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Friday Oct 09 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

I remember this phrase from the est training in the 1970s. It was one of the maxims the people received at the end of the program in ‘the little book of aphorisms’. This booklet was filled with Werner Erhard’s insights on life and basically reinforced the idea that ‘this is it’—life is what it is and reality doesn’t care what we think. The point was to stop being victims and ‘make a difference’. It was a great experience for hundreds of thousands of folks looking for answers to life’s big questions like “Who am I?”, “What is my purpose?”, “What’s it all about?”…. and on and on. The fact is that, in spite of VietNam and a lot of social unrest, those were exciting times when young Americans were beginning to wake up and take responsibility for their world.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Health

Tagged with: breakthrough_foundation eldering est health hunger_project purpose transformational_technologies vietnam werner_erhard

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Tuesday Aug 11 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

This week is the 40^th anniversary of Woodstock. Can you believe it? It seems not so long ago that we were all about “peace, love and music”—a generation that was going to change the world. And in many ways we did! In CBS’s Sunday Morning retrospective on Woodstock, the theme came through that the ‘spirit’ of that memorable event lives on in our children at outdoor rock concerts across the land. Historians, of course, work hard to understand and explain what happened there and why. But at the end of the day, it was just a ‘happening’—an unexpected and largely unplanned convergence of human beings celebrating life and the possibility of a better world.

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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: age_of_aquarius peace spirit tolerance vietnam watergate woodstock