Wonderosity

I hope you enjoy this fun, power-packed interview by the wonderful ladies (Wendy Garrett and Sandy Jorgensen) over at a new Talkshoe.com show called “Conscious Living“. While we (mostly me, caffeinated ) talked about many things, we focused on:

• How Soul Tech received so much press and what the workshop is about
• The various projects and businesses I’m involved in
• My soon-to-launch www.SparkSocialMedia.com site
• The pros and cons of technology/Social Media and where I think things may be heading

To those of you visiting wonderosity from this show, you can follow this link to receive the free eworkbook we talked about.  And you can follow this link if you are interested in seeing how you can use social media (blogs, podcasts, social networking sites, etc) to enhance your business, organization or other passion project.

Thanks Wendy & Sandy!

-Leif

Thanks for your patience friends while I’ve been trying to get my new business Spark Northwest off the ground. This show is a live Talkshoe interview with Jeffrey Overstreet, author of “Through a screen darkly: Looking closer at beauty, truth and evil in the movies.”

It was a fun and thought-provoking interview, and I really look forward to reading the rest of Overstreet’s book. He has great insights about many of the movies most of us have seen, as well as thoughts on how to bring one’s general ‘movie consumption’ mindset from a McDonald’s experience to that of a 5 star restaurant.

Though it took us a while to get into the interview (probably because I’m a little rusty right now), it ended up being a fun and thought-provoking show that I know you’ll enjoy ( just bear with the slow beginning and the occasional call waiting blips that come in -hmmm, gotta fix that next time.) BTW, I’ll be making some exciting announcements in the next show, and I hope to get that out in the next 2 weeks. Enjoy the show! -Leif

Tags: wonderosity, wonderosityshow, leifhansen, jeffreyoverstreet, interview, author, book, amazon, movies, christian, lookingcloser, sparknw, talkshoe

Some exciting news! With the advent of my new business Spark Northwest, I have decided to relaunch The Quest Cast. I’m not entirely sure what shape it will take, nor whether I will keep this same site or start a new one. Whatever does happen I will be sure to announce it here and if the feed changes, I will make an announcement on the previous podcast feed. For those of you have visited from the Spark Northwest website and have NO CLUE what the Quest Cast even was (let alone what it will become), check out my first post at the bottom of this page to see my original goals. You can also listen to one of the shows to get a sense of how things worked.
Thanks for coming by and I look forward to sparking a quest for you soon!
-Leif

Hey you. Come sit down and join us for a nice organic conversation over at Breitenbush. This interview with Jeff and Nicole, two organic farmers with KingFisher Farms in Oregon, was a really helpful conversation for getting over some of my fears about slowing down and shifting into a more sustainable lifestyle. Whether you’re already far along the path of sustainability, or you, like me, find yourself stumbling along slower than you’d like -I think you’ll enjoy our honest dialogue as well.
We talk about questions like:

• What is the organic / sustainable movement about?
• How might we be motivated to change to a more sustainable lifestyle not out of fear and guilt, but genuine desire? (What are the bennys?)
• What are CSAs and how do they work?
• Does a full embracing of the sustainable lifestyle necessitate a shift away from all global systems? (boy, I wish I asked it that succinctly during the interview)
• What would the ideal local / sustainable life look when it comes to global life?

Drop me a note here, at the People Portal, or leave a message at 360-566-2278. And if you’re in Oregon, by all means call them up and start getting their goodies.

Tags: wonderosity, wonderosityshow, leifhansen, organic, sustainability, permaculture, globalism, farming, farms, oregon, breitenbush, podcast

Today’s show is an interview with Todd Fadel, who is hosting a creative collaborative experiment in Portland, Oregon on February 17th, 2007. We talk about the event, its origins, inclusivity and community building through creativity. Audio quality was semi-suck, sorry about that.

As promised, here are some links to sites related to this event, as well as Todd’s creative online happenings:

• Register at EventBrite
• The Beauty (Todd’s R&B band)
• Agents of Future (Todd and his wife’s music)
• The Big Bashed (songwriting project with his kids)
• Todd’s personal MySpace page

I take no personal responsibility for the content of any of the above links, so if his SICK AND TWISTED mind offends you, please don’t blame me.

Tags: wondersotity, leifhansen, interview, podcast, toddfadel, agentsoffuture, arts, creativity, whirrship, portland, inclusivity

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• New show format, and yay Mac/GarageBand
• Quote from GK Chesteron -The Ethics of Elfland, via ‘Orthodoxy’
• Various Announcements and Life-updates
• Have a nice day

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Well, something a little different. All just to say how much fun I’m having with my new MacBook Pro and Garage Band. This is the rap I wrote back in High School (1988!)…let me know what you think (:

Tags: garageband, mac, rap, whitebot, oldschool, wonderosity, bleedingpurple, leifhansen

I’m experimenting with using Gcast to quickly and easily send out announcements and spontaneous thoughts. In this show I’m simply wishing a happy new new year, sharing about some upcoming shows and announcing various additions to this site. Unless I find out that doing so would mess the feed up, I’m considering splicing the Gcast call-in feed with this show, so call inns will automatically go out to those of you subscribed. However, unlike this post, there would be no mention of it directly on this blog…if all this geeking out loud confuses you, then just click on the show link or else where into web-neverland.

