The Kindred Spirits Meet

We need to meet the people and take a little closer look at the vision as a whole. We need to make an assessment of who we are and where we are going towards the attainment of this vision of a self sustainable community.

Our email group has now grown to over 700 people and we do need to begin to integrate that into a workable whole. Everyone needs to be there to meet with new folks and to hear from everyone who feels they have a sincere interest in this project.

We all have a real part to play in this and there is a great need for people to meet up with T and the others who are beginning to make up the beginnings of an unofficial core group that will  have to be able to plant the beginning Seeds of Eden in fertile ground. Everyone should come clean and neat to show respect for the meet and you might even want to bring something to share.

Directions From the Bay Area

Glen Ellen is on Arnold Drive off Highway 12 in between the town of Sonoma and Kenwood. Go north on 101 from the Golden Gate Bridge until you get to HWY 37. Take that east to 121 North towards Sonoma. Keep going north up along the west side of the Valley then go into 116 north and that goes into Arnold Drive which takes you right into Glen Ellen and the Jack London Lodge is right in the center of this very small town and so you just can't miss it and we will be looking out for you as well right out front, so don't go inside until we have had a chance to see you.

From the North

Come down highway 101 to Santa Rosa, Then take the College Exit and then left under the overpass going east which veers into HWY 12 after a while and heads you out past Kenwood, then look for signs for Glen Ellen which is the next town off the highway on your right.

Everyone is searching for their place in Eden right now. A lot of people have come a long way. We have had people come from as far away as Italy and Findhorn. We do have members from as far away as India, and Switzerland, because this really is a global vision. So we all do have to try to make the effort to come to each and every meeting.

Sustainability

Be seen and be heard and begin to get to know the many sides of all the other people because people are very different in person. Folks are welcome to exchange contact info or to stick around and make friends after the meetings which has happened many times. 

One thing is that people do need to show in some way that they do value some of the time and energy that is brought forth from who knows where and for those who do set aside the time for these meetings so we do always try to extend a special recognition to show that we appreciate all those who have done so much as well as those who have come the farthest.

These meetings are provided as a service and we do expect to find some grace and dignity in the proceedings. Do feel free to let us know if you are coming and need camping or lodging information.

Most of the many people who have come to grace our table with their presence have been from within our local focus area which is loosely described as being somewhere in between Santa Cruz and Arcata and then that could extend east up into the Sierras, so you can bring your ideas to share about community, and make some important local connections with folks here in this local EcoRegion.

We usually do have a pretty good bunch of folks so just do your best and forget the rest. Bring your own unique perspectives and share some prime directives.

Ask your questions. Make your proposals and do feel free to present something about yourself in writing if you wish so we can begin to know who you are, along with a picture, and a small contribution would be welcomed.

We do welcome others to try to find a way to collaborate with us.

We will need a lot of help and supportive people to take up the slack jack so do feel free to become available. We all know the importance of cooperation and creating a Safety Zone for Truth and Justice Makers.

So do let us know what part you might like to play or what you might have to contribute towards the vision of Eco-Logical Integration and Sustainable Living. 

We do need somebody to bring a laptop and take the minutes of each meeting and then to get everyone to sign up and then you can train as a moderator which is more about service and facilitation than control and domination.

We might even welcome your film making skills as an important part of this collaborative effort. If you have the time and the energy for more involvement then you really need to come to the meeting which is always on unless Rain Cancels, and that almost never happens, unless people have been having bad thoughts.

Always Glad to hear from our new friends from around the world, but the magic of Eden, is still in deep process, as the faith of those who have been following the project, is still going to have to be grown up to full size, and that has to reach full strength, before it is going to be ready for Eden.

In full accordance with the natural order of priorities, the Web of Life comes first, and that only works, by the positive exchange of nutrients and resources.

Nothing negative has any value, and this can all be proven to be true. What we have seen going on here, in America, is a misplaced sense, of the natural order of priorities, where the negative has been given a falsely positive value, and that could throw everything out of whack.

Eden comes from the very Heart of the Earth, not from any of the various perspectives that have been reinforced by the media, just for their own benefit.

