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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>Thank you Shannon, this is fabulous. It brings tears to my eyes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And oh yes, your answers are great.<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> Saturday, December 5, 2020 7:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> Bruce Schuman <bruceschuman@cox.net><br><b>Cc:</b> ChatAction List <chataction@communitymagic.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ChatAction] Act as ONE<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'>Dear Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>YES!! ( I know, and I have held this urgency within me --damping it down while walking my path and trying to not let it get the best of me while I waited for The Call, wondering if I would know it when it came and worried with every turn of circumstance if it was too late but holding faith that the magic that I embodied upon my path was not wasted...)<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'>I answered those questions last night and will do more delving today with Lesley. AND I want you to know that last night I dropped into TheConversation.cc and Jamen and others were creating a video for Elon Musk. Rolling out Jamen's plan to truck (by Tesla Truck) vegan stew to everyone in their homes - the fresh produce his plan needs was the perfect opportunity for Our Heart Gardens, and so I rolled that thought into the video in support of Jamen's concept. WE DO NOT HAVE TO ANGST OVER THIS - we just have to focus and move forward... it is all waiting for us, though the opportunities will not wait forever. We MUST act, but not in worry or fear. It is LOVE that will move this train...<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'>These are MY answers to the questions. It is only natural that I have a different perspective - it is how we merge them into a focus that the people of the world can get behind that is -- the fun part!<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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>1. HOW do we “Act as One”</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Focus on a shared goal, a dream, something that sets our hearts aflame - like the moon shot! We are the Child of Gods...</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>2. WHAT is the ACTION we are to perform AS ONE</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Feed humanity while regenerating Mother Earth - Our Heart Gardens (Oh-Gs), etc.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>3. What is the expected IMPACT of the ACTION</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We shall create abundance and joy for all, and a Beautiful Adored Mother Earth - a vibrant network with heart-cores that pump abundance and healing and joy into the fabric of the One we are</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>4. What is the OUTCOME that the impact is supposed to ACHIEVE</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We will discover What the One We Are is, and the power we hold.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>5. Is there a more efficient way to achieve the SAME outcome.</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>No. imho</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I love you guys; I've waited all my life for you, and now...<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'>Shannon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 7:28 AM 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'><i>“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>1. HOW do we “Act as One”?</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>2. WHAT is the ACTION we are to perform AS ONE?</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>3. What is the expected IMPACT of the ACTION?</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>4. What is the OUTCOME that the impact is supposed to ACHIEVE?</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>5. Is there a more efficient way to achieve the SAME outcome?</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>- Nirmalan Dhas - <a href="http://planetaryguidance.org/" target="_blank">http://planetaryguidance.org/</a></i><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'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Interesting to see these questions – and with some obviously necessary apologies for attitude and intensity:<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'>In my opinion, this entire ChatAction HR Support project should be about these issues – pretty-much just as Nirmalan states them. Why are you wasting your time doing anything else?<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'>You guys should be looking at these questions – and forming answers – and developing a platform and method for collective activism based on those answers<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'>(instead, he said, of jumping with glee every day to the next shiny object)<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'>Read this. Burn it into your brain. Do you agree or disagree?<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'>“You guys should be looking at these questions – and forming answers – and developing a platform and method for collective activism based on those answers”<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'>Otherwise, he said, this discussion is one more distracted gesture in scatter-brained futility. Sorry for the push – but have no doubt. This is the raw life-force speaking. Get on the freaking train. <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'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Two points:<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'>- Some issues have arisen in my world which create and motivate a sense of high immediacy. So I am inclined to push pretty hard.<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 – maybe surprisingly -- in the last couple of days I started sketching a comprehensive framework, kind of like a “book” – that addresses almost exactly these questions Nirmalan asks. <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'>His questions are practically the table of contents of what I wrote. He outlines the major issues – and we need a team of activists with a reasonable level of mental competence to take the constructive activism – actually doing stuff – that these co-creative answer imply.<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'>Are we capable of this – or are we just going to get excited about the next new-age person or thing we didn’t know about yet?<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'>So, again, sorry for the snarky edge to my attitude. My world is on fire, so I am in a hurry.<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'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>So yes – thank you for these questions, Nirmalan.<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 think the biggest challenge we face is systematic fragmentation and the distraction that goes with it. We must act through holism and integrated vision – yet what we are actually doing is skipping merrily across the field entertained by the next fragment. How do you put out a fire? You get organized, and you use everything available – your knowledge (skill), your tools (firetrucks, airplanes, axes), your resources (water) – and you put them together into coherent action, and with luck and grace and energetic teamwork maybe you are successful and the elementary school (or entire town, like Paradise California) does not burn down.<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'>Is that a hard concept? No. Are we confused about this? Or are we actually not interested in coherent action?<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'>Maybe to be a little more reasonable and respectful, I should say or admit that this is very big thinking and a meaningful and organized response is not likely to pop out of a hat. It takes time to build a powerful and meaningful organization, and it almost certainly takes money.<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'>Maybe I should calling a townhall meeting, or showing up at activist conferences. Is this a “religious” vision I am carrying? Maybe yes. It’s about ONE – which is the core idea of religion.<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'>But ONE integrates MANY – and without integration all you have is scattered fragments – perhaps arguing amongst themselves into a state of paralyzed gridlock, like we are doing today in the United States Congress. A fire department in gridlock.<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'>So how do we blow our way through this?<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'>We need a better design (as per Nirmalan’s suggestions) – and maybe an extremely powerful voice of spirit that sees the vision and can excite the activism.<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'>What I would say is – right now we probably do have the design (answers to the questions) – but the raw power – might not be available. That’s the scary part.<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'>Anybody up for dealing with any of this?<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 would say – that if I could have anything in the world, my highest dream and hope and prayer come true – it would be a circle of people who cared about these issues, and were capable of showing up and staying on point, and doing their part. A really cool volunteer fire department – maybe with some money-raising capacity.<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'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><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><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nirmalan Dhas via ChatAction<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 4, 2020 9:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Julie Wolf via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ChatAction] ChatAction Digest, Vol 3, Issue 9<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>1. HOW do we “Act as One”<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>2. WHAT is the ACTION we are to perform AS ONE<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>3. What is the expected IMPACT of the ACTION<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>4. What is the OUTCOME that the impact is supposed to ACHIEVE<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>5. 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Re: Metamorphosis and transformation (</span><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>bruceschuman@cox.net</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>From:<span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><<a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" target="_blank">bruceschuman@cox.net</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>Subject:<span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Re: [ChatAction] Metamorphosis and transformation</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>Date:<span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>December 5, 2020 at 05:45:43 GMT+5:30</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F'>To:<span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>"'ChatAction List'" <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi again.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>His Wikipedia page states that he is an agnostic.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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. <span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>/ 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>Shannon McArthur <<a href="mailto:sparklingwithall@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparklingwithall@gmail.com</a>><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>Friday, December 4, 2020 12:48 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>Bruce Schuman <<a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" target="_blank">bruceschuman@cox.net</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>ChatAction List <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [ChatAction] Metamorphosis and transformation<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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 - </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>so much work by </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>so many </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>aligns... and the form of the butterfly / phoenix / dragon comes in formation...</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>(through and in) Love,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Shannon</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:22 PM Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi People –<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><image001.png><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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><span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span>/ 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>--<span class=gmail-m-431383558209771126apple-converted-space> </span><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></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br><br>ChatAction mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:ChatAction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>ChatAction@communitymagic.org</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><br></span><a href="http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></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>