Join the Evolver Social Movement!
Join the Evolver Social Movement!
Join the Evolution!
THE EVOLUTION IS ON!
Join the Evolver Social Movement, and together we will create a movement to raise consciousness and manifest positive change across the globe.
Our vision is bold. We bring to the world an emerging value system that is sustainable, full of meaning and founded on human connection. Our community appreciates the magical aspects of life and cultivates a visceral connection to the natural world. Where others may hear alarm bells (peak oil, 2012, global warming) we answer the call -- contributing to a new planetary culture based on ecological values, creative collaboration, and conscious evolution.
Already, more than 400 others have become members of the Evolver Social Movement -- supporting the international flowering of consciousness culture that appears on our websites Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net, and through the quickly growing, global network of Evolver Regional groups. Feel free to join at whatever amount is comfortable. It’s not about the dollar amount, it’s about the participation.
Whatever brought you to E+SM, now that you're here you are part of the change that is manifesting. Our goal is no less than the evolutionary transformation of humanity that comes from a shift in consciousness and a collective heart opening that connects us to the planet and each other.
Joining E+SM today puts you in the vanguard. Two years from now, we aim to attract at least 1% of the world’s population to share our mutual vision and be part of the change. With your help, we’ll link together like-minded groups and individuals, using an upgraded technology platform and a revamped and expanded face-to-face meeting framework to facilitate the transformation.
Become a founding member of E+SM and you’ll play an integral role in transforming the planet in ways we can hardly imagine. By sharing our vision, and investing in our mutual future, you can expect it to repay you in some surprising, synchronistic ways. When it does, please share your story with us. If it doesn’t, let us know and we’ll make something happen! This is the very essence of pay-it-forward mindset, and the world we are determined to create.
To achieve this on a tactical level, first, we will launch Evolver.net 2.0 -– an expanded social networking site that
- Preserves your privacy (unlike Facebook)
- Is driven by your needs, not corporate requirement to maximize profits
- Facilitates the raising of human consciousness
- Empowers an alternative currency, building a trust network that lays the ground for a return to a “pay it forward” society
- Is open-source, thus empowering the community to expand the functionality themselves
- Allows you to easily connect with those who share your affinities and jointly take actions to make the world a better place
Second, your support of E+SM will help grow the number of Evolver Regional groups from 35 to over 100, and to
- Expand the content and scope of our Spores (our monthly meetings around the globe that discuss topics important to our time) and draw more participants
- Get media attention for the events to allow us to reach the wider population, waking them up to what we’re doing (and that it's magical, fun and loving)
- Speed the transition from discussing change, to planning positive, measurable, and enlivening group actions
Please join E+SM now and don’t delay. The Evolution is calling you!
WHAT WE DO
Through Evolver, people who want to build an alternative culture connect with each other, share their knowledge and resources, and collaborate on projects that are models for change that others may follow. Your E+SM membership supports our current initiatives:
- Reality Sandwich: The leading web magazine for transformative culture reaches more than 100,000 readers each month from around the globe. New articles, videos, and news items are published daily, and are available for free. Your membership will cover our basic expenses, allow us to develop new content and features, produce multimedia (including news and interview shows), and promote RS content to the world so consciousness-expanding memes and stories reach an increasingly wide audience.
- Evolver.net: Our social network for conscious collaboration enables our international community to express itself, find one another, share news, plan events, and work together on projects. Participation is free. By becoming a paying member, you help Evolver.net add new features that will make the site more user friendly - make it competitive with Facebook, Ning, and other popular social networking sites - and assist in empowering this growing network.
- Evolver Regionals: The Evolver Social Movement currently has over 30 regional chapters that produce themed events, called Evolver Spores, every month. The Spores bring communities together, educate people on new perspectives and critical issues, and facilitate the sharing of local resources. Regionals have already organized Evolver-themed festivals, permaculture gardens, community spaces, and other projects. Your contributions will help us develop Spores in new locales, and to fund projects and initiatives undertaken by Regional groups.
- Media and Event Production: Evolver publishes books in partnership with Tarcher/Penguin, and produces teleseminars, which we call Evolver Intensives. Last year we produced two remarkable Reality Sandwich retreats in south central Utah at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch, and we plan more large events and retreats in the future. Your contributions will help to build these programs so they can reach more people and become healthy revenue streams to support Evolver's ongoing operations. With membership dues we will create scholarships for people who can't afford tickets and plane fare.
FUTURE PROJECTS
Beyond these existing initiatives, member support will be used to develop new projects:
- Complementary Currency and Evolver Exchange: Future plans for Evolver.net include building a platform for alternative exchanges, time-shares, and barter arrangements, as well as an Evolver Exchange, for Evolvers to share their goods and services with the community.
