Larry Robinson is a retired psychotherapist and poet. In the early 2000s, he was the mayor of Sebastopol, California; his party affiliation was the Green Party. Around this time, he and I collaborated on a seminar in Santa Rosa. I no longer remember the topic of our seminar, but I remember Larry’s presentation style. In addition to his substantive concepts, clear thinking and articulate speaking, he would recite poems to accentuate his points. He’d lucidly expound on an idea, then quote a poem, taking us into the other side of our brain and another way of knowing.
I'm honored to be in such good company of people seeing how breakdown leads to breakthrough. However, there is another aspect of our situation that belongs in a comprehensive observation, which is how the danger in our time, where in the interconnected world we are in there is no guarantee we won't heat ourselves, or bomb ourselves, or in whatever other capacity we have to inflict devastation that we will get through that valley. "What is reasonable is that the next decade will be when the polycrisis statistics peak," where, "The polycrisis could well bring a massive civilizational setback," and the urgency to "get it" is what could be added to this, or what to follow this up with.
It seems that the Rainbow, Shambala, and Sadvipran armies have been building for some decades now. Perhaps it is time to unite and make our presence known more loudly.
I'm honored to be in such good company of people seeing how breakdown leads to breakthrough. However, there is another aspect of our situation that belongs in a comprehensive observation, which is how the danger in our time, where in the interconnected world we are in there is no guarantee we won't heat ourselves, or bomb ourselves, or in whatever other capacity we have to inflict devastation that we will get through that valley. "What is reasonable is that the next decade will be when the polycrisis statistics peak," where, "The polycrisis could well bring a massive civilizational setback," and the urgency to "get it" is what could be added to this, or what to follow this up with.
It seems that the Rainbow, Shambala, and Sadvipran armies have been building for some decades now. Perhaps it is time to unite and make our presence known more loudly.
Pope Leo has declared a "Global Revolution of Love." I'm on board!
Count me in, Gayla!