Hi, everybody. On January 27th, I announced on Joe Rogan's show that I had been working

with a group of people in the UK and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and Canada and

the US to organize a series of questions about what? How many might want to conduct ourselves

and what we might want to happen individually and collectively as we move forward into

the future from the level of the individual all the way up to the level of the, say, the

universal collective. What kind of planet do we want to inhabit? I'm going to tell you why that

all came about in so far as that's possible. So last year, I had the opportunity to tour extensively

through North America and Europe and the idea to do what I'm going to tell you about today really

started to make itself manifest to me when I was in Europe. First of all, in Scandinavia,

surprisingly enough, and then in Eastern Europe. I was very fortunate when I was touring to have

the support of many people who I've been privileged to meet as I've toured around the world,

who were very well connected internationally and what happened when I was touring with Tammy. My

wife in each of these countries in Europe was that we'd arrive in a city and the day of or the day

before a talk and we'd have the opportunity to meet for lunch or for dinner or for breakfast with

30 people from that city, from that country, who were active and competent and influential in

cultural or political or faith-based or communication domains. And so it gave us an opportunity to

get a snapshot of the local environment. And you can't become an expert about something as complex

as a city or a country in one day, obviously. But if you have 30 people with you for a couple of

hours, you can certainly at least hear about what is of concern to them and to everyone that they're

in communication with. And so one of the things we encountered continually was the puzzled

questioning from especially the Eastern Europeans, although this was also the case in Scandinavia,

about just what the hell was going on in the West. So that was probably most acute in countries

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