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Are You Running Away or Towards?

April 22, 2011 //
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All of our lives are in motion. Some parts of our life seem more influx than others. In some cases, we can sense we are running away from some experience we don’t desire. In other cases, we feel drawn to a greater vision for our lives.

If we wish to move to higher levels of fulfillment in our life, we need to shift our energy. We need to let go of “running away from” that which we don’t want. We need to expand “running towards” that which we desire.

Okay, you’re probably wondering what’s the difference?  The difference relates to a basic principle of the “Law of attraction”. That which we focus our attention on, grows in our life. That which we resist, persist.  If we look at what we want to grow in our lives, we get more of it.  If we look at what we don’t want, we get more of it.

A couple of real-life examples may help here. We all know people who leave one failed relationship and then re-create it with another person. We all know individuals who have left one lousy job to go to another one. We all know people who have gone from one financial crisis right into another one. Why is this?

The reason is we are giving our attention and energy to that which we don’t desire – the condition which we are running away from. We believe we’re making a proactive change in our lives, but we’re looking at that which we don’t want and using it as a motivator for the change. It’s a subtle difference, but an important one. If we wish to effectuate the change in our lives that we truly desire, then we need to keep our focus upon our highest possibility.

Recently I started exercising again.  I’ve stopped and started many times in my life.  Lately, I’ve been doing better in gaining consistency in working out each day.  One thing I’ve noticed that I’m doing differently relates to my focus – many times in the past my motivator was unwanted bodyweight.  As I kept seeing the weight, my motivation to continue exercising decreased.  Recently I’ve been focusing on my increased strength.  I’ve noticed that each day I can do more of a particular exercise then I could the day before.  Instead of running away from the fat, I’m running towards the muscle.

So stop and think about it for a moment – where in your life are you seeking positive change?

Are you unsatisfied with some aspect of your current relationship with your significant other?  If so, where is your focus?  Is it upon their personality characteristic or behavior that you “wish they would change”?  Or, are you noticing the characteristics that you do like and are feeling greater and greater appreciation for that aspect of their person?

Did you just come out of a relationship that was unsatisfying?  If so, what are you focusing upon as you consider dating again?  Is your energy directed at avoiding the characteristics that made the previous relationship bad?  Or, are you holding in your vision the positive characteristics that you desire in your new mate?

Are you experiencing some health or physical challenge?  If so, where is your focus?  Is it upon the body’s issue or limitation?  Or, is it upon those physical areas where you see improvement?

Are you unhappy in your current job?  If so, where are you directing the energy of your change?  Is it upon “running away from” the parts of your current job that you don’t like?  Or, is it upon “running towards” the aspect of the job that will feed your soul?

So which is it?  Are you running away from the parts of life that make you unhappy or are you running towards your dreams of the life divine?

Blessings,

Mark Gilbert

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How Can We Love Everybody?

July 20, 2010 //
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love love loveMy vision for a positive future is a world that works for everyone.  This means at a minimum that everyone has the opportunity to live their lives expressing their unique creative abilities, to have a basic standard of living, to live in freedom, and to have the chance to strive for personal success.  One should always have the opportunity to express life so long as it does not infringe on the rights of others to express their life.

Of course, this world is not our current world.  As we look out at the state of the planet in 2010 we see war, violence, hunger and starvation, humans in slavery, people lacking clean drinking water and sufficient food, populations without access to adequate education or healthcare, and a prevalent mindset that seeks competitive advantage at the expense of others.  The question then becomes: how do we move from our current conditions to our highest possibilities?

Three Simple Steps

Learn from the past — notice the conditions in life that are less than what we want.  Draw lessons from these conditions so that we can contrast them with what we do want.  Notice the positive conditions in life that are indicative of what we desire.  Build on those conditions.

Set the highest intention — the past allows us to create a vision for our highest future.  Create that vision in your consciousness and every day both affirm its truth for humanity and look for evidence of its manifestation.  Seek to meld this conscious vision with a high degree of positive emotion so that it excites you as you see this world arriving.

Expand your circle of care and concern — who you love and care about?  Contemplate that.  See that group growing and expanding.  Seek to love everyone.

Love Everyone?

I recognize that’s a loaded suggestion.  It’s easy to conjure up in our minds a list of people who have wronged us in the past or currently upset us in some way.  Many of us have had experience with people who in expressing their lives have inappropriately crossed boundaries and infringed on our lives or the lives of our loved ones.

