Round Table Reflections from the Wisdom Traditions
 

Our Reflective Pathway Toward Healing Our World Reality – No Inhibitions:  Here

From Clueless to Clued-In

A Just World for All Humanity

S T O P  A L L  W A R

"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."– John Donne, Meditation XVII, English clergyman & Poet (1572 -1631)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963, US black civil rights leader and clergyman (1928 - 1968)

The Semitic Peoples' Light is About Centering Ourselves in Our Unbreakable Common Ethic, Morality and Humanity:

"We bestowed on [Jesus] the Gospel wherein is guidance and light, confirming that which was revealed before it in the Torah.  You have nothing of guidance until you [also] observe the Torah and the Gospel" from "The Quran" [which means 'The Recitation'], as commanded by the Messenger Archangel Gabriel [on the "Night of Power and Excellence"] to the Prophet of "Islam" [which means 'the Peace that comes when one sacrifices one's ego to God']

For Liberation into A Higher, Love-Centered Spirituality: 

Peace Be Upon Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad The Way showers and Messengers [of Law-Love-Light] for Humankind by an All-Caring, Just, Merciful and Empowering God.

All Are One in The Light
 

The Word "semitic" is not exclusive to one religion, but in definition means the thought and ethic of a supreme Universal deity and authority that transmits through the monotheisitc line of Abraham, originating with Noah, and which is the foundation of the three major, socio-historical faiths in time:  Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  Essentially, we find, the three major religions are different aspects of the One thought and ethic for the social progression and upliftment of all human beings with one another.  This means in reality, and in the teachings of all three, to be against Christians is to be "anti-semitic";  to be against Judaism is to be "anti-semitic"; and to be against Islam is to be "anti-semitic".  They are all one and continuous through the line of Abrahamic thought and ethic that is to uplift, socialize and evolve human beings through a moral framework that allows for the inner and outer work of a "more perfect union" through a "unity in diversity": the two overarching ideals of the American Founding.

We Know in the Golden Rule, War is an Anomaly to the Peace, Progress and Health of a Nation and the World—Where the Prophets of Greed Have Overtaken the Prophets of Wisdom.  "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them" (Sound Familiar?)

The Side of Indifference		The Side of Action
"PNAC" The Root for Evil A Blueprint for A World of War		"Planetization" The Root for Good A Spiritual Evolutionary  Blueprint for a World of Peace

Edmond Burke said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."

Perpetual War, Sickness and Economic Impoverishment & Inequality is Some One Else's Dream through which we have forsaken the best of our Humanity.

Is it long past time to do something before we are all done by and dead, as President Bush himself has said here.

85% of the Federal Budget is Spent on Three Things:  War, Disease and Debt;  So?

Are we being begged to do something intelligent? 

Vice (no pun intended) President Cheney gave us a hint as to what we must do to help our predicament here.

We therefore, in the Pursuit of Truth, Peace and Justice—as the Golden Rule Impels Us—Believe in The "SO" Revolution:

The SO Revolution = The 98% Majority Solution to The 2% Minority Problem

– The Majority's Formula for Resolution of Liberty of the 2% Tyranny

Truth + Peace = Justice²

Truth [9/11] + Golden Rule [Peace] =  Planetization [Justice²]

It is The System:  "When there is a good system, even evil men cannot do evil.  But when there is no good system, even good men may not do good, they may be forced to do evil" – Deng Xiaping

We Believe in the Teachings of Our Various Religions and Wisdom Traditions that We Hold a Common Belief With All in a Better Work:

"From swords to ploughshares, engaging our Spirit for the building of Humanity."

We believe we, human beings are at our happiest when we help all and harm none.  We believe we’ve all got something to give to this world;  We believe when we express from the uniqueness of ourselves we are fulfilled, happy and sovereign. 

We believe in Life;  We believe in Liberty;  We believe in the Pursuit of Happiness.  We have the Planetization blueprint and plan that harms none and helps all.  We believe governance through the human heart is the best governance of all.  We believe our structural dynamic needs to change to match the nobleness of the human heart.  We know that dynamic as Truth, Beauty, Wisdom, Justice and Love as an indivisible and holistic Whole.

We know that at the very essence of ourselves we are not "national" beings but human beings responsible to all as one seamless Whole:  animals-humans-environment.  We have a unifying framework for that all-inclusive and encompassing idea:  Planetization:  The Other Kind of Globalization:  Bottom Up and Healthy

We invite you to be a part of the pioneering initiative for the world we choose by receiving the inspirational structure for the planetary initiative for Total Peace which we would experience as a world without war—simply as a consequence of the new Holistic structure.

