Thursday, January 21, 2010

United Methodist Debtor's Union

The United Methodist Debtor's Union makes the claim that Jesus himself in the Sermon on the Mount specifically told us to pray like this: Forgive our debts as we forgive the debts against us.

This means that the United Methodist Debtor's Union simply follows Jesus' orders, forgiving debts wherever they may be incurred.

The Debtor's Union is the Hemp Union. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin all grew hemp, the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, and Betsy Ross sewed the American Flag out of hemp fabric. This is a full-blown American Revolution. Jesus preached that man cannot serve both God and mammon - man cannot have two masters. The United Methodist Debtor's Union stands for God and stands up to mammon. Plain and simple. We are dedicated to healing the economy through healing the ecology, using hemp as our nationally endorsed miracle crop. Growing hemp provides us with food, fuel, clothing, and barterable surpluses.

The Hemp Union supports the Church of Ras Tafari. The Church of Ras Tafari and Jah Ministries stands firm on our Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion with regard to the sacred sacrament ganja.

The Green Economy is Ecological Rehabilitation

Ecological Rehabilitation is Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design is Fulfillment of Prophecy

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

open-source administrative duties

The artist gets stuck right at the point where administrative duties rear their ugly heads.

For example:

we need to file for articles of incorporation

we need a tax i.d. #

we need reliable and easy-to-use audio/video recording, playback, editing, and downloading

we need a real website

we need to file for 501(3)c tax-deductible status

we need licenses and insurance

we need to pay the friggin musicians, people. We need to keep them warm and dry in the rain, and we need to keep them well fed and somewhat Irie.

We need gigs.

anyway. it would be easier to just live in the woods and let Babylon burn, but Babylon is choking the whole planet, making it hard for our children to breathe. This requires action. Compassionate and strong action. The survival of our planet, all life forms on it, our species, our nation, our world, requires strong and compassionate action by which we serve our obligation to society by persuading society to STOP. This has always been the tradition role of the prophet - standing on the edge of society, condemning it, pointing out that it is collapsing and that it must because it fails to acknowledge the obvious truths of how nature works. Being ignored, until its too late.

We will never succeed in our efforts to eliminate Islamic terrorism until we cast light upon the Christian hypocrisy of conspicuous consumption in the face of scriptural doctrine that admonishes us to give up our things. We must give up our things. Most of them seem to be made of petroleum products, anyway. Which cause cancer. So by giving up our things, we prevent cancer. Not bad.

RETURN OF THE HEMP NATION
RETURN OF THE HORSE NATION
RETURN OF THE BUFFALO NATION
RETURN OF THE SAIL NATION
RETURN OF THE TRAIN NATION
RETURN OF THE PIONEER NATION
RETURN OF THE INDIAN NATION
RETURN OF THE CHRISTIAN NATION

THIS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY

THIS IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER

THIS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Monday, December 14, 2009

Hemp Nation

George Washington grew hemp.

Thomas Jefferson grew hemp.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The United States flag sewn by Betsy Ross was sewn out of hemp fabric.

Hemp was made illegal by an attorney general who was the brother-in-law of the CEO of Dupont, a company that invented nylon and wanted to take over hemp's market share. Nylon, of course, is made from petroleum.

Hemp grows out of the ground.

The return of the Hemp Nation requires political activism, which requires political organization, which requires idealogical consensus. This consensus is Mitakoye Oyasin.

Or, if you prefer, we may call it Christ consciousness.

United Methodist Socialists

Jesus said man cannot serve two masters - man cannot serve both God and mammon. Give up your things, he said, give up your attachment to personal possessions. Give up your private property, give up your sense of 'me' and 'mine'. Give up your capitalist ambition, he said, give up your deep-seated need for security. The lilies of the field neither toil nor sow, taught Jesus, yet Solomon in all his glory was no more fair than they. God provides, and God alone provides.

Jesus preached of a Kingdom of Heaven where all freely choose to serve egolessly, without thought for self or self-preservation. And he practiced what he preached, which gave him such a following that he became a threat to the ruling class, the power broker capitalists and the bankers. So they executed him. Materialist capitalism and Christianity are irreconcilable. Man cannot serve both God and mammon.

It is easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get to Heaven, taught Jesus, so rich men killed him. Jesus preached and practiced the virtue of giving-away, or selfless service, or self-sacrifice. The capitalist bankers preached virtue, as well, while practicing the art of investing for a return, investing for personal gain, investing for selfish interest. Usury is a ponzi scheme, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.  Over and over again Jesus called the scribes and bankers hypocrites because they wanted to get something out of it rather than offering up their actions as service to the Lord, service to mankind and the world. Jesus insisted upon the immorality of loaning money at interest, calling it usury and declaring it to be sinful. He chased moneylenders from the temple after sitting on the steps and weaving a whip with which to scourge them, knowing it would lead to his arrest and execution.

