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Love this post! Found the Thich Nhat Hans books on a journey to make a better world, and they brought me a lot of peace and healing. Adding a mindfulness practice to my work as an engineer & developer has been essential. I've read 7 TNH books now (he has written maybe 100 or so) and would recommend others to read his "Fear", "Anger", and "Power" books as top choices for a better life and world. Every book is such a gem! My partner and I started a local sangha where we live that just invites others in the LA area to come to the beach and meditate together.

TNH's ability to teach simple meaningful meditations from his books makes them worth the read and just reading the books brings great peace alone. We learn that to bring peace, healing, and transformation to the world, we first must bring peace, healing, and transfomration to ourselves.

My partner and I are working on making a real and workable new economy (a new game we like to call it) for humanity. It's something that started to become very clear to us as a need and it can be created from the people, for the people, and by the people. We started blogging about it at https://theway.quest

I found this "Grid Free Minds" blog from searching the word "Protopia" in a Google Images search and I've really been enjoying everything on it! Thank you for creating it and sharing your dreams for a better world! The graphic showing the concept of "Protopia" is ideal! It depicts the concepts of "entropy" (downward spiral) and "syntropy" (upward spiral) that are often challenging to convey to others. This "upward spiral" is the the life force, consciousness force, or even can be thought of as "love" that over time always causes a better future to emerge. TNH would call that the journey to the Pure Land :-)

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Woah, so glad that the internet rabbithole connected us. I really resonate with what you're saying.

Have you checked out our map yet?

https://agartha.one/

If your sangha in LA has a name I'd love to name them / feature them to our community who are interested in exploring this landscape together ^_^

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Yes! So cool to discover your work :-)

We call it "Mindfulness Beach" but really haven't put much organization work into it yet. We're very informal, but it would be fun to get the word out more by posting it to your https://agartha.one site!

Right now, most of our visitors come through the Mindfulness Bell directory that might have some community gems for you to find too: https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessbell/sangha-directory/

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