Combat Poverty and Homelessness Instead of Each Other—An Insurance Plan for Everyone:  The Middle Classes and the Poverty Class

"One thing is certain: The voters of America have never knowingly agreed to any of this" – Richard C. Cook
 

Your sponsorship for the blueprint and plan of the inspired thought structure for a more perfect union of Humans is for the building of the Heart Centered United Nations:  Humanity over nationality:  Engaging our spirit for the building of Humanity:  All as One through the Golden Rule alongside the designated projects of our Endorsers.

Why is the Golden Rule imperative in the activism of The "SO" Revolution?  Because it is a deeply rooted moral dynamic that allows for the onward and upward progression of the Human Race–in a Holistic, transcendent framework that is universal, not national, with other life and their ecosystems on the Planet. 

All for One and One for All is our responsibility to each other and to the Earth as WE FORSAKE THE DELUSIONAL AND DESTRUCTIVE PURSUIT of the "War on Terror."   Louise Arbour, the (soon-to-be resigned) U.N. Human Rights Commissioner has said in an interview with Australian journalist, George Negus, our rights have been set back by DECADES.  It is because of this, and the backward slide of our world into total murder and mayhem in both Machiavellian and Third Reich proportions, "The Semitic Peoples Light" was sparked to bring back our God-given Humanity, rights and the consequent civility into the world with each other and Nature—from the mandatory new space and place of Planetization that is aligned and Home to it all. 

Without our response to the world we have it will be doom—for the trajectory is evident;  with our response here we have the power to shift the coordinates that are aligned to the empowerment of our highest potential as Humans, both individually and collectively as a Race where we have been given to reside on one of the most beautiful love-and-gnosis-driven planets of the greater Cosmos.

The Cosmos itself holds all Life in the Law of Oneness and Radiance of a higher possibility for this world in the sacred depths of our own consciousness where Science and Creator meet.  Planetization, holding the right coordinates for the world, is the super-charged space ship to take us to that unexplored possibility, together, as a Human Family and Nation where Life, Liberty and Happiness have merged for the benefit and enjoyment of all.

Our Binding Blueprint and Plan of the Planetization Federation
 of the Golden Rule Citizens
 

A Higher Love is Moving Through Us
 

The New Glory Flag is Our Choice to Move from the Old Warring and Artificial Construct of "Nationality" to the Universal  Truth of Our Humanity

Address On State of the Nation and World by Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson on October 27, 2007

Salt Lake City, Utah

Today, as we come together once again in this great city, we raise our voices in unison to say to President Bush, to Vice President Cheney, to other members of the Bush Administration (past and present), to a majority of Congress, including Utah’s entire congressional delegation, and to much of the mainstream media: “You have failed us miserably and we won’t take it any more.”

“While we had every reason to expect far more of you, you have been pompous, greedy, cruel, and incompetent as you have led this great nation to a moral, military, and national security abyss.”

“You have breached trust with the American people in the most egregious ways. You have utterly failed in the performance of your jobs. You have undermined our Constitution, permitted the violation of the most fundamental treaty obligations, and betrayed the rule of law.”

“You have engaged in, or permitted, heinous human rights abuses of the sort never before countenanced in our nation’s history as a matter of official policy. You have sent American men and women to kill and be killed on the basis of lies, on the basis of shifting justifications, without competent leadership, and without even a coherent plan for this monumental blunder.”

“We are here to tell you: We won’t take it any more!”

“You have acted in direct contravention of values that we, as Americans who love our country, hold dear. You have deceived us in the most cynical, outrageous ways. You have undermined, or allowed the undermining of, our constitutional system of checks and balances among the three presumed co-equal branches of government. You have helped lead our nation to the brink of fascism, of a dictatorship contemptuous of our nation’s treaty obligations, federal statutory law, our Constitution, and the rule of law.”

“Because of you, and because of your jingoistic false ‘patriotism,’ our world is far more dangerous, our nation is far more despised, and the threat of terrorism is far greater than ever before.

It has been absolutely astounding how you have committed the most horrendous acts, causing such needless tragedy in the lives of millions of people, yet you wear your so-called religion on your sleeves, asserting your God-is-on-my-side nonsense – when what you have done flies in the face of any religious or humanitarian tradition. Your hypocrisy is mind-boggling – and disgraceful. What part of “Thou shalt not kill” do you not understand? What part of the “Golden rule” do you not understand? What part of “be honest,” “be responsible,” and “be accountable” don’t you understand? What part of “Blessed are the peacekeepers” do you not understand?