We must seek to understand and forgive these people in our hearts.  This is not to condone their behavior.  This doesn’t mean seek them out and personally “forgive them”, although there can often be great healing in doing that.  Our forgiving others in our heart really is about us expanding our sense of love.  It’s not necessarily about the other person.

Anyone we have difficulty accepting in our hearts ultimately harms us more than it harms them.  If we can step back and see the other person as a spiritual being or a fellow human walking their path as best they can, then it opens us to this place of love.  There’s an old expression “there but for the grace of God, go I.”  One might consider that except for a soul choice made at the moment of birth, you could’ve been walking in their shoes throughout their life.  You might’ve had the same experiences, learned the same lessons, and made the same choices.  The limitations you judge in them could have been yours. Seeing how “you might have been them” opens you to releasing your judgment about them.

If we are truly going to bring about a world that works for everyone, then we must all work to grow our hearts and expand our love.  We must exercise our heart muscles just as we exercise our bodies.  There will be those people and groups to whom the expansion of our love to include them will be relatively easy.  So start there to gain an easy victory.  But don’t stop there.  Continue to grow and expand your circle of love to envelop even those you have difficulty accepting.  A better world awaits us all by moving to that space.  Don’t wait for others to do it first.  Be the change you want to see.

How can you love everybody?  What are your thoughts?

Mark Gilbert

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Questions to Ponder on the Evolutionary Path

July 2, 2010 //
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Deepak Chopra's 4 questionsRecently, EnlightenNext Magazine ran a contest seeking input on four questions posed by Deepak Chopra.  The winner received free enrollment in a class called “The Evolutionary’s Guide to Changing the World”.  Although I didn’t have time to submit my thoughts for the contest, I held onto the questions to ponder.

Here are the questions:

1. What kind of world do you want to live in and what kind of world do you want your children and grandchildren to live in?

2. What is your role in bringing this about?

3. Regarding the organizations that you’re part of, what kind of team do you want to have and what kind of relationship do you want to have with this team?

4. What do you see as the primary need in our current cultural moment?

They received over 100 responses — here’s the link to read them if you’re interested:   Deepak’s four questions

Here’s the link to the response that won:   The winner is…

I love these questions — they get at the same issue that I was raising in my recent article in Integral Leadership Review (link to article).  In fact, the underlying purpose of “the Bridge” is to consider the future we wish to see for ourselves and all of humanity and then to take personal responsibility for our role in moving towards that future.

So how would you answer these questions?  — send me a note or post a reply answering any or all of them — I’ll be posting my thoughts in the next few days.

Mark Gilbert

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Reinventing Resolutions

June 25, 2010 //
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We are fast approaching the middle of 2010.  Remember when you were a kid and you measured your age in half years?  Our milestones seemed so far apart at that age….yet now they roll by quicker and quicker. Well, today I want to go back to my youthfulness and celebrate the passage of the upcoming “half year”.  And, as we roll into the second half of 2010, its time for some new resolutions…. so here we go with our Half  New Year’s resolutions!  

It seems like resolutions have gotten a bad rap the last few years simply because there’s a recognition that we set these goals, and quickly release them within a few days or a few weeks. Yes, it’s true that many of us use January 1 each year to set new goals and then find difficulty breaking the old habits that would free us and allow us to meet those goals. However, I believe we need to release concerns over past failures and totally reinvent New Year’s resolutions.  

So how can we reinvent resolutions?  First off, they’re not just for January 1 anymore! We can set them on the half year, we can set them every month, we can set them every week,…everyday is a day to set resolutions.

The next thing we can do is let go of the fear of failure we’ve had from are not keeping resolutions from years/months/days past. So what if we didn’t keep some previous resolutions ? That doesn’t define us now. You are always free to change your thinking, change your habits, and change your life. 

We can release our fear of failing to meet any new resolutions we set. So what if we set a goal that we don’t keep or meet? So what if we don’t make a 180° change in some pattern overnight? In the big scheme of things, our failure to meet every little nuance of every resolution or goal we set doesn’t make us a failure. The only time we truly fail is when we don’t set a goal at all. So let’s release our fears and turn our eyes to where we truly want to go in our lives. 

So where do you want to go? What do you want your life to look like? What you want the world to look like? Visualize your life and the world around you as the perfection that it can be and set resolutions and intentions to move you in that direction. 

Sometimes it helps to break your life down into compartments and set goals for each area of your life. For example, you might consider your life from the area of what you want to do for your body and your health, the development of your mind and intellect, your expression of your creative abilities, the development of your relationships with others, your growth in work or employment, your spiritual growth, and so on. I have found that it always helps me to look at my life from the individual standpoint, and set goals for that area of my life. Then I look at the world and how I would like it to be and then set goals for how I show up in it. 

