tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:49:19 +0000articlespiratesdavid abramgrazingmediamythwikicyberneticsmagichermeticismtechnoshamanmemeticsthe wheat industryscientific revolutionSchrödingercomplexityforestryorganic architectureparadigm shiftdesign and buildneo-agrarianthermodynamicselectromagnetic fieldgreen designtranshumancemagicktemurahsod housesecological economicsupanishadsopen accessdynamicismdandelionpost-normal sciencefarmpunkchristianityepidemiology of representationsDavid Sloan Wilsonsociobiologymonoculturewild ediblesanagramsinformationsubcomandante marcoszapatistawildcraftingsmall scale grain farmingcognitive sciencegeomancyhackercultural transmissionearth sheltersecological anarchynomadismcosmographybiodiversitycivic agriculturevandana shivaBuckyfreedom of informationYestermorrowreligionsemioticsdesigncoffeepattern languagehinduismforagingHomer SimpsonA blog for farmpunks and technoshamans.http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (the faun)Blogger63125thatgreenstuffhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-8544072247750390731Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:50:00 +00002011-11-07T18:12:34.743-05:00And now, a brief interlude from the "classical learning" and austere monasticism of the academy to meditate on its opposite: ecstasy, collectivity, and the profane fusion of fiction and reality.Often I find myself in dire need of psytrance, a favorite spiritual aid, to empty the brain of thoughts…. much needed in the business of sense-making. As many know, there is no worthwhile productivity and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/li6CoGN6Ev0/gospel-of-goa-homily-to-technoshamanism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/li6CoGN6Ev0" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/gospel-of-goa-homily-to-technoshamanism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5411411158908781150Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:51:00 +00002011-11-05T16:22:16.467-04:00memeticsreligionscientific revolutionchristianityparadigm shiftThis semester (the first semester of a Master's program) I'm taking two classes in the early (first millennium) history of Christianity and a class on New Testament Greek - so thus far my brain has essentially been bathing in a vat of history, anthropology and semiotics of the late Roman Empire. The environment on which this intellectual activity rests is characterized by my recent relocation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/vheRdUaQI1I/memetics-religion-ancient-greco-roman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/vheRdUaQI1I" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/memetics-religion-ancient-greco-roman.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4799718654330056369Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:04:00 +00002011-10-16T03:13:15.958-04:00Today was a historic day. I can't even quite comprehend the magnitude of what is going on right now in the world. If nothing else, people are realizing their power.... they are realizing the truth that power comes from everywhere, and it can never be given, only taken.I come home tonight with a renewed resolve to persevere on the mission to walk the line between scholarship and activism - to be http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/Zu1X5NYCfJ8/was-at-occupy-los-angeles-today-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/Zu1X5NYCfJ8" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/10/was-at-occupy-los-angeles-today-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7334583606327772993Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:19:00 +00002011-10-07T00:34:59.615-04:00This forthcoming content will be far more personal than is the norm for this blog, but I've realized I have to be open to this blog evolving as I do. The last two years have been rough personally for me, and I'm finally in a place where I feel like I can safely share some of the "stuff" that was really congesting my heart and soul during that time. I've lagged a bit with this blog during that http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/NclMkVw-bX8/series-on-growing-up-as-queer-mystic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/NclMkVw-bX8" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/10/series-on-growing-up-as-queer-mystic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2408253175813929051Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:23:00 +00002011-06-21T16:25:16.813-04:00The first day of our wilderness survival trip (Saturday the 11th of June), we were to meet at the parking lot of the school at 7 AM, whereupon our three instructors would take us by car to an undisclosed location. This would be the location of our 4-night/5 day survival trip, for which we’d undergo “pocket checks” to make sure we weren’t bringing anything but the clothes we were wearing. Yes, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/h6rwKG1Jsls/survival-trip-part-1-and-foreword-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/h6rwKG1Jsls" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/06/survival-trip-part-1-and-foreword-about.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7313475954695046930Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:30:00 +00002011-06-10T17:33:31.381-04:00Seems like the dog days of summer have come early this year, because the demons have been loosed on my psyche with a special force as of late. In less than a month, I move across the country, and in the meantime (tomorrow, actually) is a 5 day survival trip that I’m embarking upon with 6 other people with whom I’ve been training in wilderness survival/primitive skills for 9 months at ROOTS Schoolhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/47i3hTSZYaU/my-vision-quest-and-some-notes-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/47i3hTSZYaU" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-vision-quest-and-some-notes-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5954085204040404712Tue, 10 May 2011 14:04:00 +00002011-05-10T10:08:22.897-04:00foragingdandelioncoffeewildcraftingwild ediblesSo, if you are into permaculture/sustainable living like me, you probably have wondered many a time… in the midst of dreaming of your post-oil, decentralized homestead… what the hell will you do without coffee? Thus, coffee remains one of the biggest international commodities ever… the politics of which are sometimes questionable and at best even when fair-trade/organic… it still comes from half http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/EVHZ5xucv9Q/fight-globalization-with-dandelion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/EVHZ5xucv9Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/05/fight-globalization-with-dandelion.