A Gathering for Emerging Leaders of All Ages:
Transformational Activism to Birth a New Cultural Paradigm
An Intergenerational Collaboration
September 10-15
Omega Institute ~ Rhinebeck, New York

Hosted by James O'Dea, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences & former Executive Director of Amnesty International




What is happening at the gathering:

In a collaborative learning community of healers, elders, social artists, activists, and visionaries, this is an experiential journey to:

*Connect to our authentic selves and the larger vision for our planet
*Discover New Paradigm practices and models for Transformative Leadership
*Explore ways to shift personal, group, and global consciousness
*Deepen the connection between your inner work and your outer work
*Co-create powerful networks, projects, and communities to transform our world
*We will come together to embody our gifts, visions, and passions! We will come together to open our hearts, to follow our intuition, to trust group intelligence, and to honor the Earth.

This holistic, dynamic, and celebratory gathering weaves together spiritual practices, socio-political concerns, body awareness, creative expression, ecological awareness, community-building, societal truth-telling, systemic change dialogue, and visionary new science models into an emerging paradigm of transformative social change.




~Event information~
http://www.noetic.org/emails/omega_event/email.htm

~event video~
http://www.noetic.org/events/IONSomegaQT.htm

~collaboration hub~
http://www.spiritgathering.net



~~~~check out the video to see some clips of me in action . . .

On Earth Day, April 22nd, I will be in Oakland speaking at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Regional Conference, which will be exploring the role of consciousness in sustainability. Along with 2 co-inspirators, Matthew Edwards and Alpha Lo, I will be leading a 1.5 hour breakout session in the afternoon.

Here is the blurb on our offering . . .


BREAKOUT ROOM .. 6: BUILDING A NETWORK FOR A NEW SOCIETY Young visionaries will share their innovative insights into creating a nodal network of sustainable spiritual communities.Youll locate resources,skills,and allies for building a stronger network of your own. Facilitated by Dominic Allamano,Matthew Edwards,and Alpha Lo


That night, we will all be going to the Green Be-In ~ www.be-in.com ~ in San Francisco

If you are in the area, please come out and support these wonderful events.

Blessings.

Dominic


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Here is more info on the conference . . .


IONS' Regional Conference:

Global Consciousness - The Missing Piece of the Sustainability Puzzle

Saturday, April 22nd, 9am-5:30pm
Scottish Rite Center, Lake Merritt, Oakland
www.ions.org

IONS' Regional Conference: Global Consciousness - The Missing Piece of the Sustainability Puzzle
Saturday, April 22nd, 9am-5:30pm

"The science and study of consciousness offers important pieces to the puzzle of global sustainability. This day-long conference brings together pioneers at the frontiers of conscious changescientists, spiritual leaders, environmentalists, and social change activiststo expand the dialogue about how we create global sustainability. After a vision-expanding morning and a heartfelt, inspiring lunch, we'll move into specific action projects in the afternoon, finishing the day with a bold, integrative vision and celebration. The Global Consciousness Conference will chart the path to a spiritually fulfilling, ecologically balanced, and socially healthy worldview. It will also serve as the official book launch for Entangled Minds, the new book by Dean Radin, IONS Senior Scientist. Book signing with Dean will take place during the afternoon reception.

Presenters include Duane Elgin (Awakening Earth); Mark Plotkin (Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice); Andrew Beath (Consciousness in Action); as well as IONS leaders James O'Dea (President); Marilyn Mandala Schlitz (VP); Dean Radin (Sr. Scientist); and Belvie Rooks (Board Member). Afternoon forums will feature various community activists, with an opportunity to engage with their projects."


More info:
www.noetic.org/events/Apr...nounce.html

Download the event program brochure:
www.noetic.org/events/Apr...pr22_06.pdf

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www.be-in.com

DIGITAL BE-IN 14
THE EARTH DAY BE-IN
April 22, 2006
SOMARTS Gallery
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco

Planet Code Symposium
5 pm to 9 pm

Green Frontier Exhibition
5 pm to 10 pm

Eco-Activation Celebration
Luminaries and Special Guests, Performances, Live Music, DJs
9 pm 4 am


Welcome to The Earth Day Be-In, celebrating the further evolution of the digital revolution: building a sustainable culture.

Digital Be-In 14, this year on Earth Day 2006, is a timely convergence of the San Francisco Bay Areas forward thinking technologists and the advanced cyberculture they have fostered with the vanguard of the sustainable culture movement represented by the regions huge concentration of green start-ups, environmental non-profit groups and conscious consumers.

The Earth Day Be-In is combination symposium, exhibition, rally and multimedia entertainment extravaganza featuring a range of presentations focused on sustainability solutions, with some of San Franciscos top conscious music acts, DJs, and visual and performance artists.

