Message 10/370 From Roan Carratu Apr 8, 99 12:06:12 pm -0600 Mailing-List: ListBot mailing list contact Farmlink-help@listbot.com Delivered-To: mailing list Farmlink@listbot.com Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:06:12 -0600 X-Accept-Language: en To: "ncnculture-l@newciv.org" CC: ncndiscuss-l , Flemming Office , Farmlink , Julie Solheim Subject: fyi... Roan's heart condition X-SLUIDL: F878CDAC-EC2E11D2-82A50010-5A6ACCA7 FarmLink - http://www.bibbs.com/roan As some of you know, I have applied to both Social Security and the Veteran's Admin for disability. I didn't want to, since getting money from the Gov. can be the kind of hassle no activist wants, but I have been getting food stamps ever since my heart surgery, and they insisted I apply. This morning I went to get tested on a treadmill, to see if the ekg could give some evidence of my heart condition. (ekg has never shown my heart attacks, even when I went into the hospital with the big one which resulted in my bypass surgery.) Well, I really pushed it, using meditation techniques to run far more than most at faster speeds, trying to have a heart attack right there, with a doctor standing by. (What better place to have a heart attack than right in the hospital) but guess what... my ekg was great! I don't know if that means I am in better shape than I thought, or that like before, ekg just doesn't show the kind of heart attacks I had. Apparently it doesn't show certain kinds of heart attacks, but I think, considering how hard I worked at stressing it, that it might well be better than I thought. I am considering this a good sign, and am starting a exercise routine to further strengthen it. I might see the next millennium after all!! I have changed my diet to a basic lactos-vegetarian diet, and cut out all kinds of stuff I used to eat, which might be helping. With the prayers and good energy youall have been sending me, I think you are more than a little responsible for this strengthening. I know I felt you all when I was in the hospital, and your love has been a wonderful blessing. You have supported me with donations, love, and even gifts of vitamins and other good medicine. Flemming and Julie have employed me part time, and between you all, I feel like you have kept me alive. Thank you. I love you all! -- Peace and Long Life, ------------------------------- Roan Carratu Bodhisattva At Large Main Site: http://www.bibbs.com/roan Mirror sites: http://geodemocracy.webjump.com http://geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/3262 http://business.fortunecity.com/turnerst/232 Email: roan@bibbs.com roan@worldtrans.org worldmind@geocities.com Work: http://www.legionsoflight.com Work: http://seizethemagic.com

I have added to my website (http://www.bibbs.com/roan) the NCF Mission Statement and Strategy Overview, a fairly comprehensive document crafted in 1997 by a group in the New Civilization Network, (http://newciv.org) when it was believed that a large sum of money was going to be donated to help us bring about a survivable society. The document is, in my opinion, one of the most important statements of directions and activities ever produced. While the donation was blocked by politics, the document helps those who wish to take the path of the Forerunner to find what they can do to further the effort in the world. Everyone has friends who feel much like they do, even we forerunners who are such a rarity in the world, (although that is changing) and many of the suggested courses of actions could be accomplished in local or regional areas by any group of friends who really wish to leave to their children a better, survivable world. I suggest you read it, and please don't hesitate to email me with any comments or changes you would like to see incorporated into the document. I will soon be setting up a list of people who want to either live in a Forerunner community or help start the Geonet in their local area. I don't expect an instant response, in that everything goes by the bell curve, which means even the best efforts start slowly and grow at increasing speeds. But if you are thinking of participating, please sign up and I will make sure you get connected with people of like mind. I want to thank the folks who have been writing me, and assure you that I will be answering you as time goes on. I have been quite overwhelmed by the responses I've been getting. With the conflicts in the news, the steady reports of environmental disaster, and the other indicators that we must wake up and take personal responsibility for the world, rather than leaving it to 'leaders', I think a great awakening is occurring around the world. If you were going to move a large stone, you would carefully shove it and with some effort to over come inertia, it would move. If you were going to move a large boulder, you would get some friends, and you would all shove it together, and slooowly, overcoming a lot more inertia, it would move. If you are going to move a planet, you get millions of people, all shoving together, and after a long intense effort, overcoming the inertia of a whole world, it too would move. Let's do something with our lives which is really outrageous... let's move the world together.

Wow, Roan dissappeared off the face of the earth. It would be nice to hear from the guy again! I wonder how his vast armada of websites is faring?