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by Paul Levy

The word “Buddha” literally means “one who has awakened to the dream-like nature of reality.” The Buddha wasn’t teaching that this universe was like a dream, he was pointing out that this universe of ours IS a dream, a waking dream that we are all collaboratively dreaming up into materialization together. The Buddha prophesized that an even greater incarnation than himself would soon be born whose name would be Padma Sambhava.
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By Jana Dixon

Here is the first run of the Visionary Solutions. Some of the areas yet to be covered are methods of overcoming fear, confusion, indecision, procrastination, dissociation, isolation, and programming, and increasing social-immunity, self-authority building, building visionary energy levels, group visioning, facilitating prophetic social chemistry via oration etc....

I am still looking for that definitive “World Visionary,” but it looks like we are all going to have to become it. I think that towing the middle road between planning for trouble, while integrally developing ourselves to create the skills and lifestyle that we truly "want" is the safest bet. Getting increasingly sober with the existing resources and using them maximally efficiently in the creation of a perma-culture, while deepening our sense of humanity is what is called for. Avoiding indulging in end-times mania, while maintaining an upbeat emotional tone will have to be focused on...the tendency to get swooped up in the ongoing chaos and confusion might be very strong if we lack a determined vision as to where we are going.

World Visioneering is a certain type of thinking that that both sees the stickiness of the problem, is not pessimistic or optimistic, but can still see steps on how to proceed, within the exponential complexity of the problemocrasy...and automatically sees that the problem is the solution! There is a huge gap in where the innovators/intellectuals are in the US to where the politicians are. Perhaps the dark had to come out of his hiding in order to instigate the huge push towards ecotopia.

We face an unprecedented situation where we have to fight both our nausea, hardening, fear, disgust, apathy, depression, and amusement etc...related to news. We have to put news into its historical context (metanews) while simultaneously making intelligent predictions...all this in order to know where we fit into the picture and our course of highest moral action.  read more »

By Steven Nickeson
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I accept commissions. I’ll stay on retainer and put as much of this Integral Province to the light as warranted by the time for which you have paid.

I rode in here almost three years ago and still find it a perfectly curious kind of midland. The inhabitants seem to be intelligent though a little bit credulous as if the last straw that drifted close to hand will prove without doubt to be their redemption. And they are earnest, they are nothing if not earnest.Generally they seem to be imbued with a sense of deferential propriety and are dutifully bereft of elegance…kind of like Canadians. Spending time in the midst of Integral Province media is not a lot different than spending time in Calgary. Integral people are perpetually courteous…like Canadians…courteous to the point that if Integral Province had a currency, a medium of exchange, the bills would carry the image of an aged woman who is the queen of another country. I find them quaint in that they put an inordinate amount of their credulous faith in words and even words that are only signifiers of other words. As a result their attention is solidly pegged into their media and they run the risk, blithely it appears, of having their system spiral into insular circularity; something of a congenital vulnerability within the Wholeness Perspective, the viewpoint that is definitely a Provincial given. This habit compounds the peculiarity of their constructed environment.  read more »