Tags: gcast, wonderosity, wonderosityshow, call, announcement

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Get the picture? Thanks to Samtsai for this find.

Hi Bleeding Purple People,
I notice that around 75 of you have still not switched over to the new wonderosity feed.
While I will be keeping this site up, I will be deleting the feeds associated with it (ie feeds.feedburner.com/bleedingpurple, and the enteuxis.org one).
So please just click RIGHT HERE and itunes will add the new wonderosity feed, or just copy and paste this feed -http://feeds.feedburner.com/wonderosity -into your favorite podcatcher/player.

And don’t forget to get your butt over to the new wonderosity show site and the new wonderosity social site! Of course, if all of this is too complicated for you, you can keep it simple and go on over to the wonderosity.com site and all my feeds and other projects are there as well!

Thanks and I hope you’ve had an awesome new year!
In truth,
Leif

Tags: feed change, wonderosity, bleeding purple, wonderosityshow, feedburner

This episode continues the interview with Peter Davenport, director of of the National UFO Reporting Center. In this show we talk about:

• How does the NUFORC reporting process work?
• Why might be some reasons humanity has not had a more overt UFO/Alien encounter?
• Why does the traditional media seem to run from these kind of reports?
• How often does NUFORC receive direct ‘alien contact’ stories?
• If this really is happening, what might be the nature and purpose of non-terrestrial beings monitoring or visiting our planet?

Other Notes

• Here’s a link to the Phoenix, Arizona sighting –Davenport’s suggestion of the most recent credible UFO mass sighting.
• Again, I apologize for the audio quality –hope to clear that up with the help of some forthcoming Christmas presents…
• Wonderosity will probably be quiet until after the holidays, the 1st week of January.
• Head over to the people portal to discuss this subject and connect with other Wonderosity people.
• An interesting site I just found that might be of interest –check out his open minded scientist / skeptic at www.ufoskeptic.org

Tags: wonderosity, wonderosityshow, nuforc, peter davenport, interview, podcast, ufo, alien, media, extraterrestrial, exobiology, paranormal

My first attempt at YouTube-exhibitionism. What do you think, should I do more in the future or no?
I don’t know why this isn’t embedding, but here is the revver video link or here is the YouTube link for now.

Tags: wonderosity show, death, close-call, youtube, vidcast, geeking out loud, GeekingOutLoud

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I think my favorite thing about doing wonderosity shows is that I get to literally follow my curiosity to any place that I might not have previously followed it without the excuse of recording the conversations and interviews for a podcast. Today’s show is an interview with Peter Davenport, the 12 year director of the National UFO Reporting Agency. He was a delight to talk to, honest and friendly, and I think you’ll enjoy this first part of our conversation. In this show we talk about:

• Peter’s involvement with NUFORC
• His 1st encounter with a UFO as a child and later first attempts/interests in reporting
• How NUFORC works, who calls, why? Anonyminity?
• Peter’s opinions about the 3 most dramatic, credible and fairly recent UFO reportings
• This thursday’s “Wonderosity Live” show will be following up on this subject, we’ll talk about UFOs and your thoughts on “Are we alone?”

Other Notes:

• Slightly skippy audio, having some problems with Gizmo Project
• Background music, trusting in the good nature of Sufjan Stevens ,was the song Concerning the UFO Sightings Near Highland, Illinois

Tags: wonderosity, wonderosityshow, nuforc, peterdavenport, ufo, aliens, interview, talkshoe, gizmoproject, sufjan, sufjanstevens

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Well, for a first experiment with Talkshoe, this turned out pretty good. Unfortunately, the combination of one caller’s background noise plus Kris Gauci’s somewhat soft voice made the first 5 minutes a bit tricky to hear. Also, while four other people connected to the show, only one had the capacity to talk and I had to mute his voice because of the aforementioned background noise. Oh well, next time will bet better (: As for the content though, Kris was a delight to talk with and the 30 minutes sped by all too quickly. We primarily talked about:

• Kris Gauci’s brief spiritual background -more about Kris and his teaching can be found here.
• Is God personal or impersonal?
• Honesty/Authenticity & Spirituality
• The paradox and need of both trust/hope and doubt/etc.

Let me know what you think about the concept of a live show like this, how the time slot was, etc. Tomorrow I have an interview with the director of the National UFO Reporting Center, currently based in Seattle, that should be interesting…hope to have the results of that out next week. Receive care, -Leif

Tags: wonderosity, talkshoe, wonderosityshow, Spirituality, Live Show, Experimental, Authenticity, Trust

In this last episode with Jim Palmer, we talk about:

• Shifting from a right/wrong (convince and convert) modality to simply wanting to know God more deeply.
• Thoughts on why many have trigger-issues with “Jesus stuff” and how we feel about this.
• Within on emphasis, in a sense, on ‘divine anybodies’, are there any special people, places or practices that Jim still holds as uniquely helpful?
• What does being church look like now, to those trying to meet God in each person?
• What does prayer look like now, for those whose perception of who and where God is is chaning?
• To learn more about Jim and his newest book “Divine Nobodies”, make sure you visit www.divinenobodies.com
• And more….new announcements about upcoming “Wonderosity Live” show as well….

