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Now I am no longer selling. I’m buying.

:- Doug.

Tell me something we didn’t know.

:- Doug.

“Input! Input!” demanded Number Five.
“Input! Input!” declared Number Five, gobbling.
“Input! Input!” cried Number Five,
Celebrating.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 670

My role is not to teach something I know, but to meet something we didn’t know. This is immensely more open and creative. There is not even a how for that.

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No one knows. All have limited viewing posts. All have small poke-holes. When we let our rainbows out, will we be able to stand the light? Yet we must, we must.

Ripping the grey cloth: there is a little poke-hole for me, for you: we must rip. When we see, we help others to see. When we meet, we open poke-holes. When we open poke-holes, we change the world. We transform ourselves. We grow to what is real. Truth is probably not the thing, truth is probably only a distant relative of, a shadow of, a map of, what is real.

It is essential for this planet and her peoples that we see the real. There is more, ever more. Quoth the raven. For if we are to keep from killing ourselves and the earth, we must meet the real. Every moment is a crucial turning point. We either turn right or into the mire. We must use all we have. We must meet with our whole beings. This is hard work. Shrink not, neither fear. If you die, so what? You have fully spent yourself in the real.

To meet the real: this is the purpose. So far as I see it at this moment. This is the question we all have: what is real, what matters, how do I meet it? How do we meet it?

:- Doug.

It is more important to have a clear consciousness than a clear conscience.

:- Doug.

The purpose is to get to the other side. The purpose is to get beyond purpose. The purpose is to get beyond our ready answers, having it all figured out to finding what is really there—all of it—all of us.

:- Doug.

Save the company is the highest calling of our culture.

:- Doug.

Dialogue can be to us as group journaling—out loud. Whatever comes up is the object. The purpose is transformation of consciousness. The purpose of journaling is the transformation of self—and it happens. Moreover, we face a crisis, a life and death breakpoint if we do not dialogue. Only dialogue holds out the hope of transforming how we awake so that we make a new Earth. Without a transformation, we die.

:- Doug.