We're overdue for a collective shift toward a more just, cooperative and ecologically sustainable culture. 

  If not now, when?

 

Peace is an enormous topic. So by necessity, this is just a rough outline.

Want to learn more?

  • Look to the writers, sages and activists throughout history, who've been nudging us to live in greater harmony with our planet and all sentient beings.  They have sensible advice.

  • See what grabs your attention as you move through this site. If a particular issue seems compelling to you, maybe you'll be inspired to take action.
  • When we know the issues.... when we look clear-eyed at the problems we face world-wide, we can more readily embrace the changes necessary to live more lightly on the earth.

           Thank you.

       Together we enhance and magnify the growing wave of peace.

                 


                                


"We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them."

                                                    Martin Prechtel ( contemporary Pan American shaman)
     I love this quote.
     It's tacked up on our fridge door, alongside family photos, library receipts and grand kids artwork.
     It really captures contemporary American life so well.
     Here we are - immersed in a dazzling, super-sized world - sculpted, and fast and furious.
                Sometimes it makes us forget what is truly real, natural and precious.





                                                Hello!  Life is way out of whack.

                            
                                                                                         (cartoon collaboration with Robert Carson)


                               If you don't know it intellectually, you feel it in your gut, or your heart,
                                 or maybe in your liver where all the various toxins of daily life stew.


   Just look at the evidence:

   * The world is bristling with weapons, from millions of small armaments to vast stores of nuclear bombs.

   * Habitat destruction is rampant.
     We've got rapidly growing deserts, melting glaciers, logged off rain forests, and dead zones in our oceans.

   * Species of plants and animals are dying off at ever increasing rates.

   * Worldwide, billions of people live in crushing poverty, often at the expense of our material comfort.

   * Teens who should be in the height of their natural vitality suffer with record rates of suicide, anxiety,
      depression and obesity.

   * We're flooded with entertainment and advertising that glorifies violence, decadent materialism and crime,
      and makes it seem commonplace in society.

   * My country, the good ole USA, imprisons 1 out of every 100 citizens -
        more per capita than any other nation in the world. We have more prisoners than farmers.

                  I could go on and on. I'm sure you could add to the list yourself.
                       We don't have to look far to see that things are not as they should be.
                            Rich or poor, believer or skeptic, regardless of your race, creed or political affiliation,
                                    you know this isn't the way things are supposed to be.


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                                                     We stand at a crossroad.

                                            We've got ourselves into a convergence of problems
                                                 - ecological, political, economic and cultural -
                           in an increasingly complex, polarized, inflexible and energy dependent world.

                               Continuing on, with business as usual, won't resolve our dilemma.

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                      Fortunately there's a way out of this nightmare.
                  We CAN learn from our mistakes and set a new course.

    * We can work cooperatively & re-embrace nature's way....living much more lightly on the Earth ....   
               consuming resources at a level that allows people world-wide a modicum of comfort.

     "Living with less is crucial, not only to ecological survival, but to long-term human fulfillment."
                                 (from "All My Bones Shake" by Robert Jensen)

    * We can decolonize our minds and distance ourselves from the false values foisted on us
            by this greedy, power hungry, and imperialistic form of capitalism that is all around us....
            embedded and intertwined in so many aspects of our lives.

    * We can rapidly localize our lives, our economies, and our food sources, and quit relying on vast
              amounts of non-renewable energy to ship products and people around the globe.

    * And, thankfully, we can heal & transform ourselves,
              by tapping into the vast wealth of knowledge available to us in this technological age.
              The collective wisdom of the ages is out there to be explored, and used to mend our
              bodies and psyches and spirit.

    * We can tap into the infinite power of god .... who is by nature .... everywhere ....
                infused in all of creation, and available to us - 24/7 -  if we just tune in.


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                      So, you know that ancient couple from my favorite fridge quote?

                 Well, deep in our bones, that ancient couple
                 is still singing their wild and beautiful songs.
 
                                    And we gotta listen in, and find them again.

                                               gotta find our inner harmony,
                                                     ...our untamed yin
                                               and our undomesticated yang.
     
                                        we'll be looking to find the fiery, dancing energy,
                                                        ... the moxie,
                                                        ... the shakti,
                                         the chi that can motivate us to change .