So, I’ve set a lot of goals for myself all throughout the year of 2010. I have goals around exercise and diet, learning a foreign language, personal development and writing. In some cases these goals are stated in such a way that I’ll do something everyday towards that goal, such as exercise or write. And the fact of the matter is, there will be some days when I will do neither. In fact, life may throw me a curveball, and I may get away from one of the other of these intentions for a week or longer. But, I have to be okay with that fact and recognize that I can get back towards my progress on my goals. I cannot let the fear of failure keep me from setting these goals. Neither can I let a little potential future slippage keep me from coming back to them. I must continuously ask myself, where do I want my life to and then move my thoughts, words and deeds in that direction. 

I’ve also looked at the world and set some goals for myself in how I want to show up in relation to it. Some of these goals may seem lofty and out of reach when we’re mired in the world of everyday effects. Yes, there could be plenty of times when I look out of the world and I see things that are less than what I desire for it. However just like when I slip up on my personal goals, I can’t let the world slipping up keep me from my focus and intention on the direction in which I wish to move. I must be resolute in the fact that each of us plays a role in moving the world towards its positive future. I must continue to do my part with my consciousness. 

So, what kind of world do I envision for the last half of 2010 and beyond? Where do I keep my focus and intentions on how I show up in the world for the time coming? 

First off, I envision a world that works for everyone. That means that it works for me and it works for you. That means it works for my family, but it also works for the family of humanity. Yes, I can look around me and work towards my personal success, but I must ever keep in mind that my success is connected to your success and all of our collective success. Hence as I work towards my goals and aspirations, I should ensure that my success should at a minimum harm no one. Even better, it should ultimately serve the greater good. As I express life in my neck of the woods, it should expand life in yours. 

Therefore, I see a world where everyone cares for everyone else. We honor our differences and our uniqueness. We allow each other to hold different beliefs—politically, spiritually and in other areas. In this, we expand our love and care and concern to more and more people. And ultimately, we expand our care and concern to all sentient beings and the world at large. We move from being egocentric and ethnocentric to being world centric. 

I see a world where peace is the norm, where everyone has enough to eat, where all have safety and security, where everyone has the opportunity to express their unique gifts. I see a world where we are all wise stewards of the planet and its resources. I see a world in which we release the sense of separation and claim our unity.

 Yes, these seem like lofty goals and flowery words, but they are a vision of the world that we can become. So, of all my intentions for the rest of 2010 and beyond, the one that is foremost is where I keep my consciousness and my focus on this possible world. I respectfully ask you to do the same. 

Blessings, 

Mark

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How Is Our Leadership Serving the Highest Vision of Our Planet?

June 7, 2010 //
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bridging humanity to our highest vision of futureIf you are someone who is interested in being a change agent for humanity’s highest potential good, here are some questions to ponder:

  • Do you have a personal mission and vision statement that guides your personal activities? 
  • Do you have an organizational mission and vision statement that guides your organizational activities? 
  • Do you hold a vision for the highest possible future of humanity?
  • As you look to your highest hopes and dreams for humanity, how are your personal or organizational vision statements meshing with that higher vision?

In other words, how is what you are doing each day in all aspects of your life contributing to our collective good?

These are the subjects of an article that I wrote that was recently published in the June 2010 Issue of the Integral Leadership Review.  Here is the link to the article which I hope you will check out:

June 2010 Integral Leadership Review Article

I hope you come back here and tell me your thoughts on it.  It is longer than most pieces here….so take some time to reflect on it….we’ll take a day or 2 off here to give you time to read it!

Mark Gilbert

ps. Take a look at the other articles there too.  It’s an interesting publication and I was pleased to have my article published there.

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The UN as Change Agent?

May 13, 2010 //
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How can the United Nations better serve humanity’s positive evolution? 

Today we conclude our three-part look at the UN by offering some suggestions and questions designed to get us thinking about how this global organization can better be a force for good.

Suggestions

Here are just a few of my thoughts:

  • The UN needs to create a compelling vision for our future and work to keep it in our awareness.  As I wrote about recently, they could benefit from a “big hairy audacious goal”.  An exciting and positive BHAG that we could all buy into would be a great motivator.
  • The UN needs to improve its outreach, especially in the United States.  My perception is that most information I receive about the UN comes from the UN’s critics.  It reminds me of my early days working for Medicare when we did a lousy job of outreach.  People’s perceptions were formed by the critics, not those working for the program.  It took time and a coordinated outreach program, but we were able to change much of that public perception.  The UN could do this too without spending a lot of money.
  • All of us need to keep our eyes focused on a positive future.  All of us need to consider how the UN can support our attaining it. All of us need to stay educated on the activities and possibilities of the UN and NGOs who support it.

