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We are none of us complete personalities without all of us.

:- Doug.

We are not about changing the world, but growing a new trans-humanity. Persons who are more, who are to people as butterflies are to caterpillars. People : +Persons :: Caterpillars : Butterflies

:- Doug.

Each of us is, in our best moments, a prototype of the new human, in embryo.

:- Doug.

If we are to grow
If we are to progress
If we are to make a better world
We must converse

:- Doug.

It is our inmost selves who are already one. Hidden from view, touched and touching by a few, covered as by a grey cloth for most, a cloth diaphanous or blanketing. From here we reach out into the world, as our awareness opens the way: some to contend, some to embrace.

:- Doug.

We put a new reality on offer.

:- Doug.

How we shall be, how we shall live, a new form of species, is what is at stake: A new dimension that we have not lived before. The between dimension.

The between dimension. We are wide, tall and thick; we are also connecting. We may be connected or disconnected from others and from the all there is, at any particular time.

:- Doug.

“We always tend to forget that the supernatural is a leaven, a life-principle, not a complete organism.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe, p 111. We humans are not complete organisms, either. We need each other; we need the divine. When we reach out to others and to G*d, we are remembering that we are incomplete, and we seek to complete ourselves with others and the whole. No, we are not complete organisms: we are completing.

:- Doug.

We insist
We matter, all living matters
Collaborating we emerge
Betweens live

We insist
On inviting, bumping, turning
On birthing new higher humanity
We make ourselves the issue at stake

:- Doug.

We are working on the very center of the new humanity.

:- Doug.

This is news I can use because it helps us see the future species-persons we are working on.

:- Doug.

It is not just single persons who are under the grey cloth, but us all! Like the television ad for clearing minds and sight, we see through that grey cloth and it is obvious to us we see aright, but when we poke the holes and lift the grey away, we see brilliance and clarity. And so we lift this grey cloth from between.

:- Doug.

The new trans-humanity will be coming together, will be becoming one, with very individual knobs and fingers and hands reaching out, working the world into something beyond anything that we have thought human before. It will be a world where persons matter, where spirit matters. We will see that our logic and our reason are grand tools—to be utilized by our spirits. And we will find that we have one spirit, many hearts, many hands. Body will be important, and we will be in touch with all of us.

This then is vision to work towards. Not a foregone conclusion of what it inevitable. It is our destiny, but it is meeting ennui and outright resistance. We are not opposing what is evil nor what is not working in our culture: we are inviting to the work party.

:- Doug.

This Red Adair is not about putting out fires, but fanning them. It is about disorganizing, because what we have organized was for the old humanity, and that is passing away, we are coming anew, and we need new ways of seeing and relating with each other. No longer do we respond to mass mailings and speeches at us; we need to be involved. This is the energizing that is going on: to say that we not only can be but ought to be and want to be engaged. No longer are we Its and collections of Its who can be organized to march and force people against their wills. No longer are we a large number of people, a mob, a crowd. No longer are we consumers of things or ideas. We are persons, we are individuals, we are meeting each other.

:- Doug.

We are evoking a new species. We have never been here before, and where we go from here is our choice.

:- Doug.

I will not write a book unless it is alive.

:- Doug.

We are the origin, the beginning, the birth.

:- Doug.

It is precisely here, in the cracking open, that genesis takes place. There is a space, and a seed, and nutrience, and a reaching for the light, which calls to us. Work, work against odds, help us.

:- Doug.

If we make it our purpose to create a new species, the trans-human, then…?

:- Doug.

When we choose to make the world good, we enter the primary drama, full of protagonists (us!) and antagonists. Little wonder then that we arouse opposition.

:- Doug.

There is a drama being played out within us, moment by moment:

What is the drama? Giving up? Disenchantment? Ennui? Disintegration? Giving over to others? Thinking it’s all decided when it is your thinking that so decides? Others holding us back? Are we holding us back?

The dénouement is in the decision, daily.

There is a drama being played out within us, moment by moment: Will we make the world good, or will we not? We choose.

Do we speak with this stranger, or put it off till we are ready? When is ready? The opening is now.

The drama is Which direction will we choose?

There are a hundred directions to choose, both away from good and toward good. The drama is in will we choose for good, for the destiny of perfecting of the world, and in Teilhard’s thought, the arriving at something trans-human. So the perfecting of the world is in something a step beyond humankind. This is the direction we are headed. Will we do something to carry us beyond where we are, something better?

What is that next step? The indications are that it is in togethering, betweening, collaborating.

:- Doug.

How do you focus on a distributed G*d?
One at a time…

:- Doug.

It is not my job to energize you. It is my job to get out of your way and maybe help you get out of your way. It is my job to let you open your own way.

:- Doug.