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Decide to Network
Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations
Be aware of the Network. We live by a network of connections and links. Your connection to yourself, to your intimates, to your place, to the collective, to the planet, to the Infinite. (Each is a distinct connection.) Equally powerful are the collective's connections to you (not at all the same as yours to it), to groups of intimates, to itself, to the planet, to the Infinite. Finally, the connections of groups of intimates to one another, to the collective, to the planet, to the Infinite. All these levels and connections interweave. All are equally important.
All the links or connective points of this network (call them the acupuncture points of our universe) both take and generate energy. Any link out of sync weakens the others. (The West, for instance, has concentrated too much on the individual; the East, too much on the collective; both approaches have been catastrophic on every level of the network.) This network, from you all the way to the Infinite, is a living while, ceaselessly changing. Some of these changes take millions of years. Some happen instantaneously.
May the links of the network shine.
--Michael Ventura, "Solutions to Everything," in Letters at 3AM: Reports on Endarkenment (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1993).
