[Springboard] Critical Contradictions

[Wayne Ellsworth]

Thanks, Bill and Jack, for these insightful underlying  
contradictions.  The 2008 conference is aimed right now at MDG's and  
'classical contradictions',  that many in Japan are far beyond in  
their thinking.

Please give attention to the formulation of the working groups that  
are really needed!  That will happen over the next next three to six  
months.  It will be an on-line dialogue.  Some ICA's will make a  
signifiant contribution.  But how do we get input from Africa?

Also, we will in Asia look carefully at what you are doing at the  
Dhaka Regional Meeting Dec 2-3, and start the ball rolling here.

I think we must look at both underlying contradictions, and also at  
where the Mystery is calling us to move.

And, the role of higher consciousness practices should enter into our  
thinking.

Wayne

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On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Bill Bailey wrote:

Perhaps, to honor our insight that Symbol is key we could state the  
central contradiction as:

Our economic, cultural, and political stories and structure promote,  
enhance, and reward a human centered worldview with an anthropomorphic  
God figure that promotes and rewards economic, cultural, and political  
imperialism rather than structures and spiritualities that support an  
earth based community. Until there is a reformulation of the symbol,  
education and style systems from its human-centered-worldview to an  
earth based worldview there will be no lasting and authentic change.

(Perhaps something like a universal 5th city model based on  
reformulating The Political, Economic, Cultural (Education-Symbol- 
Style) structures and stories that will change our human-based into  
earth based worldview)

As Thomas Berry so eloquently puts it, “The historical mission of our  
time is to reinvent the human-at the species level, with critical  
reflection, within the community of life systems, in a time- 
developmental context, by means of story and shared dreams.”

Bill Bailey

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] On Behalf Of George Holcombe
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Springboard] Critical Contradictions

I would add to those contradictions the fragility of our health  
systems.  In Austin, there are attempts underway to have systems in  
place at the neighborhood level in the case of a Flu pandemic, which  
could sink the present system overnight and we wouldn't be able to  
depend on our hospitals, physicians or mortuaries .  We've been pretty  
good cutting back on known infectious diseases, but with global  
warming, diseases that were once confined to certain zones are now  
coming North, along with insects, such as the pine beetle that are  
taking out forests in Colorado and Alaska.  Peek Oil is also in play,  
actually for the past 5 years at least, in which supply is outrun by  
demand.  In many countries, I'm told, fuel prices have doubled and in  
China there are fuel shortages for trucking.

Jean Watts' husband Bob, could probably provide us with a most up-to- 
date view of Global Warming.

George Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin, TX 78728
Home: 512/252-2756
Mobile 512/294-5952
geowanda at earthlink.net



On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Jack Gilles wrote:


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