Hole Molé Cartoons

Bob Banner — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:37:07 +0100

Hello cartoon fans. We are experimenting with cartoons on this site. I appreciate Holy Mole for its simplicity, its fusion of mindful living with sustainable living with a bit of zen thrown in to make it ease into our funny bones. So, please let us know if you like this. Drop us a simple email to info@hopedance.org. PleRead More...

We Are Domesticated Animals

Bob Banner — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:54:50 +0100

We Are Domesticated Animals

Yes sir
I'll do whatever you say
I'll think whatever you dictate
bow to your superior money
intellect
power
mansion
house
muscles
empire
pretense at authority
whatever

it doesn't make any difference

human beings
are domesticated animals
that's why
the guy that shouts the loudest
or gaRead More...

Jalaluddin Rumi: Some Introductory Notes

Bob Banner — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:23:29 +0100

Jalaluddin Rumi
Some Introductory Notes

It is a burning of the heart that I want; it is this burning that is everything, more precious than the empire of the world, because it calls God secretly in the night. — Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi was born in Afghanistan in 1207 and died in Konya Turkey on December 17, 1273. He was the founder of the Mevlevi Order of the WhRead More...

LETTER FROM INDIA about Dr. Madan Kataria

Bob Banner — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:44:47 +0100

Raffi Khatchadourian, Letter from India, “The Laughing Guru,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2010, p. 56

Read the full text of this article in the digital edition. (Subscription required.)

Related LinksVideo: Raffi Khatchadourian visits a seminar led by Dr. Madan Kataria, the founder and relentless promoter of Laughter Yoga.

The Circle of Life (not the Disney version)

Bob Banner — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:19:37 +0100

by Marcia Sherman, Ph.D.

Although most intellectuals today look at our world as if it were linear with three dimensions because that's what science can see and measure, I'd like to postulate the idea our existence may be circular. Generations ago, our limited perspective believed our planet was flat and the sun revolved around the earth, yet science was finally able to convince the Catholic Church and then the rest of humanity otherwise. Yet, doesn't it strike you as strange, while scRead More...

Central Coast Bioneers / with Jon Young

Bob Banner — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:59:39 +0100

I want to let you know about the upcoming Central Coast Bioneers Conference on October 15-17 at Cal Poly. Our Outside Now Nature Academy students have traveled to the San Raphael Bioneers Conference for the past two years and we're excited that this year there will be a local Bioneers event. Last year we heard Michael Pollan and a myriad of other speakers at the conference . . . it's incredibly inspiring!

We're excited that Jon Young will be returning to the Central Coast to spRead More...

THE BIONEERS ARE COMING TO THE CENTRAL COAST

Bob Banner — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:22:35 +0100

Contact: Stacey Hunt

Ecologistics, Inc.

805.548.0597

E-mail: Stacey@ecologistics.org

For immediate release

I wanted to study chemistry
so badly
in high school
I could taste it
just like when I was ten
I wanted an encyclopedia
oh, God, please
my parents scoffed
what do you want that for
you should be an idiot
like we are

that's when I decided
they made a mistake in the hosRead More...

Canoeing across the lake

Bob Banner — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:27:20 +0100

Canoeing across the lake
Somewhere between the laughing of the loons and deep throated song of bull frog
I left
And there was just this opening
Where there was a lake
With laughing loons and deep throated song of bull frog.

- Dede Amescua

Permaculture Credit Union finds niche in discounts for going green

Bob Banner — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:46:31 +0100

New Mexico Business Weekly - by Rachel Sams NMBW Associate Editor
Randy Siner | NMBW

For Donald Sarich, president and CEO of Permaculture Credit Union in Santa
Fe, money is like water.

"Water can be very erosive, if it comes in quickly, it can erode the
soil away", he said. "Money can be the same way."

Channeling resources back into the local community can improve an economy's
health, Sarich said.

That's what Permaculture CRead More...

Science of Laughter Yoga

Bob Banner — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:31:48 +0100

Doctors and health workers have known for thousands of years of laughter’s beneficial effects. Modern medicine is now uncovering why laughter is so important to humans.

This document looks briefly at some breakthroughs in understanding the benefits of Laughter.

Aerobic Exercise

Laughter Yoga is aerobic. It provides low impact exercise and burns calories without speciRead More...

