SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION !!
PERSONAL TO GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS
FOR
"ABUNDANCE,"
JOY
LIFE
I hope you find this website hopeful and helpful. Your comments will be appreciated. My email address is: newfree@embarqmail.com. Financial donations will be used toward expenses and to implement the ideas that follow. Donations are NOT tax-deductable.
Namaste,
Bill Clift
ALTERNATIVES TO CIVILIZED ADDICTIONS 2011
The situation re climate change and global warming continues to get worse and worse as time passes. Most businesses and nations of the world are fighting change. Huge, life-changing actions must be taken on a planetary scale. We can choose life and joy or greed and death.
Here are some of the things we can and must do.
GLOBALLY SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE, INVENTIVENESS, INSPIRATION ON AN OPEN-SOURCE, NO PATENTS, NOT-FOR-PROFIT BASIS.
Change our spiritual values so that the Earth comes first, survival, satisfaction, and joy come next. An ye harm none, do as ye will. Being greedy for profit at any/all cost is a deadly and greedy crime.
Use alternatives to Fossil Fuels:
Hydro-electric:
Turbines, water wheels, propellers submerged in
Major and miner rivers (Miss.
Solar
Solar Ponds
Explore and Use 12 Volt Electricity where indicated, perhaps:
12 v. alternators
12 v. home/business wiring
12 v. power transmission
LED lights
Multiple voltage power transmission/usage
12, 120, 240,
.
Explore and Use 12 v. Power Transmission
Mobilize peoples and industries of the Planet
Public Domain for information re alternatives
Internet
Free, Wiki sites
Proprietary sites
Social Media
Twitter
Facebook
Etc
..
Radio and Television
HAM
Short Wave, including Pirate stations
Remove Barriers to Alts
Add Incentives for Alts
DEMONSTRATE (and Promote) WHATEVER WORKS !!
Demonstrate locally, regionally, nationally
Demonstrate globally via grants, volunteers, etc.
PLEASE SEND YOUR IDEAS TO newfree@embarqmail.com AND TO TWITTER, FACEBOOK, OR WHATEVER WILL REACH MANY PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE. THE PLANET AND OUR CHILDREN THA NK YOU.
PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS. TOGETHER WE CAN FORM A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT WITH REAL POWER. YOU CAN EVEN START YOUR OWN GROUP !
COALITIONS WELCOME ! If you are part of a organization with compatible goals, please drop me a line:
Bill Clift, newfree@embarqmail.com.
WORKSHOP: CREATE YOUR OWN JOY, SIMPLICITY, SURVIVAL
(To be presented at Phoenix Pagan Festival near
NOTE WELL [NB]: THIS IS TO BE AS INCLUSIVE AS POSSIBLE. )
NEW FREEDOM TRANSITIONS
Profound changes are coming for you, me, the nation, and the world.
Urgency! Whatever your point of view or politics
(See http://www.chrismartenson.com/ )
This workshop will help you design your own future with/for joy, peace, simplicity, and survival. It will be and must be according to your personal likes, dislikes, spirituality, etc. Your future will be one of transitions you can stop changing whenever circumstances and you dictate. Its up to you.
LIES AND INSANITY
IF WE ARE ALL ONE,
21ST Century, developed world societies are built on false assumptions and even outright lies.
Some lies are perpetuated our Civilized Addictions, but before we can deal with these we must recognize them and want to release them, preferably by replacing them with something better, more fun.
AN YE HARM NONE, DO AS YE WILL.
Within the limits this imposes, we can become free to be and do as we want, on an individual basis and according to our own individual spiritual paths and personalities.
Charge of the Goddess: to show that ye are truly free, be ye naked in your rights
.
PATRIARCHY OVER MATRIARCHY
Violence vs. Nurturing.
Sioux Council of Grandmothers
RELIGEONS
My way is the only right way.
My way or else
BUSINESSES, ESP. BIG BUSINESS
Hidden costs to people, environment,
.
Fossil Fuels vs. Global Warming
G M Food vs. environment, farmers, etc.
Industrial Agriculture is O. K.
