Sunday, January 29, 2012

[GMW #2381] Yearly Peace Price to Country Achieving Highest Record of Peace and Non-Violence


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1243 ~
5 December 1997
The Japanese foundation created in the memory of Ryoichi Sasakawa who gave me a million dollars for the construction of the United Nations Peace University in Costa Rica should establish a yearly Sasakawa Peace Prize given by the University for Peace to the country having achieved the highest record of peace and non-violence.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
But there is still so much to do. It is not even governments who are responsible for the current disorders in the world. It is the lack of spirituality, the lack of respect for God, for His miraculous creation which I loved so much already as a child. Please, dear readers, be the active defenders of these miracles so that we can at long last become the paradise of peace, beauty and happiness God and all religious leaders want us to become, a true jewel in the universe. And the progress I have seen achieved since the horrible World War II gives me good hope, even the conviction that we will succeed.

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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

"Pancho" Ramos being arrested at Occupy Oakland eviction
Pancho Ramos Meditating And Arrested At Occupied Oakland Watch & listen to Pancho on Democracy Now here.
Non-Violence And Enlightened Self Controlled Individuals [Full article by Pancho Ramos here.]   "I do not want to be governed except by myself."  “Political power, in my opinion,  cannot be our ultimate aim. ...  "Representatives will become unnecessary if ... life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled.   It will then be a state of enlightened  [individuals]... in which  each person will become their own ruler. They will conduct themselves in such a way that  their behavior will not hamper the  well being of their neighbors.   In an ideal State there will be no political institution and therefore no political power.” 
“The very right to live is only afforded to us if
we fulfill our duty as citizens of the world.

Nationalism is not the highest concept.
The highest concept is a world community.”
M.K. Gandhi

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Friday, January 27, 2012

[GMW #2380] World Public Administration Agency


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1242 ~
4 December 1997
As a progress towards a better administration of planet Earth (planetics) I recommend that an autonomous World Public Administration Institute or Agency be created similar to the European Institute for Public Administration which would become one of its regional arms with others being created on other continents of the world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
This is where we stand. I have offered my views, hopes and proposals in many writings. One of them describes my vision of a spiritual world in the year 2013, twenty years after the Chicago session. Another is a chapter on the UN and Spirituality in my Testament to the UN. The excerpts on the subject of religion and spirituality from my 5000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World count almost 100 pages. They could be published as a book of its own.

But there is still so much to do. It is not even governments who are responsible for the current disorders in the world. It is the lack of spirituality, the lack of respect for God, for His miraculous creation which I loved so much already as a child. Please, dear readers, be the active defenders of these miracles so that we can at long last become the paradise of peace, beauty and happiness God and all religious leaders want us to become, a true jewel in the universe. And the progress I have seen achieved since the horrible World War II gives me good hope, even the conviction that we will succeed.

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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Photo by Vivian Griffey. Location: Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Let nature be your teacher.  -- William Wordsworth

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[GMW #2379] Waste and Garbage Resolutions at World Level


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1241 ~
3 December 1997
It is high time to convene a first world conference on waste and garbage, a subject which has never been considered in its global dimensions. The results would be staggering and show that humanity is on the course of disaster. Watching every day from our hill in Costa Rica the huge fires of garbage in the valley below, spreading fumes over the city of Alajuela, Barbara and I are deeply concerned. And the people down there do not see the blanket extending over their heads, the same way as in huge cities in the world they do not see the brown blanket of pollution over their homes, affecting the lungs of their families.

The world conference I propose could give birth to two much needed new sciences, strategies and methodologies under the names of:

wastology
and
garbology

These should be worked on and taught in Universities and schools in the world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
There are now many good signs of a spiritual Renaissance in the world: the World Bank has meetings with spiritual leaders to see how poverty in the poor countries can be healed. Harvard University has conducted a vast survey of the contributions of the religions to the environment and safeguard of the Earth. Secretary General Kofi Annan has meetings with the leaders of the main religions of the world. A World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality has been created. Dr. Karan Singh of India and I are its Co-chairmen.
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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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Photo by Troy Mason. Location: Mount Rainier National Park, WA.
WORD FOR THE DAY Feeling gratitude and not expressing it  is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -- William Arthur Ward

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

[GMW #2378] World People's Assembly Makes NATO Obsolete


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1240 ~
2 December 1997
I cannot repeat it enough, NATO has lost its justification now that the cold war is over. NATO should be transferred to the UN as a regional arm of a world security system. Its forces would become blue-beret Peace-keeping forces. Its resources would do a lot of good to the UN. As proposed earlier in these 2000 ideas its War Room, which monitors the world situation should become a United Nations World Peace Room. How long will people tolerate the ongoing waste of expenditures of NATO and SEATO? A peoples' world movement for their abolishment should be formed. The subject should be taken up by The Hague Centennial Peoples' World Conference in 1999 and by the World Peoples' Assembly 2000, accompanying the UN's General Assembly 2000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Every morning, when we wake up, we should say:
"Dear God, I promise You not to complain today.
I will be joyful and grateful to You
for Your wonderful, incredible gift of my life."


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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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Photo by Nancy Davenport. Location: Ulysses, NY.