LIVE KRYON CHANNELLING "The Relationship to Gaia"

Bob Banner — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:41:11 +0100

Live Kryon Channelling
Mt. Shasta, California
Saturday, April 24, 2010
As channelled by Lee Carroll for Kryon

The information below is free and available for you to print out, copy and distribute as you wish. The Copyright, however, prohibits sale in any form except by the publisher

LIVE KRYON CHANNELLING
"The Relationship to Gaia"

This live channelling was Given in Mt. Shasta, California
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Troubadours, Sufis, Romantic Love, Cathars and more...

Bob Banner — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:07:43 +0100

Troubadour poetry, though not widely read in English, has had a profound impact on modern Western art in general, and particularly love poetry. Modern notions of idealized romantic love can be traced back to a certain extent to the Troubadour love poets in southern France in the 1200s.

The Troubadours lauded love, especially the sweet pain of unattainable love, as embodied by an idealized Lady. They were the poets of the courtly love.

The next laughter yoga session will be held at the SLO Public Library on Palm & Osos Street on July 15 from 7-9:15 p.m. Courtesy photo.

Learning to laugh gives people a different way to deal with the world and their problems.

Bob Banner, who teaches people about laughter, wRead More...

Laughter Keepers Exploring The Medicine Clown Tradition of the Wampanoag

Bob Banner — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:05:55 +0100

Laughter Keepers
Exploring The Medicine Clown Tradition
of the Wampanoag

By Mwalim

Storyteller, Playwright & Folklorist

If all attempts to destroy a people have been unsuccessful, can you actually say that you have destroyed their traditions as well? Or have they merely been suppressed? One such tradition was that of the MeRead More...

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 2 Living Well instead of Living Better

Bob Banner — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:56:08 +0100

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 2 Living Well instead of Living Better

On Monday, April 19, the first day I was in Bolivia, and the day before the official start of the conference, I learned about the program Evo Morales had initiated in Bolivia and was promoting as a worldwide solution to climate change and many other issues. It is called Living Well instead of Living Better (Vivir Bien en lugar de Vivir Mejor), or simply, Living Well. I found the concept to be remarkably similar to how IRead More...

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 1 Eruptions of a Volcano

Bob Banner — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:54:16 +0100

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 1 Eruptions of a Volcano

In Iceland, beginning on April 14, 2010, eruptions of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull created an ash cloud that led to the closure of much of Europe’s airspace between April 15 and 20. Two companions on the delegation I was a part of in Venezuela at that time, one from Denmark and the other from Italy, wondered if they’d be able to get home on their scheduled flights. As it turned out, the fellow Read More...

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part III, The Inauguration

Bob Banner — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:50:44 +0100

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part III, The Inauguration

I had chosen a hostel to stay in Cochabamba, one that fit easily into my budget. It was kind of a boarding house; as was common in South America, breakfast was included in the cost of the room. Daily, we were served processed orange juice, coffee or tea, including the option of Maté de Coca, and a white roll, with butter and jam if we wished. The morning of the inauguration of the conference I decided to sit down to breakfasRead More...

There are two major ways of looking at 2012. Andrew Harvey

Bob Banner — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:39:54 +0100

There are two major ways of looking at 2012.

Andrew Harvey

There are two major ways of looking at 2012. The first is that it marks the apocalyptic end of the human species, the second that it signals a miraculous new beginning and an influx of divine grace that will elevate all of us to another evolutionary level.

My understanding of prophecy is that it is not authoritarian or fatalistic but makes clear the possibilities inherent in the ways in which we are acting. So to me,Read More...

Blog entries from bobbanner

Hole Molé Cartoons

We Are Domesticated Animals

Jalaluddin Rumi: Some Introductory Notes

LETTER FROM INDIA about Dr. Madan Kataria

The Circle of Life (not the Disney version)

Central Coast Bioneers / with Jon Young

THE BIONEERS ARE COMING TO THE CENTRAL COAST

Canoeing across the lake

Permaculture Credit Union finds niche in discounts for going green

Science of Laughter Yoga

LIVE KRYON CHANNELLING "The Relationship to Gaia"

Troubadours, Sufis, Romantic Love, Cathars and more...

Laughter Keepers Exploring The Medicine Clown Tradition of the Wampanoag

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 2 Living Well instead of Living Better

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part 1 Eruptions of a Volcano

Reflections on Cochabamba, Part III, The Inauguration

There are two major ways of looking at 2012. Andrew Harvey