I looked him up after reading The Celestine Prophecy this week. Oh, I know it was all the rage when published back in 1993, but is he still alive and still believing? Had the reality of 2025 wiped him out? His photo on the dust jacket was so cheerful and full of hope that I feared for him. I had only read about his book; never come across it. Quick to the answer, he’s fine, still alive at the age of 75, and still believing in the Spiritual rather than in Religion, which is “much too familiar with the alignment of individual doctrines.”

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PERFECT METAPHOR

A.I. Oh my. I’ll cry!

We were gifted somehow

as Caretakers of life

on Earth. Toss a penny,

save or destroy was

the question; what

would we do with all our power:

Make or shake or desecrate?

We lost control and as the

nasty pus of greed triumphs,

steaming toward 2050,

what will be will be.

Nan