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• Love like no other Love like no other

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• We are moving! Please join the We are moving! Please join the new Dream Club community!

  • From: spiritdancer
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    You are a member of the Dream Club Community. Please join us at our new location.  We are shutting down the old community and starting a new one.  See below for more details.

    Dream Club has existed for ten years, since April of 2000. It started as a place where people who were discovering their passion and purpose in the world could meet with supportive friends. It continues to be that place. It started with casual meetings at a Star Bucks in Houston Texas, then it went online in the form of a Yahoo Group. Then two years ago we formed an online social network. It is currently at 89 members worldwide and growing.  Now it's time to evolve.

    To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Dream Club we have decided to phase out the old Dream Club email list and the old online group and create them anew in a group in the new Dream Power online community "I Wanna Change the World."
    
    The cool thing about this new community is that it's based on the Ning.com network which is growing faster than Facebook so we have the ability to get many more people involved. The Ning technology makes this community more pleasing to the eye and it's much more user friendly.  You can also easily create your own interest and discussion groups within it. Of course you can create blogs, upload and embed videos and pics etc.  So join and play around with it and see how you can make it better.  We want to beta test it with Dream Club members before we officially launch it into the world.
    
    So please join us at:
    
    http://iwannachangetheworld.net.
    
    See you there!
    
    
    --
    William Spiritdancer,
    Director, Dream Power International
    Web: http://www.MyDreamPower.com

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• The Power of Commitment The Power of Commitment

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    Tama's Musings

    Dive In and You'll Make the Water Warm:
    The Power of Commitment
    
    Are you waiting for something wonderful to happen? Forget waiting. Commitment to the life you desire changes absolutely everything. Lack of commitment changes absolutely everything, too. Commitment is the magic wand, the sorcerer behind the bush, the technical support of the Gods.
    
    But let's keep it simple: If you're not watering you're garden, you're killing it.
    
    I have always struggled with commitment. It seems like a guillotine to me, a bit final. Now me, I like choice. I like walking in the meadows and gazing at all the wildflowers and options. I hate decision. Oh, and sweet mother of prairie dogs, I hate being wrong.
    
    But here's something I'm seeing now, in my middle years. The lack of commitment is a ruptured power line. It leaks energy. Nothing ramps up without it. There are no perfect circumstances. But when we show up with love, focus, and patience, we perfect the circumstances we have. Then everything opens into a new dimension of good and possibility. Or as one of my favorite brilliant dudes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, "The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to."
    
    So let's talk about diving in full force, shall we?
    
    Commitment Brings Clarity
    
    Sometimes you think you need more information before you commit your devotion. But devotion will give you more information than any other research.
    
    I'll give you an example I've seen when coaching writers. Many people who want to write say, "I don't write because I have no idea what to write about." But I know that sitting down to write is one of the only ways to get clear. Clarity doesn't come out of the blue. It comes out of a black and white decision to delve into our confusion.
    
    When I started writing my second book, it felt like writing in outer space. There was nothing there, but fog, stray molecules, and the ever present existential longing for thin thighs. But I told myself what I tell my writing students, "The writing itself knows what wants to be written." So I knew if I sat there consistently and with patience, something pure and true would come. Nowadays, I can't wait to write. I've mucked around with goop and space and finally named a shape. Now I've plucked a star.
    
    Commitment is A Way to Grow
    
    Years ago I went to couples therapy with my loved one. The therapist asked me if I was committed to the relationship. I stared at him in frustration. You're supposed to be the wizard, I thought. You're supposed to fix this broken carriage and then I'd be happy to commit to jumping right in. But he politely explained, that my commitment would be required if I wanted to move forward. Of course, since he was a therapist, we had to go rooting around into my fear of commitment. "I don't want to miss out on anything," I told him. "What if I commit to this almost relationship, and then Mr.-Oh-My-God- I'm-So- Perfect walks in the door two minutes later." The therapist looked at me coolly, probably with great empathy for the partner who had to live with me, and said, "You don't want to miss out, but you're missing out right now. You're missing out on the relationship in front of you." Wow, those therapists. That's why they get to talk to us about our mothers. Because every now and then they say something that will save you a thousand years of bad choices. I realized then that I would never be able to commit to a relationship only when it was perfect. I'd have to dive in and commit and that would bring out its perfection. You can't have certain experiences in the shallow end of the pool. There's just some lessons that only come with immersion. In the wisdom tradition of A Course in Miracles , it says, "Whatever is lacking in any situation, is what you're not giving to it."
    
