You are a Being of Nature.

You come from dimensions
Of powerful strength and light.
Return to those worlds
By discovering yourself within.

You are an explorer
In service to our planet.
Explore new concepts
For our world is endangered
By the absence of new ideas.

Our world is in turmoil because
Of the lack of conscience.

Within the body
Every atom was born
Of an exploding star.

We are made of stardust.

Regardless of what you believe.
In every case. In any case.
Listen with purpose. Speak with intention.

We’re developed from our first findings
Discovered as children.

The sounds of ordinary living,
And one’s own thoughts …
Perhaps the hidden sound of music
Create an elevated consciousness state.
Everything that occurs leads to something.

We’ve been protecting ourselves.

By increasing awareness,
New neural pathways can replace the old.

The answer to the question is profound,
However,
It needs time.

This should be a simple session
In a simple space.
Sitting upright in a dimly lit space
With eyes closed, and mouth shut.

Breathe deeply and naturally through the nose
Bringing awareness to the sensations of the nostrils.
There is no need for counting, mental image, or mantra.
Simply breathe deeply and naturally.

The moment you become aware
That you have drifted in your mind,
That you are lost in thought,
That you are daydreaming,
Simply return to the breath.

Breathe deeply and naturally
With eyes closed, and mouth shut
Bringing awareness to the sensations
on the area of the nostrils.

One begins the journey
By taking the first step of the way.

Sensations come and go
Like waves in the stormy sea.
Conscious breathing is our anchor.
The source of our life is breathing.

This should be a simple session
In a simple space.
Lay back in an atmosphere of a natural setting
That was not substantially affected
By human behavior.
It’s best to be alone, still
In the wilderness.
You note the echo
Of the thousand harps
If tomorrow is at rest
You have been extracted.

Surround yourself with:

Air, fire, soil, water,
wood and textiles
Ancient sounds or silence
Greenness, fruit, scent
Connect to Spirit’s seeds
Beautiful latent flowers
Taking a lane
Regarding your reflections
Only to get the feelings
Choose the guide
And discover.
Where is the limit?
Choose your own story!
Adoration and friendship
Let it go! Let it fly!
Let it float!
Sounds of the drops
A number of consciousnesses
In tomorrow’s prosperity
You do. You will.
Rising steadily
Concerning
expectations broken
Clear Views
Deceived and naive
Ultimately, the nature
And instead.
Now. Then. Too.

Revolutionary art will promote
A spirit of rebellion.

Revolutionary art will promote
Class and universal identity
In order to combat injustice
And outdated philosophies.

Revolutionary art will promote
Humanity, morality and safety,
Not secrecy or deception.

Art creates love.
Art creates hope.
Art creates perspectives.

The artist assumes
A significant position in society
And can contribute
To transcendent conditions
For the proletariat.

A culture that is in harmony
With its citizens capabilities and needs
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Wellness for every being is not a fantasy,
but a necessity

Ignorance is society’s
Most destructive component.

Patriotism believes that
Our planet is split into tiny spaces.
A closed barrier to everyone else.

Citizens are brought up to feel nobler,
More prosperous, more intelligent,
More valuable than those
Residents of other places.

All residents in this chosen position therefore
Will battle, destroy, and die
To rule over other people.

This is a greedy arrogance
And the most harmful ignorance.

There is never a winner.

The supposition
Who’s going right now?
This will be there.
Is the toxin of the corrosion
Every amazing experience.
With the system moving on,
Humanity organizes before occupation
With a system of Excellence
The Environment Control
Will it have to move on?
So it occurs eventually.

Lead our planet
The death of the animals.

prior to society reconstruction
Through an undivided society
Using his experience of culture,
Performance of society,
Technology advances,
technical experience technical experience,
Creation for its own good
Across the developed nation
Any environmental issue has its roots
About the subjects of culture.
It is not gradually degenerating.
Our search is Utopia
Spirit is our truth.
It is a transition that our vision is.

