A weekend with Deepak Chopra

There were no animal carcasses among the thousands of human bodies swept away by the recent tsunami. What happened to the animals? They all ran away 2 hours before the wave arrived. They could feel the wave coming, says Deepak Chopra. Like birds that fall silent an hour before an earthquake. Uncanny? No. All things exist in a field of intelligence and animals are tuned in to this field and can pick up messages and sense things that we self-conscious humans cannnot detect. We can train ourselves to access this field of intelligence.

Last weekend we spent with Deepak Chopra and 500 other people, learning about SynchroDestiny. (It's about accessing the field of intelligence. I'll tell you more about it when I understand it better.) Deepak was very hot under the collar about Global Warming. "The Planet has a fever," he said. We have only 10 years left to do anything about it, he said he read in a magazine like Time. Deepak, don't read Time magazine - they set out to scare you. We think we've got 20 years at least. Tons of time.
Deepak said some other things that were more accurate and more pertinent for our quest*: "We are not outside Nature. We are inside of Nature." This means, "The Laws of Nature out there are the same as the Laws of Nature in here," he says.
Failure to understand that has led to our present predicament.** "Human beings feel they are superior to Nature, that we can conquer Nature. That world view has made us a permanently victorious species," he says.
The last permanently victorious species were the dinosaurs, and we know what happened to them.

Deepak has joined some other luminaries in forming the Alliance for a New Humanity***, a movement which aims to use consciousness and good works to reverse the negative energy. We think the Carbon Coalition is a positive energy action of the kind the Alliance is planning.

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*Our journey into the farming life was in part driven by the need to find an answer to the meaning of this ancient Hasidic saying (which sounds a lot like the field of intelligence stuff mentioned above):

"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy,
then from all the stones, and all growing things,
and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you,
and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you."

**I'm no Chicken Little, but I say "Let's act like the Chicken Littles are right and hope like hell they're wrong."

***"The Alliance for the New Humanity came to light spontaneously, when individuals from all walks of life, concerned about the dehumanizing trends that prevail in the world, got together to assess the deterioration of human values as perceived in the upsurge of, accelerating economic and social inequalities, terrorism and wars, social violence, ecological degradation and a generalized spread of social fear, individual frustration and lack of respect for life.
"They concluded that the root cause of these problems is the indifference to the other , as a result of the materialistic models adopted as organizing principles of society, with their emphasis on selfishness, competition, accumulation, and separateness. Many people in the world perceive the need for more positive thinking, for a more compassionate society, for a less poignant media envelope. The purpose of the Alliance is to connect these sensitive individuals, into a global human network, that leads to the creation of a critical mass that influences national and international policy towards a more compassionate humanity."