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Poverty and Human Development Special edition A Sleep of Prisoners |
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Editorial
Poverty and
Human Development The Council of Science Editors Our contributors for this edition come from wide variety of backgrounds. We are dealing with healing, economics, communication media resources development, education, politics and economics. Surprising as it might seem,all these things are interrelated and interconnected. The New Paradigm Journal in conjunction with The Global Citizens For Peace aims to create a platform which mobilizes youth, talent and creativity in developing a more participatory and equal WorldWe need to get onside, some of the world's great innovators and social entrepreneurs who are creating a more equal and participatory world, and ask them to be on a panel,which would assess the great social and environmental and political achievements for societal well-being, environmental sustainability and international peace occurring in Australia and in the world at large. We need your help, your vision and your participation to create this panel, a web site and a TV show, which will focus on these themes, thereby educating the public as to the best projects they can create for the well-being of all of Australian and Global society. Humankind has reached a state of development in which old modes of thinking and behaving threaten to destroy our planet. This is becoming patently obvious to people of all political and religious persuasions. We are living through a global crisis in which only a profound revolution can save us from total self-destruction. Those of us who are dedicated to the preservation of life must play a prominent part in this revolution, which calls for a substantial change in our manner of thinking. If you resonate with the idea of creating and contributing to the Global paradigm shift - a shift that is founded on the principles expressed in this Journal - we encourage you to join our movement and register. Registration entitles you to our free newsletter and Updates Name We're working to make The New Paradigm Journal informative and useful, so let us know how we're doing, via email to mindquest@ozemail.com.au. Please put "New Paradigm" in the subject line. Please feel free to cross-post The New Paradigm Journal www.newparadigmjournal.com elsewhere. Lets concentrate and build on what is actually working The Approach Of The New Paradigm Journal The aim of the New
Paradigm Journal is to promote a Renaissance in human thought, values
and conscience based on healing, eco-sustainability and openness. Poverty is intimately related to pollution, scarcity of resources and illness. It is a vicious circle associated with childhood death and lack of education. Childhood poverty is intimately related to illness and intellectual retardation later in life... read more > |
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Poverty and Human Development STAND UP and SPEAK OUT http://www.whiteband.org/GcapSpecials/anti-poverty-day/GcapSpecials/anti-poverty-day/ The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance of trade unions, community groups, faith groups, women and youth organisations, NGOs and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms. At the start of the 21st century more than a billion people are trapped in a situation of abject poverty and gross inequality. 70% of them are women. We face an AIDS and Malaria emergency, with 40 million people infected by the disease. 104 million children are denied access to school and 860 million adults. (70% of them women) cannot read or write. Millions of people are unemployed or working in precarious jobs with deteriorating conditions of labour. Neither have a secure income to sustain their families. Children and young people make up half of the world's population and suffer from the lack of inclusion and provision of basic services. Hunger is a daily reality for many. In parts of the world, the death of mothers in childbirth and infant children are still routine - deaths that could be prevented by the availability of simple healthcare. 1.4 billion people don't have access to safe water. We draw inspiration from their persistent daily struggles to realise their rights to livelihoods, resources, assets and basic services. Today the world has enough resources, knowledge and technology to eradicate poverty. A
Celebration of Oneness CommonPassion, in cooperation with Culture of Peace Initiative, Association for Global New Thought, World Peace Prayer Society, Goi Peace Foundation, Friends of the UN and many other local and global groups are orchestrating an interfaith, global meditation and prayer event. This will be a series of meditation and prayers for community and global peace to be held between September 11, 2007 and October 10, 2007. It is anticipated that over 5,000,000 people will participate in this 30-day program from many different faith-systems, religious groups, indigenous communities and meditation assemblies. Stand Up Against Poverty -IYPF |
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The Ten Pillars for a Sustainable Peaceful Civilization |
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Global Citizens for Peace Global Citizens for
Peace is a global alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated
to building a world of peace in which we all live in freedom, harmony,
cooperation and co-prosperity. We have come together
as concerned Global citizens realizing that with increasing Global
population requiring more and more resources with tremendous inequality
of distribution our planet is reaching breaking point in terms of
economic and ecological crises. This is having profound
social and cultural effects. We require urgent ecological, social,
economic and political solutions to problems which affect billions
of people if we are to survive sustainably. During the last few
decades, a radical change has occurred in humanity's awareness of
