Posts tagged Gen Y
Celebrating Life with Unfulfilled Desires
Aug 25th
After arriving in Boulder we found a good hostel very close to the venue where Andrew Cohen’s band Unfulfilled Desires was going to play. The gig they gave at the Shambhala Mountain Center had been great; the band playing in a large tent and a crowd dancing in the sun, celebrating life after the retreat that left a deep imprint in our souls. So we were very much looking forward to this concert in the Rock n Soul Cafe to groove on the flexible jazz. The place was filled with fans, happy to meet up with each other, and the band kicked off right away. Playing straight from the soul in perfect unity, transmitting a profound joy to the public. It didn’t take long before people start clearing the floor, moving tables and chairs in the coffee-place to create room to dance. It was a joy and an inspiration to see how each band member pushed their own edge and supported each other improvising, obviously having a blast while playing. It was thrilling to notice how every time the band plays, they have evolved. The cafe exploded with good vibrations, leaving everyone in rapture. It was hard to leave the place, as it almost turned into a sacred space to celebrate life and being together.
Watch the video.
UD at Rock n Soul
Creating Heaven on Earth
Aug 25th
Gen Ys road tripping the Being & Becoming Retreat
On Monday, we finished the second annual Being & Becoming Retreat with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. On the first day of this retreat, Andrew told all 300 people there was an audacious goal for the ten days that we would spend together—to create heaven on earth. Andrew described this 21st century heaven as a place where everyone is sane, happy, rational, very, very inspired and where everyone surprises each other with the leaps forward they take every day.
In those ten days, that miraculous vision became a reality. Everyone on the retreat was transformed, and in my own experience the amount of joy, clarity and the sense that anything is possible was profound.
After the retreat, 7 of us younger Gen Ys decided to take a road trip together. We rented a gigantic Chevy Yukon and we’ll be driving and blogging around Colorado for the next week to continue creating heaven on earth and see what it takes for people are age to be generators of this kind of possibility.
We’ll be posting multiple updates throughout the day, so keep reading and let us know what you think!
Love — Eric, Reid, Emily, Bergen, Tineke, Spencer & Jeremy
What does it mean to be my age?
May 20th
What is it to be me, a Gen Y? What do I see in myself and others who share my age that is not found in those who fall outside of that specific category of our experience and perspective? What do I share with my other generational siblings, be they culturally, nationally, different, at another value based stage of consciousness (at a primary traditional, modern, postmodern or more integral stage), or of a different sex or subculture.
If I take a look around, trying to see beyond all of our apparent differences, what comes to mind is “adrift.” No solidness. A “being adriftness.” And also a freshness, but that must come from being as young as we are, no different from the freshness that boomers expressed and experienced when they were twenty something.
But my question about“adriftness” is whether this is just an expression of postmodernism’s relativistic personal experience? Is being GenY just a specific type of the ‘green meme’ value system, of the relativistic, pluralistic, sensitive experience? So what is it distinctly like to be GenY? Read the rest of this entry »
Rebels Without a Cause
Apr 30th
Hipsters have been on my mind lately. Not because I’m particularly interested in the edgy, ironic music and fashion trends that these millennial generation rebels are known for. I’m curious about the deeper cultural predicament that this strange youth movement seems to represent—one that I think has some serious implications for the future of humanity.
So what is a hipster anyway and why should you even care about this back-to-the-future cultural trend? Read the rest of this entry »
Is God Coming Through a Gen-Y’er and Fueling Obama’s Speeches?
Apr 2nd
Recently I saw a fascinating documentary about a real example of someone to admire and look up to. And someone our age no less!
The documentary is about Jon Favreau, and he is the 27-year-old writer of Obama’s amazing speeches. We don’t get to see Favreau live in the documentary, but on account on what we know he has done together with President Obama, and going by what others have said about him, a Gen-Y’er can’t but feel proud and humbled.
The documentary is in Dutch, but all of the people speak in English, so it’s worth it for anyone to watch.
Jon is a Christian, and you can’t help but get the feeling that he must be inspired by, or get his inspiration from God or Spirit him, her or itself. The inspiration definitely comes through!
From X to Y: Tracking the Evolution of Gen Y Consciousness Through Music
Mar 27th
One of the things we are trying to investigate with this blog is the question, who are we? And because all of us writing on this blog are 30 or under, we’ve naturally been interested in what it means to be Gen Y– how the time period and cultural context we’ve grown up in have shaped the way we see and live in the world than someone who was born earlier.
One of the most illuminating ways to look into who we are as a generation that I’ve found is through music, so I thought I’d give you my take on the evolution of Gen Y consciousness through the popular rock music of the last 20 years. This is just the beginning, but hopefully it will open up some larger questions about who we are as a product of Gen Y culture. Read the rest of this entry »
How to realize the green revolution!
Jan 19th
By Jonas Schnor, Martin Norddahl & Christian Claudi
Hopenhagen – a shift in consciousness?
About a month ago, all the world leaders were gathered in Copenhagen at the COP15, to find a solution to the immediate climate crisis. The climate crisis is one of the largest and most profound problems the world society as a whole has ever faced, and the consequences may prove to be life altering for the whole human species. Unfortunately the climate conference didn’t end up with anything close to the agreement most of the world’s population had hoped for. Copenhagen is now called ‘Nopenhagen’ instead of ‘Hopenhagen’.
But we had a different experience. So three of us from Copenhagen, Christian, Jonas and Martin, worked together to write this piece describing our experience and perspective, which, apart from posting on this blog, we are sending to newspapers in Denmark.
Although change did not seem to present itself on the political level in any noteworthy scale, it sure felt like a change was going on in the streets of Copenhagen. While the UN Conference was taking place in the Bella Centre, another conference were being held in the heart of Copenhagen, this being the alternative NGO-conference KLIMAFORUM, in the DGI-centre. Here Jonas decided to participate wholeheartedly as a volunteer for the whole eleven days of the conference. And his experience was one of being a part of something big and positive: “Outside in the streets, hundreds of thousands were demonstrating, and inside a myriad of happenings were going on, showing a lot of goodwill and visionary perspective towards a climate friendly society. And the place was crowded with people of all races and nationalities. The multiculturalism was awe-inspiring. It felt like a global, unified movement was being catalyzed, from here, to all over the world, that hadn’t been there before, and where I, as a singular person, could participate in something larger than any individual, but solely driven by individuals. It was fundamentally positive and forward-looking” Jonas reflects. Read the rest of this entry »
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