What's the connection between Pangea Day and Unified Science?

Firstly, a bit about Pangea Day:

“Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future.

In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that — to help people see themselves in others — through the power of film.

On May 10, 2008 — Pangea Day — sites in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked live to produce a program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.

The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.

Of course, movies alone can't change the world. But the people who watch them can. So following May 10, 2008, Pangea Day organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world by connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations that are already doing groundbreaking work.”

The Power of Understanding

Both believe in the power of understanding. Beings are inherently “good natured” and exhibit cruelty only when they are confused and traumatised. The better one's understanding of a situation the more appropriate and effective one's participation will be. It is through communication that we develop mutual understanding.

If we are to have peace we first need a common understanding of our shared humanity, but this is just a start. First we must expand our concept of 'us' to include all of humanity, but the universe does not end there and unless we have a broader sense of 'us' we will continue to encounter systemic conflict, such as between humanity and the rest of the ecosystem.

We need to see our deeper union with all that is, only this understanding is a secure foundation for civilisation. If we are to have a stable and healthy civilisation for the long term we need a common understanding of the fundamentals of existence.

Fundamental questions need to be resolved:

Who are we? What are manifest forms?
Where are we? What is the universe?
What is happening? What is the process of existence and evolution?
How to respond? What is the real scope for action and what are the most effective responses?

There are many expressions of truth but only one reality. A healthy civilisation needs to be anchored in reality and have access to a diversity of expressions of truth.

Fortunately many lines of thought are converging toward a unified understanding. There is a profound unification underway of the fundamentals of quantum physics, computer science, consciousness research, philosophy, ancient wisdom, new age wisdom and spontaneous group and individual realisations. There is a clear phase shift in human consciousness that is in part being expressed as a new understanding – a more holistic and unified understanding.

Eventually this will be distilled into a unified science that can comprehend all aspects of reality and serve to harmonise the many perspectives by connecting each one to a common foundation and through this to each other.

Only then would we have secured for humanity a future free of the kinds of atrocities that have plagued our past. If a civilisation possesses a clear, realistic and commonly accepted understanding that is approachable through numerous perspectives (e.g. science, religion, mysticism, etc) then it would be unable to slide into the kinds of mass delusions and destructive frenzies that characterise much of history.

The shift in consciousness is happening and soon we are going to be building a new science for a new civilisation. It is for these reasons that I work on developing the foundations for a unified science. Check out www.anandavala.info or my blog for more.

Best wishes :)
John Ringland