Part 11 My own journey – Part A Compiled by Carl Ohlen When you have gone through this history please send your feedback to:
[email protected] All photos copyright Carl Ohlen but complete pdf document with text may be copied and/or forwarded to others All other material posted by source on Internet according to reference Content • The crisis! • The surprise? • Gaia – our living planet • Our common history – and future • The facts • The real terrorists • The American dream • My Home Countries • The globalization nightmare • So where do we go from here? • My own journey My own journey I was born in Sweden 1949. My ancestors had for all known generations lived in the Sweden California same village. I belonged to the first Iraq generation that had more than 6 years of China school, went to high school & university and traveled the world. Brazil I visited America for the first time 1969 – the Woodstock summer. My first foreign job assignment was in Iraq 1979. Ten What we call civilization was born 5000 years later I lived and worked in California years ago in Mesopotamia, today’s Iraq. and another ten years later in Brazil. This started a “westbound journey” through what we today call Middle East carrying the Ever since I worked in Iraq I have been basic template and raw model for the way fascinated by history. In my work I have we live, including our religion. It evolved been privileged to follow in the foot step of through the Greece and Roman Empires our civilization from Mesopotamia to and was reborn as the Spanish & British California – today's centre of civilization.