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What do you want to elicit from the 17th generation?

:- Doug.

Our points of view as a culture have been narrowing. So our opinions also. The circle of beings for whom we care. How would a kinder humanity do differently?

:- Doug.

God seems to me thread running through all of life.

:- Doug.

Uncertainty is or is at the spiritual core.

:- Doug.

I understand, but I don’t want that. I don’t want fame; I am beyond wanting fortune. I want influence, but not acknowledgment: in the sense that I want to contribute to the long term betterment of the human project.

:- Doug.

Journaling, creating an artifact of, my journey is one way. I reach to touch you. Touching You touches you.

:- Doug.

With whom else might we converse, we who converse across the generations? What are the questions about which to converse? What questions would lead us to a higher humanity?

What is higher humanity? What are our highest aspects? Who are our exemplars and why do we esteem them? Lincoln, Gandhi, Jesus, Gautama, Tubman for examples. They showed us the best in ourselves. What best? Caring. Kindness. Big-heartedness. Strength in these. Vulnerability and humanness. Speaking to all of us….

So perhaps we can write biographies of human people. Or simply write why we revere these people. Pebbles in the forest, a trail to follow.

:- Doug.

So we have captured the shooters in the last two mass shootings. Here is opportunity: to learn from them the motivators for such actions, to see what we can do to make their world more calm and less hostile to them. This would do the same for the rest of us.

:- Doug.

Talk with a terrorist—and have a spiritual conversation.

:- Doug.

Why would you talk with a terrorist—unless it were for a spiritual conversation?

:- Doug.