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There may be deeper neural pathways available to us than those we normally (easily) use for activities like short term memory and word association. Could we train ourselves to use these other connections for our larger purposes?

:- Doug.

It is possible there is something larger than any two fundamentalist positions. If so, we can transcend the dialogue of the deaf. We need, first, to admit the first point.

:- Doug.

Give us to spread the conversation whole making.

:- Doug.

Your dream be spread among us. My task too.

:- Doug.

May I open wide your can-playdom, too.

:- Doug.

Friend, you have been inviting me, you have been freeing me, you have been calling me. Now. My turn.

:- Doug.

Contemplating, I am
In conversation with
Larger
We notice
Conversation

:- Doug.

What do you know? Less and less about more and more is my reality. A more unifying question is what do we not know? Where are our mysteries shared?

:- Doug.

Conversation not the important
(My life has no parts)
Conversation is my life

:- Doug.

The human numinous coeur is available, can be touched. It may be hidden, and on purpose: still, it is common among us. Not everyone is your hearer. For those who are, this is the easy way. We bypass points of argument. We head straight for what we have in common: love of family, releasing our aliveness; our humanity.

:- Doug.

Basing our whole belief system on raising someone from the dead, or making wine out of water, is a bit flimsy. What if the magic is explained? Does that end our whole understanding of our lives? However, giving up one’s life for others is a profound thing, a human thing, and it is worthy of our attention, of changing our life direction. Worthy of being called God. Magic is something for free, this is costly. Which is more worthy?

:- Doug.

One little magic trick
Cannot be all
Upon which we base our life

:- Doug.

Appeal to the human numinous in the coeur of your hearers.

:- Doug.

The reason we distrust the politicians is that they first distrusted us.

:- Doug.

Conversation is the world: all creation reaches to touch and move what is there. So much so we see the spirit of the world seeking foremost the conversation of all with all. Being and doing are reconciled. We only exist in conversation, so that the doing of conversing is our very being.

:- Doug.

Pass around various cloths for people to touch: invite a conversation about how they are like conversation. Then, how they are conversation.

:- Doug.

The breath of life we have in common with all living beings. Spirit.

:- Doug.

War and terrorism are forms of conversation.

:- Doug.

See how conversations have unfolded over the eons: from the imagined grunts of cave people, to two people watching the stars, to our tribe around the campfire, to towns and councils and congresses, to letters, to telephones, to the Internet. Our world grows smaller as the reach of our conversation grows larger.

:- Doug.

Time is what we measure with a tick and a tock. No two ticks are the same; all tocks are relative to what we do with them.

:- Doug.

1. All life is conversation.
2. Conversation is the coordination of actions.
3. By coordinating actions we bring forth a world.

:- Doug.

Conversation is coordination of our actions; so silence, dance, touch can be conversation. Consciousness is exactly what it says—knowing together, socially as it were.

:- Doug.

What is going to be there just as long as you? Your lungs? Your legs? Your mind? All can leave some of us. Will it be you? What is the real you?

:- Doug.