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The more I think about this, the more I realize that it is ... us to US. Each person. In each of their world corners. Whatever is unfair or unjust in your corner of the world, we should address it. That is what i am trying to do as I write my book showing what living in an HOA (essentially an authoritarian society) does to people. Writing it is an adventure, but a solitary one. Talking to this network of people makes it feel less solitary!

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Hey, Suzanne. I like the idea of the Zoom follow-up. To follow on from 'How We Saved the World' essay competition, it could be called the 'Now We Save the World Voice-fest' in honour of the winning essay.

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Except! Except, as far as physicists and cosmologists know, the expanding universe is tending toward ever greater and vaster degrees of separation, isolation, entropy, until ... silence? Cosmic death?

This is perhaps why we experience the creative act of our coming together, our "dialogues," as a kind of vital transcendence, and why our coming together in the face of death, in particular, is so powerfully evocative of our fundamental predicament.

I haven't given up on tempting some of you here to consider our everyday encounters with dying as practical opportunities to transform the planetary mind!

PS: Suzanne, thanks for your shout-out to the Scientific and Medical Network. The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness community at CIIS is very fond of SMN. It's a great venue for these ideas. Still, we must eventually break out from the scientific community and into the wider world of culture...

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We ate moving into the true age of Aquarius. it is a time of rebellion and disruption. Our solutions will be group oriented through the Internet meta-universe. It’s uncomfortable, disorienting and answers will come from out of the blue unconventional thinking. We have to live through this uncomfortable time of difficult change but we are headed towards Universal group, networking miracles. I celebrate this process of sharing new big ideas. Thank you. Adonnah

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The link to "Exploring the Relational Heart of the Cosmos" does not work. I was looking forward t reading it. It sounds close to Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", which made a great impact on me.

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Thanks for sharing these uplifting and inspiring words about community, Suzanne!

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