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I just found this inactive vacation responder in my gMail settings… and i get a kick out of it! so I’m posting it back dated here on the blog:

Hello there!
El Wanderino aka El W aka El Dub aka Joshua is wandering around in California these days… YES back in the good old jerUSAlem !!

End of April i intend to stop by the east coast !!! :-D

if you like to see some pictures and read some hooplah you can check out:
http://gotblogua.gotjosh.net/

This is an automated (everyone gets it) Vacation Responder, perhaps i will find an internet cafe or friendly connection and time and will enough to respond personally to your message, but if not, at least you know why…the world has many more interesting things to see than computer screens! but i love you and miss you and i want to respond and connect and smile and catch up…

cheers and hugs and light and love in the new year…
.:.joshua
ps - New Zealand is so super great i ended up staying an extra month! And then an extra two weeks past that… and then eventually i shall return to Copenhagen in early May…

is sitting atop point bonita in the Marin Headlands at the Northwest corner of the golden gate:

http://www.trinityroots.com
track #4 in their little media player is called “All We Be”

And the lyrics are extremely tight… (more…)

(and semi-fixated wanderers at heart)
You can click to see a slide show!

Click here to see a slideshow of more pix from nz !

UPDATE:
the new 2007 version is up:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39894058/
64% ~= $632 Billion $ is military (please keep in mind 7 Billion by Russia is the next biggest military expenditure in the world note: they are allies)

What is your career contributing to?
What true needs and frivolous wants are you striving to fulfill?
What is the true source of those wants, and do they deserve the attention that you give them?

If you feel attacked or annoyed or judged by those simple questions, please “don’t shoot the messenger”… This is real data and it demands attention… i hope that as americans we can realize that we can give alot more away before contributing to this system that is so clearly OUT OF ORDER…

We do have strength, in numbers and in information, and in ideals! Hopefully, also, in sufficient sustainable action!

So you still believe in “coincidence” huh???

How’s about a story for you. Many of you are already intimately familiar with the concept of synchronicity. If not i hope that this story can serve as a trust building introduction for you.

Please don’t let fear influence your perception of this phenomenon. Please open your heart to the nature of reality – and start expecting/embracing/accepting/creating miracles with faith and graceful joyous light.

So I am on my way to Karamea (or so i think), and in rotorua at the exact moment that i arrive at a little backpackers (youth hostel hotel kinda place) a young german woman named johanna is asking about a cheep room. The same question that i would have asked moments later, had i not heard the answer given to her. So logically we share a double room and end up driving around together in her little car… catching magical sunsets and talking about how happy she it with her new boyfriend and then we part company in Bulls (a funny little town on the north island). I spend the night until 4 AM at the Mobil Mart and meet with a sociologist who is wandering the world for 2 years now after giving up EVERYTHING in GB… Then on the ferry crossing, this amazing guy walks up during the last 20 minutes of the ride – we are both dead tired, but knew that we should be talking (even before when we saw eachother in the boarding area). Within minutes we decided i was joining him to a special little family farm that he was on the way to.

So i am guided to a nice garden with special beautiful people that i didn’t know existed mere hours before. The unplanned wandering “pays off” already and it feels magically synchronistic… You may say “so what” or yeah thats cool but no big deal… please do… the zinger is on the way.

Arriving at this special space i met another passer by named Nathan. Nathan is a acupuncturist from California. WOW another american in NZ! No, not only. This guy has a son who grew up in Lakewood, NJ. And now lives in Jersey City. And is buying a house pretty soon.

Sometime on the second day this information clicks a little bit and this guys jewish nose starts to itch at me and i thought to myself “this guys a schulmann” -
“whats your last name nathan.” i ask.
“schulmann,” he replies.
“so you know a seth. Maybe?”
“yeah – he’s my son.”

Get it? This world is a whole hell of a lot more connected than we can possibly imagine and i sure love learnin’ how to listen!

