Humanity is starving, but we won't kill the cows! (but the vision revolution is taking care of that!)

A good friend of mine was fond of slaughtering sacred cows in the business world. You know, those old beliefs and long-held assumptions that everyone accepts as true? He had the courage to confront those old cows head on... and he made hamburgers of them. He was paid royally for butchering those cows.

He wasn't actually a good friend of mine in the sense that I knew him personally. It seemed I'd come to know him from reading so many of his writings, and in my mind we're friends. His name? Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

What does all this talk of sacred cows have to do with the Vision Revolution? LOTS! Bear with me!

Let's look at the sacred cow metaphor for a moment.

It comes from the idea that there are or were starving or hungry people in India, who don't think about eating the cows that roam freely, because the cows are considered sacred. They don't even consider questioning the idea of not eating cows, while it could easily solve a very big problem.

There are assumptions/axioms in probably every field of study that are generally accepted as true, and thus not often seriously questioned. By not questioning the assumptions/axioms upon which much of your decisions are made, you limit your power to the field given by the unchecked assumption.

How is your power limited by not questioning basic assumptions?

A simplistic example: You are getting poor grades in math class. You assume your problem is one of intellectual ability. Your parents always treated you as not as smart as your brother, and you've always struggled more in school. So, it's a given: "I'm not good at math." Or, "I'm just not that smart."

If this assumption goes unchecked, your range of solutions is quite narrow.

==> Get a tutor
==> Study harder
==> Pick other courses to specialize in
==> Buy Math For Dummies

Etc.

What you are blind to is other causes of the problem.

==> Maybe your eyesight is poor ==> Solutions include getting glasses, sitting closer to teacher, etc.
==> Maybe your teacher speaks in a dailect different from yours ==> Solutions include getting a different teacher, learning more about your teacher's dialect, etc.
==> Maybe you are using the wrong mathbook ==> Solution is obvious
==> Maybe you are in the wrong mathclass--a 5th grader studying college algebra==> Solutions obvious

OK, of course we could go on and on.

The point is unchecked assumptions limit your range of solutions, and thus your power.

Consider that anywhere you see ogoing problems that only get worse, there could be a gross misunderstanding of the problem, and perhaps a major blind spot causes by an assumption that no one dares question... a sacred cow.

Remember my "friend," Eli Goldratt? He turns businesses around by slaughtering sacred cows.

Well, what does this all have to do with the VISION REVOLUTION?

We can turn humanity around if we're willing to slaughter some sacred cows. Indeed, if we're courageous enough to look the cow in the eyes and see it for what it is, LUNCH!, then we can reverse this terrible downward spiral of more and more death, destruction, terrorism, addiction, depression, reactionary politics, system-abusing lawsuits, corruption, disease, hunger, pollution, murder, war, etc.

Indeed, those who are leading the revolution are the ones with bovine blood-stained butcher knives.

I'm being a bit blunt here, because being a visionary leading the Vision Revolution means being willing to face anything, to look anywere, to question ruthlessly and rigorously. Are you up to the challenge?

OK then, consider this...

There is one domain where human beings have extraordinary power compared to another domain.

We can fly to the moon, instant message to Tokyo from Australia, detonate a nuclear weapon and cure many diseases. We have great power of in the domain of the hard or physical sciences: chemistry, physics, quantum physics, etc.

Yet we're embarrassingly and miserably inept in the realm of the soft sciences: psychology, politics, sociology, etc. Let's face it. Are we backwards hillbillies or what? We still solve our personal and interpersonal problems with frivolous lawsuits, slander, war, prisons and prisons and more prisons, laws and laws and more laws, crack cocaine, chocolate icecream, alcohol, murder, counterproductive ego arguments, blame, force and threat of force, blackmail, heroine, ritalin, soap operas, preaching selff-righteously, etc.

The more we apply all these "solutions" to fix our problems, the worse things get.

Could it be... could it really be... that there is a whole heard of fatty cattle in the streets?

Could it be that there have long been assumptions that human beings have dared not question very much?

The most sacred of sacred areas of reality are where? In the human mind. In consciousness. For in the mind, in consciousness lie the boundaries of religious belief and all beliefs which give us a sense of moral and psychological security. As open-minded as most of us like to think that we are these days, most of us separate our areas of intellectual or scientific exploration from our areas of religious or spiritual exploration with barbed wire fences.

Yet more and more these days, we are seeing some of the cattle in the herd as LUNCH! The Christian who comes to see the mental, physical and psychological benefits of yoga (once undquestionably the Occult) and then makes it a daily practice is an example. The person who increasingly uses his or her own natural faculties of honesty and rationality, rather than relying on dogma, is an emerging "visionary." This person need not disavow her values of spirituality or morality in order to gain the values offered by a yoga practice.

It is simple processes of facing what we've not been facing and standing for our values in the face of fear, criticism, dogma, etc. that are the hallmark of the emerging visionaries and the new revolutionaries. It is this process of personal emergence, or conscious evolution if you will, that is at the heart of the Vision Revolution. Look around you... signs of the Vision Revolution are everywhere.