Questions

I would love to hear from you… anything I write about is fair game, but here are some questions to stimulate you:

  • Do you agree or not that the UN plays a role in humanity’s evolution?
  • What do you think the UN can do to move humanity in a positive direction?
  • What do you think the United States can do to better support the UN as a change agent?
  • What role do you play in moving humanity in a positive direction?

What do you think?  I really want to know…

Mark

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What Do You Think of the UN?

May 12, 2010 //
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Which of the following best describes your thoughts regarding the United Nations?

A. I don’t think about the UN. It’s just one of those institutions in the background of life have always been there and has no relevance for me in my day-to-day life. I got more pressing matters to think about… I’m not exactly sure why you’re writing on this “UN kick”… I’m surprised I’ve read this far in your article.

B. It was a great idea when they created it but the UN has never quite lived up to its original idea and vision. I still believe there is some potential usefulness to the United Nations, it does do some humanitarian good, but it could do a whole lot more.

C. The UN is a bad idea and it needs to be disbanded. I don’t agree with its political positions. My country needs to pull out its support.

There is no “none of the above”… you might have a slightly different opinion, but I suspect that one of these choices comes close to your thoughts. Pick one.

In my last article, I outlined how we are spiritually evolving and a potential vision for the future. I also described my belief that the United Nations is currently one of our best options to serve as a tool to assist us in moving up that evolutionary path. I recognize you might not agree. I’d love to hear your opinion.

If you believe as I that our thoughts create what we see in life, then you might consider that our thoughts about the UN have played a part in its level of success. How can it be a tool for our spiritual evolution if our beliefs about the tool range from ambivalence (choice A) to disappointment (choice B) to distrust and hatred (choice C)? No matter which of the above opinions you hold about the UN, you and your thoughts play a role in its potential success.

It seems that the loudest voice comes from those who would choose item C above. Recently I searched Twitter posts looking for any comments on the United Nations. The bulk of the tweets fell into two categories. There were a lot related to actor Don Cheadle being acknowledged by the UN for his humanitarian work. (This probably relates in my opinion to our fascination with celebrities, but that’s another topic.) The other category of tweets were variations on the theme of distrust, dislike and hatred of the UN.

These strong negative emotions regarding this global institution (as expressed by primarily American voices) point to some of these issues as their concerns:

  • America has financial issues and the UN costs us too much money.
  • The UN is too liberal.
  • The UN is all talk and no positive action.
  • America is the strongest country in the world and we don’t need to listen to the opinions of those other countries.
  • The structure of the UN is all screwed up giving too much power to countries that don’t deserve it.
  • The UN is a front for a movement towards “world governance” (just like the European Union and the talked about” North American Union”) where we are going to lose our power to a small elite group.

I want to be perfectly clear, whether or not any of these beliefs are valid is not my point here. My reason for describing the most vocally negative opinions (which I personally believe represent only a minority of Americans) is to highlight the high degree of fear about the UN that exists in parts of our culture.

Although we could analyze the reasons for why people would choose A or B above and how holding onto ambivalence or disappointment holds us back from creating a UN that can be a tool that truly “unites nations” and moves humanity in a positive direction, it is this strong emotion of fear that may be our greatest barrier to lifting the UN to its highest possibilities. As Roosevelt said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.

When you as an individual sense that you are acting from fear, it’s useful to pursue the underlying beliefs that are giving rise to the fear. By bringing these subconscious beliefs into our conscious awareness, we can hold them up and examine them. We can see if the beliefs still serve us or not. Then we can make a conscious choice. In many cases the old belief that gave rise to the fear is seen to be invalid and we can make a new and better choice, one no longer driven by subconscious fears. If America were a person who wanted to heal its fears, then it would have to look at its underlying cultural “collective consciousness” beliefs and determine if they still serve us. (Of course as always, the first step would be to move out of our denial that we are operating from fear. No healing is possible while we continue to point at our reasons “out there” as our justification for our beliefs and continue to deny that fear is our real motivation.)

So why is there so much fear? Is it fear of change? Is it fear of the unknown? Is it fear of a loss of control or power? Is it cultural hubris? It’s probably all of these and more. What you think? I would love to hear your opinion.