Daily Good
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates,  should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas  - a place where history comes to life.  -- Norman Cousins  Good News of the Day: Libraries have a special place in history as a hearth of culture that kindled the greatest feats of science and the grandest works of art. Yet today, they're in danger of being left precisely there -- in history. As our collective use of libraries dwindles in the digital age, five brave efforts are innovating the concept of "the library" in ways that make it as culturally relevant today as it ever was. {More}

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

[GMW #2377] Kiwas Opening toward Heavens and into Earth Remind All of Cosmic Consciousness


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
Idea 1220 ~
12 November 1997
Today, Barbara and I decided to build on our peace park a wooden kiwa benches arrangement on the indigenous observation platform overlooking the magnificent Monument of Peace of the University for Peace. I remember how I was invited years ago by the Hopi Indians in Shongopavi-Hautevilla to meet with elders in kiwas to meditate and exchange views on the state and future of the world. The kiwas are round adobe structures inside of which benches are arranged in circular fashion. In the middle of the roof of the kiwa there is a hole towards the heavens, and in the middle of the ground is a hole covered by a slab of stone which is removed when meetings begin. As a result the attendants are reminded that they are sitting around a line which goes from the center of the Earth into the infinite heaven. They must therefore have a cosmic consciousness.

I tried in vain to have the same done in the vast General Assembly Hall of the United Nations where there is an opening in the cupola towards the sky, but no hole in the middle of the floor. If there is one place on Earth where delegates from all around the world need to have a cosmic consciousness, it is the UN General Assembly Hall

Well, we will have an open-air kiwa here, with a hole in the Earth but without a roof because the indigenous people of this sunny country do not believe in closed western buildings required by cold and rainy weather.

When we will have meetings with friends we will ask them to sit on the circle of benches and will remove the stone slab on the hole in the middle of the ground.

And I will remember that I was named by the Hopis, Kogyun Deyo, Spider Boy with the task of making a big spiderweb to catch all evil in the world and then throw it far away into the universe.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
The greatest chance given to me was the invitation to be the opening speaker of the second World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1993. I made a passionate appeal to the religions to create a world organization similar to the United Nations. Why? Because it was not sufficient for the religious leaders to meet, there was need also for a permanent organization with an inter-religious Secretariat to study in common all religions of the world and their contributions to a global spirituality as we have done at the UN for peace and other common ideals and needs of humanity. In my view there was an absolute need for a spiritual Renaissance on planet Earth. I also made an appeal that the Parliament of Religions should not wait another hundred years to meet again but should meet before the year 2000. Bishop Edmund Tutu heard me and invited the Parliament to meet in South Africa in December 1999. Six thousand people from around the world attended it.
--
My proposal to create a world organization of religions is being implemented. The Charter of a United Religions Organization, still called Initiative was created on 26 June 2000, the anniversary date of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations. That organization will help the peaceful resolution of the several religious conflicts we still have on this planet, develop a common modern global science of spirituality, a strategy and a methodology of spirituality (e.g. prayer, forgiveness, sanctity, thanksgiving, confession and so many other helpful practices). It will create a different, better, spiritual world, with religions united in a wonderful, non-fundamentalist diversity.

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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work.
We must feel and be affected by it. "
- Voltaire


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[GMW #2376] Primitive Political and Economic Management of our Planet


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1219 ~
11 November 1997
In a hundred years people will be astonished at the state of the world of today. They will admit that we made many progresses, as we admit it when we look back one hundred years, but they will hardly understand that we could be so primitive in the political and economic management of our planet, stagnating in philosophical, social and spiritual retardedness. It will be rewarding for me to see that from heaven and to rub my hands for having written unorthodox ideas, considered crazy or at best ahead of their time, which helped that evolution. I will keep a record at that time of all my ideas which were implemented during the 21st century.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
What is this concept of spirituality? In my view it is very simple. It is what I felt as a little boy. It is to receive from the religions help to understand the mystery of the universe and time. This is what all religions have in common. They help us, they elevate us, while the mysteries of the universe and time have never been resolved by the scientists, not even by Einstein. They will always remain mysteries. Religions give us hope that there is a soul in us which binds us as sentient beings with the entire universe and time, that we are children of God, active, living cosmic beings, each one the true miracle I felt already to be as a child.
As a consequence I created several spiritual associations in the UN and brought many outside spiritual organizations in contact and relation with the UN. I had contact with the Mayor of Assisi who at my suggestion arranged for the Pope to have yearly meetings in Assisi with the heads of other religions. I convinced U Thant to invite the Pope to the UN and was put in charge of that visit. I could write a whole book What the UN Taught Me About Spirituality as I wrote "What War Taught Me About Peace".

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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius -

An Amazon Tour Guide's Inspiring Story
Nearly 21 years ago, Patty Webster landed her dream job as an adventure tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon. But as she shared the area's beauty and culture with tourists, she realized there was a darker side to the rainforest paradise. "I saw how poor they were and realized that people were dying because they didn't have medical care," Webster said. She started sharing her supplies with the locals and soon began waking up to find people waiting outside her mosquito net to ask her for medicine. At one point, Webster -- who had no medical training -- gave someone stitches, following instructions from a book. "It was kind of scary," she recalled. "If they're depending on me for their health care ... we're all going to die." That's when she decided to stay and do something more. { read more }

Be The Change
The next time you're visiting a new place,
look for an opportunity to do an act of service there.

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