Raw Sangha

Echo Roberson of "Raw Sangha"

Totally pumped about this new organization I found last week. Echo Roberson is either the spokesman for the group or “Raw Sangha” is his website for all these products, recipes and ideas.

He takes all the food, spiritual and organic farming ideas that have been pushing their way West these past 20 to 60 years and presents them in fun, informative, short videos. There’s even a link to Bhakti Fest!

I was drawn in through his presentation about BlackShilajit.com. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally bored with Safeway and the prospects of all the  food-based illnesses that will come out of eating all that processed, GMO crap  sold there.

Visit Raw Sangha and give them a look for yourself!

100% Responsible

“What is it in me that put me in this situation to experience this?”

This psychologist calls upon old spiritual concepts to change the data and memories (like Jesus who called upon us to “love our enemies”) in order to change our perceptions of the world and our experience of our self and others.

The Phantom Force of Nothing” is to physics what “Letting go” is to Buddhism. It’s an odd experience to people who are so firmly attached to their suffering that even when drowning, they can’t let go of the stones in their hands and swim free.  Addicts to continually make excuses why recovery programs don’t work … as well as alcoholics who will pound the table and yell out the hair brained reasons 12-Step programs “don’t work.” Angry women who beat all the courage out of their sons and then complain endlessly that there are no men left. Perception and stubbornness … equals … insanity. The cure?

If Hip Hop, Gansta Rap, and Thug Kulture has changed people … so completely … by appealing to the ego … convincing us to exchange “The Divine” for empty Materialism, then we’re eventually left with horrifyingly empty lives of lovelessness, hopelessness, and despair. At is face-to-face with that pit, we encounter addictions, acts of abomination, and demoralizations.

It’s amazing how simple the cure for all this. But first, at some point, we have to let go of the thinking that we’re in control. We have to decide to distance  ourselves from suffering and begin to re-learn trust … trust that we’ll be led to other people who are also working on building inner trust. We have to admit that we don’t know everything. The one word that will help you most? Forgiveness.

Wanna get free? Start here, because where you’re going, you simply can’t carry all that old crappy baggage with you. When all our old pain shows up … remember this. When the trauma you’re punishing yourself for going through … remember … this.

Food, Inc.

I strongly encourage each and everyone of you to view, “Food, Inc.”

I put a copy on hold at the local public library. This video isn’t “Republican” nor “Democrat”. (As if those labels actually meant something anymore…) Everyone has to eat, and food has changed more in the last 50 years than it has in the last 10,000.  (View the trailer link.)

The documentary provides real information about the world we really live in, rather than the one we’re told we still live in. In short, we no longer live in a democracy. (No news to most of you I guess…)

We live in a Corporate “New World Oder” administered by Masons and other “Secrete Societies” and owned by the “people” like the De Beers, the Rothschilds, and the Rockefellers. (Nasty bunch with an insatiable appetite for evil and greed.)

So, view the film and make your decisions about how you’re going to live the rest of your life. Exercising denial or sticking one’s head in the sand is no longer an option. For instance, 1  out of 3 children born after the year 2000 will develop early onset Type-2 Diabetes. 2 out of 3 of those kids will be children of color. Before they started messing with the food supply, only adults got Type-2 Diabetes.  Educate yourself. Think: “Corn syrup” and then question why so many people are so fat theses days.  Short version: They’re killing us.

Long Version?

1. Plant an organic garden
2. Exercise (your demons too ..)
3. Bring your talents to the world
4. Follow any spiritual path that brings you into cooperation with others

For more info, have a quick glance at, “Slow Food Columbus”

Failing Urban Cities Look To Urban Farming

I really hate to say, “I TOLD you so,” but Time just wrote a story about Detroit becoming the model for other failing American cities. From Cleveland, Ohio to Oakland, California, mayors and city councils facing bankruptcy are accepting sad truths: “We simply cannot afford to continue down this road.” Detroit mayor, Dave Bing made that said that last month at a podium in a downtown Detroit theatre.

One of the keys to success is to jump on an opportunity BEFORE everyone else seizes it. 
Everyone has to eat. Monsanto (the huge multinational herbicide company that gave us “Agent Orange” and “RoundUp”) are feeding us toxins through major shopping chains like Safeway, Kroger, and Wal-Mart. Perhaps a mixed-blessings because those major stores no longer exist major rust belt cities. Residents  depend on corner grocery stores and gas station convenience stores for their vegetables and proteins.

The Obama Administration and the Federal Government can’t solve the problems of all the troubled cities and the predominately black, Hispanic and poor whites who remain within those cities.

Two months ago, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the ambitious “Let’s Move” campaign, aiming to eliminate food deserts, especially in urban communities, in the next seven years. The administration has committed $400 million to “Let’s Move.” -Full Time story here.

