div></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>“The Permaculture Grid.” A Prototype. New Myth #63 by Willi Paul,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2205">Planetshifter.com Magazine</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p>“American utility companies are responsible for running approximately 5,800 power plants and about 450,000 high-voltage transmission lines, controlled by various devices which have been put into place over the past decades. Some of the utility companies which oversee the power grid reportedly use “antique computer protocols” which are “probably” safe from cyber hackers,” The New York Times reported.</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>After the final twist, moan and arc weld of the United States electric grid in 2076 due to lightning and thunder storms and poor maintenance, the country faces rich on poor unrest, acute food shortages and evil footed darkness. Most ran to the cities, hoping for a sustainable re-gathering, abandoning their towns for the false security in equally broken state troopers and green technology.</p><p></p><p><strong>The grid will never be repaired. It’s localization or nothing.</strong></p><p></p><p>No electricity means no gas pumps, no truck transport, and no cars. No world wide web. Roads are now traversed on foot and horse and wagon, and go un-repaired.</p><p></p><p>One of the many unforeseen of many consequences in this human-born tragedy is that super rich Asians, Europeans and South Americans left their versions of black holes with their body guards, barter dreams and intestinal fortitude, came to America to re-cave and start a new global crisis chapter. With so many formal languages colliding into the muck of the blackout, a fellow in San Francisco invented a new global symbolic language especially in support of instructional permaculture.</p><p></p><p><strong>Electronic notebooks are still working.</strong> The symbolic language incorporates many communication formats, including a rich sound sample collection, a graphic language called “PermaGram”, photographic and video libraries and a new alphabet.</p><p></p><p><strong>New global stories and myths emerged are emerging!</strong></p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>Each station in the new permaculture grid has a small scale LAN (local area network) powered by a solar panel and storage battery system with its own specialized product or service to avoid duplication:</p><p></p><p><strong>SALT Compound</strong> (Granite Bay, CA)<br /><strong>FOCUS:</strong><br />1. Solar farm for small-scale electricity production and storage<br />2. Battery recharging<br />3. Mechanical repair<br />4. Medical Clinic<br /><a href="http://www.granitebay.com/History.html">Historical Brief:</a> Before it was Granite Bay, it was called Allen's District. Plum, peach, olives, and pear orchards were the agricultural mainstays.</p><p></p><p><strong>PermaCulture Station 1</strong> (Cool, CA)<br /><strong>FOCUS:</strong><br />1. Water Purification and Transport<br />2. Winery<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool,_California">Historical Brief:</a> Some locals believe that a beatnik named Todd Hausman coined the name ”Cool” in early 1947 on a cross country road trip, and appended it to the town. However, some local historians claim that the town was named during the days of the Gold Rush after a man named Aaron Cool.</p><p></p><p><strong>PermaCulture Station 2</strong> (Pilot Hill, CA)<br /><strong>FOCUS:</strong><br />1. Food production and distribution<br />2. Horse breeding<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_Hill,_California">Historical Brief</a>: In 1849, mining commenced at Pilot Hill. Originally, Centerville, Pilot Hill, and Pittsfield were separate nearby mining camps that unified under the name Centerville. Lavender, Olives and Grapes were once farmed here.</p><p></p><p><strong>PermaCulture 3</strong> (Lotus, CA)<br /><strong>FOCUS:</strong><br />1. Clothing<br />2. Permaculture Training Site<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus,_California">Historical Brief:</a> The settlement was established in 1849 and named for James W. Marshall, discoverer of gold. The name was changed to Lotus with the arrival of the post office in 1881.</p><p></p><p><strong>Camp DNA</strong> (Pine Hill Ecological Reserve)<br /><strong>FOCUS:</strong><br />1. Regional Farmer’s Market<br />2. Agriculture research<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Hill_Ecological_Reserve">Historical Brief:</a> The Pine Hill Ecological Reserve was one unit of the much larger Pine Hill Preserve system that protected eight rare plants and their gabbro soil habitat. It was jointly managed by several local, state and federal agencies through a Cooperative Management Agreement</p></div>"resilience in our age of dementia" - permaculture sound cartoon. SCORE Video. New Myth #62. Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Mediahttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/resilience-in-our-age-of-dementia-permaculture-sound-cartoon2014-08-13T17:03:57.000Z2014-08-13T17:03:57.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/n7zhaal" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_97.png?width=501" width="501" class="align-center" alt="centerspace_97.png?width=501" /></a></div></div></div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>"resilience in our age of dementia" - <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n7zhaal">permaculture sound cartoon</a>. <a href="http://youtu.be/cUuwZQvflmo">SCORE Video</a>. New Myth #62. Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Media</strong></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://youtu.be/cUuwZQvflmo">Watch the Video</a> for resilience in our age of dementia</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Project Site @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n7zhaal">CommunityAlchemy.com</a></strong></p></div>Kickstarter Campaign for Animation Pilot: “The Adventures of Permaculture Willi (“P-Willi”): The Glowing Labyrinth.” Launch Day Interview with Willi Paul by Susan Silberhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/kickstarter-campaign-for-animation-pilot-the-adventures-of2014-06-16T13:36:36.000Z2014-06-16T13:36:36.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_58.png" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-standard align-center" width="384" height="538" /></div></div></div><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong><a href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2188">Planetshifter.com</a></strong> launches a <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/oduknnd">Kickstarter Campaign</a></strong> to fund an Animation Pilot for “<strong><a href="http://communityalchemy.com/PWilli/PermacultureWilli.pdf">The Adventures of Permaculture Willi (“P-Willi”): The Glowing Labyrinth.</a></strong>” Enjoy the Launch Day <strong><a href="http://susansilber07.wix.com/susansilber11#%21Willi-Paul-/c17jj/1">Interview</a></strong> with Willi Paul by Susan Silber.</span></p><p></p><p><strong>The purpose of this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oduknnd">Kickstarter Campaign</a></strong> is to animate a permaculture story by <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1422">Willi Paul</a></strong> and create a pilot to take to market as a half hour television, cable or Internet-based children’s show.