What is th Flow?

Oren Harris has somehow a new website, and i really enjoyed reading through it.

 Here are some of the highlights:

What is the Flow?

The Flow is a state of being in which the infinite is introduced to and perfectly integrated with the finite. It is infinite possibilities and the exact conclusion. It is all knowing and knows nothing. It is all of existence and non-existence. When you work and live from the Flow, you exist and work in the relative world from the perspective of the unbounded world. You spontaneously act in the most intelligent and life supporting way. Life becomes more effortless and charming.


 

Bruce Lee : Legendary Martial artist

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

ESB

Energy sensitive beings have a different operating system and therefore a different success blueprint in the areas of relationship, business, communication and transformation. These services are specifically designed for Energy Sensitive Beings (ESB’S). We engage in a process of discovering the immense gift of sensitivity and how to effectively, powerfully, joyfully, and abundantly operate in the world as a highly sensitive being.

Peaches, Blueberries and the Future of the World

aaah, i love blueberries

My friend Kathie and I were picking peaches and blueberries yesterday. Just around the corner where I work right now is a small scale, organic farm where you can "pay and pick".

It was great! I used to do that as a kid, back in Austria, picking all kinds of berries and fruits in my grandmas garden and in the Alps.

But since then, I had not done it for ever. 

So it felt like a trip back to my childhood, standing in this field, with a little box in my hand and hunting for the biggest, ripest, bluest sweetest blueberries in the world.

Not only was it fun, but it also it made me realize something more.

Last year, in my "Management for sustainability" class, one of colleagues gave a presentation about local food supplies and farmers markets. One of his main arguments was, that people who go to local farms reconnect with the land. They see, how food actually grows, get aware of seasonal food, the balance of nature and the unmeasurable worth of the land.

Let me say it differently:

I think we instinctively defend the place where our food comes from. Right now, for 90% of the people that is the Supermarket or Grocery store of their choice. But that's not where it actually comes from. Food comes from farms, is grown on land, by farmers that need money to survive. Big companies want to hide away this fact, cause people could get the idea of trying to protect their land against chemical agriculture, fertilizers, genetic engineering... destruction.

Being on that farm yesterday reconnected me with the land. It made me aware of the precious treasure we have and we forget to worship much to often.

I think everybody should have this experience regular. See where our food comes from, to see how important it is to keep our planet alive.

And it would be so easy.

Just imagine: 

every school has a small garden, where students grow food, vegetables, berries, fruits, whatever grows. And every class would just spend 1 hour a week in this garden to maintain it and help growing the food.

Everybody would benefit. The students would reconnect with nature, learn about plants, how to grow a garden and what grows at which season. The school would have fresh, organic food to supply their own kitchen, and could provide more healthy, nourishing food for the students...

aaah... a perfect world would be so awesome ;)

Kathie with her Hollywood smile

Me being all "hunter and gatherer"

Apples!

Putting friends into boxes

Since I am doing my internship here in Lancaster, I have a little more time to do, lets say, organizational stuff for my "online life". I have cleared out the 8.340 e-mails in my gmail account, I registered a blog, and finally, I organized my Facebook friendlist.

Unbelievably I have 642 "friends" now, and every once in a while i am wondering "Who are all of these people?!?"

So, I just started with A like Aaron Hickenbottom Jr , going all the way through to Zack Phillips (Zack Phillips ॐ), or actually: ユウキ カドタ  (whoever that is....) and putting everybody into a category.

Since I did not have categries yet, i just started one, for everybody i did not know where to put them. But surprisingly I ended up with only 7 Categories.
Bad Ischl - my old friends fomr high school, where i used to live between age 10 and 19.
Family - all my family sibblings, parrents, uncels, nephews and nieces, their boy- and girlfriends
Gastein - The City where I used to work as a Snowboard teacher and spend my holidays
Lancaster - the smallest group so far,
Linz - all people i got to know during the time i lived in Linz when i was 19 until 26.
MUM - all the people i got to know since i go to MUM
Others - 27 people i did not really know where to put. Friends of friends and people i do not actually know.

Suprisingly for me, the by far biggest group is the MUM group with an incredible number of 344 friends in it. Clearly not all of them are really MUM students, but its all the people all over the USA i got to know since I am here, and it still suprises me how many of them there are.
Due to the fact that i came to facebook only 2 month before i left to Fairfield, there is not so many people from Austria in this group, but still, 300 people from the good old days, back home :)

And going through the list, i found a lot of people that i otherwise would have forgotten. Friends that i had not heard of in a long time, people i would have no idea what they are up to and ex-girlfriends that i have not talked to in much too long!

It's interesting to see all of these people, and it makes me happy to see how my friends from high school made their own way through life in all various kinds of ways.

But it also reminds me, that looking back at them all is nothing more than a memory. I should not put to much energy in the thoughts about what happened, cause it's all just the past.
And my life happens now.

Coalition of the willing

Ok, so first of all: thanks to ashley for sharing this video with us. For those of you who have not seen it jet: WATCH IT! It is an amazing video about climate change and ideas how to work against it.

http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/



Coalition Of The Willing from coalitionfilm on Vimeo.

We need the infrastructure to get this started. We need a network of high-profile online destinations that people from all over the world can use to share their knowledge and generate the tools, innovations and social networks that we need to combat climate change.

I was deeply inspired by that little video and want to integrate it a little bit with other stuff i have seen lately.
First of all, i saw this little TED talk, where  Seth Godin states that " tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change."  Through the internet we have the capability to share our ideas and "infect" other people with what we think is right! This gives us the chance to articipate in and lead groups in every area we are interested in. If its sustainability or nuclear power does not really matter.
But, it gives small people the chance to change something, to have an impact on the world we live in. It gives you and me the opportunity to share our opinion!

Diaspora Team

Since the film also talks about the idea of a "network comprised of three sites working as a linked system", where one should be a new social network platform, i thought i'll introduce diaspora at this point. diaspora is a web project founded by 4 students with the goal of having a social network platform where everybody can decide which information to share. Its genius, simple and magic. Obviously a view other people thought so too, cause on kickstarter they raised over 200.000 dollars, 2000% of what they were asking for!

And there are many other projects out there, that are working toward a more positive world. Peter Joseph and his Zeitgeist Movement together with The Venus Project have been working on similar ideas over the las years, and there is thousands doing the same!

So lets step up!

The revolution has already begun! Coalition of the willing!

AWAKENING

found this short video about spiritual awakening.
its kind of interesting, summarizing a lot i have been thinking about.

But what is this shift that is occuring? What is happening there? Is something happening?
Are we awakening? or is it just hip to be awakened?
eckhart tolle with oprah?!?! a live streamed awakening online class?!?!

i like Tolle, but some of his stuff is too mainstream for me...

what is it? a pseudo-trend?
a hype?
am i talking about awakening because Jim Carrey does?
and if so, is it wrong?

but also, if we are this awakening and this is a new world, why is it so dark?
why is war dominating, why are we killing each other? destroying the earth, spreading hatred and grief...

what´s going wrong?!