Sounds like an interesting thesis! Can you send it along for Richard and me?

Thanks for these thoughtful comments. What a different world it is, at a basic level of current activity, from just a short while ago, although what festered underneath that is what feeds the violence now. We needed something dramatic, like the virus, to get us to deal with the unworkable distance between the rich and poor, the privileged and the disenfranchised. When I contemplate the big picture, I may be naive but it looks obvious to me that the change the world needs would come from a changed worldview where we care about each other as much as we care about ourselves. We barely talk about that as we address the surface manifestations of unworkability, which is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic sort of stuff. We need to be working on bringing everyone up from extreme poverty to a level of at least sustenance, with food and shelter and education. Call me naive but why not? If the billionaires came together in that spirit, I bet they could work it out. And, let’s get on with some version of Universal Basic Income, which I see as an inevitable salvation. (Our program about that was A WORLD WITHOUT WORK: https://tinyurl.com/yd8exatm.)

Hey hey hey, I really appreciate the feedback. Will listen again with what you said in mind. Since every comment made stands for some large number not made, and I wouldn’t want anything to get in the way of delivering what the really interesting people I speak to have to say, will be serious about paying attention. And, thanks for the appreciations. We do go way way back so you also have my bigger picture. I think you were part of the gang here when Ramana held court. Have you listened to the podcast with him? https://suespeakspodcast.com/3-ramana/

What a pleasure to meet a counterpart of myself. That we “are here primarily to observe and appreciate the wonder of the Universe” is what Brian Swimme says in The Universe is a Green Dragon: this sentient universe, that always is evolving itself, took a chance on making humans because they could destroy the earth but it gave the universe a way to appreciate itself. “Evil from Cosmic Risk” is the name of the chapter – and indeed we’ve been good at the evil part and it’s not clear yet if creating humans was a good idea. I so love Brian – as does Richard – and, if you haven’t read Green Dragon, you’re in for a big treat.

Your thoughtful response made me do some homework to watch the YouTube videos. I actually heard Paul Hawken deliver that talk in L.A. years ago. A big yes, although reading talks isn’t my favorite and when he read it in L.A. I was impressed by that astonishing collection of forward-thinking organizations and frustrated that there only was that and nothing about what to do. The Story of Stuff was impressive on all counts — so well done and a very clear demonstration of GNP and what’s wrong with measuring success by it. A very very good demo!!!!!

What a good idea WikiDelphia is. Does an entry in it make me an honorary citizen of Philadelphia? Your website, http://www.communitymagic.org, also is a great project. It’s challenging to get people to engage with each other, which we need more of in this era where we are so separated, and it looks like you indeed have got some magic going that makes that happen.

Thank you, Suzanne for what you are doing. You are part of the solution!
And I honor your work here:
https://wikidelphia.org/SUE_Speaks_-_Searching_for_Unity_in_Everything.
— Stan

I so enjoy talking to Richard and was glad to be able to share some of the dialogue we’ve been having for decades now!

I was concerned about doing him justice and am so glad his “gift” got delivered!

Your work is so broad and profound that it would take a lot of study to understand it. With my keen interest in conversations provoked by what I put out, perhaps you could cut to the chase and give us a very brief intro to the fundamental difference in your fascinating model from how we conduct education. How about a comparison to the Waldorf Schools?

I looked forward to this being provocative, so I appreciate your confirmation of that!

He doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, and, in fact, he is in a period of profound questions. Hopefully, this podcast will be provocative to others, as it has been to you, to see beyond whatever implosion he’s in. If you had more to say, that would be very good.