Next Free Teleconference:
Things I Learned in the ‘60s
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 8th, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm PST
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During the turbulent decade of the ‘60s, a great movement of people, young and old, changed the world. So many of the things I learned then have stayed with me and guided my life ever since. Here ‘s a random selection of a few of them:
(1) Smoking the stringy white things inside a banana peel will not get you high.
(2) Smoking stringy parts of a banana peel makes your throat sore.
(3) It’s not a good idea to drink too many bottles of hard apple cider at one time.
(4) It’s definitely not a good idea to drink too many shots of tequila at one time.
(5) Buckminster Fuller claimed (40 years ago) that we now have the technology to feed and house and educate every person on the planet. So it’s definitely time now to get on it.
(6) Riane Eisler had it exactly right in The Chalice and the Blade (and later in The Power of Partnership): Working in partnership with people is easier, more healthful, more effective, and more fun than getting locked in any kind of domination or exploitation of people.
(7) The Course in Miracles had it exactly right: We have a choice, every moment, between fear and love.
(8) The young people had it right: Love is more powerful than fear. Love is the answer, the solution to the world’s problems. It has been said for millennia; perhaps Jesus said it best: Love one another, as I have loved you. Jesus was a shining example of compassion, forgiveness, and love.
(9) When we love each other and work in partnership together, we can fulfill Bucky Fuller’s dream and make the world work for all, feeding and housing and educating everyone on the planet.
(10) Taking care of our people and our planet is, in the long run, good for the bottom line profit of every business and corporation.
(11) We don’t need money to be happy or fulfilled. In fact, money has nothing to do with it.
(12) We are all in this boat together — we are one big dysfunctional global family. We’ve got to learn to live together without killing each other or exploiting or abusing each other.
(13) Riane Eisler said it so well: This is the Great Work ahead of us: the reinvention, the re-creation of society, so it is built on partnership rather than domination.
(14) And Henry David Thoreau reminds us: If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with unexpected success.
(15) The great German writer Goethe said it brilliantly: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
(16) There is nothing new in any of this. Patanjali wrote these words 2,250 years ago:
When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds.
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive,
and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
(17) Ramana Maharshi, one of the finest teachers in India in the 20th century, summed it up brilliantly:
The end of all wisdom is love,
love, love!
(18) Any philosophy, religion, form of therapy, spiritual path. or even business activity that doesn’t lead to love is not worth following or doing. The culmination of the greatest wisdom of the ages is love, love, love. Love one another as I have loved you.
There will be more on this in my next teleconference.
— Marc Allen