<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">It's in Every One of Us to be Wise
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(112, 117, 122); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: white;">It's In Everyone Of Us lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc</span></div>
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<div><span style="caret-color: rgb(112, 117, 122); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: white;">Beth Brownfield, Bellingham, WA</span></div>
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<div jsname="U8S5sf" class="ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">To be wise</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Find your heart</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Open up both your eyes,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We can all know everything</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Without ever knowing why,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">By and by </span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">To be wise,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Find your heart</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Open up both your eyes,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We can all know everything </span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Without ever knowing why,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">By and by </span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" class="ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I just remembered</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's like I been sleeping for years,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm not awake as I can be</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But my seeing is better,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I can see </span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Through the tears,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I've been realising that,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I bought this ticket</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And watching only half of the show,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">There is scenery and lights</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And a cast of thousands,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Who all know</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">What I know, </span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And it's good</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">That it's so </span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" class="ujudUb WRZytc" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">To be wise</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Find your heart</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Open up both your eyes,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We can all know everything </span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Without ever knowing why,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">By and by,</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">It's in everyone of us</span><br>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">By and by</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Bridge To Partnership Kathryn Alexander, MA via ChatAction <chataction@communitymagic.org><br>
To: bruceschuman@cox.net<br>
Cc: ChatAction List <chataction@communitymagic.org><br>
Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2020 2:58 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [ChatAction] Act as ONE<br>
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<div>Thank you Shannon for the inspiration!</div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;">What is the action required to act as one</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;"><span> </span>Consistently
work from the Resilient value Set</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;">What is the expected impact of acting as one</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;"><span> </span>Shift
all of our actions to supporting Earth as she thrives</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;">What is the outcome of acting as one</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;">A healthy, vibrant, robust planet
and a joyful, exuberant and creative humanity</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;">Is there a more efficient way to achieve the same outcome</div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:New;letter-spacing:0.75pt;"><span> </span>Not
that I can see at this moment</div>
Warmly,</div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 7:25 AM Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”<u></u><u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>1. HOW do we “Act as One”?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>2. WHAT is the ACTION we are to perform AS ONE?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>3. What is the expected IMPACT of the ACTION?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>4. What is the OUTCOME that the impact is supposed to ACHIEVE?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>5. Is there a more efficient way to achieve the SAME outcome?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><i>- Nirmalan Dhas - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://planetaryguidance.org/">http://planetaryguidance.org/</a><u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">***<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Interesting to see these questions – and with some obviously necessary apologies for attitude and intensity:<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">You guys should be looking at these questions – and forming answers – and developing a platform and method for collective activism based on those answers<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">(instead, he said, of jumping with glee every day to the next shiny object)<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Read this. Burn it into your brain. Do you agree or disagree?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">“You guys should be looking at these questions – and forming answers – and developing a platform and method for collective activism based on those answers”<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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. <u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Two points:<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">- Some issues have arisen in my world which create and motivate a sense of high immediacy. So I am inclined to push pretty hard.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">- 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. <u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">So, again, sorry for the snarky edge to my attitude. My world is on fire, so I am in a hurry.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">So yes – thank you for these questions, Nirmalan.<u></u><u></u></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></div>
<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Is that a hard concept? No. Are we confused about this? Or are we actually not interested in coherent action?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">So how do we blow our way through this?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Anybody up for dealing with any of this?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">Bruce Schuman<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">I just now flipped on the TV here, to the PBS New Hour – and the host was interviewing fabled filmmaker David Attenborough.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">“If we are going to solve it WE MUST ACT AS ONE!”<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">His Wikipedia page states that he is an agnostic.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><b>From:</b><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span>Shannon McArthur <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sparklingwithall@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sparklingwithall@gmail.com">sparklingwithall@gmail.com</a>><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span><br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, December 4, 2020 12:48 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span>Bruce Schuman <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net">bruceschuman@cox.net</a>><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span>ChatAction List <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b><span class="yiv2830412226gmail-m_6328403175902447471apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ChatAction] Metamorphosis and transformation<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">Beautiful, Bruce; thank you. I've witnessed some of Troy's work and been attracted by the World Summit - </span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<div class="yiv2830412226MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></div>
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