Sunday, August 9, 2009

Go Organic ! .. & go, go, go ... Cafe Gratitude :-)

Organic food is FAR more nutritious, as well as being much less dependent on fossil fuel .. locally grown organic takes it another step along the road..
Raw food, takes the nutrition density another step along the road..

Cafe Gratitude incorporates all of the above, plus its intrinsic "sacred commerce" and "school of personal transformation masquerading as a chain of restaurants" approaches, which gives employees and management a gently structured manner in which to fully relate and engage on thinking/feeling levels as opposed to the tyical "shut up & get to work" restaurant HR attitude.
This results in service which is unique in dining experience =;-)
So unique is this powerful combination of delicious nutritionally dense food plus "the game" of Transformation .. that the small San Francisco chain is now Evolving/ sporing .. as a result of popular demand (which is being somewhat boosted by pop singer/star Jason Mraz & his "Gratitude Cafe Tour")

Cafe Gratitude is bringing their mostly raw & vegan restaurants to
New York City, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and San Diego ... groundwork is being laid now, it will take 1 - 2yrs for "opening day."

Recently Cafe Gratitude partnered with Whole Foods in Oakland, California, to open Cafe Gratitude inside of a very large Whole Foods, where a Whole Foods run "juice bar" had been not very successful... Cafe Gratitude is doing very well in that same location ... more partnerships such as this may be possible... ask your nearest Whole Foods to bring Cafe Gratitude to you !

If you're intrigued by the idea of bringing the "full on" Cafe Gratitude model (3 or 4 restaurants supplied daily) with prepared [juiced, chopped, blended, diced, sliced, soaked, made into nut milk, nut milk 'ice cream,' and other sumptuous desserts & otherwise ready for dish-up at the cafes] check out their website &/or drop me a line.

Oh yeah.. another "spore" of the Cafe Gratitude vibe is a small film company, with their first offering "May I Be Frank" in world premiere at the upcoming Sausalito film festival
http://www.sausalitofilmfestival.com/films2.html
trailer / clips:
http://www.myspace.com/mayibefrankmovie

by the way.. surely it's clear that I love this company (and the people . .not to mention the food :) I do some contract I.T. work for them (past 1.5yrs,) am not an employee and have no personal gain attainable in posting this.. just sharing.

I am also *personally committed* to current co-creation of a worker owned collective of doctors & alternative healers, which is loosely affiliated with the extended Cafe Gratitude family. It is likely that this will also Evolve / spore in NYC, KC, LA, etc., in service to those communities .. Services will include super nutrition / cleanse programs (and Juice Bar,) homeopathy, herbalism, yoga, craniosacral work, bodywork, and more - focus will be open to facilitating healing from anything from severe chronic disease to simply wishing to transition to generally healthier lifestyle.


warm wishes,
david hartley 510.859.4050
www.holistiq.com
I.T. support: www.cafegratitude.com
co-founder: www.GratefulMindandBody.com
web developer

posted by david hartley, holistiq.com @ 9:18 PM 0 Comments

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

blogged here & then posted as response to some militant vegan cultists' running the "kill the messenger" game as I attempt to discuss their dogma at..
http://evolver.net/group/intentional_communities/discussion/what_should_our_intention_be_towards_animals_community

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Colin (notably astray from satyagrahi) does not think

"Mr. Home was being really mean."

Well, how is that not perfectly predictable ?
A pair of cultists operating in lockstep teamwork fashion will hardly be expected not to fail to (publicly) "see" how their partner in the propaganda exercise "was really being mean" .. by attempting to inflict psychological cruelty on a person who, since the very beginning of the thread, has been asking for NON-VIOLENT communication, and has been met at every turn with WARFARE in the classic vegan cultist's psychological mind-programming campaign.

The fact, Colin, that you publicly claim to "not see" the cruelty intended by home's gratuitous personality based attack is PERFECTLY CONSISTENT with the psychological profile of the militant vegan cultist.

Since the vegan cultists ENTIRE propaganda campaign is BASED in inflicting psychological pain and CAPITALIZING on the miniature psychological breakdown which the VERY EXTREMELY VIOLENT films create in the sensitive soul, it would be completely unacceptable for the vegan cultist to "see" psychological cruelty ANYWHERE in the cult's films, dogma, literature, online scarification of "the opposition" .. etc.

Anyone who quickly reviews this whole thread will note that I have been calling for non-violent communication since post #4 or so, as it became clear that the cultists were and still are engaged in dogmatic psychological warfare.

Anyone who cannot see that insinuating a long laundry list of mental &/or emotional defects exist within a person who is opposing the violence / warfare by the vegan cultists ... IS violence .. IS warfare .. IS compPLETEly inappropriate ... probably ought to go & join the evolver.juniors web community.

Though it is challenging to be attacked personally while I am attempting to peacefully explore the nature of the militant vegan cult propaganda campaign, I hope I have not personally attacked anyone, and I apologize if so .. it is my intent to speak to the issues .. it is anti-evolved to take everything personally!

As I've mentioned several times, personal attack .. "kill the messenger" .. is a consistent hallmark of a psychological programming campaign when it is met with outspoken resistance.
The theory, of course is that if it can be successfully claimed / insinuated that the >> PERSON <<>> MESSAGE <<<>

I would expect people attracted to EVOLVER to be a little more EVOLVED than to VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE such attempts at DEPERSONALIZING ... a PERSON .. who has an OPINION which runs counter h/ir own.

Indeed, the non-cultists in this thread have continually offered peaceful and loving commentary --sorry to be cast so stiffly into my anti-militant-cultist role(!) - Eureka, Alchemy Goddess, Alex -- I would much rather play with you than the boyz, but I strongly believe that it is important to explore the depth and breadth of the militant vegan cult dogma ---- since this is what we non-dogmatic ex-vegans, vegan sympathists, etc .. are "in the middle of" our wonderful amazing creative vegan friends on the one side ... this starkly militant and abusive cult on the other.

In terms of the original topic of this thread (something like) what should be our intention in community regarding animals --

We can now clearly see the folly of attempting to live in community (let alone have a written discussion on a web community of supposedly "evolving" individuals) .. with people who have militant dogmatic indoctrination... UNLESS we are intending to sacrifice our own compassionate & joyful humanity in order to take on the indoctrination !

Perhaps Colin & home should start another topic; what should be our intention in militant vegan community regarding animals ... I think their doctrine could be properly insulated from the rest of humanity that way ..


warm wishes,
david hartley 510.859.4050
www.holistiq.com
I.T. support: www.cafegratitude.com
co-founder: www.GratefulMindandBody.com
web developer

posted by david hartley, holistiq.com @ 10:44 PM 0 Comments