Because of you, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, many thousands of people have suffered horrendous lifetime injuries, and millions have been run off from their homes. For the sake of our nation, for the sake of our children, and for the sake of our brothers and sisters around the world, we are morally compelled to say, as loudly as we can, ‘We won’t take it any more!’ ”

“As United States agents kidnap, disappear, and torture human beings around the world, you justify, you deceive, and you cover up. We find what you have done to men, women and children, and to the good name and reputation of the United States, so appalling, so unconscionable, and so outrageous as to compel us to call upon you to step aside and allow other men and women who are competent, true to our nation’s values, and with high moral principles to stand in your places – for the good of our nation, for the good of our children, and for the good of our world.”

In the case of the President and Vice President, this means impeachment and removal from office, without any further delay from a complacent, complicit Congress, the Democratic majority of which cares more about political gain in 2008 than it does about the vindication of our Constitution, the rule of law, and democratic accountability.

It means the election of people as President and Vice President who, unlike most of the presidential candidates from both major parties, have not aided and abetted in the perpetration of the illegal, tragic, devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it means the election of people as President and Vice President who will commit to return our nation to the moral and strategic imperative of refraining from torturing human beings.

In the case of the majority of Congress, it means electing people who are diligent enough to learn the facts, including reading available National Intelligence Estimates, before voting to go to war. It means electing to Congress men and women who will jealously guard Congress’s sole prerogative to declare war. It means electing to Congress men and women who will not submit like vapid lap dogs to presidential requests for blank checks to engage in so-called preemptive wars, for legislation permitting warrantless wiretapping of communications involving US citizens, and for dangerous, irresponsible, saber-rattling legislation like the recent Kyl-Lieberman amendment.

We must avoid the trap of focusing the blame solely upon President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. This is not just about a few people who have wronged our country – and the world. They were enabled by members of both parties in Congress, they were enabled by the pathetic mainstream news media, and, ultimately, they have been enabled by the American people – 40% of whom are so ill-informed they still think Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks – a people who know and care more about baseball statistics and which drunken starlets are wearing underwear than they know and care about the atrocities being committed every single day in our name by a government for which we need to take responsibility.

As loyal Americans, without regard to political partisanship -- as veterans, as teachers, as religious leaders, as working men and women, as students, as professionals, as businesspeople, as public servants, as retirees, as people of all ages, races, ethnic origins, sexual orientations, and faiths -- we are here to say to the Bush administration, to the majority of Congress, and to the mainstream media: “You have violated your solemn responsibilities. You have undermined our democracy, spat upon our Constitution, and engaged in outrageous, despicable acts. You have brought our nation to a point of immorality, inhumanity, and illegality of immense, tragic, unprecedented proportions.”

“But we will live up to our responsibilities as citizens, as brothers and sisters of those who have suffered as a result of the imperial bullying of the United States government, and as moral actors who must take a stand: And we will, and must, mean it when we say ‘We won’t take it any more.’”

If we want principled, courageous elected officials, we need to be principled, courageous, and tenacious ourselves. History has demonstrated that our elected officials are not the leaders – the leadership has to come from us. If we don’t insist, if we don’t persist, then we are not living up to our responsibilities as citizens in a democracy – and our responsibilities as moral human beings. If we remain silent, we signal to Congress and the Bush administration – and to candidates running for office – and to the world – that we support the status quo.

Silence is complicity. Only by standing up for what’s right and never letting down can we say we are doing our part.

Our government, on the basis of a campaign we now know was entirely fraudulent, attacked and militarily occupied a nation that posed no danger to the United States. Our government, acting in our name, has caused immense, unjustified death and destruction.

It all started five years ago, yet where have we, the American people, been? At this point, we are responsible. We get together once in a while at demonstrations and complain about Bush and Cheney, about Congress, and about the pathetic news media. We point fingers and yell a lot. Then most people politely go away until another demonstration a few months later.

How many people can honestly say they have spent as much time learning about and opposing the outrages of the Bush administration as they have spent watching sports or mindless television programs during the past five years? Escapist, time-sapping sports and insipid entertainment have indeed become the opiate of the masses.

Why is this country so sound asleep? Why do we abide what is happening to our nation, to our Constitution, to the cause of peace and international law and order? Why are we not doing all in our power to put an end to this madness?

We should be in the streets regularly and students should be raising hell on our campuses. We should be making it clear in every way possible that apologies or convoluted, disingenuous explanations just don’t cut it when presidential candidates and so many others voted to authorize George Bush and his neo-con buddies to send American men and women to attack and occupy Iraq.

