COLUMN: In order to prepare for the new future of peace, harmony and unity, that may be beyond our current understanding, we must act with intention and use information already available to us, as well as commit to listening to and learning from the Earth, her creatures and other aspects, the universal energies, visible and invisible, and to encouraging peak performance through connectedness, choice and discovery, abandoning models of perfection and judgment.
A synopsis of the ideas presented during: “Let’s Talk. A Public Forum Series on the Subject of Education,” Aspen, Colorado. Fall/Spring 1993/4. Speakers: Alden Naranjo, Wallace Black Elk, Dr. Emily Bornstein, Dr. Harold Whitcomb, Tom Crum, Jon Seigle, Connie Baxter Marlow. Drafted by CBM 5/94
The dominant Western cultures currently base actions and decisions on a model of economics which has the bottom line as its principal determining factor. This is the profit-based model of a growth-oriented economy in a world of “scarce” resources using supply and demand as the “invisible hand” to regulate and control the outcome, determining “profit”, “success” and survival in the short term. This Keynesian Model might be called “Bottom-line Economics”. Proposed below is a model called “Top-Line Economics”. This model takes the highest aspirations of humanity, integrates the principles alluded to above and below, and places them as the dominant features in the interactions between individuals who are in the process of flourishing in a world of abundance.
Top-Line Economics
When the principles of trust, generosity, respect, inspiration, love, cooperation and gratitude are actually the dominant factors of human interaction in the workplace, at home and in schools the resulting abundance will allow all aspects of the world to flourish in a manner heretofore unimaginable.
Taken from an open forum entitled: Pan-Indigenousness and its Relevance for the Future: Envisioning a New World led by Connie Baxter Marlow and Arnie Neptune. University of Maine, Orono. Drafted by CBM 11/01
The above can be accomplished once we commit to treating each member of the human family with the following understanding:
The Expanded Family
Global/National/Workplace/Schools/Home/Self
A unit of independent, autonomous individuals, all seeking their unique destinies within the context of caring, consideration and respect for others achieved through conversation, listening, patience, kindness, empathy, compassion, playfulness and truthfulness, allowing the Universal Laws of perfect balance, abundance, harmony and win/win to manifest through letting go of fear, separation and doubt, moving into total trust of a universe driven by unconditional love. Drafted by CBM 2/98.
A New Energy
All of this is possible because there is a new energy available on Earth which supports the manifestation of the infinite balance, abundance and unconditional love that are at the foundation of Universal Law. Individuals are beginning to experience this in their lives which, step-by step will influence them to make new choices on how they will live day-by-day:
Spontaneously
Trust will replace fear.
Ease will replace struggle.
Serenity will replace tension.
Generosity will replace hoarding.
Abundance will replace scarcity.
Unity will replace separation.
New Systems will develop.
New Relationships will replace out-moded ways of being.
An understanding of the
interconnectedness and sacredness of all things will begin to emerge.
It is in this way that true peace and profound freedom will come to prevail on Earth.
Taken from “How Peace will Come to Prevail on Earth” Drafted by CBM for “The Reverent Journey for Peace and Healing in the Americas.” 2/95
“No problem was ever solved in the same consciousness in which it was created.” Albert Einstein
“We must become the change we wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
“Perhaps we have built a house of cards on a false foundation.
Examining our assumptions is key.” CBM 8/02
You may contact the author of this article, Connie Baxter Marlow at: FlywEagles@aol.com.
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