By Happy Oasis, Raw Spirit Community News
Happy: What an unusual name, Hasher pronounced (Ah-sure) Eyanu?
Ashay : My name is rooted in a Hebrew prayer of giving thanks when one comes upon an unexpected special blessing.
Happy: Beautiful. What inspired you to create your first New Earth Festival coming up Sept 14 - 16th?
Ashay: The intention is to plant a seed in the fabric of reality.
Happy: Which seed?
Ashay: The seed of consciously-cooperative culture. Many of us live a compulsively competitive lifestyle, engrained to compete and be highly individualistic. The New Earth Festival is an example of how we can live every day consciously cooperating and collaborating.
Happy: So refreshing. This reminds me of the inspiration behind the Raw Spirit Festival as it leapt into being. Ashay, you are a promising (young) man of many talents - a raw chocolatier, a gardener of this juicy organic watermelon that I'm about to enjoy with friends among other fruits and organic vegetable people grown on your one-acre farm. I see that you also make reputedly wicked home brews, mostly herbs with minimal hops or alcohol, among many other creative offerings.
Ashay: I am also a cranial sacral practitioner practicing in a private membership health group that inspired me to make the festival owned by private community members. Another project I recently created is this weekly CommunityShare market, where everyone who participates pays $1 to become a member every Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm here at the Stone House, in Nevada City, CA. In these days of ever greater restrictions, this kind of organization allows us more regulatory freedom with buying and selling produce, other goods and services. Happy, I'm looking forward to your "PlayShop For Blissologists" at The New Earth Fest! www.NewEarthFest.info