New folks are always welcome. We are always glad to hear what almost anybody may have to say, about what has been said, so do read very deeply into most of the material on this site if you can.

We are all going to have to learn, how to work quite well, with a lot of the natural processes of goodness, and True Love Feeling, and with the gentle spirit of loving kindness, and with a depth of generosity, that looks only for the good, and for the right, in all the people who are deeply involved with the birthing of this incredibly unique project, as we are the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest.

Speak out for Eden without fear.
Bring your Spirit, and let them hear.
Eden is Truth, and that is here.

We are always all implicated, in almost every single thing, that has ever taken place, on this finely shaped iron core planet, including hurricanes, and global warming, and even global dimming, which has been masking the true impacts of that, which just means, that global warming is probably much worse, and much more dangerous than we thought. We will do anything for full ice cap retention, because it will take another ice age, to put back what's being lost. That's what full accountability means, and we are on top of that.

We only get out of the full experience of Eden, what we may have put into the full experience of Eden, and so nobody has any right, to make any claims on anything, that they haven't put their whole hearts into for Eden, and for the Earth.

We would be wise to work within the Honor System, and then we will all move on, into a whole new world, of peace and freedom, once we have earned the right to enter, into the midst of Eden, as truly committed members, who know they can trust each other, not to back out on the Earth Spirit of Eden, just because of a little hurricane.

The Agenda

These meetings are all facilitated meetings, and that means that people really should only speak up, at first, in the most respectful manner that is possible to imagine, when they have been recognized, and as soon as that condition changes, then they are to become silent again, out of respect for the greater whole, since nothing is ever forced in Eden.

What is going to happen? As soon as we all sit down, T will give an introductory talk, on the magical nature of the Project, how it started and how we got this far, where we are going to be taking it from here, and how we are going to get there by magic.

Then we have a Big Fat One Wide Circle go around, where everyone introduces themselves, and then
we each talk a little bit about our own bad selves, and then we look at the maps, and the documents, and enter into a much deeper discussion about the true nature of the project, and how it is going to work.

After that the meeting structure may break down, into a chaotic series of personal conversations, and things may break down even further, into small groups, towards the end, and the exchange of personal information, and then we will close with a word from T, about where we need to go from here.

True Collaborators are always welcome, but there are no housing opportunities that can be offered up before we have gotten to know people better. We are still in living in the planning stages era.

We will talk more about the details at the next meeting, so I want everyone to be there, in a
representational manner, as we may have a lot of new people, who may need a little guidance and direction, from the larger group, which has begun to form around this project, in a benign fashion.

Special solutions can be created, for unique individuals, so if you do think you might have, a correspondingly deep and meaningful potential kinship with us, then pack your bags, and bring something to share, when you come to the meeting, and maybe some bread, and some cheese for the homeless, and those who are living a simpler, but more meaningful lifestyle, that is closer to the Earth, and those who may be worthy of some recognition, and are closer to the heart of this project.

We now have well over 700 great big fat members in our main group and over a Thousand in our larger resource base network, and so the groundwork has been laid.

The Secret Life of the Universe

Life creates more Life by diversifying, and it does that by changing existing places, and turning them into better and better habitat, for all to share. Eventually a limit is reached.

We have just about reached that limit now already, and now we may think we have to try to exceed that limit by cramming more and more people together into smaller and smaller cubicles at great expense to the Earth, or we could do something quite different.

 Life creates and expands upon its own new habitats all the time. We are that Life. We have changed the atmosphere. We have changed the climate. We have changed the whole environment, so that the scope of life could be expanded upon, and so that the dream of the future, could be fulfilled, which may not yet be ready to come to a brain dead stand still, and the hike up into the highest mountains around does not come to an end, just because a few people may have pooped out on us.

It may even be time now to start looking around for a suitable brood mate for the Earth. But who will She choose? These are some of the questions facing us now. That is why it may be time, to begin to take it up to the next step, in this very old process, of constant regeneration, and the constant renewal, and regeneration through birth and death, that goes on regardless, as we go through this one little lifetime as though that was all there was to worry about, when there are bigger things to focus on that our own little lives, and our own little personal ambitions, and imaginary needs, that may have been implanted within us by the media, and so it may be imperative for us to begin to focus on something bigger, whether we like it or not.