- Evolver Festivals and Conferences: Evolver will bring together inspirational writers, thought leaders and creative impresarios at live events, festivals and conferences. For those who cannot attend, Evolver will broadcast panels and workshops out to the community, and far beyond.
- Partnerships: We will increase collaborations with organizations involved in the protection of the Amazon jungle, the rainforest of Guatemala, and other threatened bioregions, as well as with institutions like the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Burners without Borders, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Stanislav Grof's Transpersonal Training Institute, MAPS, the Beckley Foundation, and more.
- Community Projects: As E+SM grows, a percentage of revenues will be put toward projects that gain the most impassioned support from the Evolver community, which will have the opportunity to vote and comment on what it would like to see manifest.
- Peace2012: In Conjunction with EarthDance, Evolver supports Peace2012, an initiative to create a synchronized world peace meditation on December, 21, 2012, the last day of a 5,125-year Mayan Long Count Calendar. Scientific studies have shown that prayer and meditation have measurable effects, increasing resonance and coherence. A globally synchronized peace meditation - whether on December 21, 2012, or at another time - could bring about a new level of coherence for our evolving planetary consciousness.
MEMBER BENEFITS
E+SM members will be invited to participate in monthly calls with Reality Sandwich writers and community leaders where you can ask questions and engage your favorite transformational provocateur in dialogue. You can join periodic conference calls with the Evolver team to discuss what we're doing and what is coming up next. And you will receive discounts to events and Evolver Intensives teleseminars.
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Evolver's achievements are largely due to the active participation of hundreds of dedicated volunteers around the globe. The coming together of this community has been Evolver's most inspiring success, and it sets us apart from other media companies or not-for-profit efforts, offering a tremendous opportunity to innovate a new model of " interdependent media."
With the launch of E+SM, we will engage the community we servein a deliberate and thoughtful dialog, keeping it informed, maintaining transparent operations, responding to suggestions and feedback, and collaborating on future projects. Everyone who has ever taken part in Evolver has "invested" in this project and is a stakeholder. As part of an ongoing experiment to create a new kind of socially responsible company, and to provide a model for others to follow, we are committed to increasing community involvement in our operations as we grow in the future.
Beyond monetary contributions, we are also interested in other ways you would like to engage in the movement. We will create a system that will allow people to participate as members by contributing their ideas, skills, energy, and time -- giving their gift in the best way possible for them. While E+SM actively seeks paying members to sustain and intensify the range of our activities, both Evolver.net and Reality Sandwich will remain available to everyone free of cost.
Learn more about Evolver's mission, our current operations and future plans.
We live at a time of accelerating change, increasing threat, and extraordinary opportunity. Currently, mainstream media and social networks tend to keep their viewers and users distracted and detached. Rather than alienate people further,the Evolver Social Movement seeks to reconnect people to their local communities and their native earth, and rebuild the basic trust necessary for society to function. We intend to use the extraordinary capacities of our communications networks to get people away from their computers and back in the world, collaborating to bring about the more beautiful and peaceful world we deserve to attain.
We hope you will be inspired by what is possible here, and contribute generously to the Evolver Social Movement, a conscious community that reflects your values and your ideals.
Join the Evolution!
RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT E+SM:
My Personal Journey into the Evolver Social Movement
by Daniel Pinchbeck
How I made the long journey from louche literati to shamanic apprentice to social movement orchestrator: an ongoing saga.* * *
The Sacred Geometry of a Consciousness Movement
by Jonathan Talat Phillips
Here’s the story of how I gave up on electoral politics, started seeing auras, and met up with Daniel Pinchbeck to help found Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net. This gives a behind the scenes view of why we started the Spores and discusses the large-scale healing potential of a consciousness movement.* * *
Gift Economics and Reunion in the Digital Age
by Charles Eisenstein
We are transitioning into a time that realizes the truth of the connected self, in which not only my well-being, but my very existence, my very being-ness, depends on the well-being and indeed the existence of all other beings on the planet. I am describing the economic dimension of the truth of interbeingness. To move fully to a gift model of economy would bring the form of this website into alignment with its content.* * *
Reality Sandwich: An Astral Home Companion
by Adam Elenbaas
Last week, I went into my first medicine ceremony to pray for the future of Reality Sandwich. Most of the ceremony I saw two things: childhood memories of listening to National Public Radio in northern Minnesota, and all of the blessings I've received since Reality Sandwich started. After the ceremony, I joined E+SM and then wrote this blog entry about what RS means to me.* * *
The Evolver Social Movement Is How We Dream It
by Paul Levy
The Evolver Social Movement -- which includes Evolver and Reality Sandwich -- is like the switchboard of the "turned on" global brain, one that not only connects different parts of ourselves with each other, but further activates the very awakening of which it itself is a living expression.* * *
E+SM: Month One
by Ken Jordan
It's been a month since the launch of the Evolver Social Movement. How is it going?- Preserves your privacy (unlike Facebook)
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