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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Thanks for sharing this powerful article. This aligns with the new direction of Tedx with Ted Circles and with the discussion<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> circles associated with Catharine Wilkinson's and Ayana Johnson's
newly-launched All We Can Save project. Global and local discussion circles have so much potential for changing mindsets as well as creating community. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best wishes,</span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Diane</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 28, 2020 3:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'ChatAction List' <chataction@communitymagic.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ChatAction] Global scale study circles</font>
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Today, I’ve been working though the ideas and vision of Duane Elgin. His vision is so in-synch with everything I am doing. He was working with Jim Garrison in the 1990’s</p>
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Right now, I am particularly excited about his ideas for “Study Circles”.</p>
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In this PDF, he outlines the basic principles behind Study Circles – which I tend to see as the most powerful organizing idea in the world, and probably the master-design for the emerging new world – if there is to be one and we survive our initiation.</p>
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Take a look at this:</p>
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<a href="https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf">https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf</a></p>
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This is not newbie stuff. This is master vision from the masters, written in simple and highly intuitive terms.</p>
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And what is exciting for me is – the entire framework is written as a series of questionnaires – surveys.
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Duane Elgin worked with “electronic town halls” for years. Maybe this is the new design for a vast electronic town hall. That would be my dream.</p>
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Malini – I actually think this meets all your standards. I think that is probably true for just about everybody on Chat Acton. This IS an “action path” – maybe the most powerful collective action path ever possible – and maybe the only way we human beings
could possibly move forward together in a way that converges into wholeness and ONE.</p>
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Duane Elgin:</p>
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<a href="https://duaneelgin.com/">https://duaneelgin.com/</a></p>
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<a href="https://choosingearth.org/">https://choosingearth.org/</a></p>
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<a href="https://greattransitionstories.org/">https://greattransitionstories.org/</a></p>
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Bruce Schuman</p>
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Santa Barbara CA USA</p>
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<a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net"><span style="color:blue">bruceschuman@cox.net</span></a> / 805-705-9174</p>
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<a href="http://www.origin.org"><span style="color:blue">www.origin.org</span></a></p>
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