Jesus was a radical socialist, a medicine man, a healer, a prophet, a Buddhist, a yogi, a Jew, a Taoist, a Sufi, an initiated High Priest of the Egyptian Mysteries and a direct descendant of King David. In his day was celebrated every 49 years a Jubilee celebration - a year-long celebration in which all debts were forgiven. This is the Lord's Prayer, the prayer he taught us to pray: Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who debt against us. As a Christian nation we are scripturally bound to invest in creating a Kingdom of Heaven as described by Jesus: a Kingdom where all debts are forgiven. This means the dissolution of the banking system as we know it, with global debt forgiveness, and the birth of a new economics in which a healthy economy functions as the life-support system of a healthy ecology. The forgiveness of debts and the birth of a culture of selfless service is the fulfillment of Lord's Prayer. This is a political act, requiring political activism.

Supporting the debtor's union is a Christian responsibility. Through the collective bargaining power of organized debtors, we peacefully forgive all debts, actively forging the Kingdom of Heaven as described by Jesus. And we must actively invest in the new economic paradigm of ecological entrepreneurship, embracing our responsibility to live as good stewards of this sacred planet. This is the Green Economy - investing in ecological rehabilitation, reaping ecological dividends. These ecological dividends are a consequence of intelligent design: intelligently designed ecologies optimally and organically produce food, shelter, fuel, community, a sense of belonging, and reverence for life.

This is a nonprofit business entity dedicated to interfaith activism, based on three principles:

The Green economy is ecological rehabilitation

Ecological rehabilitation is intelligent design

Intelligent design is fulfillment of prophecy

Friday, November 27, 2009

this is asylum

Imagine a holistic caregiving clinic that incorporates massage, acupuncture, yoga, therapeutic healing modalities, workshops, a health tonic bar, a big dance floor and recording studio, with a medically licensed dispensary. Oh, yeah, and its a soup kitchen. And meditation center.

And interfaith laboratory.

Hippocrates, of Hippocratic oath fame, said, 'let thy food be they medicine.'  Thomas Edison said, 'the doctors of the future will prescribe food as medicine.'  If this is all true, then won't the hospitals of the future be restaurants?  And the bedrooms be healing centers?


This is a nonprofit enterprise - all revenues from medical marijuana are invested back into ecological rehabilitation. Ecological rehabilitation means healing at all levels - healing the self, healing the community, healing the land, and healing the economy. Ancient prophecies from multiple world religions foretell of a time when ganja heals all nations and all relations.

The caregiving clinic exists to heal the self, and it holds space for the healing of community - yet it must do more, it must actively invest in the ecology in order for it to fulfill its mission of building a better world.

So the caregiving clinic functions as a permaculture school, growing food for the restaurants which promote health through the medicine of their food.  Caregiving incentives are offered to volunteers who build composting toilets, guerilla gardens, rainwater catchments, and swale terraces, and even for those who choose to take edible plant walks, make bows and arrows, prepare herbal medicines, and study wilderness survival, as well as participate in classes on biodiesel preparation, engine conversion, and natural building techniques. The aim is to teach future teachers, naturally. And of course, as we grow we'll offer all the best from the wide world of hemp, from food to fuel to clothing to shelter...

This is yoga - this is the union of Heaven and Earth, the union of capitalism and socialism, radically compassionate caregiving competing in the marketplace of ideas and winning. This is casual and economically astute fulfillment of prophecy. As a holistic caregiving clinic, we are dedicated to spiritual awakening, and consequently offer access to the world's plethora of spiritual traditions, from sweat lodges to shamanic journeying to traditional Buddhist meditation to Bible study to Aghora Tantra. Arabic classes coming soon, we promise. The green economy is a code name for ecological rehabilitation, which requires intelligent design, which forges relationship between science and religion. This is ministry work.

This is a new social paradigm, integrating the functions of business, school, church, state, and entertainment. We envision a caregiving clinic so potent, capable, and effective it brings healing to you, no matter how isolated and alone you feel yourself to be. Real caregiving can and will reach out to you even when you thought you were lost for good. Maybe especially then.  We provide what society asks for. This is real customer service - this is the asylum project.

A high-revenue, caregiving nonprofit dedicated to radically genuine and inspirational customer service is destined to replace political representation, don't you think? A customer service organization so good at what it does you don't even need to look for it because its the bedrock of the culture you were born into, that's what religion aspires to be, right? Seva, or karma yoga, or selfless action, or service. Caregiving. Global ecological caregiving. Financed through the sale of medical marijuana. What a concept.

The high demand for global ecological survival creates a market opportunity for ecological caregiving clinics - this is a global industry with huge demand and no worthy competition as of yet. Which means, ecologically speaking, infinite franchise opportunities. Our global survival imperative needs to be framed as a remarkable business opportunity, a chance to meet the needs of a planet full of customers. Whatever business entity succeeds in satisfying the market demand for a healthy global ecosystem positions itself to set a history-making precedent and garner global media attention. That means lots of attention tourists, which means revenue, which means marketplace sustainability, which means even more competitive and holistic ecological caregiving. This is a business plan that shows how investing in our ecology reaps economic dividends. We know what the green economy really is, don't we? Hare Hare Ganja. Whoever corners the market in ecological caregiving wins the hearts and minds of the people, fulfilling roles traditionally reserved for church and state.


