Campaign

The time has come to change the course of human development and transformation. We have come to a point where the traditional mode and notions of progress are not yielding the expected results.

The time to act is now; let us not wait any longer!!

No matter how one carries out the “material-wealth-balance-sheet” of the world, and no matter how we conceive the bounties embodied in the fast and substantive forms of technological change, it is evident that the present model, approach, or paradigm, is only benefitting a few people, with the great majority being left behind.

Just see the immense inequities built-in the patterns of world consumption, or look into the coefficients (indices) that measure income and other forms of inequalities at the country level. You will observe acute concentration, marginalization, and social instability as the major outcomes.

Furthermore, all of us are witnessing world poverty, environmental degradation, human insecurity, biodiversity depletion, war and conflicts, crime and drug abuse, erosion of our fundamental spiritual values, and many other huge problems confronting humanity today. And, we all know that true and lasting solutions (sustainable, inclusive and collective ones) are not the outgrowth of more of the same.

The capitalist system, and its market oriented economics, is not a guarantee to providing the necessary safety nets for the overwhelming majority of the population that is supposed to gain from such a system. The true dynamics of such a system is the creation of material wealth, accompanied and supported by a set of purely individualistic values.

This is what it prevails today. These two elements –materiality and individualism– are promoting societies that may, one day in the future, become materially rich (if ever), at the expense of being spiritually poor.

The capitalist system is failing us because of us.

Specifically, today, there is not a sufficiently high level of “collective human consciousness” that is able to fully protect, nurture, and sustain the largest majority of people on our Planet. And, also, that is able to understand the infinite, divine, and sacred role played by nature and natural Law.

We see with great consternation how this present approach to human material welfare creation and distribution destroys our natural and human environments on a daily basis. It feels like there is nothing that can be done to stop it. This is the view of the person on the streets today.

There is a loss of hope and clear dis-empowerment that impedes the needed capacity to shift and change the course of humanity.

World peace depends on those who benefit from being at war. Human health depends on those who have become rich selling pharmaceutical products and profiting from existing health service facilities. Spiritual transformation depends on those religions who promote indecent behaviors. True democracy depends of those who hold the existing political power structures. The future of the family depends on those who promote it but that do not supply the needed material and spiritual resources for it to become a reality. Our true freedom depends on those who promote and sell new forms of slavery.

We must change the world, and change the world now.

However, we are all looking for new types of change and new forms of human interactions.

For a new type of change to happen, and for it to bring truly different opportunities and alternative forms of wealth (e.g., spiritual wealth), it demands a new level of collective human consciousness. Furthermore, it necessitates a more refined mind, body and soul. This refinement must come first; otherwise, we will continue walking as if we were blindfolded.

The old paradigm and the corresponding level of collective human consciousness –which has been at the foundation of the problems we face today—will not offer the solutions we are all looking for. The consciousness that created the problem will never bring the solution.

Changing the world now is imperative. There is no more time. Yes, there is no more time.

We all know that it would be tragic to wait longer. To wait longer means to experience more global warming, additional ozone layer depletion, innumerable wars and conflicts, added human insecurity, more fragility in our societies, intense social instability, deep disempowerment, overwhelming suffering, etc. This situation, or to adopt a posture of ‘waiting longer’, will not only be tragic to our human race and all forms of life on our Planet, but it will also be irresponsible.

Change and human transformation must come from a different ‘source’ than just the creation of more material wealth (more money, buildings, things, etc.). We must focus on the deep, subtle, non-material aspects of human transformation: happiness, stability, identity, cohesiveness, interdependence, coherence, solidarity, love, compassion, and many more collective states of human existence or spiritual values of life.

For those states of human existence (states of being) to become a reality, we must create the space and conditions for what we know as self-realization. Happiness and compassion, for example, are not ‘out there’. They are inside us. We have to be happy and become happiness.

In actual practice, we all know that there is no level of material wealth that will be able to deliver these states of human existence. If this assertion were not true, we will be saying that materially rich people or materially rich countries are happier than the other ones. We know well that this is not the case. For example, the highest level of suicide in the world is in the continent of Europe and not in the developing countries.

In simple terms: nobody and no society will be able to buy happiness. Our supermarkets do not sell happiness there.

To become the above-mentioned states of being (self-realization), it is indispensable that a major shift INWARD takes place. And, that we look for solutions and wisdom inside ourselves.

To shift inward means to give significantly more attention to the nature, capacities, and dimensions of our inner selves. We must not just pay attention to our outer-self and outer-reality. Notwithstanding the fact that such a reality is the mirror image of who we are.

This shift inwards will, in essence, validate and create the new conditions we are looking for (a) to generate new forms of human change and transformation and (b) to select a unique set of instruments for the peaceful protection of our Planet.

A fundamental spiritual law is at stake here: “the outer is like the inner and the inner is like the outer”.

For centuries we have looked at the outer for solutions. Today, we have to look at the change and transformation that is available and emerges from the inner self.

We all know that there are billions of people who are unhappy, worried about their lives, suffering a great deal, and having no real hope of a better future. This is a time bomb, in a figurative sense.

We are all wondering about where to go, make our claims, be heard, etc., in order to express our deep personal concerns.

For the time being, there is a huge organizational vacuum. In particular, all international organizations are elitists, closed, and impenetrable. This is despite the fact that their façade upfront gives the impression that they are open and willing to listen and act as a result of that listening. This is simply not the case.

Today, the largest majority of world based organizations, responsible for the state of affairs we see today, are owned and managed by countries/governments. Not only that, but they are even the “owners” of many of the large international and domestic non-governmental organizations (e.g., via representation and financing).

Most of these organizations –e.g., United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and Specialized Agencies of the UN—are not accessible to the people of the world. They are also old fashion in their organization and management, procedures, instruments and the like.

In parallel, we observe that what is not owned or managed by the governments it is often in the hands of the major banks and private sector corporations –national and multi-national corporations. As a result, the exercise of true world citizenship is at stake today.

The same governments, which promote country-based democracies, are not willing to create and to respect a democratic-international-world-based-organization. We observe that actual dictatorship is veiled in innumerable ways. Just as one out of many examples, you should think about the role, functions, and elite-country-control within the United Nations’ Security Council.

In a recent meeting, which was organized to listen to non-governmental organizations, within the context of Rio Plus 20 Conference (2012), most of the time was spent training the NGO leaders about the various rules of engagement that do not allow them to directly participate in that conference’s dialogues. It was clearly stated that there are many rules of engagements that countries are demanding to members of civil society and other social actors. With these rules, it is not easy to have an open dialogue.

In most cases, the countries’ rules are so restricted and sacrosanct that people’s participation ends up being nil. It was stated, time and time again, that such a conference was by and for the countries and that, only under a set of very restrictive rules, these governments might listen to civil society. This example is not an exception, but it has become the rule.

Changing the world demands a unique form of organizational architecture. This architecture will enable social actors to operate within a unique open space, whereby everyone may express an opinion, even if it is a divergent opinion in relation to an existing majority.

The organization proposed here is like a Network Matrix of Infinite Interactions.

This is not new any longer. We see this type of interactions with Google, Facebook, and so many other structures. One does not need buildings, physical addresses, and the like.

Today, technology and social media have opened tremendous possibilities for nurturing such a truly democratic dialogue to take place. Not only a dialogue, but via such a dialogue, one will be able to empower people so that they become part and parcel of the human process of collective transformation.