Also, here’s a neat little video from Jim that I found on his site:

Tags: Wonderosity Show, Interview, Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies, Author, Spirituality, Emergent, being church, prayer

Well I finally attempted to create my first experimental video blog today –I’m calling it a wonderosity video ‘leiflet’. As the ‘genre’ is meant to be a somewhat spontaneous sharing of whats going on in my heart, and deciding in advance that I’d do bare minimal editing, I thought it would be an under-an-hour project: digital camera video->windows movie maker- basic edits->upload to youtube->worldwide glory. However, as God has decreed that should you ever put a time limit on a project it shall be 3 times as long as projected, thats exactly what happened.

First, I forgot how tricky it would be to find the right kind of lighting, camera angle (i.e. not highlighting my crotch to the world), tone, etc (its hard, perhaps impossible, to be spontaneous and authentic before a camera). Secondly, I forgot how buggy windows movie maker can be, crashing about 10 times during this simple edit. Lastly, the cafe I went to had an ISP (centurytel) that for some reason blocks YouTube (supposedly because of ‘adult content’, but I’m wondering if its cheaper for them to block high-bandwidth sucking sites? Or maybe its a net-neutrality thing, I don’t really know -can you tell?) Anyway, though its somewhat serious topic (I almost died last week), here is my leetle experiment in YouTube exhibitionism:

Tags: wonderosity show, death, close-call, youtube, vidcast, geeking out loud, GeekingOutLoud

Well, I finally started my new podcast (taking over Bleeding Purple) Wonderosity last week and (besides a redirect to an amazing Wisconsin public radio show called “Electrons to Enlightenment” I had to force on peopl), have so far put out two shows. Of more relevance to this blog, I have also created a social networking site devoted to the show –I’m calling it the “Wonderosity People Portal” –a dorky, but descriptive enough, name.. Its hosted on Ning.com and I’ve really being having some fun pretending I understand PHP in order to tweak the site to my likings. Members are able to upload videos, pictures, profiles, add to forums, add to a cool TheQuesting.ning board I’ve created, add their favorite books and quotes, chat and more…I hope it helps people who, like myself, want to grow spiritually and live life to the fullest, but are turned off by both the typical ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ approaches. Check it out if/when you get the chance.

Cheers,
Leif

Tags: ning.com, php, wonderosity, wonderosity people, geekingoutloud

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In this second part of my interview with Jim Palmer we continue discussing the nagging question of “Why is there resistance within me to enter into what I know will be truly good and satisfying? Why do I so badly want to be a ‘Divine Somebody’ and to get my esteem by assoicating with ‘Somebodies’?”. We also talk about things like:

• Is Jim wanting to be a somebody by writing Divine Nobodies, or is something else going on?
• How connected are we with each other, with God…is Jim God? Are you? (:
• How can we come to a place of peace where we feel fulfilled and content?
• How central does Jim think Jesus and Christian faith is do the kind of spirituality he is promoting, to knowing God?

I hope you enjoy this one as well, and don’t forget to join the growing fun and community of sharing over at the Wonderosity People Portal!

Tags: Wonderosity, wonderosityshow, Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies, Interview, Spirituality, God

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I’m not sure how legal or net-friendly it is to do this, but I’ve just got to direct some of you over to this incredible wisconsin public radio series on science and faith. It’s called “Electrons to Enlightenment” and its part of their “To the Best of Our Knowledge Series”. This first one has Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Ken Wilber and more. Wow, now this is the kind of show I would like to one day be producing. I am going to link to their first show, and then hope you listen to the rest here. The 2nd part of the Jim Palmer interview should be available Monday, sorry but the holidays got in the way (: Also, I’ve redirected you bleeding purple feeders over to this site -so if you are now subscribed to both, make sure you delete you BP feed and keep this new one (see sidebar). See you at the People Portal!

Tags: NPR, richard dawkins, karen armstrong, electrons to enlightenment, wpr, faith and science

For our first show, after a brief introduction to Wonderosity, I interview Jim Palmer, author of “Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God, and the unlikely people who help you.” Jim is a man with a huge heart and some powerful, simple ideas for those who are wanting to deepen spiritually. In this first of a three part interview, we explore questions like:

• What ‘Divine Nobodies’ is basically about, and how Jim came to write it.
• Why are bare-ass honest books like this, books admitting personal faith-struggles as well as churchianity’s shortcomings, just now starting to come out and be devoured by the public?
• Where the heck is God? Is God “out there” or “in here” or what?
• Why do I (and I’m sure others) seem to be in a place where I seem to be resistant to growing spiritually, slowing down, etc?

I hope you enjoy this first episode and I’d love any feedback you have to give. Please email wonderosity@gmail.com with any comments or questions! -Leif

Tags: Wonderosity, wonderosityshow, podcast, jim palmer, divine nobodies, interview, spirituality, churchianity