Redefining the Ancient Tribal Ritual for the 21st Century
Since the beginning of time mankind has used fire, music and dance to commune with the Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of the Universe.
San Bushmen Tribal Trance Ritual Kalahari Desert Botswana
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We are trying to use Goa Trance Music and the Trance Dance Experience to set off a chain reaction in Consciousness...
Through the Trance Dance Experience hopefully people will become more sensitive and aware of themselves, their surroundings, the crossroads of humanity, and the needs of the planet... With this Awareness comes Understanding and Compassion." -Goa Gil, the DJ, is considered. Ultimately the phenomenon is argued to be "ritual" contingent on all three points of view, the charismatic dynamic allowing for the successful application of ritual structure and resulting in a specifically "ritual" type of collective effervescence.
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Visionary Philanthropic Traveler: Chellie Kew
The future of Botswana by Chellie Kew
"Q" Fund partners with Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel
"We are very proud to have partnered with Exquisite Safaris, a pioneer in private, luxury, philanthropic travel. Through their partnership with the Q fund, philanthropic travelers to Africa will be taken to see the work at Chimoza Community school first-hand, and given the opportunity to contribute to the effort there.
Sustainability is the key to the longevity of any and all projects. 'Charity' in the long run fails. With sufficient resources used in an innovative and compassionate manner, these children represent not disaster, but opportunity. They can become in Africa what the economist would call the new middle class, what the political scientist would call the fertile ground from which will spring a new democracy, what the entrepreneur would recognize as new consumers and a new workforce, and what the visionary would see as new leadership." -Chellie Kew, Founder: Q Fund
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The "Q" Fund is a non-profit, social enterprise founded with the vision of implementing sustainable solutions to eradicate poverty among millions of children left orphaned by the AIDS virus in sub-Saharan Africa. By providing locally-supported, community-based education, today's African children will continue to become tomorrow's teachers, doctors, farmers, artists and leaders.
The Q Fund mission can only be achieved through your generous donations. With your help, we can eradicate illiteracy, overpopulation, and forever turn the tide on HIV and AIDS and the millions of innocent children caught in its wake.
READ: African Journal -A Child's Continent by Chellie Kew
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Your book is beautiful with wonderful pictures and a great message.
-Maria T. Finch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Thank you for your compassionate commitment to the AIDS crisis and best wishes to you and your foundation.
Ms. Sharon Leigh, The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
What a fascinating, well written book. I was impressed by the quality reproduction of the pictures. They added so much to the book. The cover was eye catching and appropriate. The author writes well and this was a joy to review. The print quality of this book is exceptional. The layout is top-notch. Throughout the pages of this book the author's passion for the subject comes to light. Kew uses words sparingly, but in this case less is more and the photographs prove that a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
-Writers Digest 11th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards, Category: Life Stories
Ms. Kew's stories are poignant and spare, and her portraits reach through the eyes to touch the heart. African Journal profoundly illustrates a tragic and unseen world that is nonetheless filled with courage, hope and dignity.
-Craig Joseph Danner Author of Himalayan Dhaba
My family very much enjoyed African Journal.
-Jean Charest Premier of Quebec
"Standing on the plains of Africa, seeing the acres of orphans, even strong souls have despaired. But you have seen the children reach for hands no longer there, and extended your own, full of hope."
-Artist and author Mary Fisher Special Representative for UNAIDS:the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
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Eyes Wide Open: Carbon Off-Sets & EcoTravel
We welcome suggestions on making the Exquisite Safaris experience environmentally sensitive. We will utilize and recommend new methods, technology and eco-sensitive accommodations as they become available.
Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel donates $25 per traveler to deliver no cost solar installations to under served American communities by Black Rock Solar.
