Biography

Until recently I considered myself an avid horse-eater. Whenever I was hungry I would go out hunting for elderly horses and eat them. Then lightning struck and nothing was ever the same... In short, I became a  vegetarian. And thanks to my past-self looking into the future and knowing I would become enlightened by lightning (my past self has considerable psychic powers), he  decided to become a vegetarian before I did. This may have been an act of idealism or it may have been in order to avoid all the work of hunting even elderly horses. But the fact remains, that due to this warp in time I have been a vegetarian my entire life (it took some VERY deep hypnosis as part of my research for this bio for me to even remember the reality in which I ate horses). 

Now we switch to the more formal part of the bio that is written by my witness persona, who refuses to take responsibility for my choices and their at times disastrous consequences. As just one of his many ways of dissociating from my behavior he refers to me to me as "Dane."

At age twelve Dane left Waldorf school to attend events at the Findhorn Community in Scotland. During his stay he learned that decision-making and group-organization through the process of “attunement” works extremely well, that there are funny, thought provoking channeled entities out there, and that a three bedroom house was not big enough for him and the other six members of his family.

After a brief return to Waldorf school in Vancouver Canada, Dane left formal education for good at age fourteen, to create a self-designed home- schooling program (see "ideas that change the world" in the "written art section of this site for more about the school). The curriculum was a response to a carefully chosen question: “What skills, if learned, would allow me to co-create the most personal and global well-being over the next 100 years?" Dane discarded much of his former high-school focuses and added several of his own, including "integrated imagining" and sustainable gardening, which became his business when he left home at seventeen.

At age nineteen Dane moved to Whidbey Island, WA, and continued to invent his landscape company around the question: “What would I want to receive as a customer if I knew everything I know now as a landscaper?” This question prompted him to learn about site development, land-clearing for new construction and how to integrate gardens with the construction process. He refined this service by designing and building two homes of his own and landscaping them both. His current passion is creating custom crystal art and sacred spaces through his company Mystical Landscapes.

When he was twenty seven, Dane moved to Marin, CA, to begin his first romantic relationship in earnest, which brought two years of growth and success before it ended. Taking advantage of the rich social scene in the San Francisco Bay area, Dane turned his considerable imagination towards the potential for human relationships, developing communication tools, hosting groups, and attending numerous workshops by the Human Awareness Institute. These in turn led to giving a name to his unusual sensitivities to his environment socially and emotionally.

At heart, Dane is an artist – an inventor of new structures to fulfill practical and esoteric functions of all kinds. He loves slowing everything down so it can be seen in depth and understood – and in so doing seeing all the ways it could be transformed. Dane recently recently changed his last name to “Rose,” a name chosen for its energetic beauty.

If you are interested in a personal relationship with Dane, please take the time to watch this video and assess how well your preferences and needs overlap.