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A Mighty Companions Project
Publisher: Suzanne Taylor
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TheConversation.org had its start when 9/11 dictated that we were in a new world. At this threshold moment for humanity, when we must choose wisely to avoid what could be our annihilation, this site is dedicated to tracking the emerging intelligence that we need for our very survival, and to conversation in which that intelligence can be forged.
Let those who see beyond the idea of force imposing world order, to where we look to heal the causes of despair, meet here. ------------------------------

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Society deals primarily with cosmetic change, no matter how threatened the world is. But, the way we think got us into the mess we are in, and, unless we grapple with paradigm change, it's fingers in the dike. For this column, send your thoughts about what outside the box ideas might contribute to setting us on a better course.

Look at this chilling story by the great British journalist, George Monbiot, about the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. It concludes:

"...we have to stop calling it climate change. Using 'climate change' to describe events like this, with their devastating implications for global food security, water supplies and human settlements, is like describing a foreign invasion as an unexpected visit, or bombs as unwanted deliveries. It's a ridiculously neutral term for the biggest potential catastrophe humankind has ever encountered. I think we should call it 'climate breakdown.'"

If we knew that without intervention the world would end at a finite date, humanity would dramatically scratch its collective head. Short of a deadline to save ourselves, what could we do that might change our course? Here are some of my thoughts.

1. My #1 idea is to investigate the crop circle phenomenon. If we knew there was other intelligence, which the circles indicate, we would be one humanity in relation to 'the other,’ working together to solve planetary problems.

2. Promote a change of paradigm where getting the most money as the primary goal would be replaced by doing the most good. Make a brilliant ad campaign: "Whoever Does the Most Good Wins!"

3. Have revered states people look out from TV and address the human core in everyone, urging us to think as a planet to solve the challenges we face.

4. President calls for a moment of silence perhaps noon in every time zone, for everyone to stop what they are doing and focus on one thing -- try to harness the power of thought. England possibly avoided WWII invasion that way.

5. Call for a truce worldwide, where wars end -- via inducements, including a clean slate for everyone. Even terrorists. Promise everyone universal health care, universal education and job training, and whatever it would take to give everyone the fundamentals of a decent life. Pay for it with military budgets.

6. Give ecstasy to people we want info from -- turn evil people into heart-connected ones.

7. Use plants for vision, a la shamans who use psychedelic substances for guidance.

8. Convene a new Twilight Club. "The Twilight Club was an organization founded in the late 19th century, with the intention to counter the moral decline by bolstering up the spiritual and ethical awareness of the society. Illustrious members were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Spencer, Walt Whitman, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mark Twain...From this club, service clubs such as the Rotary Club and the Lions evolved."

Other things the Twilight Club gave rise to.
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Film news (and requests) and a delightful treat

Update on my report that all the names from my Outlook address book got imported into my listserve. I thought I could remove people who never asked to be on my mailing list, but it turns out I can’t. If you don’t want to get emails I send to my listserve, go to the bottom of the email you get and unsubscribe yourself.

And welcome to new subscribers, who have come in since I made my last blog entry, plus some nears and dears who never got on the listserve whom I accidentally and fortuitously have added. Managing a mailing list is quite something!

I’ve been doing so much to market What on Earth? that I haven’t posted anything on my blog for a long time. For the sake of the newcomers, many of whom came in because of the movie, it’s been decades now that I’ve been creating events and projects that have to do with consciousness. Having started with personal growth, I’m now focused on the need to shift our worldview. Read the archives of my posts for some fascinating pieces I’ve passed along.

Having discovered crop circles twenty years ago, I’ve increasingly concentrated on them because they could evoke the biggest change in our sense of who we are and what we are doing here since Galileo took Earth out of the center of the universe. His toppling Earth’s dominance eventually took down a world run by kings and led to democracy and modern science. If the crop circles remove us from another dominant position, of being the only advanced intelligence in the cosmos, that humbling discovery hopefully would lead to experiencing ourselves as one humanity in relation to ‘the other.’ If we were one humanity as we engaged with intelligent life outside ourselves, we would be in the best position for dealing with all the challenges that confront us. As someone in the film says, “That could be what saves this civilization.”

The movie has been extraordinarily well received by our niche, and also by people who’ve seen it as skeptics and have left rethinking their assumptions. The plan for the film, in order to get it moving into the world as quickly and effectively as possible, is to do an Internet blitz next month. I am studying with a mentor, Marc Rosenbush, and have faith in the successful it will have.
A vital part of the strategy for the Internet will involve email lists. If you have a list of people who think outside the box and you would put out a blast for the film — perhaps in exchange for my putting out to my list what you want to say — let me know. And if you have suggestions of lists for me to go after, or ones you could introduce me to, that would be great.

If you are on FaceBook and aren’t a fan of the film, do become one: http://FaceBook.com/WhatonEarth. You’ll know about film showings and radio shows I’m on (great if you’d call in).


Film showings with Q&As afterwards:
September 12, Bay Area UFO Expo in Santa Clara http://www.thebayareaufoexpo.com.

September 13, Marin, in a Bella Vista home, hosted by Lori Grace  http://www.celebrationsoflove.com/e-cropcircles.html

September 27, in Los Angeles, introduced by Whitley Strieber, with a party to follow http://www.projectbutterfly.org/ (click EVENTS and scroll down). Do come and bring friends if you are in LA. It will be gala!
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If you like What on Earth?, even from seeing clips (http://www.WhatOnEarthTheMovie.com — click on WATCH!), please vote for it to get into the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, where votes will help select the films to be shown in at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA, October 17-18 : http://ladyfilmmakers.com/Vote_Now_.html. You’d need to act fast: voting ends Saturday, September 12, 2009 at midnight PDT.

Do visit our beautiful film site and look around: http://www.WhatOnEarthTheMovie.com — run your mouse over the circle that comes up on the home page for a little surprise! The site has had work done on it since the first pass was put up, and we’re still populating some of the sections. If you’ve seen the film, please click on WRITE A REVIEW: http://www.whatonearththemovie.com/#/shop.

REWARD FOR WADING THROUGH ALL THIS: watch WEB SITE STORY
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