Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday weekend. Blessings and I am grateful for all of you. Souldish is short this week but next week stay tuned for much more. If you’ll be cruising the internet for interesting brain bytes to much on, be sure to check out Steve’s picks on Souldish this week, “The Zen of Californication”, “To Mars by A-Bomb”, “How Will Religion Evolve”, “Lessons From the Japanese: Time to Stop Borrowing Money and Start Printing It”, and “The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card.”
Truly,
Salma
Http://www.souldish.com
))Featured Souldish Event((
==Saturday, November 28==
Filmmaker Keith Arronowitz and Souldish present: Metamorphosis- A Journey of Transformation
Ayahuasca has been used by Shamans and those they help for hundreds if not thousands of years. Found all over the Amazon, Ayahuasca and it’s incredible ability to heal has been slowly but steadily creeping into western consciousness. Metamorphosis is a documentary that follows several westerners as they undergo five Ayahuasca ceremonies and experience the gamut of emotions - from utter fear to outright ecstasy. It also explores the shamans who work with the medicine as well as all the key elements of an Ayahuasca ceremony.
In addition, tells the story of Hamilton Souther, who earlier in life had no belief of and in spirit. After having a spiritual awakening, Hamilton is led to the Amazon where he apprentices as an Ayahuascero, or person who practices medicine with Ayahuasca. Hamilton and Maestro Don Alberto (an indigenous master shaman for over thirty years that practices with Hamilton) take us through the ceremonies as well as explain the meaning behind them.
As the film progresses, we follow the journey that the participants take through the plant medicine. The difficulties of the experience are revealed as well as why each of the participants has come. Integral elements of the ceremony, such as the icaros (songs sung in ceremony) and the “purge” are explored further.
Finally, we get to see the transformations people have undergone, from physical to emotional to spiritual, after having spent more than a week with Ayahuasca. They reflect on their experiences and share what they have learned, leaving profoundly transformed from when they first arrived.
If you cannot make the screening, you can purchase the DVD online at Keith’s website: http://metamorphosisfilm.com/FilmClips.html
(7p, $10)
Wild Project
195 East 3rd St.
New York City, NY
http://metamorphosisfilm.com/FilmClips.html
The Zen of Californication
Hank Moody fucks all these women simply because he truly loves them. And what’s not to love about the women on the show? They’re all goddesses – perfect, lithe, ambrosial vixens. The only thing holding men back from all being Hank Moody’s is self-control and opportunity. With the kind of opportunity Hank gets, no mere mortal could resist these sirens. His self-destruction is actually a celebration of the divine feminine.
To Mars By A-Bomb
BBC Four documentary on the US government’s bizarre Project Orion, a plan to send spaceships around our solar system with nuclear power.
These guys were looking to science fiction writers as their creative team, basically. The romance of just making insane ideas real, and it actually working (well, at least to some extent)… why isn’t it like this anymore?
How Will Religion Evolve?
Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a traditional deity?
The Card Game
In The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card and a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over attempts to reform the way the industry has done business for decades.
Lessons From the Japanese: Time to Stop Borrowing Money and Start Printing It
The reason the level of bank lending is so important is that virtually all our money today originates as loans created by private banks. Most people think money is issued by the government, but the only money the government creates are coins, which compose less than one ten-thousandth of the money supply - about $1 billion out of $13.8 trillion (M3). Dollar bills are issued by the Federal Reserve, a privately owned banking corporation, and lent to the government and to other banks. And coins and dollar bills together make up only about 7 percent of the money supply. All of the rest is simply written into accounts on computer screens by bankers when they make loans.
These upcoming few days may prove to be quite interesting.Tomorrow night (Friday) join Evolver and Daniel Pinchbeck for Re-Visioning Capitalism, if you like controversy and spirited debate come visit us at Collective Hardware for a lively discussion.Just when you think you’re head is reeling, why not proceed to Newark, to pour your art outall night long with the artsy folks at Seed Gallery.Then on Saturday, Rebirth takes NY over like a storm with their trippy Winter Wonderland party.Save some energy for Monday night’s Souldish sponsored event, the Money Fix at the 6th St. Community Center down on the lower east side and stay for some lively conversation afterward with NY’s very own complementary currency Time Bank TINY’s director Jordan Schachter.In Souldish this week you will also find opportunities to share in shamanic work, Art, music, yoga, devotion, cultural discussions, workshops and many parties.
Be sure to check out Steve’s picks on Souldish, Friday and do send your event listings to me at Salma@souldish.com.
In Joy!
