Links
Here are some links to sites relating to personal and spiritual growth, conscious living, and creating sustainable community. Please email dave@davidhansenmusic.com or call (877) 509-6463 with suggestions.

Mesa Works.com
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada Solevo is the originator of the Pachakuti Mesa tradition of cross-cultural shamanism and visionary founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Foundation. A respected kamasqa curandero and altomisayoq adept from Peru, don Oscar's apprenticeship in northern coastal huachuma curanderismo and initiation into the southeastern Andean paqokuna shaman/priesthood, formally took place between the years 1969 and 1986. These teachings have positively transformed and helped countless people around the world.

The Heart of the Healer Foundation
The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) charitable and educational organization established to preserve and revitalize indigenous earth-honoring wisdom and ceremonial healing practices, Protect ancestral sacred sites, pilgrimage destinations, natural landscape shrines and tribal lands. impart the prophetic vision and mythic reality of native peoples as expressed through their creation stories, tribal legends, ceremonial rites-of-passage, art, music, dance, song and other traditional forms of cultural identity, disseminate the Pachakuti Mesa tradition of cross-cultural shamanism through practitioner apprenticeships and teacher certification programs involving the nurturance of heartfelt sacred community worldwide.

The Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative
A Crucial Investment in Planetary Survival Saving the Amazonian rainforest is a moral obligation for all of us. It is no longer simply a romantic idea of protecting an exotic place witnessed in IMAX films. The Amazon is a life-generating ecosystem vital to our species-wide survival. Rainforest conservation means preventing the extinction of hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species, as well as protecting the cultural heritage and sacred lands of innumerable indigenous people. Protecting the Amazon is literally a matter of saving our Earth, ourselves and our children. In fulfillment of our earth stewardship vision in service to future generations, The Heart of the Healer (THOTH) Foundation has formed the Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative. This earth stewardship program is designed to ensure the preservation of Amazonian biodiversity and the protection of threatened indigenous cultures. Our intent is to create a model of sustainable development that provides for the economic well-being of local communities while supporting the health of our earth mother.

Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic... Are We?
Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D., an expert on marine debris says - �If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig�you�d find a little line of plastic, � he told The Seattle Times last April. �What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren�t able to reproduce. They didn�t last very long because they killed themselves." This startling article raises awareness regarding the current state of the developed world producing 110 billion pounds of plastic per year which is very toxic and takes hundreds of years to break down. Only 3%-5% of plastic is recycled and rest is quickly becoming part of our food chain.

Global Ecovillage Network
Global EcoVillage Network (GEN) is a grassroots non-profit organization that links together ecovillages and related projects around the world in order to inspire and encourage the creation of more viable lifestyles on this Earth.

Esoteric Training
We are a religious order of spiritual teachers dedicated to the instruction and preservation of western occult knowledge. We hold sacred our universal origin, the divine emanations of Spirit. As a community, we provide sanctuary, stability, and structure for those doing experiential study work with metaphysical concepts. This safe haven for sensitive, aware people encourages the discovery of the individual's own truths and principles within the framework of the disciplines taught.

Builders of the Adytum
Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.) is a non-profit, tax-exempt religious organization irrevocably dedicated to spiritual attunement through enlightened worship in the Tradition of the Western Mysteries. Its congregation is an association of spiritual aspirants who participate through the B.O.T.A. lesson instructions. Wherever they may be geographically, they are, in fact, participating in mystical-esoteric meditational practices that unify them into a powerful metaphysical body of enlightened worship. There is no charge for any instructions or other benefits B.O.T.A. freely offers its dues paying members. The Order's material needs are supported solely by membership dues-contributions and other donations.

Awakening Earth
Duane Elgin, formerly a senior social scientist for the Stanford Research Institute, identified more simple and balanced ways of living in his 1981 classic book Voluntary Simplicity. His website lists many resources.

The Orion Society
The Orion Grassroots Network is the fastest-growing network of environmental and community organization in North America. OGN member organizations are recognized leaders in the fields of conservation, restoration, education, justice, health, and economics.

The Association for Global New Thought
The Association For Global New Thought promotes planetary healing though self-realization and spiritually motivated activism. AGNT holds a yearly conference that is worth checking out.

Buy Blue
This organization appears to be aligned with the intentions of creating peace and sustainable society through guiding consumers to products and companies aligned with these ideals.

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
An interesting site with a moving tally of the cost of the war in Iraq. If we weren't building weapons, they couldn't be used.

Peace Action West
This organization has an agenda to create communities that are safe, people who are free, and a sustainable future of safety and prosperity.

Environmental Defense Center
A nonprofit environmental law firm working with citizens groups on environmental issues.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences
Sponsors, co-sponsors, and hosts events related to their vision and mission of exploring the frontiers of consciousness.

Affordable Web Design
Internet Solutions For Less is a professional and affordable web design and Internet marketing firm that specializes in web applications and hosting solutions for businesses.