SUMMARY REPORT

Gail Moore: I will take the portion of the Planetary Initiative statement regarding vision. This is a summary of our conclusions that appear in this document. (She holds it up). It came down to three major groupings.

VISION
1. Realization of our best selves
2. Vibrant collaborative community
3. A United World

Certainly, those are very desirable, a vision well desired, I think would be a way to describe it. Under those categories, those three main categories, I would indicate some subcategories, all carrying a great deal of importance.

1. Realization Of Our Best Selves
Spiritual attunement

• A conscious awareness of spiritual identity
• Inner peace
• Spiritual vision
• Harmony with an evolving universal consciousness. It’s very applicable.

Love
The next under the broad term of love.

• Radiant, loving interpersonal relationships
• Synthesis of diversities through love
• Flowering of individual’s group consciousness

Another category, individual assumption of responsibility.

Individual Assumption of Responsibility
Individual initiative in spirit of collaboration

• Creative self-responsibility
• Responsible caring people
• A population in balance
  

Realization by individuals of their own potential

• Joyful development of the individual
• Freedom to create
• Joy and the beauty of life expressed in the arts
  

2. Vibrant Collaborative Communities
Under the category, vibrant collaborative communities, these things were considered and felt to be important.

• Cooperative stewardship
• Education for wholeness, which would include an expansion of consciousness
• Encouragement of participation
• The development of individual and group responsibility as well as global awareness
• Promoting holistic health
  

Responsible Group Decision Making
Responsible group decision making is another area we considered.

• Decisions through consensus. And any of us who have moved through this process knows something of the project that was—
• Local/global political harmony
• Community consciousness that respects the inherent value of individual
• Environmental Stewardship
• A community conceived as steward of bioregion
• A society that sustains the ecology
• Appreciation of ecological diversity
  

Appropriate life serving technology
Another area appropriate life serving technology.

• Reliance on renewable energy such as solar
• Simple, flexible transport
• An equitable economy, including shared access to land and natural resources
• Provision for future generations
• A compassionate provision for those who can’t provide for themselves
• Satisfying work of an individual’s choice
• Concerned awareness of global consequences of local economy
  

3. A United World
And who would not hold that as a vision for our future?
Broadly, this would include—

• Awareness of membership in the family of mankind
• Integration wherein diversities and individual freedom to group are respected.
• Respect for all human rights
• Intensified global communication

The next group, speaking about the approaches that were developed by the groups and how we’ve synthesized them is Nick Peterman and Morley Armor.

Nick: We will be talking about both the approaches, the concerns and the approaches and to—may help you keep it clear whether we’re talking about concerns or approaches, we have coded it. Morley we’ll give the concerns, and I will give the approaches.

Morley: Beginning with the arms race—

The Arms Race
Disarmament and International Security. The concerns are:

• Communication problems and media distortion of what security is.
• Imminent nuclear war.
• No governmental agency working on peace beyond the absence of war
• Myopic nationalism and ideology
• Spiritual-psychological malnutrition

Some of the Causes

• Power struggle between non-agreeing countries, which brings forth the reactive need for military power and defense buildup
• Failure to listen; no experience at being heard
• Lack of shared understanding of what real security is.
• Lack of vision for a national security need beyond defense buildup and arms control

Underlying Factors

• Creative self-responsibility
• Responsible caring people
• A population in balance
  

Realization by individuals of their own potential

• Fear
• Spiritual blindness.
• Lust for power, which caused the use of threat of war to defend our national security
  
• The attitude “I can’t do anything” as misrepresentation by the media has brought emotional paralysis to this area
• No subjective lobby or special interest groups to support a peace department concept

Operating Values

• A distorted sense of personal, national superiority
• The selfish drive to blame tends to project war as a solution
• Political chauvinism, hoarding, and national pride have created a win-lose mentality that reduces the human to a disposable machine
• There is no trust in the Spirit
• We have dogma instead of heart space

Approaches To Dealing with The Arms Race

Nick: Approaches to dealing with the arms race include—

• Reframe the context
• Removing psychological barriers to successful strategies
• The media expressing a life-enhancing education
• Peacecraft
• Acting locally
• Networking
• Concrete actions
  
• Grass roots alternatives
• Peace as a security strategy
• A Department of Peace as a force for as a focus for peace
• Accentuating humane world peace structures and processes

Benefits of These Approaches

Nick: The benefits of these approaches are—

• To find and create solutions we need a broader communication media and communicating a preferred future
• To shift from ego orientation to a sense of unity. This shift would negate immobility and moaning and groaning, and help to co-create solutions even with the enemy

The Value of These Approaches

Nick: The values of these approaches are—

• Compassion, wisdom, and love, demonstrated through personal responsibility and nonviolent humane living
• Co-creation in all our activities
• Cooperation at all levels
• Avoidance of blame

Policy Changes Needed

Nick: Policy changes needed are—

• Practical spiritual guidance
• Becoming a living model, forgiving and joyous
• To share experiential learning between generation
  Improve cross cultural education and exchanges
• Provide legal means for individuals to follow their conscience
• To set up departments of peace to include the First Earth Battalion, Peace Academy, Peace Corps, peace think-tanks, etc.
• Implementing a United Nations law enforcement system with facilitators and peace negotiators to bring about conflict resolution between nations

Ecology, environment, energy, resources, and health

Morley: The second group is ecology, environment, energy, resources, and health. The concerns are—

• Individual and corporate manipulation of resources for selfish gain
• Life out of balance
• Institutional inflexibility, maintaining status quo
• Focus on disease treatment in healthcare
• Waste and pollution in the environment

Some of the Causes

Morley: Some of the factors causing this are—

• Inappropriate education which brings ignorance, which coupled with personal grief, keeps people out of touch with their spiritual nature—and therefore ethnically immature. 

