The Conscious Tribes Project was founded by Mark Josephs in 2018
"I was born in 1954, in London. I have been a hippie, a monk, an author, a psychotherapist, and a homesteader. Today I live off-grid, not far Huesca, Aragon, in Northen Spain. My ´official´ name is Mark Josephs, and I am absolutely serious when I jokingly call myself “Mark The Mystic Activist”.
I was born into a non-religious Jewish environment. There was Community. But I couldn´t accept the authority, or the beliefs - which seemed arbitrary, not absolute - and controlling, not freeing. I came to feel I had to leave this first experience of belonging to a Community - my first, cosy, childhood experience of belonging - and at 17 I left...
After my years of hippie wandering, from 24 to 34 I spent ten years as a Hindu monk - and had an even deeper and more intense experience of the unity and closeness that being part of a Community can bring. But at the same time, it was also a deeper and more intense experience of rigid authority and hierarchy, and of unquestionable beliefs - so that, finally, I felt I had to leave that Community too.
I wrote a book `Sex, Spirit & Community´ in the late 1990s - trying to clarify what kind of Community I was looking for. And in my forties and fifties I co-founded and co-directed a project that promoted Community based on a collective understanding of gender. We formed self-knowledge, growth and personal development groups for men, women and couples (not just heterosexual) – and helped those groups weave themselves into Community. At first it was wonderful, but little by little, I came to feel that this collective approach to gender was provoking too much anger in the women, and too much guilt in the men - and although I´d co-founded the project, I felt that, once again, my search wasn´t going to end there...
And so, in my late sixties, after a lifetime of exploring how Community is woven, and trying to unite everything I´d learned, I began The Conscious Tribes Project - still convinced, in fact more convinced than ever, of the importance and beauty for at least almost-all-of-us, of having the existential, emotional and practical support of a Community
And now I am seventy - living in the countryside in Aragon, Northern Spain. I think most people would say I live very simply. I love to bathe outside, and wash my clothes by hand. I love to grow my own food, sing, meditate and write - and I am committed to a local Conscious Tribe."
Today the not-for-profit Conscious Tribes Project is guided by Mark and others who also offer their services voluntarily.
"Mark has an innate - and well earned - ability to encourage and guide others to go deeper into themselves,
so that each one gains mastery of the depths of their own being."
L.G., Head of Digital Marketing
"Working with Mark let me taste the freedom beyond conditioning. That changed my life"
S.E., Lecturer in Politics
El Proyecto Tribus Conscientes fue fundado por Mark Josephs en 2018
"Nací en 1954 en Londres. He sido hippie, monje, autor, psicoterapeuta y agricultor. Hoy vivo fuera de los suministros de la cultura dominante, no muy lejos de Huesca, Aragón, en el norte de España. Mi nombre ´oficial´ es Mark Josephs, y hablo absolutamente en serio cuando me llamo en broma 'Mark El Activista Místico'...
Nací en un entorno Judío no-religioso. Había Comunidad. Pero no pude aceptar ni la autoridad, ni las creencias - que me parecían arbitrarias, no absolutas - y controladoras, no liberadoras. Así que sentí que tenía que abandonar mi experiencia infantil, acogedora de pertenecer a una Comunidad - y a los 17 años me largué...
Después de mis años de vagabundeo hippie, de los 24 a los 34 pasé diez años como monje Hindú - y tuve una experiencia todavía más profunda e intensa de la unidad y cercanía que puede aportar la pertenencia a una Comunidad. Pero fue, a la vez, una experiencia más profunda e intensa de autoridad y jerarquía rígida, y de creencias incuestionables - así que finalmente sentí que tenía que abandonar aquella Comunidad también.
Escribí un libro `Sexo, Espíritu & Comunidad´ a finales de la década de 1990 - intentando aclararme acerca del tipo de Comunidad que buscaba. Y en mis cuarenta y cincuenta co-fundé y co-dirigí un proyecto que promovía la Comunidad basándose en un entendimiento colectivo del género. Formamos grupos de auto-conocimiento, crecimiento y desarrollo personal para hombres, mujeres y parejas (no solo heterosexuales) - y ayudamos a los grupos a tejerse en Comunidad. Al principio fue maravilloso, pero poco a poco, sentí que este enfoque colectivo del género provocaba demasiado enfado en las mujeres, y demasiada culpabilidad en los hombres - y aunque había co-fundado el proyecto, sentí que, de nuevo, mi búsqueda no iba a terminar ahí.
Y así, a finales de los sesenta, después de toda una vida de exploración de cómo se teje la Comunidad, e intentando unir todo lo aprendido - lancé el proyecto de las Tribus Conscientes - todavía convencido, de hecho más convencido que nunca, de la belleza e importancia, para quizás-casi-tod@s, tener el apoyo existencial, emocional y práctico de una Comunidad.