</p><p></p><p><strong>Background</strong>: please enjoy the script for the Kickstarter campaign and pilot: “<strong><a href="http://communityalchemy.com/PWilli/PermacultureWilli.pdf">The Adventures of Permaculture Willi (“P-Willi”): The Glowing Labyrinth.</a></strong> to understand the wondrous dynamics of a teenager who hangs out in her wired yurt surrounded by her permaculture garden in Berkeley, CA.</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p><strong>Kickstarter Campaign Launch Day</strong> Interview with Willi by <a href="http://susansilber07.wix.com/susansilber11#%21Willi-Paul-/c17jj/1">Susan Silber</a></p><p></p><p><strong>What inspired you to make an animated video about permaculture? How would you define success for this project?</strong></p><p>Two reasons: permaculture needs more media to get the word out. Since children are watching edu-animated programs across all device formats, Permaculture Willi can now better use the principles and ethics for a deeper experience.</p><p></p><p>Success will be meeting the funding goal so I can build the “P-Willi” pilot as I help to educate new folks to the planet-changing world of permaculture.</p><p></p><p><strong>What is P-Willi up to in subsequent plots?</strong></p><p>She has her hands full in Berkeley at her yurt and the labyrinth renovation – but she has mucho virtual tasks ahead of her as a “ <strong>wired global localist!</strong> ”</p><p></p><p><strong>Who is the target audience for this project?</strong></p><p>I will gear my answer for the business community. Key market sectors for sponsorships, vendors and actors include:</p><p>• Children’s Media (TV, cable, online and books)<br />• Permaculture (green, sustainability, foodies)<br />• Education (all levels)<br />• Animation</p><p></p><p><strong>Ideally speaking, what role do you see children in the <a href="http://www.joannamacy.net/thegreatturning.html">Great Turning</a>, as Joanna Macy calls it?</strong></p><p>Children, parents and teachers need to seek-out our global stories and risk more now by educating themselves outside of our present “Wal-Mart quagmire” as they are the key to building the New World. Kids are the transformational triggers in my emotional and creative investment in “P-Willi.”</p><p></p><p><strong>How else can the permaculture movement integrate the youngest generation into the work that we do, other than this video?</strong></p><p>We need to shift from the constant “sell sell” in the crowded PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) market and create a national / global permaculture curriculum for the schools.</p><p></p><p><strong>Do see any spin-offs coming out of the P-Willi animation?</strong></p><p>Web sites; app; curriculum; books; clothes, tools?</p><p></p><p><strong>How do you think that permies will see themselves in this venture?</strong></p><p>I hope that we see our own kids in the journey of “P-Willi.”</p><p></p><p><strong>As in your <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/56">New Myths</a>, you blend permaculture with other forces for lesson making. What are these other forces in your view and why did you include them in original piece?</strong></p><p>Permaculture for me is much more than a new-agriculture movement and has always blended many things: a spiritual connection; new alchemy; transition values; Nature; <strong><a href="http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=11">Joseph Campbell’s</a></strong> journey, hero, and initiation.</p><p></p><p><strong>Your Kickstarter Campaign promo video is a little rough!?</strong></p><p>I agree. I shot it in one take - by myself. I hope that “P-Willi” and her promise will carry the day!</p></div>Permaculture Propaganda Lab @ old seed bomb factory (2019). New Myth # 54 by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazinehttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/permaculture-propaganda-lab-old-seed-bomb-factory-2019-new-myth2014-05-17T20:47:38.000Z2014-05-17T20:47:38.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2183" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_45.png" class="align-center" alt="centerspace_45.png" /></a></div><div class="field-item odd"></div></div></div><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Permaculture Propaganda Lab @ old seed bomb factory (2019). New Myth # 54 by Willi Paul, <a href="http://planetshifter.com/node/2183">Planetshifter.com Magazine</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p>"Last month we took up to much too message, an undoable scale."</p><p></p><p>"Ya right. The <strong>“Food Forests on Mars”</strong> campaign!"</p><p></p><p>Sponsored by North Bay City Lands Conversion Group was underwritten by <strong><a href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles">Permaculture Principle #6</a></strong>.</p><p></p><p>"Not sure that "Make the least change for the greatest effect" was the result?"</p><p></p><p>"Maybe sometimes we should just make the case instead of propagating silly slogans?!"</p><p></p><p><strong>"Down."</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>Two months ago, the crew did the <strong>“seed library on wheels”</strong> campaign. The truck was robbed twice.</p><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><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><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><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><p></p><p>"Let's lease the 14 NorCal bill boards from <strong>Zippy’s Sign Mafia</strong> and go with:"</p><p></p><p><strong>"Grow It - Eat It - Compost it @ The Perma Store."</strong></p><p></p><p>"Thankfully some sign locations are in urban settings. Few can afford the train or auto travel charges at this point.</p><p></p><p>"Sounds like <strong>Principle #7</strong> fits ok here: "Start with the smallest systems and build on your successes, with variations."</p><p></p><p>"What comes after the billboard?"</p><p></p><p><strong>”One dollar Perma Store Hella tattoos!”</strong></p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p></div>"The Permaculture Potluck Cafe" - "New Myth #53" by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-permaculture-potluck-cafe-new-myth-53-by-willi-paul2014-05-04T17:21:30.000Z2014-05-04T17:21:30.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2180" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_38.png" alt="centerspace_38.png" /></a></div><div class="field-item odd"></div></div></div><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“The Permaculture Potluck Cafe” – “New Myth #53”</strong></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>by Willi Paul, <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2180">NewMythologist.com</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p>A <strong><a href="http://layogamagazine.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92">concerted grassroots effort</a></strong> with the potential for peaceful solutions is taking root through the spread of permaculture, an Earth-centered expression of the spiritual practice of yoga.</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>A few years ago, Dee Dee’s organic restaurant went under in downtown Richmond - an extravagance that too few could afford during the2021 <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2105">infrastructure wars</a></strong>. But today she still has her house, a garden and a bountiful spirit to match.