Bcc: contributors ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "John Bunzl" <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Let's talk about Transformation... Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:16:08 +0100 Dear Richard, Hope this message finds you well. I very much share the views put by both yourself and by Paul Bottis. They very much reminded me of the relevance of the Spiral Dynamics theory of Clare Graves and Don Beck http://www.spiraldynamics.com as well as of Ken Wilber's work http://wilber.shambhala.com including his "Twenty Tenets of Evolution" which you may be familiar with. It also reminds me of the Alice Bailey quote I put in my own book: "Unity and right human relations - individual, communal, national and international - can be brought about by the united action of the men and women of goodwill in every country. These men and women of goodwill must be found and organized and thus discover their numerical potency - for it is there. They must form a world group, standing for right human relations and educating the public in the nature and power of goodwill. They will thus create a world public opinion which will be so forceful and so outspoken on the side of human welfare that leaders, statesmen, politicians, businessmen and churchmen will be forced to listen and comply." My belief is that we are dealing here, not merely with a "major transformation of society" but with what evolutionary biologists recognise as a major 'bifurcation' or evolutionary leap: the emergence - hopefully! - of a new higher level of cooperation of the human species; nothing less than humanity's transition to its evolutionary species maturity which will, if successful, result in its survival on planet Earth. The well-known evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris's article "Globalization as an Evolutionary Leap" deals with this very issue and might be worth a look. I can post it to you if you wish. all the best John John Bunzl - Director International Simultaneous Policy Organisation http://www.simpol.org Simultaneous Policy: Taking back the world ------------------------- Dear John, Thanks for your message. Please do send me the Sahtouris article. best regards, rkm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:57:17 -0700 Subject: Re: Tx> Dismantling the Infrastructure of Tyranny From: RADICAL PRESS <•••@••.•••> To: "Richard K. Moore" <•••@••.•••> Dear Richard, My apologies for the tardy nature of this reply. Since sending out the article which you in turn so kindly (and bravely, I might add) ran, I've received a rather impressive deluge of replies from near and far. So much so that I've been hard pressed to reply to them all. One notable point is that the vast majority of the responses are positive and receptive of the main idea I was trying to get across. As it is 2:44 am after a very long day I won't begin at this point to comment on some of the things you said. I only wanted to thank you for having the courage to run the piece. I think, the present standards being set by Bush & Co. are much more "radical" if you will than my plaintive cry from the wilderness for action. I've been reading a small booklet of H.G.Wells called "The Rights of Man". It was printed in the early years of WWII and is a deja vu of what I am saying. Have you come across it? I'll type up some examples of what I mean. It may not have reappeared after the war. More later and thanks again, Arthur Topham PS I published your Matrix article back in Feb. of 2002 in The Radical. ----------------- Dear Arthur, Thanks, I'd be interested in excerpts from Wells. I got an interesting comment from an activist friend who read your article. From his perspective, he said your article didn't have a lot of content... mostly saying "a line has been crossed, and I am angry". I don't agree with that, but in another sense, it is precisely those points that make your article important. What we need right now is for millions of people to realize that an historical line has been crossed and we need to all be angry in a new, deeper, more committed way. For those who have already come to that decision, you may not have added much new material. But for those who still are on the fence, your words can be very helpful. Thanks for that. best regards, rkm -- ============================================================================ cyberjournal home page: http://cyberjournal.org "Zen of Global Transformation" home page: http://www.QuayLargo.com/Transformation/ QuayLargo discussion forum: http://www.QuayLargo.com/Transformation/ShowChat/?ScreenName=ShowThreads cj list archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists=cj newslog list archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?lists=newslog subscribe addresses for cj list: •••@••.••• •••@••.••• ============================================================================
