Mercury’s Outpost, The Evolver
Network, Tribal Convergence,
the electronic music community, and local permaculture and cooperative
farmsteads including Skipley Farm have connected
to form a local node in the Puget Sound, and this alliance is blooming and
growing in all kinds of new ways in 2012.
From food forestry with aquaponics to dance festivals of visionary art
and music – with this Sound Convergence, it’s
all coming together J
As the shifts in individual and collective consciousness
continue all around and within us, new realizations are awakening us to our
deep human need for community. The basic
need to be valued, to be seen and heard and appreciated for our participation
in the exchange of energy, resources, skills, experience, vision, and wisdom. To have our essential needs for survival
addressed in exchange for this participation – shelter, food, water, warmth,
love, and connection to something greater than our selves.
Today, I attended a Sustainable Snohomish
meetup potluck at Skipley Farm, and observed those connections
materializing over shared food, visions, projects and the passing of wisdom and
resources freely between beautiful human beings that were all present, in this
moment, to make a difference in their immediate environment, right now. A difference that incorporates the employment
of all our tools, each one of our gifts in conscious exchange to build
relationships based on trust in your neighbor.
And each person brought their tool, the skillset acquired, the resources
pooled, the systems developed, and the muscles exercised (and I would be remiss
not to mention the dishes prepared!) to contribute.
The keynote presentation was by Snohomish Mutual Credit System, a
Local Exchange Trade System in the ‘tried and true’ format that has been flourishing
in some communities for several years.
This is our local version here with our own neighbors, some we knew and
some we now know with delight. This is
the online manifestation of a tracking mechanism for these resource and service
exchanges within our community. More
specifically, it is a local currency – it’s money – and the value is defined
with complete transparency on the system by the parties engaging in the
exchange. This local sourcing without
the application of interest establishes autonomy and diversity.. reducing, if
not eliminating scarcity.
Yay! This is truly a
vision whose time has come, and as one who has been holding space, championing,
occasionally martyring, and generally cheerleading the sacred economics of
community, I am ecstatically.. RELIEVED!!!!
Even as I write this blog, so overdue and up against tonight’s deadline,
I know in my heart and soul and cellular resonance that this convergence of
communities – of community builders - is organized and has the resources and
the foundation to co-create an evolutionary culture of LOVE.
We find resilience in diversity… and in community, neighbor
trust is the currency that creates true value.By Dani Belle Dakini – The Office Mystic; Catalyst, Muse and Facilitator of Flow
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Mercury’s Outpost began in 2005, as a PayPal account amongst friends in Detroit who were selling off or trading out all their stuff, in order to survive. As the individual in the club with employment and a bank account, I became the de facto founder and organizer; this role has defined many of the relationships I have developed over the years. I actually assumed this role even earlier – at 20 years of age, when I found out I was pregnant. Twenty-three (23) years later, my initial vow still holds value – to do all of which I am capable to create a loving home for my daughter (and now grandson!).
In 2006 I moved to Seattle, the mountains called me
here. They’d been calling for some time
on the inside, this time they literally called on the phone, and offered me a
job here – an offer I couldn’t refuse. Following the magical synchronicities and
delighting in each most obvious of signposts, I boarded a plane for parts
unknown with a suitcase in hand, and the world has unfolded before me to reveal
alternate realities, dreamscapes, visionary mentors, my true purpose, and
family. I have found actual kin, that I
didn’t even know I had here in Seattle, a multitude of kindred spirits, and
many, many groups, circles, organizations, and networks that are engaged in kind
exchange like that which prompted us to begin Mercury’s Outpost in the first
place. The realization dawned on ME,
that the loving home in which to raise our children is part of a trusting and
transparent COMMUNITY.
A community is a school for everyone – we all learn from
relating to one another, are all both teachers and students of each experience.
I engaged deeply with the Women of Wisdom Foundation, based here in Seattle,
organizing monthly events and participating in their annual conference (20 year
anniversary in 2012!), expanding my mind and heart and body and awareness of
their interconnected nature. After
serving 2 years on the WOW Council, it became apparent to me that the wondrous
women associated with this organization are wisdom-keepers, and their
knowledge, to become world wisdom, must be shared with a wider audience. All these women-only events were isolating me
from my loved ones, and they were barred from the important teachings that I
was facilitating!
In Spring of 2012 I resigned from the Women of Wisdom
Council and Conference Planning Committee, and committed myself to the
Sporeganizer role for Evolver Everett.
This allows me greater flexibility in organizing and facilitating the
intergenerational gatherings at which transformational experiences can be
shared.. where all my loved ones can find the place where their gift is
valued.. and CELEBRATED J
Summer is on full-tilt, bringing in Tribal Convergence and with the resulting Sound Convergence, we’re evolving our open source festival and workshop experiences into active engagement with our local community on a daily basis – it’s where we grow our food, and rest our heads, and did I mention .. we dance.
Meow! >~_^<
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