1. Mind and Body

Experience shows neglecting a part of yourself makes it appear as an inner problem, outer anxiety or body symptom.

What you can do:

I. Use awareness, accept your diversity of images and dreams

II. Encourage medicine and psychology to cross their boundaries and come together to match your inner experience.

2. World Problems

If you or your group marginalizes a person or feeling, that person or feeling becomes a problem later on, or a group which attacks yours.

What you can do:

I. Consider how you are the other.
II. Encourage democratic theory and practice to deepen by using awareness methods.

3. World Problem 2003: Transform Groups into Democracies.

Very few of us are democratic enough to give equal representation to all our inner and outer parts.

What you can do.

I. Use awareness, notice your feelings, and become more deeply democratic.
II. Practice awareness of the “other” in groups
III. Realize, you can’t make a group democratic, but you can discover that with awareness, all people are deeply democratic. It’s our basic nature. (see Arny’s “Deep Democracy of Open Forums” for methods.)

4. World Ghosts 2003: Weapons of Mass Destruction

When terrorists and others “harboring” weapons of mass destruction become invisible, they become ghost roles; that is nonlocal stuff in the air.

What this means and what you can do:

I. Ask yourself why you sometimes want to wipe out the human race.
II. Notice “weapons of mass destruction” in groups when people are ready to “kill” one another.
III. Consider SARS disease as a ghost role, a nonlocal weapon of mass destruction. Become a shaman and play that role (and make it meaningful) to ameliorate its consequences.