War From Cartoons?
Recent cartoons depict the Prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam, as a terrorist with a bomb on his head. Violence is now breaking out in all corners of the world by Muslims offended by the cartoons.
Wars have been started by as much as an insult. The recent riots around the world could be what sparks our next world war... a war like no other... unseen enemies with access to nuclear, chemical, biological or radiological weapons... or any combination thereof.
Here in America, there is fear, there is confusion, there is anger, self-righteousness... Everyone has an opinion. "Free speech is a right, so to hell with them!"
No matter the opinion, what are we going to do about the growing international conflicts that are now spreading deeply into Western territory?
Consider that there are new and higher levels of communication and conflict resolution that we could all rise to as human beings.
Consider that the issue at hand is much, much larger than free speech. The protestors? They see no pathway out of their situation. No wonder we often see them behaving like caged animals. And now the fear is everywhere, including here in America. We are tempted to respond to their violence with more and more of our own. It's a vicious downward spiral.
What if a few among them, and a few among us, stood up to take a stand for something much greater than free speech, far greater than respect for beliefs.
What if we learned to see and call forth the greatness in ourselves and each other, as Gandhi did?
We really must look at how we respond to their words and actions. Are we really willing to wait for the other side to grow up and respect free speech, or respect our beliefs? Like the pouting teenager who knows he's right and the other person is wrong?
Our context for dealing with conflict MUST move beyond who is right and who is wrong if we are to survive the decade.
I say it really is possible to lead ourselves and everyone out of this mess, but it won't happen by just expressing our feelings or reacting or pointing fingers.
There are simple dynamics about communication and relationships, that if exercised by our "leaders," could really call forth the greatness in all sides. We really could unite behind a common stand for human life.
This seemingly impossible fantasy will grow into an obvious, practical path as new evolving technologies and methods for communication and conflict resolution are revealed in the coming months...
In just the way that the idea of space travel seemed impossible to the avg person in the early 1900s, the idea of communicating and resolving conflict in a way that calls all sides to greatness seems impossible today.
Yet to the people working on space travel technology in the 50s and 60s, it was beyond possible. It was a given. It was a future reality. The technology and processes we work with at the Vision Force Boot Camp have given me that kind of vision for the future. I see on a level of knowing that human beings can and will rise to a new level of being and communication in the years ahead. And, it MUST happen sooner rather than later.
Making money and "success" will not be that important to us after terrorists nuke a few US and European cities and are threatening to randomly nuke a few more. Escalating force and violence will only make things worse. We need new methods for conflict resolution and we need them now.
So, you'll be seeing me and others like me on the national and world stage in the coming years. We have something to say, something that we are in a unique position to say, to do and to teach. And we're ready.
For me with the Vision Force Academy, it's not about helping people become successful. That is great work to offer the world. Yet we must reach the people who are really up to causing change, because our processes gives them real tools and solutions to be effective in causing the kind of positive change they seek... beyond self-improvement.
We're up to finding ways to communicate all of this over the coming year. Are you one of them?
Wars have been started by as much as an insult. The recent riots around the world could be what sparks our next world war... a war like no other... unseen enemies with access to nuclear, chemical, biological or radiological weapons... or any combination thereof.
Here in America, there is fear, there is confusion, there is anger, self-righteousness... Everyone has an opinion. "Free speech is a right, so to hell with them!"
No matter the opinion, what are we going to do about the growing international conflicts that are now spreading deeply into Western territory?
Consider that there are new and higher levels of communication and conflict resolution that we could all rise to as human beings.
Consider that the issue at hand is much, much larger than free speech. The protestors? They see no pathway out of their situation. No wonder we often see them behaving like caged animals. And now the fear is everywhere, including here in America. We are tempted to respond to their violence with more and more of our own. It's a vicious downward spiral.
What if a few among them, and a few among us, stood up to take a stand for something much greater than free speech, far greater than respect for beliefs.
What if we learned to see and call forth the greatness in ourselves and each other, as Gandhi did?