Salma
http://www.souldish.com
))Souldish Specially Featured Events((
==Friday, November 20==
1.Evolver Presents:Re-Visioning Capitalism
Some say it’s time for American civilization to die.Come and join us for an electric night when Howard Bloom will tell Daniel Pinchbeck why American civilization has just begun to live – and how it will be saved and upgraded by – guess who? – YOU.“Machine –gun raconteur and scientist, ex PR magnate to the stars, and author of “The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism”, Howard Bloom is a speaker of incendiary mercurial intellect” (Village Voice).Emceed by Daniel Pinchbeck, author and founder of Reality Sandwich and Evolver and who disagrees with Bloom about Everything.Forget sparks!Minds will fly.Bloom’s first roaring rant in NYC for 4 years.Don’t miss it!Stay for discussion, mingling with great food and bar.Special presentation to join Time Interchange New York (TINY.www.timeinterchange.com)a complementary currency system that is re-visioning capitalism right here on our own doorstep.
($15, 7p)
Collective Hardware
169 Bowery, NYC
http://www.howardbloom.net
http://www.timeinterchange.com
2. Pour Your Art Out hosted by Chris Bee
Vol. 1″ This is going to be an art party of epic proportions. Art opening + fashion show, plus 3 bands and lots of djs. it is going… to be hella fresh more will be revealed as the party gets closer. Hope to see you there.
(5p – 9a yes that’s 9am, $donation is usually $5 or $10)
Winter Wonderland at Rebel NYC presented byRebirth
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Witness as Rebirth takes Manhattan.New York is steeped in the confusion of myth that has us all feeling a bit insane.But not to despair, instead let us celebrate, for sweet relief has found it’s way into our fair city.There is a ReBirth.Don the mask of fantasy where art, music, and dance fuse with spirit to create a wonderland where we may find momentary refuge along the way on our journey “back home — to ourselves.” We, the innocent few dream of illicit pleasure, childlike reverie, dancing ‘til dawn as we dream ourselves back to the eyes that once inspired us…and perhaps we may find ‘the others’in the process.In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice represents our youthful struggle to survive in the confusing world of adults. To understand our adult world, Alice has to overcome the open-mindedness that is characteristic for children.Here is your chance to peel back the layers your adult self has created, and return to your innocence, your child-like open-mindedness, and perhaps your reckless cravings for exploration into other worlds and other minds.The Red Queen shook her head, “You may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like,” she said, “but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”
Join Alice in her trippy winter wonderland adventures into live painting, cage dancing, psychedelic visuals, trippy light shows, Tarot Readings, live music, dj’s, drinks, and black light visual sensations.Try out your right brain and dress “fantasy”, black light friendly attire will make us love you even more…Winter Wonderland “brought to you by Rebirth” Experience a Winter Wonderland “Go ask Alice,.. I think she’ll know.”Live Musicians: Spineless Thug, ATM, Bioluminescence, The Living Painting Group.Live DJ’s: iMu.uRi, Subsince, Promethea Pink, Mikey Likes It playing all varieties of Dubstep, Drum and Bass, IDM, Grime, Jungle, Bass)Winter Deco by Nephil Nine.Psychedelic Visual Projections by Kaliptus.In-Joy!
Join us for a screening of the acclaimed feature-length documentary The Money Fix which exposes the assumptions behind the current money system and offers a look at existing alternatives. The screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A with director Alan Rosenblith, Jen Cohen of Seven Stones Leadership and The Global Sufficiency Network, and Jordan Schachter of Time Interchange New York (TINY). Alan and Jen will be joining us via Skype and Jordan will moderate the discussion. We hope you can join us as we surface and examine hidden assumptions about the function and use of money and learn practical tools for empowering our communities. Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The Money Fixis a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar.The Money Fix examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds, and through this lens we learn how we can empower ourselves by redesigning the lifeblood of the economy at the community level. The film documents three types of alternative money systems, all of which help solve economic problems for the communities in which they operate.
See trailer here http://www.themoneyfix.org/videos/money-fix-trailer
RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/StorySpiral-NYC/calendar/11539285
Presented by Evolver NYC, Souldish, and StorySpiral.
Here is a recent blog by Alan Rosenblith for Souldish in which he explores questions such as: What is money? Where does it come from? How does the design of our monetary system affect our lives? http://www.souldish.com/2009/10/19/the-money-fix-by-alan-rosenblith
Speaking will be: Jordan Schachter is the founder of TimeForCharity.com, an auction website that hosts auctions for charities and one of the founders of The Time Interchange Of New York, www.timeinterchange.com, where New Yorkers can trade goods and services for an alternative currency called Time Dollars or TINY’s. He has written and directed several feature films and television pilots as well as plays in New York. He meditates daily. http://timeinterchange.wordpress.com/
Please note: no one will be turned away for lack of funds but we do appreciate helping us pay for the space rental and so on, and we are also raising funds for TINY to help them renew their Time Bank software licensingfee and will be making a donation to the filmmaker for allowing us to show his film if there are available funds.
