Monthly Archives: January 2009

Being Human

January 24, 2009 – 11:20 pm

John Trudell at the People of Color Conference 2008 in New Orleans.

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The Intentional Economy

January 9, 2009 – 8:46 pm

The Intentional Economy
http://realitysandwich.com/intentional_economy
Daniel Pinchbeck

While exploring shamanism and non-ordinary states, I discovered the power of intention. According to the artist Ian Lungold, who lectured brilliantly about the Mayan Calendar before his untimely death a few years ago, the Maya believe that your intention is as essential to your ability to navigate reality as your position in [...]

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BLDGBLOG Book

January 7, 2009 – 9:18 am

a la http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/bldgblog-book-bldgblog-book.html
I’m still reeling from the announcement of Postopolis! – but the good news keeps on coming.
To make a long story still rather long…
Back in January, Alan Rapp, the art, design, and photography editor for Chronicle Books, attended a BLDGBLOG event hosted by the Center for Land Use Interpretation here in Los Angeles.
Alan and [...]

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When you give up on hope

January 3, 2009 – 12:03 am

A WONDERFUL THING happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope didn’t kill you. It didn’t even make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something [...]

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