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  February 4, 2007


Winter Trees

What I'm planning on writing about soon:
  • Finding & Working With Others to Save the World: Ways to enable billions to sync with us, on their own terms, in their own context, developing their own plan of action, and then to connect and collaborate in powerful ways, in experiments and in creating and refining working models in their own self-selected Earth-stewarding intentional communities, so that they no longer need the systems that are destroying our world.
  • Diseases to Fear More Than Flu: MRSA. Prion diseases. Modern chronic diseases of the auto-immune and other systems that are epidemic without being contagious, environmental rather than viral. Diseases that neither medicine nor pharmacy can cure, or prevent.
  • What's Holding Us Back: Our modern society's three-way tension between falling into the Centre, progressing to the Edge, and just giving up.
What I'm thinking about:

What I wrote about yesterday, about the collective change of mind that seems to be spreading, peer-to-peer, through the mainstream of our society, unaffected by anything in the mainstream media, by political press releases, or by corporatist propaganda. I saw this "something happening here" in the late 1960s, and never expected to see it again.

The Fourth Turning. There are signs of this too, with consequences almost too grim to imagine. Which will prevail, the collective change of mind (an opening of a new global consciousness) or the fourth turning (an era of repression, violent reactionary tyranny)? Or neither? Or both?

My colitis flare-up continues, but it's much different from the initial disease. This time I'm getting a fair amount of bleeding but very little pain. My stomach's noisy but not irregular. I'm tired but not exhausted. My mood is much better and my stress level is much lower. Any sufferers out there have any thoughts on this?

What's on your mind this week?

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