July 17th Full Moon: Something Extraordinary Happening
Dattatreya Siva Baba, the YouTube Guru, predicts a new age of enlightenment starting on this month's full moon

Grace Light will be transmitted to everyone in the world.

He is holding a series of ceremonies in 20 cities to welcome the light, beginning at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on July 17, coinciding with a traditional Vedic celebration called the "Full Moon of the Guru."

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Operation 2012

Operation: 2012 is dedicated to the establishment of social justice and bringing about the end of both government and corporate tyranny by utilizing progressive media in order to promote worker solidarity, greater consumer awareness and encourage non-violent civil disobedience or civil initiative. We promote a five-step process dedicated to changing the existing power structure that has invaded the American/global political system.

We call for a collective movement by the nations labor unions to strike in protest to governments domestic policy.

We call for a boycott of non-sustainable corporations and endorse rescinding corporate personhood.

We reject the campaign of falsification, disinformation, and misrepresentations of the corporate media.

We promote greater consumer awareness in the market place and encourage sustainable socially responsible investing.

We encourage civil disobedience/civil initiative.

Operation 2012 recognizes the American and coalition military presence in Iraq as an illegal occupation in violation of international law. We call for an immediate military and corporate withdrawal. We also encourage impeachment hearings against the current administration to become a part of mainstream political discourse.

We are not anti-government, nor anti-democratic, but rather we seek to expose the corporate interests that currently dictate the U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The liberation of America from the grip of corporate influence is contingent upon grassroots organizing and local efforts to stop feeding the corporate machine by withholding our dollars and re-examining our role in its workforce. Rather than dwelling on problems and social ills, we focus on reversing these trends and righting the wrongs.

Operation 2012 is also a source of daily headlines related to our movement.

The term 2012 is derived from the Mayan civilization; the year that human beings will enter a new era of awareness.

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World Unity Sunrise Meditation - Equinox Sept 23rd. Unifying the World as One in Peace with Our Love!

The Global Sunrise Meditations are intended to create flowing moments of silent prayer for peace in the world. Every equinox and solstice all participants focus their minds, 10 minutes before the sunrise and 10 minutes after, on a world unified through unconditional love, to heal oursleves and the planet. Believe in our power!

Find an event or someone in your area through our network links. There are many events paralleling this one and you may have one locally that you can attend. For example, San Francisco's having a LoveFest. Build up to the Year of World Awakening 2012...

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality... to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller

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GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL

June 22nd-25th, Four Quarters, Central PA, USA

Just added! Daniel Pinchbeck is one of the leading voices in today’s counter-culture and is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, which has given him a higher profile among those interested in alternative religion and spirituality. He will be speaking at GMSF2K6 in support of his forthcoming book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. more…

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. May 4 release date. Pre-order from Amazon.

Throughout the 1990s, Pinchbeck had been a member of New York's literary select. He wrote for publications like ArtForum, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. Critics acclaimed his first book, Breaking Open the Head, as the most significant contribution to psychedelic literature since the work of Terence McKenna.

But the unexpected occurred: Pinchbeck found himself increasingly pulled into the shamanic and metaphysical realms he was reporting on as a journalist. As his mind opened to new and sometimes threatening experiences, disparate threads and synchronicities made new sense: Humanity, every sign suggested, faces an imminent decision between greater self-potential and environmental ruin. The Mayan "birth date" of 2012 could herald the close of one way of existence and the beginning of another, symbolized by the prophesied return of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl, the mysterious "Plumed Serpent" of ancient myth. In just the nick of time, the skeptical modern mind can reclaim the suppressed psychic, intuitive, and mystical dimensions of being, and institute a new planetary culture. But it is only - and by no means assuredly - possible if we confront the environmental catastrophe staring us in the face.

Something is in the air: many, if not most, of us feel that real change - for good or ill - is afoot. Pinchbeck's journey - a metaphysical opus that takes the reader from the endangered rain forests of the Amazon, to the stone megaliths of the English plains, to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada - tells the tale of a single man in whose trials we ultimately recognize our own secret thoughts and unease over modern life. And a redemptive vision of where we are heading. [via]

A Mayan Calendar Breakthrough Celebration in 2012


Connections to people you can talk to from around the globe preparing for the coming 5th Day energy - which is what the Breakthrough Celebration is all about!
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{Hating On The US - #659}
Greenpeace activists, supporters, and volunteers around the world celebrate the coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol yesterday. This landmark UN treaty on global warming, took effect after an agonising gestation, supported by 141 nations but boycotted by the world's biggest polluter, the United States. The US pulled out in 2001 when President Bush said that Kyoto was too costly. An historic first step, to be sure, and it only requires a 5.2% reduction in emissions by 2008-2012. Obviously, the US is pandering to their polluters instead of their people. see demonstations...; 10 Arrested After Protestors Storm IPE Trading Floor.

{Literature} - A Nation Of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture. Does counterculture=consumer culture? The success of viral marketing which is currently all over the place.

{Pharmaceuticals} - 2C-B. This party drug comes with disclaimer. Many so-called designer drugs fall under the umbrella term of "ecstacy" when they may be something entirely different. more...

{Art}Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) has a new art showing. These are much better than the older works I've seen of his. more... Particularly this Dylan painting.

{Condoms} - Musical Condoms - Different lovemaking positions determine what tune is played by the condom, which also works like a normal contraceptive.

Paul Krassner's Wrapping It For Christ -"...I'd buy other stuff to avoid being embarrassed. "I'd like a Batman comic book, and this candy bar-(whispering) and a pack of prophylactics..." more...

{Film} - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Trailer @ Amazon

Don't squat with your spurs on.