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Retreat and fast to prepare 2008

nospam@example.com (Jean-François Noubel) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:31:09 -0800

This week, from Saturday 29 to Sunday 7 is a retreat and a fast. No meetings, no family, no parenting, no relationship, no talk, no action, no phone calls, no email, no emergency. Breathing, fasting, enjoying and reconnecting with the pure energy of life, of breath, of prana. Listening and releasing the inner demons, with love and compassion for myself.

I feel like a balloon that I just dropped and that is now floating and being carried by divine wind. It will take me exactly where I have to be. No expectations, no projections, no attachment. This retreat is for surrendering, for sitting inside the soul and let it percolate to the still ignorant, still encompassed layers of my terrestrian being.

Fasting is an important step in that regard.

Exploring the addiction to food helps me decide what exactly I want my relationship with food to be. How much prana do I want to absorb through food versus how much should come through energetical work (breathing, medidating, yoga)? What is the right balance? What is the right level of entanglement I want with food in order to serve what I came in this life for? How do I want to balance the different planes of the being (gross, subtle, etc...)?
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Resistance of archaic pyramidal collective intelligence

nospam@example.com (Jean-François Noubel) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:14:39 -0700

Not a long time ago I was invited to participate to a conference in Washington D.C. made for governmental, U.N., Pentagon, CIA, DoD and so on decision makers. The aim of this conference was to talk and exchange key ideas about collective intelligence with people who are engaged into the most conservative and hard-coded pyramidal collective intelligence organizations. The core intention was to tell them that open source intelligence (OSINT) is much more efficient, less expensive, more serving than “secret intelligence” (usually just called as “intelligence”).

Most of international specialists on collective intelligence were invited to this conference so they could share their views and experience on such questions.

On a late notice most their invitation was canceled.
I was expecting this to happen.
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Will Google understand open money?

nospam@example.com (Jean-François Noubel) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:56:15 -0700

While I staying in California for the next 2 weeks I will check how Google is responding to the idea that community currencies are going to shift the whole monetary sytem and the whole economy in the next years. How will they see open money? Will they understand that accompanying this shift and project is probably the best move they can do for the future?

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Impressions from Korea

nospam@example.com (Jean-François Noubel) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:55:18 -0700

I have been quite impressed by this week spent in Korea. What is remarkable about this country is that in the early sixties it was a ruined postwar country. It took one generation for this country to reach the top level nations.

What was the most amazing experience is this hunger that Koreans have manifested for knowledge sharing. From morning to evening I have been invited to give conferences, and have conversations with some of the most influential persons of the country.
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