Emails
to Paradigm Shifters website
Thursday, 20 April, 2006
In an email summarizing the April meeting, Sal Morgan
wrote:
... And finally, Dave Ullin read a piece that he wrote.
Several people asked that it
be put on the web-page or on the announcement ...
Here it is (& Thanks, Dave):
On
the morning of 9/11/2001 I was doing repair work on a boat at Winslow Wharf
when I started hearing upset people talking about the planes crashing into the World
Trade Center and Pentagon. (I live on a boat anchored out and don't have a
radio.) Some of the people living on
boats in the marina who had gone to work came home early (mid-morning) because
the news was so troubling on their minds they couldn't concentrate on their
jobs. But I feel this way every day.
It
seems to take spectacular events to get people's attention. Many don't seem to see what I saw instantly
when I started first grade after coming from a pioneer-like start, that this
culture is geared to frivolous fashion.
This human-centered extravagance requires a terrorist attack against
nature every day to keep the show rolling.
Resource use keeps expanding beyond basic needs because there is a market. It is our choice, the consumers!
We
can slow the train by examining the driving motive. Most of the material accessories to be 'needed' are only to
conform to the show. Basic hands-on connections
with nature build the self-confidence to be free of peer pressure and 'just say
no' to the show.
I
had the advantage of gaining quiet contentment from the purposeful activity of
keeping my mother supplied with stove wood and buckets of water and helping
tend the garden. From my father I gained a feel for hand tools and a sense of
communication with the material being worked.
I
believe that community wells to carry water from, and community gardens, would
go a long way toward building a society of care and respect for resources and
each other.
The
definition of altruism is: 'mindful of the wants and needs of others".
When a group of people tend a garden together, and share the learning
experience, mindful of the plants' wants and needs, their human egos will be set
aside because of their focus on the plants' needs. This experience then will naturally carry over into their way of
being in the world.
David Ullin
Spring 2005
Sat., 7 January, 2006
WOW! I just checked the web site and watched the
trailers. Truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing this. …
-----Original Message-----
From: Peggi Erickson [mailto:peggi.erickson@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:19 PM
To: 'Baker Stocking'
Subject: RE: Paradigm Shifters Meeting #10 Next Saturday at 9:45 (!)
Baker:
I just saw a marvelous new movie called
"One". Have you heard of it? A middle aged lawyer
from Michigan woke up one morning with an urge to make a movie about oneness
and the meaning of life. He and his wife and some relatives set off to
ask a set of questions of people on the street. The questions They asked
can be found on the website for the movie: www.onethemovie.org they ended up
interviewing many spiritual teachers also like Robert Thurman, Father
Keating, Deepak Chopra, etc.
Sada Ross, Sal Morgan and I went to see
the movie in Seattle last night. The film maker was there and we got to
meet him. Discussion groups are forming in Seattle to discuss the
questions. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is even starting a discussion
group in Seattle on the questions.
All the marketing of this movie is by
word of mouth. It is playing in Seattle for a limited time (through Jan
19th I think). Like 'What the Bleep', it is starting out in very limited
release. But word is getting out and it is going to be going around
the country and around the world.
I think many of the Paradigm Shifters
would be interested in this movie. Could you pass this information
along to them?
I also think the questions on the
website might give our group ideas for future discussion topics.
Blessings.
Peggi Erickson
Wed – Thurs., 16-17 November, 2005
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cowan Ludden Beene III
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:06 AM
To: Paradigm Shifters
Subject: Re: Once a month?
Baker:
Meeting of a subgroup would help, I believe. There
just seems to be too many questions and with more answers, it just leads to
more questions. Fun huh?
An Emails section would be just the ticket to allow everyone
to see the correspondence. Good idea!!
…
Blessings,
Be at Peace in all things, Jim Beene
Paradigm Shifters wrote:
Thank you, Jim.
We really enjoyed your presence, too,
and hope to see you often. Several have asked about meeting more often,
but many more of us have felt that the current monthly schedule is close to the
limit of our schedules. I sure wish I were retired; then I, too, would
want to do it more often. Certainly I think this topic is worth further
discussion. Perhaps a subgroup could meet more often.
Yours is the first email received
by the web site directly. Since I am the keeper of the web site, I am so
far the only one who has seen it. Would you mind if I share it with the
group? One way to do that without filling everyone's mailboxes would be
to post it on the web site - perhaps in a new “Emails” section that would
function somewhat like "Letters to the editor". If you say OK,
I'll do it, and then announce the addition.
Thanks for sharing, and I look forward
to much more.
Baker
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cowan Ludden Beene III
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:39 PM
To: paradigm.shifters@comcast.net
Subject: Once a month?
I thoroughly enjoyed my first meeting with you last
Saturday, November 12th. With events in the world moving along at warp speed, I
just thought that I would suggest that we meet more often. I guess there's not
enough time for anything when you're living in compressed time. Oh! by-the-way,
time is not actually be compressed but creation energy is. Want to know more?
Blessing to all, Jim Beene
-- The world is changed...I feel it in the water...I feel it in the earth...I smell it in the air...
For now none live who remember it...
History became legend, legends became myth...