ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

Sandra Jensen, our Co-Moderator, has already started sharing her light and wisdom (see her recent posts).  Here is more information about this wonderful lady, who travels the world teaching writing workshops…:)

Sandra Jensen

Inspirational Ambassador

Gender: Female

Age: 45

Sun Sign: Virgo

Chinese Sign: Metal Ox

Location: On the Road, Germany, Canada, US, UK, Ireland

About Me:

What I'm learning…
“to never know better, never know first…”
(attrib. Carl Jung)

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If you have stumbled here, and prod a bit further, you will discover how much I love cats.

And if you are new to zaadz, I'm here to support in any way I can. I am not an expert, but I am often online…

Some of what there is to say about me is on the biography page of my website at: www.sandrajensen.net.

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My favourite quotes of the moment:

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” 

Plato (possibly)

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

Bruce Lee

 “Consciousness is so pure that whatever you are doing in the direction of purifying that consciousness is adding impurity to it.”

 U.G. Krishnamurti

 “There is no way you can look at anything without the use of the knowledge that you have of what you are looking at.”

 U.G. Krishnamurti

“None of our pretences and none of our beliefs about ourselves and about what we think God is can save us from having to face the authentic condition of our own hearts.”
Michael Brown

“Reality is the interval between two thoughts.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group, as a city, as a nation.”

 Thich Nhat Hanh
  “The Next Buddha May Be A Sangha” in Inquiring Mind, Vol 10, No. 2, Spring 1994  (with thanks to Siona)

..the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about and that it is through caring that we infuse the world and our own lives with meaning… the most authoritative and important form of caring is love—a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what is loved…

Harry Frankfurt - The Reasons of Love
(thanks to Nicole from the Meme Busters Pod ”balance vs positive” thread)

“it's the embrace that fulfills us, not the thing that we embrace.”
yours truly

“Aware of the suffering created by attachment to views and wrong perceptions, we are determined to avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. We shall learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to others' insights and experiences.

We are aware that the knowledge we presently possess is not changeless, absolute truth. Truth is found in life, and we will observe life within and around us in every moment, ready to learn throughout our lives.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
The 2nd of the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings from Interbeing

“I see that I've been No to Practicals and Yes to Dreams. So it's like: No to do-able practicals and Yes to non-do-able dreams. I haven't done anything to make my dreams happen, except work on myself so, ok, that's not how reality works.  It's delusional to imagine that the world is going to act like some New Age thingamabob and send me invitations.”

Michael Walsh

“The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.”
Joseph Schumpeter

“It is hardly possible to overrate the value…of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar… Such communication has always been…one of the primary sources of progress.”
John Stuart Mill

”the first person singular present tense which is the LOVE that makes the world go round and leaves no-one whatever out - all travelling the way - and willing to communicate and collaborate with each-other - regardless of race, religion, politics or culture.”
Douglas Harding

“Using no way as way, Having no limitation as limitation.”
Bruce Lee

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DIVING DEEPER WRITING WORKSHOPS

Berlin, Germany Feb 8 - 11 2007 PDF

Earthgate, Pennsylvania, March 9th - 11th PDF

Earthgate Studios is a lovely retreat facility in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Cork, Ireland March 23rd - 25th. PDF
Earthgate, Pennsylvania - Sept/Oct 2007 tba
Seattle, Washington - Sept/Oct 2007 tba
Berlin, Germany Oct 15  - 20th  2007

Email me for more details or check out my website for further information.

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zaadz blogs to watch:

Photizo's blogs and extraordinary photographs; eg the beautiful: The Awakening Revisited

             What would you do if you weren't afraid?
             And all of Ron Hardy's beautiful writings

Mushin's blogs - eg The Myth of the Given or is subject and object fiction?  and The Myth of Cause and Effect - Or is it really the slap that hurts?

M.Alan's blogs e.g. My zaadz friends list and his writings elsewhere

Michael's blog e.g. The search for the Holy GRAIL

Martin's blog e.g.  Being for Something

Perfect Logic is meaningless without perfect perspective and Donan's other lovely blogs

Without Emotion
By Ian Gardner

FART: Faith, Atheism, Religion, Transformation
By C4Chaos - actually check out ALL C4's blogs, he's a miracle

What & Where: Notes on the Seeker's Mentality
by David Jon

Siona shows her cards
And all of Siona's wonderful blogs

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Other writings / musings/ videos to have a look at:

Harry Frankfurt: a philosopher talking about Bullshit
Pop Go the Scientists by Brian Appleyard of the Sunday Times
David Gelernter and Ray Kurzweil debate about the (im)possibility of machine consciousness.
9/11 Mysteries- by now well know vid suggesting that Bush administration and other elements of the government had a hand in 9/11
George Carlin's controversial “on Saving the Planet”
Ben, the blind teen who 'sees' with sound
Mellen-Thomas Benedict's Near-Death Experience
The Nature of Consciousness - Alan Watts

