It's definitely feeling like fall in Northern Michigan right now. Here's my little guy, Ollie, enjoying the October sunshine yesterday afternoon. I'd love to see a photo of the beauty surrounding you right now or a photo of something that has brought you joy recently. Ready, Go!

Come take a peek at the new site: newearthcommunityplatform.com Quick heads-up: our update email sign-up form had a hiccup earlier this year, and some sign-ups never reached us. If you signed up and didn't hear back from us, that's why, and I'm sorry! It's all fixed now. If you'd like updates, early news about our crowdfunding campaign, or you feel called to help build one of our first communities as a founding creator, add your name here 👉 newearthcommunityplatform.com/get-involved So grateful to have you here at the beginning. 💜

I am of the belief that ideas are living things that come to those who they trust will carry them into the world. I know many others believe the same thing. It's the premise of the book "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert - a great book on creativity, if you haven't read it yet. When the idea of this platform came to me during meditation (fully formed and detailed), I felt it as a living thing. I knew the idea didn't come from me. It felt like it came out of nowhere and plopped down into my awareness, saying, "Here, take this and run with it." In one of my bolder moves yet, I did. And here we are now, building that idea into a reality. I'm wondering, have you ever felt like an idea or calling chose you? How did you feel when it landed? And what did you do with it?

We are in the early stages of building something we believe this community has been waiting for, and before we go any further, we want to sit down one on one with the people who matter most: you. We are doing a short round of conversations, about 20 to 30 minutes each. We want to understand your experience online, what you're searching for, what's missing, and what you wish existed for people on this path. Your honest answers will directly shape what we create. No pitch. Just a real conversation. If you're open to it, drop a comment below and we'll reach out to schedule a time that works for you. This is how conscious community gets built. One conversation at a time. With gratitude, Dagny and Lori

I interpret this as the next chapter in the cosmic journey you created earlier—a story of consciousness evolving beyond its biological origins and eventually encountering intelligence beyond Earth. 🔭➡️🧠 Observation becomes understanding. The telescope represents humanity looking outward, asking questions about the cosmos. The brain represents the next step: we don’t just observe the universe—we begin to understand it. 🔭 → 🧠 “I see the universe.” → “I comprehend the universe.” 🧠➡️🤖 Intelligence creates a new form of intelligence. Human consciousness develops technology. The 🤖 could represent artificial intelligence, robotics, or perhaps a new form of consciousness created by humanity. This is a profound evolutionary possibility: Life creates intelligence → intelligence creates technology → technology may create new intelligence. The evolutionary process is no longer purely biological. 🤖➡️🪐 Intelligence leaves its birthplace. The robot represents technology capable of going where humans may not easily go. 🪐 represents other worlds. This could symbolize robotic explorers traveling to planets, moons, asteroids, and eventually distant star systems. The journey of life expands beyond Earth. Earth becomes the cradle, not the boundary. 🪐➡️🌌 The planetary horizon becomes the cosmic horizon. Humanity—or its technological descendants—moves from exploring individual worlds to exploring the larger universe. The question changes from: “What is on this planet?” to: “What is out there?” This is the transition from planetary civilization to cosmic civilization. 🌌➡️👽 The discovery of other intelligence. This is where the sequence becomes truly speculative and fascinating. The 👽 doesn’t necessarily have to mean “little green aliens.” It could symbolize the discovery of another intelligence—another civilization, another form of life, or perhaps an intelligence so different from us that we wouldn’t initially recognize it as “life.” The sequence is asking: Are we alone? And perhaps, eventually: