Unforgettable Love Story

This is the third installment of A Beautiful Vision for Restructuring Our World, the second part is Our Power and Resources, How are We Wasting Them?

When the European Conquistadores came to the Americas, these continents contained a population of people that numbered in the tens of millions. These were people who were wealthy, cultured, and organized. They were living in harmony with nature and living happily and peacefully with one another. The Europeans came to the Americas and forcefully took what would have been given to them freely. The native aboriginal people of the American continents were generous. They were willing to share what they had and teach the Europeans how to live with nature and in a peaceful culture. The Europeans could not even see what it was they were destroying. They saw themselves as superior, when in fact they were inferior in way too many ways. It was only in their technology to do harm and kill, and their willingness to do so, that they were superior.

This abuse of power wasted a culture that in many ways is what we are seeking today. If only the Europeans would have shared their technology with the aboriginal Americans and learned the peaceful ways of those people we could be living in a world of peace today.

My point is…since there have been very large civilizations on this planet that did live in peaceful harmony, civilizations that did share and did look out for the greater good of all, then it is possible for us to change and become like they once were. Yet we can retain the lessons that corruption has brought us and keep the wisdom gained from our suffering to help us avoid ever succumbing to such a social system as we have now ever again. We can heal this planet. It worked once so it is possible and WE are the ones who can do it.

Social Systems and Organizations that Achieve Results

I have been reading about the works of the Delancey Street Foundation in reforming the worst criminals in our society. They use these criminals as teachers in what they call an each-one-teach-one system. Each person is a mentor and each is a mentee. They created their own businesses which funds the majority of their needs. They do not use government funding; however they do utilize donations from the public. They even built their own buildings using the labor of the criminals who are enrolled in their program. They have been doing this for 35 years now and are highly successful. They operate more as a family than anything else. They are a model of leadership and a working organization that can be learned from and which lends credibility to the vision I have been putting forth in this and my other blogs of this nature.

If the worst criminals in our society can do such amazing things with their limited resources, just think what we can do with the best of our society! I am certain there are many more models of functional social systems out there that we can use to architect a new society from. We just have to seek them out and learn from them and begin putting what we learn into practice.

World Transformation Radio

We are beginning a new radio talk show called World Transformation Radio where I will be interviewing guests who have been working to heal the planet. We need guests who have experience and achieved results, so if you know of someone, or you are someone like that please contact me. We also need participants that can help formulate these ideas I have presented and help flesh out the fine details necessary to begin implementing them. These talks will remain on the internet. These talks will attract other likeminded people who have the power and the will to take action. This will take time, I don’t expect these changes to happen overnight, but we must start sometime. Why not now? Will you participate?

Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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