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-6617540467428257853Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:36:00 +00002011-04-05T13:08:48.140-04:00If you have some free minutes, and don't mind being enchanted by Yeats proto-mythpunk style, read Rosa Alchemica, one of his best (that I've read) short stories.Ahh, this is such classic Yeats! Rosa Alchemica is a fictionalized narrative of one man's initiation (such as it is) into an occult alchemical order. The plot is very simple, merely providing a frame for a string of detailed descriptions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/WIR8KsRULJw/why-i-love-yeats-and-enigmatic-science.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/WIR8KsRULJw" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-i-love-yeats-and-enigmatic-science.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2843184101468663265Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:51:00 +00002011-03-14T12:04:17.006-04:00The following is a cross post from my "personal" blog, in which I responded to a post that was submitted to another blog I follow devoted to "non-binary gender identity". I wanted to post it here because it touches upon some issues of identity politics that I think are in keeping with themes here on thatgreenstuff... (and that I think should be made more visible to people outside the transgender/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/A8t4re7ZGLY/million-dollar-question-is-gender.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/A8t4re7ZGLY" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/million-dollar-question-is-gender.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2384487793356363618Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:56:00 +00002011-01-10T11:14:44.779-05:00 Heard this interview with Terre Thaemlitz (a.k.a DJ Sprinkles) last night on All Things Considered on my slow, snowy drive home. “Most of my music is made in a kind of anti-climactic way, and very much involves boredom, and a kind of non-performativity… and if there are improvisational elements, it’s kind of parodying the idea of gesture as a kind of rock format, and critiquing thathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/BVpOEgVBrkg/deconstructing-gender-politics-in-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/BVpOEgVBrkg" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/01/deconstructing-gender-politics-in-dance.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4337786395986076904Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:22:00 +00002010-12-02T18:26:00.346-05:00Why haven’t I posted a pic of mah herd on here yet? I don’t know, but here they are (all 3 of them). :P They are Nigerian Dwarves. They were actually first imported to the U.S. to be fed to zoo animals, big cats and such. Eventually they began to gain some recognition as livestock for very small-scale animal husbandry… particularly micro-dairy because their milk is high in butterfat and relative http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/jQjF-CIAsZQ/dear-readers-meet-my-goats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/jQjF-CIAsZQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-readers-meet-my-goats.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-336337405030856739Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:08:00 +00002010-11-17T16:58:45.630-05:00Just read this article in the paper today. Cool that science is finding a way to articulate how much being in the moment/having your focus consumed by a single task can be deeply satisfying. I've long understood that humans aren't one-job animals, but I think we're likewise one-job-at-a-time animals. It's not that multi-tasking is bad—but rather the option of multiple tasks is what can wear at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/HTXMgf26uzw/science-concedes-being-here-now-is-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/HTXMgf26uzw" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/science-concedes-being-here-now-is-way.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-1723428923702224274Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:23:00 +00002010-11-15T17:27:57.815-05:00Great study reported at ScienceDaily. People have been using the "tragedy of the commons" to further their political agendas long enough...it's time for some alternative perspectives.Overcoming the "Tragedy of the Commons": Conditional Cooperation Helps in Forest PreservationScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2010) — Many imminent problems facing the world today, such as deforestation, overfishing, or http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/Lu9rNCG_oNI/commons-not-inevitable-tragedy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/Lu9rNCG_oNI" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/commons-not-inevitable-tragedy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4883976148802078373Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:42:00 +00002010-11-15T17:19:09.471-05:00The excerpt from Wikipedia below is a succinct summation of why I refuse to identify as an atheist even though lots of my peers with whom I share worldviews do identify that way—or at least seem to.This has been partially inspired because I've recently joined a certain social network with the explicit goal of connecting with other queer and transgendered folks. Many of them are sharp-witted kids http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/v8YVz79ER4Y/post-theism-and-non-theism-refreshing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/v8YVz79ER4Y" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-theism-and-non-theism-refreshing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7825818712230330024Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:31:00 +00002010-11-10T12:38:22.519-05:00The Rosicrucians (an occult Christian brotherhood - not much is known of historical members) call the people who abide by the secrets yielded by natural wisdom "the Followers of the Spherical Art". The following passage from one of the anonymously published 17th century Rosicrucian manifestos (The Fama Fraternitatis) succinctly sums it up. I found this paragraph to be a mind-blowing summation of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/-VaJzPgOQyI/occult-legacy-of-nature-gnosis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/-VaJzPgOQyI" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/occult-legacy-of-nature-gnosis.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4994683460163100688Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:26:00 +00002010-11-10T12:41:00.058-05:00Read the first post in this series here.Some popular theories of religion focus on defining it as designed to serve some members at the expense of others. But it is not as simple as that. Such theories often reflect political bias and a projection of intention onto founders or religious leaders that simply is not there. I'm always amazed at how many staunch atheists I know who are conspiracy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/SNUfVMyG_9Q/why-you-cant-just-blame-religion-part.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/SNUfVMyG_9Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-you-cant-just-blame-religion-part.