</p><p></p><p>She walks the neighborhood with a few invitations on long lost and found recycled printer paper, hawking a “transition” idea about sharing and love around her dinner table.</p><p></p><p>The Permaculture Potluck Cafe, as the flyer reads, is part barter, part cooking class, but mostly a great inducement to cook, eat and share stories with her neighbors.</p><p></p><p><strong>It’s the end of the restaurant as we knew it and the start of the neighborhood cafe.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>As soon as seven invitations turned into seven reservations, Dee Dee had her head count, setting the coming Saturday nite at 5:30 pm for the cafe. A menu is chalked down on her kitchen blackboard; some folks are assigned to mains and others (she knows her neighbors well) get to bring wine.</p><p></p><p><strong>The weekly Permaculture Potluck Café schedule starts with a weekly food theme:</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>3:00</strong> – Prep cooking: chopping, sautéing, blending, chit chat!</p><p></p><p><strong>5:00</strong> – Friends Mingle in</p><p></p><p><strong>6:00</strong> – Dinner starts</p><p></p><p><strong>8:00</strong> – Dessert with Story Hour</p><p></p><p><strong>9:00</strong> – Leftovers, recipe exchange and hugs good bye</p><p></p><p><strong>9:15</strong> – Clean-up and compost</p><p></p><p>Folks see the Cafe has a new neighborhood <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2157">sharing ritual</a></strong>; a key <strong><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1367">local not-for-profit translation</a></strong> that brings the best of the old restaurant vibe back to families around the block.</p><p></p><p>Dee Dee’s weekly donation bowl is always full with offers to help in her garden and local currency.</p></div>“Caroline Fang and the Train to Eden” – “Children’s Climate Change Video” - New Myth #51 / Myth Lab #10 by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/caroline-fang-and-the-train-to-eden-children-s-climate-change2014-02-21T20:09:26.000Z2014-02-21T20:09:26.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2165" target="_blank"><img width="403" src="" class="align-center" alt="" /></a><span class="font-size-4"><strong>“<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2165" target="_blank">Caroline Fang and the Train to Eden</a>”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>“Children’s Climate Change Video”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>New Myth #51 / Myth Lab #10 by</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong> </strong></span></p></div>Building a new sound symbol library for global community storytelling. Videos (3) + Lesson Planning + PDF. By Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/building-a-new-sound-symbol-library-for-global-community-story2013-12-15T17:00:00.000Z2013-12-15T17:00:00.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:#993300;"><strong>Building a new sound symbol library for global community storytelling. </strong></span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-1"><strong>Videos (3) + Lesson Planning + PDF. By Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com</strong></span></h2><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2156"><img alt="3sound" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/3sound.png?w=325&h=717" width="227" height="502" class="align-center" /></a></p><p><strong>Project Outline</strong></p><p></p><p>Introduction</p><p>Building with Sound in Phases</p><p>Archetypical Sounds and the Symbols Library</p><p>Integrating Alchemy, New myth, Nature and Sound?</p><p><strong>SoundTrack Videos 1 -3:</strong></p><p>Mythic Soundtrack 1 – Primitive Man Era – Nature<br /> <a title="http://youtu.be/IQ2D8wmE5-E" href="http://youtu.be/IQ2D8wmE5-E">http://youtu.be/IQ2D8wmE5-E</a></p><p>Mythic Soundtrack 2 – Industrial Era – Oil Profiteers<br /> <a title="http://youtu.be/VEOJsbFcbv8" href="http://youtu.be/VEOJsbFcbv8">http://youtu.be/VEOJsbFcbv8</a></p><p>Mythic Soundtrack 3 – Rock & Roll Era – Up Consciousness<br /> <a title="http://youtu.be/dJr40D4dQAA" href="http://youtu.be/dJr40D4dQAA">http://youtu.be/dJr40D4dQAA</a></p><p>A New Sound Symbol Library for Global Community Storytelling</p><p>Lesson Planning:</p><p>Questions for Teachers & Students</p><p>Additional Educational Resources</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p>“The alchemical process is a physical ritual that projects an inner state onto physical elements.” “Yes, I believe I understand how alchemy can work in the sound and visual arts; what’s just as clear is that today’s technology has definitely upped the ante.”</p><p></p><p>From: <strong>“Journey into Joseph Campbell Rising.”</strong> <a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1660">PlanetShifter.com Magazine Interview</a> with Stephen Gerringer, Community Relations @ Joseph Campbell Foundation</p><p></p><p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p>‘As many writers have discussed in PlanetShifter.com Magazine interviews, this sound is an alchemical or transmutation process, where the recombining of elements and the interactive process is more important than the product. Also examine myth as soundscape – or how the imagination of each listener both creates and recombines a story and how the meanings evolve as each collaboration changes the forces. These fragments can be re-mixed as each new group is created.</p><p>Differing from other musical composition, here sound is no longer the background but the foreground as the evolving sound collage drives the listener experience; sound is now a new story that we process and interpret individually and collectively.’</p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1619">Sound as Myth: Initiation and Journey at the Sonic – Human Interface</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Building with Sound in Phases</strong></p><p>Integrating sound symbols and short soundtracks into longer pieces could take multiple phases. There are many ways to go and relationships to consider. Three phases to consider include:</p><p></p><p>Phase One: Sound fragments > new interpretations > Alchemic Translation > Sound Symbol Recorded > Collected Symbols > (Story Buildings) New Myth > New Ritual</p><p></p><p>Phase Two: Building an Integrated soundtrack with new sound symbols via group collaboration</p><p></p><p>Phase Three: Joining the soundtrack(s) into a story or new myth (as in hearing the three SoundTracks in this study consecutively.</p><p></p><p><strong>Archetypical Sounds and the Symbols Library</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>natural sounds</strong><br /> wind, fire, water, storm, lightning + thunder</p><p><strong>animal sounds</strong><br /> bark, howl, scratch, chew</p><p><strong>human sounds 1</strong><br /> pain cry, grunt, laugh, shriek, baby born</p><p><strong>human signals</strong><br /> scent<br /> hand gestures<br /> symbolic language</p><p><strong>human – nature sounds</strong><br /> building shelter<br /> damming stream<br /> planting crops</p><p><strong>human sounds 2</strong><br /> machine / industrial sounds<br /> formal languages<br /> storytelling</p><p><strong>electronic sounds</strong><br /> rock music + live concert ritual<br /> sampling<br /> personalized stereo + equalization</p><p></p><p><strong>Integrating Alchemy, New Myth, Nature and Sound?</strong></p><p></p><p>The sounds that we hear in Nature or play in our devices are embedded in our educational and cultural experiences to name two. The following new story foundation values and ethics are recommended as we integrate and act on many of the critical environmental issues like nuclear power, fracking, and climate change.