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Peace, Spirituality and the Future Conference
Welcome to a trend setting conference
in Stockholm 8-12 August, 2010
To learn more, go to the Web Site:
www.peace.se
Get yourself inspired by the documents below:
Basic income through your GPS equipped cell phone.
on the profitable millennium of warmaking
as a preamble to a Creative World Peace
Do the tentative
workshop ideas below inspire you to take an active part?
* Neutrality and natural resources
Let us use
the coming Peace, Spirituality and the Future Conference as
an opportunity! In our academic discussions for a Peaceful New
World Order, we can easily include the idea that natural
resources and minerals of a region should belong to humankind as a
whole, and not to the nation where it was found.
Out of such
free discussions, both a Neutral Tibet and a Neutral Sweden are
feasible. Mind you, China is today a respected consumer of large
volumes of Swedish iron ore! Why not try a similar business
arrangement between China and Tibet? Invasion of a neighbouring
country for its resources is an old paradigm. It does not belong to
our New Millennium.
* Convivance!
For some hundred years, the
people on the Iberian peninsula lived in harmony between the three
Abrahamic religions. In a developing phase they all influenced each
others in a fruitful way. They shared a common value: not to take
interest on money when lending it to a brother.
Today the three century long
New World Order financial system is close to a collapse. The
international financial system has served the world up till now as a
prototype. But it needs a major overhaul and renewal.
It is interesting to observe that the Muslims
still respect Jehovah's words: "If you should lend money to my
people, to the afflicted alongside you, you must not become like a
usurer to him, You must not lay interest upon him."
(Exodus 22:25)
* Family life, conflict resolution and
forgiveness as peace making means
* Education for Peace, an University
Network for Peace
* Spirituality beyond Religions
* Messiah, Come as Pure Universal Love!
Yours sincerely
Ove
Svidén
President, World Peace
Foundation
ove@peace.se
www.peace.se
+46-8-25 86 43
Vesslevägen 40, 167 67 BROMMA, Sweden
P.S.
Some early received abstracts and workshop
ideas for the
Peace, Spirituality and the Future
Conference
Stockholm 8-12 August, 2010
The need for a New Spiritual Vision Max Payne
The 21st
century has inherited all the problems which the phenomenal
technological triumphs of the 20th have caused.
Global warming and climate
change
Population explosion
Instant globalisation of
communication
A crisis of expectation
with 90% of the world wanting the GDP of the affluent 10.
Intensification of conflict
as power shifts from West to East and asymmetrical warfare through
terrorism looms.
The answer can only be
pointed towards in a series of paradoxes.
Only the most exalted
idealism can answer our pragmatic practical problems
Our material affluence
provides the spring board towards spiritual realisation.
Permissiveness can be
transmuted to the search for perfection. Thus art and ethics are
transformed.
Dogmatic religion and
militant atheism can both be transcended by an agnostic
spirituality.
Science seeks that
description which is true for all possible observers and therefore
points towards the new spiritual vision.
Invitation for abstracts! Send a 150 word abstract idea for your paper or a workshop Sent to: ove@peace.se
The “Houses of
...” Initiative - Leverage for Peaceful Solutions
Dr Christa Muth
Roughly 20 conflictual
topics deserve a thorough “re-engineering” to become manageable
peacefully. Examples: Discrimination (gender, racial, handicap) –
Health, wellbeing, alimentation – Sustainability - Economy and
Finance – Cultures and Subcultures – Religion, Spirituality,
Ideologies – Science, Technology, Ethics – Education.
For each topic a „House of
…“ as a solution oriented space for interactive experimentation will
be set up. First condition for mature creativity is the awareness of
a timeline. Hence the “Houses of …” will work on:
The permanent exhibition character, playful, experiential
and enriching, addresses people of all ages and intellectual
background. Families with children can spend a week end without a
minute of boredom. Researchers find a rich collection of background
information; they can explore common interests with the caretakers
and network to turn research into action.