        To move from this STRANGE time, toward a SANER, KINDER, MORE NATURAL future.


                        


                                          Let's help each other bring our exiled spirits back.
                         That essence resides in every one of us, waiting to come out and be embraced.
                            Let's lovingly help each other peel away the crusted up layers of pain, fear
                                                 and shame that hide our true nature.

                                As we heal ourselves, and repair our torn apart families and communities,
                      we become one with the welcoming wave of peace and justice that circles the globe.
                         We join with the billions who long to move beyond a world of continuous warring,
                                                   and cut-throat corporate profiteering.

 
                                                      When we see the big picture clearly,
                           we willingly embrace the cultural and lifestyle changes that are necessary,
                                          to live in harmony with the planet and each other.


   
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    "The choice is ours: form a global partnership to care for Earth
    and one another or risk the destruction of ourselves and the
    diversity of life. Fundamental changes are needed in our values,
    institutions, and ways of living.      (from the EARTH CHARTER)

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                                                            Life is paradoxical.
                                        So much suffering. And so much beauty and love.

  I look at my country - the USA - and I despise it's vast and oppressive military-industrial complex.
  And simultaneously, I'm genuinely thankful to live where I have the freedom to pick and choose my lifestyle.


  A few decades ago, I chose to live by the principles of voluntary simplicity,
           and now, more than ever, I'm glad I did.
      In good times and bad, my husband and I enjoy a pleasant standard of living,
               because we live a pretty basic lifestyle.
 Even though we teeter on the high end of America's so-called poverty rate, we're incredibly rich in
       comparison to the vast majority of folks on the planet.

 We're blessed with such amazing abundance - foods and consumer goods from around the globe.
                                                                  - heating and cooling at the flick of a switch.
                                                                 
 We've got a nice solid old home we can make our own, and a large circle of loving friends and family.

 Because we try to be fairly self-sufficient - growing fruits and veggies in our yard
                                                            - preparing our meals from scratch
                                                            - doing our own home maintenance 
                                                            - fixing our 2nd hand cars when possible....
                                                                                    my husband and I can get by working part-time jobs.

 Working fewer hours gives us plenty of time for creative pursuits, like painting, fly fishing and writing.
 Time for community projects and volunteer work.
 Time for self-care, yoga and meditation.

 It's a good life all in all, with dear friends who linger over yummy potluck meals...
          salmon seared over a backyard fire....sides of garden fresh veggies, and lovingly baked desserts.
 We've got neighbors who help each other out, the way neighbors do....
          loaning tools, trading labor, offering a shoulder to cry on.
 We keep our entertainment on the cheap and easy....
          picnics at the local swimming hole when it's too hot to work.
          regional camping trips with our daughters and their growing families.
          visits to the art museum on free days.

                                                         Conserving Resources.
                                                                           Keeping it simple.  Basic.


       

       
             But sometimes, it feels shameful to enjoy such a wonderful life, knowing that over half the 
             developing world's population (about 2.8 billion people) scrape by on less than $2.00 a day!


                 It's hard to imagine isn't it?
                Two dollars buys what? A cup of coffee? Maybe a pastry?

 About 1.1 billion people in the poorest of countries eke out a living on the equivalent of a dollar or less a day.


 Sometimes my heart aches, knowing that American corporations are shoving their agendas down the
  throats of people around the globe.
           Pushing folks away from their traditional cultures.
           Wooing them into crowded cities, with false promises of consumer paradises.
           All in the name of profits and market expansion.

 Here in the U.S., in this land of opportunity there's
       so much oppression and pollution going on in the name of profits and so-called "free trade".
      
 We try to limit that pollution and oppression here, on our own soil.
         It's convenient to have it out-of-sight, in third world nations - oftentimes in countries that have already
         been ravaged by the heavy hand of empires, past and present.

 "Free Trade" has created factory zones in impoverished lands, where young adults slave long hours for low wages,
          manufacturing our precious trinkets. In China, for instance, fenced in and tightly guarded industrial towns
          have been built, where hundreds of thousands of young factory workers endure long days in bleak conditions.

