Avatar: Save the Earth - Gaia, our Indigenous cultures and people, and the very essence of life on this planet

I couldn't have said this better myself. Check out the link and realize that this is the story and the CONNECTION that must be made. We must relearn and remember how to see one another and all life on this gift of a planet again (period)!

CSSCTV: Focus the Nation

Focus the Nation UC Irvine 2008

The First Lady is redefined!

Michelle Obama continues to match the courage, voracity, and audaciousness of her husband President Barack Obama, by redefining the role of The First Lady in a modern era. Rather than relegating the discourse of a Presidency to the backrooms of elite exclusivity and political favoritism, the Obamas have brought our national leadership back to the people. As the movie, Avatar, famously reminded me, it's all about the connection. I can't emphasize enough how important this concept is, and thus gained even more respect for James Cameron. Our connection to each other and of course our planet - Gaia. One way that Michelle Obama has brought us back into the White House and brought life and health back to the people is by making another one of her bold statements by replacing part of the White House lawn with an organic garden. It is from here that produce is brought into the Whitehouse kitchen, inspiring chefs, students, children, and environmentalists the nation over. One inspired chef includes the very own White House Executive Chef, Cristeta Comerford, who started in the Clinton White House as a Sous Chef:

Synergy of Thought with Time Magazine

In Time Magazine's December 14th issue, the Article "Shrinking The War on Terrorism" by Peter Beinart, has this statement: "Obama's effort to downsize the war on terrorism is partly a function of personality and mostly a function of circumstance. George W. Bush loathed what he called 'small ball.' He saw both his father's presidency and Bill Clinton's as inconsequential and yearned to invest his own with world-historical significance. After 9/11, he immediately began comparing the war on terrorism to World War II and the Cold War - a global, generation-defining struggle against an enemy of vast military and ideological power that would transform whole chunks of the world."



Unfortunately for us and the rest of the world, there was a world-historically significant responsibility placed in his hands, as with all leaders. He just chose door #2 and led our country and our world into the farthest reaches of male hubris, ignorance, and indignant pride since Vietnam, The Cold War, WWI, and WWII. He had the choice to act on behalf of the social and environmental leadership placed before him by Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But instead, he decided to indulge his and his administration's fantasies of world dominance through lies, deceit, torture, and fatal mismanagement of pretty much every system of which he was put in charge. Now, after 8 years of hell, what are we left with?

A destructive world of historical significance! Nice job, Moron! Thanks for all the opportunities to reach down into our darkest depths to employ historically significant qualities and quantities of transformation. The apocalypse has been delivered unto us by the right-wing Christian faith in such prophecies.

Luckily, we still have the choice to have a different faith, a different hope, a different vision, and a different set of actions based on strategic solutions to the world's and history's biggest crises. May a critical mass of humans wake-up to our power of conscious evolution and once again be inspired by our chance at life on this amazing gift of planet we call home, Earth, Gaia! Life is the gift that we share and it can direct us to celebrate one another with empathy, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and love. Once we rise to the challenges of these qualities; then we demonstrate true courage. Then we will achieve the Christian ideal that Jesus preached and personified. Blessings on your journeys of discovery as you come to know your true nature as a unique emanation of the one spirit that manifests everywhere for us to be...

Male Dominance over Society: The modern history of war over power, blood, and fuel

It was during the World Wars that nation states learned the power of fuel for the machines of war. Granted this awareness was clear throughout the industrial revolution, but it wasn’t until battles over global domination that stockpiles of fuel became imperative to power. So began the diplomatic, or not so diplomatic hunt for domination of the fossil fuel economy. The U.S. was fortunate to come out on top, gaining access to North Africa and the Middle East. Defeating the Germans across Europe and North Africa secured access for the U.S. and the Allied Powers. Then arose a different struggle. A new paradigm of war and domination came in the form of the Cold War as the U.S. and The Soviet Union jockeyed for position. This strategic confrontation transcended the old debate over fossil fuel dominance with the advent of the nuclear age and a new form of power. As the U.S. competed against The Soviet Union on all fronts, its economy continued to develop atop a bubble of crude. The stockpiling of nuclear weapons poised to destroy the entire planet finally ended as The Soviet Union collapsed under its own anorexic focus for power through intimidation. What was left? A sole superpower addicted to its black gold. The U.S. has thus traded blood for ancient blood to fuel its sickness, all the while polluting the world with its lies and betrayal, violence and wars of terrorism. Will “We the People” redeem this great country of ours in the eyes of the world by making the changes necessary to survive on this planet. It is our choice and our responsibility. Life as we know it is being threatened. We, threaten it by our gluttony, by our addiction to the “American Dream”. Our dream is directly proportional to the social and environmental suffering around the world. Is this our dream or our nightmare? It’s up to us…

We have an alternative to this model of development, it's called Sustainability, and with it comes evolution, growth, justice, peace, cooperation, health, and simply put, LIFE! Is there even a question anymore about the direction for our society?
-My Reflection

Our Story

For those of you who have heard this speech from me before, I apologize for the repetition, but I'm sure it can't hurt to be reminded of our collective evolution. Search your depth of knowing, and if you don't know it, understand it, or feel it intuitively, do some research. Our past can be characterized by a long HerStory, where the prevalence of a female cosmological understanding of the world. This lasted from about 40,000 BC to 10-8,000 BC. At that time, the fertile crescent began to be exploited by a new culture. A culture of male dominance, which tried to control nature and exploit resources for human development. This ushered in the epoch we know as HisStory. The culture of the past began to be co-opted in order to legitimize the practices of the time and provide justifications for the retention of male authority and power. All our dominant religions institutionalized these control mechanisms and created ideologies based on ignorance and fear. I believe that we are awakening to a new change and a new era based on balance and cooperation. And that we will finally leave behind the last vestiges of a dualistic and polarized world. Instead, we are rousing from our slumber to usher a time of existential transcendence where we will overcome the polarization of our world. We are coming together to live on this planet as one community, one expression of humanity in balance with all life that we are inextricably connected. We are coming to know what it means to live OurStory. Please join me in welcoming this transition with grace and gratitude as we transform our lives.