Watching the World Change from the perspective of approaching 2012

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This is really the opening article of this blog, but could be lost as the roll unfolds .... we are losing the past as the pace of change accelerates ... we can't hold the past in focus for ourselves as the family, cultural and even racial memories shimmer and fade ...

By the same token, we are also losing the future because the conditions and ingredients that we may have for the composing of our individual, social and cultural futures are no longer as certain as we may have once imagined ...

THIS is the psychic apocalypse. The end of the world, yes, but not the end of the world as we have feared, perhaps. Oh yes, it may well turn out to be that as well, especially if we panic and start running around every which way trying to grab what we can before it's too late.

Some of us are imagining a different progression ... a changing landscape that allows us to be renewed as our old imaginary shells can no longer be maintained ... or contain the implications of new revelations. In the 70's Steven Gaskin suggested that psychedelics were a sheep-dip for the ego. Washed and cleansed of some of the aberations and excesses, you returned ... Ken Keysey said we stood with our shells at our feet and had to reconcile ourselves to our shells or our shells to ourselves and ended up building better shells than the old Glow-Coat varieties. I am suggesting that this is now happening without the ingestion of substances and everyone is sharing the trip, so Mr. Bush looks like he's been up all night and is no longer declaring victory this morning.

Everybody knows ... that ... nobody knows ... anymore .... what is happening or going to happen next.

And Mr. McCain is extremely uncomfortable with it being this way just now. Even though Mr. Obama is surrounded by a crowd of people, advisors and handlers who are not all that different than those on the other side ... he, himself, still manages to appear relatively calm in the centre of his storm and THAT is starting to register ... those of us who have had some training in sitting down, shutting up and doing nothing for a gosh darned minute should be able to relate and may be called upon to help with nothing more or less than being ok to not know just yet ...

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