The World Rave International Model Community and Manifesto

     As of Tuesday, 28JAN08, 8:30am, while dealing with off and on fits of depression, I realized the doable framework for an organization that will transform the world!

     I have chosen the name of World Rave International as it's primary function from an outside observation as an interactive, co-created dance and concert in a specifically designed and built arena. So in the next few paragraphs I will describe the intention, general design and outcome by way of an Executive Summary. From that point I will flesh out the details of the design, performance and potential locations of the facilities, as I would like to see ten such facilities built worldwide.

     This Vision for world change is the result of a dream and a series of smaller visions I have had for a little over a decade now. It comes about by way of meditation, the study of Integral Philosophy and sound boarding with other friends who are also seemingly inspired to see Humanity grow in this direction.

     It is my hope and dream to see all of Humanity benefit in every level of existence from this Vision.

     So without further adieu, I present to you the
 

World Rave International Executive SummaryThe Goal

     To transform and enlighten up to 1,000,000 people a month by way of learning the best of the best of the world's healing techniques, transformative traditions and arts and applying this knowledge and practice in a massive multimedia co-created and interactive event.

How can this happen?

     By building a specifically designed facility; a model sustainable community based on the smaller concepts of Communes and Ashrams. This sustainable community would be capable of housing, feeding, educating, transforming and enlightening up to 100,000 people a month.

With each individual having a specific program or module designed for them based on their current knowledge base, beliefs, and cultural understanding, they can then be given the tools and techniques to implement change and growth from within.

     Through an online and paper application process, an individual would fill out their necessary information i.e., a questionnaire specifically designed to gather information on their interests, beliefs, level of education, cultural understanding and goals. This would then be processed through a variety of techniques ranging from a simple, when obvious, "plug in and go" method to even the art of divination, designed to create a Learning Module for their month long retreat here at WRI.

     From this point forward I will refer to this individual as you, to create a sense of intimacy and imaginative personal journey. OK?

     You could be enrolled into a Reiki Class in addition to perhaps a Zen Big Mind Course as well as some Integral Lifestyle Courses as outlined by Ken Wilber and other such Teachers of note.

     After receiving your Workshop Module, you would be given a schedule, a key card to your living quarters and a map of the facility that would show you classroom locations, conscious vendor locations, indoor and outdoor courtyards for hanging out and meeting new folks such as yourself, locations of WRI Shuttle Stops as the Center is very large (think in terms of Disneyworld), and various restaurant locations serving the world's most consciously prepared dishes.
 

     Next you are politely ushered onto a shuttle going to your living quarters for the week. While riding you may notice the unique, unobtrusive architecture of the buildings that seemingly grow from the Earth itself, or maybe you see chefs from the various assorted cafes picking the day's herbs, spices, fruit and vegetables from one of the lovingly tended organic gardens that seem to overtake the grounds everywhere, and yet again maybe you notice the diversity of cultures that like yourself, are here for a mega-transformation into someone who is previously unbeknownst to themselves, a realized whole BEing of loving-kindness; all encompassing and fully awakened.

     Once in your room, you notice that your schedule is again posted digitally on the wall and that you have a few hours to meander about and get acquainted with the gorgeous surroundings before the evening's Orientation Dinner and Welcome.

    
     You step out of your living quarters which is a consciously built Earthship design, into a courtyard or pathway-filled organic garden, functional on many levels, and chat with others also on a unique journey like none taken before. Maybe you go for a cup of organic coffee sold by the Center's many conscious vendors of fair trade goodies and have a chat with a new found friend or partner. Magic is bound to happen at so many levels of experience at a facility of this nature. Now, after exploring and visiting, it is time for dinner.

     At the Orientation Dinner you will be seated amongst noted faculty, entertainers, philosophers and staff. A welcoming atmosphere and energy has been lovingly created for you and it purveys a sumptuously laid out banquet of consciously prepared entrees and beverages.

     You will speak to and hobnob with the world's most noted and leading authorities on personal transformation, alternative healing practices, music, art, sustainable living, and integrated fitness.

     The first evening culminates in a welcoming talk from various staff and an introduction to the Center's faculty and entertainers for the week.

     You now have an inkling of a sense of the enormous journey in store for you the scope and breadth of which leave you breathless and mouth agog!

     Now you are shuttled back to your living quarters for a good night's sleep and ready to begin your exciting curriculum for the week!

