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One key and new thing last night in my dreaming: I seem to have crossed a borderland, although it is totally feeling and realization without any words or images. And part of that is this curiosity: eager caring and trouble for what you have to offer. It is a change of direction from How we converse, to What we converse about. It is high time I entered the actual conversation, and this contact followed my sleep time invitation to Sarah. I have a grandchild, she told me her name is Sarah, she is not yet born, will not be born for 230 or 240 years. I invite her to converse about how to human better. With me, with us.

:- Doug.

Joy virtue
infinitely
unrealizably
incomprehensibly
curious

it is enough
to be created
to create endless novelty

embody
the tumultuously creative spirit
live our personal lives in zest

Practice conversation among generations; share all that is of value in our respective world-spirits; grow a truly inclusive community; a single mind and heart. Thus we work to increase our lucid consciousness and work away from drowsiness and senility. Live our sheer hunger for experience! Be loyal to spirit.

:- Doug.

This morning I dreamed long and deep. Though the details are gone, I know progress and contact have each been made. A barrier has been crossed.

:- Doug.

I am going from counseling with people to moving together through a landscape curious and wild.

:- Doug.

Are you curious? Strange. That’s my name too! Strange Curious.

:- Doug.

What will we make of this course of curiosity?

:- Doug.

The big question upon which to work is Can we human better? The smaller questions are With whom do we work, and How.

:- Doug.

Mycellium is an example of one way life converses with life.

:- Doug.

Why do we want to reach toward the past and the future? What other purposes are there beyond sheltering, yielding, and disposing?

:- Doug.

Talk less. Invite questions.

:- Doug.

This substancing some call mind, some spirit. This verb-noun, this gerundive, this thing-action is the stuff of life, and living, and possibly all beyond. We-I. Whatever, wherever, however it is and does, this making is our home, and our proper service. We can help one another.

:- Doug.

Not only conversation, community also. Community with ancestors fore and aft. Might we gain?

:- Doug.

A guess starts to open mysteries: a pick to touch the lock’s first cylinder, a finger that might beckon us inside the first curtain.

:- Doug.

To guess with creates more possibilities than turning our backs.

:- Doug.

Pursue the adventure
Life & spirit

:- Doug.

To guess about another human with them is far better than to ignore them.

:- Doug.

To ignore the grandchildren is to starve them.

:- Doug.

The grandparent experiments: Can we human better?

:- Doug.

What we don’t know of necessity exceeds what we do know, and especially what we know that cannot be so. Our increasing knowledge, a bubble in the night, only increases our contact with and desire for the unknown.

:- Doug.

We are extending the temporal reach of the mind.

:- Doug.

What you dream up is real. The fact you invented it out of whole cloth does not deny its reality. It exists. At last. As real as the stories we all tell ourselves of what our spouses, children, friends, and the president are up to.

:- Doug.

Experiment vs exercise: Watching, wakeful, follow, play, weigh, to test, to try. It gives it a focus truer to what we want: collaboration to see what might happen.

:- Doug.

If it is within us and our experience it might be within theirs in 300 years. Experiment here to uncover human.

:- Doug.