MATERIALISM VS. ENERGY, SPIRITUALITY
GOVERNMENTS, ESP. POLITICIANS (LAWS)
PATRIOTISM
CONSCIOUS/SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS
NEWTONIAN/CLASSICAL PHYSICS
MEDICINE, allopathic the only way to go. YET, medical doctors conducted experiments on Negro Americans at the Tuskegee Institute and Guatemalan prisoners and patients in.
SEX
POPULATION
GROWTH
MONEY, DEBT
No Problem ! (Lie!)
TAXES
CONSUMPTION VS SIMPLICITY
GROWTH, ETC. VS STUFF
LOVE OF POWER VS. POWER OF LOVE
TRUTH VS LIES
GLOBAL WARMING & CLIMATE CHAN GE
GENETICS VS EPIGENETICS
Profound changes are coming for you, me, the nation, and the world.
Urgency! Whatever your point of view or politics
(See http://www.chrismartenson.com/ . Chapter 3, Exponential Growth is especially important.)
Hockey Stick Graphs (Martenson) for:
Population (1% per year growth)
Environment
Energy
Economy
Hockey Stick exponential growth a constant increase over time, as with
compound interest
GOAL Transitions to new paradigms leading to enough, joy, peace, and
survival of some of us.
Transitions can stop at any time.
See http://transitioninaction.com and other transitions sites.
ALTERNATIVES TO CIVILIZED ADDICTIONS AND LIES
(See http://altciv.bravehost.com/intro.html.)
Twelve Steps, esp. INVENTORY
An ye harm none, do as ye will.
Individual changes supported online and by groups and communities
TRANSITIONS STEPS
Transitions to:
Voluntary Simplicity
Sustainability
Self-sufficiency
New/Old Skills
L. E. T. S.
Resilience
Quantum Physics
Spirituality
Clothing Optional
Survival
Grassroots Self-help Non-Profit
Non-Profit 501(C)3
For-Profit Social Corporations
Vacation, Time-Share, Continuing Ed.
Classes, Courses, Hands-On
Payment in money or LETS, as for teaching, staffing a resort
YOU CAN WORK TOWARD TRANSITIONS NOW, FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE. Here are some ideas. You can implement any of them you want, and/or you can offer classes, courses, and experiential learning opportunities.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OWN THE LAND, FACILITY, SAILBOAT, OR WHATEVER. Someone should be happy to make a suitable alternative arrangement.
By working where ever you live, you will add flexibility and options to all interested.
MAKING VIDEOS is another great option. Logitech software and hardware make it possible, but it isnt easy Ive been surprised at how much practice it is taking me to make even good starter videos. YouTubes Partner Program shares ad revenue with you and is worth looking into.
This is another thing you can do from anywhere in the world.
You can influence where we go from here by sending an email saying what parts of this interest you. Or what youd like to add. OR, what youd like to get involved in. My address is: newfree@embarqmail.com . Or, use the mechanisms of this Transitions website.
Some other ideas are at www.newfreedom.bravehost.com and
Recovery is possible. Im in recovery from:
Civilized Addictions
Success Neurosis
Alcoholism
` Throat Cancer
Dysphasia
Lymphoma
One Day at a Time. Relapse is always possible. Ive made profound changes YOU CAN TOO ! You can have a New Freedom.
3-5-11 TRANSITIONS IN ACTIONS BLOG
YOU CAN WORK TOWARD TRANSITIONS NOW, FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE. Here are some ideas. You can implement any of them you want, and/or you can offer classes, courses, and experiential learning opportunities.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OWN THE LAND, FACILITY, SAILBOAT, OR WHATEVER. Someone should be happy to make a suitable alternative arrangement.
By working where ever you live, you will add flexibility and options to all interested.
MAKING VIDEOS is another great option. Logitech software and hardware make it possible, but it isnt easy Ive been surprised at how much practice it is taking me to make even good starter videos. YouTubes Partner Program shares ad revenue with you and is worth looking into.
This is another thing you can do from anywhere in the world.
NEW FREEDOM TRANSITIONS TO JOY, VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND SURVIVAL
Individual changes supported by groups and communities.
Alternatives to Civilized Addictions
An ye harm none, do as ye will.
Urgency: Hockey Stick Graph re: Population, Environment, Energy,
Economy. Urgent no matter your political, environmental, industrialist,
or other position.