Food, Education, and Land

Detroit may well turn out to be the city other Rust Belt and decaying cities copy. Remember, corporations and the mega-rich have all but closed shop on American manufacturing. Even though Mayor Bing and the feds are attempting to sell cheap land to large business that resettle in these areas once abandoned buildings and homes are torn down, the thinking is that it’s going to take investing in schools and promoting urban farming to again create stability.

All across the country, small urban farms and garden projects are being setup by people like Ph.D. graduates from UC Berkeley and UC Davis. “Follow the money” is the tried and true thinking. When the media announced there was a shortage of nurses, people began enrolling in nursing programs by the droves. That was 10 years ago. Nursing grads are currently finding it difficult to impossible to obtain work after graduation. So if you want a prosperous, decent life, STOP following that same old carrot. Try a different line to stand in … one with far fewer people ahead of you.

Those people obtaining urban farming and organic gardening certificates will be the winners. Wait, you don’t even need education to put a seed in the ground. But it’s one thing to grow food, and it’s another to sell it. Volunteering or becoming an AmeriCorps worker for one of the many current urban farming projects teaches everything anyone will need. Just Google, “Urban Farming” in your area and find what comes up. (There’s also a host of information on my blogs.) Here are just a couple of links:

City Slicker Farms, Oakland, CA

Full Circle Farms, Sunnyvale, CA

Green Fred Blog

Black Solutions Blog

Good News, and Bad News: Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back … SO?

According to Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), the U.S. Commerce Department reported today that the U.S. economy officially grew at 5.6% pace in the fourth quarter of 2009. So, that means if you live in a manufacturing center or previously worked in a job associated with the housing bubble that burst, you’re going to have to accept the fact that the Market Place no longer wants your skills.

Economics 101 says that to have a top, you have to have a bottom. A LOT of thought and effort goes into deciding who is going to be at the bottom and what will happen to them. Remember, we live in the greatest capitalistic country on the planet. In short:

• You have to change
• Change is good
• Change is the only constant in the universe
• He or she who waits, shall have change engineered for them. [SEE: Prison Nation.]

Long, LONG term unemployed usually aren’t even counted. In the Black Community where the effects of inflation and recession are doubled, those numbers are almost laughable. So if 40% of those now unemployed have skills that the market place no longer wants … in the black community, that means 40% – to -80% of those people WILL NEVER RETURN TO THOSE TYPES OF JOBS EVER AGAIN.

Forget Detroit ever returning to what it used to be. Forget the glory days of the Rust Belt . READ what even Wikipedia says about America’s greatest manufacturing centers: Rust Belt.

Smell the coffee yet?
This is another reason why I advocate Urban Farming and Small Farming so strongly. Please take a second and view some of the remarkable YouTube videos on this and other related topics posted on:

Greenfred

Black Solutions (and take a moment to view some of the videos on the video bar posted on the left.)

African Farm Project Is World Model

“The best way to fight poverty is to turn the poor people into active producers. Communities can only be developed by involving all the members as productive and valuable contributors.” ~ Songhai Project

Much of Africa is difficult … no, hard to live in. You can literally be eaten by something. Wild animals, disease, or the greediness of the World Trade Organization that has systematically imposed crippling financial restrictions on Africa that has burdened it for decades.

But Fr Nzamujo Godfrey looked at starvation, the restlessness of youth, and poverty and came up with the Songhai Project. By teaching people to grow crops, raise farm animals, and create “Value Added” food-based products, Songhai is able to instil moral values that uplift both the individual and the wider culture as a whole.

The objectives of the Songhai Project is to develop technical skills, moral awareness, and empower people with entrepreneural techniques that lead to socially relevant, environmental consciousness and sustainability so that people can lift themselves out of poverty and become productive members of society.

Naturally, the State of any country doesn’t have to worry about farmers involving themselves in demoralizing crime nor involving themselves in activities that threaten civil society. People who are taught social consciousness along with integral facets that foster living balanced, happy, and productive lives with others are able to free themselves from hopelessness, addiction, and the mental illnesses that come out of self-hatred.

Please watch the video below and view the others posted on YouTube. You’ll quickly see why I–and others, view agriculture as a much needed “emerging field” for people who live in cities and country sides throughout the world.

I haven’t Been Posting …

I haven’t been posting for a while.  

I got laid off in November. Thank God.
(All diver’s AVOID US Xpress !)

Time to re-group. I saw the country. Assessed where I could live. Small Farming … fantasy or reality. It’s real. Very doable. Very profitable. Controlling one’s destiny.

Now to switch my skill-set to “New Media Marketing” … with a Green twist.

There’s going to be new blogs.
Stay tune Space Travelers.
It’s going to be interesting.