itself. In simple terms, we have, over the millennia, translated
ourselves from "oneness to aloneness". The truth is that
all life on the planet is connected. This newly acquired state of
aloneness and alienation causes considerable discomfort. GCFP attempts
to understand what we have become and illuminates our future potential. The vision of Global Citizens for Peace is to contribute towards the creation of a Planetary Peace Culture looking to life and common humanism as the core values for a sustainable society.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
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The
Challenge of the 3rd Millennium Our New Paradigm Journal aims to contribute towards the development of a culture which will bring about the integration of human life with nature in order to develop a more sustainable lifestyle. It places stress on equity, justice, preservation of family and a practical action plan that goes beyond mere theory. Global approaches are essential so that humanity marches in unity towards its goals. The main theme of this special feature is the contribution to the creation of of a sustainable future for all. |
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Healing and Relationships - Science and
Conciousness Without a global revolution in the sphere
of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the
sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which
this world is headed -be it ecological, social, demographic or a
general breakdown of civilization - will be unavoidable. If we are
no longer threatened by world war or by the danger that the absurd
mountains of accumulated nuclear weapons might blow up the world,
this does not mean that we have definitively won. We are, in fact,
far from the final victory. Excerpt Vaclav Havel's address to the
US Congress, 21 February 1990 Human
Development and Poverty and The New Integral Medicine The
Vision of Wholeness - A Vision of Life's Continuity  Without information and analysis of the comprehensive dimensions of a patriarchal project (1) which has lasted for more than 5000 years, the anthropological mystery will remain unresolved and the following question will remain unanswered: "why are people acting against their very own interests of survival?", all of which, as a consequence, make global Holocaust increasingly likely. Capitalist Patriarchy and The Negation of Matriarchy "Globalization" is obviously not a movement toward more democracy, peace, general welfare, wealth, and ecological sustainability, as its propagators are pretending everywhere. On the contrary, the opposite is true. Never in history are so many people dying from hunger and thirst, environmental destruction, and war, most of them women and children. Never in history have so many people been confined to poverty, income reduction, expulsion, expropriation, and extreme exploitation, again, most of them women and children. Never in history has technological progress led to such intense and threatening destruction of the environment globally. Never in history has the nuclear threat been so acute. Never in history have the political systems been changing so clearly in the direction of authoritarian, if not despotic rule in many parts of the world. And never in history has such a tiny minority on the globe been so incredibly rich and powerful. The
Social Determinants Of Health Stress and Western Society
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Environment and Resources - The Erosion of
Biodiversity Window
to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change Closing; EU Should Press
for Immediate U.S. Action - World Watch SOS
for Fading Ocean Life - World Watch
Global
Warming: A Sudden Change of State STAND
UP and SPEAK OUT: October 17th, 2007 Consider
A Fair and Just Way - Have We Ever Really Considered? Earth
Prophecy - And The Way Out |
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Education and Communication - The Information Highway Explosion
In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial to defend himself against an allegation made by Meletus, a fellow Athenian. Meletus has accused Socrates of corrupting the youth of Athens by not believing in the Gods of the city-state. Socrates begins his defense by acknowledging that he also has other adversaries from the past and present. He states that their opposition is not a recent phenomenon. "These people are ambitious, violent, and numerous; they are continually and convincingly talking about me; they have been filling your ears for a long time with vehement slanders against me" (Apology, 27) Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea that science
functions under the control of a paradigm. For centuries science
has been guided by a paradigm based on the intellectual achievements
of Newton and Descartes, who saw the world mechanistically and reductively,
with its division of inside and outside, subject and object. This
has been overturned by the work of Einstein and his theory of relativity,
the atomic physicists and others who have discovered laws that don't
fit the old paradigm. The new paradigm which is emerging takes into
account the observer as well as the thing observed, and the fact
that the two cannot be separated. There cannot be objective knowledge
without a knowing subject: what we see must be relative to and influenced
by where we are and who we are. In human affairs, objectivity on its own does not work because it contradicts what it means to be a human being. A human being is not an object. He or she is not only a thinking but a feeling person with emotions, values, hunches, intuitions, sensitivities which have a tremendous influence on what they do and how they perceive the world. He or she is both an individual, alone in their own private world, and also a member of a particular society; and, in turn, that society belongs to a wider community, the human family, with which every individual shares common experiences and aspirations and a common global environment.