Thanks Richard Metzger for writing this
Andrew Corsello’s The Bitch is Back article from GQ on the boorish subject of Ayn Rand Assholes is probably the best takedown of Ayn Rand’s followers (and Alan Greenspan and Wall Street) I’ve yet seen and certainly the funniest (other than Stephen Colbert’s). It was about time for an article like this to appear and I am glad it was Corsello who wrote it.
6 Things The New “Prisoner” Changed For The Worse
The Prisoner used its premise of a spy trapped in an idyllic, but oppressive, village to ask questions about individuality in a conformist, overly processed society. Here are six ways last night’s remake throws away that rich premise. Spoilers below…
This week you can Illuminate with Parashakti, learn the delicate art of Kimchi with Evolver, join Souldish for The Money Fix, Dance to Tryptophanatic Vibes at Seed, discover Bill Mollison’s permaculture secrets at “the Gallery”, chant with the Kirtan Rabbi, relive Halloween at G&S’s Halloween Redux, which are just a few of the many mischief and educational opportunities coming up….
==Saturday November. 14==
Illuminate – Spiritual Night Club
Club culture meets earth-based medicine in Illuminate, an invitation to explore the hypnotic rhythms of the body and bring to light the contours of one’s own being. Led by Parashakti & the GateKeepers and GlobeSonic dj Fabian Alsultany, the evening includes Native American wisdom teachings from medicine women Joan Henri, guest performers and musicians. Illuminate draws on exhilarating ceremonies, drumming and an ecstatic dance party to create a safe space in which participants can liberate themselves and feel a connection with others.
Join us at Cosmic Cantina for an afternoon filled with healthy tips that are sure to change the way you feel about kimchi. Participants will learn about the history of kimchi and fermented foods, and then everyone will learn how to make their own. Each guest will leave with their own jar of kimchi tailored to their personal taste, and knowledge on how adding kimchi to your diet can benefit both your wallet and your health!.
(2-4 pm, $18 pre-reg, $20 day-of)
Cosmic Cantina
105 3rd Ave (bet E 13th & E 12th Streets)
Learn more and register here: http://evolver.net/event/2009/11/14/evolver_nyc_and_sproutcraft_cafe_present_kimchi_kitchen
==November 23==Souldish Featured Event==
The Money Fix Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A
Join us for a screening of the acclaimed feature-length documentary The Money Fix which exposes the assumptions behind the current money system and offers a look at existing alternatives. The screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A with Jordan Schachter of Time Interchange New York (TINY). We hope you can join us as we surface and examine hidden assumptions about the function and use of money and learn practical tools for empowering our communities. Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. The Money Fix examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds, and through this lens we learn how we can empower ourselves by redesigning the lifeblood of the economy at the community level. The film documents three types of alternative money systems, all of which help solve economic problems for the communities in which they operate.
Alan Rosenblith has a diverse professional background in music, permaculture, and currency design. After being certified in Permaculture at Santa Fe’s EcoVersity, Rosenblith pursued a career in filmmaking. His first film “Dreams of Green” detailed organic farming and was broadcast on New Mexico public television. More recently, Rosenblith has seen his filmmaking as one tool in a broader toolkit to promote human evolution. Rosenblith considers his primary role to be an agent for creating cultural mind shifts. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. http://www.themoneyfix.org/
Jennifer Cohen is a founding partner of Seven Stones Leadership, a professional services firm advancing the practice of leadership, wisdom, courage and sufficiency. She leverages over 15 years of experience in coaching top managers to achieve outstanding results as well as being a coach’s coach. Seven Stones was created to fulfill on the supposition that meaningful effective leadership requires the exposure of assumptions that guide organizations. Once uncovered, organizations can create a new set of beliefs, ones which if embraced and enacted would powerfully shift the company toward the mindset of sufficiency. The concept of Sufficiency asserts that there are enough resources to sustain all and a global economy based on these principles would be a very different world in which to compete. http://sevenstonesleadership.com/
Jordan Schachter is the founder of TimeForCharity.com, an auction website that hosts auctions for charities and one of the founders of The Time Interchange Of New York, www.timeinterchange.com, where New Yorkers can trade goods and services for an alternative currency called Time Dollars or TINY’s. He has written and directed several feature films and television pilots as well as plays in New York. He meditates daily. http://timeinterchange.wordpress.com/
Here’s my picks My Sexual Evolution
In a world dominated by vaginal orgasms, claiming the clitoris as my primary sex organ back in 1966 was a “Big Fucking Deal!” For many women, it remains a BFD to this day.
