World Vision Dialogue - Building a new collective dream

PEACE TALKS: Person to Person

I read the news on several sites across the world this morning. I am always amazed how differently, events are perceived and reported. Reading between the lines and beyond the hype, spin, and talking points, it is difficult to see where the truth is. It always seems to be serving someone's interest ---- rarely the good of all. There is a helplessness about taking in this reality. Once caught up in its web, which I so easily seem to do from time to time, I am reminded of Mother Teresa's wisdom, Don't wait for the leaders, do it alone person-to-person. This insight has redirected my thoughts many times. How do we start doing this as a practice, letting our lives be a beacon for good and peace?

·       Look for opportunities to be supportive of others. Small bits of kindness can make a BIG difference to someone else. 

·       Resist our human nature to judge others. What we say and do can hurt. Wrap your words and action in dignity and respect. Love your neighbor. 

·       Pray for peace in your own unique way. There is power in it.

If a bunch of us focused on these three things, imagine the difference we could make?

What if we it were possible for us to meet and talk with one another PERSON-TO-PERSON across the world? ... WE CAN!

...and YOU, your friends and the whole world are invited to an unprecedented opportunity to dialogue with our good neighbors across the world. Imagine what we could do together if we could BE TOGETHER for a while, bringing our skills, talents and best thinking to figure out a better ways of living on this planet that would benefit everyone? Dreaming new dreams and putting them into action.

Join us and other citizens from around the world at the Habitat JAM, an unprecedented ONLINE global conversation about what matters most to us all.  December 1-3, 2005 --- Tell your friends and colleagues.

Come "be the change..."  Open to the public and FREE. Put your fingerprint on history....come experience three days of "world peace" in action.

Learn more and register NOW @ www.habitatjam.com

Feeling skeptical, read this...

Look forward to meeting you there!

Debbe Kennedy, Founder
Global Dialogue Center

John Perkins: The Prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle

John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man has a side to it that calls you to look at this troubled world with a new perspective. His book is a MUST READ for anyone who cares about our world. It is in many ways scary, because it puts pieces of a very complex, frightening puzzle together that we've seen in the world vividly in recent years. However, the visionary part of his message brings with it a new hope and responsibility for each of us. This is demonstrated in one specific place when he shares the Prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle (Page 209):

Nearly every culture I know prophesies that in the late 1990's we entered a period of remarkable transition. At monasteries in the Himalayas, ceremonial sites in Indonesia, and indigenous reservations in North America, from the depths of the Amazon to the peaks of the Andes, and into the ancient Mayan cities of Central America, I have heard that ours is a special moment in human history, and that each of us was born at this time because we have a mission to accomplish.

The titles and the words of the prophecies differ slightly. They tell variously of a New Age, the Third Millennium, the Age of Aquarius, the Beginning of the Fifth Sun, or the end of old calendars and the commencement of new ones. Despite the varying terminologies, however, they have a great deal in common, and “The Prophecy of the Condor and Eagle” is typical. It states that back in the mists of history, human societies divided and took different paths: that of the condor (representing the heart, intuitive and mystical) and that of the eagle (representing the brain, rational and material). In the 1490's, the prophesy said, the two paths would converge and the eagle would drive the condor to the verge of extinction. Then, five hundred years later, in the 1990's a new epoch would begin, one in which the condor and the eagle will have the opportunity to reunite ad fly together in the same sky, along the same path. If the condor and eagle accept this opportunity, they will create a most remarkable offspring, unlike any seen before.

“The Prophecy of the Condor and Eagle” can be taken at many levels — the standard interpretation is that it foretells the sharing of indigenous knowledge with the technologies of science, the balancing of yin and yang, and the bridging of northern and southern cultures. However, most powerful is the message it offers about consciousness; it says the we have entered a time when we can benefit from the many diverse was of seeing ourselves and the world, and that we can use these as a springboard to higher levels of awareness. As human beings we can truly wake up and evolve into a more conscious species.

...We who live in the most powerful nation history has ever known must stop worrying so much about the outcome of soap operas, football games, quarterly balance sheets, and the daily Dow Jones averages, and must instead re-evaluate who we are and where we want our children to end up.

With so many things out of control, see a new VISION of our existence becomes a more challenging calling, but we can begin this process. Each one of us can begin today through our own re-evaluations and change in consciousness.

SPECIAL EVENT December 1-3, 2005 ---- An Invitation to get involved.
Join in an unprecedented global conversation about what matters to you MOST --- Learn more: www.habitatjam.com

Be the change you want to see in the world. We need you!

Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center

Learn more about JOHN PERKINS at the Global Dialogue Center
Visit the Global Dialogue Center at www.globaldialoguecenter.com