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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I just now flipped on the TV here, to the PBS New Hour – and the host was interviewing fabled filmmaker David Attenborough.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In his last words, in answer to a question from the interviewer about whether he is a “optimist”, and speaking of what to him is very obviously an acute global crisis, he said very emphatically<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That’s my mantra as well. Don’t screw around with lesser ideas, it’s a waste of time on a dangerously sluggish learning curve.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>His Wikipedia page states that he is an agnostic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We can strongly and absolutely assert ONE and unity, without being hung up in religion. Or – because it is a very plausible argument – we can vitalize and rejuvenate religion – it can be pretty good stuff when it’s tuned in. Tuned up the right way, it could be a major global power-vector for aligning collaborative work across all cultures and traditions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh, and now on KCET, the oriental news program NHK is saying that “Collaboration provides a path out of the pandemic”. People working together in smoothly coordinated harmony. Where does that resonant understanding come from?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think it comes from people getting cool and real. Poor people always figure it out first. They have to love each other to stray alive. Arrogant backbiting is a luxurious feature of too-comfortable cultures.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net">bruceschuman@cox.net</a> / 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.origin.org">www.origin.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Shannon McArthur <sparklingwithall@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 4, 2020 12:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> Bruce Schuman <bruceschuman@cox.net><br><b>Cc:</b> ChatAction List <chataction@communitymagic.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ChatAction] Metamorphosis and transformation<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Beautiful, Bruce; thank you. I've witnessed some of Troy's work and been attracted by the World Summit - <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>so much work by <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>so many <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>aligns... and the form of the butterfly / phoenix / dragon comes in formation...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(through and in) Love,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Shannon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:22 PM Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi People –<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thought you might find this graphic interesting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>This emerged a couple of years ago when I was working closely with a group called “World Summit” – I think Troy Wiley drew or designed much of this, and I have always really liked it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>This, too, is a “12 sectors of the wheel” model, and it shows the all-important convergence process as categorical differences tend to merge into unity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>And of course, it builds on the famous butterfly/metamorphosis images.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m inclined to diagram this kind of social transformation in much more detail – but it’s great to have a good image of the big picture. I don’t if I have seen an image I like better.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><img border=0 width=764 height=894 style='width:7.9583in;height:9.3125in' id="gmail-m_7359609273872228759Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D6CA56.0ABA5470"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" target="_blank">bruceschuman@cox.net</a> / 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.origin.org" target="_blank">www.origin.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>ChatAction mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ChatAction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">ChatAction@communitymagic.org</a><br><a href="http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org" target="_blank">http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>