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The Journey
click on the world
Compelling, evocative, and visually stunning, this video takes us on a journey from stardust to species.
Sense of Self. If our interconnected universe is continually expanding, shouldn't our identity do the same? In this short, entertaining video, we look at the dynamics that promote and inhibit our expanding sense of self.
Click on the pacman to discover more.
The Wombat. The wombat speaks, and he's smarter than you, so listen up! In less than a minute, this rapid-fire animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years.
Click on the wombat below he makes more sense than many of our world leaders currently do.
Planet of Peril, Planet of Promise? If you aren't scared, you aren't paying attention. But when the punk pulls the fire alarm on the whole planet, the principal points out fresh perspectives that can help solve difficult problems and create a better future for all.
Click on Andrew to learn more.
Self Interest
Purpose and Mission
Our purpose is to "contribute to the emerging global community," and our mission is to "help make the emergence of global community unstoppable."
To help make the emergence of global community unstoppable, we want to play a part in engaging 20% of the world's people in conversation about what living in global community really means, and in creating models of creative action that help demonstrate its value. Why 20%?
Our Strategy
We believe that to unite as a human species, we need to engage, globally, in dialogue that will help bring our collective interests and objectives into focus. Only then can we truly begin to work together in a spirit of creative cooperation so necessary to our survival.
At the same time, we are providing important resources and tools people need to connect and collaborate around specific actions that can help us realize our mission.
We have found these two elements — deep conversation and creative action — to be tightly interdependent. Through conversation we begin to build shared meaning and trust, enabling us to work together more creatively and effectively.
In the final analysis, change is all about motivation, and if we can see that beneath our many differences is a powerful undercurrent of connection — reflected in our common origins and our shared hopes for a better world for ourselves and for our children — we will find the motivation we need to change in ways that benefit not only some small group, but humanity, and life, as a whole.
A Global Perspective
If we are to see what unifies us, then we need a perspective large enough to transcend our many differences. What we are learning from modern science — particularly about our 13.7 billion year evolutionary journey — provides just such a perspective.
While wisdom traditions have long taught that all life is one interconnected and interdependent whole, it is only in the last few generations that science has provided the empirical validation of this crucial insight. For some of us, such validation may not be necessary — the wisdom of the ancients coupled with our personal experiences suffice. But for many others, the awe-inspiring story of the evolution of the cosmos and of life itself opens the door, perhaps for the first time, to an expanded and more integrated view of the world and our place within it.
Discovering the implications of the unity of life, and learning how evolutionary principles can help us work together to meet the tremendous challenges of our times, is the essence of the core conversation we now need to be having as a human family. And it is perhaps here that science and wisdom traditions most keenly converge — for the implications of what we are now learning from science go to the very heart of humanity's three most ancient questions: who are we, where are we, and what are we to do.
In our times more than any other, the converging of these two streams of knowing — modern and ancient, empirical and intuitive — holds the potential to play a powerful role in helping us emerge a better future for all life.
For more details, Visit the Global Mindshift Site
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