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Sandra Jensen
feeling rather delighted
Title: Inspirational Ambassador
Gender: Female
Age: 48
Sun Sign: Virgo
Chinese Sign: Metal Ox
Location: Tir Na Spideoga 
About Me:
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I am a Gaia Ambassador, and happy to help if you need support.
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I am Cultivator of the
DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop pod
I also lead writing retreats which I call Diving Deeper.
Diving Deeper
interview
March 16, 2007
Writing Mentorship Programs
I also offer writing mentorship programs via email and telephone for those of you who want more in depth support and feedback on your work. Please contact me directly for details.
I am a writer.
You can read some of my stories here:
Sou'wester Magazine - War (available as an excerpt in PDF download)
Versal Six - La Llorona (only available in print)
Quicksilver - On the Line with Johnny Noo-Noos
Word Riot - Judgment Day
The Dublin Quarterly - The Sandman
r.kv.ry. Quarterly - Sixty-Nine Dollars
You can read some of my stories here:
Sou'wester Magazine - War (available as an excerpt in PDF download)
Versal Six - La Llorona (only available in print)
Quicksilver - On the Line with Johnny Noo-Noos
Word Riot - Judgment Day
The Dublin Quarterly - The Sandman
r.kv.ry. Quarterly - Sixty-Nine Dollars
sfwp.org - A Walk In The Bush
verbsap.com - Sunrise Café
Takahe - Romeo and the Lonely Girl (print only)
Stories are forthcoming in print in: PRISM international, Chautauqua and AGNI and online at Per Contra.
My short story collection, A SORT OF WALKING MIRACLE is shortlisted for the Scott Prize.
I also lead writing retreats which I call Diving Deeper.
Diving Deeper
interviewMarch 16, 2007
Writing Mentorship Programs
I also offer writing mentorship programs via email and telephone for those of you who want more in depth support and feedback on your work. Please contact me directly for details.
I am a Moderator on the Gaia Groups Community pod, aka
”a study was recently undertaken by the University of Bristol that came to the conclusion that cat owners on average were more intelligent than dog owners.”
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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Favourite Quotes:
Favourite Quotes:
“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.” George Barzan
“The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead… To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” Arundhati Roy
“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
from: 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.”
“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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An old list, but still worth perusing:
Gaia / zaadz blogs to watch:
And all of Ron Hardy's beautiful writings
Gaia / zaadz blogs to watch:
Hyperactive BS detectors - Brian Johnson
Women Moving The Edge & Why the next Buddha will be a collective - Helen Titchen Beeth
Photizo's blogs and extraordinary photographs; eg the beautiful: The Awakening RevisitedWhat would you do if you weren't afraid?
And all of Ron Hardy's beautiful writings
Mushin's blogs - eg We are the Next Buddha
M.Alan's blogs e.g. My zaadz friends list and his writings elsewhere
Towards an Integral Gnostic Community
by M.Alan
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
FART: Faith, Atheism, Religion, Transformation
By C4Chaos - actually check out ALL C4's blogs, he's a miracle
B-Scan with Steve Pavlina Part 1
By C4Chaos - about life, blogging and ALL things. Read it!
What & Where: Notes on the Seeker's Mentality
by David Jon
Siona shows her cards
Her take on The Secret and suchlike. I recommend all of Siona's 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
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
Forever Loved - by Alex Noble
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Pods & Threads I've been involved with - (but you can mostly find me on Diving Deeper)
Mediation and Reverent Communication - Mod Pod
What makes a pod (group) work? - Mod Pod
Moderating the Community: Questions and Suggestions - ThinkTank
Seeds and Gardens - ThinkTank
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 writing. I've put aside my novel and am concentrating on putting together a collection of short stories.
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 ), my adored cat, Rónán, 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.
If you want to hear what I sound like… here is a snippet…recorded on January 10, 2007
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If it doesn't work for you, try this instead. Not as flashy, sorry. I seem to be having odeo problems. Please let me know if the ODEO one works or doesn't… Thanks!
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Things Sandra Loves
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Goals
- To have more money than I need so I can give it away
- To live in community
- To make mistakes so other people don't need to
- Learn to play the Tanpura ( I need to get one first )
- To always be willing to see things differently than I did before
- Laugh more
- To experience Life to the fullest
- To finish my book of short stories
- Have a book published
- Find a wonderful Literary Agent