We don't need to try to fix the old system when we have the beginnings of a new system up and running. Time may not have had a beginning, and it may not ever end. But life itself may be different.

Life itself as we see it was not just found, ready to go, and it may not last forever either. There are limits. The Universe may go on forever, but the Web of Life on Earth may not be so lucky, unless we begin to take the most appropriately decisive actions to Save the Web of Life on Earth, as thought that were the main focus.

We are now standing among the first, of all those who will have survived, the floods that have been caused by wrongful indoctrination, and we may have now begun to look around for some better answers, or at the very least, some more interesting questions, like what was happening just before the Beginning of Time.

It may be time now to make some new distinctions. We are the survivors of all the floods, and we are the survivors of every change in climate, but that doesn't mean we didn't have to pay the heaviest price every single time.

Life has always come at such a great expense, and many have die in childbirth just so that we could stay alive, and for what other reason, but to make the big changes that will be necessary.

We are now standing among those who have always been willing to pay that very high price. We are the Children of those people.

We are now standing among those very few, who have climbed out of the Watery Seas, and we are among those very few who have climbed out of the Forests, not so very long ago, and we are among those very few, who have walked up into the Fires of Spirit, and we are among those very few who have built the Great Cities, that are now presumed to be too big to fail, and even the most basic institutions, which have now become a huge threat and a danger to us all, precisely because they were not build on solid ground.

These institutions were not built to last because the foundations were not laid carefully within the Natural Order of Priorities as they should have been.

We are now standing among those very few who now must return the Keys of Life and Death, once we have earned the right to that, which have been badly tampered with, and put them back to where we found them, and then we may find our rightful places within the natural balance, and go on to Save the Earth, which is our natural birthright.

We need to act now, before it all goes up in smoke, because we have been overstepping our natural limitations blindly, and with reckless disregard, for anything real like right livelihood, right population density, self sustainability, and forest community integration, because if the Truth Comes First, then it should be known by now that The Trees Come First, and all the Wildlife, within the Natural Order of Priorities, which is one of our main weapons against runaway capitalism, and consumerism in general.

One of the best ways, to get us all back on track, is to get back to the land in community, so that we can begin to serve, the very Heart of the Earth and to Save all Life, and that has to be done from the right place.

We need to start making plans now to begin to Propagate that Life, and to plant the Seeds that we have been given as a gift, because that Gift of Life, that we have been entrusted with, must now be repaid, and we must do that by passing it on.

We really do owe something to that Life that we have found ourselves to have been blessed with, and that is to emerge as the unsung Earth Stewards, who will become prepared to honor only Deeds and not words, and that means no credit for commitments and promises, until they have been fulfilled, which is always to be the way of the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest, with some exceptions, who alone have been brave enough to make any of these distinctions known for the whole world to see, and that is why this group has been organized.

None of the other animals can be expected, to be able to do what needs to be done, and the Earth needs our help. The people have gone way too far wrong with all these bailouts, and payoffs, and these stimulating but excessively gross over spending packages.

They have turned a blind eye to the Earth Spirit, out of completely reckless disregard for all that was ever good and right. And now we must lead the way into a sustainable new future that works for all the survivors of the Great Die offs that should be expected, now that those in power have with our participation, collectively let things get so far out of hand, that it may be too late now to turn back the clock.

 It may be that only those of us here, within this group, can be counted on to do what needs to be done now, at this very significant time, of the changing days of the ancient ways, before these Lazy Times of dependency are over, due to Environmental Degradation, and Eco-Logical Disruption, and the Spirit of Community Disintegration, that can be the only result, of the rapid fire milking of the media feeding frenzy commodities of resentment and revenge, with no regard for where the people stand within the Natural Order of Priorities, because a raging planet on fire with nothing but a false sense of entitlement, all fighting for the imaginary rights or justification, to plunder and exploit the Earths last remaining resources, makes for some pretty good news coverage. And that is why we must Disengage. - T