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 6 Feb 2002 @ 01:02
Tonight my heart sank into a feeling I cannot put into words. It is a sickening sensation on the scale of a nuclear blast devastating every moral concept you know. My anger and fear seem almost uncontrollable, yet I try with all presence of mind not to sound insane. This is a ten alarm fire that we must face immediately, by making our intelligence known, so in lieu of our undeveloped ability to act as a group, I ask you to write your representatives, State, Federal and especially the President of the United States to this charade of legal minds called NAFTA.
This the title of Bill Moyer’s documentary focusing only on Chapter 11 of NAFTA, titled "Trading Democracy." The program reveals that corporations legally have the right to sue any government participationg in NAFTA for damages if their profits are threatened, even if those profits are not yet realized, by any current, or new laws. There are cases pending in all three countries, all cases settled so far have been decided for the corporations bringing suits against governments, which are determined solely by private tribunal. In other words, Chapter 11 legally supercedes the Constitution of the United States and the Supreme Court as ultimate legal authority in America. It also has proven to take precedent over Mexican and Canadian law. We are talking about billions of dollars in settlements in a very short time with no limit of future penalties. There are plans to expand this agreement to the global community. I will not attempt to describe this in any more detail but ask that you first educate yourself to this problem. There are several links on the Public Citizen website about Chapter 11 that will help:
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Please locate Congressman Doggett’s letter to the President (I had to reload this link for it to bring up the PDF file) about Chapter 11 Revisions and draft a similar statement for yourself. I wish we had a way to draft and send such letters from the members of NCN for many of the reasons I have stated before.
I case you have any doubts about the value and security offered through a democratic method of government, no matter how crude, I believe you will find your way of life is threatened directly by this covert tactic to rape without opposition. This my call for us to act together separately now.
Recent and upcoming airings on KCET: 2/5 10:00pm, 2/7 10:00pm. This is a must see so please check your local PBS station listings, or order a tape of the show.
Namasté > > > Mark More >
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4 Feb 2002 @ 12:11
Barbara Marx Hubbard decided the first way to anchor her group in Santa Barbara is to fashion a Gateway to align consciousness through education and Dialogue about really coming to know ourselves. I was disappointed at first that there wasn’t more opportunity to participate on the web, but I see now that her organization rings with cooperation and Love in comparison to NCN because there is no mistake about what people are doing there together. They have disagreements, but they do not feud.
The Foundation for Conscious Evolution has placed this "Gateway" course on the web for all comers, but it does cost money and they are NPO. It is an adult course, too complicated and intellectual for younger children, but it is a great beginning. I include the link for those of you who are not aware of this leap into the future as a way to get on a solid foundation, which may bring a sense of confidence to our future.
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1 Feb 2002 @ 03:11
Today I will make a new beginning on NCN.
I love this family of people for your hearts are blessed with love and the desire that others should have it too. In the past we may have been divided in unconsciousness, but we arrive here because we already know some basic wisdom about how success is made. That wisdom is had in different proportions by each of us and imparted to participate in community consciousness. There is some duty we have to educate each other, but most importantly to share our wisdom with the searchers and the ignorant.
This generation has the responsibility for the human legacy, and so there many other obligations we have in order to avoid making an end soon.
I have given of myself as I have seen the need. Where there was contest or confusion, I made a humble attempt to impart our common need as vision for the future, to unite our energy, to align our individual uniqueness into a single force. I really do not care to be right, but I do care about the use of our energy and time to do what is essentially right, what is essentially productive. It has taken me some time to meet many of you and learn about this place and it has made me a better person. It is with respect for you that I choose another approach now.
I have devoted many hours to my own education so that I can write with some confidence about Conscious Evolution. I have concentrated specifically on discovering those things that matter most and the simplicity of love as the realm where all solutions are found. My consciousness is recorded here and will remain, as long as Ming continues to give of himself to us, my sincere best effort to our cause. However, I cannot continue to make the same investment expecting different results.
Today I will stop placing words onto this site that are merely part of an ongoing discussion about the same things repeatedly, or debate the direction where we will find fulfillment. Conscious Evolution is not new and humanity has collected more than enough knowledge to make a better society, but it has not stopped us from just talking. Commiserating has no particular value that applies here.
I am anxious to partake in any work group to the fashion the tools we need to change course, develop new software, and to make this an influential presence on the web. Please let me know if you are interested in the same goals.
Thank you all for your support, comments and spiritual companionship.
Namasté > > > Mark More >
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31 Jan 2002 @ 13:45
I ponder: What are we? And separate that question from: What have we become? There lies the first division in our consciousness, for our minds have been damaged in the model of humanity past. We might also consider that we were not raised on only wholesome food. We have also been fed things that are not true and things as deliberate lies. It is very hard to transcend this prejudice, conditioning if you will, to be objectively observant to the core of spirit and our connection with it. This is of nature. This is a given. This not a choice. Will we explore what we truly are, or propose to say we already know? If we do indeed know, then why is there so much friction of ego in general? More >
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28 Jan 2002 @ 02:30
Namasté
MING: "OK, give me some ideas of how you see that working. How would it be different from the Virtual Workgroups? Would it be more focused towards decision making and action, and in that case, how? A mechanism for voting. Possibly a meeting space that channels things towards decisions and outcomes."
Ming has asked the next direct and most pertinent question – HOW?