Zmid Midbar, a spiritual Center for Peace
in the Desert
Efrat Sar-Shalom and Steffi Hanegbi
My life's story began with a commitment made when I was nine years
old. In one miraculous and holy moment I chose to devote my entire
life to peace. Even though I didn't understand at the time the
volume and depth of my commitment, my life since then has been
directed toward this goal.
By meeting the people who were perfect for me, and by finding the
spiritual road that best suited me, I have been inspired and
assisted to bring about peace through spiritual and mental
processes. Organizing meetings for peace prayers, and teaching
others how to go about bringing peace to their lives, have been
natural outcomes of my commitment to peace.
Zman Midbar was born of a deep and long thought-out vision of
creating a world spiritual center where work for peace can take
place.
The connection between Seffi Hanegbi and I grew out of our common
commitment to this kind of "Work for Peace" that each of us had been
engaged in separately. When we met it became clear to both of us
that we were to work in partnership, and that together we were to
devote our lives to mankind and to peace.
At Zman Midbar we hold spiritual workshops
with the aim of achieving inner peace; and we conduct gatherings of
peace prayers for inspiring compassion and understanding between
different religious and national groups.
With love we invite you to participate in
our meetings and prayers for peace.
The Cosmos Is a
Kinship System
Marilyn Wilhelm
This
presentation could be described as "networking the truth." For it is
an interdiciplinary, intercultural, interlingual presentation
involving physics, ecology, genetics and neuroscience, health and
evolution, language and the Wisdom we all hold in common. In the
process, science, faith and philosophy meet and merge and become "intellecual
preparation for spiritual progress." For the revolutionary ideas of
modern science, from physics to biology, to ecology, to neuroscience
are "revolutionary" in the definitive sense of making a complete
circle, for scientists are rediscovering the same basic Truth from
which our ancestors started: the Universe and every one and every
thing in it are interrelated, interdependent, indivisibly One.
The path to Peace begins when one perceives the Universe as all of a
piece and as an integral part of the Oneness.
Marilyn Wilhelm is Founder, Chairman and
President of Wilhelm Schole International
(www.wilhelmschole.org).
A Peaceful
Egalitarian Life for Creativity
Ove Svidén
The New
World Order banking system was introduced carefully some three
hundred years ago. It has served a fnancial elite very well.
Furthermore, a successful prototype for an international banking
system has been established.
Åsa
Brandberg has developed a fair trade alternative to the
above, the Solidar System; a zero interest, base income
complementary currency: SOLIDARS - A CURRENCY FOR PEACE (www.solidar.lir.be).
As a
scenario writer I have used Åsa's ideas in A Scenario for a
Peaceful New World Order, A Scenario Future Family Economy, Beyond
Banking, and The Kung Peng Saga.
You find
them all in the Web Site:
www.peace.se
In a short
presentation and a workshop, we will go further into the monetary
prerequisites for a Sound of Peace, as a entertaining family
computer game, a feature film and a test site activity in Sweden. (www.peace.se)
An Institutional
Value Hierachy
Johannes Heinrichs
(Berlin&Duisburg/Germany)
A peaceful future of the world depends on the
respect and effective realization of the essential structures of
human community. For a developed social philosophy, there exist
four reflection-levels and value-levels of man and society: (1)
economical, (2) political, (3) cultural and (4) basic values
(world-views, spiritualities).
Never (except perhaps in
prehistorical, vedic times) the interconnection of these
value-levels were theoretically elaborated, not to speak of their
practical realization. Their institutional installation in an
evolved form of democracy seems to be the crucial condition of world
peace on the basic of a sociological order, which allows many
subforms of economies, politics, cultures and world views.
Most easily, the formation of a hierarchy of
four parliamentary and real executive levels at the UNO could
begin just from the global level. Needed is only enough insight with
the responsibles, and a real will for a peace order.
