Author: Stephen Shelley

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Our Bright Future #19: Jim Gale – Food Forests for Free, Healthy, Abundant Communities

If you are ever fortunate enough to meet Jim Gale in person, know this – the man is LIT. He has a special gleam in his eye and an enthusiastic, warm hello and powerful hug for anyone he meets. He is a man living a clear purpose, determined to make a difference in the world. And he clearly has the means – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – to do it. His mission could be defined as “freedom”, of all types. His main vehicle: Permaculture Food Forests – that can fit anywhere and provide freedom everywhere.

We had the distinct pleasure of meeting Jim last month on a trip to Florida. While planning for this interview, we visited his current project, a small, vibrant and growing freedom village in central Florida, and got the chance to meet and interact with Jim and his team.

Immediately upon arrival, we sensed something very special about this place and the people too. Jim walked us through the community’s many large and abundant gardens, plots of land, large pond, chicken house and even a gun range. Most of all, what you find here is a vision to change the world in action. Jim’s goal is to create a thriving community here, all self-sustained through food grown on the land with everyone focused on freedom and standing resilient in the coming storm.

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Our Bright Future #15: Tom Barnett – On Becoming a “Viral” Hit, Claiming Full Sovereignty & His Plans For Opting Out Of What’s To Come

Can you catch a virus? This question, posed in a video by holistic health practitioner Tom Barnett over a year ago, set off a storm of replies and shares worldwide suddenly tossing Tom into a maelstrom of controversy and adoration. For many, his question shook the very foundation of the worldview they had adopted from the mainstream narrative. For others, it posed an amazing possibility that maybe…just maybe…all the fear being promoted and sold was unfounded and, possibly, tied to another agenda related to fear and profit. And so, unsurprisingly, Tom faced severe backlash and criticism which has only served to strengthen and empower his resolve and clarity.

In this conversation we plan to dive into Tom’s perspectives now: how does he perceive the current medical interventions being rolled out worldwide, how does he plan to handle potential confrontations around his personal decisions, what steps has he already taken to empower his own positions removing power from the state, why does he feel that men in particular are now needed and how must they respond for themselves, their families and communities, what does he feel we need to do worldwide in order to more unify and strengthen our own tribe to clearly communicate a more holistic and – yes – science-based perspective (which is not bought and which honors the fearless research of those who have refused to play by the old rule$).

And, what does Tom see coming in the near-term in and around further restrictions and such and how does he plan to manage these possible actions? This and much, much more are on our agenda for this week’s “Our Bright Future” with Tom Barnett. We are so excited and honored to welcome Tom to the chat and hope you too will join us!

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Our Bright Future #14: Dr. Kelly Brogan – Personal And Collective Health, Sovereignty & Staying True Through The Storm

Dr. Kelly Brogan has studied & taught at some of the most renowned, conventional medical educational institutions in the world: Cornell, NYU, MIT amongst others.

And yet, her most insightful and meaningful education came just a few years ago, when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease (postpartum thyroiditis) and knew that she was arcing in the direction of a lifetime of pharmaceutical dependency, at the mercy of a system which she no longer fully trusted. And so, she decided to heal herself

Two and a half years later, she reemerged – vibrant and empowered – as a full-time believer in the “alternative” side of medicine. This led to her ground-breaking NY Times Bestselling book “A Mind Of Your Own” & the more recent, “Own Your Self” + a 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan (which has since been removed from YouTube).

We are not only very excited to speak with Kelly about her remarkable findings around health, “the virus” and our deeply potent innate power to heal ourselves, but also to hear her speak about maintaining her strength, clarity and balance at a time when many across the media spectrum have attempted to discredit her and the valuable work she is doing. We’ll also dive into her vibrant online health community, the Vital Life Project, and resources she has created for personal and collective sovereignty in these times.

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Our Bright Future #13: Vanessa Holliday & David Khan – How The Frequency of Sound Will Free Us

Vanessa Holliday and David Khan believe that the missing link in the broader equation of awakening worldwide is…sound. For them, it’s the most direct and tangible way to introduce a higher bandwidth of energy into the human experience – by generating sound frequencies which emanate from an unfamiliar octave or “range” for most individuals.

What they say is needed most now–and can be magnificently powerful!–is to upgrade the frequencies we are exposed to, to tune us back into our natural frequencies, and literally re-tune ourselves with nature through sound. Should we do so, we will be able to uplift many who urgently need it and, in the process, eradicate all sorts of illnesses and other conditions that puzzle doctors and healers alike.

Our bodies are a symphony, they explain; the natural resonant frequency is Earth and is nature, and returning to that frequency can be our salvation. As Vanessa and David put it: “Sound was the medicine of the past – and is the medicine of the future.”

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Our Bright Future #8: Stephen Brooks on Building Thriving, Sustainable Communities for a New Earth, Aligned with Nature

Many of us are focused right now on building community, and more specifically, on how local community resilience will be key to our survival and thriving as centralized systems come apart, and the world shifts to one that is more local, rooted in bonds of affection, and aligned with nature.

How do we rebuild our society at the local level? What designs for ecologically sound and sustainable communities do we have to learn from? What will help us make the transition, and what can we learn from the community-building trailblazers who have come before us?

We begin this conversation in the Our Bright Future series with Stephen Brooks the remarkable founder of La Ecovilla and the Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies, both located in Costa Rica.

