Valhalla is a growing tribe of storytellers out to proliferate freedom culture
by igniting a global passion for sustainability, self-reliance, and collaborative action.

And Boy, It’s An Exciting Plan.

The Universe has a plan, that’s so clear to me. See, about 30 years ago my mother and father lived in Iraq. For 30 generations, my ancestors (for both sides of the family) lived in the city of Kerbala. My father was an entrepreneur, and he wanted a better future for his family. So he …

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A Day of Service To Others

Helping others feels good great FUCKING AWESOME. Plus it opens you up to all sorts of opportunities to receive help back in the future. Call it karma or just plain old logic — helping people helps YOU. So why don’t we do it more often? And without any qualms? This is why I’ve decided to …

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Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word

As the cyclical and seemingly never ending debate about education rages on, the topic – somewhat ironically, often poses more questions than it provides answers. But what is the value of mainstream schooling? Why is it that some of the most high profile and successful figures within the Western world openly admit to never having completed any form of higher learning?

[ Charles Eisenstein // Living Without Economic Growth ]

For more: https://www.facebook.com/extraenvironmentalist and http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com Charles Eisenstein frames an adaptive approach to lower rates of economic growth across the planet. As economic growth stalled in 2012, will 2013 be the year we learn to live without economic growth? We’ll be releasing a second video with Charles in 2013 where he talks about aspects of a system reset that would include debt forgiveness.

ASCK

I usually write these blogs earlier in the day, but tonight I’m still at work finishing a large client website. If you didn’t know already, I’m a web developer. I design and code websites. My background is mostly in front-end development (HTML/CSS) but recently I’ve been expanding my skills into actual programming. So far I …

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Dear Universe

Am I getting old? Amidst many things my parents and I disagree on, one topic was recently brought up that took total control of my spirit and created -what I could tell was- a very personal argument; the “upbringing” of my younger (15yr old) sister. For me, it wasn’t until I was 20 that I …

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Oh Lord

oh lord,  i was ounce floored, gored by the hands of my own sword. blown n dethrone, bored, fate i disowned, thrown for a reward groan alone, headed towards the unknown spiritually overthrown, broken back bone, clone of another drone until i was shown, hone to produce the philosopher’s stone grown to atone, oh, lord, …

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Tulips to Budgies

Germ and X spend the day planting ONE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED TULIPS — An action which will surely show its power in the early Spring of 2013.

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It’s Friday and I am SO pumped for today! I’m going on a 6 hour awesome ride to Toronto with 2 of my best friends to watch a DJ (Arnej) I’ve been waiting to see for a long time!!! On my way to work, I was reading an old favorite book of mine, here’s my …

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Why Rabbit?

Most of you probably know me as Jordan Lejuwaan. But here at Valhalla, people call me Rabbit. Many indigenous cultures considered it normal to change your name at major turning points in life. The name change would symbolize a personal transformation, making the old name no longer applicable. I think this is an extremely powerful …

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blue spruce covered in snow

Oh, Christmas Tree!

I moved out this year with my girlfriend, Ashley, and her friend and this will be our first Christmas in our first appartment. Being our first Christmas, I was faced with the task of, to be technical, “getting the apartment all Christmasy.” But when the subject of getting a Christmas tree came up, like most …

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Dear Universe

It has been almost 1year that I have begun my spiritual journey and have been putting all my intent on what Paolo Coelho would call following “My Personal Legend”. Like most, I was unaware of what meditation meant back then! ..- What it felt like and all the benefits it can bring – I was lucky however… …

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Lessons for Building a Co-operative Movement

** The following is an excerpt from a GEO Interview with John Curl by Michael Johnson. John explains perfectly why movements like Valhalla have the power to change the world, and what that will look like. It’s long but well worth the read!** Pm Press has released a second edition of John Curl’s 550 page history …

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