Change by Design: A Talk with João Amorim

"My work as a filmmaker tries to shine a spotlight on
good stuff happening around the world, pushing a positive agenda. But I
try to practice what I preach. I do agroforestry. We need to align our actions with our words, aiming for
coherence."

“And Beyond Here There Be Dragons….”

For too many years
we've allowed social condemnation and the illegality of our experiences
to prevent us from telling our stories.
The time has come for all psychonauts to come out of the
closet and proudly stand together so we can be heard.

The Kabbalah’s Remarkable Idea

Humanity plays a key role in the repair and restoration of the world. The purpose of evil is to provide a context for humanity's redemption, which puts evil, humanity, and God himself in
their proper places within the cosmos.

Biopsychosocial Technoetics and the 99%

Occupy may be an
ethically motivated, bio-psycho-social response to a systemic process
that is being perceived as a threat to the collective organism.

Be Love Now

As we begin to
awaken, experiences lead to reflection and contemplation. Then as we become
more aware, experiences become a fire of purification, a burning ground of the
ego, grist for the mill of developing consciousness, food enabling the emerging
soul to break free of its bonds.

Preparing for Tranceformation: Mercury Retro and Summer’s Transits

Each planet and sign rule or have affinity with certain
elements of the weather or nature. Capricorn rules the mountains and
Pluto rules volcanoes. The Earth's rumbling intensity of 2010 in
Haiti, Indonesia, Chile, Los Angeles, Tibet, and Iceland signify the
beginnings of many transformational, tectonic shifts over the next
decade.

Hidden Treasures

Compassion is the fuel of awakening, the cause and effect of seeing through the primal boundary of self and other and becoming lucid in our shared, waking dream.

What Are the Akashic Records?

The Akashic Records are a dimension of consciousness that contains a vibrational record of every soul and its journey. From them, we can derive understanding and direction.

The Fourth Ascent

Rather than creating a list of the unsustainable elements in our current state, consider the indigenous concept of "seven generations." We might see that our busy lives probably don't need as much energy as we expel.

2012 is Now on Everybody’s Mind

Since 1618, the human species has been living in its own artificial time, apart from the rest of the biosphere that continues to operate in the natural cycles. The dissonance between artificial and natural time has pushed mankind toward a new condition of being. 2012 bodes a return to natural time and an evolutionary upgrading of planetary life.