[CRNMC] Decolonization of Mind - Discussion Group - Meeting Notice

[Charles Cresson Wood]

DECOLONIZATION  OF  MIND 

Lunch-Time Discussion Group Announcement
Event Title: Pulling the Noxious Weed of Consumerism from Our Psychic Gardens
Time & Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015, at 12:30PM 
Location: Downtown Ft. Bragg (see directions below)

Event Description
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Consumerism -- the preoccupation with consumer goods and whatever we think having those things will mean -- is a destructive and rapidly spreading worldview that can enslave us to jobs we hate, and crushing debt. Consumerism fills both our garages and our lives with excess junk -- stuff that often just ends up in landfills. Join us to be part of an open discussion about some of the psychological ploys that advertisers use to get us to buy things we don’t need, and the ways that our lives will be richer without all the stuff that we are told is part of the “American Dream” (really the American Nightmare). We will also discuss how we can support each other in ridding ourselves of this destructive attitude, for example through sharing with others.

Facilitators
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Charles Cresson Wood is a law school student and a professional writer. Among is books is a frame-shift meditation book called “Opening To Abundance,” which can be found on Amazon.com. Charles will talk about advertiser psychological strategies, and several viewpoint shifts that individuals can adopt to open new possibilities outside the consumer viewpoint. Also facilitating this meeting will be Linda, a local activist and co-counseling teacher. She will speak about mutual support as we navigate a way through our personal process of escaping from the matrix of consumerism. She will additionally cover the lessons we learned as young folks. So many of us grew up feeling that we didn’t have enough: love, attention, and more. As adults, we can see that these compensation strategies don’t work, and thereby escape from the matrix of consumerism. The perspectives of the group participants will also be actively solicited and pondered.

Location & Directions
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The location of this meeting will be Linda’s house in Fort Bragg. Consistent with the nature of our discussions -- which are not approved or endorsed by any government or corporate entities -- there's no official address that you could look up on Google maps, since Linda lives in an alley. To get there, drive east on Oak Street for about a mile from Hwy 1. Wall Street is on the right side and her house is in the alley right after Wall Street (between Wall and Sanderson). There's a fire hydrant at the alley. Make a right into the alley (you can't make a left) and her house is the first (and only) house you come to. The house number is 139-1/2. 

About the Decolonization of Mind Group
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An outgrowth of Mendocino Coast Transition Towns and the Community Rights Network of Mendocino County, the discussion group was a spin-off from a weekend workshop that activist Paul Cienfuegos facilitated. That workshop, dealing with community rights, and the powers of people versus those of corporations, included a challenge from Paul that the participants not only understand how our minds have been colonized, but that we escape from that colonization. In keeping with Paul’s challenge, the decolonization of mind group seeks to go beyond the propaganda from government, the indoctrination of the public school system, the brainwashing from corporate advertising, and also the myths created and perpetuated via movies, TV, newspapers, Facebook, and other modern media. The discussion group seeks to empower people so as to emancipate themselves from all that, and to come back to our own personal power to live the life we feel called to live. For more information, email Charles Cresson Wood at ccwood at ix.netcom.com.