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://youtu.be/hfPS5EJxocM">8 Key Elements in the New Mythology</a> include:</p><p></p><p>1. Localization – back to sustainability and community; self-sufficiency<br /> 2. Nature- Centric<br /> 3. Spiritual<br /> 4. Future-based<br /> 5. Universal themes(s) and message<br /> 6. Para-Normal in conflict or characters<br /> 7. Initiation, Journey and Hero<br /> 8. Permaculture & Transition: values and principles</p><p></p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p></p><p><strong>SoundTrack Videos 1 -3:</strong></p><p>The three short project videos support sounds for the new library and include 4 – 12 pairs of Sound Symbols with a corresponding Alchemic Translation. Each pair is approximately 4 seconds with no graphics and has a theme (Era) and a subtitle:</p><p></p><p><strong>Mythic SoundTrack 1</strong><br /> <strong>See Video: <a href="http://youtu.be/IQ2D8wmE5-E">Primitive Man Era – Nature</a></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> stream + crickets<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> hydration + food + bathing</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Wind + Fear<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Storm Coming + The Unknown</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Lightning + Thunder<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Wonderment + Hysteria + Fire Starter</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Fire + Fire Pit + Warmth<br /> ALCHEMICAL TRANSLATION<br /> Safety + Cooking + Community</p><p></p><p><strong>Mythic SoundTrack 2</strong><br /> <strong>See Video: <a href="http://youtu.be/VEOJsbFcbv8">Industrial Era – Oil Profiteers</a></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Factory Production Noise<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Sweat + Labor + Profit</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Train Whistle + Wheels on Tracks<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Settlements + Stolen Land + Capitalist Exploitation</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Digging + Shovel<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Diamonds + Slaves</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Bubbling Gas + Machinery<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Fracking + Poisoned Land + Community Lost</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Ocean Drilling<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Greed + Pollution</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Nuclear Plant Siren<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Planetary Warning + Poison</p><p></p><p><strong>Mythic SoundTrack 3</strong><br /> <strong>See Video: <a href="http://youtu.be/dJr40D4dQAA">Rock & Roll Era – Up Consciousness</a></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Alchemic Sound Fragments from</strong>: Robyn Hitchcock, Yes, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Richard Butler, Steve Tibbetts,<br /> Pink Floyd, & Bruce Cockburn</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Guitar<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Running thru the grass + sunshine</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Drums, guitar & Synth<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Bridge to another place</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Drums, Guitars, Bass & Samples<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Dreaming – then Awake!</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Complete Rock Band<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Proclamation</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Organ<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Hover, Reflect, Claim</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Percussion<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Run, Wave Chant</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Synth & Voice<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Hold hands, kiss & smile</p><p><strong>SOUND SYMBOLS</strong><br /> Machine Samples + Guitar<br /> ALCHEMIC TRANSLATION<br /> Sirens & Ghosts</p><p></p><p><strong>A New Sound Symbol Library for Global Community Storytelling</strong></p><p></p><p>The proposed sound database or symbol library should have <a href="http://us.creativecommons.org/">creative commons</a> support, with collaborative tools for members to upload, transform and produce new soundtracks solo or together. It is envisioned that these musical works could assist in the development of new rituals and storytelling. The vision for this new sound symbol library is not the same as <a href="https://soundcloud.com/">SoundCloud.com</a> or <a href="http://www.freesound.org/">Freesounds.org</a> because of its innovative alchemy + myth engine.</p><p>* * * * * * *</p><p><strong>Lesson Planning:</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Questions for Teachers & Students</strong></p><p></p><p>a) If we can get the power of myth from storytellers and the printed page, then why not from SoundTracks?<br /> b) Can a “Sound Myth” be a series of integrated sounds that combine to have a universal themes and message?<br /> c) How do we translate or transmutate sound into visual cues, messages, initiation and global meaning?<br /> d) How do we map the sound alchemy (transmutation) process as it supports other elements of the New Myth?<br /> e) Describe the relationship between sound alchemy and initiation?<br /> f) What is initiation in the Myth Lab process as Joseph Campbell describes it?<br /> g) Are sound symbols or fragments connected to memories and new feelings?<br /> h) Is initiation like a meditation? How?<br /> i) What is a mythic experience?<br /> j) Does a Sound Myth require a new language, code, or key?<br /> k) Can silence be a sound symbol?</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2018">http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2018</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Additional Educational Resources</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2010">water sound symbol myth: building new nature-based myths (Video). willi paul, openmythsource.com</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1659">Mixing alchemy and Mythology – Symbols and Spirit. A PlanetShifter.com Magazine [ open myth source ]</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2090">“Transition Prayer Percussion Ritual” by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2018">sound symbols, archetypes & the power of myth: an alchemic journey with Nature begins, Willi Paul, openmythsource.com</a></p></div>“Spiraling into Permaculture & New Mythology”- Interview with Shari Tarbet, PhD., OSHER Institute by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/spiraling-into-permaculture-new-mythology-interview-with-shari2013-08-07T16:26:04.000Z2013-08-07T16:26:04.