Beyond 2012: Practical Tools for Your Transformation

Looks great. But isn't there a way to do this for next to nothing and include more people? What about conference calls in Skype? 

How is the question/answer component moderated? - If dozens or hundreds or more people participate, would there be some kind of question-chaos?

Why the need for a "new exclusive "Preparing for 2012" online forum" - why be exclusive?

I think this is a great idea, but how can things like gifting/gift economies, alternate currencies, sharing and so forth be more profundly involved here.

If in fact "The stakes are high: human survival - or at least the continuity of civilization as we know it." is what's up - then why the need to be "exclusive" and relatively expensive?

Is it potentially possible to attend only one of the calls?

While I totally understand people need to get paid for their time hosting or delivering these sessions - maybe future sessions can explore and share ways of creating new, open, no-holds-barred community created financial systems. Because, whether you're giving or receiving, a producer or a consumer, "got it" or "lost" -  "money" is a blockage we all seem to face.

Anyway, just curious. Because I must echo Duff's allusion to "get-rich-quick-internet-multi-level-marketers" - this is seeming to pop up so much these days and can sometimes diminish the "nutrition" of the main course, if ya know what I mean.

Or maybe I'm missing something, (like that extra $100)

;)

In all fairness any of us "can" call each other for free ... have pow-wows anywhere for the cost of traveling and food alone.

In this case what one likely pays for is for the time sacrificed by those "more prominant" people/speakers/hosts ... who likely are taking time off from their engagements to "present" ... usually with substantial preparation ... not just a "whimsical chat.

If one cannot afford {some easily can and do see the value of paying to directly chat with those "in the know"} ...

All the information will likely trickle down to the more open and free forums anyhow ... with very little time elapsing.

Let those wbo can pay and support ... pay and support ... there are "always" those whose money {all money} comes from the labor of others {representational only}

The only thing to do with it ... is pay it back to someone elses labor ... this used to be called "sharing" ... cyclic investmenr.

I can't imagine any of the said presenters or payed callers ... to exclusively hoard what ever is exchanged ... instead of trickle down economics ... trickle down tribalism

Being disabled, I will likely not be able to do all of these indigenous trips across vast streches of land or sea ... yet it only takes but a moment .. right here and now ... in my impoverished abode .. to directly relate to the spirit of all such communication ... "entrainment" ... and become fully realized in the premise.

I can open my door and call out ... or hear many others ... right in my immediate proximity ... but what will one say ... to what degree has one been listening

I don't want to push the idea of capitalism here too much or marketing or whatever. Keep in mind, if you were to go to a lecture or workshop or something similar by any one of these people, there would be an admission fee.

And there has been an "Evolver Intensive" of sorts available for free, here on the pages of RS for two years. So eat it up.

Just for fun, a couple things from good ol'Terence:

WEEKLY: Who does life look like to the fully self-realized person?

MCKENNA: Well, I certainly don't consider myself to be one, so I can only begin to answer. What life looks like is extremely hopeful. The human potential is so vast. We don't have any problems that we can't solve by applying ourselves to them with open minds. Now, you see, the current theory of problem-solving is that we must solve all our problems with solutions that make the buck. Well, it just may not be possible to solve the problems of the 20th century and nuke a buck at the same time. But if we're willing to put aside the notion, then the human future appears endlessly bright, because the human mind appears to be a much more open pipeline to God than anyone who is outside the psychedelic ex. perience could ever imagine. And God appears to be a much more benevolent and involved force in human affairs than the kind of image we have inherited from Western religion.

If we can get away from the idea of making a buck, get into the idea of using this idea to save our skins, then the transcendental object moves that much nearer.