     After you have awaken, you are shuttled to a Cafe of your choice for a wonderful breakfast that you ordered in advance from the same digital touch screen that showed you your schedule in your living quarters. Once you have unhurriedly finished your breakfast, you are then shuttled to your first class in the Main Learning Facility. Here you will begin your day doing introspective visualization, guided meditation, breath work, and integrated fitness. You are now physically, mentally and spiritually prepared to start your first course on your Learning Module.
 

     You may notice that the classroom environment is very organic and arranged using Feng Shui and other elementally based energy placement systems; each unique and specifically suited to fit the subject of learning. You may be in a round, adobe and stone room with walls laced with vining plants appropriate for learning Yoga, Reiki, Swedish Massage or other hands on healing techniques as you lie or sit on comfy mats and cushions. Or you may well find yourself in a comfortable chair in a fan or shell shaped lecture hall tiered for the best visual convenience as you watch and listen to your instructor both on the stage below and on the large screen in the background, speaking on such topics as affordable and viable Sustainable Living techniques or Integral Philosophy. Meditation rooms are also built specifically to enhance the learning of Big Mind Meditation, Dzogchen, Vipasanna, Qi Gong, or Tai Chi.

     Your classroom time will be divided by two other meal times to comprise a four meal eating schedule to keep your metabolism humming and your energy high throughout your month here at WRI.

     After five days of just such a learning and living regimen, you begin to feel light, large and expansive. You have by now been given the tools to transform and sustain you life, your mind and your heart in ways never imagined. But we are not quite finished with you yet. You have one final class to attend......All together!

     The energy that you have spent all month working so hard to build up is really vibrating and buzzing now and you almost feel too small for your corporeal body. That energy wants to expand, flow and connect to something else to bring it full circle. Why not give to every ONE?!!

     You have been allowed to sleep in today. You needed a good long rest and you'll need to tap into that spiritual energy you have been building up starting later this afternoon. In the meantime you can walk around the facility at your leisure, shop, hook up with your new friends and partners, mingle with staff or just be lazy and soak in the abundant energy in a sunny courtyard. Be sure to drink plenty of wholesome rejuvenating juices and fluids today and remember to eat a couple of nice energizing light meals. You will need them by 4:30 pm along with comfortable, loose clothing and your dancing shoes, because you are about to unleash you power and reveal your true nature! You are going to laugh long and loud and you are also going to cry deeply intense sobbing tears of joy and hug anything with a pulse. You will not want this day to end, and with your new Life Tools and Awakened Nature, it won't have to!

     The shuttle arrives to pick you up and you are about to experience a night out like you have never experienced before.

     You may have noticed that in the center of your WRI facility is a massive dome-like structure. Some of you, depending on your courses, may have been underneath it by walking the Center's on-site Meditation Labyrinth with it's scenic bench stops, fountains and most notably, the giant perfect crystals; all seven of them, each representing the 7 Chakras and each glowing in it's appropriate color. But no one has been inside the dome yet.

     Surrounding the dome is a number of entrances, each with it's own colored archway. When you first came to WRI, you were given a ticket with a colored stub. You have that ticket on you now.
 
     The shuttle has brought you to your ticket's color coordinated entrance. As you walk into this entrance you may begin to realize that the totality of your transformation this week is about to begin and culminate here in this building. You are a little nervous and excited not knowing what to expect. All of the tools given to you, all of the learned techniques, the energy you have built up through meditation and conscious eating, literally everything you've experienced thus far has been imbued with pure Light and Love from the ground up!

     You now approach a kiosk where your ticket is exchanged for a small drum, rattle or shaker. You walk through the doors past the kiosk and enter an Arena the size of which steals your breath away. You realize instantly that from the outside you haven't even seen half of this structure's enormity as it is now quite obvious that over half of the building is built into the very Earth itself. You are in a Giant Womb, in the belly of Our Blessed Mother getting ready to be born anew, whole and infinite!

     You now hear wonderful music from speakers embedded seemingly everywhere as you walk to your seat on your Tier Ring. You notice that your seat is on a tier approximately ten feet wide and that it circles the entire circumference of your level in an Arena that is a quarter mile wide! Your tier or terrace is one of many progressive terraces that seem to go all the way to the top of the 20 story dome.
 

