Saturday, June 21, 2025

Happy Summer Solstice (sale!)

 




Can you believe it? Here we are at Solstice 2025, already! 

In celebration, e-editions of both fiction + real life stories about the realities of doing intentional community (all while endeavoring to implement collective societal change/evolution as well!) are 50% off at Smashwords from July 1 - 31, 2025.

Enjoy!


Action: The Future Is Here



In this time of coming changes, long foretold, it is time, once again, to act. 

As a mixed race, modern-day, New Mexico pueblo 21-year-old, Lisel Martinez has been glad to be safely home, co-creating an odd kind of shared life with three California housemates picked up along the way when, once upon a time, she was (much less safely) trying to survive out in the larger world.

Personally, she would be content to do nothing more than keep puttering around in the ever-expanding garden out behind her ramshackle home for the rest of her life ... except Life for indians (or maybe everybody these days?) just seems to keep getting harder, even after everything her people across the nation have already been through.

A photo-illustrated, novella-length combination of fiction + contemporary/historical fact, if old-time grandmothers are correct, during times of upheaval when Earth is being reborn, it's important to act ... and Lisel's friends have come up with a once-in-a-lifetime plan to do just that.

Each e-edition of this book can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/bwrXL9 (but please note: the discount applies only to the Smashwords version).




Doing Intentional Community:

Expanded 2023 Edition



What exactly is "intentional community?" And how does one go about co-creating it?

Are there typical hurdles to overcome?

In the Green/Sustainable Living Movement, the term "community" often means folks coming together to create some form of shared home space: from co-housing co-ops in cities, to permaculture or off-the-grid nature-based country retreats ... from separatist women's or people of color lands, to communities aimed at unplugging from the wider world's repressive "systems" as much as humanly possible.

The illustrated, creative non-fiction account DOING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: Expanded 2023 Edition follows building a certain type of artistic/spiritual co-home adventure on the Big Island of Hawaii from the ground up ... and how this particular, now-worldwide real sense of community continues to transform today.

Like a prismatic drop in the ocean, beyond just being a collection of individuals, global "intentional community" can also equate to entire villages, cities, and nations in the process of cultivating a common history and shared economic/political/spiritual goals. 

What is "world peace," if not that?

Each e-edition of this book can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/breABE (but please note: the discount applies only to the Smashwords version).


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Molten Mama Books

also created here at the Kulana Goddess/Artist Sanctuary home space in recent years
obtainable via the Smashwords Summer 2025 Sale are these treasures here:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/MoltenMama


Word Magic = Ethical Wealth
Transformational Alchemy
from the Big Island of Hawaii

All e-version availabilities:

(but please note: the discount applies only
to the Smashwords version).






Messages from the Volcano

All e-version availabilities:

https://books2read.com/u/4X0qR6

(but please note: the discount applies only

to the Smashwords version).





Mama Molten's Mini Memoi&/or  Molten Mama's Transformation Tools

NOTE: the black/white PRINT edition of the "Mini Memoir" is just Molten Mama stories, whereas the E-EDITION includes this + interactive "Molten Mama Transformation Tools" as well. 

All e-version availabilities:

https://books2read.com/u/3kYxn8

(but please note: the discount applies only

to the Smashwords version).


Smashwords 50% off Sale: 

July 1 - 31, 2025


~ May your summer blessings abound! ~


Monday, April 7, 2025

A Cornucopia of Useful Nature Info


Happy Spring 2025 Everyone!


Right up our alley, 7song.com just released a massive, free (i.e. donations appreciated) database of healing plants & their uses, with gorgeous photos: https://airtable.com/appGMlaqtjUqKFR3Z/shrD4A5ZyZeVJzJon/tbl2wdNWq6vJDJDKe/viwNSYOAZLXoBiN6P


It's fun finding new traditional uses for recognizable plants. :D


(Anyone who chooses to explore the information is of course 100% responsible for their own well-being. Do read their safety statement before experimenting.)


Enjoy! 

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

2025: The Year of Worldwide Community Solutions?

A Year of Solutions?


How about we start this brand new year off right in terms of "community..."

...because if one looks around at what seems to be happening across the globe, often what one sees is: problems, problems, and more problems! 

Yet the whole purpose when originally founding Kulana Artist/Goddess Sanctuary was to create a little slice of heaven right here on Earth where we flawed (yet perfect) human expressions of the Divine could practice coming up with workable, win-win solutions to civilization's ongoing dilemmas.

Here in the rustic, tropical jungle where we decided to attempt stewarding in an eco-friendly and spiritually/practically harmonious way, we wanted to be part of whatever Solutions could be found/co-created... 

...and pretty much everyone we've most enjoyed sharing sacred Time/Space with over the years did too. :)






As always, love hearing from our now very much worldwide community of evolutionaries about what they are up to, if you care to share...?


And in celebration of 2025, wanted to share the link to this FREE Solution Series of what other pivotal, community-minded folks across the planet have been exploring:

https://www.coreysdigs.com/the-solution-series/


In terms of what's happening specifically at Kulana these days, we continue prioritizing the holding of a stable center during these rockin' & rollin' times, with an expanded focus on co-creating World Peace. 

This means that national & global community interactions take precedence over & somewhat replace the previous paradigm of facilitating in-person visitors at the home space.

DOING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY https://books2read.com/u/breABEThe best way to learn about what we've been up to over the years -- & what we're up to now -- regarding doing our part to help resolve local/planetary community conundrums is by diving into the good mana in recently released books that were written here, such as:


* DOING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: Expanded 2023 Edition

https://www.lulu.com/shop/cristina-salat/doing-intentional-community-color/paperback/product-qrjv8p.html

https://books2read.com/u/breABE



and


* ETHICAL WEALTH: Transformational Alchemy from the Big Island of Hawaii

https://www.lulu.com/shop/molten-mama/word-magic-ethical-wealth/paperback/product-84r4rkp.html

https://books2read.com/u/4DzGPA


Both books (& more) available in color and b/w print plus e-editions.

Here's to an awesome 2025, everyone!


~ Happy New Year One & All ~