Y ahora tengo setenta años - viviendo en el campo en Aragón, en el norte de España. Creo que la mayoría de la gente diría que vivo de forma muy sencilla. Me encanta bañarme al aire libre, y lavar la ropa a mano. Me encanta cultivar mi propia comida, cantar, meditar y escribir – y estoy comprometido con una Tribu Consciente local."
En la actualidad, el Proyecto Tribus Conscientes, sin ánimo de lucro, está dirigido por Mark y otras personas que también ofrecen sus servicios voluntariamente.
"Mark es un hombre genial, inspirador y temerariamente auténtico. Me encanta su valentia y la originalidad de su propuesta."
F.V., Emprendedor
"Agradezco y reconozco el gran trabajo de Mark, su mirada cómplice y su ejemplo del Guerrero del Amor que todos llevamos dentro. Mark conoce el sufrimiento, y sabe cómo llevarte a tu esencia, a lo que ya eres. Con Mark sientes la fuerza de la manada.
Mark crea manadas de personas conscientes. Solo puedo agradecer y recomendar caminar junto a Mark"
J.V., Abogado
Other Books/Otros Libros
Here are some other books Mark has written...
1. The HanuHanu Gita (English)
2. Parallel Plandemics (English & Español)
3. Sex, Spirit & Community (English)
4. The Uprising of Man (English)
You can download a free sample of each book (or the full version of Sex, Spirit & Community). And all (except Sex, Spirit & Community) are available for purchase as paperbacks.
Puedes descargar una muestra gratuita de cada libro (o la versión completa de Sex, Spirit & Community). Y todos (excepto Sex, Spirit & Community) están disponibles para su compra en edición de bolsillo.
"HANUHANU SPEAKS"
(THE HANUHANU GITA)
The Renowned Giant Orange Monkey´s United-Nations-Sponsored Lecture Series
Testimonials
"Blind Cupid´s words are as relevant for Dogs as they are for Human Beings.
I would recommend this book to any Dog who still considers themselves a pet."
´Xueyou´, Golden Retriever, Shanghai, China,
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"Wop, Bang, Wallop; man! This book rocks!
Get with it, Human Creatures!"
His Excellency, Mr Mahatma Mandela-King, United Nations Secretary General,
Burning Man City, Nevada Desert, USA.
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"The HanuHanu Lecture Series was pivotal and catalytic for so many of us. For me - most certainly! But how was it for the Giant Orange Monkeys? In this fabulous rendering of the HanuHanu Lectures, Blind Cupid takes us ´behind the scenes´ - laughing-and-dancing-us through the Giant Orange Monkeys´ World of Oneness with All Creatures - thus, naturally, inviting us to imagine what-it-might-be-like for US to live Our pleasures-and-pains as Human Creatures - within the Family of All Creatures."
His Holiness The Pope, Supreme Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, Italy.
(After his much-publicised Apotheosis - during which he went on a-multi-zillion-Lira Bestowing Spree - signing-away Cathedrals, Monasteries, even
the Vatican - and after which, he went to live in the suburbs on the outskirts of Milan, in indistinguishability.There he looked for a job, but it wasn´t easy - due to the singularity of his Employment History, and the relevance of his Character References -however, eventually, he got a job in a motorcycle factory.)
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"There are smells that make my sap go flat-in-the-night. There are smells my trunk would twist-for! The smell of Human Industry makes me want to run! In HanuHanu´s Lectures I smell something so-delicate, yet torrential and exhilarating; in Blind Cupid´s notes and anecdotes I smell something magical, sparkling with possibilities - like Elves up-to-mischief in the Moonlight! "
Michelle Kandoogo, Birch, Essex, England
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FREE SAMPLE OF THE HANUHANU GITA HERE
OR BUY AS A PAPERBACK
The HanuHanu Gita is narrated by Blind Cupid. Blind Cupid - half Giant Orange Monkey, half God of Erotic Love - tells the story of the times of the HanuHanu Lecture Series (and many a story within a story), with absolute irreverence, absolute devotion, and absolute delight.
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HanuHanu is a five metre tall Giant Orange Monkey. He speaks seventy five languages and dialects, and holds honorary professorships at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, M.I.T., and sixteen other of the world´s most prestigious universities.
His historical United Nations Sponsored Lecture Series “Wakey, Wakey Little Cousins!” was intended as a great sacred Giant Orange Monkey gift of obviousness – to us, to humanity. And yet – the HanuHanu Lectures split us.
For some-of-us, HanuHanu´s Lectures were a song of belonging, a serenade, the trumpet of home; for others-of-us his words provoked fears of the toppling of buildings, and civilisations, and eras – until eventually, as Blind Cupid so splendidly narrates – some-of-us and others-of-us met – at Armageddon, The Finals!
