I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1481 - Home, Soul Tribe, and The Great Awakening - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, August 8, 2026

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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For years now in my posts I've talked about The Great Awakening (it's why I'm on earth) that has been exponentially expanding and spreading through humanity and the world, in line with the ever-greater magnitudes of superlatively significant occulted/hidden information and disclosures that have continued to be brought into the light of collective awareness. Even with the knowledge and understanding that I've had, this disillusioning and transformative all-level process has not at all been gentle or easy in my own world and life. Honestly, I'd say that it felt like getting kicked hard in my head, my heart, and my gonads, as the implications and ramifications were so ridiculously earth-shaking and life-changing.

I've also talked about how deeply my heart has been broken/shattered over the last several years around community, relationships, and even my perspective on myself. This Great Awakening is very much closely connected to all of this. I've felt more alone and solitary than ever, and for many years now, and it's in good part because of my own self-alienation and self-isolation. I withdrew from people and communities with whom I was connected, becoming a jungle hermit, which is how I've lived for more than 4 years now, with no close relationships, or communities that felt like family or home.

I've always said that I've been seeking what I've called my soul tribe, and my true home. Any time that I've felt like I'd found these, in one form or another, in the end I've always ended up alone, on my solitary path, once again. Where is my soul tribe, where is my home? As a physically-embodied human, I question whether these even truly exist for me with anyone, anywhere.

As the next stage of The Great Awakening 'kicks in', I'm finding these questions running through my mind once again, because I very much get the feeling that everything around me, and my life, are about to change in massive ways. It's very unnerving, to say the least, because I don't want to lose any more than I already have, which has been quite a lot.

While I do very much appreciate, and I'm deeply grateful for GaiaYoga, and being able to live how I do here, it has never felt like home to me, and most of the people who live or have passed through here have never felt like family, or as I express it, soul tribe. Living here for the past almost 8 years I've mostly resigned myself to a life, and settled for conditions, that are far from that for which I most long, and that I most desire. That's very much a problem, and one for which I don't yet have a solution. I'm just working on opening my heart, keeping it open, to people and possibilities, and continuing to move forward.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 2PM, and given that it was raining all day, I didn't get involved in any land-work tasks. I opted instead to do something that I hadn't done in a notably-long time, put on clothes, and to go off property, to attend a local community Kirtan gathering just down the road. Originally multiple people from GaiaYoga were planning to go, but in the end it was only Becca (a young woman who's lived here for the past 7 months, and who is leaving for Maui tomorrow to spend time with her partner, whom she met here, and his family). Although it was more of a song circle than a Kirtan event, I'm still grateful that I chose to go, and it was beautiful, though I did struggle a fair bit with keeping my heart open with so many people with lovely partners and families attending, because, well, I have nothing like that in my own life at all. We finally left to return to GaiaYoga by around 8:45PM, arriving back to this off-grid jungle community by about 9:30PM. Since I went to the event, and got back to GYG so late, I was only able to get through a portion of my Hive notificatons, even though I stayed up past 12AM in my attempt to do so. I finally made myself go to sleep by just after 12:15AM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept better than I expected, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:30PM, so it's a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other important Sunday 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 tomorrow's iteration of these posts! 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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