It has been said that if your life isn’t chock full of such events, then you may want to get out a bit more, but also, you may want to get in a bit more ass well – meaning we can all take some time to go deeper within ourselves – searching for our connection to the collective unity that binds us together… that brings our yearning for motion and fluidity and surprises and creativity…

Embracing the mystery, leaving the detail of the other dimentions for the other dimentionals, learning to listen with each whispering wandering step…
“with love and soft wondering”
.:.joshua “wanderino” denkeNicht
Here is a little movie of the walk into an amazing garden of light

UPDATE:
During the same internet session that i wrote and posted this little story, i phoned to Paul over at Rongo and he tells me that curiously enough Dave is also in Nelson. Hehe. But of course he is… so even though i was on my way to Karamea to meet up with the bloke - he’s already a little closer… Now Nelson isn’t a big town and maybe there aren’t so many restaurants open on a sunday evening… but timing is everything right?
So i walk out of the internet cafe on my way to the person’s house where Dave is staying - thinking OK thats pretty funny to be there waiting when he returns from dinner… but a small itch told me maybe he’s close by or on the way. As get to the first corner (admittadely a very central well lit corner in Nelson) I saw a sweet girl who smiled very nicely at me on my way into the internet cafe… so we passed at the same spot on the same corner twice with a hour and a half internet session in between. She really loved the wicker (flax) bag that i had been given as a pass me along gift earlier in the afternoon before i left paradise garden. So after giving Mayumi the bag we sat down to chat a bit and just as we were winding up a short conversation none other than Master Besseling wanders giddily towards us and we trip out a bit about yet another cosmic timing game…

will it ever stop? i donKnow… pick up the mic and…

i flow

Some reading in a magazine tonight revealed some writings by Robert Anton Wilson and Graham Hancock…
Shedding some light on an older posts (twisting and evolution) about intelligent design (and offline discussion with Joen), and some ongoing debates with Daniel about thie issue outlined in these phrases:

“substituting a true transpersonal life with a grammar
structure, thinking that renouncing nouns or similar old abstinence (in
spiritual work) actually works as means of becoming enlightened, while
in fact it only reinforces the very thing they want to avoid. It is
basically non-acceptance…….
I just tend to disagree and think that relinquishing the usuage or
whatever is just another superego-represion..
“

“A change in language can transform our perception of the cosmos” -Robert Anton Wilson

This is based on the premis that altering our software and behavior is a way to alter our hardware and our tendancies for future behavior…”fake it until you make it”…

Please consider the difference between me saying:
“They must stop using oil. ”
and
“I think we should reconsider our oil usage strategies and patterns”

the difference between:
“do it!”
and
“lets do it”

between:
“light is a wave”
and
“when perceived with certain equipment, light exhibits the properties of a wave”

“i am a male nurse”
and
“i engage in work in a hospital as a male nurse”

“the facts in absolute irrefutable reality are…”
and
“the evidence from a specific perspective indicate that…”

the world is quantum. and there i go again… the world appears to be “quantum” (dependent on relativity) and “IS” statements get weaker and weaker as we gain the capacity to embrace a “post-Quantum E-Prime” framework for existence and language / behavior software… is your language flexible enough to be considered quantum soft?

And about the random emergence of DNA molecules “religion” - it has been compared with the idea that a junkyard will transform itself into a stealth bomber if left to enough billion years of hurricanes and tornados…. Any takers on that bet?

Evolution is perfectly plausible and likely and beautiful and eloquent IF we have DNA - without/before the existence of a functional language for life(DNA), evolution is statistically astronomically universally bloody unlikely. Crick had the same debate inside - and it was VERY challenging to him as a scientist who wanted to be a realist… [small aside note: Crick is said to have been on LSD when he visualized the DNA molecule]

hmmm what is DNA and where did it come from???

Click the photo to see a slideshow of Flowers from Singapore Botanical Gardens and…

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Here is a picture of Collin and Evan Pope, my cousin Cara Lee’s little boys… You can click to see a slideshow! Ohhhhh so cute :-)

Are we really soooooo different?
I recorded a voice stream the other morning:
here is an excerpt: “when we shake hands it is really the same hand shaking itself, when we meet eyes, it is truly the same eyes meeting themselves” (more…)