I have a history, from when the Human Potential Movement was forming in the 1970s, of producing things. They’ve been of different sorts, to educate us and entertain us as we’ve been figuring out who we are. It was a kind of wild time, when, following the ‘60s, we started messing around with soul and spirit, and from then till Covid I kept working on projects connecting us up to what we’ve been becoming. Making L.A. a Friendlier City was the last project I did. It was very bad timing, where it was ready to roll just when Covid came along and people couldn’t talk to each other, so it’s still waiting in the wings.
Things changed with Covid. I’d had teams for all the projects, and for the first time I was solo. So, three years ago, I started this Substack. That got me engaged with the big world, still with that passion for connecting. Now it’s in quest of getting the family of humanity to click in.
I am so glad I have you to talk to, where making sense to you helps me make sense to myself. And I so want it to be worth your precious time, like I expect Georgia Lambert will be here. Her connect with the unseen world we swim in comes from the Wisdom, which is esoteric knowledge that sees universes, worlds, humanity, and all nature as different aspects of one evolving cosmic pattern, with a thread of altruism and service as the way towards bettering all life. It works with the facts we all know from an angle I think won’t be so familiar, where the more angles we see from the more our separation dissolves.
And Georgia is quite a being -- a world-class classical painter and a gourmet cook, who makes works of art in porcelain and weaves tapestries of her own designs. She tops it all off by being a lovely person. I feel so lucky to have gotten the perspective on life she teaches, when for three years I studied with her in a class called The Nature of the Soul.
This is 23 minutes of stringing together some key points Georgia made when a student of hers interviewed her recently. It’s not totally smooth but does hang together so you can follow what she says. If you want more, this is from his interview of her last year.
This came along last week, that fits so well with what Georgia says. It’s from a very special piece about where we are, that I urge you to read.
“Because part of the reason we’re here is that we never fully dealt with the darkest chapters of our own history. We never truly reckoned with slavery, Japanese internment camps, the genocide of Native American communities, and the systemic theft of their land. We’ve acknowledged them. And we’ve halfheartedly apologized decades later. But we never did the deep structural work to make sure the systems that allowed those atrocities couldn’t be reactivated. And now they have been. ICE detention centers. Family separations. Government-sanctioned cruelty carried out in our name. This is not new evil. It’s old evil in new uniforms. And it will keep coming back until we pull it out by the root.”
“That’s how these end. Not with one election or one trial. It ends in the actions we take every single day and our refusal to normalize what is happening. It ends with ordinary people choosing, again and again, to tear down the hatred the moment it appears. This is the commitment each of us must make for the rest of our lives to truly end this dark chapter.”
Does the President even know what is happening?
Heather Delaney Reese
Feb 21, 2026
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Suzanne, this piece lands for me because it refuses to look away from history.
We did not dismantle the systems that enabled slavery, internment, genocide, and land theft. We renamed things. We apologized decades later. But we did not do the structural work to make sure those patterns could not reassemble. Systems that are not dismantled will reorganize.
That is what feels so urgent in what you shared. The battle for ideas is not abstract. It is about whether we are willing to confront the architecture of oppression, the policies, incentives, and narratives that normalize cruelty, and interrupt it before it hardens again.
If we are going to talk about an uplifted world, it has to include accountability. It has to include a sober reckoning with power, history, and the ways harm is reproduced in plain sight. Refusing to normalize injustice is part of that work, but so is rebuilding institutions, shifting policy, telling the truth about history, and committing to long term structural change.
In my view, it is a human trait, perhaps built into our DNA, to have a morality as a core value. And when morality becomes trashed or eliminated, there is a yearning, an intention, a kind of suffering, to have it be restored. So, my view is that the "collective intent" to advance the "end" is driven by the longing to restore morality in our culture, our politics, and ourselves.