Sacred cows are being slaughtered in the streets, in the hallways, in the churches, in the closets, in the boardrooms, in the schools and in homes all across the world.

There are new ways of guiding oneself that do not require the sheltered, parental protection of a self-righteous position. We can, all of us in this world, rise from being Positionaries to being visionaries. It's already happening. It can't be stopped... though the institutions of power will try as they might.

A new day is dawning... the rising generations may actually live in an almost unimaginable world of peace, prosperity, freedom, synergistic co-creation and ethical progression.

This is the Vision Revolution.

Should you be afraid?

Sometimes people who witness the power of the vision technology at the Vision Force Academy, become fearful about it falling into the wrong hands.

Technology is separate from morality.

Give people a more powerful way of doing something and it can empower both the good guys and the bad guys.

Take a hammer for example. This tool can be used to build a beautiful piece of furniture or destroy it. A gun can be used to defend innocent lives or to take them.

So people ask me all the time if I fear this technology falling into the wrong hands. My answer is always, "No." Why? Because of the side effects.

One of the side effects of using the VisionForce methods is that it EVOKES the human spirit... You almost can't help it.

Simply using the VisionForce technology calls you AND the people around you to greatness.

So, give the VisionForce technology to a terrorist who has plans to lead a group of other terrorists to take innocent lives and what will happen?

The more he or she uses the technology, the more he/she will awaken to humanity in the enemy, and will feel called to stand for all those around him--not just for himself and his cause.

It's like giving a criminal a gun, and every time he uses it, he becomes a better person, as do the people he shoots.

Pretty cool, huh? (Of course, we're not talking of shooting ANYONE!)

This is why I am not concerned about who gets their hands on our proprietary methods. At the Vision Force Academy, we aim to teach this technology to ALL groups, ALL parties, ALL nations, ALL religions...NO MATTER THEIR BELIEFS.

I see it time and time again... people with opposing judgments and beliefs come together and find common ground in their NATURAL HUMAN VALUES.

Our methods hold the promise of world peace, peace in the Middle East, peace in the streets of LA, peace in marriages, peace in the workplace, AND... Far more than peace.

Indeed, peace is not the end. It is just a beginning.

The VisionForce is a growing movement of visionaries who stand for a world where all human beings live from their deepest human values... where all human beings live true to their nature as heroic beings and visionaries.

That, too, is a promise of the VisionForce, and the Vision Revolution!

In the coming weeks, the Vision Force Academy will announce a new 1-day workshop that introduces peopleto the Mind of the New Revolutionary.

We will start in Austin. If you're interested in a FREE ticket, please subscribe to the newsletter on this page (top left). You'll hear more on the revolution in the days ahead!

Until then, I am your connection to the new revolution.

-Michael Ivan Skye
VISION REVOLUTION
http://VisionRevolution.org

P.S. The date for the next Vision Force Boot Camp has been changed to May 17th. If you would like to get your seat early, or if you have questions, please call Michele at 1-877-844-6667, ext. 1.

Hi, I'd like your assistance in compiling a very long list of visionary quotes... revolutionary quotes...

Quotes that speak to the up and coming revolutionaries... quotes that speak to who we must be and how we must live..

Here are two to start, then post your own by clicking the Comments link below...

"A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of "success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills


"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

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?

Less than 1 day, 22 hours and 33 minutes left until it happens...

Hi Michael!

Michael Skye here with an urgent update.

Revolutionary new internet tools like the one I am about to show you are what are going to give the power back to the people.

YOU AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU WILL CHANGE THE WORLD

You've heard me preaching about how you and I and everyday people are the ones who
must step forward to save our world, our children and our future, right?

Well, 2 visionaries I met in Phoenix last are holding a private conference call this Monday night, and you gotta be there... BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOUR CHILDREN AND OUR FUTURE!

They are going to announce the release of a tool for internet entrepreneurs and visionaries
that gives YOU the power to start a MOVEMENT!

This tool makes your vision a virus that can spread on its own across the world, and make
it easy to build a massive movement of people aligned with your vision!

*** Live Call Monday January 30th at 8PM eastern ***
(call link below)

What some are calling... The call of the year... Mike and Mark will talk live On Monday.

Mike gives a random listener a FREE copy of the program live on the call.

To get on this call with OVER 1000 people and 5000 people on world wide web cast, get the CALL OF THE YEAR details here, now.

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Thanks,

Michael Skye
VisionForce.com

PS -

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The site goes live and hundreds are expected to purchase the first (and maybe the last) of the program. http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?Ja5gdv05YNWhO43fNYVSBA

How can you use the internet to spread your vision like a virus?

At the Vision Force Academy, we have many unique viral tools in development. For a few years, however, the challenge of how to virally spread our ideas through the internet has presented us with a daunting task.

