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Stay on Track!
I grew up in a time when the best advice for protection should the evil USSR attack the USA (and hence the entire “Western” world) with “Atomic Bombs” was to duck and cover. A clever little jingle was devised along with a quaint animation of a turtle. There was an education programme generated to encourage school children to run inside should they hear the sirens. If they heard a large, loud bang and saw a super bright flash, “brighter than the sun” they should throw themselves to the ground and cover themselves with anything nearby, school desk, picnic cloth, napkin; perhaps the nearest other person. That was called the…
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MATRIX – The Festival of The Villages
Since the early 1980’s I’ve been personally aware that there are changes happening in our world that genuinely need our attention. The thing is that because we are just a short term speck on this existence, time can seem to move MIGHTY slowly. The newsmakes an effort to keep pace with all theminutia of every day, while the more expansive matters that take time just sit in the back seats, incrementally adjusting while our attention is elsewhere. Thirty or forty years goes by and those things just do their thing but don’t often call attention, precisely because they move slowly in terms of a human life. Just recently, some of…
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What is the secret of happiness?
There is an ancient and well-kept secret to happiness which the Great Ones have known for centuries. They rarely talk about it, but they use it all the time, and it is fundamental to good mental health. This secret is called The Fine Art of Not Being Offended. In order to truly be a master of this art, one must be able to see that every statement, action and reaction of another human being is the sum result of their total life experience to date. In other words, the majority of people in our world say and do what they do from their own set of fears, conclusions, defenses and attempts to survive.…