Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity (Simple Living)- Part I (Introduction)

A video montage created specifically to accompany an audio Plunderphonics track, created in 2008 on the topic of voluntary simplicity. Voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle or philosophy characterized by significantly reduced or minimal amounts of consumption. Voluntary simplifiers do so for a variety of personal reasons, including spirituality, health, increase in 'quality time' with family and friends, reducing their ecological footprint, stress reduction, personal taste or frugality.

In Duane Elgin's words, "voluntary simplicity is a manner of living that is outwardly more simple and inwardly more rich, a way of being in which our most authentic and alive self is brought into direct and conscious contact with living."

This video is part of a 4-video series focusing on Voluntary Simplicity. The other videos can be found here:

Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxM9L-Q-b5A
Part II: to come
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pneRFS9y07w
Part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBESAlE3qNM

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[Nightsurf59]

Admirable, commendable, and much needed, but not a new idea or practice. This is old stuff.

[eplebel]

Glad you like it!

And ya, this is definitely not a new idea.... but the more stuff is out there about voluntary simplicity, the more likely these ideas will eventually make their way into common discourse.

[Nightsurf59]

So true. I've long said that -in terms of the mind and material reality-what there is to know that is going to be of help in our current phase of evolution -is already known ; we need only implement what we know. But on this plane, forgetfulness and the inability to hold much of anything in conscious awareness necessitates repeated expressions of key themes and methods. Its a sign of the times.