Let’s awaken, and wake up the country by committing here and now to do all each of us can to take our nation back. Let them hear us across the country, as we ask others to join us: “We won’t take it any more!”

I implore you: Draw a line. Figure out exactly where your own moral breaking point is. How much will you put up with before you say “No more” and mean it?

I have drawn my line as a matter of simple personal morality: I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has voted to fund the atrocities in Iraq. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who will not commit to remove all US troops, as soon as possible, from Iraq. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has supported legislation that takes us one step closer to attacking Iran. I cannot, and will not, support any candidate who has not fought to stop the kidnapping, disappearances, and torture being carried on in our name.

If we expect our nation’s elected officials to take us seriously, let us send a powerful message they cannot misunderstand. Let them know we really do have our moral breaking point. Let them know we have drawn a bright line. Let them know they cannot take our support for granted – that, regardless of their party and regardless of other political considerations, they will not have our support if they cannot provide, and have not provided, principled leadership.

The people of this nation may have been far too quiet for five years, but let us pledge that we won’t let it go on one more day – that we will do all we can to put an end to the illegalities, the moral degradation, and the disintegration of our nation’s reputation in the world.

Let us be unified in drawing the line – in declaring that we do have a moral breaking point. Let us insist, together, in supporting our troops and in gratitude for the freedoms for which our veterans gave so much, that we bring our troops home from Iraq, that we return our government to a constitutional democracy, and that we commit to honoring the fundamental principles of human rights.

In defense of our country, in defense of our Constitution, in defense of our shared values as Americans – and as moral human beings – we declare today that we will fight in every way possible to stop the insanity, stop the continued military occupation of Iraq, and stop the moral depravity reflected by the kidnapping, disappearing, and torture of people around the world.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org:80/?q=node/28179

Mayors for Global Peace:  http://citiesforprogress.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=724

"The Age of Nations is Past.  It remains for us now, if we do not wish to perish, to set aside the ancient prejudices and build the Earth" – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Hinduism

Arun Gandhi, Grand son of Mahatma Gandhi:  Healing the Great Divide Between Israel and Palestine

Buddhism

Keith Mottherson, Practicing Buddhist on Truth, 9/11 and The Path

Evangelical Christianity

Pastor Chuck Baldwin on Not Conforming to the World

Methodist Church in South Africa

Peter Storey, and American Action Abroad

Christianity and Israel

The Followers Of Nimrod's Secret Sect Versus The People Of Abraham
 

* The Golden Rule

* Environment

* Health

* Wealth

* Wisdom

* Animals

* Soil

* Seed

Where Work is Not a Slave Endeavor, but a Joyful and Highly Inspirational Creative Endeavor For All

Where the Food is Natural, Nourishing and  Exhilarating

Where the Air is Clean, Fresh and  Invigorating

Where the Water is Clear, Sparkling and Healing

Where the Planet is  an Earth Paradise, Lush, Abundant, Beautiful and Bountiful

Where We Move About the Planet, Freely and Independently to Where Our Creative Talents and Gifts Take Us

Where We Marvel at All Life and Feel Blessed to Be in Such Wonderful Diversity and  Biodiversity

And Then To  See We Are All Part of a Magnificent Unity  in an Unlimited and Unfathomable Universe

And Then to Feel, Experience and Know that the Universe from the Honey Bee to the Glittering Star is What We Are

How Do We Form That "More Perfect Union"? 

By Choosing Planetization as the Blueprint and Plan for a World of Peace

Which Will Build the New Heart-Centered United Nations for the Peoples of the Earth

Surrounded by A Model Planetary, Earth Spiritual Community

That Will Reflect the Planetization Spiritually Connected Blueprint and Plan

Where Our Dharma Outshines Our Karma

Where We are Helping All and Harming None from Sea to Shining Sea and All Animal and Planet Life Inbetween

 Where Spirituality and Technology Will Meet for Good and Great Things

Like Light in a Star-Touched Tree
 

Begin it Now

Afterall, Goethe said,

"Boldness has Genius, Power, and Magic in it."

The Consciousness of a Planetization Citizen:
 

1) The wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life and living on the Earth;
 

2)  The courage not to fear or deny difference; but to respect and strive to understand people or persons of different cultures, and to grow from encounters with them;
 

3)  The compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one's immediate surroundings and extends to those suffering and hurting in distant places. 

4) "What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured." (Islam: Hadith, Bukhari)

The Prophets of Wisdom vs the Prophets of Greed

Neither Capitalism nor Communism but a Cosmocracy as Undergirding our Reality

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all" – Edmund Burke