We need not to pursue warriors,
But pursue revolutionary thoughts.

Prosperity is one view of the world.
Yet, one can not move over
And embrace obligations
Unless you learn deeply of the
Potential.

If you assume there is no path,
Then you know that there is no route.
You will move for a prosperous world
If you find you want to change.

You have the capacity for everything.

The discovery and denunciation
Of the rule of
Power, dominance or inequality
In all fields of existence
Is only logical and a must.

If an argument could be created,
To expand the rights of all humanity,
Those in power
Would declare it to be unconstitutional
And eliminated.

You either recite the same traditional lectures
Or you say something new from the ether.

However you put it,
You are discovering something newer and deeper.

From a celestial viewpoint,
Each of us is essential.

It is much more than seeking to delude
But to consider the world
With a greater view of the essence,
And advantages of the cosmos,
As it really is.

Without song, the world can not change.
A pattern, a certain tone,
And a little note moving the world.

If the world will crumble,
The music will end.

It is time to do what is impossible.
Save the world.

Protection.

Everybody has to teach.
Knowledge cleanses poverty.

Is the source of knowledge always traveled?

The trouble with this earth’s people
Is they appear to believe all
Except what they don’t recognize.

Trigger intervention rather than effects
Or it’s just a song about the effects.

Elevation.

When one listens intently,
They don’t have any questions.

As communities, economies, media , and social networks develop,
We try to look for significance that has already been there.

Life may be a difficult sleepwalk.
Fill this life with song.

The room is full of song
When all matter is music.

Truth

For eons, within the human psyche,
Mutual aid is an inherent quality.

Our very existence has maintained this,
Regardless of the neo-liberal propaganda.

This does not mean that there should be no progress
Or that adaptation is not desirable.

It is to say that we can create a better life
through cooperation and mutual aid.

People desperately wish
To survive after death.

Yet, they pass away without understanding
The spirit of human wellbeing
Is still very much alive.

The next generation is inspired.
The spirit is transmitted again to the next
And to the next.

This is the objective of all moral lessons.

You are made of
Analytical, spiritual,
And emotional capacities.
Your experience, your zeal,
Your will for change.
Your will to be strong.

It is worth this battle to attain our legacy.

Is this a true afterlife?
Many would say “yes.”

The Five Realms of Well-Being are 5 general realms of focus that can aid in bringing balance to their life. Every individual is different. These are my five realms with short definitions within the subcategories.

1. PHYSICAL:

1. 1. Plant-Based Diet
   1. A diet consisting mostly or entirely of foods derived from plants, including vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and fruits, and with few or no animal products.
      
2. Cardio
   1. Any physical activity that uses large muscle groups and causes the body to use more oxygen than it would while resting.
3. Strength
   1. Resistance training, can firm, strengthen, and increase muscle mass, as well as improve bone density, balance, and coordination.
4. Relaxation
   1. The emotional state of a living being, of low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal that could come from sources such as anger, anxiety, or fear.

2. MENTAL

1. Art
   1. A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the creator's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
2. Science
   1. A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
3. Philosophy
   1. The study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, politics, reason, mind, and language.
4. Historical Context
   1. An umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Topics include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, and entertainment, as well as athletic events, quirky or unusual events.

3. Ethical

1. Utilitarianism
   1. A family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the majority of a population. Although different varieties of utilitarianism admit different characterizations, the basic idea behind all of them is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts.
2. Deep Ecology
   1. An ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.
3. Personism/Secular Humanism
   1. An ethical philosophy with the belief that rights are conferred to the extent that a creature who is capable of desiring to continue as a subject of experience and other mental states deserves the opportunity. Secular Humanism is a life stance that embraces reason, ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.
4. Feminism
   1. A range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the genders.

