Wow. This is a great video. I am hopeful that this world can change in time before we self destruct. But, hoping isn't going to do any good without action. I'm starting by e-mailing this to all of my family and friends, and I also posted this on my Facebook. Thank you, Global Oneness Project for posting this video, I hope it has some impact on the world!!

Kate

Only Awareness of Self, Universe = Oneness will make each life wonderful, happy & peace within.

instead of pointing finger on other or showing other's of world situation will never work.

but doing somthing, begining with positive thoughts, compassion for others, living with reason will bring the results.

Metta ~ May all beings live in peace & Harmony.

Dear directors of the Global Oneness Project,

Thank you for this beautiful and important message. I wonder if you would consider raising the bar a bit? Could you seek out and portray more images and stories of Oneness in action WITHOUT discouraging and disheartening images and commentary of those things that are the problems in our world? We must concentrate our focus upon the positive changes we want to see in the world - not the problems, but ideas for and examples of solutions. Feed only that which we want to thrive. For diverse people to unite in common cause, I believe it is essential to immerse the general consciousness of humanity with images and narratives of a positive and proactive nature. We must collectively dream a new dream to create the world anew. What better way to uplift the human heart and encourage the spirit of ingenuity than to collect positive examples and narratives from around the world to demonstrate that wonderful new mantra, "yes we can"! The seed of change is planted. Let us now cultivate global good will with the best fertilizer - positive creative imagination.

I beg to differ with heartshingingjoy above. This film is a perfect balance of the shadow and the light, of doubt and hope, of sorrow and joy, of pain and promise. Just as we will never achieve transformation if we dwell only in the dark, we cannot express our lightness until we fully acknowledge and honor our shadow - for it is the balance of the two that makes us human.

We have created a world out of balance (koyanasqaatsi). Living in denial of our shadow is no better than living in denial of our divinity. It is, in fact, the way of the fundamentalist and the fanatic. To heal the world, we need to restore wholeness. Wholeness requires a full recognition of our humanity - our strengths and weaknesses, our failures and our successes - and praising them both, for we could not have arrived at this point without each. And we will not be able to evolve without both body and soul, both earth and heaven - for we are, in truth, enlightened chunks of dirt. We are literally "soiled" by our incarnation, and for that we should celebrate because it is the common soil of our being which unites us as one.

Very important messages, starting with the underlying cause of the issues addressed being based on a economic system and structures (law systems) that create greater slavery, poverty, and environmental imbalance. This is exactly the case, and understandably so since the entire Industrial Age model is based on competition between individuals and countries, a model that creates wealth out of air/fiat (fiction) and makes natures resources and peoples living labor (reality) pay the bill. This model has brought us to a point where the exploitation of human capacities is over, it has reached the edge as the video states.

So where does a future lie where human rights are a reality, local sustainability is a reality, and cooperation is rewarded more than competition? The answer is the New Age, specifically a Information Age economic model where value comes mainly from elements of creativity (music, art, knowledge, video, consulting, - "Information") instead of most value coming from the processing of natural resources.

Irrespective of what perspective one defines the New Age as (Information, Spiritual, Golden, etc..), what makes it new is the relative change in socio-economic structure from the past; in the transition process between ages it is society that changes first (Tribe-Feudal-Nation States) fueled by some signature technology (fire, farming tools, Printing Press, Computing), then the economic system changes as a result (barter-gold-fiat/debt/fiction-sovereign credits). Therefore we're not in the New Age, not until we have a new economic system that reflects the potentials and addresses the needs of today's mega-political (and as I see it Bio-Spiritual) needs to balance economics with environment, and with individuals needs physically (life services), mentally (culturally, educationally, legally via rights, etc...), and spiritually (cultural faiths).

The Information Age provides us with the potential to achieve a free, prosperous, just, and balanced world - only now that all humanity can transcend locality, geography, physicality, and the prejudices activated by physical interaction such as racism is this possible.
So, Here is "What it Would Like."