Next: a few thoughts and some questions for all of us on how we can move forward.

Mark

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We Are All Change Agents, But What Are We Changing Towards?

March 20, 2010 //
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Each of us brings change...where are you going?

Today, I want you to consider 2 things—-one, that you are a change agent….and, two, that being a change agent, you need to have a vision as to the direction towards which you are changing.  To paraphrase Stephen Covey, you can climb a ladder but if you don’t think about where the ladder is going, you may find yourself at the top of the wrong building. We are all climbing ladders whether we know it or not.  How do you know if you are climbing in the right direction?

“Change Agent ” Defined

So what exactly is a change agent?  People throw the term around like we all know what it means, without ever stopping to think just exactly what one is.  I frequently call myself a change agent, I’m encouraging you to see yourself as one…in fact, I’m here to tell you that you are one whether you know it or not…so maybe we ought to define it. 

I googled “change agent”, and here’s what I found…”somebody or something that brings about, or helps to bring about, change.”  That sounds like all of us, right?  Some of us may be more “into change” than others, but we all bring about change.  You change your clothes (hopefully with some frequency), you change the channels on the TV, you change what you are eating from time to time, you change houses or jobs or friends or significant others, you change out the light bulb when it burns out.  We can’t help but having change in our lives.  Someone once said, “the only constant is change.”

OK, we all have change in our lives, but the term “change agent” seems to imply more.  I also found on the internet a number of key concepts identified with the change agent such as…someone who seeks to make people better….or someone who works to achieve a higher degree of output or self actualization….or someone who seeks to make changes that stick….or someone who lives in the future, not the present….or someone who is fueled by passion, and inspires passion in others.

So do you see any common denominators here?  For me, the underlying theme is that a change agent is someone who focuses their attention and intentions in a particular direction to bring about a positive future….they see a direction that will serve themselves and others…they set their motivations consciously in that direction and get moving!

Now, we all do this, too, in our individual lives….we look around and think that if we make certain changes (new house, new car, new job, new partner, new career, new education, etc.) then we will bring about a positive future for ourselves.  So we are all obviously “change agents” in this sense.

Yet, we also influence others whether consciously or not.  If we are parents, teachers, supervisors and the like, then we can see how we try to motivate and change others in a certain direction.  But even beyond that, we model behaviors that others see, and to the degree that we have some clout with them, they may try to do as we do.  Think of how you may change your diet, clothes, or entertainment choices based on the actions or recommendations of your friends.  You have the same power with others whether you realize it or not.

We all have a sphere of influence….those with whom we have some degree of power to change their thinking and actions.  How are we using that power?  Are we using it for good or for harm?  Answering that question is very important.  Bringing into your conscious choices that which is for your personal highest good and the highest good for others is one of the most important things you can do.  You are serving the positive evolution of your life and the planet by choosing wisely.

But what is the highest good….both for your life and the life of the planet within your sphere of influence? 

Without Vision, the People Perish

This brings us to having the vision to put our ladder against the right wall before we start climbing…to have the right vision for our life or the right vision in our influence of others.  How can we gain that  vision?

Generally, it appears that we get our visions from one of two ways–we either get a vision ourselves….something touches us so deeply that we know it is the direction we need to head…or, we buy into a vision that is presented to us by someone else.  One appears to come from within (our own vision), one appears to come from outside us (we accept another’s vision as our own).  However, in my opinion, if we truly buy into someone else’s vision with all our heart, then we have ignited the same “something” in us that we ignite when we catch our own vision.  If we don’t, then we are simply “going along with” the other person’s vision out of convenience or lack of something better.

If we are truly inspired by a vision (whether its source appears to come from within us or from another person), that inspiration comes from some greater source beyond us. I call it Spirit or God.  And, Spirit is something that we can tap into consciously by setting an intention to do so in order to gain insight and vision…to consciously seek that inspiration that ignites us.

How can we do that?  I know that the Centers for Spiritual Living and other metaphysical teachings offer a “visioning” process designed to tap “Spirit’s highest vision”.  You move your head out of the way, tap into your heart, and open yourself to listen to Spirit with a specific question in mind….then capture whatever comes up.  Yesterday, I offered up the Global Heart Vision statement as a picture of a positive future towards which to work towards the Global Heart Vision.  This statement was developed using this process….listening to Spirit repeatedly by many people and bringing the ideas that came forth together.