What is a carbon offset? Carbon offsets -sometimes called carbon credits help curtail greenhouse gases by putting a monetary value on reductions of greenhouse gases. The offsets represent emissions reduced via green projects such as new wind farms, solar installations or simply controlling fossil fuel pollution. The offset is sold through companies that act as brokers or traders. Individuals and businesses can buy the offsets to help reduce their "carbon footprint."
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007: Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of Carbon Offsets, some of the deals don't deliver.
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"Offsets are an imaginary commodity created by deducting what you hope happens from what you guess would have happened." -Dan Welch in the The Inconvenient Truth about the Carbon Offset Industry: In the concluding part of a major investigation, Nick Davies shows how greenhouse gas credits do little or nothing to combat Global Warming -The Guardian Saturday June 16 2007
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"..essentially what carbon trading does is it turns the earth's carbon cycling capacity into property that is to be bought and sold in a global market. And by turning carbon into a commodity, we're essentially taking the earth's ability to support a climate conducive to life and human societies and passing it into the same corporate hands that are destroying the climate."
-DAPHNE WYSHAM Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the founder and co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network and a member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. Her research drew attention to the disproportionate ratio of fossil fuel investments by international financial institutions like the World Bank.
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Transnational Institute
The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins
"Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of verifying genuine climate change benefits, and where communities in the South often have little choice as offset projects are inflicted on them.
This report argues that offsets place disproportionate emphasis on individual lifestyles and carbon footprints, distracting attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken to tackle climate change. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches involves moving away from the marketing gimmicks, celebrity endorsements, technological quick fixes, and the North/South exploitation that the carbon offsets industry embodies."
Introduction
1 Corrupting the Climate Change Debate
2 The Rise and Fall of Future Forests
3 The problems with trees and light bulbs
4 Three Case Studies in the Majority World
5 India - "Rock Band Capitalist Tool For Cutting CO2"
6 Land rights in Uganda
7 Energy efficient light bulbs in South Africa
8 Celebrities and Climate Change
9 Positive responses to climate change
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Killing the African dream of development
Author and economist James Shikwati says in the programme that environmentalists campaign against Africa using its fossil fuels: "there's somebody keen to kill the African dream. And the African dream is to develop." He describes renewable power as "luxurious experimentation" that might work for rich countries but will never work for Africa: "I don't see how a solar panel is going to power a steel industry ... We are being told, 'Don't touch your resources. Don't touch your oil. Don't touch your coal. That is suicide.'"
An example is given in the film of a Kenyan health clinic which is powered by solar panels which do not provide enough electricity for both the medical refrigerator and the lights at the same time. The programme describes the idea of restricting the world's poorest people to alternative energy sources as "the most morally repugnant aspect of the Global Warming campaign."
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The Guardian
"Some firms are making a killing from schemes designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions schemes designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions while doing little or nothing in return.
The market in carbon offsets, which allows companies to invest in renewable energy as a way of mitigating their own greenhouse gas emissions - almost doubled in 2006 to $5 billion, the World Bank said on 2 May. According to a recent report in the London-based Financial Times, some of that money is going to oil companies that are simply pumping CO2 into oilfields to extract more oil. They would have done this anyway, so profits from selling the credits go straight into company coffers, with no benefit to new carbon-saving schemes. "Oil companies are earning credits by doing what they would have done anyway"
And under the Kyoto protocol, almost $5 billion will be paid to industries that cut emissions of trifluoromethane - a potent greenhouse gas created in the production of refrigerants. The technology required to cut the gases would cost just $100 million to install (Nature, vol 445, p 595), raising questions regarding the size of the payout."
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Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatization and Power
"The main cause of global warming is rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions - primarily the result of burning fossil fuels - despite international agreements to reduce such emissions. The trouble is that despite being aware of the serious situation, very few decision - makers are ready to tackle the problem at its roots. Instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and searching for other solutions, current carbon-trading policies, in practice, favor the further exploitation of these fuels. Furthermore, new tree plantations, which are claimed as a means of mitigating the consequences of increased carbon dioxide pollution, often drive people out of their traditional living grounds and destroy biological diversity.
