Successful Completion of the Seiler School in Ethiopia
An update from Peter Seiler It’s been five years since the death of my uncle, but I have finally created the school he requested in his last will and testament. The Ella and Wolfgang Seiler School has been built in the tribal area of the Hamar in South Omo Ethiopia. Actual building time was only half a year, and it is the first earth bag based building in Ethiopia. The Governor of the state, Ato Awoke, visited it during its...
The Daimon of Mission
by Stephen Simmer “Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never...
More Momentum, Less Effort
by Joseph DiCenso Scything wheat, hammering a nail, splitting wood, sledding downhill, surfing a wave, performing a summersault, playing the piano–all of these have something in common: working with momentum. Momentum: mass in motion aiming to remain in motion. In the broader sense, we might say it’s whatever already has life or energy. When we tap that energy we expend less of our own. In exchange, we give up some...
Where is Your Flag?
by Doug Eadline The Penn State story has been a constant headline in my local paper. I live in eastern Pennsylvania, so this coverage is certainly not unexpected. Often times, I cannot read all the details of the alleged events that took place in “Happy Valley.” My heart goes out to those boys, because if true, many were selected and groomed as victims due to their socioeconomic status. I attended college not far from Penn...
Jim Channon: A New Warrior battling for Planet Earth
Jim Channon, a master architect for a sustainable world, became a New Warrior in 2008. The creator of the First Earth Battalion mythology, he has worked with both major corporations and the U.S. military to create strategies and vision encompassing his thirty year life focus for saving the planet from human destruction. His storytelling shamanistic persona has been portrayed by actor Jeff Bridges in the film “The Men Who Stare...
Living the gift community – a 6 year old’s wisdom.
Andrei Armeanu is a New Warrior (a man who has completed the New Warrior Training Adventure sponsored by the ManKind Project). His daughter Sabina has an idea of the kind of world she wants to live in and the kind of person she wants to be in that world. The ManKind Project helps already awesome men like Andrei become even better fathers, partners and culture creators. I’m ready to live in Sabina’s world – and doing...