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A
Conscious Political Community - Using
Technology to Join the Consciousness of
Social Change
By
Daniel Raphael, Ph.D. ~ 2002
The title historically has been an oxymoron,
for most political communities, parties, and
lobbying interests seem to consistently
operate in self-centered, unconscious ways.
But in this article we will discuss the many
communities of conscious individuals who
have yet to join together to become one of
the most powerful political influences in
American history. Those communities include
what Paul H. Ray calls the North node of
“The New Political Compass.” See:
http://www.culturalcreatives.org/Library/docs/NewPoliticalCompassV73.pdf
These groups discuss issues as, “ecological
sustainability, with limits to growth and
against the dominance [of] big-business and
globalization; plus what are often seen as
women’s perspectives on children, health,
education, natural products and personal
growth (both psychological and spiritual).”
Ray calls the individuals who are inclined
toward these issues as “Cultural Creatives,”
(www.culturalcreatives.org) , “who are the
constituencies of these movements:
environmental becoming an ecology movement,
anti-globalization, movements against
violence and oppression, social justice,
civil rights, women’s lib, anti-nuclear and
anti-war becoming a peace movement, student
movement, gay lib, and a newly emerging
environmental health movement. And they are
the common constituencies of movements we
don’t usually see as political, or even as
social movements, because they are mass
changes in consciousness: human potential
movement, holistic and alternative health
care, organic ford and vegetarian movements,
psychedelic and hippie movements, spiritual
psychology, new religions, and event eh
despised New Age movement.”… Those same
people are going from movement to movement,
retaining loyalties from one to the next,
acting as the continuity among the
movements, and they account for the
convergence of all the movements onto a
common worldview and set of values.” Thank
you Paul H. Ray!
So, how do I get to join this community of
consciousness? There are three ways, one of
which is already occurring. The first is
occurs when we meet someone at a time and
place that is so uncanny and timely that the
outcome seems to have been preplanned. It is
a coincidence that has become so typical of
this group of people that we say, “there are
no coincidences anymore.” In other words,
when you meet someone under this
circumstance you already share a common
state of consciousness that you both know
that you belong to the same community. It is
the opposite action of Murphy’s Law. We meet
the people we are supposed to meet —joined
by a shared consciousness. We meet each
other because we are supposed to. There is
an order to the universe that we share but
are unaware of most of the time.
The second way to join this community of
consciousness is through technological
means, via the many means through Internet,
whether via home or office PC or handheld
Internet-connected device. And the means
will only increase in the future. Theses are
already being used within those constituent
groups listed above. For example, the
anti-fur people talk to each other and
organize a rally, and vote against
candidates who have received money for their
campaigns from the fur industry. “Save the
Ancient Trees” group does the same. Each
group works on their own project, yet has so
many values in common with all the other
groups.
The third way is to actually state to
yourself aloud or in the quiet recesses of
your conscious mind, “I am a conscious part
of the consciousness of wholeness that can
heal the earth and all its people.” Or some
such words that in general state that you
recognize that you are a part of a larger
group that has common values and interests.
The intent of making this statement is to
initiate a conscious connection to and with
the larger consciousness of wholeness, and
to allow and invite that connection to guide
you in constructive ways to fulfill your
individual and group objectives.
Doing so, you will come to see that you are
truly a powerful part of an ever-enlarging
group of individuals and groups with a
common set of values and interests with
compatible goals.
If these groups of common consciousness were
to join together through the many
technological means that are available, they
would become one of the most powerful
political forces for positive, constructive
social change that has ever been seen in the
world. Yes, the world, for the values of
these constituencies are global —the setting
for wholeness and healing that must and
eventually will include everyone of the
human family no matter where they live. The
consciousness of responsible social change
must begin with the individual, but can only
become a reality when groups of
like-thinking individuals make actual
contact with other groups of like
consciousness. Let us join together in a
global consortium to develop focus our
combined energies and actions for good. Let
us overcome our divisions and engage the
feminine influences of inclusiveness, “us,”
“with,” “together,” to become a family of
human consciousness for positive and
responsible social action in local
neighborhood communities, cities, states,
regions, nations, and the world.
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Readers are welcome to reproduce this
article. Please retain the name and
addresses of the author, for those who wish
to contact:
Daniel
Raphael, Ph.D.
PO Box 3718
Boulder, CO 80307-3718
USA
dr@boulderlifecoach.com
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