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><h2><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/centerspace.jpg"><img class="wp-image-3400 alignnone align-center" alt="centerspace" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/centerspace.jpg" width="328" height="258" /></a></h2><h5><span class="font-size-2">“<strong>Connect:</strong> Use relative location: Place elements in ways that create useful relationships and time-saving connections among all parts. The number of connections among elements creates a healthy, diverse ecosystem, not the number of elements.” </span></h5><h5><span class="font-size-2">- <a title="Permaculture Principle #2" href="http://www.patternliteracy.com/resources/ethics-and-principles" target="_blank"><strong>Permaculture Principle #2</strong></a></span></h5><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">Key Elements in the “New Mythology” (<a href="http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1855">W. Paul</a>)</span></h4><p><span class="font-size-2">1. Localization – back to sustainability and community; self-sufficiency</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">2. Nature- Centric</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">3. Spiritual</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">4. Future-based</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">5. Universal themes(s) and message</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">6. Para-Normal in conflict or characters</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">7. Initiation, Journey and Hero</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">8. Permaculture & Transition: values and principles</span></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">* * * * * * *</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Interview with Shari by Willi</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">Can a community be a Hero?</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=11">Joseph Campbell</a></b> <strong>called the third stage of the Hero's Journey the Return. The hero returns from the other worldly realm of the unconscious (I think it is fair to say that it is the soul to which we journey) with a boon to give to the community. Though symbolized as an object, the boon is the knowledge hero gains of one's authentic self and how to live in the world, upon return, as that true self. The hero is then charged with the responsibility to pass this on to the people in the community. For example, in Leslie Marmon Silko's <i>Ceremony</i>, the hero Tayo, a psychologically wounded warrior returning to Laguna Pueblo after WWII, undertakes the Hero's Journey as a healing process not only for himself, but for the Pueblo and the world. Throughout the book, the elders of the Pueblo periodically ask him what he has to tell them. Tayo doesn't understand what they want until he completes his journey. It is only then that he goes to the elders to share with them what he has learned.</strong></span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">All the Hero's Journey myths in all the cultures of the world past and present with which I am familiar show the individual taking this journey in a process Jung called Individuation. A community doesn't go on this journey, which is why I think a community is not a hero nor can it be a hero. However, I think it can be heroic when it fosters and nurtures the individuals who live within it to become their true, authentic selves. The danger is that even with the best intentions it can stagnate and, like the Empire in <i>Star Wars</i>, become, as Campbell termed it, mechanical. In other words, it would become a community or state that stops fostering individuals to become authentic and starts requiring that they conform to ways of being that maintains the existence of the community as an entity. We see communities in this state in modern tellings of the Hero's Journey not just in <i>Star Wars </i>but also in <i>Matrix, Lord of the Rings,</i> and <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, to name a few.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">Can you provide evidence that classic myths are energizing the permaculture, occupy or Transition movements in 2013?</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Let me just say that archaic, classic, or modern myth, all fulfill some or all of the same purposes of myth: to explain natural phenomenon; to support what a society sees as right and wrong, good and evil; to help the individual to live as an authentic self within any society or community; and/or to help us understand the mysteries of the universe that are beyond our ability to understand rationally. So, from this perspective, I do think myth is energizing these movements. Though I am not familiar with the permaculture or Transition movements, I have been involved in the occupy movement. The fact that these movements have arisen is evidence that myth energizes them for the energy is spiritual and as it moves, these movements have arisen. When movements rise up against what people consider to be unjust, corrupt we do have the hero epic in play here. The three best modern myth examples I can think of are <i>Star Wars, Matrix,</i> and <i>‘V’</i>.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">In all three we see a corrupt government whose rulers are old, sterile, and so divorced from the people as to even be considered alien. In all three we see a group of people that rise up in opposition to that corruption. In Star Wars it’s the Rebellion that rises up against the Empire ruled by an emperor so old as to look like death itself. His enforcer, as it were, is a Jedi who has turned to the dark side and submitted to his lord to the point there is nothing left of him but a worm-life version of himself because he has become almost entirely mechanical. Within this struggle arise a young man and his sister who both become involved in the struggle against a mechanical society. The young man, undergoing his Hero’s Journey, has a final confrontation with both Darth Vader and the Emperor as his final tests to achieving his true, authentic self. In the Matrix, Neo becomes authentic within a rebellion of alien conquerors. V is hero, guide, and trickster in showing up a corrupt government and bringing about the awakening of a young woman in her heroine’s journey.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">The occupy movement is a rising up of people rebelling against a government corrupted by corporate greed. Just as the Empire, aliens, and British government send their police force to rid themselves of these rebels, so we saw local police sent in to defend corporations against protestors. Any of these three movements, if the myths are any guide, are successful only insofar as individuals become their own heroes and in completing their journey in this process outsmart the powers they rise against.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">Who or what are some of the current alternatives to Campbell’s constructs and visions? Is he still as important as ever?</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Some of the current alternatives to Campbell with whom I am familiar are Freud, Jung, James Hillman, Maureen Murdock, Eckhart Tolle, and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes. Some of the <i>what</i> includes Maureen Murdock’s <i>Heroine’s Journey</i>, Jung’s comparative process of Individuation, Hillman’s exploration of the Psyche in the Underworld, his concept that the gods and goddesses have become our neuroses demanding our attention, the approach of Tolle and some Buddhists to eradicate the ego, Estes’ Jungian approach to fairy tales to help women recover their authentic selves in <i>Women Who Run With Wolves </i>and other of her books and retreats.