3 days in Berkely

This place is full of people. They seem confused about what they are wanting out of life.

Shop till you drop just isn't cutting it.

There is a lot of consciousness here... it grows between the cracks in the sidewalks like dandelions. somehow people can make a living selling tapestries rocks and henna and metaphysical books, but they still must exist within the paradigm of capitalism....

my question is how can consciousness truly blossom in an urban setting, the concrete jungle where over 50% of humanity lives, where it is almost impossible to have an experience that is not mediated by other human beings (you can see a rock or flower in a store.. you can see a tree from another continent that gets manicured by powertools)?

I have been lucky (in my own mind) to have escaped urban life, but as i tune in to the pulse of the planet it seems that urban life is something that cannot be ignored by those who care about the world and life and people, for there is simply too much of it.




The city has to be reinvented, capitalism has to be rethought.

So even if i do end up going into the peace corps, i think i will eventually be led back to the city, to help with urban permaculture, or some kind of sustainability. there are just too many people for everyone to go 'back to nature'. There simply isn't enough 'nature' left. Plus people would destroy it and probably be unhappy there.

So... how do we make our human hive a nice place to be?

Social equality,
no fossil fuels,
pedestrian/bicycle centered infrastructure,
interfaith worship,
parks,
green buildings,
passive heating/cooling,
green roofs,
urban gardens,
bikelane highways

sounds better than what we have today... oh, and more domes, hexagons, sacred geometry and building design that takes the trip of the sun into account (and maybe the moon, why not?) We could ask the other social animals how they do it. How do the bees get along so well without homelessness and pollution?


i feel that i would go crazy if i cant at least know that the redwood forest or a beautiful cliffy norcal beach is a short trip away. if i cant see the inherent beauty that lives in a rock or a creek or smell the sweet forest and see funny beetles and find some berries to munch,.. the simple experience of being outside is what makes life worth living to me. the other stuff is cool, music, djing, cooking, making love, eating cactus, etc but it pales by comparison of being in a riverbed surrounded by a mountain forest for example... the outdoors is what ties it all together, what puts it all into context. it gives me a reason to be a human being.

maybe if i write about it eloquently enough, i wont actually be the person who has to go to the city and make these changes. lol

(www.worldchanging.org is a big pioneer on re-thinking the city and greening our infrastructure)

any thoughts?

Dreams - letter to a friend

There have been many dreams passing through my sleep lately, i thought you may be interested in hearing about the nature of them. These are dreams that cannot be anything other than a connecting with alternate 3-d lives, sometimes with a crazy 4-d fairy land bridge between them, and sometimes with a 5-d bridge ( ex- during a dream of another 'life' looking in the mirror and seeing that reality dissolve into a vision of my pure essence, which looks similar to this body but made of crystal blue light, and then waking up and feeling that essence energy in this body, to start the day). some of the lives are mundane, some i am not human, some i am exploring interstellar space, some are harsh, some magical ( like flying through impossible purple clouds as some kind of cyrstal liquid excstatic bird) , and in many i seem to know some of the same people as 'this' life, in new and interesting ways.

There are particular lives that I am interested in- one in which I lived underground in a cave with beings who were highly evolved beings, and the big flood that we all knew was coming happened, and i was one of the few who risked going to the surface with the technology/fast-paced people because of a desire to help. I think we have correctly identified this as the end of lemuria and atlantis...
well i have had this recent dream of being on the surface, seeing pyramids and greek looking columns emerging from the surface of the water, and somehow with my consciousness watching/making the sun go up and down and back and forth across the horizon at varying speeds in order to observe the effect that it had on the light reflecting off of a partially submerged pyramid. there were little doorways into the pyramid but i chose not to physically enter, and there was somebody with me on the sand. I want to connect more with that because it seems there is much important knowledge to be gained, particularly in the ancient wisdom of the earth. the native american study class i am taking is connecting to this because it is said that they are the holders of the ancient ways. when i go backpacking i feel this energy so strongly, i want it to permeate everything in life without exception.

So as i ground myself and open my chakras, i feel i am releasing that atlantean capability for cruelty and fear, thank god. Chakras are opening and i feel i am able to communicate with my guides, one of which i was told is archangel Michael, and through this and other pathways, i feel increasingly safe and connected to the earth, even when envisioning other dimensions. woo * sigh of relief*




So I created a song that is intended to be sort of a "go forth into the void and see that it is teeming with life" type journey through the fourth dimension meditation. I was wondering if you had any thing to say about it. It seems like people are generally into hearing the music I am creating, at least in this little hippie town.

Here is the link http://www.mediafire.com/file/ibljzcmjhgj/HUMBOLDT SPACE PROGRAM - RAINBOW DREAM LASERS FOR PEACE.m4a

Anyway, whoever reads this- thank you for being a somebody i can share these experiences with; the act of writing to another person who can understand the wavelength i am on is very important and healing, a kind of cosmic validation- and i hope my stories can be of benefit to you as well. I look forward to meeting many more people whom with I can share with in this experience of life!

Peace always
Zach