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There is considerable interest in a recent development of the Unicorn world that is to do with co-housing. A small group - four to start - is intending to acquire a small house in or near Frome, (West of England), as the first of several properties that will be the basis of a community of people who are interested in sustainable living.
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The models that everyone has been using to forecast climate change predict a maximum warming of 5 degrees by the end of the century. But Dr Peter Cox and his colleagues now fear those models may be wrong. Temperatures could rise twice as fast as they previously thought with irreversible damage just twenty-five years away. If we don't do anything by about 2030, we could have a global warming of over two degrees, and at that point it's believed the Greenland ice sheet would start to melt in a way that you wouldn't be able to stop once it started; it would melt.
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I recently came across an interesting website that links people who were born at the same time in different places—Time Twins. It lets you connect with some stranger from another land and you can see what similarities there might be, for example, in what you like and what you do. The results are quite fascinating! My special perspective is astrological, because that’s been a major study for me for 25 years or so.
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This quote on morphic fields and the related observation known as the 100th Monkey principle is from Dr Sheldrake.
The Hypothesis of Formative Causation states that the forms of self-organizing systems are shaped by morphic fields. Morphic fields organize atoms, molecules, crystals, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, societies, ecosystems, planetary systems, solar systems, galaxies. In other words, they organize systems at all levels of complexity, and are the basis for the wholeness that we observe in nature, which is more than the sum of the parts. According to this hypothesis, morphic fields also contain an inherent memory given by the process of morphic resonance, whereby each kind of thing has a collective memory.
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Whilst Walking |
Only 364 shopping days to Xmas… |
Whilst walking along a beach, a man saw someone in the distance repeatedly pick something up off the sand, and throw it into the ocean.
On closer inspection, he could see thousands of starfish stranded on the sand. Unable to reach the receding tide, the creatures were slowly dying. The young man was picking the starfish up, one by one and throwing them into the sea.
After watching this seemingly futile effort, the observer remarked, "There must be thousands of starfish on the beach. It is quite impossible for you to get to all of them in time. There are simply too many. You can't possibly save enough to make any difference."
The young man smiled as he continued to pick up another starfish and toss it back into the ocean.
"It makes a difference to that one!"
Anon
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From Our Political Correspondent
As we race helter-skelter into the very last few dozen months before the nation picks its new champion, those of us given to contemplation will want to step back a little to consider the major contenders. Come what may and despite the poor choices available to us, there will simply have to be a new resident at 9¾ Downing Street. That person will wield the sorting hat over his ministers, trusting that between them they will have accumulated sufficient indiscretions to delight the mediadogs for a full season. Times are changing fast and we must be careful to choose a new age Dumbledore, one who will no longer need to be concerned so much with how to provide old-fashioned sleaze; new sleaze is descending upon us—Green Sleaze!
One can imagine conferences behind closed doors deep into the night, no sounds but the hoot-owls of Westminster, as secretaries and secret service agents scratch their heads to consider how to satisfy their leader’s demands…
“The press are bored with sex crime and graft! They want Green Sleaze or they’ll get dangerously restless, they’ll go looking for FACTS! What have you got for them?”
The toadies satisfy the big man for now…
“Sir Charles Fotheringay was seen eating a Big Mac. Harriet Bluebum was exposed putting recyclable waste into a trash can; two ministers were caught red-handedly having gay sex without a condom”…but will it last? Was sufficient damning evidence collected in the past before sleaze was green? What now will the paparazzi be chasing when the voters become bored with last century’s version of naughtiness? Does the new administration, untrained as it is in phoenix-lore, have the sheer vision to invent ecology-crime from the ashes of the sundry peccadilloes that are suddenly, to coin a phrase, as-dead-as-a-python-parrot. I fear we will all know soon enough—watch this space!
Nasrudin
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This period of history is so fraught with danger that many people are justifiably concerned that their way of life is permanently at risk from climate changes, war and pollution. The problem lies in the way we think. Humanity has misunderstood the nature of reality and is now facing the inevitable consequences of having ignored all the signs that indicated that a new paradigm had to be found. If we are collectively to change how we think, there needs to be some way that explains all of our experiences and is reasonably satisfactory to power-possessors and their advisers: scientists, sociologists, philosophers and religionists—whether Moslem, Christian, Jew or Buddhist..
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1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for all, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
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