[ChatAction] ChatAction Digest, Vol 3, Issue 92

Wed Dec 23 17:32:13 MST 2020

Dear Malini,

The Earth is fine.

I find the increasingly UGLY egotism of the thought that “we must save the planet” nauseatingly revolting.

I have no idea how the mental structures that generate the “beginnings” and “ends” the “causes” and “effects” and the “times” that we then perceive and attempt to impose upon life can be transformed into open and liberate and unbinding ones OR how our awareness can be 
Increased to include that of the digital “shell” with which we are trying to “capture” and “entrap” the world in a narcissistic ego stimulating, aggrandizing and alienating exercise.

It seems to me that this continuing refusal to accept that we “do not exist” except as an aspect of what we perceive arrogantly as our cosmic "environment” and consequently exploit and”use” for our “well being” rather than as “ourselves” and relate to accordingly, is a species-wide problem not limited to this or that demographic category or geo spatial location.

Those who can see this are linking up to “be together” and “do nothing” to the extent that they can.

I know that once more words do fail me but that is a consequence of their limitations and cannot be helped.

Regards
Nirmalan

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>   1. Come Play With Me - for 2 days only
>      (Bridge To Partnership Kathryn Alexander, MA)
>   2. Re: Duane Elgin - Choosing Earth (Infinite Life)
>   3. Finally found the Film HOME (Infinite Life)
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> From: "Bridge To Partnership Kathryn Alexander, MA" <bridge2partnership at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ChatAction] Come Play With Me - for 2 days only
> Date: December 23, 2020 at 05:26:36 GMT+5:30
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> Please play. The link will only be active for 2 days. I'll share the results.
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> The question: What is a living planet?
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> From: Infinite Life <salesatinfinitelife at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ChatAction] Duane Elgin - Choosing Earth
> Date: December 23, 2020 at 12:12:22 GMT+5:30
> To: stan--- via ChatAction <chataction at communitymagic.org>
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> Dear Bruce,THANK YOU FOR THE LINKS.
> Have downloaded the books and will read. 
> Ive watched the trailer. Well I have my views on that.
> Im looking to see if I can find a movie called "HOME"  on line. when I find the movie I will certainly share.
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> I used that movie as an introduction to all the sessions I used to teach. ( I was a visiting professor for ENvironmental Sciences in a few universities and colleges.)  This is because in December of 1999 the supreme court of India directed all universities and  affiliated colleges and independent educational institutions to introduce environmental education as a mandatory module in their curriculum. And in compliance with that order many activists and experts in various fields were called upon to create a course and a curriculum to deliver lectures on environment. ( I happened to be one of them and developed and delivered a 12 weeks program consisting of 2 lectures twice a week in some universities ).
> Anyway it was not until August of 2014 that the University Grants Commission came up with a six months module syllabus to be mandatorily introduced in all the universities and colleges across the country. So from then on till 2017 I taught that syllabus. 
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> To be brutally frank on the subject my apologies in advance on this rant : Its about the narrative that I'm finding in almost all the forums.
> -  My whole take on the current save the earth movement is a classic case of a spoilt child " me a culpa!!!!" wanting every one else to solve a problem it has created.  That is the "I want". "I need" ,"My way is the best way". " What I say goes" narrative that caused the problem in the first place is now looking for a "WE" to solve it and make it right. But it doesnt want to put in the effort to change but is happy to pontificate and expect the rest of the world to answer its call to action. All the movies Ive seen on the subject including the trailer of  Duane Elgin - Is white and mostly american  and male perspective, With a few women thrown in for effect, but all singing the same story.
> Just listen to the World Economic Forum talks, interviews and videos and you will see in which direction this spoilt child is going. It still refuses to accept it is the problem not the rest of the world. It now wants an industrial revolution 4,0 to pacify it.
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> I think it's time we call a spade a spade. if we have to make a difference and see a new world emerge.
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> Which is why Ive put together a list of over 6000 organisations working on these issues. Stan will be making this list available on othernetworks.
> If we really want to make a difference , it needs for us to work as a team, reach out to those organisations in countries other than USA,UK and Europe and listen to them, find out what they are doing and also to engage with them in dialogue.
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> With best regards,
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> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 00:54, Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <chataction at communitymagic.org <mailto:chataction at communitymagic.org>> wrote:
> 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”.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> The complete text of the original version is available in PDF from his website
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> https://choosingearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ChoosingEarth_FirstEdition.pdf <https://choosingearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ChoosingEarth_FirstEdition.pdf>
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> 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….”
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> He is also developing a documentary film, which should be of interest to Leslie. 
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> https://choosingearth.org/video/ <https://choosingearth.org/video/>
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> And an earlier statement: 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>
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> Blessings….
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> From: Infinite Life <salesatinfinitelife at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ChatAction] Finally found the Film HOME
> Date: December 23, 2020 at 14:06:24 GMT+5:30
> To: stan--- via ChatAction <chataction at communitymagic.org>, Sailesh Rao <srao at climatehealers.org>
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> Dear All,
> It took some nifty searching and finally found the film. Here is a link. Its like non other Ive seen so far.
> https://youtu.be/ghkQoJoipbM <https://youtu.be/ghkQoJoipbM>
>   Please watch it on a large screen if possible your TV the audio and angle of film is simply outstanding.  I used to stream it via a projector from my pen drive on to the college auditorium screen. 
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