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Wendy Eck. (CO)'s avatar

Your article took me down memory lane recalling the grifts of the 60's and forward. Many of us sensed that something was not right but couldn't quite wrap our young minds around the notion that the flag to which we pledged allegiance was held high by those trying to bring us down. I appreciate your blunt truths in naming scams and the scammers.

Everyone needs to read this.

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Peggy Magilen's avatar

Indigenous living, and in our own childhood, we started in innocent blissful connection to nature/Life. An archetypal

call comes for adventure, and we are drawn away from our fullness, to the painful dramas of temptations, challenges, failures, and a persistently deep and haunting inner lack. What is thought to be the replacement for all this is aggrandizement and power, in order to feel full once again.

What eventually looms, however, is the abyss. We clear our eyes and ears from the outer distractions and increasing turmoil, and more and more loudly proclaim our inner humaneness, the heart knowledge that what we do outwardly, we do to our own children and planet, remembering and calling out that we are all interconnected, bringing transformation and steps back from the brink, we not just blissful now about connection, but informed, knowledgeable: reclaimed.

The renowned Hero's Journey, made evident eloquently by Joseph Campbell, and all transformational writings long before and since. Lead on, Thom.

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