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Kevin & Donna
02-27-2012
04:56 PM ET (US)
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We are still very much studying the Essene Way, working consciously with the natural forces as taught by Professor Szekely. These days our daily life is more involved with Karezza, meditation, community work through music and bread baking. We've written so much over the years about our lifestyle that it seems pretty redundant to keep writing the same stuff. If people are interested in how we transitioned from the modern american life to voluntary simplicity, please read our free online book, "the Subtle Way & It's Power". If you want to learn more about healing relationships and moving toward living in alignment with the planet, check out the work at www.reuniting.info
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Kat775
02-15-2012
03:50 PM ET (US)
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I was wondering if you follow an Essene lifestyle?
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Darren
02-07-2012
09:03 AM ET (US)
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Kevin and Donna I have been a long time fan of your website. I would like to see more posts about your homestead. I would like to here about simple things that ya'll are working on, also a day and life of Kevin and Donna around the homestead.
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Kevin & Donna
01-17-2012
01:30 PM ET (US)
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Friends of EarthStar:
People have been writing to us for months, asking what's new, requesting more articles. Our simple living lifestyle has produced benefits and insights about life that we never knew were possible. We have been writing articles about intimacy and relationships on another website (www.reuniting.info). Just the other day, we received spirit guidance to go ahead and include these writing on our site. So keep watching over the next few days, you'll see a new section entitled: Karezza & Simple Sex.
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Kat775
11-21-2011
10:56 AM ET (US)
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I watched the video with interest. The information is not new to me as I have heard it before but this movie put it in a more together fashion. Our whole economy where I live is dependent on oil and gas. The industry employs many of our people and has caused some to have a radical approach to the oil companies by threatening to blow up their wells. Many of us have cancer and rare auto immune diseases, and asthma is very high. Is it because of flaring gas wells? This I can not say for sure. The end product is a driving force in the area of energy and has become more so as more countries get industrialized. I wish I was smart enough to invent energy talked about in the movie. Edited 11-21-2011 10:57 AM
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a
11-20-2011
04:26 PM ET (US)
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recommended viewing new movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI2LGmZ_EP4
or visit
www.thrivemovement.com to purchase, rent, or pay-forward
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EDpeak
09-13-2011
09:42 PM ET (US)
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Glad you two are well. Very nice inspiring video. I will share it with another website of another movement, no, make that coalition, coalescence.. which one?
My friends, it's time to bring something like Egypt's Tahrir Square to the U.S...which a coalition of people have brought together...On October 6, 2011 in Freedom Plaza in D.C....
Another demonstration? No...this one's different, not a one-time demonstration, but a peaceful, "indefinite" open ended nonviolent occupation..starting in 22 days...come if you can, donate if you can, money or music or some other way to support this..website http://october2011.org/
(I am not personally affiliated with organizing it but find it inspiring as well, and was recently made aware of it...22 days 14 hours and 17 minutes go to before it starts!
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Donna and Kevin
09-12-2011
05:29 PM ET (US)
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Thanks for the kind thoughts sent our way for tropical storm Lee. It didn't do as much damage as predicted and we're all fine. thank you! check out this ten minute video. It resonated with us. http://www.wayseermanifesto.com/Edited 09-12-2011 05:32 PM
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Edpeak
09-02-2011
04:50 PM ET (US)
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I should have added - Kevin and Donna: I hope you and the state of LA will be ok with the tropical storm Lee, adding more water when New Orleans and I imagine other parts, are still in recovery mode..hoping you all are able to stay out of harm's way and sending positive thoughts your way :-) Edited 09-02-2011 04:54 PM
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Edpeak
09-02-2011
12:05 AM ET (US)
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We have reached an interesting milestone: now even the middle class is selling blood, not for helping others but to 'make ends meet'...and as if that's not enough, middle class finance websites are showing it as a happy, positive story they put on their front page:
http://shortlink.ca/middleclass2011sellsblood1
and in her own words, that it's just to make ends meet and pay down her debt:
http://shortlink.ca/middleclass2011sellsblood2
Meanwhile, banks are mostly making big profits again..other huge corporations are raking it in...Things are so tilted towards the rich that even Warren Buffett the billionaire says it's obscene and that folks like him, he says, should pay much more.