A common equal human rights forum based in cyber space where the account holders are treated equally, have equal capacity to earn, and their intrinsic rights as Free Sovereign Beings is recognized in the terms of the contract; see 1 example at www.freedigitaluniverse.com. Through the Information Age technologies a place or jurisdiction that is dedicated to humanity becomes possible, a space sponsored and maintained by an unencumbered entity that is separate from states (such as an un-incorporated inter-faith association) is one possibility. It can't be a corporation or derivative of a nation state since all states are in debt (encumbered) and they are all in competition with each other; many of our personal problems come from being used by our countries as pieces (called "citizens") in a game of deficits, surpluses, resources, and power called the "Game of Countries." Until there is a equal forum for human commerce where people inter-relate more like Soules than Citizens, where the user owns their earnings/currency, and their account, the individual is bereft of experiencing a place of freedom. Freedom is important because it's the natural character of our spiritual aspect, our nature - to not be Free is to be out of alignment with our own Self, hence the misery we see on the planet today.

This will all change, the socio-economic and mega-political pressures created by Information Technology are forcing a New Age - we're not there yet because we have the last step to take - making available a replacement for the Industrial age economic model.

While the new economic model will be global in nature, based on information; local economies will be based on physical trade using a locally created currency. Local focus will be on sustainability practices that deliver basic life services such as food production, water, energy, health services, and the like - the local wealth and currency will be able to interact with virtual global currencies so that wealth from the Virtual Comm unites can be imported into a local community. One example of how this happens would be a SCALE.

SCALE is being offered as an open source economic solution for any local group to create a community based credit exchange for trading goods, services, time, and knowledge - without use of money; and because a SCALE is the centerpiece of all Access Point Projects (APPS), a worldwide SCALE network is guaranteed to develop. (see www.peaceportal.mobi website)

This system allows people to exchange (recycle) clothes, toys, gadgets, coupons and more using “community credit” to get things they need; thereby decreasing the amount of “public money” one must earn to meet their family or individual needs.

Additionally, through Access Points, a local SCALE can hook up with the whole world. The result being that any community on the globe may begin "importing digital wealth" for local circulation into their community, benefiting everyone in that community - even those who don't use the system personally.

In the most impoverished regions, the earned wealth from Internet use of but one child using the Free Digital Universe economic system (at a Access Point) can be imported into their local community currency and thereby be exchanged for local farmer’s food. The farmer will never use a computer, nor will the dressmaker he gets dresses from with his new SCALE community credits, the dressmaker uses the credits to get pottery, the potter uses it to get food, and so on – only a few need to use the system to import free circulating wealth into a SCALE empowered community. This is particularly important in developing nations where people have one of two choices for developing out of poverty; information wealth, or wealth from harvesting more natural resources.

One purpose of SCALE as a Open Source Solution is to connect SCALEs in the developing world with those created in the 1st world by individuals such as your-self. This is what the future looks like, new systems, new currencies, new freedoms; all you need do is act from your spiritual sovereignty to create them. We are the solution we have been waiting for, so lets not wait - we have answers now. To see the plans or add to them, please visit www.peaceportal.mobi
Namaste

Hi Globaloneness,

I enjoyed the film and the humanity does indeed face a challenge of how to live to survive this century. The film gets stuck though toward the end, whilst I'm happy to see Barack Obama elected and do not wish to knock the optimism this has brought to people in the States he has just escalated the war in Afghanistan, why? Because he now leads US Imperialism and the needs of US Capital. I totally agree we need as the poor and working people of the world to urgently build movements and capacities to change this rotten system, but unfortunately we must be honest to, the Ruling classes of the world will not give up their privileges without a fight, they never have and never will. The economic depression coming raises all sorts of dangers the most worrying in the rise of Racist and Fascist movements, and we must remember that the world's ruling classes happily went along with rounding people up in concentration camps and the building capacity for nuclear war as well as using the bomb on the defenceless people of Japan in the last great depression.

