I feel like your DJ is here in this talk; your words are the expression of the ‘music’ that is your SOUL. Like a bird that lands on the branch of a tree; when the ‘wind of inspiration inside you naturally creates energy’; you ‘take flight without a gps’! Your years of being a student of so many wisdom philosophers and scholars of the beings of the forgotten and hidden and Beyond the Veil: all converge to channel through you! You are beyond what I call a 'Renaissance Man’ (as was my life partner who left for worlds unknown too early). I did a year weekly circle gathering with an all organic potluck dinner, bonfire, talking stick circling, and the like; in Berks County PA (Reading); next door to Lancaster PA, with members who owned farms in both areas too. Most were members of Weston Price and met monthly on a 36 acre farm called Pasture to Fork in Chester county PA with the theme of food, biodynamic farming etc.; buying all our groceries at the farm store too!. Our book club was ‘A New Path’; we discussed each chapter and had related activities; taught each other skills i.e. how to make homemade kefir, how to build a rocket stove, how to make a bullseye with a bow and arrow, how to hand-sew, etc. We had a skill share. We did trade instead of money! Held on 5 acres of bountiful land; in/outside a yoga studio; with a gorgeous Yurt in which those who traveled to get there each week who were weary and came a distance could sleep. It all was like you say, a return to our origins. After a year and the book was completed; like so many groups there was disagreement among the tribe as to what ‘Path’ we would take next. If not the book; who was ‘the leader’? With a masters degree in Groups and as an assistant professor teaching this course to masters degree students; humans in groups are complex psychological beings and still have the pack mentality of survival of the fittest. Ultimately it came apart :( I want to create and/or experience this again and sustain it. It’s a small version of what you’re doing on a much larger scale. Very cool Mike.
Wow thanks for sharing this moment in time where you guys were truly living a way that we all seek to move towards! I agree that the group dynamic always gets tricky and this is why we have been working on a system of bottom-up somatic self-governance within the Music & Sky community...stressing first and foremost the individual's process of coming to know their unique triggers and how to move through them when someone else in the community triggers them. A super important part that often gets missed in community design. I look forward to sharing more ideas with folks like you who have the experience and wisdom to help us all on this journey towards an actualized sovereign society. x
I am stoked to get a response from you Mike! I found you two in 2020? and have seen almost all of the casts. I have been learning and loving the journey with you guys; so many who lacked the deeper connection to 'the passion of purpose-driven intention' you both have, are now 'extinct' for that reason.
My journey to a Masters degree in Group Dynamics was divinely aligned; starting with the EST 3-day Encounter Groups years ago, with founder Werner Erhard in Philadelphia (home of DJ Jerry Blavat! (RIP). Werner sold it and it morphed internationally into Landmark Forum. I did that too; but the second time, I broke protocol and left midway through the first day, when I felt the narcissistic domination and tyrannical ego of that forums leader (there's a story... ) That lead me to want to study the group and leadership process (Tribe) more deeply. Divine alignment of course happened next; and, I did. I was able to talk my committee into allowing me to do my masters thesis on EST groups and the Ego (Psychoanalysis)! After I earned my doctorate degree some years later, I spent the 'lucky 7' years teaching Group :) I also founded a holistic health and wellness business in Philadelphia called TriUne, which was magical, and while working on my doctoral dissertation. (I think you used the word Triune in one of your first casts? That would be a cool synchronicity :)
I would welcome the opportunity to collaborate and contribute!! So many 'intentional communities', eco-villages, and small intentional groups like my last, have failed and for years ;( What has been InterFearing is this aspect of 'triggers'...the missing pieces of the group/community members awareness and Innerstanding, of what is in the way of 'long term bonding'. It's important to understand the concept of the 'Corrective Emotional Experience' that can happen in group process. Without that conceptualization; 'transference and projection' within and between the individuals in the group (i.e. 'family of origin dysfunctional patterns' they experienced and some genetic predispositions too), take over; breaking the 'organic' soul bonds'. The group cannot stay 'cohesive' and remains unconscious, and it comes apart. With the education for the community in place; it can create a 'root system' of awareness and 'grow green''. (Of course gardening would factor in; and, I'm a gardener, and a 'gardener archetype :) It becomes a mature, conscious, sovereign community; when the 'planting and tending' (intend/tion), is honored and held sacred: to gather together to learn and innerstand oneself and the group process; as a Community~'Group as a Whole'.
