Guest speaker: Seabrook Leaf
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04:25 Lorenzo introduces Seabrook Leaf who then leads a playalogue titled “The Establishment of a Tribal Land Base” during the 2007 Burning Man festival.
06:44 Seabrook begins his rap. (See YouTube video beginning at 1:30)
11:30 Anonymous: “The coercive forces of control all work to keep people apart and separate, and so tribe is the healing medicine for that.”
12:05Anonymous: “You can’t choose your relatives, but you can choose your family.”
14:47 Seabrook Leaf: “I think it’s clear that working together like we do at Burning Man is going to be a crucial part of surviving the shift. . . . And I think this is the crucial part of this kind of tribalism, whether it’s putting up a yurt or raising food in a garden, we’re going to have to get back to the basics.”
16:59 Dale Pendell begins telling about a cooperative community on San Juan Ridge he was a part of in the 60s.
18:57 Dale Pendell begins telling about the May Day and Halloween festivals that the San Juan Ridge community created.
22:35 Anonymous: “We spend most of our time in a cyber-tribe, and I still feel connected. I feel like maybe the future of tribalism is going to reach beyond geographical locations, because we can’t really afford to travel everywhere and meet all these different people.”
29:25 Anonymous: “How can we expand our acceptance of people as a whole, but recognize the reality of what we can manage in our day-to-day resources and things we have to do to provide for our community?”
36:22 Anonymous: “If it doesn’t grow out of the ground it came out of a mine.”
40:53 Anonymous: “Bring a love-consciousness, always, as the focus of us being awake now. It has never been more urgent.”
46:37 La: “And it just came up so big for me that we have to eliminate fear as our motivator. We have to use what we see around us clue us in, but not operate out of that distress. It’s so tricky, slippery.”
49:39 Anonymous: “So in the best of situations you can pick an environment that has what you imagine to be the least potential for social corruption, but at the same time there’s a very big wild card that comes with saying ‘Let’s plant this here but we don’t know what all the rest of our neighbors are going to be doing in twenty years.”
53:51 Dale Pendell: “It’s wonderful for a child to know where they came from, what their tribe is, and they have a place to come back to if what they rebelled against turns out to be better than they thought it was.”
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