So my main criticism is this, by all means let's have unity in diversity, let's have a dynamic and multi-coloured set of global cultures, but we have to stop the Capitalist train before it drives us off the edge of the world and smash it to pieces and have a bottom-up democracy of producers the world over, Socialism in the true sense of the word. Vague words about shifts in consciousness and empowering identities will not do, the situation is far too dangerous for that.

Understand the dynamics of Capitalism, for a start check out David Harvey's great website as a resource:

http://www.davidharvey.org

And join the global resistance–for those of you in Europe join us in London to protest the G20 and Obama's continuing war drive, in April:

http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1084&Ite...

and the NATO meeting is Strasbourg also in April:

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=785&...

much love,

Noel x

Dear Riversong,

I believe you have misunderstood my message. I do not advocate denial of shadow. I agree with you that to acknowledge and embrace the shadow is the path of deep transformation and the way toward wholeness. I consider the above video quite aligned with that intention. But...to manifest that which is wanted, that which is wanted must be the focus for its creation. Concentrating focus onto the change you do want to see in the world does not require, suggest or equal denial. Albert Einstein said, "no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it." Acknowledge, discern and embrace the gifts within shadow, integrate, shift perspective/consciousness, move in a new direction with new and different focus and vigor. To perpetuate fearful consciousness through constant repetition, even with good intention, does not serve new and different co-creation. No prescription for denial here. Merely a suggestion for a next step in the creative process. But thank you for making a most important point.

Dear PeacePortal,

Fascinating...exciting ideas for these tumultuous transitional times. Thank you for pointing your finger toward the moon, so to speak! I have not checked out the sites yet, but will do so.

Dear Noel,

You bring up many good points.

Clearly, the act or attitude of 'war on anything'(drugs, cancer, fundamentalism, capitalism, ANYism, etc.) is a fear-based response. What you resist will persist - personally and globaly. Focusing on what you don't want = more of what you don't want. That's why wars don't solve the underlying conflicts and violence begets more violence. Fear begets more fear. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Nothing vague about that fact. I suggest it may be possible to create real solutions when we choose to do so without fear and anger. Freedom, equality, compassion, tolerance, good will, peace etc., are not fear-based concepts, and so cannot be sustainably actuated utilizing fear-based attitudes and actions. These things must begin on a personal level within each individual human heart and mind...by choice...without force. It only SOUNDS impossible. So did the concept of separation between church and state, or space travel, and so much more, once upon a time. As consciousness awakens in each individual, then it is time for that individual to strive for inner healing and wholeness that will cultivate understanding, compassion and peace within for one's self which can then better be extended toward others. Those on this path consciously can and do join together to cultivate external understanding, compassion and peace as part of the evolutionary journey. Rome wasn't built in a day. Lots of experiments and mistakes here in Earth school. Energy precedes form. Material realities emerge from thoughts/ideas, indeed human imagination. Quantum physics has shown that a particle can become a wave simply in response to an observer's expectation to that effect. Shifts in consciousness are the nursery of our future.

heartshiningjoy,

I believe that love is the meaning of existence for human beings, that we need to 'be' rather than 'have' which I surmise from your words you'd agree with too, but one problem persists for you, and this is a key question…what do you do about Fascism, the State, the Police and the Army? Most of those are called 'forces' because that is what they are, forces for the rich against us, the poor and workers of the world. This a real problem and one that cannot be dealt with without force, of course in this struggle with those prepared to use violence on us (and we know they will from all their actions and history), we run the risk of being brutalised ourselves, but a revolution is the great coming together of the majority in society so there need be know need for any serious violence if people are in great enough numbers.

But make no mistake the ruling class, corporations and Capitalists of this world will not give up the wealth of the world and our work and allow us to run the world sustainably and democratically peacefully.

http://www.theyrule.net