I also have an acronym 'PACT' (Parent Adult Child Teen) that applies to this; I am starting to write a short book as to its many applications individually and in groups. Groups and building community (and being part of them); is a deep lifelong passion of mine, likely starting way back when, somewhere, long ago; but, in this realm since the 1990's. Looking forward to any way I can contribute and collaborate to 'plant, cultivate seeds, and tend' with purpose driven intention in the mystical magical miracle that is Alfa Vedic and Music & Sky. Soo awesome and amazing!! 🤩🕊️💚
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I feel like your DJ is here in this talk; your words are the expression of the ‘music’ that is your SOUL. Like a bird that lands on the branch of a tree; when the ‘wind of inspiration inside you naturally creates energy’; you ‘take flight without a gps’! Your years of being a student of so many wisdom philosophers and scholars of the beings of the forgotten and hidden and Beyond the Veil: all converge to channel through you! You are beyond what I call a 'Renaissance Man’ (as was my life partner who left for worlds unknown too early). I did a year weekly circle gathering with an all organic potluck dinner, bonfire, talking stick circling, and the like; in Berks County PA (Reading); next door to Lancaster PA, with members who owned farms in both areas too. Most were members of Weston Price and met monthly on a 36 acre farm called Pasture to Fork in Chester county PA with the theme of food, biodynamic farming etc.; buying all our groceries at the farm store too!. Our book club was ‘A New Path’; we discussed each chapter and had related activities; taught each other skills i.e. how to make homemade kefir, how to build a rocket stove, how to make a bullseye with a bow and arrow, how to hand-sew, etc. We had a skill share. We did trade instead of money! Held on 5 acres of bountiful land; in/outside a yoga studio; with a gorgeous Yurt in which those who traveled to get there each week who were weary and came a distance could sleep. It all was like you say, a return to our origins. After a year and the book was completed; like so many groups there was disagreement among the tribe as to what ‘Path’ we would take next. If not the book; who was ‘the leader’? With a masters degree in Groups and as an assistant professor teaching this course to masters degree students; humans in groups are complex psychological beings and still have the pack mentality of survival of the fittest. Ultimately it came apart :( I want to create and/or experience this again and sustain it. It’s a small version of what you’re doing on a much larger scale. Very cool Mike.
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Wow thanks for sharing this moment in time where you guys were truly living a way that we all seek to move towards! I agree that the group dynamic always gets tricky and this is why we have been working on a system of bottom-up somatic self-governance within the Music & Sky community...stressing first and foremost the individual's process of coming to know their unique triggers and how to move through them when someone else in the community triggers them. A super important part that often gets missed in community design. I look forward to sharing more ideas with folks like you who have the experience and wisdom to help us all on this journey towards an actualized sovereign society. x
I am stoked to get a response from you Mike! I found you two in 2020? and have seen almost all of the casts. I have been learning and loving the journey with you guys; so many who lacked the deeper connection to 'the passion of purpose-driven intention' you both have, are now 'extinct' for that reason.
Wow yes! You would be a very valuable addition to Music & Sky Village. More info coming soon…
My journey to a Masters degree in Group Dynamics was divinely aligned; starting with the EST 3-day Encounter Groups years ago, with founder Werner Erhard in Philadelphia (home of DJ Jerry Blavat! (RIP). Werner sold it and it morphed internationally into Landmark Forum. I did that too; but the second time, I broke protocol and left midway through the first day, when I felt the narcissistic domination and tyrannical ego of that forums leader (there's a story... ) That lead me to want to study the group and leadership process (Tribe) more deeply. Divine alignment of course happened next; and, I did. I was able to talk my committee into allowing me to do my masters thesis on EST groups and the Ego (Psychoanalysis)! After I earned my doctorate degree some years later, I spent the 'lucky 7' years teaching Group :) I also founded a holistic health and wellness business in Philadelphia called TriUne, which was magical, and while working on my doctoral dissertation. (I think you used the word Triune in one of your first casts? That would be a cool synchronicity :)
I would welcome the opportunity to collaborate and contribute!! So many 'intentional communities', eco-villages, and small intentional groups like my last, have failed and for years ;( What has been InterFearing is this aspect of 'triggers'...the missing pieces of the group/community members awareness and Innerstanding, of what is in the way of 'long term bonding'. It's important to understand the concept of the 'Corrective Emotional Experience' that can happen in group process. Without that conceptualization; 'transference and projection' within and between the individuals in the group (i.e. 'family of origin dysfunctional patterns' they experienced and some genetic predispositions too), take over; breaking the 'organic' soul bonds'. The group cannot stay 'cohesive' and remains unconscious, and it comes apart. With the education for the community in place; it can create a 'root system' of awareness and 'grow green''. (Of course gardening would factor in; and, I'm a gardener, and a 'gardener archetype :) It becomes a mature, conscious, sovereign community; when the 'planting and tending' (intend/tion), is honored and held sacred: to gather together to learn and innerstand oneself and the group process; as a Community~'Group as a Whole'.
I also have an acronym 'PACT' (Parent Adult Child Teen) that applies to this; I am starting to write a short book as to its many applications individually and in groups. Groups and building community (and being part of them); is a deep lifelong passion of mine, likely starting way back when, somewhere, long ago; but, in this realm since the 1990's. Looking forward to any way I can contribute and collaborate to 'plant, cultivate seeds, and tend' with purpose driven intention in the mystical magical miracle that is Alfa Vedic and Music & Sky. Soo awesome and amazing!! 🤩🕊️💚
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I heard about QORTAl SEEMS like 7 years ago. I tried figuring it out