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Our Bright Future #7: Chris Bale on Harmonizing the Masculine and Feminine, Sexual Alchemy, Sovereignty & The Role of Ascended Relationships in Creating a New Society

What might intimate relationships look like in an ascended society? How will men and women show up as natural beings, once we move past gender-based conditioning and patterns that currently plague us? Why is clearing and healing our sexual shame perhaps the most crucial element in recreating our lives, communities, the world?

We will dig into these intimate questions with this week’s “Our Bright Future” guest, Chris Bale.

Chris’s aim is to support the vast transformation currently unfolding on planet Earth by saying the things that most will not say. Our spirituality is weak – even those of us who consider ourselves “awake” – and that men and women live lives largely out of alignment, still corrupted by the unnatural ways of the conditioned world. Until we straighten these elements out individually, our collective will remain in a tailspin towards oblivion.

There is urgency, and Chris is here to wake us up.

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Our Bright Future #6: Ben Falk – Becoming Resilient as the World Shifts: Growing our Food, Creating an Independent Homestead, and Regenerating Our Land and Food Systems

This year, as many of the systems and structures we had taken for granted have been called into question or directly threatened, there has been a rising interest, in our community and others, for greater self-sufficiency. Many of us have been called to more empowered, self-sufficient lives in line with nature and community for some time. Now the impetus is here for us to create a new way of living.

How do we grow homes and communities that are decentralized, resilient, and sustainable? How do we rise to meet this moment, and empower ourselves with the skills necessary to create what we need, independent of government systems and centralized economies? 

Ben Falk was among the leaders who realized early that the current system of dependency was doomed to expire. For 17 years, he has been testing high-yield, regenerative food and energy practices on his land at the Whole Systems Research Farm (WSRF) and homestead, and teaching others how to develop their own self-sustaining homesteads, farms, and schools. We can all feel that this way of living, in harmony with the land and our local communities, is the way of the future. And it is exactly what we need right now, as our world transforms rapidly.

In this both visionary and highly practical conversation, we cover:

~ Why are our current systems of food production failing? Where are the threats to our survival based on the current dependencies?

~ What will rise to take its place? How do we build resilient and regenerative systems of food production that support us to live in abundance?

~ What are the key features of Ben’s Whole Systems Research Farm? How did he transform a beat-up piece of land into a highly biodiverse and productive ecosystem?

~ What actions can we take today to “harness the transition away from a consumer society that belittles our own humanity to an organizing force that fosters individual empowerment?”

~ How does one get started with a piece of land to build a resilient, self-sufficient homestead? 

~ What are the first steps to take to grow food to support your family? What are key things to know and do heading into the upcoming winter in terms of food storage and conservation?

~ What are the most important things to focus on now in becoming adaptive and resilient in the face of the changes now underway in our world and societies? What are the first steps toward a resilient, self-sustaining lifestyle?


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Our Bright Future #5: Susan Manewich on the Future of Energy, Tapping the Etheric Field and Her Early Experiences of Contact

Imagine a society in which every source of energy was free, abundant and available to all, and non-destructive to the Earth; a world where the extraordinary, interconnected field of energy that envelops us was leveraged for our every energy need; a world beyond the systems of control that suggest our energy supplies are limited, expensive, and by necessity, must harmfully leech the Earth of its resources. Susan Manewich contemplates this world – and what is needed to bring it into reality – on a daily basis, via her work as President of the “New Energy Movement” – a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of advanced, clean, and sustainable energy sources, toward the aim of creating and supporting self-sufficient communities on Earth. Learn more about the future of energy and Susan’s extraordinary life (including her ET contact & more) in this remarkable conversation.

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Our Bright Future #4: Walter Almeida on The Future of Online Networks: How Communities Build Their Own Systems for Connection & Exchange on a New Earth

What if there was an entirely different way to connect and exchange online that served our awakening planet and its communities? What if we could create our own online systems for connection and exchange? How would we want them to look and feel? What would be their mission, values, and objectives? What goals would they serve?

And finally…

What if online networks were established by communities to serve a set of common and shared purposes defined by communities themselves?

Walter Almeida has spent over a decade of his life developing a technology that he is now open sourcing, that can be used to do just that. To help communities come together, identify their needs for connection and exchange, and then design their own platform to meet those needs, help and serve one another. While working for the corporate world, he never felt the existing platforms served the highest good. He has since stepped out with a mission to create a technology that anyone can use to design their own community network online—say, the Wordpress of online social and exchange networks.

In this episode we plan to dive deep into the world of online networks, how they have largely failed humanity and an exciting vision for upgrading this system via some exciting new technology. Also, we cover an exciting new opportunity for the Ownstream Community to pilot this technology in creating a new community for us, serving our unique needs. Join us!

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Our Bright Future #3: Elaira Tickute, Into The “Care Economy”: The Future of Work, Business, and Value Exchange in the New Earth

As the world transforms, and people become aware of their unlimited potential, what will be the new world of work and business?

Elaira Tickute has spent her life devoted to human potential, and to helping people unlock the highest version of themselves. She studied human design in various formats for 17 years, then launched her own heart-driven business, focused on helping others find their own human design, purpose, and heart inspiration, and work and create from that place within. She is dedicated to living from a philosophy of “human first, business second”, and this she says is the core of the new “care economy” and “care currency” that will emerge on Earth as we transition to a new society: we will work out of an innate drive to serve others—from our hearts, from our care for others—and that gift to others will form the basis of how value is exchanged, across society.

In this conversation, we will discuss a number of topics related to the new world of work, creation, and value exchange.