There are other techniques as well.  I like using a guided meditation that brings me to a mountain top where I meet an inner guide (someone who represents “wisdom” for me) in order to dialogue on whatever issue I am faced.  You can also try putting a question on the top of your journal page and then automatic writing on the question for a period of time. 

All of these techniques have one thing in common…they seek to get your head, your ego, your conditioning out of the way so that you can tap into something that is greater than your rational mind.  The rational mind serves us in climbing the ladder, but it may not always get us on the right ladder to begin with.

So how can we be sure that the vision we determine via listening to our inner wisdom is for our highest good and not our ego?  I like how Ernest Holmes tells us that something is good—it expresses more life and harms no one.  So ask yourself that when you are setting a vision or direction for yourself—does it express more life?  Does it harm no one?  If you can answer yes to both, then you are headed up the right ladder.

Summary

You are a change agent….you are making changes in your life all the time….and you are influencing others all the time.  You have great power and great responsibility.  Are you using it wisely?  Are you climbing up the right ladder for yourself and for the world?  Listen to your heart, your intuition, Spirit as you seek vision….seek to express more life and harm no one in your actions….and then move consciously in the direction of that future.

Mark

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Can You Feel the Global Heart?

March 19, 2010 //
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A positive vision for the future...

Yesterday, we considered that humanity may never agree on exactly what our highest vision for the future might be.  There will always be a variety of opinions and worldviews, each leading to a variety of opinions on potential futures.

Higher Turns of the Spiral

Spiral Dynamics, which we’ve discussed previously, outlines a series of worldviews through which humanity moves.  One might point to that model and logically suggest that in some distant future our consciousness may have evolved such that the vast majority of us are at the “higher” stages of development.  Would there not then be the possibility that we would evolve to one common worldview?  Perhaps. 

But let’s remember, Spiral Dynamics also points out that when we are born on the planet we start at square one — at the lowest meme or worldview — and progress upwards until we settle into the one that generally is our culture’s predominant view.  So if this model is valid, then we will always have the potential for people to be at different stages.

Yet I can envision a time when humanity might have come together enough to work towards a common vision, even if we disagree on details.  In my dreams, our higher degrees of cooperation lead us to a future where every person’s needs are met, where self-actualization and self transcendence are the norm, and where we ultimately reach the higher turns of the spiral.

One Vision

You can go out on the Internet and locate a lot of different visions of the future.  Not all of them are positive, yet many of them are.  One positive vision for the future that resonates with me is the Centers for Spiritual Living’s” Global Heart Vision”.  This vision is one of the key reasons that I became licensed as a minister in this organization. 

When I first heard this vision statement, it spoke to me so deeply that I felt called to assist in its manifestation on the planet.  I believe so deeply in the necessity of humanity coming together and consciously taking charge of our collective evolution that it has become my personal goal.  It is obviously the intention of this website as well.

So here is the global heart vision, verbatim.

Global Heart Vision Statement

Whereas in this information age the “global brain” has become an operative reality, we envision the emergence of the Global Heart to balance and guide the further evolution of humanity as stewards of our planet and all its inhabitants.

We see a world free of homelessness, violence, war, hunger, separation and disenfranchisement.

We see a world in which there is generous and continuous sharing of heart and resources.

We envision a world in which forgiveness, whether for errors, injustices, or debts, is the norm.

We see a world in which borders are irrelevant.

We see a world which has renewed its emphasis on beauty, nature, and love through the resurgence of creativity, art, and aesthetics.

We see a world in which fellowship with all life prospers and connects through the guidance of spiritual wisdom and experience.

We envision a world in which we live and grow as One Global Family that respects and honors the interconnectedness of all life.

We envision United Centers for Spiritual Living as a bridge across the illness and illusion of separation thereby dynamically empowering the vision of Global Heart.

We envision United Centers for Spiritual Living as united and actuated by this compelling vision of a healthy world (a world experience of Global Heart) and is ardently committed to bringing this vision forth through its ministries and its transformative teaching.

We see the United Centers for Spiritual Living as a global community of inspired individuals caring for and about each other and the entire planetary family, thereby bringing the gift of active compassion and kindness to the world. Our local ministries and communities become “points of inspiration and influence” effectively advancing the vision of the Global Heart to benefit all expressions of life.

Conclusion

I hope you read that vision statement you feel as inspired as I did.  You may feel a desire to tweak it a bit… maybe some minor additions or deletions.  Yet, I hope that overall, it resonates with you.

Probably two questions come to mind… one being specific details that might be included in each statement… the other in how we can implement it now.  That’s where were going tomorrow.

To be continued…

Mark

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