The Scientific and Medical Network David Lorimer Mission, Aims and Values for The Network seeks to provide a forum for pursuing truth, wherever it leads, to widen the intellectual horizons of science and of society as a whole, to stimulate research at the frontiers of human knowledge and experience, and to make the results of such research more widely known through its educational programmes. The Network is committed to no dogma or creed. It encourages intellectual discernment and is wary of the ill-founded and sensational claims of 'pseudo-science'. In asking searching questions about the nature of life and the role of the human being, the Network abides by its guidelines of open-minded, rigorous thinking and care for others at all times. SMN will participate in the Peace, Spirituality and the Future Conference in Stockholm with a DVD-recorded Keynote Speech by two of its senior members. (www.scimednet.org)
When humanity
tells!
The need for a transformed
economy
By Göran
Hjort Member of: The Academy for Sustainable Development
The preset
economic and monetary ideology fosters greed and a concentration of
privately owned wealth and power of unprecedented magnitude. This is
utterly disputable, and due to mens´ self sought right to define
economics without letting women play a part. The masculine mentality
has so far subdued the feminine.
Our fate depends on an
enhanced balance between male and female power. We must design a
humane monetary system ensuring prosperity to all, and define a
sustainable economy worthy both women and men. However, this
requires a transformation of mans´ mental awareness and willingness
to see the reality as it is. The key question is whether man is
sufficiently spiritually mature. This question will be dealt with at
the seminar.
Peace, Spirituality
and the Future
Jens
Jerndal
It seems there was never
PEACE on Earth.
Is then peace impossible on
our planet? Answer: NO!!!
I define spirituality as
consciousness of the invisible reality, of who we really are, why we
are here, and how we relate to the rest of Creation on the soul
level.
Humanity is
far older than science believes. The ancient Rigveda scriptures of
India and Mayan traditions of Central America claim that the Earth
has been through numerous world ages with varying spiritual
maturity. Each age lasted many thousand years.
Our own is one of the
darkest ages ever, with its conflicts, wars, greed and selfishness
bringing destruction, pain and suffering.
The FUTURE is good news.
This dark age is racing to its close. We now have a singular
opportunity to shift our consciousness in a quantum leap from
short-sighted ego-centricity to cooperation, love and solidarity.
Then Peace follows.
How? – Hear me out!
Streaming money
Åsa Brandberg
It was a splendid autumn day in 1994. An aspen
tree was suddenly lit by the sun, rustling with its shining golden
coins in a breath of air. Absorbed by the beauty I pictured
innumerable streams of energy dancing around me on its way out in
space as warmth, partly saved by waters, forests, mountains and the
industrious small worms, working in the soil under my feet.
The energy interplay made me ask how to find a
corresponding stream of money, instantly reflecting the transformed
solar energy we exchange as goods and services on a market.
After years of development I realized that it was not just a money
system I found, but an entirely new economy, ready to be born.
Could we realize an economy
like that? Could it help abolishing poverty, releasing creativity,
giving peace on earth? I say YES!
I will tell you how in my presentation.
Fear or Love? You
choose!
Jackie Bergman
All our actions are
governed by emotions. Thoughts help us find ways to reach a desired
emotion. However, thoughts as such are neutral. There are only two
basic emotions, fear and love. And we can choose consciously between
the two, if we believe we can. We then realize that fear is actually
a prayer for love.
Fear causes separation and untruth, whereas love generates
unity and truth. The way to become fully human is the never-ending
aspiration to choose love.
Subjectiveness can tell fear from love.
Objectiveness cannot, albeit it being a powerful tool. Today’s
cultures often honour the rational and objective, thereby tending to
objectify also life itself. Use of this tool without awareness of
the motivating emotion can be disastrous.
Our actions can be divided
into including or excluding. Trust can grow when both qualities are
expressed with a loving intention.
This presentation can be
philosophical or practical.
