Will L.A. ignite the fire of love?

To melting and melding our hearts

Coming to you from L.A. where we are praying for the winds not to reignite our fires. My car is packed from when a disaster for my house was averted because the winds had died down, so the Hollywood fire got extinguished with no structural damages. It’s still packed from being in the path of a recurrence.

The best thing to come out of this tragedy would be what nothing else has been the impetus for, to unite us as one family. Our collective pain, felt all over the world, could be our collective salvation. Our best hope for this incredibly creative species is to get all hands who are devoted to averting an apocalyptic future on deck. Even our resident billionaires might feel the fire, where there won’t be any recognizable world for them to lord over if our operating system stays to their much greater advantage. (See Sam Harris’s brilliant riff on billionaires yesterday.) Our number one priority is for love to supersede money, and for that to happen unifying us comes first.

Since what’s called for so we have a tolerable future involves consuming less, just urging individuals to cut back wouldn’t create the massive participation that could make a difference. Massive change would come from a team spirit of a united humanity, feeling itself to be a family, accepting hard things in order to have anything.

Power was out for days here, and Part Two of retrospective highlights has to wait. Instead, here’s something already prepared I’ve never shared. It’s a highlight reel for a TED event I produced a dozen years ago. Watching it now tuned me back into a TED drama about my beautiful program, that was so progressive, getting labeled as pseudoscience. And it’s almost funny to discover how my new ideas are actually echoes of old ones. They all reverberate, “We are one.” And, even though TED is 12 years old, it’s not like sort of quaint old movies. I was mesmerized by how the content could pass for being in present time.

For anyone interested, here’s a deep dive into that dramatic TED situation, where my event that had been under TED supervision in preparation for a year, was labeled as not suited for TED when they made new rules for what belonged on their platform. Other forward thinkers, like Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake, who are in my video below, also got into difficulty over that. Even now, as science expands ever-further beyond materialism, it would be progress if TED gave me some hi-fives for what I was prescient about.

MISSION STATEMENT for Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? Making the Quantum Leap.

More for you is more for me. We will illuminate the urgent need to change our fundamental value system or worldview to one in which humanity pulls together rather than separately. This view would supersede the current worldview where whoever has the most toys wins. The new view is based on what science tells us about a quantum universe, with everything being interconnected and all of us being interdependent. A new science-based vision won’t take hold, though, until people know and understand that there are more humane alternatives. This is what our presentations will focus on. Our hope is that our presenters will impact the world’s thinking about how we interact as global community. They will demonstrate and propose action on how practical programs and technologies can be implemented in communities everywhere.

This is the highlights video for the Ex TEDx West Hollywood presentation of Brother, Can you Spare a Paradigm? Making the Quantum Leap, re-edited from the original to relate best to our world now.

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