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The Conversation.org
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Publisher: Suzanne Taylor
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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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Outside The Box Ideas
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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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Basic Goodness
A spiritual group that’s supportive of crop circles and of my movie made the front page of the local section of the LA Times ! It will give you a warm feeling to read the article:
This nicely written piece tells about how the Aetherius Society, given that “Mountains have long been associated with holiness,” led one of its periodic pilgrimages to the top of Mount Baldy, where “participants of different faiths prayed and meditated together.” In the article, people talked about the fact that they weren’t there to support the Society, but because it’s so good for the faiths to come together. Right on! Paul Nugent, a transplanted Brit who heads the Los Angeles branch of this worldwide organization, is the narrator in my film of a re-creation of a story about the circles that appeared in 1880, in Nature, the English journal I wrote about in the last post. He led the pilgrimage, and the LA Times piece ends with a quote from him:
“I think to get 100 people all the way up there on the mountain is a good showing. But I think that more than that, the energy and the atmosphere was very collaborative and it was uplifting. … You just feel good afterward. You feel pure. You feel as if you’ve done something just good. Basic goodness.”
You can click through from the article to the website for the Aetherius Society, a group founded in 1955 by George King, a Western Master of Yoga, who died in 1997. For “10 years, he practiced this ancient science [of yoga] for 8 – 12 hours a day until his mastery of terrestrial phenomena and of his mind made him a ‘Knower.’ ” He actually became a conduit for extraterrestrial intelligence, hence the interest the Aetherius Society has in crop circles.
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