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We are living in terrifying times. The Mass of Humanity was only recently successfully convinced to enlist as masked members of an Ignoble Global Ninja Needle Cult – a Covidian Cult set on genetically modifying everything – people, dogs, spiders, rhododendrons, tadpoles, telescopes, lampposts, shoes… everything!
As tadpoles grew third eyes, lampposts began to talk, and shoes began to walk – it was easy to become disheartened… Things were changing so fast! And the masked Ninja Needle Cultists – though sworn to silence, or, at most, muffled mumbling – were loud in their condemnation of those who would resist the Great Vision of a Genetically Modified Earth.
Nevertheless, resist we did – and resist we continue to do! Yet deeper than our resistance is our affirmation of another way of being. An unmasked, uninjected way of being that values honesty, humility, courage, community, the rain, the sun, the insects, the fish – the whole freaky, amazing, bizarre, frightening, glorious Mystery of Existing – here, together, on Earth – wherever this is….
But it´s one thing to have values, and it´s another to live them. And the majority of humankind has been synaptically conditioned (more bluntly: brainwashed) into superficiality, disconnection and disempowerment. So most of us struggle to live our deepest values in our daily lives. And most of us don´t support each other in living our deepest values.
So we might say we want to co-create communities, and a new culture based on deeper values – but unless we are able to live those values, day by day, together – how can that new culture emerge out of us?
The HanuHanu Gita doesn´t hit us over the head with rights and wrongs, it doesn´t preach at us. It laughs at itself. And yet it is a holy book. It is a ´crazy wisdom´ comedy – full of weird, madcap meanderings and adventures, AND, woven into every word, there´s a loving kick up the arse, so that we can de-condition ourselves, actually walk our talk!
"PARALLEL PLANDEMICS"
Short Stories from the Annals of Parallel Earths
A bridge, perhaps, between the crazy-wisdom depths of The HanuHanu Gita
and the activism of The Conscious Tribes Project.
Testimonials
¨Bill and I had such a laugh reading The Stinky FauciGates Creature Story.
What an imagination!
Anthony Fauci,
Director of the Harry Potter Institute for Fabulous Diseases.
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¨The story I most enjoyed was The Cull of the Uninjected.
Truly inspirational!¨
Klaus Schwab,
Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum,
bestselling author of "Ecology, Equality, Hypocrisy and Shamelessness"
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¨Awesome! I loved the story about The War On Connection!¨
Words reportedly spoken by the life-size model of Mark Zuckerberg
at Madame Tussauds wax museum.
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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FREE SAMPLE OF "PARALLEL PLANDEMICS" HERE
YOU CAN BUY A PAPERBACK COPY OF PARALLEL PLANDEMICS HERE:
"PLANDEMIAS PARALELAS"
Historias Cortas de los Anales de Tierras Paralelas
Un puente, tal vez, entre las profundidades de la sabiduría loca de The HanuHanu Gita,
y el activismo del proyecto Tribus Conscientes.
Elogios
"Bill y yo nos reímos mucho leyendo el cuento de La Criatura Apestosa FauciGates.
¡Qué imaginación!"
Anthony Fauci,
Director del Instituto Harry Potter de Enfermedades Fabulosas
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"El cuento que más disfruté fue La Caza De Los No-Inyectados.
¡Verdaderamente inspirador!"
Klaus Schwab,
Presidente Ejecutivo, Foro Económico Mundial,
autor más vendido de "Ecología, Igualdad, Hipocresía y Desvergüenza"
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"¡Impresionante! ¡Me encantó el cuento de La Guerra Contra La Conexión!"
Palabras supuestamente pronunciadas por el modelo de tamaño natural de Mark Zuckerberg
en el museo de cera Madame Tussauds.
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"¡Recomendaría este libro a cualquier perro
que se considere una mascota!"
Toto, Terrier, Kansas.
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PUEDES COMPRAR UNA COPIA EN RÚSTICA AQUÍ
"SEX, SPIRIT & COMMUNITY"
Here´s the only digital version we have of "Sex, Spirit & Community" - a book Mark wrote between 1998 and 1999, and published in 2000. It is a photocopied version, saved in .pdf format
It is Mark´s first book about Community - with much that remains relevant. It explains, for example, the concept of Flexible Form that Mark introduces in chapter 9 of "Love & Revolution".
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD "SEX, SPIRIT & COMMUNITY" HERE FOR FREE
"THE UPRISING OF MAN"
A Proposal
" After twenty years facilitating seminars and workshops for men, I wrote The Uprising of Man - in 2017.
It sets out The Path of Honesty specifically for men -
exploring male identity, shame, aggression, gender, relationships, creativity, brotherhood -
and using essays, stories and poetry it presents
"a proposal" for the "uprising" of men - in other words,
a proposal for the unified, conscious, courageous, powerful, vulnerable, authentic Uprising of Man. "
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FREE SAMPLE OF "THE UPRISING OF MAN" HERE
YOU CAN BUY A PAPERBACK COPY HERE:
