etch across continents, we become intimately interconnected at the
most basic level of earthly existence by jointly stewarding the energy that bathes the planet
and sustains all of life.
The new distributed communication revolution not only organizes distributed renewable
energies, but also changes human consciousness. The information communication
technologies (ICT) revolution is quickly extending the central nervous system of billions of
human beings and connecting the human race across time and space, allowing empathy to
flourish on a global scale, for the first time in history.…
ns, emerging parts of the fabric. But the new mythos has not yet emerged.
We will abide for a time in the space between stories. Those of you who have been through it
on a personal level know that it is a very precious – some might say sacred – time. Then we are
in touch with the real. Each disaster lays bare the real underneath our stories. The terror of a
child, the grief of a mother, the honesty of not knowing why. In such moments we discover our
humanity. We come to each other’s aid, human to human. We take care of each other.
That’s what keeps happening every time there is a calamity, before the beliefs, the ideologies,
the politics take over again. Events like Sandy Hook, for at least a moment, cut through all that
down to the basic human being. In such times, we learn who we really are.
How can we prepare? - We cannot prepare - But we are being prepared.
- See more at: http://charleseisenstein.net/2013-the-space-between-stories/#sthash...
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n and the reality. My vision, at that time, identified more with the "brown-stone" buildings of New York and the digital television watch of Dick Tracey than the "1984" scenario painted by George Orwell. Later in life when questioned as to my thoughts on "the simulation of the reality " and of a possible definition thereof - I often retorted that, by use of the ‘ideal system', "one would be able to jump off the white cliffs of Dover and walk away after the experience, without a scratch, but being a completely different person as a result of the experience." They all replied, as do some today, that I was in need of a frontal lobotomy.
Never forgetting that Lord Bamford pulled JCB out of the CBI business lobby group in 2016 over its anti-Brexit stance, and in 2017 called it a “waste of time”
• so just spare a moment or two to think about how much the
process of imagination must have been employed during the
establishment and continued longevity of the business of JCB.
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:16 on September 28, 2019