          So that we can have the latest designer look in our homes.
          So our kids can have their choice of every toy imagined.
         

          


 Global corporations like ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Monsanto and DuPont, push indigenous farmers to
 become dependent on genetically engineered seed stocks, available only from them. These are some of the  
 same corporations that brought us such modern chemical wonders as "Agent Orange" - the toxic defoliant that 
 ravaged Vietnam - its land and its people, and damaged the health of American G.I.s who were stationed there.

 Suicide rates soared in India and some other countries, after farmers were persuaded to stop saving their own 
 seeds and using their natural fertilizers...as they were pressured to go from their traditional subsistence 
 agriculture into crushing debt with multinational corporations.
 In a ten year period, 200,000 Indian farmers took their own lives, often by ingesting the pesticides they'd 
 purchased for their fields. Fortunately, women have responded by returning to pesticide free farming, resulting in 
 healthier people and livestock, and freedom from debt.


 Free Trade was sold to us as a means to better the lives of people throughout the world.
 In reality, the gap between the world's rich and poor has continued growing wider.

 "In 1950, there were about two poor people for every rich person on Earth; today there are about four; and in
  2025, when the world's population will be about 8 billion, there will be nearly six poor people for every rich person."
                                                                               Thomas Homer-Dixon from "The Upside of Down"

"The people who defend the existing system most aggressively are typically either in the deepest denial,
 refusing to acknowledge their culture's spiritual emptiness, or else have been the privileged beneficiaries
 of the system's power and material goods."     Robert Jensen - "All My Bones Shake"


  Yes, unfortunately, it's business as usual in much of the Third World.
        So that we can eat tropical fruits every day of the year.
        So that we can have access to a whole smorgasbord of culinary delights.




             To top it all off, this global "Free Trade" juggernaut, is co-created by a vast advertising network,
                                                - unparalleled in the history of humankind.
                                           
                                                             It's mind boggling really.
                                There's so much brainwashing going on in the popular media.
                                                       Pushing us to BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY.
              
                                   Our favorite electronic gadgets even double as surveillance tools.
                                                  AH, THE PERFECT ORWELLIAN WET DREAM !


             We Americans are so very well overfed, dumbed down, and entertained right into complacency....
                                         the soul numbing trance of excessive material abundance.

    

           



               Fortunately lots of people have been studying & exploring and living alternatives
                  to this slick consumer culture for quite some time now....decades....eons even.


  Thank god for the hippies, the outsiders, the traditionalists, the free-thinkers and artists,
  the indigenous peoples, and all the others who've refused to be cogs in the wheel.

  Say hello to all those around the globe who've stubbornly maintained their nature-honoring cultures.
  Thank goddess there are still lots of folks left on the planet who've never stopped living close to nature.
  People who feed and clothe and shelter themselves, using the resources right around them.
  Folks who still grow food for themselves and their communities, not for profit-driven, multinational organizations.
  There are even some remaining hunter/gatherers here and there.

   Hopefully folks will want to share their knowledge and experience with us
                                      ....that is, if we haven't totally alienated everyone with our aggressions.
 

    What will you eat when this mega-energy-burning system breaks down?  Your blackberry?
 


         
                      from the book "Bhutan" by John Berthold



   Yes fortunately, back in the 1960's and 70's lots of good folks said "no thanks" to the status quo,
   with its war profiteering, corruption and polluting industry.
   We said goodbye to rigid, authoritarian standards for race and gender roles.
   We explored a wide range of spiritual beliefs, and reconsidered our relationship with the natural world,
            giving birth to the environmental movement.

   It was a time of cultural ferment and revolution - an exciting, idealistic time to be a young adult.
   A whole subculture arose around the principles of peace, love, cooperation and justice for all.

   People were experimenting on a grass roots level - rethinking health care...focusing on workers' rights.
   There were a lot of us in those years relearning basic skills like carpentry and midwifery.
   Some played at self-sufficiency, tilling the soil and preserving the bounty.
   Many lived in urban and rural communes.

   So much of this experimentation came about because we saw the potential for things to go haywire,
      with the power structure left unchecked.
              We saw "peak oil" on the horizon.
              We saw the dark endgame of the military industrial complex.