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Unconditionally yes, Campbell is as important today as ever. There are roundtable groups around the world that meet regularly to discuss Campbell and what he was saying. They discuss myths, fairy tales, and movies in terms of what Campbell taught. There is a foundation that houses his work and his books. Pacifica Graduate Institute houses some of his writings. In the early days of this institute, he served on its board. People continue to ‘discover’ Campbell and his work and are moved by it. I myself discovered Campbell when I watched the entire 6 hours of Bill Moyers interview with him right before Joe died. The next day I went out and bought the companion book to those interviews as did, apparently, so many other people that the book store I went to had sold out of it and had to back order the title. I attribute that interview to eventually leading me to attend and get my degree from Pacifica. I know of at least two programs, one in this country and one in Australia that use the Hero’s Journey to teach boys how to become men. I am one of many teachers who use the Hero’s Journey to teach literature in their high school classrooms. I teach it directly in myth classes.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">What is a mythologist? Are there common goals and trainings (or just individuals and multiple agendas?)</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Most strictly speaking, a mythologist is anyone who studies mythology. In this country there are only two schools where one can receive training in mythology. One is the Pacifica Graduate Institute that offers an MA/PhD in Mythological Studies, and a school in New York that offers training in the application of mythology. Outside of these two schools, any other study in mythology is subsumed, if one is lucky, in studies in world religions and/or philosophy.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">As far as common goals are concerned, this reminds me of all the times I've heard the question asking what mythology is. I've heard that question answered many ways, but in every case I have found that those answers fit in Campbell’s answer that there are four purposes of myth. I think the same is true for your question of common goals in the study of mythology; all the answers to the question can be contained in a few purposes. No matter how it’s worded, I think people study mythology for reasons deeper than merely coming to know the stories.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">I think there is a desire to find meaning in one’s life and in life in general. I think there is a desire to understand on a symbolic/archetypal level the meanings in the myths. Of course there is the desire to study myth within an academic field of anthropology or archaeology, or even to study myth for its own sake. There is a desire to know and understand the peoples who told these myths to their children and to each other as well as sought out shamans, priestesses, and priests to enact the rituals that accompanied the myths. And I think there’s the desire to understand and heal one’s self.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2"><b>Many champion the Hollywood Hero these days: Iron Man, Bat Man. There seems to be a lot of testosterone flowing there! Please read and react to </b><a href="http://wp.me/p2JLqK-cb"><span>my critique of Popmythology.com</span></a><b> - a blog by written by Daniel Jun Kim:</b></span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">By now, you probably have noticed that I reference both modern literature and movies, though not comic books because I'm not familiar with the last. However, When I was teaching Comparative World Mythology to high school students, when we came to the unit on the Hero's Journey, I used both classic myth and modern literature as well as movies to teach Campbell's steps of that journey. Students in turn became able to relate it to other movies and comics. Boys who had always loved the Star Wars trilogy often told me they would never be able to see it the same way again. So, I agree with what you are saying in you critique. Let me begin with Star Wars. The fact is that Campbell was a consultant on the film because Lucas wanted to be sure he got all the steps, all the symbols, all the archetypes, the myth absolutely correct. From there the list grows. The <i>Matrix</i> (first movie anyway), <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>,<i> Willow</i>,<i> the Lord of the Rings</i> (books and movies), <i>A Christmas Carol</i>,<i> Alice in Wonderland</i>, C.S. Lewis' series of the <i>Witch, The Lion, and The Wardrobe</i>,<i> "V"</i>,<i> The Pirates of the Caribbean</i> (yes, and I can plot you all the steps of the HJ particularly in the first movie. And no, the hero is not Capt. Jack Sparrow. It's the young woman) and these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">In contrast, however, are the heroes you mention of the Iron Man and Batman stripe. I do not see them as the same kind of hero. They are not on a quest to find their authentic self, to move along the process of Individuation. They are the hero typical of a patriarchal culture that is not interested in the archetypal mythic Hero's Journey. They are the type of hero image that reminds us over and over again that heroism is only about might. That the evil always comes from the 'other' who is not us, and by that simple fact alone is evil. The hero image embodied in Batman, Superman, Iron Man, etc. continually puts before us the warrior hero of not only a patriarchal culture but one that worships a thunder father god who leads in battle, to whom he is prayed to be 'on our side which is righteous', to whom the choicest spoils of war will be dedicated, who insists that soldiers go out and protect our 'way of life' from threats on all sides that will destroy us if we aren't ever vigilant and ready for war.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">In my opinion, this is the image of the Empire in <i>Star Wars</i> which uses suppression and oppression to maintain itself and is a distraction from that inner journey to authenticity. This kind of warrior hero doesn't have to be of high quality of deep development. This kind of hero only has to repeat the old orthodoxy of the empire which declares as heretic and rebel those who wish to be their authentic self. If we are attending to that heroic process of Individuation, we begin to think for ourselves and to think deeply. We are also, according to Campbell, supported in this by supernatural aides. This, of course, is seen as very dangerous to the order of things represented in various ways in the epics of the hero on his and her journey because when individuals thinking for themselves they are no longer controllable.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">Please share a few of your favorite modern day Nature-based symbols.</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">In no particular order, I’d have to say first, the serpent. It is the earliest symbol representing the wisdom of the Goddess. It also is the symbol for regeneration. Next, I’d say the tree. It’s symbolic of the World Axis, or that which joins earth, above, and below. It is not only symbolic of family but also symbolic of the Self. Next, I’d say the moon. It symbolizes the phases of the life cycle of birth (crescent moon) life (waxing and full moon), death (waning moon), and rebirth (new moon). From archaic times we have figurines of the Goddess with the horn of an animal with 13 marks on it as a lunar year calendar. With her hand on her ample belly reminiscent of pregnancy/life, archaic peoples equated the phases of the moon with fertility and new life. For me these symbols still hold true in modern times.