Well, there is an amazing tool being released next week that can give anyone with a vision a very powerful plug-and-play tool to launch a viral marketing machine that both spreads their vision and finances their mission.

I'll be sharing that in just a few days.

The Vision Force Academy has also begun to test a cutting-edge web-based project collaboration tool. This is unlike any project management software you've ever seen. It is based on the forward thinking work of thought leader Fernando Flores, and was developed by a friend of mine who created it for Flores to use in his grassroots presidential campaign.

Got to love the internet... This is where the future is being created!

Tired of trying to be good?

In the future, we will raise our children not to be "good" adults who follow the system, but to be great visionaries who passionately follow their own conscience and vision.

Believe it or not...

The Vision Revolution will change your life, your children's lives, and the world forever.

A few days ago, I sent you an email telling you about how I am writing the manifesto for the Vision Revolution.

I just thought I'd share a few more of my notes with you.

The Vision Force Academy at http://www.visionforce.com is NOT in the "personal development" business.

Personal development is about changing your thoughts and actions to get a little bit better so that you can be a little bit more successful, happy, rich, etc.

We hold that the ideal for each human being goes far beyond being good, or being better.

It is possible for human beings to go far beyond being confident, successful, happy , enlightened, etc.

The ideal is to be totally self-directed as a creator who takes ultimate responsibility for your life and the world around you.

Far beyond being responsible.

Far beyond being successful.

Far beyond being good.

It's about greatness. True greatness.

The kind of greatness exhibited by heroic visionary leaders who walk their talk, and change the world around them for good.

It goes far beyond setting goals and achieving them.

It goes far beyond keeping your commitments and being in integrity.

It's about being so powerfully directed by your own conscience and vision that you naturally and boldly walk where others fear to read.

You NATURALLY feel called to rise up and take a stand in the world.

You don't limit your goals to what seems possible.

You take on the impossible, and risk looking "out of integrity" or irresponsible" to the world around you.

It is about living by the human compass of honor as your guide.

Not honor as you may understand it. (Honor usually implies a given value system that was not chosen by you. Whether or not you are behaving honorably depends on the value system you are judging yourself by.)

I am talking about the feeling of honor. The feeling you get when you consciously choose to stand for something, especially when there is risk involved.

Many people can only understand this feeling in a spiritual or religious sense. But it is a very natural human emotion.

It is the feeling that calls one to greatness, that calls one into heroic action.

IT IS TIME FOR A NEW VISION AND A NEW MODEL FOR HUMAN BEINGS LIVING LIFE ON EARTH

A new decision-making model for honoring self and one's values. A model for making choices in a way that does not diminish self. A model for being a next-generation visionary.

It really is possible for each person to see see such a vision that there is NO turning back.

I say that this is how we will live in the future.

And our technology for self-guidance must advance forward NOW. Not after nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have become
cheap and widespread across the globe.

No, we MUST learn to live as self-directed visionaries now.

Those of you who have participated in Vision Force 101 or the boot camp, have seen and experienced evidence of real technology for guiding one's self as a visionary.

A visionary mother, a visionary leader, a visionary entrepreneur, a visionary human being taking a stand and being true to a vision for making a difference.

A HIGHER STANDARD FOR YOURSELF

Really it is a higher standard for what it means to be human. It is not enough to be good.

To be a "good citizen," "good Christian," "good husband, father, son, brother," "good student," etc.

Good is not good enough. Good by whose standards?

To truly live by your own natural, heroic vision and the implied standards is what it means to be great. Being great is possible for human beings--truly for all human beings.

And so, "great" should be the standard. Not "good."

"Good" in the eyes of Osama, Saddam or Bush might mean you kill innocent people. "Good" in the eyes of your father might mean you take on a profession that leaves you lifeless, or a marriage that leaves you lifeless... you can be lifeless and good. You can't be lifeless and great.

Self-development, philosophy, religion, etc. can be useful tools in a quest to be good, or at least saved from hell, from low self-esteem or from poverty.

There is a new realm of technology that will be required for us to think and live at the level of individual vision.

Visionary Development, or human development for beings who accept their natural potential as a visionary, and wish to live true to their highest calling and vision.

It is time to call each and every human being to rise up off their knees, and stop just trying to be good or patted on the head for following well, or blindly following. The world needs visionaries.

Our children need us to be visionary leaders, so they can be that themselves.

The time has come for every human being to fulfill their true potential--as a visionary leader.

THE TIME IS NOW!

If you are reading these words now, stand up and step into your full power as a visionary. You can transform your life and the world
around you. Stop trying to be good or better, and commit
to being a visionary. Go all the way.

Visionaries are 100% responsible inside of a relationship. Not 50%.

Visionaries take 100% responsibility for their lives and values.

It is a new model for thinking and living. The Vision Revolution is upon us.

Like it or not, the day is coming when there will be a new standard for what it means to be human.

You can fight it, or accept it.

Your friend and ally in the cause for human beings living as visionaries, one and all,


Michael Ivan Skye
VISION FORCE ACADEMY