    Yeah, exactly. Everything good in my life requires my effort, my love, my dedication.
    
    Commit Fully For Now, Not Forever
    
    When I was deciding what career direction to move in, I was terrified of making a mistake. I didn't want to waste my time, so of course I wasted my time by obstinately not doing anything. I didn't want to go forward in the wrong direction. But the problem was-- I wasn't going forward in any direction. After a while, options turn into dead fish. They start smelling up the room. It's the aroma of guilt and waste and passing time. You need to use your options while they're fresh. I felt haunted and frustrated and depleted all at the same time. Finally, a friend of mine said to me "Why not commit fully for now? You don't have to commit to forever. Just commit fully for now."
    
    I know this seems like a coward's way in, but let me tell you it works wonders. Commitment is a living thing. I believe we can only commit fully to the moment in front of us. But I had stopped doing that, believing that if I couldn't stay with something forever, then I shouldn't even go into it. I had no way of getting vital information and experience. Nowadays, when I'm coaching someone who is afraid to trust their instincts, I'll ask them to practice trusting for a day, a week, or 3 months, and then to evaluate their experience. Most often, someone wants to evaluate their experience before or while they're engaged in the activity. But it doesn't work like that. First you experiment. Then you look over your data.

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    So, dear one, where would you like to see your life take off? Where do you want to summon energy, clarity, and a touch of invisible helping hands? Where do you want to commit your focus and attention? Just think, you could be sprouting flowers by the next email newsletter. Or you could still be standing by the bus stop waiting for a bus---that never comes by waiting.
    
    I leave you with my love and with these words by poet and filmmaker James Broughton: "Whatever the price, pay attention. Pay attention whatever price it asks. Otherwise you will pay through the nose for your non-attention."
    
    With my love and blessings,
    
    
    Tama
    
    ©Copyright 2008 Tama J. Kieves. All rights reserved.
    
    Feel free to forward this copy to anyone you think might enjoy it.
    Please keep the entire message intact, including contact, logo, and copyright information. Thank you.
    

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    Want to discuss this or any other aspect of living your dreams? Please visit our free discussion forum at:
    http://www.awakeningartist ry.com/resources.discussion.html

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• Give it up and trust God! Give it up and trust God!

  • From: spiritdancer
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    Yup giving it all up to God is the only way. Today I woke up feeling so down. It's crazy. I was lost in my head again! why do I keep doing that. it's usually triggered by a survival crisis. like having to pay the rent. that freaks out my wife and then i feel pressured to perform. then I start thinking about how I alone can make this work. then i start forming all kids of plans etc. this is not the way. so I just gave it all up and you know what a miraculous thing happened. first I felt immensely better. how am i going to do the movie? where am i going to get the money? I have no idea1 but i feel good and i realize now as I have realized many times before that this good feeling of peace is really really important. I should never leave it. I don't care what is happening. if the lights are bout to get cut off or if the rent is due. never leave this place.
    
    The miraculous thing is now i feel guided to solutions. like for instance even though I did not plan to make calls logically with a set schedule today. I actually feel like making calls. why because i don't have to. i should never set schedules where I have to do something. that is a guaranteed way to get me to feel pressure and then do it from a fearful place. like "I have to make calls and I have to get donations etc. " this is the wrong way. let it all go and let the spirit guide your actions. how do you know. by how peaceful and joyful it feels. if you can't do it from this place then don't do it at all.
    
    its like to get results I have to get in a place where I don't care about results. then I get the results. to not care means to not be afraid of the outcome. to not care if I fail. the only way to be in that place is to rest fully in god's grace. to really believe that god is there for you. if you depend or look to the world for solutions then you will be inherently fearful. so it is a paradox. to get good results from the world you must give up the world and depend fully on god then you can be guided to the right solutions.
    
    What do you feel like doing?
    
    Do that.

