We Need a Dream, America

Letter to presidential candidates

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:28:56 GMT

Senator XXXXX,

Are you willing to take a leap of courage, faith, and vision?
Are you willing to challenge Americans to reach higher?
Are you willing to lead America to a higher purpose?

If so...
a few ideas:

1)Mission/Vision/Values for America
If co-created by "We The People", this could inspire, unite, and empower ALL Americans like never before.

2) WeNeedaDream.org
Offers many ideas to unite and inspire enemies on a shared vision, a higher purpose, a new American Dream... towards Heaven on Earth.

3) Nonviolent Communication
I've seen this process transmute "impossible" conflicts into win-win harmony.

4)America's Higher Purpose
Few Americans are aware of the higher (and spiritual) purpose behind the founding of this nation. You could champion a return to this purpose. More info in the attached paper.

5) Soul of America
A deeper perspective of who we are

6) Partnership Way
Possibilities for shifting our exhausted dominator paradigm to an energized partnership paradigm

7) Conscious Evolution
A higher perspective of what's happening

Yes, we can...
Carl Landsness
Madison, WI

"And so, my fellow Americans:
ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world:
ask not what America will do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
JFK

Inspiring and Uniting Enemies on a Shared Vision

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:20:46 GMT

Is it possible to inspire and unite enemies on a shared vision? Once inspired, I believe the means (and magic) can appear... and obstacles disappear. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" according to Einstein.

Such inspiration usually comes from crisis. Can we collectively choose a more elegant, less painful path?

Most successful organizations rely on a mission/vision/values statement.
Is it time for nations and partnerships to create such?
The process alone could inspire and unite people like never before...
if powered BY THE PEOPLE
and leads to an empowered tactical plan (like a business plan).

Left-brain drivers like missions.
Right-brain creatives love visions.
Passionate seekers embrace values.
Synergized, they can transcend differences and weave dimensions
(i.e. transmute our exhausted dominator paradigm to an energized partnership paradigm... with the power of intention, heart, and action)

A rather idealistic approach is in http://weneedadream.org/ConstitutionProposals.htm#mission
A more grounded approach is in http://www.agilean.com/operating_principle_power_article.htm

Is this a path to peace, power, and fulfillment?

Is our current lack of mission/vision/values statements a cause of our chaos?

Are you willing ponder this?

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Shine Thy Good, America

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:53:37 GMT

Shine thy good, America

Where has our light gone, America?
Where has our good gone?
IS it gone?
Or just changing?

What do we seek?
What do we long for?

Are we hurting?
Are YOU hurting?

Will we choose the higher path?
The harder path?

Or will we succomb to blame, fear, and despair?

What IS the higher path?
Does it HAVE to be harder?

Are we willing to question?
Everything we've believed?

If so...
Some possibilities are in WeNeedaDream.org
Some tools are in Center for Nonviolent Communication
Some hidden history re the Constitution is in the attached paper.
Some background re the higher purpose of this nation is in:

America's Secret Destiny

Forgotten Founders

Tree of Peace and Legend of the Peacemaker

Motivating Speech for the Declaration of Independence

And some inspiration is below:

Disney...
"If you can dream it, you can do it"

Jesus
"Love your enemies.
Do good to those who hate you"

Lincoln
"Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?"

Martin Luther King
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend"

Gandhi
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat,
for it is momentary."

Franklin
"Search others for their virtues,
thyself for thy vices."

Einstein
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

Buddha
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love"

Black Elk
"There can never be peace between nations
until there is first known that true peace
which is within the souls of men."

Jewish proverb
"Listen to your enemy, for God is talking"

Pogo
"We have met the enemy, and he is us"

Ancient wisdom
"Our biggest problems are our biggest opportunities"

John F. Kennedy...
"And so, my fellow Americans:
ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world:
ask not what America will do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Shine thy good, America
Shine thy good
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Birth of a New Dream

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:18:13 GMT

Dear Friends, Family, and Fellow Fools,

I write to announce the birth of an 8.8MB baby boy/girl:
"WeNeedaDream.org"

Born 04-22-04
at 3:10PM
at St. Mary's manger
in the land of the Ho-Chunk
and the home of the Badgers
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Easter Hope

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:07:42 GMT

I wish to follow my "Easter Tears" poem with an "Easter Hope" poem. It is part of a dream and quest that emerged out of my despair. The complete dream will be unveiled in a new website later this month.

While initially targetting a single nation, it is intended to help our entire world transmute our worst nightmares into the dream of all time.

May it give you hope,
love,
and resurrection. more >

Easter Tears

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:48:59 GMT

I write on this Easter Sunday to share a poem I wrote over the last two years out of despair... for the errors of myself... and my beloved America.

While it is written from a "we" perspective to a single nation, it represents the cries of my many "selves" to many "selves" of my America.

May you absorb it with your heart.
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We Need a Dream

Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:02:18 GMT

WE NEED A DREAM

Like never before
The dream of all dreams
The dream of all time

We need a dream

To heal
The most fearful of souls
Broken of hearts
Sickly of bodies
Disturbed of minds

We need a dream

To transmute
The most hideous of hate
Ghastly of greed
Rigid of righteousness
Lowest of laziness

We need a dream

To inspire
The most uninspirable
Most disenchanted
Most adversarial
And the rest of the world

We need a dream

See WeNeedaDream
more >

Seeking champions for powerful dream

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:43:31 GMT

We (WeNeedaDream.org) are a newly forming group seeking a few key champions for a quest we see as critical to our world described in the below email draft and in http://www.WeNeedaDream.org

We immediately seek a website designer who resonates with this quest to transform our raw material into an inspiring and bridging miracle, touching and moving people from all walks of life (especially the most rigid, righteous, fearful, dogmatic, etc.)

May you listen to your knowing
And connect within your soul
To find out if your highest self
Desires to play a role

May you dream with all your being
And love with all your heart
This precious world youre part of
To create a grand new start

We ARE the dreamers
We ARE all one
We ARE the love and light of God
Our battles will be won

YES!

Don Carl Quixote, Chief Dreamer
WeNeedaDream.org

Dear Seekers of Peace, Love, Good, and God,

We write to offer and seek a vision
that will inspire and unite humanity
to transmute our worst nightmares
into the greatest miracle ever

Our current world path has high risk of collapse
However opportunities are even higher
IF enough people unite on a shared dream
bridging all barriers: e.g. race, religion, nation, EGO, etc.

We see Americans leading this quest
not with arrogant pride but with humble service
transmuting fear, greed, hate, and righteousness
into peace, hope, love, and openness

An "I Have a Dream" caliber speech and event is needed
to inspire and unite people to this massive change
Well call it "WE NEED A DREAM, AMERICA"
A seed draft is in WeNeedaDream.org

We hope you read it with your heart
imagining the possibilities
contributing your own
believing with all your being
we can make our dreams unfold

In faith, hope, and love,
We Need a Dream.org (forming)