Tom Ellis
1 min readDec 4, 2024

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A beautiful, potent assessment of our global predicament and the perilous path forward for those who are truly awake. Thank you ever so much for this, which I will immediately share with my closest, most trusted friends and allies. I agree entirely with everything you’ve said!
My own approach, recently published here, is to devote the brief time I still have to three interrelated community-building initiatives: (a) a Dharma Gaia Circle—a Sangha for cultivating inner equanimity, compassion, and loving service to our living planet and to all of life; (b) a Satyagraha Study Group to prepare ourselves for nonviolent noncooperation with Trumpian fascism; all such resistance must be mindful, strategic, and relentless; (c) a neighborhood garden guild movement to encourage awakened people in close proximity to meet periodically in order to share food-growing and other survival skills. The slogan I’ve come up with for this movement is as follows: Grow Gardens, Grow Community, Grow Awareness—by learning, teaching, healing, and creating. Feel free to clone or adapt these initiatives as you see fit! And if so, pass on your best ideas as well.

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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