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2482388748515959110Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:19:00 +00002010-10-01T13:25:04.384-04:00A LGBT-themed blog I follow posted this quote by Harvey Milk today and it inspired me to put some thoughts out there, as a queer person who doesn't have a problem with religion per se, and, in fact counts saints, mystics, and spiritual scientist-artists almost exclusively among my greatest influences. There's somethin' we've gotta reconcile here:"The fact is that more people have been slaughteredhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/-6Tb9NydPPE/why-you-cant-just-blame-religion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/-6Tb9NydPPE" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-you-cant-just-blame-religion.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-3895129148586987867Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:18:00 +00002010-09-26T22:24:23.118-04:00Below I'm pasting my girlfriend's most recent blog post on her rehabilitated Tumblr account!She definitely speaks for both of us with her core sentiment - that we are seeking to do something that perhaps isn't as accurately described by "farming" as we once thought.I thought it was, but I was wrong.What I’m doing, and what I want to do, is not the same as farming. I thought it was, but I was http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/2K090MhkDmk/this-is-not-farm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/2K090MhkDmk" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/09/this-is-not-farm.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7895369538517980016Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:36:00 +00002010-08-26T13:40:21.670-04:00There's a new book out by Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham on how the harnessing of fire by our ancestors nearly 2 million years ago catalyzed a new phase in human evolution. It pivots around the changes in our physiology enabled by the fact that cooking food, especially meat, essentially pre-digests it for us and helps cut way down on chewing time. In addition to affecting our http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/GhOxPjqBa4w/how-fire-helped-us-evolve.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/GhOxPjqBa4w" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-fire-helped-us-evolve.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-3862374990743576621Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:04:00 +00002010-07-31T20:26:00.005-04:00The pivotal moment of my week-long wilderness survival class occurred a little more than halfway through the week.We had gotten into nuances of stalking and camouflage - the art of movement and the skill of blending your form into the baseline pattern of the woods. Not only these, but almost every art and science that we'd studied that week finds consilience in the hunt. The hunt requires you to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/H3lRcSjbf0k/jedi-training-in-hundred-acre-wood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/H3lRcSjbf0k" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/07/jedi-training-in-hundred-acre-wood.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-3221127499578236881Fri, 14 May 2010 20:24:00 +00002010-05-14T20:58:32.678-04:00Religious poetry/psalms/prayers are one of my favorite types of writing. At the center of so much mystical poetry is reverence for nature - often "god" and "nature" are functionally and effectively the same. This cry to God - or Nature - put into words is, in a nutshell, what spurred my interest in human religion. And in it stewardship of nature, religion, and the potential of spoken and written http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/x7C1oUEcuV0/prayers-poetry-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/x7C1oUEcuV0" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/05/prayers-poetry-music.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2429337380898136298Thu, 06 May 2010 18:18:00 +00002010-05-06T14:55:19.662-04:00"The arts are well placed to lead an ecological insurrection by again valuing food as contiguous with cultural production"This quote is from an article by the author of Permapoesis - thanks @ socialfiction for the link to this blog!Word!Also, check out this article in the Telegraph about the influx of the farmpunk/eco-punk meme in urban Japanese culture.And for some quality mind candies visit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/ltbYPcRiRbk/other-greenpunks-n-some-farmpunk-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/ltbYPcRiRbk" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/05/other-greenpunks-n-some-farmpunk-news.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5606844234841710266Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:07:00 +00002010-04-14T09:36:45.547-04:00Medical studies have shown that men who periodically donate blood are at a lowered risk for heart disease. Males are at a higher risk altogether than women, for various reasons, but one is that they have an increased red blood cell count that is precipitated by their natural levels of testosterone. Higher red blood cell counts are correlated with higher risk of heart disease. This is interesting http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/DJZp0IzTD2U/blood-magic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/DJZp0IzTD2U" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/04/blood-magic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-6369491643345848372Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:12:00 +00002010-03-30T17:37:14.043-04:00I believe that something rather esoteric lives at the root of our sometimes confused and repressed relationships with both food and sexuality.That something is our gender identity - and how it is or is not shaped by our relationship to the Land.I am not borrowing anyone else's definition of the term "gender identity". What I mean by it is concise: it is the perception of one's embodied power and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/Ee4oBx0z6KY/gender-identity-participatory-ecology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/Ee4oBx0z6KY" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/03/gender-identity-participatory-ecology.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-1093047767463600487Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +00002010-03-26T15:38:14.270-04:00complexitydynamicismthermodynamicscyberneticscognitive scienceOr, why your mind is more like a steam engine than a pocket calculator...Today, mainstream philosophy of mind and cognitive science has a little limp in the methodology department. The root of it, perhaps, is computationalism: the notion of mind as computer. It is more specifically a notion of cognition as computation - cognition being the processes of thinking, knowing, and assimilating sense http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/3cnWBhUUCSc/computers-confounding-philosophy-since.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/3cnWBhUUCSc" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/03/computers-confounding-philosophy-since.html