     Your eyes now gaze upon an enormous, round, platformed stage in the very center. You also note that it is slowly turning. A magnificent feat for a stage about 75 yards wide! Another eight stories above the stage is an even larger saucer-shaped armature of multimedia electronica and the Operators House. It is known affectionately as the World Rave Mothership. This armature is loaded to the hilt with state of the art projection, sound and lighting equipment arranged like never seen before. But that is not the half of it. Hanging from one side of this armature that is spinning at the same rate of rotation as the stage below, is an intricate nozzle system which showers a fine aromatherapy mist scented with the smell of Nag Champa, Sandalwood or Patchouli or perhaps Lavender. This curtain of scented and very dense mist falls to the floor just to the outside of the stage. Projected on this mist curtain which is actually a large screen, you notice a constant array of film imagery and interactive still photography three to four stories tall. Just imagine the finest photography and film of the best scenery Nature has to offer (think Baraka meets Carl Sagan's Cosmos) choreographed to some of the most beautiful and conscious music composed anywhere!

     Imagine the likes of Peter Gabriel, Afro Celt Sound System, The Crystal Method, Enya, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and R. Carlos Nakai simultaneously performing while surrounded by the world's most beautiful dancing traditions urging you to fold up your seat and slide it on it‘s own track back under the terrace behind you and dance with them. Imagine! And what's that instrument you are holding for? Your seating is the same color as the ticket. On the armature above the stage rhythmically coordinated lights of your ticket color flash in a sequence for you to play, allowing you and all the others around you to co-create this multimedia interactive experience!

     You are now fully involved in an event that will seem to last only minutes but will in fact take hours. You are consciously using every tool of energy creation and manifestation taught to you this month. You are co-creating with 100, 000 others from every creed, color, race, faith and walk of the planet Earth! Look upon all of your Self in full recognition and see your Original Face. You are dancing on hallowed ground!!! Welcome to the World Rave International experience!! You are awake, alive and consciously creating anew as never experienced. You are home. Always have been.

     From a humanitarian viewpoint, this facility's programs would be made available to virtually every sentient BEing that is drawn by their heart to learn, grow and realize their true nature and fullest potential.
 

     For those who cannot afford the reasonable tuition, there will be fully endorsed scholarship and grant programs available. Taking courses at a WRI Center would also translate into earned credits at noted progressive learning institutions such as JFK University.
 

     For those who cannot afford the tuition still, notices and flyers would be posted in advance in the surrounding communities with a schedule of times and pick-up points stating that WRI will for one week, house, feed, educate, transform and enlighten you with complete anonymity and equanimity regarding your student status. A fleet of busses would be dispatched to pick up those who would desire such an opportunity for an education and transformation of this magnitude. Space would be set aside at the Center for just such purposes based on demographic studies of the immediate region.

     Once your program of courses has been completed, you will receive complete certification, a DVD of your experience and a paper stating your University Level Earned Credits.

     Think of the naturally occurring Energy Centers around the Earth. The likes of Amesbury, England - Sedona, Arizona - Shasta, California - Ayers Rock, Australia - Dharamsala, India and Vancouver Island, British Columbia come to mind perhaps.

     These natural power houses of Cosmic Energy seem an ideal for locations of Centers of this type, function and magnitude. People flock to these locations en masse seeking the ethereal, wisdom and illumination or are drawn to them for their magnificent beauty with no more understanding as to why they feel compelled to do so.

     A WRI Center structurally would only serve to reflect and enhance what is already there and energetically magnify what is coming from it. Humanity would naturally reap the benefits at all levels of BEing from just such a facility. Clients would leave in awe, humbled and wholly realized by their co-created and interactive experience.

     The structural appearance of each Center would greatly differ from location to location; each uniquely suited and built to emulate and magnify in every way, what is already stunning and natural beauty. From the ground and perhaps only a half mile away, the facility itself would simply look like part of the surrounding landscape. From an aerial vantage point, each location would resemble sacred symbology or some of the most poignant and inspiring crop circles that have ever occurred in our time. Perhaps as an aside, these conceptually may well indeed be the designs and planned layouts of Centers for learning and growth.

     The Shasta, California Center may have architecture seemingly giving an emulative nod of beauty oriented recognition to the majesty of Mount Shasta herself. Likewise the structures at the Sedona and Ayers Rock Centers would echo the red rock beauty of those locations.
 

     The creative palette for each Center's unique appearance is only limited by the imagination.

     The curriculum of each facility however, would be the same throughout the world. Every Center would bring the promise of transformation and the means and tools to do so.

     Every square inch of each center would be built consciously with a green ethic from the ground up. Like the organization itself, it would be built on the fiery and inspiring energy that is held firmly in all of the conscious hearts that brought it's Vision to the table. The Centers themselves seemingly a living, breathing and pulsing entity alive, awake and wholly realized. Such is the scope, depth and breadth of this the largest undertaking by a globally and universally diverse humanity. Such is the heart of World Rave International.

Thank You and Blessings,