I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
As I've explored, observed, and researched more deeply into the nature of the mainstream system of society and its many aspects over the years, I came to realize that most, if not all of them, are not in fact beneficial, supportive, or good for us, and are actually insidious and pernicious tools of control, manipulation, exploitation, and enslavement. Once I was able to see the slave system that masqueraded as regular society for what it was, I began working to extricate myself from it over time, because once I could finally see it, and how it actually functioned, I could no longer support or live within it.
This process of disintangling myself from the slave matrix is how I came upon community-driven and people-powered tecnhological frameworks and infrastructures, in which people worldwide were creating and building their own parallel systems, which they controlled, to circumvent and replace the dominant enslaving corporate and governmental versions. This was incredibly exciting to me, and I dove deep into exploring and learning several such alternate community-driven frameworks.
That's how I got into Linux and the Free and Open-Source Software communities, where I've discovered many truly amazing projects, as well as into Blockchains technology and cryptocurrencies, which is what eventually brought me to Bastyon (then Pocketnet), Hive, Qortal, Blurt, among others. These various sovereignty-driven frameworks and blockchains enthralled and fascinated me because they gave power and freedom back to the people, being very do-it-yourself, and based on personal responsibility. I also loved that they were mostly, or entirely, out of the control of corporations, governments, banks, or other controlling organizations.
Convenience, and the excuse that 'that's what everybody does', has kept a great many people locked into systems that do not at all serve them, quite the opposite. Not wanting to learn whole new systems, and ways of doing thing, is another chain which has trapped many people in tiny echo-chamber rooms of controlled ignorance. Sadly, a good number of people also don't want to accept personal responsibility for themselves, their lives, their affairs, or their perspectives, which of course makes them perfect slaves, because it means that they are entirely dependent on their slave masters for everything.
Community-driven frameworks and infrastructure, where We The People create, control, maintain, manage, develop, govern, and own the systems of which we are an integral part, is in truth the only viable way forward, as anything else eventually leads to our ever-greater enslavement, and often to our demise. How and what we do what we do, and the systems that we use to do it, are exceedingly important, both for ourselves and for everyone else. Are we supporting systems that help to liberate and empower ourselves and humanity, where we can all thrive, or ones that through our lack of awareness enslave and render us powerless, making us unknowing pawns in a game that does not have our best interests in mind? That's a question that we must each answer for ourselves, and then choose accordingly. I know my choice.
Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, around 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. When I was satisfied with the shots that I got, I went to Tutu's to collect some food supplies for the Landing, and with that done I helped Ano move a bed back into the Bali Hut, after the floor was stained and sealed, and to unload his truck after the Sunday market. After that, I took a short asset-management break up at the Flow House, and then I focused on two other tasks, digging a short trench across a trail to bury the new ethernet conduit going to Halai Hapai, and chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar. With my last tasks for the day done, I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then I made my way back to the Flow House, to continue my research and experimentation with setting up my new FreeBSD system, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I wasn't able to get fully caught up from the night before, and I had a lot last night too, so I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop a bit after 11PM, to finish up a few things that I was trying on FreeBSD, to do some asset management, and then finally to go to bed by just after 12:30AM. I woke up quite late, just after 8AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, doing more asset management, getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post, and to continue fiddling with FreeBSD. It's now just after 1:30PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
2025 Life Goals
1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.
2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.
3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.
4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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