Think locally, act globally.

[Guest guest]

Today is a cold day. My hands are stuffed in my pockets, and I'm

walking through the wildlife preserve, dictating this, doing what I do

almost every morning now, and have been doing almost every day for at

least the last three years: I'm asking myself how I can take my

perceptions -- a specific one of my perceptions -- and turn it into a

communication that produces a global level sea change in the war that

humanity is fighting against all forms of disease in the spiritual,

emotional, and physical areas. I do this one day at a time, one

perception at a time, and usually a great many perceptions cluster

around any specific perception I happen to be working with. Today,

right now, that perception is of the relationship between global and

local actions.

The global/local thing has been around a long time, maybe over 20

years. You know, how people say:

Think globally, act locally.

Well, I've never been able to do that. It's always seemed that my

local area is not generally a fertile place for action. Most of my

neighbors, and people I run into, are just a little too stuck, dense,

involved in other things, committed to various religions, dogmatically

positioned -- to put it simply, most of the people that I meet are

generally too sick to create change. But I can learn an awful lot

from them.

That's the interesting paradox here -- I can't teach them much, but

they have an awful lot to teach me. Learning, studying, perceiving,

noticing, and experimenting locally work. Thinking locally works.

And I take global actions. Global actions are easy to take.

Let me bring you into this conversation at this point.

Suppose you put three signs on the rear windows of your car; two on

the left and right side windows, and one on the back window. And

suppose you use the signs that are on the Save Lives page on our web

site, the ones that direct people to join our Cure Drive. You've

taken a global action.

Drive on the expressway for an hour and 50 people will see that sign.

Multiply that by day after day week after week month after month, and

even year after year, and YOU'VE REACHED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE,

including people who saw it when the car was parked, and when it was

sitting in front of your house. You've taken a global action, haven't

you?

Wouldn't you say that's a global action?

Knowing that immunics exist

s will have no immediate effect on most of those people. But the

lives of some, a few people who you will never meet, people who will

never talk to you, people who will never tell you that you saved their

lives, will be saved.

That's what global action feels like; nothing. It doesn't feel like

anything because it's effortless. You forget the signs are there,

until one day you notice that they're fading and replace them. And

all the credit you get, or certainly most of it anyway, is going to

come from you, and your own sense of certainty that what you're doing

is having an impact.

Or -- another example -- you iron a little label on a bunch of your

shirts about immunics. And, when you're talking to a friend at lunch

about it, the person realizes that it's something beyond you -- it's a

global movement. You've taken another global action. Or, as one of

our colleagues said, " I'm wearing my immunics golf shirt to the

parent-teacher conference. " She actually wanted to bring in a level

of authority beyond her, because she felt that the principal and the

school psychologist were incompetent. This is, certainly, an extreme

case; but a great example of global action.

Just as another example, I'm seeing a new dentist. Well, the first

thing I did was giving every person in the office an immunics CD. Not

just the dentist. I don't know him very well. I don't know what his

spiritual, intuitive, and intellectual capabilities are. Maybe the

dentist is just too deficient in the necessary qualities to even

listen to the CD, or to extract anything from it if he does. But if I

reach enough of those people, maybe one of them will break through,

one of them will understand immunics, and get the others buzzing about

it. Then, the " reality " of immunics can spread to the dentist.

And dental clinics are networks. Out beyond my dental clinic there is

a world of dental clinics. Hygienists know other hygienists. Even

receptionists know other dental receptionists. It's global action.

Now something should be said here: if I decide that I've " connected "

with one of the people, and I give her a CD, that's not a global

action, is it? That's local. I'm actually trying to " do " something.

You see, at the global level, YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO DO ANYTHING;

you're setting it up so that humanity does something. Human beings do

something. People who you don't know do something, or people who

you've interacted with do something that's way beyond your

interaction. IT'S OF YOUR HANDS. It's out in the world. It's a

tide, a sea change, a brush fire, a world reality.

When it comes back to you, it treats you like a stranger.

I mean, literally, you'll be wandering around without the word

" immunics " anywhere on your body for once, and a complete stranger

will walk up to you after hearing you sneeze and offer show you how to

remove the cause of it.

Think locally, act globally.

But,

Sometimes I can act locally. When I left the house this morning, I

put a CD in my pocket. I hadn't gone a block on my run when I met a

neighbor I hadn't seen in a while, and gave him the CD.

People interact with the gift of a CD in a completely different way

than they do when I hand them a little card, or show them the Web

address on my shirt. This guy really started talking about changing

his life: quitting smoking, doing more interesting activities and so

forth. In the short span of a five-minute conversation I felt like I

really got somewhere. I don't see this guy much, because he works odd

hours. But I have a feeling I made a very big difference at the local

level a little while ago.

And I also know that I may never have to do anything else, and that

even if I never see my acquaintance again, it's quite likely that this

guy will cure something, and possibly even affect the lives of a lot

of other people.

THINK; ACT.

Your Friend,

The World Sweeper