Types of Groups
Grassroots Self-help Non-Profit
Non-Profit 501(C)3
For-Profit Social Corporation
For-Profit Social Corporations
Vacation, Time-Share, Continuing Ed.
Classes, Courses, Hands-On
Payment in money or LETS, as for teaching, staffing a resort,
Transitions to:
Clothing Optional
L. E. T. S.
Resilience
Quantum Physics
Skills, Old/New
Self-sufficiency
Spirituality
Survival
Voluntary Simplicity
MAKE YOUR OWN:
New Freedom Group
New Freedom Community
Videos
You can influence where we go from here by sending an email saying what parts of this interest you. Or what youd like to add. OR, what youd like to get involved in. My address is: newfree@embarqmail.com . Or, use the mechanisms of this Transitions website.
Some other ideas are at www.newfreedom.bravehost.com and
http://transitioninaction.com.
CURRENT THINKING (AS OF 1-30-11) IS SHOWN IN THE FOLLOWING OUTLINE
TRANSITIONS TO NEW WORLDVIEW
OF JOY, SIMPLICITY, AND SURVIVAL
Sustainable, abundant, happy futures are possible for us.
Voluntary Simplicity is a good start.
New paradigms, new worldviews are necessary.
YOUR PROFILE AND YOUR ACTION PLAN
YOUR PROFILE
Joys
Strengths
Skills
YOUR ACTION PLAN
Learning, Practicing, Demonstrating
Praise/Protest Demonstrations
TEACHING SIMPLICITY, JOY, AND SURVIVAL
WHY CHANGE?
Global Warming
Crash Course by Chris Martenson
Unsustainable globally.
Depletion of Resources (Gas/Diesel, Asphalt, Metals)
Unsatisfying for many on Earth.
We can Crash and Burn or Crash and Bounce.
Crashes are inevitable
Delays due to Denial, Resistance to Change, e. g..:
FL Gov. Scott, etc.: Pro-business, anti-regulations, anti-environment
Media re mortgage foreclosures, growth, status,
power;
Punta Gorda City Council re floods, elevations
E. P. A. stopped re water quality because of costs to businesses, industries, etc.
EXAMPLES:
Peak Oil
Peak Water
Economic Crises
Climate Changes
Global Warming
Natural Disasters
Terrorism, War, etc.
Possible Political Action Plans, like praise or protest.
Crash Course by Chris Martenson
It does not go far enough.
EXAMPLES OF CHANGES
FROM TO
Fossil Fuels Solar Road
Fossil Fuels Sail
Grids (global, national) Localization
Agribusiness Permaculture
110 volt electricity 12 volt electricity
Unemployability Trades, old skills
COMBINATIONS OF CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS, WITH INPUT
FROM STUDENTS. INDIVIDUAL AND PERSONAL CHOICES IMPORTANT.
The Transitions Movement
Sharing of ideas, visions
Voluntary Simplicity
Intentional Communities
Built from existing communities
Built from scratch
Family Survival
Education of Children
ALTERNATIVES TO CIVILIZED ADDICTIONS
Personal Choices
Personal Inventories and Visions
An ye harm none, do as ye will.
NEW, NEEDED SKILLS
SURVIVAL, GENERAL
SURVIVAL, SAILING (Bills choice for himself and family)
Sailing Survival Background
Master's License
Living aboard and at anchor history
Static defenses no good
Being over-run inevitable
Limited water, food, etc.
Sailing Survival Details
Community of Multiple Boats (even Ships)
Multiple Permaculture Sites
Multiple Fresh Water (wells, cisterns, etc.)
LETS
Buy/Sell/Trade (e. g. junk 12 v. alternators converted to motors
)
Converting and Manning Boats and Ships
Experienced sailors can teach novices
Personal Preparations
Physical
Mental
Spiritual
Support Groups
YMCA RELEVANT RE:
Exercise
Yoga
Support Groups
Joy
Field Trips
Goals
Learn & Practice
Fire Making
Water Making
Shelter Making
Boat Familiarization
Fun, Joy
Drumming
Dancing
Individual Ideas and Visions
Possible Locations
General:
Private Property
Nonprofits
State Parks
National Parks
` Water and Boats
Local Possibilities
Nonprofits
Prairie Creek Preserve
Paint Ball Site
Water and Boats
Failure due to repression/suppression
SUCCESS from joy, enjoyment of work, activities, actions
Instruction and Training
Web Site
You Tube, DVDs
Instant Messenger, etc.