The US right-wing politician "solution" of course, is: More Of The Same, more slashing of budgets so you lay off more teachers, firefighters, less money to repair potholes and bridges, more cuts to health for young, for elderly, for the working stiffs...all while keeping multi-billion dollar subsidies for dirty fossil fuel industries, wanting to keep the tax cuts for the super-rich, and screaming blood murder if you dare suggest the rich should pay one red cent more in taxes...No, the solution is to slash social security and all the other programs, and bring the middle class and working class another step towards Third World status...and claim you are only doing this because you're "against big government" but in reality the Billions in corporate subsidies, the Billions on military spending, no, hundreds of billions, they are the Really Big Government spending on destructive things or on 'welfare' for the rich..those Big government things the right-wing wants to keep, and even expand..maybe next is destroying what is left of public schools (after years of under funding) and have for-profit only schools..welcome to Banana Republic, USA under Corporate Feudalism and Oligarchy..
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Edpeak
07-21-2011
10:10 PM ET (US)
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By the way, no offense and no dismissal meant to reader of Earthstar website outside the USA, as I'm sure there are more than a few in that group..and so many of whom are struggling too in similar circumstances..peace, solidarity, blessings and well-wishes to them as well :-)
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Edpeak
07-21-2011
10:09 PM ET (US)
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To their credit, CNN does post real-life stories from hard-pressed Americans. to their discredit, this one is entitled "Are my job skills useless?" which makes it sound as if ALL the blame is on workers and NONE of the blame or responsibility is on corporations to train or re-train workers, rather than shipping jobs to the cheapest (read: most exploited workers and most pollution of the environment) places to hire.
That said some of the profiles were eye opening. One profiled laid off worker is quoted as relating that he was told openly what is usually not said so openly:
"But now I find companies are taking incredible advantage of the economic crisis by combining the work of several people into one position. I have been told outright on interviews that I would be replacing three people and should expect to work 10-hour days and weekends."
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/e...employed/index.html
Well at least they're honest! The third profiled is touching too..he started as journalist in Hollywood, in 1980s that was good, then print jobs evaporated..he and friends started a PR firm (never mind that we friends of Earthstar are not huge fans of Hollywood or (most) P.R. work) to support himself..that went well "until 3 years ago" He concludes with
"I tried teaching, but now the university is dismantling the journalism department. The adult schools I used to teach for no longer pay either.I believe that's three strikes for me. Do I really want to start a new career at 54-years-old? Who's going to hire me?"
They are not just laying people off but nos dismantling the entire department at some universities! Meanwhile close a Trillion dollars per year goes to military spending http://shortlink.ca/usmilitary (just cut that in half and you save 500 billion or over the next ten years, 5 trillion) but instead they cut health, schools, and now higher education universities too, and while a few (somewhat) decent people in Congress are fighting to minimize the cuts to Medicare and Soc Sec, there will still be cuts (even though not one single red cent of the deficit came from Soc Sec which is in surprlus) Ok, I'd better go for a relaxing walk outside instead of getting worked up about the usual priorities..but the job quotes were real eye-openers..!
wishing all of us good luck in meeting economic needs and if it's not too much to ask for, to be able to get that living wage while having an interesting or at least non-crappy job or improving it over time.
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Kevin
05-23-2011
03:20 PM ET (US)
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PO
05-03-2011
07:57 PM ET (US)
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$15 earth berm eco house filmed 30 years later
Only 1:40 minute long but neat to see it's still standing and even in apparently decent shape after 30 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL0dkadocQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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PO
04-29-2011
10:11 PM ET (US)
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Interesting radio show and interviews: "Montpelier resident Jane Dwinell has followed the method in Your Money or Your Life to live frugally and retire in her mid-fifties. She celebrates and elaborates on the method in her new book, Freedom through Frugality. "Annie McCleary is coordinator for Transition Town Montpelier, part of the worldwide Transition movement, which helps Vermonters take control of their food, energy, and other resources, while moving from oil dependence to community resilience." http://peakoil.com/consumption/freedom-thr...y-transition-towns/Or directly at http://equaltimeradio.com/?q=node/335 and click on the "click to play" link at the top; it may be slow, I had to try 2 or 3 times but it loaded a mini radioplayer and worked to play the audio. P.S. Also her website http://www.spiritoflifepublishing.com/frugalitybook.htmlEdited 04-29-2011 10:16 PM
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