There have been 14 posts since the Update I sent you, and I've realized that the new technology I'm using lends itself to sending posts as they go up. Therefore, I'm going to switch the whole list to getting one post at a time. Hopefully that will work for you.
Allen Branson is going to watch out for the site now. Allen is working on his own site, to supply comprehensive information about crop circles:
http://www.cropcirclenews.com. On this site, you can buy a video or DVD of “CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth,” the feature documentary showing now in select movie theaters. The film presents the complexity and beauty of the phenomenon, and will put to rest any doubts you might have about its origins being a mystery. See what's posted as Impact of crop circle movie on a listmember, for a sense of the dramatic effect it might have on you. Back to everyday reality. Here we wait, in sitting duck land, not knowing where or when an attack may come, while our government maintains its focus on military action to bring down aggressors. It looks like massive suffering may be needed for humanity to move to a next level of consciousness, where compassion supplants aggression. All efforts of mine are pointed at finding and evoking gentle ways in which this might occur.
Yesterday, on TV, I heard talk of the off–chance that Saddam would accept asylum — and that for that to have any chance we'd have to make it enticing to him. My mind went to a luxurious imprisonment, and the challenge that would be to our desire to get an eye for an eye. Could we be OK with removing Saddam from being a threat to the world, and not punishing him in the process? The example that would be could spur us to such wholesome thoughts as rehabilitating prisoners rather than hardening them, and other things that involve long–range thinking about the community's well being. To substitute well-being for vengeance would be a major development.
With it looking like nothing but a paradigm shift could get us out of the mess we are in, listmember Walter Starck, in “What we need now is a synthesis into a new paradigm,” says, “Each major paradigm shift in science has required a new geometry, each has started with denial of unexplained phenomena and then their incorporation into a new understanding, each has been more counterintuitive and inclusive of consciousness than the last. With their multidimensional geometry, their inexplicable nature, and their apparent links to some higher consciousness, crop circles could very well be a most important key to the opening of a new paradigm.” Read that post and the piece of Walter's that's on top of it on the site, “The discovery of our true nature is the ultimate question for science, religion, and philosophy,” and we'll be in the very necessary conversation about the envelope we are in. While we hold all fingers in the Iraq war dike, it's in this broader thinking that we could find ways for the world to change. After I sent these two posts out this morning, listmember Linda Genutis emailed me: “Wow! This new stuff in from Walter Starck and your comments on this material are mind boggling!! Can't wait to finish reading all of it. I'm telling ya — your blog is the ultimate!”
For all that's been posted since the last Update, click on http://www.theconversation.org and scroll down to PILGER FILM, “Palestine is Still the Issue,” VINDICATED BY INDEPENDENT TELEVISION COMMISSION, which is the first new submission since then. Work your way up from there. Note SoundBites, in the right hand column, which have been added since your last Update.The piece about John Pilger's Palestine film is the second of three pieces in which this outstanding journalist is represented on the page. The other new one since your last Update, John Pilger after State of the Union speech, is a gut-wrenching projection of the consequences of an Iraq war. It's from MediaLens — http://www.medialens.org — which is making seminal communications these days. I encourage subscribing to their Media Alerts. And, if you donate to causes, these dedicated people left the corporate world to do this service and can use financial help. In fact, there are six things from Media Lens or about them on our page, which all show us where the press is coming from and how it has distorted our vision, as well as giving us profound insight into the nature of the reality that's being distorted. They tear the veils from our eyes so we can see behind the establishment position that media people, even unconsciously, find themselves representing.
Our page of political ideas and of philosophy is interspersed with things to warm your heart — a flying U.S. flag show, a life-saving way someone handled a heart attack, a rebellion by 100 poets, a little sex (albeit a clean kind), and food for thought about where life came from and what we're doing here. Click through to http://www.theconversation.org to find it all. Also, I've posted some of the conversation I've been having with you. If you'd like to chime in, email me: suzanne@mightycompanions.org.
Follow
