900 square foot earthen dome home built entirely by my own two hands. Not to be a store of wealth. To live.

The first duty of a political activist is to become psychedelic. Otherwise, you're not making moves that are cognizant of the entire field of action. There are so many modes of consciousness beyond wakeful caffeinated productive worker bee. Each mode with wildly different fields of application. There are experiences our minds can unlock that strongly suggest there is some latent ability of the human mind/body that has yet to be fully realized and applied to the new stories we need to tell. Maybe this was attempted before in the 60s, and our refinement of these hallucinagenic plant medicines is more precise than ever, but now it is presented today as a joke that anyone would ever stand and say love is the answer. Well... it is

This is my kitchen. I built everything myself. What you are looking at was an empty field of rocks and sticks before I came along and devoted myself. I took the raw materials of the Earth and created a living sculpture. Functional art. The dirt walls, clay plaster, mesquite shelves, rock accents, yucca stalk decorations, copper plates, and cottonwood corner posts all collected from on-site resources. It is my orientation that affords me these opportunities. And you can know it too. Right now, in this very lifetime. I like to use the term "old story." The story of separation. The old story says that you are a separate individual. A soul encased in flesh in a world of others. In that story, your purpose here is to make a place in the word. To survive, maximize your self-interest, and contend with all the other separate selves out there trying to do the same. To insulate yourself from hostile natural force whilst taking what you need and what you want from the world. Cuz.. why not? The new story is to realize that your purpose here is not actually to maximize your wealth and security and self-interests. Your purpose here, the reason we are on Earth and in this cosmos, is because you carry gifts that you yearn to express to the world. Just like every species. There is no species on Earth that only takes from and degradese the ecosystem. Every species actually contributes to the aliveness of the collective. They contribute to the unfolding of life and beauty. We're the same. It doesn't look like that right now. That we are a gift to life and beauty. It doesn't. But that is what a mature species becomes. So the transition we are in right now is the maturation of our collective consciousness. This is true on an individual level as well. Which is why you can mine a million Bitcoin$... but if you're not using that to make the world more alive and more beautiful you're gunna feel... "I wasn't put on Earth for this... When am I going to get to live MY life.. not the one I've been bribed to live." So this is the orientation I am talking about. The orientation of understanding yourself as gift. So in every situation you get to ask yourself, "what is mine to do? What is my Task? What is mine to give?" And that doesn't mean self-sacrifice because it includes a recognition of the generosity of all the world and all the world's species. To receive fully all the gifts that allow me to give forward and leave things more beautiful than they were when I found them. It is understanding myself as an agent of the continuing coming aliveness of the world. Just take a look at natural history. It is just a history of the world coming more and more alive. 4 Billion years ago, nothing. Then bacteria. They become more complex, multi-cellular. Then things begin to colonize the land, create soils, and plants, and flowers leading to insects and they made it even more alive and more beautiful. Then we came along.... Same reason. We're the same. So long as we're tapped into that, into that story about what is humanity for.. then you will know your ultimate purpose. The old story says we're here to transcend nature. We're here to conquer. But that's not actually why we're here. The more that we're tapped into "what can we contribute to the aliveness of the cosmos" then life has meaning. Then you know why you're here. You know how to orient yourself and navigate life. You're tapped into the maturation of our species. There's a north star to follow.