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Marilyn Ferguson: An Appreciation

Deepak Chopra - November 07, 2008

Reagan was on the rise, the anti-war movement had sunk to a low ebb, and the New Age was barely christened when The Aquarian Conspiracy appeared in 1980. Overnight Marilyn Ferguson's book became famous and sold in the millions. I was a young doctor who had just learned to meditate when I picked up a dog-eared paperback copy at a Catskill spiritual retreat. Ferguson's message shot through me like electricity: a "benign conspiracy" was bringing about the greatest shift in consciousness in the twentieth century. In one stroke Ferguson unified a movement that seemed like small, isolated outposts on the fringes of respectable society.

Ferguson was a uniter and a futurist. By showing feminists what they shared with environmentalists, New Age spiritual seekers with peace activists, her book inspired a movement that didn't define the future in terms of technology. Cell phones and computers were incidental. The real future lay in consciousness-raising on a global scale. Ferguson's "BrainMind Bulletin" made sure that her message kept up to date with scientific breakthroughs, and she joined forced with former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and his influential Institute of Noetic Sciences in California.

When she died this October at age 70, Ferguson could take satisfaction that a watershed had been crossed. For all the multitudes of people for whom Dick Cheney is more familiar than the I Ching, George Bush than the Bhagavad-Gita, her "leaderless revolution" has grown steadily around the world. Ferguson helped make possible a new style of politician like Barack Obama and ecological activists like Al Gore. She was a one-woman movement for hope. She promised every voice in the wilderness that there were a thousand other voices like theirs.

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Posted by Deepak Chopra at November 7, 2008 11:25 AM

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Dear Deepak,

I still have a hard back copy of the book, The Aquarian Conspiracy, it set me in motion in conjunction with George Orwells 1984 insight, a pre-emptive initiative was undertaken with a memetic engineering project which began on talk radio in the late 80’s and then the Internet in 1994.

Major Domo

majordomo - n: a entity who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another. From latin "major domus" - "master of the house".

Collective Control the New Master of the House

Decentralized Collective Control with Autonomous Feedback Systems for Self Regulation

Click my name read Major Domo

There was another vote on November 4th besides the one for President Elect Obama setting off another revolution.

THE WHITE SPACE REVOLUTION

The FCC gave the green light for unlicensed use of White Space

Please read the full article on Newswire to understand the full ramifications of what will lead to. [Click my name]

This has unleashed the largest revolution in communications history. A consumer owned and operated autonomous communication system. Each individual participant provides a small piece of the physical infrastructure and the power to support it's operation. A whole greater than the sum of it's parts is created.

Virtually free ubiquitous wireless broadband access to all Americans

" This helps close the digital divide and would lead to an almost virtually free Internet Access and communications with continuous global connectivity to the "Global Mind" and Universal Information System for both humans and devices. An individual would in effect no matter where we were standing have instant access to a vast store house of information and gestalt intelligence. Communications would become almost free as proposed in the White-Space project.”

You can also check out white-space.me click my name.

This is all part of the Universal Information System Architecture which creates total transparency with anonymity and privacy. In other words it is part of the solution to all the worlds’ problems and inefficiency and corruption. It provides the comprehensive management information needed to manage resuorces and value exchange both regional and planet wide.

I have now populated most of the links to the elements on the site to give insight..

Click my name to check it out.

M.F. sounds like an interesting person. Thanks for sharing.

I will be glad when internet becomes free, as it cost me a small fortune to just get connected and stay connected, as well as all the equipment, etc. I like the Starbucks concept, as I can come in and buy a cup of coffee and get connected for 2 hours each day via my laptop for free, which includes electricity. So it makes camping more civilized, as well as enjoyable. Thanks Richard for the info!

Cheers,
Char

The Aquarian Conspiracy

Sounds a bit like Project 13 in a way.


Secret Project 13

Secret: Def. #3: revealed only to the initiated : ESOTERIC

Click my name you have been initiated

By secret executive order

I’m studying A Course in Miracles and all the related material behind it and I just recently read “Journey Without Distance” The story behind A Course In Miracles. I’m extremely surprised to see that all the names Deepak mentioned here (Marilyn Ferguson/Edgar Mitchell/Institute of Noetic Sciences) were all mentioned in the book, all played a small part in the 10yr journey of The Course to it fruition.

Deepak,

Thank you for honoring this Elder who inspired and opened our eyes to new vistas of possibility. She taught us the difference between old and new paradigm models. I heard her speak years ago at Human Unity conferences. At that time there was a song that we sang all together:

"It's in everyone of us to be wise
Find your heart open up both your eyes"

This was my first taste of synergy...and I still love that e-motion that feeds the soul.

Trish~~


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