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                       Of course, the Establishment did everything possible to discredit the movement.
                          It's the nature of dominator cultures to crush that which is different.
                       Plus, let's face it -  its easy to squelch movements that threaten the status quo.


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                                                            Play up the inconsistencies.
                                               Label the "other" as dirty, weak or immoral.
                                                               Divide and conquer. 
                                 
                                              Those uppity blacks! Those bleepin femi-nazis!
                                                                   Us vs. them.

                                                    That's the way of empire, isn't it?
                                  You're either with us or against us -  my way or the highway.

                                                            ____________________


  Admittedly, it was easy to ridicule the hippies and other alternatives.
  We created our own problems, in our youthful folly - so determined to figure things out for ourselves.
  We reinvented the wheel again and again.
  In the midst of our social experimentation, a lot of hearts were broken and families torn apart.
  And the sexual revolution unleashed plenty of unintended consequences.
          Maybe we went too far at times.

   
                  

   In the long run though, so much good came out of this wildly experimental time.


 Look at the modern organic food movement.
 A generation ago many of us caught the gardening bug, and started growing wholesome,
 chemical-free fruits and veggies for our families, communes, neighborhood food co-ops and such.
 Some folks got really good at it, and one thing led to another.
 There was an abundance of produce....so why not market it? ...cooperatively with other small scale growers.
 Get together....share resources and enjoy the economies of scale.

 Those fledgling farmers set the stage for the vast and successful multimillion dollar networks of organic food
  food distribution that now exist. Here it is, 30 years down the road, and we can purchase safe, delicious
 organics in just about every corner of the country.
 What can happen in another 30 years?




             "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can   
           change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."   Margaret Mead




 Similarly much of the success of the current holistic health movement sprang from folks experimenting around,
     learning ancient and modern medical techniques, and synthesizing new forms of healing.
     Looking for cures that get to the root of the problem, as opposed to "attacking " the symptoms of the disease.
     Asking us to take responsibility for our well-being through lifestyle and diet changes.
 Pioneers like Dr. Andrew Weil -
          who sought out traditional healers, herbalists and distant shamen, to learn their ways.

We can thank the feminists of the 60's and 70's, and groups like the Boston Womens Health Collective for
 setting the stage for modern practitioners like Dr. Christian Northrup and Dr. Carolyn Myss, who bring
   compassion and intuition back to medicine.

Deepak Chopra is another example of the success that can come when we blend old and new ways of thinking.
Born and educated in India, Dr. Chopra blends awareness of mind, body and spirit to optimize healing and
human potential.
        These are innovative times we live in - when ancient systems like ayurvedic healing
                     blend with modern quantum physics.


                         

So now we can pick and choose from a wide array of helpful medical alternatives -
            such as acupuncture and homeopathy, chiropractic and naturopathy,
 because sensible people had the guts to say NO to a deeply entrenched, expensive, technologically focused system,
  with its hands in the pockets of the huge pharmaceutical industry.

For all its talk about preventative care, the bloated allopathic health care system really doesn't want us to embrace
simple straightforward solutions. It's difficult to reap obscene profits from people's healthy lifestyle choices.


     "The health care industry, being an industry, stands to profit more handsomely
    from new drugs and procedures to treat chronic diseases than it does from
    wholesale change in the way people eat."    Michael Pollan


  Which is one of the many reasons why here, in the richest nation on the planet, we pay so much for a health care
  system that doesn't even rank in the top 30 world-wide.


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                                           Who knows what the near future will bring.
                               Each new decade brings more amazing change than the last.
                     Maybe its time to assess the consequences of our modern cultural choices.
                                                     Are we on the right track?
                                             

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   These days , we rely on a vast and complicated global system of commerce, energy and communication to
   deliver our day to day needs. So far it's worked fairly well.
              I can gas up my car and drive to the grocery store whenever I please.

   But what if the proverbial shit hits the fan? 
     If, for instance, there's just not enough cheap oil left to ship goods and food half-way around the world?

   I bet we'll be glad to find there are lots of farmers and gardeners still among us, and I suspect
       we'll be thankful for all the farmland that didn't get paved over,
          or turned into shopping malls and gated communities.

