Jeanne's poetry bus getting the new year off to a humanity consciousness raising good start

Advancing humanity to a higher level of consciousness - come up with your plan and post a poem - this is the quick job that Jeanne has given us as the price for a ticket on the bus this week - two other tickets were available - but this one appealed to me most. Check out all tickets and passengers here

However it's tricky. I spent a depressing few minutes the other night watching the very intelligent and funny Jimmy Carr doing a gig on a DVD - presumably the best gig he's done all year (in his own opinion?) where rape, domestic violence, racism, and general insults to everyone about everything made up the guts of the fodder. He's selling out stadiums (stadi-ii?) with this crap and people are paying to sit there and try to laugh at it. Uplifting? Enjoyable? Ehhh - No - more plain ugly.

So there Jimmy, I've said it. Ok different strokes for different folks, but when that is clearly what is working for him, and selling for him, it kind of makes me afraid for humanity, if that's what we enjoy.

How to advance us all to a higher level of consciousness then? Make everyone watch Anthony De Mello on youtube? Force everyone in the world to follow this blog? (I've a long way to go on that one). Get everyone one of those clichée a day calenders? Or make everyone sing The Duck Song once a week?

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Well all of those are likely to prove impossible so instead I present to you here - the flimsiest of tickets, but sure I'll chance it. Happy new year to you all.

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Advice for Humanity

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Deep breaths and let

the thoughts dance light

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Dissolve the web

and all that catches

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Deserve each kiss

each touch entrusted

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Delight in those

who sparkle true

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Deny confusion

let doubts fade far

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Drink deep the spin

of another new

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and hope filled

trip around the star