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The Group of 1000
The Group of 1000
We believe that if 1000 people from all over the world join forces and use the power of exponential increase in numbers, the world could be changed forever, and we could launch at last the Thousand Years of Peace, about which so much has been written and prophesied.
Action Plan to Change Our World
The Action Plan to Change Our World is a tri-level global undertaking designed to shift the collective consciousness within ten to fifteen years. We seek to produce not a short-term “band aid” effect, but long term medicine to cure the ills of our society. Our three pronged approach centers around three specific kinds of activities in the world:
1. Creating Understanding
2. Creating Community
3. Creating Ourselves Anew
In order to produce these outcomes, The Group of 1000 will operate at the highest level of commitment and service providing physical energy, spiritual sustenance and financial support to non-profit organizations which are focusing from different directions on the same goal. Among the many possible organizations which have set this goal, at the present time G1K has chosen to focus on the support of these three organizations:
1. The School of the New Spirituality
2. Humanity’s Team
3. ReCreation Foundation
Since Neale Donald Walsch was given the startling and very direct information contained in The New Revelations (the first ten chapters of which came through him in the six days following the 9/11 tragedy in the United States), we have been clear that the world is moving toward a moment of enormous and spectacular possibility for all humankind---OR, toward the brink of its own self-destruction. We get to choose, and that choice is being laid before us by the tide of events even as you read these words.
In The New Revelations it is explained that for centuries and millennia human beings have been trying to solve their problems at every level except the level at which those problems exist. That is true today, even though we now consider humanity to be an advanced culture and a highly evolved species.
The problem in our world today is, of course, that we have still not found a way to live together in peace and harmony. It is not as if we have not been trying. Yet we have been trying in the same way for all this time, refusing to consider that perhaps our methodology might need to be altered.
We have been trying to solve the problem as if it were a political problem, by using political means. Endlessly we have debated, endlessly we have passed resolutions and voted on solutions and approved legislation…but none of it has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can’t get along.
So we have then tried to solve the problem as if were an economic problem, by using economic means. Endlessly we have thrown money at it, or withheld money from it (as in the form of sanctions), imagining that by manipulating cold, hard cash, we can change the on-the-ground conditions that create disharmony…but none of this has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can’t get along.
So we have said, “Ah! If it is not a political problem and if it is not an economic problem, it must be a military problem.” And we have tried to solve the problem using military means. Endlessly we have thrown stones at it and flung spears at it and shot arrows at it and fired bullets at it and dropped bombs on it… but none of this has done any good. We are today facing the same problem we faced thousands of years ago: we just can’t get along.
Do you know the definition of insanity? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to get a different result.
All of these insights were contained in The New Revelations, and repeated in Tomorrow's God and in What God Wants. That trilogy of Conversations with God books is essential reading for anyone thinking of joining The Group of 1000, because all of the texts make it clear that the problem facing humanity today is not a political problem, it is not an economic problem, and it is certainly not a military problem.
THE PROBLEM FACING THE WORLD TODAY IS A SPIRITUAL PROBLEM, AND IT CAN ONLY BE SOLVED BY SPIRITUAL MEANS.
The problem has to do with what we believe. It has to do with our most sacred beliefs about God, about Life, and about Each Other. These beliefs drive the engine of our experience.
Passed on from generation to generation through a system of education that includes madrassas, yeshivas, parochial and private schools of every kind, these understandings of the world and How It Is are placed into the minds of human beings when they are 8 and 10 and 12 and 14 years old. And so, when they are 18, 20, 22, and 24, many of them are ready to fly airplanes into buildings or over cities dropping bombs, and they do so with impunity, firm in their belief that what they are doing is “right.”
By the time these humans reach 40, 50 and 60 years of age they are at the head of movements and governments and corporate empires that encourage, direct, support and sustain such actions.
