Monday, January 08, 2007
THE WORLD COMMISSION ON GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALITY
I've written about this commission before. Here. And here.
When I last fisked their website, it appeared that Dr. Leonard Swidler's Global Dialogue Institute was part of the picture. It still is, but Swidler strangely seems to have disappeared.
The Global Dialogue Institute was co-founded by Swidler and Dr.Ashok Gangadean, who is still very much a part of The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. Other members include
Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Muller, Co-Chair
Dr. Karan Singh, Co-Chair
Ms. Audrey Kitagawa, Co-Convenor
Dr. Ewert Cousins, Co-Convenor
Dr. Ashok Gangadean, Co-Convenor
The Dalai Lama
Abdurrahman Wahid
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Sayyed H. Nasr
Tu Weiming
Masao Abe
Hazel Henderson
Wangari Maathai
Robert Thurman
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
Rodrigo Carazo
Bro. Wanye Teasdale
Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Very Rev. James Parks Morton
Prof. Cornel West
Dr. Elizabet Sahtouris
Dr. Raine Eisler
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Jane Goodall
Jim Kenney
Jonathan Granoff
Angaangaq Lybert
Betty Williams
Strangely, Bro. Wayne Teasdale died October 20, 2004, yet he remains on the list of members.
In any case, it was through researching the entangling alliances of Dr. Charles Mercieca and Jacqueline Ripstein that I landed in the World Commission website.
Ms. Audrey Kitagawa, Co-Convenor of The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, is the Chairperson of the UN Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns (CSVGC), an organization with a Working Group titled Sacred Transcendental Arts, for which the contact persons are Jacqueline Ripstein, Dr. J. J. Hurtak, and Michael Johnson, the latter two being members of Ripstein's board which was online when I accessed it on 12/28/2006, but which now produces an error message when I try to access it.
Kitagawa is an interesting person. You can read about her at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin website. Title of the article is "A divorce attorney turns spiritual leader." It seems that she was not just "a" divorce attorney, but "Honololu's most famous divorce attorney." Now she has assumed the role of Divine Mother of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family.
In the orbit of Jacqueline Ripstein and thus of Charles Mercieca, both of whom are promoting various aspects of Our Blessed Mother, is a woman who has assumed the role of Divine Mother.
Something else interesting turned up. Another Co-Chair of The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, Dr. Karan Singh, is the Chairman of the Auroville Foundation, and did his doctorate on the "Political Thought of Sri Aurobindo." You can read about it at his own website.
For those of you who do not have unlimited time to research the new religious movements, Auroville is also the home of the Divine Mother, and they have a Matrimandir to prove it.
Ashok Gangadean, himself, founder of The World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality is a member of the Club of Budapest Canada World Wisdom Alliance Speaker's list, as is Ervin Laszlo, founder of Club of Budapest, and member of Club of Rome.
Two questions occur, almost simultaneously...
1. Are all of these people really devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and just don't know it?
2. Could the anti-Christ be a woman?
The World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality has set out its "Global Blueprint for the ((World Commission))" at great length. The heart of Gongadean's presentation is the need for "awakening" in terms that bring G. I. Gurdjieff to mind. We must wake up to global consciousness. The statement is a masterpiece of global newspeak, nouns used as verbs, slash-marks and parenthesis used to designate the in-crowd and the great unwashed. Gongadean would like us to know that "egocentric minding" must cease and "global minding" must take its place. Thinking, in other words, is only permissible for those who think the right thoughts. All others are forbidden to think--or, ah, "mind" in the new global consciousness:
So a global consensus (diagnosis) is that ego minding is a primary cause of the spectrum of human pathologies. And the consensus prescription is that to change this mentality is the single most important factor in transforming the human condition.
One striking result of the general global law - we are as we mind - is tht egocentric or monocentric patterns of minding generate and create lifeworlds and living realities that produce human suffering and pathologies: egocentric minding generates egocentric realities.
There, you see, we create our own realities by thinking--or, ah, "minding" them--and some of the realities we create are pathological.
But humanity has hitherto lacked an adequate global grammar and a global lens to fully activate this integral/holistic/dialogic technology of mind; and since our living realities are co-created by our patterns of minding, the supreme technological advance in the human condition is this advance to the integral technology of minding.
And in case you had any doubt...
This ((...)) technology/notation (the notation, of course, is a symbolic encoding of the ((logistic process of integral-holistic-dialogic minding) enables us to ((think, see, say, express, experience, feel... )) at a deeper dimension of Reality than we could with the /ego lens/; so just to speak of the ((World Commission)) is already to situate this initiative in the ((higher order)) reality of the ((Logosphere)).
In other words, I read that to indicate that they believe they are the equivalent of God. This Blueprint is a blueprint of disaster for anyone who believes in a Transcendent God.
Once we make this crucial distinction between ((Spirituality)) and /egocentric religious life/ (or /ego spirituality/), and realize that ((global spirituality)) opens higher ((global civic space)) for the flourishing of our most cherished ((human values)), it becomes easier to ((see)) that this is the ((Secular Civic Space)) in which ((global democracy, global citizenship)) and the new emergent ((global cultures)) may flourish. It becomes clearer precisely why genuine ((Secular Space)) is not possible within the fragmenting and polarizing dynamics of /egocentric cultures/ which of course are always lodged in /ideology/ and /localized worldviews/. We must, for example, ask: to what extent is the current state of "American civic discourse" dominated by /egocentric politics/ and /ego democracy/= /egocracy/? Have we truly matured into a ((secular civic space))? A truly ((secular civic democracy)) can only arise through ((spiritual citizenship)). That would be the true ((American revolution)).
Remember as you read that, / = bad and (( ))= good.
While you are thinking about the ramifications of these statements, remember that Dr. Leonard Swidler--Roman Catholic, founder of Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, defender of Hans Kung and the Grammick-Nugent team, helped to found The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality.
You know that separation of church and state that is so essential to the American Constitution? Well, Gangadean has something to say about that as well:
The artificial separation of /religion/ vs. /politics/, or /church/ v /state/ (as important as that is for ego-cultural space), has not proven successful in accomplishing this genuine opening of higher ((ecumenical= secular)) ((civic space)) in which diverse worldviews, perspectives, ideologies, cultures, religions...may flourish in genuine ((critical self transformation)) and ((deep dialogue)). Thus, for example, if "America" is to be a truly "global", "pluralistic" multi-cultural" (sic), "multi-ethnic"...culture, we need to ask whether the current "civic space" is truly ((globalized)), truly ((secular)) and flowing in the dynamics of ((deep democracy)) and ((global citizenship)).
But not to worry, The World Commission has the solution already worked out:
It is therefore of the utmost importance in the rehabilitation and healing of our cultures that people become keenly aware of the role that /ego minding/ plays in causally generating the spectrum of our human pathologies. And one key task of the ((World Commission)) is to bring out this ((global truth)) by ((narrating)) and ((naming)) this dynamic. For ((right diagnosis)) is the key to ((genuine healing)). So it is in this ((context)) that we situate the ((mission)) of the ((World Commission)) as a ((Commission on Consciousness)).
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
