[CRNMC] Decolonization of Mind Group - Event Notice

[Charles Cresson Wood]

DECOLONIZATION  OF  MIND
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Event Title: The Internal Process of Deciding How To Vote
Time & Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016; 7:00-8:30PM 
(We meet on the fourth Wednesday of the month)
Location: Downtown Ft. Bragg (see directions below)

Event Description
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Do we really make our own personal decisions, based on our own independent investigations and preferences, when it comes time to vote? Or are we voting in alignment with our spouse, our family, our gender, and/or our sexual preference? Perhaps we are instead voting in alignment with our church or faith? Rather than our own personal opinion, what prejudices, myths, or propaganda might be dictating our voting choices? Why might we erroneously believe that we must follow suit, and vote as others do? How do the candidates play on our emotions -- for example the need that many of us have for a strong authority figure in times of crisis? This meeting will discuss the importance of having our own personal opinions, whether or not we choose to openly express those opinions to others. By deeply connecting with our own personal truths, we are empowered to ignore the many political untruths thrown our way by those who wish to manipulatively influence us.  

Facilitators
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Linda is a local activist and co-counseling teacher. She will offer ways to look at our personal processes around elections to help us each find our own truth beyond pressure, propaganda, and cultural myths. 

Charles Cresson Wood recently completed law school and is a local organizer for Mendocino Coast Transition Towns. He is also a personal coach and the author of the frame-shift meditation book entitled “Opening To Abundance,” which can be found on Amazon.com. 

The perspectives of this group’s participants will be actively solicited, voiced, pondered, and discussed. The event will provide attendees with an honest exploratory discussion among a group of equals -- it will NOT be a teach-in, a download of any creed, an indoctrination, or a sales pitch of any type. Everyone is welcome.

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 agency or corporate entity -- 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, this discussion group was a spin-off from a weekend workshop that activist Paul Cienfuegos facilitated in February 2014. 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 their minds have been colonized, but how they could escape from that colonization. In keeping with Paul’s challenge, the decolonization of mind group has, since that time, sought 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 has met regularly and seeks to empower its members to be able to emancipate themselves from all that, so that they may come back to their own personal power to live the life they feel called to live. For further information, contact Charles at ccwood at ix.netcom.com.