{"id":1698,"date":"2020-05-01T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2020-05-27T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:56:42","slug":"may-2020-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/05\/01\/may-2020-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"may 2020 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I apologize for not having thought to find out who wrote the Corona poem that I published in the March goodnews. It is by the poet, author and editor Kristin Flyntz. And did you know that we possibly owe our consciousness to a primal virus that settled in our brain a long time ago? There it combined its genetic code with that of our distant ancestors. This tiny code is still active within us, bundling genetic information and sending it from one nerve cell to the next in small virus-like capsules. These packets of information could play a critical role in how nerves communicate and reorganize themselves over time, which in turn is a prerequisite for a higher thinking function. (<em>Cell<\/em>, 20181\/11) Someone who could think (and talk) up a storm was the cultural anthropologist Terence McKenna, who died twenty years ago this April, and who would have appreciated this kind of information. His book\u00a0<em>True Hallucinations<\/em>\u00a0is still way ahead of its time and a must read for any psychonaut. You also need to see the online\u00a0<em>Tribute to Terence McKenna<\/em>\u00a0his brother Dennis McKenna staged (link below). I haven\u2019t seen every conversation, but my favorite episode so far shows Dennis with Bruce Damer, who advocates a culture of compassionate sharing, whereas Dennis shows the kind of attitude towards drugs and life in general I would like to see more of.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good,<br \/>\n<em>Susanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"null\">Mushrooms<\/h3>\n<p>Overnight, very<br \/>\nWhitely, discreetly,<br \/>\nVery quietly<\/p>\n<p>Our toes, our noses<br \/>\nTake hold on the loam,<br \/>\nAcquire the air.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody sees us,<br \/>\nStops us, betrays us;<br \/>\nThe small grains make room.<\/p>\n<p>Soft fists insist on<br \/>\nHeaving the needles,<br \/>\nThe leafy bedding,<\/p>\n<p>Even the paving.<br \/>\nOur hammers, our rams,<br \/>\nEarless and eyeless,<\/p>\n<p>Perfectly voiceless,<br \/>\nWiden the crannies,<br \/>\nShoulder through holes. We<\/p>\n<p>Diet on water,<br \/>\nOn crumbs of shadow,<br \/>\nBland-mannered, asking<\/p>\n<p>Little or nothing.<br \/>\nSo many of us!<br \/>\nSo many of us!<\/p>\n<p>We are shelves, we are<br \/>\nTables, we are meek,<br \/>\nWe are edible,<\/p>\n<p>Nudgers and shovers<br \/>\nIn spite of ourselves.<br \/>\nOur kind multiplies:<\/p>\n<p>We shall by morning<br \/>\nInherit the earth.<br \/>\nOur foot&#8217;s in the door.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sylvia Plath<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I apologize for not having thought to find out who wrote the Corona poem that I published in the March goodnews. It is by the poet, author and editor Kristin Flyntz. And did you know that we possibly owe our consciousness to a primal virus that settled in our brain a long<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/05\/01\/may-2020-goodnews-editorial\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}