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The hero’s journey is where one person brings back the boon for the community. We are now seeing that the path leads on from there, and that we are headed in the direction of becoming a true we.

There are forces which seek to pull us apart, help us to the side of the road where we too can throw stones and roll in obstacles. But these forces are to be given their due: arrest and containment of their hate, so that the community can move ahead. There will always (that is, for as far forward as I can see) be this side of us that is not met and desires not to be met. There will always be competition, separation, and vilification. These need not hold us back if we see them for what they are: the forces of destruction, the forces we need at times, but the forces that, if left to their own devices, will annihilate life.

So perhaps we enter the heroic community’s journey. Hero’s derivation means things like superhuman strength, physical courage, demi-god, defender, protector, watcher-over, great bravery, chief actor in a story. I like this last: what nuance it lends is that the heroic community is the chief actor in its own story.

So what is a prototypical heroic community’s journey? It is one faced with a need to move, which causes it to hear all voices: those of the external world putting this demand upon us; those internal to the community inviting us to make various responses; those of all of us seeking to bring wisdom and wholeness. Once we have heard the voices, we determine immediate next steps. From these twins (hearing and action) we gain hope. We take our steps and then step aside and hear again. A cycle is initiated: hear, respond, hear…. A respiration: in and out, back and forth. We are spiraling to new views, new wholeness, never complete, ever completing. Or so I envision today.

:- Doug.

Hearing brings hope.

:- Doug.

We may be nearing the end of the hero’s journey, the beginning of ours.

:- Doug.

Of what are we made? What’s between the atoms, the electrons, protons and neutrons, gluons and all the rest? Space. Vast amounts of pregnant space. Open space is what we’re made of. It will do us good to open more. It will do us good to share. Let’s open space!

:- Doug.

That we are progressing is true. Where we will arrive is far from certain. There is no arrival point given us to see. Ours is only to choose directions for the next step.

:- Doug.

What if we took it seriously?
Soul & its growth—beyond personal to world’s?
Seek you first…
How is it with your soul?
How is it with the world’s soul?

:- Doug.

I twinkle, I dance, I hug
Learned it from you

:- Doug.

I need to take more time to just be. To be present, to hear, to look at the clouds, to feel the breeze.

:- Doug.

I want to make it a bigger habit to look for beauty in the day and people round me, to be hear here. Now is the most important.

:- Doug.

The events in Greece and Spain and other places recently show up the danger that governments, even and maybe especially free ones, when they see more readily that they have no control, will seek other means of control, and the most imminent one is force: police and military.

But we are seeing what is going on. We can communicate and share photos and videos and open ideas. This makes it possible for us to open the world to other and better possibilities, possibilities for beauty, cooperation, interdependence, possibilities for humanity.

So part of our task is to help people grasp the enormity of their power: their power of insight and invite.

Bring the margins to center. Keep turning. Make life!

If we can keep this up, if we can have more people ready to see beyond a crisis to the field beyond where we can meet, then we increase hope for our grandchildren. Merely making known that there are such meeting fields increases the chances that some of us might make it.

:- Doug.

We don’t need to get any place
We’re already in a place
Yet we need to move

:- Doug.

You are a door, a poem and a green shoot.

:- Doug.

We are here
and
We have a direction to go

:- Doug.

I thought perhaps it was the churches
Who held for us the higher possibility
& Then I saw it is all & each of us

:- Doug.

We can always do well from here.

:- Doug.

Plan for the next re-evolutions:

We do not need to march. We do not need to make a big display of ourselves in Syntagma Square. We can meet in small groups all over, connect ourselves with technology (even when the government shuts down the Internet, we have the technology to throw together junk to create our own Internet—think FabFi), and make ourselves heard through many channels. The power of the people is just dawning…on the politicos. Look what happens when there is a scandal about a politico: gone in a few days. We can appear, do our meetings, vanish in an instant, coalesce again somewhere else. We can use a different method of communication each time. We can plug into where the decisions are being made all the time…because we are the ones to make the decisions. Can we do better?

:- Doug.

What good could 20 ordinary folks do together that one keep-it-for-my-own person won’t?

:- Doug.

Think larger than global; act local and.

:- Doug.

Two gardens we are given to tend
The one within our fence
The one without, embracing it

:- Doug.

When I follow
My inklings
My real self comes out

:- Doug.

A new crisis every month!
These are calling our attention
Some of us
Some days
Get some inklings

:- Doug.

All my life I have sought a longer view. I wanted to see the grand sweep of history and our role in it. It turns out I have developed a skill: I see bigger things, I hear things bigger, through me come bigger questions. Ask what you will.

:- Doug.

Ask again
Can we
Do better?

:- Doug.