Ideas and Visions

IDEAS AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE

> What is your vision of the future? What would you like to exist or disappear, what would you like to change or activate, transform or reject? What is your true heart's desire for the future, that secret thing you have been unable to reveal or even acknowledge, because so rarely can we talk or even think about about what is real and true and profound?
> We want to help you express your dreams and visions, to find and create them if you have not thought them through, to recognize that others share your dreams, and that we can all create a beautiful and amazing future together.
> These sections in progress..we'll get there. But we'll post great content and links on these topics faster if you help by contributing or organizing content or links ...email to Contribute@global-dialog.org

> > PARADIGMS TO PONDER and other ways of looking at things:
> > Cartesian,Fractal,Chaotic, Taoist (yin and yang levels),Cyclical,Monistic/Dualistic,
> > Synergistic, Wholistic, Karmic, Network, Animistic...
> > (none of the above).
> > GREAT FOLKS and PIONEERS on The Future:
> > Teilhard de Chardin
> > Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere Rev. Phillip J. Cunningham, C.S.P.
> > The Noosphere-quotes Teilhard de Chardin
> > Teilhard de Chardin
> > The Human Phenomenon Teilhard de Chardin
> > A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain Wired article on de Chardin
> > Cyberspace and the Dream of Teilhard de Chardin John R. Mabry
> > Margulis, Lovelock, and Gaia: The Debate over the Gaia Hypothesis
> > Buckminster Fuller, Terence McKenna, Ghandi, Bohm, Buddha, Jesus, Einstein, Teilhard de Chardin
> > More Future Thought
> > THE GAIA RELIGION AND
> > NEUTOPIAN THOUGHT

Participant Contributions

Speaking of the USA, it is hard for me to dream about the future for one main reason. It frightens me how large of a society we are and will be. How do we encourage and institute an evolution to improve our lives and the earth when there are so many people to reach?
The only way I know to succeed efficiently with projects is to create specific goals whose progress may be measured. And at the same time it is imperative to be thinking ahead to new goals, so that the drive doesn't die after reaching your one goal. In a conversation today with my brother's brand new father-in-law, he cited the women's lib movement as an example. I told him how I was so very grateful to the the women who suffered to win the right to vote. He pointed out that after that goal was reached, there was no new goal to take its place. Today the issue in women's lib is equal wages with men. How do you measure women across the country getting paid the same wages as men? We negotiate our own salaries, so how do you measure that goal? All women having the right to vote is a goal that can be measured. After we reached that goal our stamina and efficiency decreased.
The main problem other than reaching all these people is that I find many people in society don't care about making this world better.
One friend who I hadn't seen in 3 years told me she never thinks about the things I talked about when visiting her this week. She is considered a very intelligent electrical engineer for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). I was talking about how maybe astrology is valid because our bodies are made of stardust (I'm not sure but I think the main element in stars is hydrogen and that is the main element on earth and most physical objects?). So it would make sense how the movement of physical objects in the sky would affect our bodies in a gravitational way. The moon is the closest object and it seems to affect us. Is it a coincidence that the moon cycle is about the same as the menstration cycle? I have heard that ocean waves are caused by the gravitational effects of the moon. This is a huge amount of energy. So it only makes sense that our own energetic bodies which are made up of 70% water would respond in some way to the moon's movements.
To this view, she said, "Yah, that may be true, and I think you are thinking very deeply, but I don't think about those things. I live in my box. (She used her hands to form a box about 6 inches) And I like my box. I don't want to go outside my box."
She is a good person. A strong person. I would want her to be a part of the evolution that we who find our way to this website dream about. But she doesn't care. I can't make her care. And she is one of the people who have made up my life, my web of contacts.
Society will evolve regardless of our mission. But how do we help it evolve to make the world a better place? It seems almost impossible to reach people who are so very numerous and uncaring.
Such a large society frightens me because how do you organize so many people to help evolve common goals? The size of our population perplexes me. I haven't been able to come to grips with it.
These questions are why I love Valerie, who I met at Burning Man this year, for making this site possible. It is of some comfort to hook up to a web of people who do truly care about enriching everything we touch. My friend Claire came to the conclusion at the end of Burning Man that the internet is one huge way that people are connecting. That is the theme she saw over and over.
The second solution to address these questions is the way you live your life. My current inspirational living prayer is this:
I do not have to go shout my message for all to hear. As long as I am living my beliefs, I am doing much to further the evolution cause. People who get "it" are not afraid of the honesty and intensity by which I live my life. Instead, the ones who are ready, look at me and realize they can do the same.
On the other hand, there are people who are afraid of me. I try to put their spirit at ease by being genuinely friendly and caring, not overly though; I don't want to alienate them by coming on too strong. I feel people's vibrations of looking at me as someone who is very different. These people are not sure what to make of me. When change is instituted it can be initially very frightening. Many times I feel I have to completely tone down my ideas and personality in order to reach these people who don't understand my life force. It can be depressing to have to "hide" this part of you. Thank God we have reached an era where I won't be burned and condemned for having different views!
Anyway, these are just some of the things I think about in my life. Please respond to me if I have touched any personal interests of your own.
Love to you all,
Moni

Monica Miller millermoni@hotmail.com

For some reason my current inspirational living prayer was not listed above when i sent the first email and i really want to share it with you:
"I want to lead by example, I want to follow through faith, O Great Goddess"

Monica