V for Vixen
Anaïs Nin is perhaps best known for the erotica she penned in order to raise money for herself and her friends. Those who cry sell-out are just jealous that she was able to pay her bills writing dirty stories.
New warning on ‘perfect vaginas’
Women are undergoing surgery to create perfect genitalia amid a “shocking” lack of information on the potential risks of the procedure, a report says.
Living the Dream: Independent Filmmaking in the Amazon
by
Keith Aronowitz
My name is Keith Aronowitz and I am one of those insane people that decided to fund their own film. Okay, maybe not insane, but it was just something I decided to do, or rather felt I had to.
Let me back up to give you some history. I have been professionally involved in the film & television industry for over 20 years, mostly as an editor working in network TV for companies like ABC News, MTV, Sony, Disney, etc. Having worked in TV for all these years, I have also had the misfortune of working on some pretty mindless stuff, i.e. reality shows and infomercials.
FOOD THAT RAWKS!: Rooibos-cinnamon Latte. Dairy, sugar and jitter free!
Fall is full on and I am feeling the need to curl up on the couch with a warm frothy beverage and a heart-warming flick! Why get in the car and drive to a coffee shop when I can prepare a much healthier version of my latte I use to indulge in quite frequently.
Because I am blissfull in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy, I prefer to go caffeine and dairy free, so in this recipe I love to use Rooibos tea which is fantastic. My favorite brand is provided by a company out of Eagle Idaho called Sunn. I am sure you can use any brand if Sunn is not available in your health food store.
Rooibos is sometimes referred to as red bush tea, providing great hydration, replenishes electrolytes, a natural detoxifier and super energizing without the caffeine jitterz. Interesting enough It also shows anti-mutagenic, Read more »
Cinematic Soul Mates
The chemistry Mr. Almodóvar, 60, and Ms. Cruz, 35, share would almost seem romantic if he were not one of the world’s best-known openly gay directors and she were not linked in the tabloids to the actor Javier Bardem.
Thanks Richard Metzger
Michael Panzner is the author of the new best-seller, When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era. He’s a former Wall Street insider himself and one of the very, very first writers to accurately predict where the economy was headed in his 2007 book Financial Armageddon. Charles Hugh Smith’s New Book: Survival+
“Charles Smith provides a balanced, thoughtful, and prescient view regarding the dilemmas facing our fragile economy. From the collapse in the housing market to the growing power of the banking sector, our economic landscape is changing.
The Woman Who Could Think Herself Off
These are exciting times in the study of excitement. Now, recent advances in brain imaging are helping scientists draw the schematic that links the clitoris to the biggest sex organ of all: the brain.
Personal development gurus are offering mind software. But in the realm of mind-software something is lost in translation, we are unable to run software written by another programmer properly and our hardware and operating systems just aren’t quite up to snuff to accomplish the feats that gurus promise.
RealitySandwich and Souldish Present the 3rd Annual Ayahuasca Monologues, “Tales from the Spirit Vine,” at the historic Webster Hall Grand Ballroom.Following last year’s successful event, we are pleased to present five new visionary stories about ayahuasca, the renowned sacred brew of the Amazon.For centuries, shamans have drunk this powerful concoction to heal illness, obtain mystical insights, contact spirit guides, and explore magical worlds. Hear of experiences both miraculous and terrifying when Westerners access ayahuasca’s incredible gifts. Opening Icaros (medicine songs) by Manuel Rufino, an ayahuasquero and healer from Native American traditions. Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and editorial director of Evolver. Music and mingling will follow the show. Special thanks to Webster Hall for hosting the night in their Grand Ballroom.
Storytellers: Alex Grey: visionary artist, co-founder of CoSM, author of “The Mission of Art:” & “Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey,” creator ofthe film “ARTmind” Adam Elenbaas: contributing editor of Reality Sandwich, author of “Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest,” forthcoming from Tarcher/Penguin. Margaret De Wys: composer and faculty member at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, author of “Black Smoke: A Woman’s Journey of Healing, Wild Love, and Transformation in the Amazon.” Steve Beyer: retired professor at Graduate Theological Union, and author of “Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizon Shamanism” in the Upper Amazon. Adam Pollina: New York based Marvel comic book artist/penciller.
Hosted and created by Jonathan Phillips: Founding Member of Evolver.net/Reality Sandwich, Editor of Souldish.com, Founder of the NY Gnostics.
Directed by Adam Elenbaas
Thurs, November 5th
Webster Hall, Grand Ballroom
125 E. 11th Street
Doors 6:30pm, Performance 7:30pm sharp, $20
Drinks will be available at the Grand Ballroom Bar
After Party in Private Lounge
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