Monday, March 28, 2005
Revolution of One Tour
I've mentioned this idea before, but now I've made the official announcement. The Revolution of One Tour is coming!
This tour will make several stops throughout Illinois, southern Indiana, southeast Missouri, and possibly other locations in the region. It will offer lectures, workshops, book signings, and other events to share the information and inspiration of the Revolution of One with people throughout "the Heartland." I've been slow to get the planning for this Tour started, in part because the book sales have slowed down to a trickle. But now is not the time for more waiting -- now is the time for action! Now is the time to reach out into the world with my positive ideas and do everything that I can to share my inspiration!
I don't think that the Tour will be fully real to me until I actually hit the road, but I'm already excited. It's been a few years since I've done any extensive travelling, and if I reach most or all of the planned locations in a single multi-stop trip, it'll be the most places that I've visited in a row in any of my travels. I just saw the Motorcycle Diaries, so sometimes I think that it'd be fun and romantic to take this tour on the back of a motorcycle, discovering the communities of the Heartland on a youthful journey of personal growth and revolution. But I don't have a motorcycle, and it'll be quite some time before I can save up for that electric motorcycle and solar panel charger combo I've been dreaming of. So, it looks like Greyhound will be my tour guide for most of this journey.
I feel like this Tour will be the culmination of eight years of physical and spiritual journeying. Over the past eight years, I've travelled to San Francisco, Los Angeles, West Virginia, Idaho, Colorado, Vermont, Amsterdam, Munich, Dachau, Paris, Miami, and beyond, always with some lesson to be learned, some experience to be gained from the journey. I've learned how to be a political activist; I've learned how to be an ecological advocate; I've learned how to be a spiritual healer; I've learned how to reclaim my humanity and recognize the humanity in those around me. In essence, I have been reborn, and I have discovered many bits of information and inspiration along the way that I feel compelled to share with the rest of the world.
Sometimes, I get very dark and disillusioned -- not nearly as much as I used to, but still enough that many people who know me for my inspiration and enthusiasm would be surprised to discover how much the traumas of the world can still shake me. Sometimes, I look around myself, and wonder why I try at all, when there is so much inertia in support of a status quo that destroys the human spirit and lays waste to the entire face of the Earth. But then I remember my moments of insight and transformation on these spiritual journeys, and I remember all of the people I've met along the way, both on the road and here in Carbondale at the heart of all of this journeying. And somehow, even though my outside circumstances haven't changed, something inside of me fills with hope.
Yes, there's a lot of suffering and oppression in the world, and I don't claim to know how we can "fix" it all. But the idea of a Revolution of One sums up so much of what I've learned along the way. Even if we're surrounded by death and destruction, each of us can be that one light on the darkest night of winter, that one seed of peace in the ashes of a thousand wars, that one drop of hope in the desert of the real. And even if we don't understand fully how our actions contribute to the creation of a healed and liberated planet, we just have to trust that as long as we embrace the love and understanding upwelling inside of us, we will all find our way home together.
One light is often met by another, and is seen all the more clearly in the darkest of nights. One seed is often planted among others, and together can be the pioneers in the ecological succession from barren wasteland to fertile climax rainforest. One drop of water in the desert can pool together with others, and the oasis that they nourish can spread across the scorched sands one inch at a time. In this way, each of us as an individual Revolution of One can come together with many others to form a community Revolution of One. Ultimately, the people of each bioregion can stand together in a Revolution of One. When this happens, the world will never be the same -- and it all starts with you, and me, and our neighbors down the street, each making the simple choice that today will be the day when everything starts to change for the better.
So are you pumped yet for the Revolution of One Tour? I know that I am! We're still looking for confirmed bookings in Bloomington, Indiana; Carbondale, Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary [Needmore, Indiana]; St. Louis, Missouri; and anywhere else that is longing for an earth conscious revolution of the heart. If you live in one of these communities, or any other in our general region, and you would like to help bring the Revolution of One Tour to your town, then please contact me. Otherwise, stay tuned to this site for more information, and I look forward to seeing you soon!
