Unforgettable Love Story

In this blog I will be delivering solid evidence that we can heal this world using the real life examples of people who have achieved dramatic results. In particular I will be reviewing the wonderful achievements of the Delancey Street Foundation. These folks have a thirty-seven year history of successfully healing the worst of society’s criminals while working WITHOUT government funding.

GOALS to Healing the World: For every single person on the planet…provide housing, food, clean water, sewage, energy, health care. Move into living sustainably on the planet, heal the mental dysfunction that causes so much hatred and violence, cut crime and violence by 90%, reduce drug usage and addiction by 70%, and end all wars. While dramatically increasing the quality of life, peace and happiness of all people everywhere.

I bet if you were to take a poll of all of the people in the world today and ask them if we have the resources to achieve such a goal most folks would say no. I believe the real question is not can we achieve this, but do we have the will and the desire to achieve this?

Solid Evidence – Dramatic Results

Delancey Street Foundation has been in operation since 1971. That makes thirty-seven years they have been in operation as of 2008! That sort of longevity says they must be doing something right. Although their achievements are many I wish to focus on the following since these achievments are critical in duplicating Delancey’s model for healing the entire planet and achieving the goals I stated earlier.

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They have reformed thousands of the worst criminals in society.
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They have helped thousands recover from drug addiction.
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They have educated thousands who were failed by our public education system.
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They have funded their operations largely by their own efforts through businesses that they themselves have created and through private donations.
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They have maintained the highest level of service and integrity in the businesses they run.
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They continue to expand nationwide in the USA as well as influencing programs in other countries too.
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They use an “each one teach one” principle where older residents help newer ones…everybody works.

The basic principle of healing the planet is that people need a better education on how to live a healthy, happy, and abundant life. People need to be given the skills to succeed in their relationships with others, the skills to maintain a healthy mind and body, and the skills to be productive in the workforce. Society as a whole needs better systems to solve the problems we face and manage the common resources we are all creating in our everyday work life.

If an organization like the Delancey Street Foundation can take people with the most dysfunctional life skills and transform them into people with functional and even exceptional life skills, then we can reproduce this success on a larger scale.

What Delancey Street Foundation does is it has the residents who have been in their program longer teaching the newer ones all that they need to know to be healthy and happy members of society. Using this system everyone gets at least a high school equivalent education complete with certification, and many even get a BA college degree. But there is much more power in this system than the fact that a person gets the certificates and degrees that can help get them a job in the real world. Each resident becomes a teacher and a leader too. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT!

By helping each resident become a teacher and leader they also move a long ways towards achieving a healthy sense of self-esteem. They each get to experience patience and compassion. They each have to become a good example for another person to follow. This is a level of responsibility we just are not taught in our usual course of schooling. If you read my blogs Healing the World Using Law of Attraction and A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World you will see I had suggested a system such as this. Do we really need expensive universities? Perhaps for some things they are necessary, but for many things we could go back to more of an apprenticeship program for teaching job skills. Or we could mix the high school and college education in with on the job training. It would make things more interesting for the students and give businesses cheaper labor.

The other thing that the Delancey Street Foundation is doing is creating businesses and using the residents to run those businesses. We are not talking small, barely making it businesses…no, WE ARE TALKING FIRST CLASS, AWARD WINNING BUSINESSES THAT ARE ROLE MODELS THAT ALL OTHER BUSINESSES SHOULD BE FOLLOWING!

They have a moving and trucking company, run by convicted criminals, that has the highest rating for non breakage and not a single incidence of theft or loss of property. It has been in operation for 33 years. It is the largest independent moving company in the bay area averaging 5100 moving jobs per year.

They built their own headquarters, a beautiful Mediterranean style housing complex for 500 on the waterfront in San Francisco. It won the “Award of Honor for Design Excellence” from the American Institute of Architects.

This complex also houses one of the finest restaurants in San Francisco the Delancey Street Restaurant, which they also operate and use to train their residents in. It was named one of “San Francisco’s Delicious Dozen” and won other awards and high reviews in local newspapers.

The Crossroads Café, Bookstore and Art Gallery is another one of Delancey Street Foundation’s businesses. And like their other businesses this too is a first class operation with attractive décor, spacious and inviting. It provides the best of coffees, fresh juice, bagels and other fare typical of a café.

That is not the end of it either. You really should pay a visit to the http://delanceystreetfoundation.org website to see how truly remarkable this organization is. You will find heaps of videos, articles, photos and resources. You may even find a service they offer that makes you want to hire them yourself or take one of their training courses.

Does this inspire you? It should! If an organization like this can take convicted murders, thieves, drug dealers and addicts and teach them life skills, turn their lives around while at the same time running first class businesses that pay their expenses then certainly we can achieve the goals stated earlier using the same sort of techniques these folks are using. And we could free millions of people who are suffering in prisons all over America and all over the world.

I believe the acomplishments of the Delancey Street Foundation proves that what I have suggested in these other blogs will work for transforming this world; we can achieve these goals. Please read these and help us all by holding these visions in your own mind too.

Healing the World Using Law of Attraction
International World Government
Crime and Punishment…Both are Insane!
A Beautiful Vision for Re-architecting Our World

There are many more poor and disenfranchised people on the planet than there are those who currently control the governments of the world. We need to pool the power of this majority to overcome the sick and corrupted systems we currently call “government”. If we treat them well and give them what they need we will form a solid point of power that will sweep across the entire planet by law of attraction. We can transform this world into a peaceful, loving and functional home where we all thrive.

Use this blog as a hopeful dream of a future that WILL be!

Namasté
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
Help Make This Dream a Reality

I fully intend to prove that it can be done by actually doing it. This is not an idle conversation we are engaging in. I am looking for your support in achieving all of these goals. There are many ways in which you can participate:

*Very Simple. Read these blogs. Dream of the possibilities presented in them as often as you can. Tell others who feel discouraged about the course of humanity to read these blogs.

*Some Involvement. Comment on this blog with information that can help this process along. Who else is achieving results? Who has failed and why? What pitfalls do you see? What ideas do you have for solving those pitfalls?

*More Involvement. Participate in World Transformation Radio Talk Show. Be a guest on this show and get involved in working out the details of our solution. Actively promote this radio show to your friends and email list. Help me get guests on the show who are well known and carry some level of credibility.

*Total Commitment. Stick with this project for the many years it will take to get it off the ground.

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