Classes
Extended, live-in courses
THE HEART OF THIS WEBSITE ARE THESE BOOKS-IN-PROGRESS:
<>Here is a link to ALTERNATIVES TO CHAOS, a FREE Non-Fiction Book-in-Progress. !!!
<>Here is a link to HYDRA, a FREE Novel-in-Progress. !!! Your comments will be welcome and probably helpful.
TAKE A LOOK, GET ENERGIZED, AND HAVE JOY!
NAMASTE
BILL :-)
NEW FREEDOM
NEW FREEDOM is a fellowship of men and women who support each other in growing, changing, learning, and demonstrating new ways of living. Goals include environmental protection and sustainability, simple living, and joy. New Freedom is a grassroots movement for transformation, equality, simple living, sustainability, and having enough (but
not too much).
NEW FREEDOM It is about profound changes in our paradigms, our worldviews. It is about having enough (but not too much). All changes are made to meet personal desires and goals, but with the imperative, An ye harm none, do as ye will. (Thats Pagan, actually Wiccan. See also a great Christian site: http://www.christiansimpleliving.org/.)
The civilizations and powers of the 20th and 21st Centuries are on courses leading to individual and global disasters. Changes are needed now;
they range from expressions of spirituality, joy, and sexuality, to food and finance.
Our ways are often different from and contrary to the ways of our parent societies. Being and remaining a non-conformist is not easy, even with support. I know, since I am a non-drinker in a society that likes a drink. I am a recovering alcoholic with 28 years of sobriety. Without the fellowship and support of Alcoholics Anonymous, it would have been impossible.
Any attempts to change anything will be passively or actively resisted by somebody. This resistance can vary from the legal and appropriate to name-calling, ostracism, harassment, threats, vandalism, assault, and murder. The latest incident reported in the local media was the destruction of the camp of a 51 year old man who had been practicing simple living for three years in
NEW FREEDOM offers hope to individuals, groups, and the Earth. It seeks to find empower solutions to many threats, including:
1. The end of easy/cheap oil
2. The end of easy/cheap water
3. Climate change/global warming
In efforts to meet these threats, we give help to and receive help from:
1. Visionaries, futurists, dreamers, realists, environmentalists
2. Dissatisfied, unfulfilled, marginalized people
3. The homeless, especially those affected by the 2008 Recession
4. The unemployed,
5. Those affected by the end of easy/cheap oil and water and by climate change/global warming (if its not too late)
6. Those who are discriminated against, including:
a. Women
b. School drop-outs and people needing re-skilling
c. Minority group members
d. Alcoholics and addicts
e. Ex-offenders
5. Compatible groups/movements (in coalition)
Methods of Outreach
1. Attraction. (Demonstrating joy. Making people WANT to change.)
2. Coalitions
3. New Freedom Groups
4. Permaculture Classes
5. Personal Transformation Classes
6. Re-skilling Classes
7. Simple Living Classes
8. Intentional Communities
9. Public show and tell demonstrations
10. The Internet
a. Web Sites
b. Email
c. Social Groups
d. Videos (like on YouTube)
8. Press Releases
Methods of Personal Change
Conscious: New Freedom 12 Steps (Suggestions only.)
Subconscious:
DEMONSTRATION
Alt. Energy
Organic Growing
Permacultutre
Alt Living Arrangements
Clothing Optional
Energy Conservation
Water Conservation and Purification
Intentional Communities
HOW
Use the 12 Steps (Revised):
ALTCIV STEPS
1. We realized that we are addicted to some parts of civilization that are harmful to us, to others, and to the world.
2. We came to believe that Higher Powers of our own understanding could empower us and lead us to alternatives to our civilized addictions.
3. Decided to turn our will and our lives over to our Higher Powers.
4. We inventoried our assets, liabilities, and unwanted civilized addictions.
5. We reviewed with ourselves, another person, and our Higher Powers our positive and negative patterns and developed and started using positive alternatives to anything negative.
