EDUCATION : El Sistema : social and communitarian development

The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela (FESNOJIV - Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela), commonly known as 'El Sistema' is a government-funded organization, founded by maestro José Antonio Abreu, aimed at systematizing music education and promoting the collective practice of music through symphony orchestras and chorus as a means of social organization and communitarian development.

"To play and to fight, a great motto for a great orchestra" : So read the headline of an article about the National Youth Orchestra in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional from February 2, 1976. To Play and to Fight is the guiding maxim of the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela. It reflects the firmness of purpose and perseverance which has always characterized the conduct of its members and has made of El Sistema the most important orchestral and social program in Venezuela of the last decades.

For El Sistema’s musicians, To Play and to Fight means undertaking music as a collective experience which also involves individual effort; it entails a relentless pursuit of excellence and, above all, it means persevering until dreams become reality.

The website : http://www.fesnojiv.gob.ve/en/home.html

SELF-MANAGEMENT : The DaVinci Method : written by an indigo for indigos

How it Works

The DaVinci Method details how to leverage your personality type the same way all great entrepreneurs have, leading to health, wealth and happiness. Because of your DaVinci type personality, you are capable of amazing genius and ingenuity, but first you have to learn how to get out of your own way.

Discover the secret to harnessing your DaVinci-type personality just like the world's most successful entrepreneurs, artists and inventors.

The website : http://www.davincimethod.com/
The other website : http://www.crazyones.org/

ENVIRONMENT : The Orion Project : Developing Clean Energy Solutions to Empower the 21st Century

The Orion Project is an organization created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and Enlightened Abundance. Technological progress in the areas of advanced physics and electromagnetic systems, if appropriately supported, will enable humanity to live on the Earth with a minimal footprint with genuine long-term sustainability. For over 100 years, these advanced concepts in energy generation have either been ignored or actively suppressed due to the power of fossil-fuel based economic and industrial interests.

Imagine a world where every home and village has its own clean source of electrical energy, free from the cost of fossil fuels, nuclear power or a centralized electric grid.

Imagine every means of transportation running off of clean power plants, using no source of fuel and creating no pollution.

Imagine the developing world blossoming with these new technologies and the equatorial rain forests protected from slash and burn subsistence farming and logging.

Imagine all inter-city transportation above the ground and the millions of acres paved over with highways freed for productive agriculture and recreation.

Imagine all manufacturing being clean-fuel sourced, using no-cost or low-cost energy.

Imagine the possibility of 100% recycling because the energy cost of transporting recycled materials, processing them and scrubbing pollution out of the air and water approaches zero.

http://www.theorionproject.org/en/index.html

EDUCATION : Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

About this talk
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

About Ken Robinson
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006.

Sense of respect

Respect starts with respecting yourself as a being with rights. It is about getting to the point where one understands what respect of self truly is, what the silence of self truly is. It is much less something that can be discussed, it needs to be lived, and often without having to talk about it.

The sense of respect steers many decisions, about allowing others in one's perimeter or not, or when declining an invitation. Life is made of choices, and being the most for yourself is to respect first yourself. Others should not be put in the equation, as this is about one's unique perception of what can be or not.

The center point of respect starts and ends with oneself. Sharing time with others is a choice, sharing wisdom with others as well. You define where you allow yourself to be, and that is one of the pillars of sovereign wisdom. You might receive invitations you will not accept, and that is sovereign choice.

You might change your mind and heart about things, and that is your choice. You might make new contracts and end others, and that is your choice. Self-respect is self-love, it shapes your life where you want it to go.

Neutralizing low frequencies

Sometimes it is necessary to get rid of a part of yourself to breathe again, and to find harmony. It is when I momentarily separate myself from fear (expressed in another person), that I then can re-integrate that part as a neutral energy that comes home... Yes, so-called separation is part of the neutralizing power of forgiveness.

It is not really about people for me, it is about the frequency that you are connected to [that is my own way of perceiving].

Now, a fear person, depressed person, is a carrier of something you like to get transformed within yourself.... The only way I have experienced that this transformation can come about, is by separating yourself from it, breathing and then allowing the powerful forgivenss and other high frequential love vibes to neutralize.

The heart transforms it all, it must however be allowed to feel what is going on, and that is the scary part, but still... if allowed it transforms amazing amounts of lower frequency. Like a reverse wave therapy, you know.

The synchronistic events show themselves to push you in the direction, you are most afraid to willingly walk into... But you must go finally.It might not be always the best solution [although it is usually], and if error, I have to choose again.

Sovereignty is a road that demands some seemingly 'courageous' disconnections....It gives space to connect with 'new frequencies' that are more likely to connect with your own vibe. The heart knows.

Sense of Purpose

Letter to a friend (slightly adapted from the original version) -

Dear friend, I am doing very well. I am focussing on being here/now, still evolving in understanding the human design and therefore being of the most efficient use to others when I first understand myself. It does make a difference, it helps. Still highly connected to the 6 heart virtues of appreciation, compassion, forgiveness, humility, understanding and valor. I use them every time I encounter an incident, or watch something happen in my life.

The sense of purpose is especially lying in the fact that I consider myself the center of my own universe. What I emit has an impact on the rest of my own universe, so I make it a continuous routine to think, feel and live as 'purely' as possible, with respect to myself first and the others, that I create in my universe. With the sense of gentleness and harmony, and stable attitude. Not allowing emotional infringement or mental smallness. Currently that is what I want to emit, and it rewards itself greatly. I have been helped by the presence of unconditional friends, it allowed me to align myself in my one cosmic center of stability.

I am now getting into a new phase, where creation needs to happen from our centers, not relying on the structures of society or models of matrix.

I love to exchange much wisdom with my friends and as we are silently working behind the scenes, until the sovereign integral (= the unique soul center) redirects me to something else. The purpose will then be clear. I continue to watch myself closely, discovering the hidden fears, the overwhelming power of unconditional love and with that, the mastery of self that embraces joy as well.

I have much laughter and fun, as me and my friends discover the traps of the mind, and we laugh the lower thoughts away.... We are well cared for by our own design, and we love life again.

I am very faintly connected to any other person that walks a spiritual path, unless those persons come to me by own free will. It is - by the way - lovely to receive an update from your side. As said, we are closely related on a certain level, and if you need, you can always contact me. The same as I did, when I wanted to contact you... I never hesitated. The road we chose is indeed a very peculiar one, and it is lovely to know that we are not alone in this, and that there is at least one person on the planet that thinks, feels and understands the same.

The only remaining faint contact at this stage - with others that is - is my presence on facebook, and just one other ning site iGaia. I now wished I would still have my own ning site, but it is gone. It became a payable platform so it was taken off line anyway. But those contacts are the only ones for me.

I love to write so I have these blogs (footer), and for the rest life will attract to me the next step. I know I am a leader, a self-manager so to speak. So at one time, there will be others that will come to me. You see, if you are born with a leader energy, the universe MUST respond to that request, and other people will join the movement. That is the reason why the focus lies on the harmony of self, instead of first wanting to have the others to lead. First making myself the right vessel for the sovereign master integral.