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Thank you for setting up this zoom meeting. Your idea sounds intriguing and inviting! I won't be able to join you as I'll be out hiking in wild nature with a few supportive friends (my way of keeping sane and finding joy while leaving all that toxic stuff behind). So have a great session and hopefully I can be there for a future one.

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What a nice idea! Speaking of such things, I love the photo at the end of this article! Those street lights remind me, favorably, of the British street lamp that took root in Narnia.

That reminds me. A good topic for these kind of get-togethers could be people sharing their info on favorite books. Reading has always been a great way to escape into another place and time, to defuse and calm down. To see that there can be hope even when times are darkest.

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I am normally a very private person, but for you, I might just make an effort to be social. As I said, this will be my first Zoom call. Please be kind. :-)

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I subscribed to your Substack at the behest of your friend Jon R., also on Substack. Jon says you are a truth teller. So keep expressing yourself truthfully.

I am not sad personally but I am sad for America and what it has become.

Hence, I have been granted Permanent Resident Status in Brasil which is where I now reside. Love the food, people and beautiful beaches and Equatorial living. 🌴🌊🏖

I return to Texas annually for several months to visit friends and family and the track my Agent Orange anatomical effects from my Marine experience in Vietnam in 1966-67 at the VA in Temple, Texas.

War is not healthy for children or other human beings and NATO has the world on the cusp of WWIII. Thank God Mama Nuland has departed the Neocon State Department.

I will be observing the shitstorm from the beach in the sunshine of hope.🌞🇧🇷

Enjoy the Zoom conference. Bar gathering idea is a home run.

I will remain a loyal subscriber to your Substack.

Thank you.

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What a wonderful idea. When walking around Florence last summer, my wife looked at me and said "this is how we win, art and beauty".

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Celia, I love what you write here. It completely resonates with me, completely.

Being off the grid without wifi I can't do zoom. Wouldn't have the data capacity.

I would be happy to contribute writing, although I'm in such a grief cycle and writing into it often just pulls me deeper if I share. . . a dicey place.

I'll keep tuned in.

I love your idea here, even if it stays just a beautiful idea.

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What a fantastic human being you are.

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I love the idea, but prefer not to use Zoom to connect. Or, for that matter, any mainstream videoconferencing platforms. Why enrich our enemies and expose our personal data? Maybe Jitsi Meet instead? (Free)

Although I honestly don't know if another platform is even that much better but I still love your kind and loving contribution to uplifting the conversation. You are a beautiful soul, Celia.

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Lovely idea Celia. I can’t do zoom, but appreciate what you’re doing, especially going with the flow spirit. Also love your doing this today on a new moon. Enjoy!

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« I’m concerned that we are getting so sad we could actually die from that, if we don’t make a concerted effort to exit the gloom and trauma matrix. » This statement describes what I feel so I will be attending the Zoom.

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Celia...thanks for organizing the call today. Glad so many people joined. Important things are being touched on during this conversation, and true to form, you have pinned the essential point--the frequency of the human voice, poetry as distilled truth...things other people have said. I can offer some thoughts that I feel strongly will encourage you, enliven and brighten your outlook, and then your soul. There is a profound and very real basis for hope and deeper levels of illumination..and I hear you. The dream is not dead. It is on the brink of a new and deeper level of crystallization--what Jung called "The New God Image"... and I would love to be able to talk with you in more depth about it. There are 70+ people on the call and there won't be time to offer what I feel are essential and meaningful reflections on this call. Important--urgent--information to share with you, and it would be my great pleasure and privilege to be able to talk with you directly, or at least send an email to you directly. I followed you, literally for decades. I do live blood analysis and can comment on the science, medicine and politics of "covid," But what is of the essence, again, is to open the literal gate to our fundamental Buddha nature, Christ consciousness...the integral entity of life/universe in the core of our hearts, and that we can tap directly and extend into the locality of our communities and the infinity of space. I would love to talk with you if and when that might be possible.

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Thank you so much Celia, not only for your personal style of writing here, but for your new timely Zoom call, now in progress.

A certain thread ran through connecting a number of speakers, and that is a pervading sense of joylessness and hopelessness.

I have no exclusive access to this but on the next Zoom call, I would love to share a very short message of HOPE, which is far bigger and higher than all of us put together. 😀

Again I love your writing and look forward to each of your essays...

Godspeede to you and yours.

Shalom.

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This is a great idea! Sorry I can’t join in today, but hopefully another time soon! Kindest regards from the Oregon Coast!

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As the Taoists say, “Let the way show the way.” I know some people are leery of technology such as Zoom. But remember, technology on a Divine level of interaction, can provide a means for people around the world to connect. Can’t do that with a old rotary AT&T phone.

I support changes you propose Celia for your Substack, and using Zoom. Working today at that time, but will plan making the next call. Cheer and courage to all.

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I attended today but by phone and was not aware of way to "raise my hand" to participate. Is there a way to do this, as I'm not yet able to join visually. Thanks!

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Celia I have listened to the Michael Niehl interview. It is important and useful information...all true. The value of that information is provisional, though, relative to the tapping the fundamental source of our enlightenment. THIS is the JUICE. Belief and buy-in not necessary. If you engage it, you will KNOW.

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My email address is pollan2923@proton.me. Thank you.....

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