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Video: The peer to peer vision

photo of Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens
5th April 2008


During my last lecture tour, in the Bay Area, I had the chance to give a lecture to the Integrative Spirituality group, initiated by Lawrence Wollersheim, whose open source spirituality approach we have introduced a few weeks ago. Amongst the audience was Akasa Tseng, a Taiwanese-born performer of shamanic music. Supportive of the peer to peer ideas, she decide to apply her other skills, the making of ‘vision videos’, and offered to produce one for free. Here is how she describes her purpose and methodology, inspired by the work of Malcolm Cowan.

The process started with a brainstorming session, with Lawrence and Akasa helping me to translate the underlying P2P value system in a series of positive and short statements, that can be put to music and accompanied with appropriate photos. The purpose, apart from the personal goal of reaching more clarity, is to reach a set of people that may not be reachable through my usual ‘conceptual’ communication.

Here is the result:

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