   What if our technologically based health care system is overwhelmed by an outbreak of contagious disease,
         resistant to antibiotics and spread at the pace of jet travel?

 We'll be so much better off, with widespread common knowledge of basic, natural and effective healing techniques.

  And if saving our precious, protective atmosphere means saving our rainforests - the lungs of the earth -
     then we'll need to quit clear-cutting vast stretches of tropical hardwoods.
       And we'll be better off with plenty of folks, right here in our own communities, who know how to build with
          the resources that are right at hand,
                                                whether its stone, native woods or steel
                                                              bamboo, adobe or recycled plastics.
 
Yes, I'm thinking that right here, right now, in our own bioregions, it's a good time for lots and lots
    of us to regain and perfect the skills and knowledge of basic, everyday life.

           You know,  food production
                            education
                            home building, repair and maintenance
                            basic techniques of healing and medicine, and such.


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Here's a little cautionary tale about widespread crisis and how it can play out in different locales:


Both of my parents experienced the Great Depression of the 1930s in their youth. They resided in opposite
corners of the same state, and had quite different memories of a time that left so many people suffering.
My dad recalled hunting for chunks of coal that fell off the trains, to help the family cook and heat the house.
He foraged for wild greens and mushrooms to supplement meager fare. It was a difficult, hardscrabble time.



                        
          ( photo by Dorothea Lange)                                    (photo by Adam Clark Vroman)


   My mother, on the other hand, grew up in a farming community - in Mennonite and Amish country...
       among people of faith living in cooperation with each other, practicing good land stewardship,
       generation after generation after generation.
   She says the Depression was felt so much less in her world.
      The local, relatively self-sufficient communities kept doing what they'd always done.
      The tumbling world economy was a mere ripple pressing in from the outside.

   The moral here?
         Whatever change comes our way,
              we'll weather it better if we're living in closer harmony with the Earth and each other.




                       *  CHANGE IS HAPPENING  *  REST ASSURED   *  CHANGE IS CONSTANT  *

          

                          *  REST ASSURED  *  CHANGE IS CONSTANT  * CHANGE IS HAPPENING  * 




                                   And like it or not, a major shift is right at hand, right now.

               We'll want to stay level headed, so we can make all the necessary adjustments, big and little.

                                                          We can't give in to fear.
                                                        Fear causes us to regress.
                                                  It tends to create muddled thinking,
                          and makes us more susceptible to manipulation by the powers that be.

                            If we look squarely at our collective reality on this beautiful planet,
                                       and agree that things truly need fixing, well then,
                                                           what comes next?

                            Here we are in a broken and toxic society.  Where do we want to go?

  How do we move from a highly competitive and hierarchical culture, to a nurturing and cooperative one?
  From a fear based culture (is the threat level orange or yellow today?) to a sustainable, caring and natural one?


                                 We CAN birth a new, better, more adaptive way of being.
                                    We can even do it with some grace, style and humor.


   This course correction needn't be a terrible burden, though of course, it may be for many.
   It's inevitable.

   The sooner we can naturalize our lives, the smoother the transition can be.
   I'm convinced that the more we embrace the solutions, the more we'll be able to buffer the turmoil of change.

   Part of the solution comes from simply reaching across the political and social divides,
               to cooperate and tackle this big mess together....might as well...
                                               we're all in this together.

                                                      Come on.  Jump on in.

                                              

                         It feels good and satisfying, working together with folks who share a vision,
                             and a sense of commitment to a more sustainable & peaceful future.



                                                                * Find your tribe.
                                                   * Share your work and resources.
                                    * Create a saner culture, grounded in the love of all life.

                                         Please, let's go beyond thinking outside the box.
                                                 In fact, let's step right out of the box.



 We can break away from the trance of false values foisted on us by power driven economic & political institutions.

 They'd much rather have us thinking about the sordid love lives of our media darlings,
              about Brad & Angolina's latest kiss and tell, than the inherent good of our people.

 We're jammed so full of snippets of information - we don't even know our own history.
 Studs Terkel, who chronicled modern American life for several decades, said...
          we've got a nationwide case of Alzheimer's, when it comes to knowledge of our recent past.


                                                       Wake up and face the facts.    
                                         KARMA IS REAL.


