living bigger

I spent the day at the beach. as we were rushing out the door I grabbed something to read. A tiny book called Letters to a Young Poet in which, at the beginning of chapter 3, you find Rilke describing Niels Lyhne (by Jen Peter Jacobsen):

there seems to be everything in it from life's very faintest fragrance to the full big taste of its heaviest fruits. There is nothing that does not seem to have been understood, grasped, experienced and recognized in the tremulous after-ring of memory, no experience has been too slight, and the least incident unfolds like a destiny, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide web in which each thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another and held and borne up by a hundred others. You will experience the great happiness of reading this book for the first time, and will go through its countless surprises as in a new dream. But i can tell you that later too one goes through these books again and again with the same astonishment and that they lose none of the wonderful power and surrender none of the fabulousness with which they overwhelm one at a first reading.

One just comes to relish them increasingly, to be always more grateful, and somehow better and simpler in one's contemplating deeper in one's belief in life, and in living happier and bigger. (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Chapter 3)

the road less travelled

Sometime between the dawn of the industrial revolution and now, the world turned into one big, mass produced, commercial, one size fits all plastic toy global economy: high stress high school, automated answering systems and mind numbing mega malls ensued, not to mention a spiraling addiction to material acquisition and an over abundance of venture capitalists and bad movies.

Seriously? Is THIS really what all those piano lessons and exams were about? THIS? Overpriced lattes, credit card debt & all inclusive resorts, before more THIS and then death.

A while back it occurred to us that THIS wasn’t working. Something about THIS just didn’t feel right. Deep down inside our double tall latte we had an inkling that THIS needed a serious makeover. There was definitely something deeper, richer and just plain more excellent than THIS somewhere. But where? We decided to find it.

Since that moment we’ve been experimenting with new ways to think, learn, work and be, all with the single purpose of seeking something more than THIS. Admittedly, it took a while. And wandering around did occur. Then one day, not so long ago, in the quiet between THIS, a couple of warrior poses and what seemed like a lot of nothing – we finally had a breakthrough. And then another. And soon after that we realised we’d discovered something that was infinitely more joyous and beautiful and real than any THIS we’d ever seen.

The New Earth Works is our work in progress: traveling roadshow, interactive manifestation, philosophical provocation and creative trip. Ideas, experiences and stuff we’ve discovered on our adventure so far presented in an engaging, multimedia format so you won’t get bored. Beautiful views. Intriguing ideas. And piles of inspiration. Not to mention some totally actionable take aways and an obsession with chocolate.

We hope you will join us to investigate the road less traveled, expand your senses, discover your intuition and paint your vision for the new earth. Sensual junkies, committed travelers, consumer activists, nature lovers, undercover writers & artists, closet philosophers and anyone with a faint inkling in their heart that something is not right: this work is for all of us and that really loud ringing you hear is the wake up call you’ve been waiting for.