4. SOCIAL

1. Intersectionality
   1. An analytic framework that attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most marginalized in society and culture.
2. Libertarian Socialist
   1. A group of anti-authoritarian political philosophies inside the socialist movement that rejects the conception of socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy. Libertarian socialism is close to and overlaps with left-libertarianism, criticizing wage labor relationships within the workplace, emphasizing workers' self-management of the workplace and decentralized structures of political organization.
3. Anarcho Syndicalism
   1. A theory of anarchism that views industrial unionism (syndicalism) as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs. Basic principles are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.
4. Marxist Humanism
   1. A political theory and method of working-class self-emancipation. As a theory, it relies on a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation. This ideology articulates a concept of species-being, the essential nature of being free producer, freely reproducing their own conditions of life.

5. SPIRITUAL

1. Meditation
   1. The practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or concentration on a thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
2. Psychonautics
   1. A methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by mind-altering substances, and to a research cabal in which the researcher voluntarily immerses themselves into an altered mental state in order to explore the accompanying experiences.
3. Dreamwork/Active Imagination
   1. A method of exploring various images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes, while not attempting to come up with a unique dream meaning. Dreamworkers take the position that a dream may have a variety of meanings depending on the levels (e.g. subjective, objective) that are being explored. This approach comes from psychoanalysis, a set of theoretical frameworks and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind.
4. Travel
   1. The movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements. Travel allows an individual to witness cultural context on an experiential level, giving more direct internalized responses to the humanization process. 

So, I want to admit that I was wrong about the boys at the March for Life rally.

Here's the breakdown to what we now know:
The racist group known as the Black Hebrew Israelite's harassed a whole bunch of high school kids, calling them racial slurs (specifically the African American boys and Native American activists) and homophobic slurs.
Nathan Phillips went up to the Covington High School kids and began playing a drum/singing a song, seemingly to keep the peace.
An out of context video put into the world, appearing that the boys had surrounded Phillips, chanting racist things, etc.
Phillips gave an interview telling his side of the story, and everyone was outraged, myself included.
It's a mess.

Here's my genuine reaction to it now.
I have had many direct interactions with the Black Hebrew Israelite's, as their home base is literally a few blocks from my apartment in Harlem. They're awful, and I would love more media attention to be focused on them in general. Like most radical racist groups, they sprinkle tiny bits of truisms in to push their awful separatism agenda, and clearly have hints of violence within their message. Literally, they were harassing High School kids with racial and homophobic slurs. These guys are super gross.I genuinely believe Nathan Phillips account of what happened. I don't think it's fair when people are calling him a liar. He definitely DID put himself directly in contact with the Covington kids, but I don't think he meant agitation. This is all speculation based on my experience studying psychology, military training, and experience being directly involved in protests where people whom I am horrendously opposed to are present. I like to call it 'a really educated gut feeling'.
Now, on the kids.They're kids.I don't blame them for acting the way they were. They were chanting things that are generally associated with modern day sports (which I do consider these chants to be horrendously racist, but that's another debate entirely). The 'smirking kid' was reacting as any awkward teenager would act in a circumstance that they were feeling uncomfortable in.I still stand by my initial reaction to the adults in charge. This should be used as a learning experience. If one is willing to attend an obviously heated protest, wearing gear that is obviously politically charged. Please don't pretend that wearing a MAGA hat doesn't attract negative attention. There's a reason I don't wear political gear. It brings attention to the person wearing it and brings people who don't know you to make automatic assumptions about you.
What these kids can learn from this is... If you go to a political protest wearing gear that shows direct support for a controversial politician, you are setting yourself up for backlash. Backlash is okay. It happens in the real world everyday. The question to ask is this..."Am I willing to deal with the backlash I could potentially bring upon myself?"
I know this was a rambling post, but I wanted to apologize for putting more outrage out into the world. I'm currently working on a follow up email to send to Covington High School's principal to clarify my initial email I sent him yesterday.

Below are some links that helped me navigate through this ridiculousness.

Dear Principal Rowe,
I hope this email finds you well.

