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12/ Some call it 'Good News.' Here's the Californian, Gary Snyder: "This is a revolution not of guns but of consciousness, won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, ecstasies and eschatologies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side."

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Quoted by@helioscomm Was turned on to the text by Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden, and one of the most-loved men I've ever known, as it happens. The text notable, also, for a Gary Snyder quote it contains - the source of which I've never been able to track down. ?s=20&t=1pKF-XvMdJcbxL3z5RG9PQQuoted by9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.Quoted by@RajaKorman @nils_gilman Brilliant. I saw it here, first. The heaven of earth we call it.Quoted by@nils_gilman Why does this matter? Because whatever we ultimately call it (‘dynamic planetism’?), it works. “If it works, it works, is life’s deepest philosophy.” @kevin2kelly. For crying out loud, it’s hardly a secret where the Death Cult Singularity is universally headed, is it?Quoted byend/ ?s=20Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Native3rd To let God, through us, befriend, yes.Quoted by@Native3rd To let God, through us, befriend, yes.Quoted by3/ And where so very many of our current obsessions and ‘intractable problems’ are freed into redundancy, immense pastures of promise and possibility, previously withheld, are simultaneously released to us. ?s=20