6. We became ready for our Higher Powers to help us find and use positive alternatives to our negative patterns.
7. We asked and trusted our Higher Powers to help us make and keep these positive changes.
8. We accepted responsibility for harm caused by us and our civilized addictions.
9. We tried to make amends for this harm in ways that did not hurt ourselves, others, or the global environment.
10. We continued to assess our thoughts, words, and actions, and we replaced negative ones with positive alternatives.
11 . We used meditation and affirmative prayer to bring our spiritual and practical lives together in positive ways.
12. We continuously use the alternatives we have learned in these Steps in our own lives, and we demonstrate these alternatives to others.
Also do the following:
1. "Be the change you want the world to make." Gandhi
2. Encourage people to WANT to change
A. Hitting Bottom
B. Positive Possibilities, Attitudes
3. Demonstrate by Example
4. Make and Use Alternative Housing
Include Rehabilitating Donated Properties
(buildings, land, vehicles, boats, etc.)
5. Train in Alternative Skills
6. Encourage Individuality, Freedom of Expression
Permit Clothing-Optional Living and Working
7. Encourage Freedom of Spirituality
8. Encourage a New Morality, Ethical Standards
"An ye harm none, do as ye will."
Be stewards of the Earth
Support non-harmful human life, and other life as much as possible
Seek and get alternatives to the status quo and the vested interests that protect and promote it, e.g.,
1. IMF and the World Bank
2. Multi-national corporations
3. Large financial (and insurance) institutions
4. Large corporations
5. Political parties
6. Lobbyists
7. Conservative strangers, neighbors, friends, family
Reconciliation of Opposing Views
1. Non-Violent Communication, Marshal Rosenberg
2. Truth and Reconciliation, Mandela (
3. Other methods
HEALING OURSELVES AND OUR CIVILIZATONS
(Page references below are to SPONTANEOUS HEALING Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. and Steve Bhaerman.)
Unconscious beliefs in dualities, esp. dominator/dominated, male/female,
golden rule/rule of gold, offense/defense, victims/villains. WE ARE ONE. We are entangled. We can make our unconscious beliefs conscious and change them.
In
Today an evolving humanity is searching for freedom from limiting and unwanted subconscious programming. (p. 350)
Once we realize how much of our behavior is unconsciously controlled by the beliefs of others, each of us can legitimately be released from the shackles of blame and shame. (p. 351)
Population Control/Reduction
Female Empowerment
Condom Use
Birth Control (other)
Prosperity/Abundance
Education, including environmental
YOU AND YOUR IDEAS ARE WELCOME ! TO JOIN NEW FREEDOM, WRITE "JOIN" BEFORE YOUR NAME AND FILL IN THE REST OF THE FORM. (NO OBLIGATION TO YOU.)
New Freedom Coalition
January 1, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen
This is your invitation to join the New Freedom Coalition and help save life on Earth. Present policies lead to violence, disaster, and death. But, WE HAVE GOOD ALTERNATIVES.
The New Freedom Coalition is a grassroots organization designed to inspire and support profound changes in personal, social, business, multi-national, and governmental behavior . Our goals include peaceful and rapid transitions to Alternatives to:
1. The End of Easy/Cheap Oil
2. The End of Easy/Cheap Water
3. Climate change/Global Warming
The New Freedom Coalition honors individual and group morals and goals. Your branch/division would be free to maintain its own standards. We seek unity with diversity.
You can find general ideas at www.newfreedom.bravehost.com. Some specifics are in the free book-in-progress ALTERNATIVES IN CHAOS.
The urgency of the situation leads me to communicate with you immediately and to ask that you reply and join us immediately.
Namaste,
Bill Clift
New Freedom Coalition
FREE BOOKS
<>Here is a link to HYDRA, a FREE Fiction Book-in-Progress.
<>Here is a link to ALTERNATIVES TO CHAOS, a FREE Non-Fiction Book-in-Progress.
Here is a link to ALTERNATIVES TO CIVILIZED ADDICTIONS, a FREE Non-Fiction Book.
Financial donations will be used toward expenses and to implement the ideas that follow. Donations are NOT tax-deductable.
Namaste,
Bill Clift