Apologies from the editor

Greetings Pronoiacs,

If you follow this site at all, you may have noticed that the posts have been lagging behind Rob’s weekly newsletter. The reason for this is that I took an unannounced paternity leave - my wife and I had our first child a few weeks ago, and my online life has fallen a bit behind. Such is the way of life with a newborn.

In the coming weeks, I will do my best to pick up the backlog and get us back on track. In the meantime, your patience is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

- your humble editor

You’re More Creative Than You Realize

The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

As an Experiment, Let’s Try Thinking Big and Positive Instead of Small and Negative

Wind could provide 20% of the nation’s energy: ”This is the equivalent of taking 140 million cars off the road”

As an Experiment, Let’s Try Thinking Wild and Fun Instead of Pinched and Serious

More about wind power:

For under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030. That would:

• Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030.
• Reduce natural gas use by 11 percent.
• Reduce cumulative water consumption associated with electricity generation by 4 trillion gallons by 2030.
• Support roughly 500,000 jobs in the U.S.

Raw Beauty Unveiled

Photos from above and below the sky

Break on Through to the Other Side

Neural Buddhists

Rob says: Neither the fundamentalist atheists nor the fundamentalist religionists have a clue about what’s really going on.

The Savior Comes in Many Guises

Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium — and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.

Miracles Come in Many Shapes and Sizes

It’s all connected!

Pep Squad for the Divine in Us All

The Shamanic Cheerleaders

Rob says: They’ve performed with me several times. I’ve written a testimonial about them, which I will reproduce in full here because it’s a concise statement of what I admire about pronoia in action:

The Shamanic Cheerleaders are masters of boisterous reverence, connoisseurs of wild compassion, and dispensers of rowdy blessings.

In addition to being pretty and sexy, they are smart and funny, not at all like their profane android brethren who shimmy mechanically while shouting out encouragement to football creatures. Rather, the Shamanic Cheerleaders are like laughing Hindu goddesses who chant lyrical invocations as they leap and undulate, stirring up only the wisest streams of kundalini — the kind that inspires you to be an insanely gorgeous genius who longs to make love to all of creation.

I get happy whenever I think about all the ways the Shamanic Cheerleaders have roused me to perpetrate acts of playful revolution. That’s why every morning upon awakening I visualize them doing a cheer and why every night before I say my prayers I perform one of their cheers. The morning meditation reminds me to carry out a series of spiral hallelujahs throughout the day, and my evening ritual puts me in a crazy spiritual mood that often helps me induce lucid dreams while I’m “sleeping.”

The Shamanic Cheerleaders get my vote for Best Dancing Dissident Bodhisattvas of the Millennium, and if they ever run for office I will contribute a billion dollars of my future lottery winnings to buy them the best spin doctors on the planet . . . although, come to think of it, they don’t really need spin doctors since they themselves are experts at healing through whirling. They cast benevolent spells that don’t put people into trances, but rather snap them out of trances.

I kiss their holy feet. I study their bouncing wit. I greedily gather up their tricks and treats. They are an advance guard of rebel creators devoted to committing sacred uproar. They are shock troops fighting for the beautiful truths that will save the world by turning it upside-down.

Everything Is Conscious

The Vegetation Liberation Front

Stop the Flower Slaughter!