So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.
Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.
Crisis precedes transformation.
Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.
All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. . . . There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.