Reminder - 3 pm EST: Elsa with I HAVE A DREAM, the miracle butterfly and the Courageous Personality. Plus reminder about the panel.
Here’s one thing I’d like us to think about. Is there a “Courageous Personality” or do we choose whom we will be?
Note: the meeting is on Zoom - plus on livestream. One thing I want you to know. This is my first livestream. I’ve done a test run. Everything was fine. So it should all be fine. But you’re not dealing with a livestream expert.
First, here’s the event - Sunday, June 25, 3 pm EST
MEET ELSA
From I HAVE A DREAM
To WHAT COMES AFTER THAT?
A suggestion: set a reminder for yourself - like an alarm maybe 5 minutes before the start of the meeting.
The meeting: about 30 minutes of me talking, and then Q&A, also about 30 minutes.
Here is the link:
https://truthsummit.info/i-have-a-dream.html
If at 2:45 pm EST, you do not see the link to the meeting, please REFRESH THE PAGE.
The meeting. I will start with a story - about the butterfly I found alive in my basement one January when it was minus 15 outside.
For everyone who comes to the meeting, there will be a gift. I will send you my favorite image of that butterfly.
Now, about the “Courageous Personality”
The person Henry Kissinger called “the most dangerous man in America” - [Daniel Ellsberg] - inspired his friend and longtime peace activist Diane Perlman to “develop a theory of ‘the Courageous Personality’” in which she coined the term “Verido” to “describe the instinctual drive for truth and justice.” Diane defines this personality type as follows:
“Veridos™ may represent less than 5% of the population. They see through deception, investigate truth and have the strength to challenge official narratives. They are truly courageous and refuse to remain silent.…
“Because information is power, those who expose truth are a threat and must be punished and silenced by the forces of oppressive authority, who need a mystified, pliable populace.”
Link: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-whistleblower
I agree there are some people with a lot more courage than others. But I have a very different belief about these people.
I’m with Aristotle - one of those dead white men. He believed we mold our personality by the choices we make - conscious decisions, decisions we put into practice over and over, through thousands of tiny decisions.
So we can choose to exercise the “courage muscle” or to give in to the fear response, the shrink response, flight, freeze, fawn.
Of course we start out with different fear levels. But I don’t see us as helpless pawns of our biology.
I know I’ve exercised my courage muscle many times. And at others I’ve given in to fear, or even despair. And then I choose where to do from there. It’s not all one thing or another. It’s cumulative.
Questions. How often do we decide one way or the other? How can we encourage responding with courage? And if we’re disappointed in ourselves, what do we do with our disappointment in ourselves?
Here’s other stuff I’d like to explore: blocks to taking steps, the first of the 12 rules for survival, and one step leading to another.
Once again, this is your invitation to come to:
https://truthsummit.info/i-have-a-dream.html
And finally, a reminder that there will be a panel on Tuesday - 3 pm EST. The panelists: the people interviewed. The topic: taking stock and moving forward.
Not all the interviewees can make it. One is getting married, another going to Sweden, a third moving, a fourth has a time conflict.
But lots of the interviewees will be there, to give their personal response. When they take stock, what do they see? And when they think of moving forward, what do they see, personally and socially?
Looking forward to meeting on Sunday, and also on Tuesday.
And then it will be a full good-bye to the Truth Summit, though we will take much with us.
All the best to all of us,
Elsa
Posted June 25, 2023