Some Underlying Factors

Morley: Some underlying factors are—

• The illusion of separateness, which creates a victim consciousness with non-accountability on all levels of function—individual, corporate and governmental
• Self-centeredness, especially for monetary and power gain.
• Addition to a gratifying lifestyle has maintained this

Approaches to the Ecological Problem

Nick: Approaches to the ecological problem include—

• Demonstration of holistic environments
• Ecology awareness centers
• Reserves
• Media studies
• Creating a local and planetary family systems
• Personal transformation and expressing integrity in action
• Creative Education
• Experimental education
• Holistic process
• Concurrent of interest, interdisciplinary approaches resulting in development and use of alternative technology
• Taking initiative
• Taking risks cooperatively to implement change

The Benefits of These Approaches

Nick: The benefits of these approaches are—
Preparing people to be the solution to positive spiritual expression, and inspiring living examples. 

The Value of These Approaches

Nick: The values of these approaches are—

• The spirit of agreement and trust
• Respect for life
• Personal responsibility
• Creating an atmosphere in which wholeness can be seen as being greater than the sum of its parts

The Policy Changes Needed

Nick: The policy change is needed are—

• Education for educators
• Encouragement of decision making on a larger perspective
• Encouragement of creative relationships in families, business and government
• Open systems of cooperation, information and action
• Encouragement of formal school policies of exploring new learning areas and ideas 

Morley: He gets to read all the good stuff. (Audience laughter) 

Economics: International, National, Alternative

The Concerns
Morley: Next, economics: international, national and alternative economics. The concerns are—

• Lack of responsible integrated choices
• Need for global integration
• Pursuit of growth for growth’s sake
• Feelings of powerlessness to change the system
• The propensity to act on the basis of self-interest
• Human factors are subjugated to the right of possession
• Monopolization of natural resources
• Belief that government imperatives override individual rights
• The underlying value of looking out for “number one”
• Concern for the short term while ignoring the long term
• Money that brings happiness, power, freedom and success
• The bounty of nature is ours to exploit

Approaches for Dealing with Economic Problems

Nick: The approaches for dealing with these economic problems include—

• Recognizing the right of communities to receive the benefits of land and natural resources
• Encouraging local autonomy and regional self-reliance
• Reassessing spending priority to shift military spending to beneficial social functions
• Encouraging individuals to learn to make economic choices based on global ethical concerns
• Encouraging altruistic and cooperative behavior to promote the new leadership values and economics

The Benefits of these Approaches

Nick: The benefits of these approaches are—

• Discouraging careless exploitation of natural resources,
• Orienting economics towards local needs
• Making monetary institutions consistent with a just and humane economic order
• Improvement in individual decision making
• Promoting morality in economic decisions

Needed Policy Changes

Nick: The policy changes needed are—

• Revision of laws that affect the taxation and ownership of natural resources
• More financing by banks and by worker cooperatives in developing areas
• Economic credits for workers affected by shifting military and social priorities
• More consensus decision making
• Circles of quality in economic areas

Population, Food, Agriculture

The Concerns Are

Morley: The second last category is population, food and agriculture. The concerns are—

• Inadequate education for a global view
• Unbalanced media representation of the haves and have not’s
• Maldistribution of food and land.
• The cycle of overpopulation, poverty and hunger
• Irresponsible attitudes towards food and health
• The style of agricultural production

Some Factors Causing These Concerns

Morley: Some factors causing these concerns are—

• The interference with natural cycles
• The destruction of the world’s ecosystems
• Agri business and social conditioning
• Economic imperialism.
• Political power plays limiting the opportunities of individuals

Underlying Factors

Morley: Some underlying factors are—

• The reliance on so-called experts
• Lack of holistic thinking towards land resources that produce destruction of the quality of soil and food, resulting in hunger, poverty and overpopulation
• Man versus nature rather than man with nature
• Materialism
• Greedy mismanagement of the land for profit
• The pursuit of power by any means
• Using food as a tool. 

Approaches for Dealing with These Problems

Nick: Approaches for dealing with these problems include—

• Liberation of information resources
• Establishment of ecologically based bioregional systems
• Initiation of a New World educational system
• Individual responsibility
• Decentralized agricultural systems
• Transformation of governmental policy

Donald Keys (Executive Director of the Planetary Initiative): There’s a resolution on the floor to adopt the proposal before this Congress by acclamation. The first motion will be, will in fact be adopted by acclamation. Those in favor of adopting it by acclamation, please signify by saying aye. (Resounding audience agreement).
Those opposed. (Silence) The eyes have it. Those, therefore, who are now prepared to vote by acclamation, please give us a positive aye, aye, aye vote for the acclamation acceptance of our mutual introduction and document. (Audience signifies approval) All right, I think we have a pretty generally accepted piece of substance, anchored in print, that we can build the foundations of the world we want for everyone and every living thing on this wonderful planet.