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• Yvonne Fitch The Painter, Part Yvonne Fitch The Painter, Part 1

  • From: spiritdancer
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    Journey of the Dream Warrior Extended Interview No. 2: Yvonne Fitch part 1: This is an extended interview with Yvonne Fitch, Intuitive, Painter and Writer from the Journey of the Dream Warrior Film. She lives in Austin, Texas and can be reached at http://www.MyDreamPower.com/sacredsplendor
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• How to get discovered on the How to get discovered on the Internet

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    Go ahead, post that dumb video online, you could get some work

    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for Los Angeles, Califronia. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.

    So Geduld combined his creative talents with his abundance of free time. He took footage from the 1980s "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" cartoons, re-edited it and redubbed it to make the evil Skeletor and his cronies into a bumbling gang of losers. Geduld added incongruously peppy jazz by Django Reinhardt, called his farce "The Skeletor Show" and posted episodes on Google Inc.'s YouTube .

    Geduld added his e-mail address to the credits, along with this line: "Please give me a job. I'm talented."

    Actually, that was a joke. Geduld didn't think much could come of it.

    But he was underestimating how much the Internet has broadened the ways people get discovered today, often for jobs in the entertainment industry that didn't exist until a few years ago.

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    Enough people liked "The Skeletor Show" that it got mentioned on some popular blogs. Before long, several Web sites were paying Geduld to do similar comedic "mash-ups" for them. Video portal Heavy.com hired Geduld to be a voice for its new horror channel.

    When he got the first e-mail inquiring about his services, Geduld, 30, was shocked. "Oh my God, this actually worked!" he thought. The first few gigs paid only around $500. But now he's making "enough to support myself," and offers keep coming. A tech company asked if he'd do promotional material. He got invited to a sci-fi convention.

    "It just gets better and better," Geduld says. "I'm thinking of getting an agent."

    One of Hollywood's animating legends is the story of the ingenue who got discovered by a studio honcho while she sipped a soda in a drugstore. The myth spoke to the lightning-strike luck that making it big generally took in a system controlled by a few big studios.

    Now, the Web has blown things open. It is easier than ever to get discovered. Web sites trying to develop into entertainment hubs are hungry for people to write, shoot or star in new content, so its representatives scan for talent in the piles of homemade videos on MySpace , YouTube, Revver and personal blogs.

    It's certainly no secret that the Web can launch new faces. The medium already has its tales of regular Janes who made it big, like Lisa Donovan, who leaped from YouTube to the cast of Fox's "MadTV," and Brooke Brodack, a Net video character signed to a TV production deal by Carson Daly. This is the vision that drove the creators of YouTube's "LonelyGirl15" faux-reality videos.

    But the lesser-known story is of non-stars like Geduld, riding the Web's radical openness to find new kinds of online entertainment work.

    Often these online jobs are with sites that may be a step above the user-generated schlock of YouTube, but still are sorting out the economics of attracting advertising. As a result, discovery sometimes comes with modest trappings. And it often extends to people who wouldn't have made it through Hollywood's old-school gatekeepers -- or even tried.

    Consider the experience of Jessica Hagy, a 29-year-old freelance advertising copywriter in Ohio.

    Last fall she started a blog that commented on the world through clever diagrams. (You have to see it to get it -- check out http://indexed.blogspot.com ) Aft er brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis encountered the blog in Los Angeles, they e-mailed Hagy and eventually asked her to produce diagrams for content debuting this fall on their growing comedy site, JibJab.com. There aren't big bucks involved, maybe a few thousand, depending on how much advertising the segments attract.

    "It just seems to be the new modus operandi for creative people," says Hagy, who has yet to meet the Spiridellis brothers in person. "There are so many more people out there than you could find before. ... I was just a random kid in Columbus, Ohio. How was I supposed to find anybody under the old way?"

    This is not to say everyone who airs dumb stunts or lip-synchs on YouTube has a chance of landing real work. Representatives of professionally produced content sites who pore through user-generated videos see more rough than diamonds. When there are decent finds, competition can be intense.

    Jason Marks, a former MTV executive who oversees programming and development for Heavy.com, swears this story is true, and that similar things happen several times a month:

    A while back he came across a YouTube video of some young guys "in their dorm room, flicking boogers on their wall." Marks was only mildly amused, but he sensed there might be something in these kids, so he figured he'd scope them out. Marks says he left a message for them -- and got his call returned by someone in a very prominent talent agency.