This special report forms part of the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation's What Next project. It focuses on carbon trading and is intended to influence current climate politics. In the debate on the Kyoto Protocol few actors have expressed a critical view. It is high time, for the purposes of debate and policy-making, to put the spotlight on the core problem - fossil fuel extraction and consumption.
This publication, therefore, takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyzes the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of 'lessons unlearned'. Nine case studies from different parts of the world provide examples of the outcomes - on the ground - of various carbon 'off set' schemes."
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The Guardian
Francis Sullivan, a carbon offset expert who led attempts by banking group HSBC to neutralise its emissions, said: "There will be individuals and companies out there who think they're doing the right thing but they're not. I am sure that people are buying offsets in this unregulated market that are not credible. I am sure there are people buying nothing more than hot air."
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Seen.org
"Carbon emissions trading, essentially a privatization of the Earth's atmosphere, is now enshrined under the Kyoto Protocol. It allows the "right [of multinational corporations] to pollute," while turning a blind eye to the thousands of communities and ecosystems destroyed by exploitation of fossil fuels."
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EcoTravel: Cart before the horse?
"Ultimately conservation is about people. If you don't have sustainable development around these (wildlife) parks, then people will have no interest in them, and the parks will not survive." -Nelson Mandela
Philanthropic Travel is a humanitarian endeavor.
Unfortunately, starving people who are challenged to read do not spend much of their personal energy pondering how to participate in environmental conservation. Conserving the environment will never be a success until those who live in the environment are empowered to protect it themselves. Exquisite Safaris believes that seeding sustainable humanitarian projects: in education, healthcare & entrepreneurship that enable people to get beyond the daily march for survival is a prerequisite to their participation in conserving their environment.
Philanthropic Travel = People First.
We are open to suggestions toward making the Exquisite Safaris experience environmentally sound and we will utilize new methods, technology and eco-friendly accommodations as they become available.
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A Healthier View of Wealth: Philanthropy
Intersections of Inspiration in Ecuador by David Chamberlain
At its most basic, money is a tool that enables us to meet our individual needs. As a form of potential energy that empowers us to generate change, it is neither good nor bad. Yet many people react emotionally to issues concerning finances, unconsciously condemning currency itself, the manner in which money is spent, and people who live lives of financial abundance.
Individuals who are rich in gifts such as high intelligence are acknowledged for their positive traits while those who have acquired material riches or aspire to become wealthy are frequently judged harshly. However, wealth is not a trait upon which judgment can be legitimately passed.
It tells us nothing about how a person lives, what they believe in, whom they care for, or the scope of their values. Like any blessing, wealth is merely an instrument of purpose that can be used both constructively and destructively.
From an early age, people learn to court wealth while simultaneously associating money with greed, selfishness, and unethical behavior. Consequently, this idea becomes entrenched in their hearts as envy.
To attain a balanced and rational comprehension of money, as well as a fairer perspective of wealth, we need to recognize that outward manifestations of wealth tell us little about the individuals enjoying those blessings.
When we feel the finger of jealousy prompting us to draw unflattering conclusions about people whose lives seem more financially secure than our own, we should remind ourselves that there are many elements of their circumstances we cannot see. Their wealth may be the result of long hours of taxing labor, they may donate a large percentage of their resources to charitable causes, or their bounty may be an incidental aspect of a life spent doing what they love.
Ultimately, we can heal our hurtful associations with money by turning a blind eye toward both wealth and poverty when interacting with others and instead focus on the individual before us.
If you take a moment to consider you own feelings regarding money and wealth, you may discover that you equate financial prosperity with happiness, power, security, independence, or self-indulgence. Money itself, however, is none of these things.
You can begin developing a healthier view of wealth by simply accepting that while some possess great wealth and others do not, we all have the potential to create lives of beauty, substance, and wisdom using the resources we have been granted.