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">How do you use alchemy?</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">I use alchemy symbolically. In dream work (dreams by the way as our personal myths) I look to the association of colors with the steps of the alchemical process of achieving the Philosopher's Stone as well as their association with the chakras. This can tell me where I am in a round of a journey or it will tell me if I have completed a round of my own Hero's Journey. I see the Philosopher’s Stone as the symbol of the Boon of the Journey. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieros_gamos">Heiros Gamos</a> in Alchemy shows up in the Hero's Journey and is really important as that union, the coming together of opposites, particularly into a transformation of being from one state to a higher one.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">* * * * * * *</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” - <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a></span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2"><b><span>Shari’s Bio -</span> </b>Shari earned her MA/PhD in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2012, and has presented papers on the Trickster and on the demonization process of the Sacred Feminine through words. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Shari taught in secondary education for over 30 years in the areas of literature, writing, history, and world mythology. She currently teaches topics in mythology with the <a href="http://www.osherfoundation.org/index.php?foundation">OSHER Institute</a> and reading at Dine College, and works extensively with dreams.</span></h4><p></p><h4><span class="font-size-2">* * * * * * *</span></h4><h4><span class="font-size-2">Connections –</span></h4><p><strong><span class="font-size-2">Shari Tarbet, PhD.</span></strong><br /><span class="font-size-2">satarbet.02 at gmail.com</span><br /><span class="font-size-2">Albuquerque, NM</span></p></div>“The Roundabout Food Forest Gang” : New Myth #47, by Rob Joyce, Please Touch Garden & Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-roundabout-food-forest-gang-new-myth-47-by-rob-joyce-please2013-07-25T19:57:00.000Z2013-07-25T19:57:00.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><p><b><a href="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/centerspace.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3369 align-center" alt="centerspace" src="http://openmythsource.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/centerspace.png?w=640" width="373" height="348" /></a></b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Access > Plan > Stewardship</b></p><p></p><p><b>The Roundabout Food Forest Gang</b> (RFF) had a vision of returning a four block street and roundabout to a place to walk, connect, plant and harvest, including a pathway for walkers and bikes in a post-petroleum rebirth. RFF is calling for a permaculture-driven map free from City tentacles, long broken by bankruptcy and a 1950’s vision. Their roundabout cluster went off-grid when the utilities were unearthed and sent packing. Green technologies are in place now: water cachement, grey water, solar hub, and other shared earth-friendlies. The food forest was planted by the 16 original neighbors.</p><p></p><p>A bright green local seed for a change.</p><p></p><p>Today the “roundabout dirt share” includes large swathes of vegetables – currently producing tomatoes, zucchini, squash, kale, cabbage, celery, asparagus, and broccoli – as well as maturing fruit trees such as apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, avocado, cherry, orange, tangerine, fig, and pomegranate.</p><p></p><p>Residential lots in each of the four directions emanating from the circle are spirit transformed; integrated. The Gang broke-up the concrete curbs and removed the asphalt streets. They removed the boulevards but kept the sidewalks. At the center circle stands an ancient dwarf Gala Apple Tree.</p><p></p><p>Hummingbirds pollinate the food forest and the flowering veggies, sing, dance, play, have their babies and entertain the circle scene; they are watch dogs, messengers and teachers for the neighborhood. The residents put up hummingbird condos to facilitate the hummer’s pollinatic and dare devil ways.</p><p></p><p>Human elements now include benches, gravel paths, plants, a compost area, and a tool shed.</p><p></p><p>A permaculture food forest mimics some of the beneficial relationships of a natural forest. They are quick to point out that food forests are not ‘natural’, but are designed and managed ecosystems that are very rich in biodiversity and productivity. The food forest meets several goals:</p><p></p><p>a. To produce food</p><p>b. To produce forage for beneficial insects, pollinators, chickens and song birds</p><p>c. To create wildlife habitat to nurture for our bodies through herbal teas and concoctions</p><p>d. To create beauty and sense of well being</p><p></p><p>Four totem poles – one at each corner from the roundabout – are reserved as four activity spaces:</p><p></p><p>a. Yoga / stretching</p><p>b. Reading / quite conversations</p><p>c. Water fountain</p><p>d. Two picnic tables</p><p></p><p><b>Values > Invitation</b></p><p></p><p>At each totem, the working principles for the project are posted on a small plaque:</p><p></p><p align="center"><strong>Work Collaboratively</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Use Local Resources First</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Re-Use & Recycle</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Hands-on, Peer-to Peer Learning</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Gifting</strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Horizontal Decision Making</strong></p><p align="center"></p><p><b>Celebration > Hope > New Myths</b></p><p></p><p>At the “roundabout opening” celebration, children tie recycled purple cloth ribbons around the trunk and main limbs of the old Apple tree to show of unity with Nature and their new community intersection. Each ribbon represents a wish to put some energy back into their neighborhood, food forest and friends.</p><p></p><p>No one noticed a small person wearing a dark grey hoodie smiling at the crowd tonight, leaving the celebration early with an apple in his pocket.</p><p></p><p>He is the wise-old “Green Guardian” who lives in the hollowed-out roots of the Gala Apple Tree and keeps an eye out for kids, litter bugs and the birds.</p><p></p><p><strong>Have you seen him?</strong></p><p> </p></div>Land Sky River Stars. New Myth #46 by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.comhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/land-sky-river-stars-new-myth-46-by-willi-paul-newmythologist-com2013-07-09T21:58:03.000Z2013-07-09T21:58:03.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-5"><b>Land Sky River Stars.