For the past two and a half years I have been working on a project called In My Village (www.inmyvillage.org), which has been exploring the subtle and interpersonal dynamics of grounding a new culture within a pre-existing culture. We're deeply aware of the state of the world, and we wanted to create something to help local communities strengthen themselves so that they might thrive in the future, whatever the collective of humanity chooses to create.

I've noticed this quality in the "State of the World," in which it seems as though:


Its all falling apart!

and

Its all coming together!


Both seem equally true, it just depends on your perception and where you choose to look. Look at the gazillion $$$'s of debt which exist within the Dollar System, and you'll see the aspects of culture which are insanely imbalanced and due for a serious reckoning. Look at the emergent visionary culture in the Northwest, and you'll see something that is most definitely coming together. All of it is true right now.

One world of ideas and structures is dying, while another is being born.

So we decided to take the knowledge we had developed through years of facilitation of small groups ~ which includes a clear view of the dynamics which allowed for transformation of individuals and groups to occur within them ~ and to then explore overlaying those dynamics into a social invention which could assist in catalyzing the parts of us that are "coming together" in becoming what they are becoming.

We're sort like "midwifes," just that in this case, we are helping a new culture birth itself, rather than assisting in the birth of a child.

The "heart circle" is a key element in that vision. It is a place for us to gather with those we hold most dear in our lives ~ those who we want to cocreate the future of our community with ~ and to explore together what it is that we truly want in our lives. That's it. A place of open-hearted connected space where we each find the FREEDOM to FOCUS our vision on what our heart's deepest yearning for itself is. The group holds the focus, reflects your light back to you, and the circle, as circles do so well, amplifies the energy. The noise and distraction of our daily lives is set aside for a few moments, and we can once again hear ourselves.

What do I want?

This simple question is one that our culture rarely allows us to ask, preferring to give us the answer through a lifetime of subtle manipulation and suggestions, creating a perceptual "white noise" of externalized and compensatory wants, preventing us from hearing our own hearts desire and from receiving the guidance of our intuition.

We can then use that clear sense of what we want in our life to give direction to our energy, with the circle their to hold that space within our lives, week to week.

All that we have learned through two generations of the project has been incorporated by my friend Tej Steiner into this handbook for how to create a self organizing and self facilitated a heart circle in your community.

You can learn more at:

www.heartcircle.com

Online sales will be available as of April 1st.

We will be scheduling trainings throughout the Northwest soon. Check the website for updates and further details.

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=47949


The US has become a rogue nation.

Gentle reader, if you prefer comforting lies to harsh truths, don't read this column.

By Paul Craig Roberts

02/01/06 "ICH" -- -- The state of the union is disastrous. By its naked aggression, bullying, illegal spying on Americans, and illegal torture and detentions, the Bush administration has demonstrated American contempt for the Geneva Convention, for human life and dignity, and for the civil liberties of its own citizens. Increasingly, the US is isolated in the world, having to resort to bribery and threats to impose its diktats. No country any longer looks to America for moral leadership. The US has become a rogue nation.

Least of all did President Bush tell any truth about the economy. He talked about economic growth rates without acknowledging that they result from eating the seed corn and do not produce jobs with a living wage for Americans. He touted a low rate of unemployment and did not admit that the figure is false because it does not count millions of discouraged workers who have dropped out of the work force.

Americans did not hear from Bush that a new Wal-Mart just opened on Chicago's city boundary and 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs (Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 26), or that 11,000 people applied for a few Wal-Mart jobs in Oakland, California. Obviously, employment is far from full.

Neither did Bush tell Americans any of the dire facts reported by economist Charles McMillion in the January 19 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News:

During Bush's presidency the US has experienced the slowest job creation on record (going back to 1939). During the past five years private business has added only 958,000 net new jobs to the economy, while the government sector has added 1.1 million jobs. Moreover, as many of the jobs are not for a full work week, "the country ended 2005 with fewer private sector hours worked than it had in January 2001."

McMillion reports that the largest sources of private sector jobs have been health care and waitresses and bartenders. Other areas of the private sector lost so many jobs, including supervisory/managerial jobs, that had health care not added 1.4 million new jobs, the private sector would have experienced a net loss of 467,000 jobs between January 2001 and December 2005 despite an "economic recovery." Without the new jobs waiting tables and serving drinks, the US economy in the past five years would have eked out a measly 64,000 jobs. In other words, there is a job depression in the US.