Unity, Peace and
Love Workshop
Ingrid
Krianon and Jon Anker Holm
I have a vision of a better world – we all have!
And in that moment you say to yourself: “I am a creator of my
own life”, you can in every moment of life reach higher dimensions
in your mind.
When you search for quality
in your own creation and have a desire to realize your visions, it
is quite possible to do that. If you have these thoughts in mind
frequently during the day, it will be a new start to the way you
create your intentions.
In every moment, in every
day, we can choose through experiences in our minds that the whole
world is free.
Then we can create a world
together with all these minds we are connected to, into a worldwide
mind.
Our united visions are
creating right now - the new paradigm we all desire – freedom, love
and peace!
P.S. This
workshop is planned to be in Swedish, on friday 13 August.
The information below is in
Swedish for the extra conference day on Friday August 13:
Kom även
ihåg fredagen den 13 Augusti.
Det blir en
extra konferensdag på svenska.
Jag tar
alltså även emot fredsidéer på svenska till:
ove@peace.se
Framtidshälsningar OVE
Evolution av Systerskap och Broderskap för vår blå planet
Lars Rutger
Solstråhle
Det
kollektiva mänskliga medvetandet och livet på vår planet är knutna
till varandra. Om strukturerna i det mänskliga medvetandet förblir
oförändrade kommer vi alltid att återskapa samma slags värld, samma
ondska och göra om alla misstag.
En
Evolution i Medvetande behövs. Andlighet är en kontakt med en högre
Idévärld av Principer bortom Nuets brokiga detaljrikedom. Denna
Andlighet, kan erbjuda Människan en Framtid på ett evolutionärt
högre plan: En kollektiv medvetenhet av Enhet, i den fulla avsikten
av att skapa både yttre Fred och inre Frid i balans.
Människan
har nu nått den grad av medvetenhet att ett framgångsrikt
evolutionärt steg kan verkställas i Frihet, Jämlikhet och Systerskap,
även för de Bröder som vågar pröva.
Jag vill att Sveriges Riksdag, efter
schweizisk förebild, ger medborgarna hemortsrätt på svensk
landsbygd, där vi har ekologiskt ansvar. En annan förebild för mig
är Israels kibbutz –system, där jag frivilligt kan leva på ett
sätt som återskapar mitt sociala ansvar. Den dubbla
folkbokföringens idé:
Skapa
balans mellan påtvingat yrkesliv och intuitivt skapande känsloliv!
Tiden är nu
Catarina
Hed
Historiskt
har kvinnan under lång tid stått i bakgrunden vad gäller den reella
samhälleliga makten. Idag är det de globala frågorna om planetens
fortlevnad som står överst på agendan.
Först nu –
när Moder Jord själv säger ifrån – ses kunskapen om livets principer
som viktiga. En kunskap som inte ens maktens störste herre kan vara
Herre över.
Tack vare
denna helomvändning i dagordningen har världens kvinnor äntligen
möjlighet att få gehör för sina mångtusenåriga erfarenheter av en
livgivande livshållning och hushållning. Vi kan vara med och skapa
och ta ansvar för framtiden eftersom Jorden behöver oss nu, likväl
som vi behöver Jorden.
För de
flesta kvinnor och många män är det en ny och ovan situation att bli
värderad utifrån sin essens - utan att behöva kompromissa med sig
själv. Maktens strålkastarljus har aldrig riktats åt det ”livgivande
hållet”. Pengar till vapen brukar aldrig fattas, men hur var det med
mödravården? Är det möjligt att föda barn med kulorna vinande runt
huvudet?
På något
förunderligt vis sker detta - trots allt. Livet segrar till slut.
Nu när
Moder Jord verkar ha sett till att våra röster kommer att bli hörda
för en livsbejakande framtid - är vi då beredda att ta vår
del av ansvaret tillsammans med våra stödjande män?
En framtid
där vi tjänar varandra istället för att tjäna på andra.
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