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About me:  Forest-dwelling father, Finnish sauna fanatic, emergency physician, ED and EMS Medical Director, ultrasonographer, professor, student, photographerfilmmakerauthor, localism entrepreneur. Co-host Conscious Bro Podcast

Selected Projects: 

  • Defiance Springs Lodge - artists' salon. A charming micro pioneer hotel in the forests just outside Viroqua, WI. Our goal was to create a space where one might not be sure of the time period they were in. Is it now, is it 3000 years from now or 3000 years ago? A combination of Little House on the Prairie, Westworld, and The Real World. The Prancing Pony meets Harry Potter meets Star Wars galactic café. Like a 100 acre movie set. As if you were on an Oregon Trail-type adventure, and requiring some respite, ventured upon a lively timber hotel. A literal healing sanctuary along the headwaters of the South Fork of the Bad Axe River. Surounded by artesian springs, rocky ravines, and effigy mounds. An ideal setting to rebalance, heal, and revive.  A community of likeminded resident and visiting filmakers, creators, artists, physicans, healers and entreprenuers. Sharing ideas and content around loving regeneration, in-all-ways. From self to soul to soil. Colletive manifestation of a more verdent valley on the other side of the portal divide. 
  •  Viroqua Public Market, an award-winning adaptive reuse of a historic Viroqua, Wisconsin.
  • The National Transfer Registry app (aka theNTR). This is a directory of every acute care hospital, nursing home and EMS agency in America, a free tool to use during critical transfer challenges.  
  • Regenven, Regenerative Adventures: We seek to leave a lasting positive effect. Optimizing resiliency, through investments focused on a regenerative mindset, from self to society, habitation to habitats to habits. Regenerative adventures.
  • Cobalt Cottage AirBNB Viroqua. On the grounds of the Viroqua Public Market. Super charming entire home that sleeps 10.  Haunted speakeasy vibe. Right in the thick of things.  Experience Viroqua as a local!
  • Serenity Cabin AirBNB Viroqua. Cozy, rustic cabin on forested hillside overlooking trout stream.  Miles of private groomed trails. Friendly goats. Middle Earth vibe. Just five minutes to Downtown Viroqua.  

I am infatuated with this "Driftless Area", a unique and mysterious zone in SW Wisconsin never bulldozed by glaciers - resulting in an ancient, undisturbed lands of artisan spring-fed streams, foggy valleys and magestic rocky bluffs covered in prehistoric oak savannas. A real-world Middle Earth. A destination sanctuary bioregion with an abundance of water, sustenance, energy, connectivity and cooperation. Arguably the richest soil on the planet and notably, mostly controlled by interconnected families.  A geographic locale with an optimal balance of wet and dry, warm and cold, individual and collective, allowing us to not only survive but thrive as the Earth inevitably churns into its next version.

I have playful recurrent dream: This enchanting zone of land, is like an Arc!  And we, the people of this Driftless Nation, venture together upon the waters of a world-wide calamitous flood, on 20,000 year mission to foster collective bliss and leave a lasting positive effect.

      And thus healing is not a destination, but daily practice.

  

F E A T U R E D   P H O T O G R A P H Y

An assortment of my photography our beloved Driftless Area and beyond.... 

 

 

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F E A T U R E D   F I L M S

 

 

Mindflow Radio Podcast: Inspiration, Motivation and Values. 12 Feb 21

VISION QUESTS

 

Driftless Thrive Podcast, ep. 1 April 2020

 

 

Entries in capitalism (1)

Friday
Jun072019

Hive Capitalism 

The 10,000 year run of the cult of private wealth accumulation has mostly failed us. Mother Earth is kicking back and for many whatever comes, will be disruptive and unpleasant. The aforementioned threat is real. However, must all suffer and what precisely shall we do about all this? 

Parking capital in the coffers of an elite few, putting morality aside, is simply unacceptably inefficient.  

Moreover the interconnected digital world, has grotesquely distorted our natural tendency to cooperate into a destructive abomination. Instead of nurturing individuality our binary avatars have become soldiers of in-group bias, concentrating us into likeminded groups. Comrades to a few and enemies to all else. Including ourselves 

Thus we have been indoctrinated into a death cult of the amassing of individual wealth at all costs, of Competition over Collaboration. We perceive humanity as groups not humans, self as group not soul. 

The solution is not about redistribution of wealth or other impossible measures - it’s about what shall we choose to do with the wealth we are about to create! 

Those holding the capital cards are perhaps 1 billion times more wealthy. What could possibly overcome this magnitude of disparity?  It is the power of the mind and true self, repentant, re-directed, revived. Specifically, it is the power of each interconnected revitalized soul, cooperating together, each following their bliss mission, generating capital, the surplus of which is shared equally.  And with each added member, the power grows exponentially, soon eclipsing our folly and forging a new way. 

Let us form a scaffolding that allows participants to sculpt a web of bliss energy that joyfully tangles us together. Thus manifesting a village where each citizen rides the currents of Devine flow, interwoven. For it is this flow state, that sustains our souls.  The garden of Eden before shame.

To repeat, one person actualized in Bliss flow added to another exponentially grows the bliss energy. 

This bliss flow may seem intangible and hypothetical but we are incorporating something acutely real. Bliss flow is joyful tasks that benefit our culture, infused with the love energy of Mother Earth and the others who have gathered here (and likely generating profit).  All built on a shared wisdom ensuring sustainability despite our egos and flaws.  

Certainly in Viroqua and the Driftless we already participate in a spontaneously formed primordial cooperative society.  Now is the moment and place to formally organize into hive capitalism. Mission Driven Cooperative Companies Owned by Shareholders. One share equals one vote. No hierarchy; there is no guru upon a throne to disappoint us. In fact, each member is a guru. And when it is our time to lead, it is accomplished with service and selflessness.

 The vision - create wealth generating cooperative ventures which fill cooperative coffers. Then supply capital for additional worthy projects. And of course, celebrate and appreciate. 

Our mission: to leave a lasting positive effect.

The timeline, 70 generations of our descendants, living within a society, we are poised to revise and optimize. 

Thus, I propose to you, hive capitalism.  Now is the place and the time to energize our tribal mind (and our tribal banking).