I have never seen a virtual workgroup and do not have a definition of one, but it sounds like what we need, at least in part. I do not think that I am smart enough to say exactly, yet I do recognize that certain conditions will generally occur, and that they are identified in a basic 6-step cocreative process, each step needs affirmative completion and endorsement before next step can be applied. More >
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9 Jan 2002 @ 18:41
Please review my previous log on "Negative Energy" as a preface to this post. We are here to fashion a success. NCN is by no means an optimum vehicle to assist in this task, but it is the beginning of what we do have as an asset. I am prompted to write this because of some dialog that transpired in the Social Systems Design group. Social Systems Design is probably the key subject of the future, and yet many of the responses did not move us closer to an agreement on how to build a success. Is it of any value to say something will not work before it is tried? Does it accomplish anything to say you disagree without providing the alternative? Perhaps we should write a members guide to keep our heads on the same wave length?
This brings us to the present, where we ponder and plot a course of corrective consciousness. How is that done? It begins with enough humility to look at things from the ground up, from scratch, without our reflexive egos, and ignoring the stereotypical meanings attached to words that have been abused in our language. Instead of relying on our socialized understanding of things, we will be well served to define a firsthand version of truth. That takes effort and energy. This lies at the heart of what pioneers do – they start from a position assuming ignorance of a subject, giving respect for the divine nature of diversity, and then proceed to create a new, better, or more accurate truth. We have little or no direct experience to make the unknown, so I emplore you to search deep into your soul to the openness that requires. More >
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9 Jan 2002 @ 15:25
Dear Flemming & Brave Souls whose eyes will fall upon my resolutions for driving our movement into critical mass of The Conscious Evolution Network "CEN"< < <
First off - It's good to see Ming back at NCN in his typically dashing fashion, to whom we owe great salutations for the honor of gathering here yet another day.
A copy of this letter will be sent to FCE in Santa Barbara. I am trying to keep my writings as summaries, concise, within 1000 words, with respect for your time, in recognition that the overload of information we generate can be reduced if we strive for quality. I need to make a fairly concise plan with you for the projects it looks like we are interested in mastering. In my currently enthusiastic state-of-mind, I remain very open conceptually to anything that smacks of responsibility. More >
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7 Jan 2002 @ 21:08
There has been some dialog of late about "post-modernism" being the abandonment of universal truth, ideology, philosophy, or meta-imperative to our success as a species. It has also been written that people construct their society first in the mind, followed by actions that manufacture our mental picture into a physical culture. We are responsible for what we have made because we made it. Now this has come about through many independent, sometimes similar, or very disparate ideas about how to make a healthy society, and so "pluralism" would be a fairly accurate way of naming our evolution on the planet so far.
New Civilization is not new as demonstrated by the recorded consciousness of evolutionaries throughout time. It is more the conscious dream for those of us who wish to see the adoption of a spiritually fulfilling and sustainable way of life, and one that describes a broad social order for the purpose of prosperity and peace, but how can this happen without an underlying – "modernistic" – concept that all people can relate to? I contend that the Cosmos dictates how success is made and sustained because it is the single organism to which we belong, and we will not survive if we are not in accordance with it. This single revelation I will call absolute truth and the prime directive to the formation of a "modern" philosophy for success.
The divinity of Cosmic law is beautiful because the forces of god enables life everywhere with equal opportunity, unconditionally and without prejudice. These laws are manifest through the qualities of Love, Freedom, Trust, Responsibility and Beauty. As we were born from our Universe-mother-god, we have no choice but to accept these environmental realities and truth as the essence of our existence, spirituality and boundary for success in all things. The truly remarkable thing about these Cosmic guidelines is how simple they are and how they provide a platform to the seemingly infinite diversity of things in our universe.
How can a new civilization ignore this truth or hope to manufacture social unity without the underpinning of physical truth, moral truth, and the truth of common purpose?
Another absolute truth describes the connection and interdependence of all things. In other words, everyone’s best interest is in everyone’s best interest. Humanity divided in ideological principle will always fail to a larger degree, when it does not address the needs of the one as being the same as the needs of the many, because every non-productive, unhealthy, oppressed person will tax the system in a way that cannot be sustained. Equity of all resources and opportunity is a requirement to the health of humanity.
I would make one more observation about "post-modernism." It describes a period where people abandoned the "modern" concepts of moral obligation and social duty best illustrated through the decay and ineffective practices worshipped in the "post-modern" world. Modernism may be a dead label, but truth and virtue never lose their value. More >
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15 Dec 2001 @ 16:39
Communication of our dreams and loving creative spirit do not have a presence in the industry of commercial media. The objectives of profit are irresponsibly broadcast round the globe as though it is an entertainment commodity and without intent on providing useful information, or to spotlight something uplifting to our spiritual nature. I believe most of us hunger for public displays of compassion and consciousness to love. This station is very much a provider of food for the soul – an oasis from selfishness – much like Radio Free Europe offered hope to those locked behind the "Iron Curtain." It is a fountain of refreshing insight I use to keep my balance and gain greater understanding from hosts with experience of 30 years or more. People like Wayne Dyer and Hugh Prather. I have a ritual of listening to Patricia Sun every evening 6-7 & 7-8 pm PST. This is a web based service and available on Dish. To me this is a precious resource without rival as far as I know. Tune in for lots of comfort.
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15 Dec 2001 @ 08:31
I suggest that everyone wanting to get their feet wet in the process of Conscious Evolution read this page and the adjacent link to "56 Grievances."
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Ming - This link may work well for references to several of the Subjects web listings. More >
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