Robert Muller: [GMW #2037] World Indigenous University - University Of Mother Earth - An Appropriate Cosmology

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

[GMW #2037] World Indigenous University - University Of Mother Earth - An Appropriate Cosmology - A World Core Curriculum

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 1040 ~ 16 May 1997

In line with my recommendations that there should be more world universities, I proposed that the conference undertake the creation of a World Indigenous University, possibly located on the sacred indigenous grounds of the University for Peace.

Such a University would study world-wide the linguistics of all indigenous people, their views and relations with the Earth, their spirituality and such remarkable cosmologies as the Maya, Aztec and Inca ones which were represented at the conference.

The western world is in dire need of an appropriate cosmology and could be inspired by them. For instance, it is interesting that the world core curriculum for a new presentation of all our knowledge to children (inserted in the volume of the first 500 ideas), which I derived from my experience in the United Nations, is almost identical to the Mayan cosmology.

During the conference I received a remarkable paper proposing the creation of a University of Mother Earth (Madre Tierra) in Costa Rica to complement the work and efforts of the Earth Council created in that country as one of the outcomes of the Rio de Janeiro Conference on the Environment. The text of the proposal has been circulated to the Costa Rican Parliament to have it studied and proposed officially to the United Nations for implementation. A wonderful idea. I will do everything to get it accepted.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,

Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art

Yes, to be an artist of life. It is not life which is wrong, but what we make of it, how we play it.

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. --Lao Tzu

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