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Listen to stories, ask deeper questions, ask them to ask deeper questions. Ask them.

:- Doug.

I am hopeful today: we humans love to stretch and be stretched; I think we will stay ahead of our creations by way of our imagination and our desire to stretch.

:- Doug.

Some scientists take the brain for the mind. Others say this is mistaken: there is a body-mind. Others see mind even larger, in the conversations among people. Yet life may be fooling us all, seeking to make the cosmos into mind, all conscious.

:- Doug.

Take the acorn seed and place it into the ground: it sprouts brain cells as roots and energy gathering cells as leaves: down and up. We look back and forward for our growth: our inspiration. Let us also look vertically: 360o all around. Then each of those in 360 powers: 360360. Then these to the power of imagination. (360360)i. Now we start.

:- Doug.

The purpose of life is to continue, that is, to expand. So too the purpose of God. Each becomes diffuse—which presents risk and opportunity.

:- Doug.

Take care
that our bettering
not limit our bettering

:- Doug.

Goals narrow to a point; purposes fan.

:- Doug.

Should we give grandchildren far-sight? To ask is to answer.

:- Doug.

Story can push out the limits of beauty and life.

:- Doug.

Do we talk about what is important? Do we devise deeper questions? Where are we going?

:- Doug.

Life is process, beyond product.

:- Doug.

We have experienced so many breaks with the past—the Renaissance with the dark ages, the industrial revolution from cottage crafts, quantum physics from Newtonian, Adam and Eve cast out of Eden, Jesus with past theologies—so many that humanity appears as the staggering of an intoxicated one.

:- Doug.

To our children-in-cages president: Remember that so long as any of divinity’s children are in cages, we are all caged.

:- Doug.

What were your last 3 dreams taken together telling you? Or if you do not remember dreams well, your last three movies or stories?

:- Doug.

Assume the basics, such as courage, love, beauty. Tell a story of the foibles and fables of you family lineage.

:- Doug.

Our sociological and organic direction have been toward ever larger: cells to plants and animals to Adam and Eve to tribes to nations; trades people to corporations; workers to unions to associations; individuals to Internet. Our technology has gone the other way, focusing on smaller and smaller, as if electrons and quarks were building blocks. Maybe these pictures are not true. Smashed atoms or smash datums—do either give us richer life? What if we split up people electronically, biologically, socially? Is there a larger that includes the small, local, exceptional? Is that possibly Reality?

:- Doug.

Maybe the machines and learned emergent algorithms will empower us to get beyond words and cognitive framing. For instance, can dreaming expand us?

:- Doug.

Is it possible to make sense of the novel? Making sense is inherently fitting into the pre-existing framework. Novelty is outside any pre-existing framework.

:- Doug.

We are the first generation of the long view. We are Robin Hood’s band—we have the long bow. We are tightening the string.

Again, we are the first generation of the big mirror.

We have a special opportunity.

:- Doug.

What are the dig deep questions?

:- Doug.

What do we expect of others and ourselves in a family setting? Business? School? Spiritual? Entertainment? Neighborhood? Government? Internet? Democracy? These are clues to our values which are candidates for transmitting to the generations.

:- Doug.

Tell the story of a non famous person in your life who epitomizes a good aspect of humanity.

:- Doug.

Write a letter to your 300-year grandchild elders with a vignette saying who you are this particular day you are writing it.

:- Doug.