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Pods & Threads I've been involved with:

Heroes and Heroines - ThinkTank
What IS the purpose of life? - Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime
Advice to Butterfly On Joining the Military - Zaadz Lounge (zLounge)
Balance vs Positive - MemeBusters
Goosebumps - on Brian's blog
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura on Thinking - on ~C4 Chaos' blog
Confusion - on Jodi's blog
Do Something Amazing? How about Something Extraordinary? - on the Gemütlichkeit Pod
Is Peace Possible? on zLounge
ATTN: The two guides of IDEAL ME and REAL ME - outside of Zaadz, but a response to a Zaadzter…

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I'm putting in time on my novel. That's good. I'm not happy with what I'm writing, but this is better than not being happy that I'm not writing. Or is it? If I'm not writing, I can always bask in the illusion that I could be writing something, and that something could be really exceptional. Ah well… I guess I'll muddle on.

What else, This is what I posted nearly a year ago, it still stands:

I've seen a lot, done a lot, felt a lot . Actually sometimes I feel both 90 years old and seven at the same time.

I've worked in all kinds of jobs from weaver to breakfast chef to IT project manager in Canada's biggest bank to hands-on healer.

I love delicious food, delicious smells and things that feel soft and silky.  I've taught Photoshop to refugee Tibetan monks and nuns, I've acted on stage, I've taught Jeet Kune Do, scrubbed other peoples toilets and sat at the feet of Guru's.

I've lived in more places than I can count on my fingers, (I have 3 passports) and am still searching for the perfect home, which I sense can only be in an organically evolving yet intentional community of like-spirited beings.

My love-partner (David Crean - www.bodyresonance.org )
and I plan to participate in or create such a community, which would include a healing centre and  a think-tank for creative, spiritual and healing projects which could bring more light into the world.

Please let me know if you are interested!


If you want to hear what I sound like… here is a snippet… recorded on January 10, 2007

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Re: ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

Wow. I'm not sure how you did that ! Thank you.

I'm very happy to be here, I've been waiting for a long time for a writing pod on Zaadz to attract my attention, and this is it!

I'm almost overflowing with advice on the writing process, not all of it is useful, I'm certain of that.

I have had a long journey writing - full of all the bumps and crevices and mountains and mountain tops, and I continue to learn so much from my own students. So I'm here also to learn (you teach what you want to learn, (w)right?).

As always, how much we  get out of this pod will depend on how much we put into it, even if it is just a line here and there. We need your voice. I believe that words carry energy, and writers need much nourishment and encouragement, your voice  will provide that.

One of the major issues with the writing process is how to keep writing, and what to do when you are blocked.

I have discovered that we need support of other writers, even just having their presence nearby (and we are always nearby, thanks to the Internet).

This helps at the very least to keep us connected to the creative process, even if we are not actually writing. There are all the sensations and thoughts and quiet open intuitive spaces that are so much a part of the writing process, and it is good to be reminded that this creative space - this source - is always there, whether or not you are actually writing.

With love,

Sandra

Re: ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

Sandra,

The ODEO one didn't work for me, but the other one was delightful. Very nice to meet you. A great idea to include the sound bite. Here's what I got from the sound of your voice: kind, gentle, very smart - dangerously smart if someone so gentle can be dangerous - charming, self-possessed, curious, restless, musical, beautiful soul: a feeling-tone that resonates in her voice, way out of my league.

Some of it I already knew, some may be mistaken, but it was a revelation of your character that wouldn't have been available just from pictures and text, even though everything I've seen of those have been exemplary. Thank you for sharing so openly, Sandra. Open sharing of selves is what I was hoping for when I joined Zaadz. We're all just spiritual doo-dads doing the thingie for the whatchamacallit anyway, eh?

And thanks so much for starting this awesome camp! I always wanted to go to Camp Happiness, but never dreamed it would be so beautiful here. The mountains…the trees…the sky…the stars…I can see the whole universe from here! Plus the cabins are so cozy.

Your new Boy Scout in writing camp,

Tom

Re: ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

I'm extremely grateful and proud that Sandra is here. Sandra, your Zaadz home page is full of interesting links and information. I have it bookmarked. Thank you :)

Love.

Re: ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

yes, sandra rocks! Her river runs deep and wide….

Re: ALL ABOUT SANDRA JENSEN, Our Co-Moderator :)

Thanks So much dear Mimi, Tom and Mary!
I'm completely delighted to be here with you all.

I keep planning to do more ODEO files,  ( there is one more, buried in my blogs somewhere..)but it is a bore as you can't just copy and paste or do updates easily, the ODEO code has to be done in HTML, and doesn't always work. I think it's working on my home page.

And, a big part of my workshop process is that I read out the writing aloud, and I've been thinking of incorporating this into an 'online' writing workshop. Lets see..

Much love,
Sandra