If I asked you to, would you sign up for THE HUMAN SURVIVAL COALITION? Here’s three minutes of what I’ve been up to that led up to where I am: This is my first post on Substack and I’d like to kick off with a big bang. Actually, THE big bang. Here we are, on a 13.8-billion-year ride, from quarks and gluons to us in the ongoing evolution of everything. That evolution occurs via relationships. Things rub against each other to produce better things. Everything builds on what came before, and we are built of everything that has been. It’s all one thing, rubbing and changing. It’s in a phase now that may cancel out humanity. Like the dinosaurs couldn’t survive the rub they came up against, we may not survive ours. Nature threatens us, no matter if we caused her to warm up, and, no matter where our pandemic came from, here it is and more to come. We need all hands on deck devoted to our survival. You can’t disagree with that, can you?
Maybe we could just smile at people we meet and pass by. Smiling sends a silent message. It is a timeless act of kindness and knowing. We need a coalition of smiling people - a genuine, heart-felt smile, not a smirk. The gesture would send a wave of hope and optimism that humanity can and will succeed despite the challenges we face.
Your plan for one "giant" to pick another is great, based on the social networking experiments of Stanley Milgram ("Small World," aka "Six Degrees of Separation"). It would be wonderful to film this process as it happens, resulting in a series of incredibly inspiring biographical films.
Perhaps you need a platform with a different audience. I have a few ideas. Reach out here or text me if you want to chat ever. There is something coming up in early March I signed up for. Who knows. I am also part of a mastermind inner circle for creating a profitable non-profit with some true action takers out of NM. If any of that sounds of interest to you, please reach out. I am a do it now kind of person, always looking for others of the same mold. Tag you're it. 404-399-8855 ... I'm in Atlanta area, eastern time zone
Suzanne, I love the video. I also followed your crop circle work and bought the DVD. I don't think I can get involved in anything more than I'm already involved in, but I do want to stay in touch. With 2 other women psychologists, I am founder of the Relational Literacy Project --a collaboration of relationship experts with the goal of making the best information about living in relationship available to everyone free of charge. Our premise is "the world is our client," and all human problems are essentially problems in relationship. This is very much like the unity in everything premise that you are fostering--discovering how we are all entangled, related, one being. I believe that if we could all discover/develop our right relationship with "everything everywhere," this would be the key to the survival of all of us (not just humans).
You are aways fighting for the greater good, bringing us ways to change the world. If I wasn't already impressed with you as a Mom, I am that much more impressed with you as a human being.
With the current political landscape trending more divisive by the minute, it would require extraordinary leaders to somehow cut through it. I hope they arrive soon.
I love Kate Raworth and the Dalai Lama. I think they both work for the whole as a way of life. (Kate has even worked out the technical details as to how we can collaborate and find new ways - involving conscious collaboration all the way.) I also think that Nature is only a threat if we don't change our behaviour. At the moment she is being forced to stand up for herself as so many of us are acting mindlessly. There is so much collaborative work happening (for example, rewilding in the UK as well as changes in Costa Rica and other places) where Nature shows us that if we, the humans, stand back and give Nature the space to regain her strength, she pulls through. Maybe some really clever people could work on a Manifesto for All of Life Itself. (MALI?) Take responsibility for every thought as well as every action? Take care?
I like the idea of a loose affiliation of like-minded and not-like-minded people aligned to a not yet clearly defined purpose. Welcome to the Guild of Dark and Light!
Great idea, but the list of people suggested for the council gave me the chills. With all respect and gratitude for their good intentions and good work in the world, most of them are completely clueless about the last few years and actively contributed to the mass suicide of the human race.
If we are to stand a chance to survive then we have to start with being lucid and with taking full responsibility for our current state. As dark and as desperate as it is. Delusion is the number one problem.
I'm working on combining abundant shellfish production with carbon sequestration in the ocean to help feed the world while removing CO2 and saving us from climate catastrophe. JimStewart@OceanForesters.org
Maybe we could just smile at people we meet and pass by. Smiling sends a silent message. It is a timeless act of kindness and knowing. We need a coalition of smiling people - a genuine, heart-felt smile, not a smirk. The gesture would send a wave of hope and optimism that humanity can and will succeed despite the challenges we face.
I think it is a worthy idea. It will be important to have representation of poets, artists, musicians, and non-celebrities as well.
Your plan for one "giant" to pick another is great, based on the social networking experiments of Stanley Milgram ("Small World," aka "Six Degrees of Separation"). It would be wonderful to film this process as it happens, resulting in a series of incredibly inspiring biographical films.
Perhaps you need a platform with a different audience. I have a few ideas. Reach out here or text me if you want to chat ever. There is something coming up in early March I signed up for. Who knows. I am also part of a mastermind inner circle for creating a profitable non-profit with some true action takers out of NM. If any of that sounds of interest to you, please reach out. I am a do it now kind of person, always looking for others of the same mold. Tag you're it. 404-399-8855 ... I'm in Atlanta area, eastern time zone
Definitely will take a village or a coalition for those creating a new future. Count me in.
Suzanne, I love the video. I also followed your crop circle work and bought the DVD. I don't think I can get involved in anything more than I'm already involved in, but I do want to stay in touch. With 2 other women psychologists, I am founder of the Relational Literacy Project --a collaboration of relationship experts with the goal of making the best information about living in relationship available to everyone free of charge. Our premise is "the world is our client," and all human problems are essentially problems in relationship. This is very much like the unity in everything premise that you are fostering--discovering how we are all entangled, related, one being. I believe that if we could all discover/develop our right relationship with "everything everywhere," this would be the key to the survival of all of us (not just humans).
You are aways fighting for the greater good, bringing us ways to change the world. If I wasn't already impressed with you as a Mom, I am that much more impressed with you as a human being.
With the current political landscape trending more divisive by the minute, it would require extraordinary leaders to somehow cut through it. I hope they arrive soon.
What is missing in the world seems to be the inability to talk to each other
HOWEVER
I think what you have in mind is action, change, and rallying the troops at all levels.
Deal me in for that.
Rick Stoff
Volunteer Collective
rick@volunteer-collective.org
I love Kate Raworth and the Dalai Lama. I think they both work for the whole as a way of life. (Kate has even worked out the technical details as to how we can collaborate and find new ways - involving conscious collaboration all the way.) I also think that Nature is only a threat if we don't change our behaviour. At the moment she is being forced to stand up for herself as so many of us are acting mindlessly. There is so much collaborative work happening (for example, rewilding in the UK as well as changes in Costa Rica and other places) where Nature shows us that if we, the humans, stand back and give Nature the space to regain her strength, she pulls through. Maybe some really clever people could work on a Manifesto for All of Life Itself. (MALI?) Take responsibility for every thought as well as every action? Take care?
I like the idea of a loose affiliation of like-minded and not-like-minded people aligned to a not yet clearly defined purpose. Welcome to the Guild of Dark and Light!
Great idea, but the list of people suggested for the council gave me the chills. With all respect and gratitude for their good intentions and good work in the world, most of them are completely clueless about the last few years and actively contributed to the mass suicide of the human race.
If we are to stand a chance to survive then we have to start with being lucid and with taking full responsibility for our current state. As dark and as desperate as it is. Delusion is the number one problem.
Wonderful idea Suzanne! Count me IN!
I'm working on combining abundant shellfish production with carbon sequestration in the ocean to help feed the world while removing CO2 and saving us from climate catastrophe. JimStewart@OceanForesters.org