We really must look at how we respond to their words and actions. Are we really willing to wait for the other side to grow up and respect free speech, or respect our beliefs? Like the pouting teenager who knows he's right and the other person is wrong?
Our context for dealing with conflict MUST move beyond who is right and who is wrong if we are to survive the decade.
I say it really is possible to lead ourselves and everyone out of this mess, but it won't happen by just expressing our feelings or reacting or pointing fingers.
There are simple dynamics about communication and relationships, that if exercised by our "leaders," could really call forth the greatness in all sides. We really could unite behind a common stand for human life.
This seemingly impossible fantasy will grow into an obvious, practical path as new evolving technologies and methods for communication and conflict resolution are revealed in the coming months...
In just the way that the idea of space travel seemed impossible to the avg person in the early 1900s, the idea of communicating and resolving conflict in a way that calls all sides to greatness seems impossible today.
Yet to the people working on space travel technology in the 50s and 60s, it was beyond possible. It was a given. It was a future reality. The technology and processes we work with at the Vision Force Boot Camp have given me that kind of vision for the future. I see on a level of knowing that human beings can and will rise to a new level of being and communication in the years ahead. And, it MUST happen sooner rather than later.
Making money and "success" will not be that important to us after terrorists nuke a few US and European cities and are threatening to randomly nuke a few more. Escalating force and violence will only make things worse. We need new methods for conflict resolution and we need them now.
So, you'll be seeing me and others like me on the national and world stage in the coming years. We have something to say, something that we are in a unique position to say, to do and to teach. And we're ready.
For me with the Vision Force Academy, it's not about helping people become successful. That is great work to offer the world. Yet we must reach the people who are really up to causing change, because our processes gives them real tools and solutions to be effective in causing the kind of positive change they seek... beyond self-improvement.
We're up to finding ways to communicate all of this over the coming year. Are you one of them?
1 Comments:
When the passion of a Vision rises high within a person you can do nothing but become Honor...
In this light with regards to the critical state of not only conciousness on the planet also global war of several kinds...Could it be that their is a kind of passionthat becomes a sort of destructiveness when it or a radical destructive response mechanism. This is what is occuring within the conciousness globally. Their is a global crash in conciousness. Between reality and technology the conciousness of the human kind is crashing. It is crashing in on itself because it lacks Honor...Humanity flat out lacks Vision. Whenever their is a rise in technology ina technological society and a conciousness that can not keep up with its riseing technologynyouhave a response mechanism. The human person is designed for Vision within its conciousness as a Spirit of Honor. The natural stream of conciousness has been interupted. However, the question is, Is their a outside force causeing the deliberation of mankinds fall or is their some sort of pre-destiantion of evolution going on or perhaps simultaneiously this is happening. We really much look at what forces in humanity are within and befalling mankind. I do feel their has to be a balance within technolgy for the person to not be transfixed by high technology rather create alignment within Vision. The key is really Vision. so the work of Vision as in the Vision Force Academy and the boot camp is actually on the leading edge, the cuting edge of what is needed to pull mankind and humanity at large out of this thunder bearing crisis at a global and planetary leve. I am Alive serious...
As a Visionary whom can grasp the light of the passion within Life i stand for Life....and how the terroists in the world figure accomplishment to their destructive Vision demonstrates that their religious incanatations are masked behind the shawdow of severe determent for all.
The Truth about Vision...The Truth about Honor I feel can rise a Nation like America to grabing hold of a common sense Vision for all as we have the potential to of a land of the free and the brave and "The Visionary" "The Visionary Proclamation of America" should be a amendment to the Constitution of the Untied States and would state such humanities of Honor that atualy re-create the American Dream of Freedom...
In this light Solutions are possible as Visions when in the hand of a Vsionary...The Visionaries of america for sure will come out of the Vision Force Academy and its ajacent course The bootcamp....
The global conciousness is on a crash course as it is guided by its default self guidance system. It is urgent we re-creat and give the necessary tools for humanity to have a new self guidance system out of the war zone that seems to be the planetary compfort zone. If we think about it this planet seems to be some kind of war planet. what is going on is it is stuck in the default self guidance system...that is it..over and out...
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