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The Red Pill: Philanthropic Travel
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MORPHEUS
As children, we do not separate
the possible from the impossible
which is why the younger a mind is
the easier it is to free while a
mind like yours can be very
difficult.
NEO
Free from what?
MORPHEUS
From the Matrix.
Neo locks at his eyes but only sees a reflection of
himself.
MORPHEUS
Do you want to know what it is,
Neo?
Neo swallows and nods his head.
MORPHEUS
It's that feeling you have had all
your life. That feeling that
something was wrong with the
world. You don't know what it is
but it's there, like a splinter in
your mind, driving you mad,
driving you to me. But what is
it?
The LEATHER CREAKS as he leans back.
MORPHEUS
The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room.
You can see it out your window, or
on your television. You feel it
when you go to work, or go to
church or pay your taxes. It is
the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from
the truth.
NEO
What truth?
MORPHEUS
That you are a slave, Neo. That
you, like everyone else, was born
into bondage...
... kept inside a prison that you
cannot smell, taste, or touch. A
prison for your mind.
Outside, the WIND BATTERS a loose PANE of glass.
MORPHEUS
Unfortunately, no one can be told
what the Matrix is. You have to
see it for yourself.
NEO
How?
MORPHEUS
Hold out your hands.
In Neo's right hand, Morpheus drops a red pill.
MORPHEUS
This is your last chance. After
this, there is no going back.
In his left, a blue pill.
MORPHEUS
You take the blue pill and the
story ends. You wake in your bed
and you believe whatever you want.
The pills in his open hands are reflected in the glasses.
MORPHEUS
You take the red pill and you stay
in Wonderland and I show you how
deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Neo feels the smooth skin of the capsules, with the
moisture growing in his palms.
MORPHEUS
Remember that all I am offering is
the truth. Nothing more.
Neo opens his mouth and swallows the red pill. The
Cheshire smile returns.
MORPHEUS
Follow me.
LYRICS: THE WORLD I KNOW -COLLECTIVE SOUL
Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in new york city
And I dont know why.
Are we listening to hyms of offering?
Have we eyes to see that love is gathering?
All the words that Ive been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding into one.
So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
As the years roll down.
cause its the world I know.
Its the world I know.
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Success to Significance
Since giving and receiving are so intimately intertwined in our lives, we often expect that we can attract abundance by simply conducting ourselves in an openhanded fashion. Yet we find ourselves wallowing in disappointment when our ample generosity is not met with the expected results. The answer to this quandary lies in the expectations that, in part, initially prompted us to give. Though our intention is likely pure, we can unintentionally mar the beautiful experience of giving by focusing on what we will eventually receive in return. When we let go of the notion that we deserve to receive gifts based on giving gifts, bounty can once again flow freely in and out of our lives.
When the gifts you give are laden down with expectations, they cease to be gifts and become units of exchange that you are, in effect, trading for some reward. Thus, the reciprocal laws of the universe err on the side of the giver who shares for the sake of sharing. You may have seen this simple truth at work in your own experience, perhaps when life's business prevented you from spending too much time contemplating the results your charitable actions would ultimately have on the lives of others. It was likely then that you received the greatest gifts in return for your kindness. If you have trouble divesting yourself of your expectations, you may need to reflect upon the root of your inability to act in the true spirit of giving. Each time you make a gift, whether spiritual or tangible, ask yourself if there is something you hope to receive in return. You may be surprised to discover that you expect to be repaid with an easy life, financial windfalls, or opportunities.
To integrate this most selfless form of generosity into your life, you will have to let go of your need to be in control. Accepting that while like inevitably attracts like, it typically does so on an unobservable timetable. This can help you stop weighing the gifts you give against those you have received. Giving eventually becomes a profound joy that stands alone, separate from any and all conditions, and you will learn to appreciate the flow of reciprocal abundance as a gift in and of itself.
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