This is already happening, in organic fashion. For the time being we will pretend that this is a very successful nonprofit business operation with a reliable revenue stream coming from America's largest cash crop, investing profits into community development. In truth, we are converting economic currency into ecological currency. We are investing our economic resources into a new business model that rewards us with ecological dividends, in the form of food, shelter, healing, health, community, and a vibrant and vital world.

Now is the transition from the competitive era of the Piscean age to the cooperative and creative era of the Aquarian age, and the ganga plant - herbal medicine that functions as ecological currency, weaving a sacred feedback loop in which the ecology heals the economy, which invests in the ecology, which heals the economy, and so on - this sacred and benevolent herb is the catalyst by which we fuel the transformation.


The aim of these caregiving clinics is to balance man and nature, and to do so we will need to roll up the out-of-balance world. We sponsor the return of the Horse Nation, the return of the Buffalo Nation, the return of the Sail Nation, the return of the Rail Nation, as well as the return of the Hemp Nation.

It is up to us, the people, to institutionalize the new paradigm. Natural building techniques have worked for thousands of years and must not be impeded by corrupt and profiteering building codes. Hemp growth and production needs to flourish with government assistance. Camping is sustainable and should not be persecuted. The unionization of ganja growers, distributors, providers, and users is fast evolving into a debtor's union, fulfilling the prophecy of the Lord's Prayer with the forgiveness of debts and ushering in the era of the Jubilee Year. The exploration of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and global indigenous spiritual traditions is leading us into a radically new perspective of a universal and livable truth, one that recovers a breathtakingly complete whole from shattered pieces.

We are running out of petro-jobs, and we are running out of petrodollars. There is an infinite amount of work to do, and petro-politics needs to get out of the way. No one is ready for the changes taking place and yet we cannot hide. This is a new paradigm - get ready.

Shelter from the storm, a place of refuge, a planet that nurtures - this is the Asylum Project.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Shakti Kings

there is a music festival coming to you, direct from this website. Be patient.

The traveling online music festival is also a soup kitchen, of sorts. The secret teaching of Jesus goes like this: if you feed them, they will come. So we feed the band and generally at least one fan, assuming there is one. If not, we at least offer up a spirit plate for the ancestors and invisible beings. Not a bad start, really.

The soup kitchen is also a traveling permaculture school, learning how to heal the ecology by learning how to learn, which influences how we teach. The school itself is learning how to be a school, and step one is this: recruit the best teachers to be your friends. And the best teachers already burned down Babylon, long long ago. So you won't find them by searching on Google.
 

We're going on tour. Turns out we've been on tour the whole time, we just didn't know it until now. A Haj, actually. A spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the sacred spaces of our sacred spherical spaceship. We're playing music along the way, feeding the hungry, getting the bystanders to dance, digging composting toilets, building sacred fires, planting gardens, gleaning harvests, storing rainwater, investing in the local economy (which is a facet of the local ecology) on a shoestring budget with a volunteer army of rainbow warriors... and this online band, this evolutionary leap is endorsed by church, state, and those forces opposed to either and both.
This ourselves investing in the ecological environment known as Christ consciousness, a genuine Kingdom of Heaven wherein love reigns supreme and the Goddess is set free to bear the fruit of the tree of life. Sounds boring, I know. Give us your attention and we'll give you a Jubilee year in 2013, the forgiveness of debts and the chance to begin again.
Jubilee 2013. The fulfillment of the Mayan prophecy of the end times actually just gives us a starting point to work with when we talk about the new beginning. It's the end of disharmony and separation, confusion and disorder, and the beginning of harmony, resonance, consciousness and unity. We are witnessing the birth of transpersonal consciousness, the consciousness of Mitakoye Oyasin, the consciousness of the Divine Mother, as witnessed by the divine Father-witnesser.

At present, we are working on getting the music to the audience. Live recordings with online playback. Audio and video. And we'll show you the return of the Horse Nation, the return of the Buffalo Nation, the return of the Hemp Nation, the return of the Sail nation, the return of the Golden Age, the fulfillment of the Freemasonic prophecy of Kundalini Yoga and the Shakti Kings, and all the indigenous prophecies that call for the changing of the world ages and the ushering in of a harmonious planet dwelling within a harmonious galaxy, nestled gently within a harmonious Goddess, witnessed by a harmonious God.

The green economy is ecological rehabilitation.

Ecological rehabilitation is intelligent design.

Intelligent design is the fulfillment of prophecy.

Welcome to the Novus Ordus Seclorum

Friday, September 25, 2009

Haj

Witness our tribe, as we witness the return of the Horse Nation!

Witness our tribe, as we witness the return of the Hemp Nation!

Witness our tribe, as we witness the return of the Sailing Nation!

Witness our tribe, as we witness the return of the Buffalo Nation!

The time of the lone wolf is over - the awakening is begun

slowly, the band gathers, preparing for a global tour of sacred spaces, gathering resources for soup kitchens and permaculture villages, compiling the tools for global ecological rehabilitation-

this is the fulfillment of prophecy