And so, the madness goes on. Even as this is being read by you, more 8 and 10 and 12 and 14-year-olds are being taught the same values, given the same understandings, presented with the same histories and scenarios, and offered the same worldview—so that while we are all biting our fingers about today, the Long Range Thinkers are already impacting tomorrow.
Conversations with God says we can change all that. Just as its message has changed you, so, too, can it change other people around the world. Already these books have been translated in 37 languages and published in over 60 countries. Yet getting the books out there is not enough. Now it is time for us to become Long Range Thinkers.
It is time for us to put together an Action Plan to Change Our World and to create, not wait for, the change we wish to see in the world.
We can turn the tide of events on our earth, but Conversations with God has made it clear that the only way this can be done is through education, creating community about a new set of beliefs, and recreating ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are.
OUR CHALLENGE IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD’S MIND ABOUT GOD.
Why? What’s the point? Can it do any good?
YES! It is the most important thing we could possible do right now. You see, it is humanity’s ideas about God and about What God Wants, and about Life and How Life Is that are driving the engine of humanity’s experience. Change those ideas and you change the world.
Yet how can we do that? Write more books? Deliver more lectures? Produce radio and television programs? Well, those all help, but what we really need is to create a system of schools just like the madrassas and the yeshivas and the parochial and private schools that cover the landscape.
We need to create classrooms
in cities, towns, and villages around the globe
in which is taught the New Spirituality.
Just what is the “New Spirituality”?
It is a way of expressing our impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.
It is a way of looking at the world, a way of understanding God and Life and Each Other that brings each of us a new perspective of our relationship with all of that.
That new perspective would allow us to see ourselves as One, at last.
Can such a radical notion be taught? YES. The answer is yes. But we must be willing to undertake the venture; we must be willing to embrace the mission. Together, we can meet this challenge. Yet let?s not kid ourselves about it. It will take huge energy, huge resources, and huge numbers of people. And that is why such a large commitment is being asked of each member of The Group of 1000.
There are those who have ideas about how our world should be who are willing to offer others (including women and children!) a chance to strap a bomb to their body and blow themselves up in a subway station somewhere. And, startlingly, those who are being offered this chance are jumping at it. How is this possible? It is possible because they have been given a point of view about the world since they were 8 and 10 years old.
We are not talking here about that level of commitment. We are not asking that you give your life; we are asking that you USE your life to change our world.
Here is, specifically, what we seek to do:
1. The Group of 1000 will act as a source of spiritual, physical and financial support for the School of the New Spirituality, now in the formative stages of becoming a separate non-profit organization, that will do two things: (A) Create a School of Theology offering a degree-based program, including graduate degrees, for persons yearning to teach the New Spirituality; (B) Create classrooms around the world in which those newly trained teachers will teach children and adults.
2. The Group of 1000 will act as a source of spiritual, physical and financial support for Humanity?s Team, a separate non-profit organization whose mission is to create community through a worldwide Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its beliefs in a righteous, jealous, angry, demanding, exclusive, vindictive, vengeful, and violent God, and offering people everywhere the freedom to follow their natural impulse to seek and experience the Divine without fear of being socially ostracized, legally punished, or militarily attacked for the way in which they are doing it.
3. The Group of 1000 will act as a source of spiritual, physical and financial support for the ReCreation Foundation, a separate non-profit organization presenting spiritual renewal retreats around the world assisting people in recreating themselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever they held about Who They Are, and whose Life Education Program offers people training in the skills and understandings required to hold study groups, facilitate workshops and retreats, and present informal talks and public lectures on the New Spirituality, thereby multiplying the number of messengers of the New Spirituality in the world.
By under girding and supporting the spiritual initiatives of these three organizations, and other non-profit organizations which have the same goals and purposes, The Group of 1000 will empower a magnificent and multifold agenda, moving forward the global effort to create, at last, peace on Earth and goodwill to humans everywhere.
This can be accomplished.
Just as people have been educated in belief systems that make violence and war possible, so, too, can they be educated in beliefs that make violence and war unthinkable.
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