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What if we’re not connected to but affected by the whole? If we no longer need to picture a wire between us…what possibilities does that open to us?

:- Doug.

I may not be able to change the world much
But I can change life
Whatever living I add
Adds to, multiplies, transforms life:
There is but one life

:- Doug.

There are different ways to be near each other: to harm; to help; to ignore; to ask what they need; to offer what we think they need; to tell them what they need; to witness; to touch; to stand by. But since we are near, inevitably our life is adding to theirs, theirs to ours, so we best choose our way.

:- Doug.

In human space we see people “come alive” when they are working together. This seems so simple, like child’s play. But it is not. It is profound, and nearly invisible. To get people to work together, get people together working. Working on what they love.

The group becomes cohesive, coherent: a single organism, bigger than the sum of its parts, with new qualities. A clock is more than a collection of springs and gears. Yet what happens in humans, and maybe all of space, is of another quality beyond this: it is not a product of organizing done by an outside agent (in the case of the clock, a brain); each individual is made larger, has more living aspects, and each of these intensifies the other organisms it is part of and touches.

:- Doug.

If a body, which has some gravity, is between the earth and the moon, where it tends to go depends upon its proximity to the two bodies. If it is closer to the moon, the moon’s gravity attracts it there. Its gravity does not change the moon’s gravity field, except perhaps in an additive way, by adding its weight to the moon’s. But in the case of two fields of life, centers, both glow more brightly when they are near each other and helping one another.

:- Doug.