First and foremost, I am writing you to tell you that I am a full supporter of free speech, even when it it something I disagree with on a principled level.
Secondly, I am writing you to let you know that I am utilizing my free speech to discuss the disgust I felt watching your students harass, mock, and intimidate a Vietnam veteran and indigenous citizen of the United States this Saturday at the March for Life.

I currently serve in the Army National Guard and to be completely upfront, watching a brother in arms get harassed by children was infuriating. I am not saying that they are not allowed to speak up for what they believe in. I am not saying that they should get 'in trouble' for their beliefs.
I AM saying that all actions face consequences, and that their actions came off as entitled bigotry, enraging a large portion of the country, myself included.

I know you will do the right thing. This should not be a moment of punishment, but a moment of teaching and learning, as well as accountability.

Because they are children, I put much more accountability on the adults in their lives, including you.

All the best,
Dorian Wallace

Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

The lifestance of Humanism—guided by reason, inspired by compassion, and informed by experience—encourages us to live life well and fully. It evolved through the ages and continues to develop through the efforts of thoughtful people who recognize that values and ideals, however carefully wrought, are subject to change as our knowledge and understandings advance.

This document is part of an ongoing effort to manifest in clear and positive terms the conceptual boundaries of Humanism, not what we must believe but a consensus of what we do believe. It is in this sense that we affirm the following:

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis. Humanists find that science is the best method for determining this knowledge as well as for solving problems and developing beneficial technologies. We also recognize the value of new departures in thought, the arts, and inner experience—each subject to analysis by critical intelligence.

Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change. Humanists recognize nature as self-existing. We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be. We welcome the challenges of the future, and are drawn to and undaunted by the yet to be known.

Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience. Humanists ground values in human welfare shaped by human circumstances, interests, and concerns and extended to the global ecosystem and beyond. We are committed to treating each person as having inherent worth and dignity, and to making informed choices in a context of freedom consonant with responsibility.

Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals. We aim for our fullest possible development and animate our lives with a deep sense of purpose, finding wonder and awe in the joys and beauties of human existence, its challenges and tragedies, and even in the inevitability and finality of death. Humanists rely on the rich heritage of human culture and the lifestance of Humanism to provide comfort in times of want and encouragement in times of plenty.

Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships. Humanists long for and strive toward a world of mutual care and concern, free of cruelty and its consequences, where differences are resolved cooperatively without resorting to violence. The joining of individuality with interdependence enriches our lives, encourages us to enrich the lives of others, and inspires hope of attaining peace, justice, and opportunity for all.

Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness. Progressive cultures have worked to free humanity from the brutalities of mere survival and to reduce suffering, improve society, and develop global community. We seek to minimize the inequities of circumstance and ability, and we support a just distribution of nature’s resources and the fruits of human effort so that as many as possible can enjoy a good life.

Humanists are concerned for the well being of all, are committed to diversity, and respect those of differing yet humane views. We work to uphold the equal enjoyment of human rights and civil liberties in an open, secular society and maintain it is a civic duty to participate in the democratic process and a planetary duty to protect nature’s integrity, diversity, and beauty in a secure, sustainable manner.
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Thus engaged in the flow of life, we aspire to this vision with the informed conviction that humanity has the ability to progress toward its highest ideals. The responsibility for our lives and the kind of world in which we live is ours and ours alone.

Humanist Manifesto is a trademark of the American Humanist Association
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“Salt of the Earth” is a film inspired by the Empire Zinc strike, a 15-month-long miners' strike in New Mexico against the Empire Zinc Company for its bigoted housing practices and wage theft.  

"The real work is being done by people who are not known, that's always been true in every popular movement in history...I don't know how you get that across in a film. Actually, come to think of it, there are some films that have done it. I mean, I don't see a lot of visual stuff, so I'm not the best commentator, but I thought Salt of the Earth really did it. It was a long time ago, but at the time I thought that it was one of the really great movies—and of course it was killed, I think it was almost never shown."
-Noam Chomsky