<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A good one from brother Toms ~<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Dr. Tom Pinkson <<a href="mailto:a-new-vision-of-living@v.kajabimail.net" class="">a-new-vision-of-living@v.kajabimail.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Live Love Now: Intelligent Use of Intelligence</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">November 17, 2021 at 10:42:09 AM PST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:yasskin@mindspring.com" class="">yasskin@mindspring.com</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;" class=""><img src="https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/sites/2147495633/images/2eQlfrnXTtGOz65COK9W_LLN_Banner.png" style="max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class=""></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">Hola Relatives -</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">Spending time in Santa Barbara this week, I am taking in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class="">intelligence</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Mother Ocean, the Channel Islands, the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Chumash ancestor spirits along with tracking a big surge of dreaming. I don’t know about you but I am working the transition phase of shorter days and longer nights as we move closer to the time of winter holy days, entering the Looks Within Place for deeper introspection and reflection, and the non-human intelligence is helping me in this process.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class="">Braiding Sweetgrass</em>, has a new book out this month,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class="">In The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence</em>, in which she points out how traditional cultures recognize that human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world. "Other beings, from Otters to Ash trees, are understood as persons, possessed of their own gifts, responsibilities, and intentions. This is not some kind of mistaken anthropomorphism,” she writes. Seneca scholar John Mohawk wrote that according to his culture, “An individual is not smart … but merely lucky to be part of a system that has intelligence. Be humble ... The real intelligence isn’t the property of an individual; the real intelligence is the property of the universe itself.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">Here is some more sharing from Kimmerer’s new book that I think you will find of interest:</p><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">"The story of intelligences other than our own is one of continual expansion. Octopi solve puzzles, chickadees create language, crows make tools, rats feel anxiety, elephants mourn, parrots do calculus, apes read symbols, nematodes navigate, and honeybees dance the results of cost-benefit analysis of sucrose rewards like an economic ballet. Even the slime mold can learn a maze, enduring toxic obstacles to obtain the richest reward. The blinders are coming off, and the definition of intelligence expands every time we ask the question. Intelligence is today thought of as 'adaptively variable behavior,' which changes in response to signals coming from the environment. Where is intelligence situated? Our conceptions of intelligence are based on animal models and a kind of “brain chauvinism.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">Every animal, from the flatworm to the black bear, has a brain, central meeting place of sensation, and coordinated response. Because animals are mobile autonomous beings who must pursue their food, the brain must itself be compact and portable.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">But a centralized brain is not needed for plant intelligence. Rapid movement is not necessary when the food comes to you. For an autotrophic, sessile being, bathed in the needed resources, networked in intimate relationships with myriad others above and below ground, a very different system of sensation and response might well evolve, which looks nothing like the animal model.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">If food becomes abundant, no animal can grow more legs to chase after it or a new mouth to eat more. In times of shortage, most of us cannot cast off a limb that we no longer have energy or resources to sustain. The whole organism is static in form and flourishes or suffers within those constraints. Not so for plants, who can adaptively alter their circumstances by growing additional parts or losing unneeded ones. Plant intelligence or “adaptively flexible behavior” may be manifest in their extraordinary capacity to change form in real time by altering their allocation of carbon to different functions in response to changing needs.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class="">We, humanity, are not so much challenged to change our physical form, thought that is coming down the line with genetic engineering, but we are called on for “adaptively flexible behavior” in the face of “changing needs” with climate change challenges and social justice issues. We are not plants, but we eat them for our lives and some of them, sacred power plants, help us to open to the deeper intelligence so needed in these times. Love is a primary component of this deeper intelligence, and as John Mohawk reminds us, it is “a property of the universe”, one that is an ingredient the world needs more than ever. On the personal level as I move deeper into what my dad Ray called “the eldererry years," an increasing number of friends and Starlight Ohana relatives are faced with health challenges, broken bones, surgeries for one cause or another and are in need of healing energy of love. I trust that each of you reading these words also knows people in your own circles that need more love energy flowing in to them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">With humble gratitude for all the manifestations of intelligence in this universe we are gifted to live in, we human members of the Starlight Ohana, are called to support each other with healing love which is what is exactly what we are here to do. So let's get on with it honoring the truth that we are stardust brought to Earth, stardust brought to Birth, stardust brought to Life - to shine, shine, shine, to Live Love Now.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class=""><img src="https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/sites/2147495633/images/mtRtzI5RkqYX8Om4Dkpm_perfection_on_beach.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px;" class=""></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">All Blessings with gratitude for the Blessing that you are, for showing up to do the good work that you do, and with prayers for Fullest Blossoming and Greatest Good in Your Life,</p><p class="eb_p" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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