    "They refer us to their agent!" Marks says. "I'm not even kidding, man."

    In many ways, today's talent search is a reprise of the height of the dot-com boom. Then, sites such as AntEye, Icebox, Mediatrip and Z.com cast themselves as "incubators" and served as scouts for film studios and television networks, essentially producing low-cost pilots and hoping for a hit.

    That model has resurfaced. Last year, UTA, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, launched an online division to scout for people who could be in videos for ad agencies, Web sites and traditional media outlets. While most agencies refuse unsolicited work, UTA encourages online submissions.

    Grouper.com, a site owned by Sony Corp., recently decided to stop trying to make money from user-generated videos and will focus instead, under the name Crackle, on scouting online prodigies for Sony.

    But Steven Starr, a former talent agent who heads the Web video site Revver, says what he sees emerging is "a creator economy online" whereby the Internet will carve out its own slice of the action, rather than just serving as a development league for TV and film.

    "That will start to make it possible for any creator to develop income and careers online and not just be fodder for large media enterprises that are looking to move them off onto other platforms," Starr says.

    Even if untapped talent is not necessarily easy to find, the economics of Web entertainment startups dictates that they try hard to do it. Old-school casting calls -- and Hollywood's union contracts -- wouldn't work for digital media that comes together quickly and relatively cheaply.

    "Hollywood as it exists today was built to produce a relatively small number of very large productions," says JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis. "The new studios ... in digital are going to exist in a way where they can produce a very large number of small productions. I need to produce content at the price of the craft services table on a television shoot."

    Sometimes, online video can juice an entertainment career already in progress.

    Nick Stevens had a decent life as a comedian in New York, supporting himself with acting and writing gigs on TV and radio. But things got more interesting after he launched a zero-budget video blog in his living room. Called TownieNews.com, it features rants by fictional Boston sports nut Paul "Fitzy" Fitzgerald.

    Fitzy developed such an online following that a Boston TV station, believing he was real, called to set up an interview. (Stevens set the reporters straight.) The blog also got noticed by the people at Heavy.com, who hired Stevens to host their regular "SportsCenter" takeoff known as "The Burly Sports Show." Stevens plays himself, more or less, but Fitzy appears as a character.

    Stevens, 33, says he lives pretty well on what he gets paid to do two of the online episodes every week -- which sometimes amazes him.

    "The guy who was buying his coffees with nickels and dimes in 2003 and having beans on toast for lunch is very thankful," he says. "The Web is great. The single greatest distraction from employment is also the single greatest enabler of employment."

    Original article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/01/discovered.web. ap/index.html

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• The Artists of Venice Beach The Artists of Venice Beach

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    A video tour of the world famous Venice Beach made during the filming of the "Journey of the Dream Warrior" documentary. Interviews with many of the artists who sell their work there.
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• Betty Gold Studio Tour Betty Gold Studio Tour

  • From: spiritdancer
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    Journey of the Dream Warrior Extended Interview No. 1: Betty Gold Studio Tour: This is an extended interview with Betty Gold, Sculptor, Painter and Photographer from the Journey of the Dream Warrior Film. She lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at http://www.BettyGold.com
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• Journey of the Dream Warrior T Journey of the Dream Warrior Trailer

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    Journey of the Dream Warrior is a documentary where five artist discuss what it means to be an artist and how one makes the transition from their "old" life to being an artist. It is done as a metaphorical spiritual journey. The purpose of the film is to inspire one to follow their calling in life. Prepare to be taken on a spiritual journey. Along the way you will be greeted by the spirits of five artists who will share their love, wisdom and experience to help guide you along the path. It's a journey we must all take.
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• You need to let some joy flow. You need to let some joy flow...

  • From: ladyofgod
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    Depression and sickness are the results of closing down our channels to joy. Joy is what we experience as Love and Light fill us, and flow through us and express.
    
    Get some joy flowing by wholeheartedly doing something you really enjoy (The key is “wholeheartedly.” You shouldn’t be thinking about other things, or be consumed with worry while you participate in the activity).
    
    If you can’t afford to do that thing you really enjoy, then take a trip to your favor

    By Roxann Drake

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• Creativity Creativity

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