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Join us tonight at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder 6-7:30pm for a Bday celebration for Juicy! Its going to be an inspiring and beautiful evening, hope to celebrate with you! 🙏❤️🌈🌎💦

Celebrating a Juicy Life @ Fiske Planetarium Wed 6/24 An Immersive Journey of Music, Vision, Breath, and Wonder Join us beneath the dome at Fiske Planetarium for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating life, creativity, community, and the magic of being aliv...

Hey yall, we are thinking about going to a required minimum $1/mo membership (with 1 month free trial). This essentially frames to "Actualize exists to serve its members. Our revenue comes from the people who use and benefit from the platform, not from harvesting attention or selling access to advertisers." and "Your membership ensures Actualize is accountable to its community rather than advertisers. Together we're building infrastructure that serves human connection, wellbeing, and belonging." Additionally - this creates an added layer of trust - less bots. It seems super reasonable this day and age for a $1/mo subscription, especially one that is actively working on improving our individual and collective wellbeing. What do you think?

Question - We are thinking it might be beneficial to enable event producers to link their Telegram account, which could auto-make a supergroup with different channels (like announcements, general, and ride shares threads), and then provide a link on ticket purchase for people to join the group. It could be set up that the group is specifically for the event, or a more general group for ongoing events produced by the event producer. We think this would support with communication and logistics for events and groups. Do you think this is something we should add?

Reprogramming human consciousness is generally not easy. Im reminded being at home with my parents, in the house I grew up in, that patterns developed from my childhood, like "this drawer has the silverware in it" are surprisingly hard to change. My parents re-did the kitchen maybe 8 years ago and the silverware drawer that has the silverware in it changed. I have been home countless times since, and yet I find myself still going to the drawer that used to have the silverware in it. This pattern is deep and has been hard to change - even in its gross simplicity. And that is in the physical realm, where it is a very clear yes/no, the silverware is here or it is there.

Extending to mental patterns, emotions patterns, or even belief systems... things that are a bit harder to define...seem like they are even more challenging to change. And they are what shape our lives and culture to a very high degree. Compassion, awareness, forgiveness, listening, and persistence are the tools in the tool belt to make these kinds of change. There is no pill, no quick fix, no magically changing over night.

Similarly, it seems cultural structures that have been passed down for generation to generation are even more deeply entrenched. Culturally held beliefs or even things like governance structures, take time to change, often only at the pace of older generations dying off. From the constitution that declared that all men are created equal, to the emancipation of slaves, to the end of segregation, to now where our culture is still struggling with racism...250 years later.

Punctuated equilibrium, when a society collapses and reforms, is always an option. But typically involves a huge "death" process. Maybe that is needed now...but I really hope not.

One of the deepest problems we face culturally right now is that our systems (especially technological) are changing at a pace that makes it hard for most people to adapt and to re-program patterns.

So what do we do?? If you ask me, evolution holds the key. Darwin said, "its not the strongest nor most intelligent that survives, but the one most adaptable to change". The pattern in nature that exemplifies this most is Horizontal Gene Transfer. Like when a bacteria adapts to a new antibiotic and then shares pieces of its DNA with other bacteria so they evolve to the new environment.

This happens not just at the bacteria level, but at multicellular organisms and even crazily enough between different species.
Socially, I believe we can do the same thing. But it takes individuals who are both finding solutions/sharing them, and most importantly, those who are willing to listen and integrate these codes. Without listening, discernment, and the openness to change, we are rate limited in our evolutionary process by the death of older generations.

This is why I believe Community now than ever is so important. Coming together, learning from each other, sharing codes. This is why I believe the elder youth dialogue is so important. This is why I have dedicated my life to the work that I do. Yes for the collective wellbeing, but "selfishly" because I want to live a life of belonging, meaning, and connection.

Actualize is meant to be a place to support this process. To bring people together, to share codes, to share resources...with intention and purpose of helping people create a life of more belonging, meaning, connection, and ideally less time on technology / more time in person.

If you resonate, reach out and see how we can work together, endosymbiotically, for the benefit of each of us and the whole we are a part of 🙏❤️🌈🌎💦

Tikkun Olam - A phrase I heard, beautifully enough, from Mr. Rodgers. It comes from Hebrew - Tikkun meaning repair, restoration, correction, or alignment - and Olam meaning world, universe, reality, or age. Tikkun Olam can be understood as a multidimensional repair process: repairing self, repairing relationship, repairing governance, repairing economy, repairing relationship with Earth, and repairing meaning.

Mr Rodgers, more than anyone else that I can presently think of, embodied this. I have seen the documentary about him called "Wont you be my neighbor?" at least a handful of times and every time I cry.

I cry because I see what the goodness of humanity. I cry because I see the positive impact he made. I cry because I feel less alone in this journey of Tikkun Olam. I also cry because I see just how abusive the media ecosystem is towards our children.

While he is no longer with us, he has left a legacy. Whether you know of his work or not, he is someone worth learning about, learning from, being inspired by, and being reminded of that unwavering quality of Love that we all desire to both give and receive.

In a world of where we are bombarded by slapstick, action movies, hate, divisiveness, and illusion, this movie is a balm for the soul.

I cant recommend watching this movie enough and feeling this for yourself.