   After years of abusing the earth, the land, and the flora and fauna which we rely on - a debt is coming due.
                All our fabulous technology has created quite a toxic stew in our air, soil and water.

                  What will we do with the 64,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste lying in storage,
                       with the potential to poison generations thousands of years into the future?

     What about the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spilled as a result of the explosion of the
      Deepwater Horizon drilling rig? How long will it damage regional marine and wildlife habitats?

            When problems such as these are not fully addressed, they don't just magically go away.

                     No, in fact, the problems we ignore just get bigger and bigger,
                                                    until they demand our attention.





          Left unchecked, we've got ourselves some real doomsday scenarios possible.

                             Genocides. Starvation. Epidemics.
                             Economic free fall.
                             Record floods. Earthquakes & tsunamis.
                             Have you checked the news lately?


                            
                       May 2006 issue of Vanity Fair - artist's interpretation by Applied Science Associates Inc.


 "The image of New York City shows the effects of an 80-foot rise in sea levels.
  That's what would happen if not only the Greenland ice sheet but its counterpart in the Antarctic were to melt,
  says James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."

  At a recent meeting of world leaders, there was talk of trying to keep sea levels from rising less than a meter in
  the coming century. With about half the world's population of 6.5 billion people living near coastlines,
  a three-foot sea level rise would endanger cities around the globe.


                   "The threat of global warming has been recognized at the highest levels
                                               of government for more than 25 years."

   The Pentagon considers global warming (not terrorism) to be the greatest threat to our national security.


             

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         Throughout the ages, and all around the planet, prophets have predicted that eventually we'd face
                                     a major turning point in the BIG wheel of time.

                                                                       A transition time,
                                                 with the potential for destruction and turmoil,
                                                 and also the potential for rebirth and renewal.


              Different telling of an ancient story....whether you call it:

                    global climate change
                    or peak oil
                    the end in 2012 of the current 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar
                    or the transition to the Aquarian Age
                    or, dare I say it, an Apocalypse?


               But honestly, could we please quit projecting the idea of an apocalypse onto our collective future?


                                   Wasn't World War II, with its Holocaust horrors,
                                         and the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
                                             and the 72 million war related deaths around the globe.....

                                               ..... wasn't that apocalyptic enough,
                                                          to push us, once and for all, beyond waging war?


          



                            _____  Whatever you call this changing time we're in . . . .
                                                           Here we are. _____


                                                                 Right here, right now,
                                                       the Road of Life takes a major turn.


 
                                        Joanna Macy, a contemporary Buddhist teacher and scholar,
                                                            has labeled it,
                                                                 the Great Turning.


                                  This crisis of karmic debt will play out differently around the planet.
                                                It will play out differently in each of our lives.
         Your personal experience of this big wave of change might meet you on your flooded Main Street....
                                                      or in heartbreaking loneliness....
                                     or in the loss of loved ones to cancer, or a myriad of other ways.

                                               Who knows what joys and sorrows await us?

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                                                 Do we flow with this great turning?
                                                                            
         Or suffer the death that comes naturally to a bloated and unsustainable system?

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                                                          Do we "stay the course"?

                                                              Or flow with reality?

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                                  Because right here, right now, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.

                                                                     What's ahead?
                                     What do you do in unfamiliar, potentially dangerous circumstances?

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                                               Well you Slow Down, of course.
                                  You cut the motor & press down on the brake pedal.
 
                                             - slow down and assess the situation -


                      
                                           And then proceed with Alert Attention and a Kind Heart





       ....this "revolution is in part against the very speedup that has made us all busy, distracted, anxious,
       and unable even to perceive the tenor of our own times. So it is a revolution in perception and daily
       practice, as well as against the concrete institutions that spell the misery of everyday life for too many
       and the destruction of the Earth for us all. It may never be finished, but the time to join is now." 
                                                                                      Rebecca Solnit  (Orion May 2008)






                           I highly recommend:
                        
                                   "The Great Turning" & "Agenda for a New Economy" by David Korten
                                                                                 
                                   "The Real Wealth of Nations" and other books by Riane Eisler

                                   "The Sacred Balance" by David Suzuki
                                                                
                                                               
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