</b> <b>New Myth #46</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>by Willi Paul, NewMythologist.com</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b><b> </b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://openmythsource.com/myth-lab/" target="_blank"><img src="" width="447" class="align-center" height="354" alt="" /></a></b></span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p><em><span class="font-size-3">The Two Peak Tribe migrated to the northern range of the Oregon coastal mountains from Salt Lake City some 23 years ago, initially bound together as a Permaculture Guild. Tomu is a former ARMY grunt from South Chicago was squatting on the land adjunct to the river canyon when the missionaries showed up.</span></em></p><p><strong><a href="http://newmythologist.com/raw-ideas/" target="_blank">Cascadia, 2040 AD</a></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">* * * * * * *</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Tomu needs a way over to the sunny side of the river canyon. The Tribe’s current shady side is alongside a splashy waterfall and on top of a soil-poor land fertile enough to grow a food forest - and new stories for his people. 40 precarious feet to the next phase of their lives without a ladder or a leap of permie faith.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Visioning</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">One night, Tomu dreams of a great black eagle who offers to help the Tribe cross the divide if he can raise his chicks in safety on the warmer mountainside. Eagle tells the Tribal children to gather hair and dried grasses so a strong twine can be spun.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Then Tomu wakes up!</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">He doesn't know if the master bird is coming in real life but he starts in on the hybrid rope bridge just in earnest.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The shady side of their half of the twin mountains was never warm to the Tribe. The shadow of its sister peak kept their village cool with a sparse afternoon sun. Only a limited number of crops grow. Think “year round partial eclipse”; many hugs but few fruits or raps:</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">A one eyed-patch mythology?</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The river is roaring or trickling depending on the season. The Tribe sources fish and water at the falls, bathing and meditating.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Nesting</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Building such a connection between old land and the new world brings danger and rewards. A young woman, a runner with long black hair and toned muscles named Zollum earned the right to throw the rock with the twine over the chasm attached to a small team of Tribe builders waiting to tie the two lands together as vision for the outpost and bi-directional barter path requires.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The tribe engineered a cabin built of young trees, lashed tight by strong reeds that grow along the river banks on the beams in the middle of the canyon. Something like the open carriage that Kings traveled in with long handles in ancient times. A grail on poles, graced by mist; a security outpost passing permaculture code between the dark and light. Fishing without the bears is a real joy and remains of the catch enhance their compost.</span></p><p><br /><span class="font-size-3">Tribefolk now come from many regions to chart the stars and Moon cycle from the roof portal, a river drenched observatory cooed by the rushing sounds of the water below and ancient wind through the sparkling canyon.</span></p><p><br /><strong><span class="font-size-3">Barter Path</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Tomu and the Tribal Council eventually decided to integrate gates at both ends of the sky river outpost. The “passage barter” requested brought much needed goods and services to the Tribe and word of the friendly passage spread throughout the territory. Like the defunct Panama Canal in the old world, the observation deck and bridge brought much needed security to the mountains. And if hostiles come their way, they have the handy option to cut the bridge down quickly to prevent their advance.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span class="font-size-3">Food Forest</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The tribal dream for many, many years - for both elders and their children – was ample sun and soil for a food forest. Landing on the other side of their sister mountain brought this yearning into a beginning.</span></p><p></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The sign at the Food Forest Deer gate says:</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Night Shade - Sun Shine</strong></span><br /><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Water Capture - Release</strong></span><br /><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Plant Diversity - System Security</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Education - Enchantment</strong></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong> </strong></span></p></div>2013 Northwest Permaculture Convergence: Let's Grow Together!https://sustainablecoco.ning.com/profiles/blogs/2013-northwest-permaculture-convergence-let-s-grow-together2013-07-04T14:01:12.000Z2013-07-04T14:01:12.000ZWilli Paulhttps://sustainablecoco.ning.com/members/WilliPaul<div><p></p><div class="field field-type-image field-field-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><img src="http://www.planetshifter.com/uploads/imagecache/standard/centerspace_7.PNG" alt="" title="" height="525" width="341" class="align-center" /></div></div></div><p><strong>The 2013 NW Permaculture Convergence features a special <a href="http://openmythsource.com/myth-lab/">Myth Lab Presentation</a> by <a href="http://newmythologist.com/">NewMythologist</a> Willi Paul</strong></p><p></p><p>The 2013 NW Permaculture Convergence is an inclusive annual event which unites communities for a weekend of intensive focus on a common goal: to design sustainable habitats in accordance with nature for <strong>all humans, plants, and animals.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>The 2013 event will be held at Pacific University, and B Street Farm in Forest Grove, Oregon on August 2 - 4, 2013</strong></p><p>Practitioners across a wide spectrum of skill sets exchange ideas through concurrent workshops ranging from organic agriculture and wildcrafting to natural building and appropriate technologies; from environmental remediation and disaster preparedness to community dynamics and global justice.</p><p>The 2013 Convergence will include a special <strong><a href="http://nwpccintro.blogspot.com/">Introduction to Applied Permaculture</a></strong> session on Friday morning at B Street Farm from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.</p><p></p><p>"Applied Permaculture" means design and actions for real life application. This special discounted introduction will be appropriate for complete newcomers and anyone who wants to receive a concise overview of Permaculture Design Principles and work hands-on Friday morning.</p><p></p><p><strong>In addition to the workshop space, there are also dedicated areas for skill sharing, children's activities, educational displays, and vendors.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.northwestpermaculture.org/">More info and registration!</a></strong></p><p></p><p>Participants have opportunities to socialize over communal meals sourced from local growers, and during the evening's entertainment. Camping is available on-site for a nominal fee.</p></div>