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</head><body><p style="margin-bottom: 0.11cm; line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Wow!! Thanks for this Bruce. You're absolutely right</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> – it's </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">overload at the moment; hardly a minute to even check emails let alone watch videos or read books so</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> – </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">if one person has put together a simple narrative in simple terms, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">something</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> that </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">can</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> appeal to and be understood by all levels of folk and explain </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;">what’s happening and why,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> that would be great. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"><br></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">For</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> me, I can remember the first time I spotted that </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">at this time of year, every year, seemingly</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> every single person was 'stressed' or over-emotional or</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">something. Everybody that crossed my </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">path was ‘in a state’</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> (and that was a lot of people</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">my house was like </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">Piccadilly</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> Circus and</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">even big men were crying.</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">) </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">S</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">o young children and lovely </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">mums</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">husbands, wives, lorry drivers, builders and office workers were </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">all affected no matter how much or how little </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">they</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> were part of 'the real world'. So here we are again, forty </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">years</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> later </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">with the same situation but this year, the planet itself is in a state too! </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">A</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">nd</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">I keep thinking that I need to write a narrative but</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">too little time or not focussed enough or..... Who knows what stops me. So if someone else has done just that very thing</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2"> – </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">wonderful.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">Thank you xxx<br></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">Peace and love xxx<br></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;" color="#000080"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" face="verdana, geneva"><span style="font-size: small;" size="2">xxxxx<br></span></span></span></p><p><br> <br></p><br><p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 22 December 2020 at 19:24 Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <chataction@communitymagic.org> wrote: <br> <br><div class="ox-3a1bfd341b-WordSection1"><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">I was absolutely thrilled the other day when I went to my postal mailbox and found a package from visionary writer Duane Elgin. It contained a very friendly personal note and a copy of his masterpiece “magnum opus” book “Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization”.</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">I know that today – just about everybody on planet earth is close to buried alive in links and information overload. That stress absolutely keeps us fragmented and scattered, as we skip from topic to topic with no adequate containing master/guiding vision. </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">But Duane Elgin does have a containing/guiding master vision, maybe the best there is out there today. Jean Houston says “Choosing Earth is the most important book of our time”. I don’t know of anything that can compare to it.</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">The complete text of the original version is available in PDF from his website</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"><a href="https://choosingearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ChoosingEarth_FirstEdition.pdf">https://choosingearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ChoosingEarth_FirstEdition.pdf</a><br></p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">You guys who want to help bring a guiding master-vision to this planet should know the content he presents. “Why reinvent the wheel 10,000 times….”</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">He is also developing a documentary film, which should be of interest to Leslie. </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"><a href="https://choosingearth.org/video/">https://choosingearth.org/video/</a><br></p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">And an earlier statement: <a href="https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AWAKENING-EARTH-e-book-2.0.pdf">https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AWAKENING-EARTH-e-book-2.0.pdf</a><br></p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">Blessings….</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">Bruce Schuman</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal">Santa Barbara CA USA</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net"><span style="color: blue;">bruceschuman@cox.net</span></a> / 805-705-9174</p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.origin.org"><span style="color: blue;">www.origin.org</span></a><br></p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-3a1bfd341b-MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote><p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000080;" class="default-style"><br> </p><blockquote type="cite">-- <br>ChatAction mailing list <br>ChatAction@communitymagic.org <br>http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org <br></blockquote><p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000080;" class="default-style"><br> </p></body></html>