I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1440 - A Very Unexpected Monday - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, June 28, 2026

5 hours ago

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Well, this morning did not at all go according to plan, and in the most unexpected way, I must say. As I was preparing my superfood fire coffee, and breakfast, in Wabisabi, I happened to nibble on a small bit of chocolate in the fridge that I thought was the same one that a friend of mine here had offered to me as a standing invitation the other day (just without the outer wrapper). That turned out not to be the case, and it took me a little bit to realize that it was actually a very strong mushroom chocolate (that he had picked up on Sunday Funday for another fellow here). I was wondering why I began to feel so odd, and within a very short amount of time. Then it dawned on me, and after checking with my friend, I got the confirmation.

At first I though that it was some combination of food or drink, but since I had worked with etheogenic mushrooms many times previously, the feeling in my body was very familiar, which is what made me finally connect the dots to understand what I was experiencing and why. It was a very strong batch of mushroom chocolates indeed, which definitely made preparing this post, and my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update post, very challenging to say the least. It took an immense amount of focus to accomplish, but once I knew what was happening, I could work with it.

That was a few hours ago, and most of the effects of the chocolate have subsided, which is why I'm now able to write this post in a much more easeful manner. Mondays often get derailed in one way or another, but this was certainly a first.

With the July HPUD being the day after tomorrow, that means that I need to write and publish my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update tonight, especially considering that I will likely have a session on Wednesday afternoon, otherwise it would end up being a bit of a post clusterfuck, with too much to get done in too short a time. All good, neither post takes all that long to write, though I do also need to factor in writing and publishing the next iteration of these posts tomorrow too.

I've already notably exceeded 20,100 HP, and with my July HPUD powerup I'll easily smash 20,200 Hive Power before the end of the week. That's a very good thing, because I need a lot more surplus HP to be able to accept another larger HP lease on Hive Engine, as I work to rebuild my decimated daily SWAP.HIVE income, that I use for ongoing investments.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up most of my more-numerous important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, and then to a few jungle-community/land work and tasks, including chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and doing a bit more clearing along the second driveway with my machete. Once those were completed, I took a shower, and wandered down to Melekai's area, to see if she was around, to coordinate more planting work with her in the area that she's creating there. She was sunbathing when I arrived, and we ended up talking for a good while, after which I finally headed back to Wabisabi to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee, and some of my medicinal tea, from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by around 10:30PM, and after scanning my X feed for a bit, I went to bed by just before 11PM. Unfortunately I wasn't able to sleep well again, though I know why, and I'm modifying things a bit to rectify that. I woke up by about 5:45AM, still very much feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee, and breakfast, in Wabisabi, and collecting a bit more of my medicinal tea from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House to prepare this post, and my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update post to write later, though as mentioned above, I went on an impromptu mushroom journey first. It's now just before 12:45PM, so it's quite a good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update later tonight, and the next expression of these posts tomorrow afternoon! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

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