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These people are not merely older, they’re different. They have progressed. They live a larger world.

:- Doug.

We ought to be out ahead of the data; out ahead of the wisdom!

:- Doug.

You must. They’re all we’ve got. Trust the grandchildren.

:- Doug.

∆ Meaning of the Grands Relationship
+
Intentless Intent
=
∆ World

:- Doug.

We have a felt need to self actualize. We have a felt need to be part of a knit group. We have a felt need to transcend our group. This spiral is a package of contraries which allows us to live and grow. So our work For the Grandchildren is in main part to nurture this growth to be our full selves, to exceed that and to be our societal best society, and to exceed that. We are growing new minds.

:- Doug.

We are growing a new mind…of the grandchildren…of the ancestors.

:- Doug.

All my life I’ve been looking for you elders.

:- Doug.

If we look, maybe in some part the world is hospitable to the grandchildren, already. Look.

:- Doug.

Growth is dangerous
we may die
eventually we die

:- Doug.

Not only must we go beyond ourselves to grow the betweens, we have a need to transcend even these.

:- Doug.

Maslow tells us, if we look, that the way to best develop a grandchild, is to let her be. (Toward a Psychology of Being, p 199)

:- Doug

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1807

Conflict is un-banished
attack is received as signal
for hearing
for growing
for getting along
in that meeting-field
out beyond peace

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What is the very best of which grandchildren can be?

:- Doug.

Our world is hospitable when we continuously invite the grandchildren to become what they most deeply need to become.

:- Doug.

There is a cloud of 300 year grandchild-elders; they are concentrating on us….

:- Doug.

Elders are the generatives.

:- Doug.

The step beyond self-actualizers seeks to be us-actualizers.

:- Doug.

Meaning plus Intent to Participate equals World Shift. This intent is in the now: it is losing track, absorption, to be there; all three are in the present and vanishing like Alice’s Cheshire cat, leaving only the smile.

:- Doug.

The function of the elder is to erase the elder.

:- Doug.

If you tell people they are getting older, they will!

:- Doug.

When we are young
the great act is play
When we are adult
it is woman-man entwining
When we are elder
the great act is a converse
that is play infinite play

:- Doug.

You can give receiving.

:- Doug.

Unfolding conversation

:- Doug.