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This tour will make several stops throughout Illinois, southern Indiana, southeast Missouri, and possibly other locations in the region. It will offer lectures, workshops, book signings, and other events to share the information and inspiration of the Revolution of One with people throughout "the Heartland." I've been slow to get the planning for this Tour started, in part because the book sales have slowed down to a trickle. But now is not the time for more waiting -- now is the time for action! Now is the time to reach out into the world with my positive ideas and do everything that I can to share my inspiration!
I don't think that the Tour will be fully real to me until I actually hit the road, but I'm already excited. It's been a few years since I've done any extensive travelling, and if I reach most or all of the planned locations in a single multi-stop trip, it'll be the most places that I've visited in a row in any of my travels. I just saw the Motorcycle Diaries, so sometimes I think that it'd be fun and romantic to take this tour on the back of a motorcycle, discovering the communities of the Heartland on a youthful journey of personal growth and revolution. But I don't have a motorcycle, and it'll be quite some time before I can save up for that electric motorcycle and solar panel charger combo I've been dreaming of. So, it looks like Greyhound will be my tour guide for most of this journey.
I feel like this Tour will be the culmination of eight years of physical and spiritual journeying. Over the past eight years, I've travelled to San Francisco, Los Angeles, West Virginia, Idaho, Colorado, Vermont, Amsterdam, Munich, Dachau, Paris, Miami, and beyond, always with some lesson to be learned, some experience to be gained from the journey. I've learned how to be a political activist; I've learned how to be an ecological advocate; I've learned how to be a spiritual healer; I've learned how to reclaim my humanity and recognize the humanity in those around me. In essence, I have been reborn, and I have discovered many bits of information and inspiration along the way that I feel compelled to share with the rest of the world.
Sometimes, I get very dark and disillusioned -- not nearly as much as I used to, but still enough that many people who know me for my inspiration and enthusiasm would be surprised to discover how much the traumas of the world can still shake me. Sometimes, I look around myself, and wonder why I try at all, when there is so much inertia in support of a status quo that destroys the human spirit and lays waste to the entire face of the Earth. But then I remember my moments of insight and transformation on these spiritual journeys, and I remember all of the people I've met along the way, both on the road and here in Carbondale at the heart of all of this journeying. And somehow, even though my outside circumstances haven't changed, something inside of me fills with hope.
Yes, there's a lot of suffering and oppression in the world, and I don't claim to know how we can "fix" it all. But the idea of a Revolution of One sums up so much of what I've learned along the way. Even if we're surrounded by death and destruction, each of us can be that one light on the darkest night of winter, that one seed of peace in the ashes of a thousand wars, that one drop of hope in the desert of the real. And even if we don't understand fully how our actions contribute to the creation of a healed and liberated planet, we just have to trust that as long as we embrace the love and understanding upwelling inside of us, we will all find our way home together.
One light is often met by another, and is seen all the more clearly in the darkest of nights. One seed is often planted among others, and together can be the pioneers in the ecological succession from barren wasteland to fertile climax rainforest. One drop of water in the desert can pool together with others, and the oasis that they nourish can spread across the scorched sands one inch at a time. In this way, each of us as an individual Revolution of One can come together with many others to form a community Revolution of One. Ultimately, the people of each bioregion can stand together in a Revolution of One. When this happens, the world will never be the same -- and it all starts with you, and me, and our neighbors down the street, each making the simple choice that today will be the day when everything starts to change for the better.
So are you pumped yet for the Revolution of One Tour? I know that I am! We're still looking for confirmed bookings in Bloomington, Indiana; Carbondale, Illinois; Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary [Needmore, Indiana]; St. Louis, Missouri; and anywhere else that is longing for an earth conscious revolution of the heart. If you live in one of these communities, or any other in our general region, and you would like to help bring the Revolution of One Tour to your town, then please contact me. Otherwise, stay tuned to this site for more information, and I look forward to seeing you soon!
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