McMillion reports that during the past five years of Bush's presidency the US has lost 16.5% of its manufacturing jobs. The hardest hit are clothes manufacturers, textile mills, communications equipment, and semiconductors. Workforces in these industries shrunk by 37 to 46 percent. These are amazing job losses. Major industries have shriveled to insignificance in half a decade.

Free trade, offshore production for US markets, and the outsourcing of US jobs are the culprits. McMillion writes that "every industry that faces foreign outsourcing or import competition is losing jobs," including both Ford and General Motors, both of which recently announced new job losses of 30,000 each. The parts supplier, Delphi, is on the ropes and cutting thousands of jobs, wages, benefits, and pensions.

If the free trade/outsourcing propaganda were true, would not at least some US export industries be experiencing a growth in employment? If free trade and outsourcing benefit the US economy, how did America run up $2.85 trillion in trade deficits over the last five years? This means Americans consumed almost $3 trillion dollars more in goods and services than they produced and turned over $3 trillion of their existing assets to foreigners to pay for their consumption. Consuming accumulated wealth makes a country poorer, not richer.

*SNIP*

read more at:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=47949

The End of the Internet?
By Jeff Chester
The Nation

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.

Under the plans they are considering, all of us--from content providers to individual users--would pay more to surf online, stream videos or even send e-mail. Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received.

*SNIP*

read the rest at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

Hello Zaadz Community. My First post here is a repost of my *final* post at Tribe.net. Fresh words to come . . .

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A Choice Point for Our Community

I really love what Tribe.net has brought to my life.

Two years of watching this space and our community evolve together has been profoundly inspiring and empowering.

I had hoped Tribe would continue to evolve with us.


This latest round of changes and the news of the new Tribe.net CEO have confirmed a feeling of diverging intentions which has been slowly building in recent months.

info on the CEO with comments:
onlinepersonalswatch.typepad.com/n...ml

It feels as though an organizing principle foreign to the dynamics of this community has been overlayed upon us, seeking to force us into its desired patterns of use.

Rather than engage this amazing community in a collaborative process of site design and evolution, it seems crititques and suggestions are to be equally ignored, as they move forward with their site redesign as part to their master plan to "monetize" the Tribe.net community.

The design of Tribe.net supported us being together in way that was far more natural and intuitive than other social networking sites like MySpace or Friendster, which seem designed to replicate dysfunctional relationships not empower healthy ones.

Yet the magic of Tribe has not been due to the site design . . . it has been due to all of us. They created the space, and we have filled it with beauty and possiblity and all of many ways we share our art with each other and this world. We have used this space to take our beautiful emerging culture from its local and regional roots and bring us into a virtual relationship with ourselves as the emergent culture of embodied wisdom and lovefilled art we have become. The space has been a gift and we have used it well, and in doing so, a great many of us feel clearly that the potential of a site like Tribe.net is far grander than the new CEO and designers seem to comprehend.

So I love ya Tribe, and I always will. You were my first online social network, and that is a role that will always been yours. Thanks to you, I know what is possible, and so i won't accept the limits and poor design you now exhibit.

I've pulled off my photos due to the changes in TOU policy and to temporarilly reclaim the content i provided to the community. This will also likely be my last post for a while. I'll be exploring other virtual community spaces to find one ready to create a space to empower our dreams.

I checked out a site called Zaadz.com yesterday and I like it. A lot. They seem very resonantly aligned with the grande vision and ready to cocreate the space of our dreams. They are far enough along to be ready to engage us in design, and yet early enough along to give us all a chance to make a significant impact in the design and direction of the site.

I'm going to engage them and their community and share my ideas for how a social networking system could evolve into a crucial tool to empower all of us in creating the parallel physical and cultural infrastructure our communities will need to survive well and thrive in the coming years. I know that together we could design an AMAZING virtual community space!

Next weekend there is a gathering of the extended Wiki community occuring in Portland called Recent Changes Camp ~ www.recentchangescamp.org. I imagine the collective brilliance at this gathering will know what to do. I hope to attend, and if not, I'll make sure to get the download from friends who do go.

One way or another, the energy and possibility Tribe.net has empowered us to find in our community will endure. Whether on Tribe.net or on some new site, we will keep this fantastic voyage going.

Love and Blessings to all of you wonderful people.

Dominic


Mon, January 30, 2006 - 1:25 AM