The
Point Of Return Reclaiming
Our Global Dignity As Human Beings - We Must Be The Change Satyagraha-
The Process of Non Violent Action
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Economics and Goverment - The Global Crisis
In Human Relationships Globalisation on the free trade model of the neo-liberal
Washington consensus economics is colliding with local cultures
natural economic sovereignty, social customs and values, as well
as traditional agriculture, indigenous rights and the protection
of biodiversity and the environment. The fundamental issue is the
very economic model underlying today's Globalisation of technology,
trades and markets. The critics from many diverse perspectives agree
that free trade doesn't account for social and environmental costs
and cultural disruption in the price in traded goods and services
will continue to cause more harm than good. The World Bank, the
IMF, the US Government and the WTO still refuse to recalculate prices
and microeconomic indicators including the GDP to include these
social and environmental costs, which contribute towards the deterioration
of human life. Civil society movement groups throughout the world
are committed to the idea of preserving human identity and enriching
biological and cultural diversity. War
and The Money Economy, Why Politicians (Still) Don't Really Want
Peace An
Exacerbation of Poverty in Iraq - A Personal Perspective
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Time, Times, and a Half a Time Submission
to The Inquiry into Australia's Aid Program in The Pacific
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows
there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to
destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George
Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all. President Clinton sits back giving cosy fire side chats to large fee paying audiences... read more >
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The New Human Agenda - The
Creation of A Planetary Holistic Culture "What the inventive genius of mankind has
bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have made human
life care free and happy if the development of the organizing power
of man had been able to keep step with his technical advances." "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."... Albert Einstein "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."... Stephen Jay Gould 1942-2002 "A human being is part of the whole called
by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience
ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from
the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion
is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We
shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind
is to survive."... Albert Einstein Socrates speech on "The Cause and Effect
of Love" 419 B.C. "Those who are pregnant in the body
only, betake themselves to women and beget children - this is the
character of their love; their offspring, as they hope, will preserve
their memory and give them the blessedness and immortality which
they desire in the future. But souls which are pregnant - for there
certainly are men who are more creative in their souls than in their
bodies - conceive that which is proper for the soul to conceive
or contain. And what are these conceptions? - wisdom and virtue
in general. And such creators are poets and all artists who are
deserving of the name inventor. But the greatest and fairest sort
of wisdom by far is that which is concerned with the ordering of
states and families, and which is called temperance and justice.
And he who in youth has the seed of these implanted in him and is
himself inspired, when he comes to maturity desires to beget and
generate. He wanders about seeking beauty that he may beget offspring
- for in deformity he will beget nothing - and naturally embraces
the beautiful rather than the deformed body; above all when he finds
a fair and noble and well-nurtured soul, he embraces the two in
one person, and to such an one he is full of speech about virtue
and the nature and pursuits of a good man; and he tries to educate
him; and at the touch of the beautiful which is ever present to
his memory, even when absent, he brings forth that which he had
conceived long before, and in company with him tends that which
he brings forth; and they are married by a far nearer tie and have
a closer friendship than those who beget mortal children, for the
children who are their common offspring are fairer and more immortal."
Plato's
"Symposium" translated by Benjamin Jowett in 1871
Transition
to a Sustainable Civilisation The
Convergence of Science, Spirituality and Peace
A
DIALOGUE The
Interconnectedness of All Being: A New Spirituality for A New Civilization
Envisioning
a More Democratic Global System The
Importance of Establishing A Participatory Model of World Democracy
or Global Governance A
Campaign for Global Co-operation Bridging
the Globalization Gap: Toward Global Parliament "Blessed
Unrest" Global
Warming Calls for An Inner Climate Change There's something fascinating going on. While environmental campaigners have been sounding the alarm over climate change for decades, the danger has suddenly also sunk home to the wider public. All at once, the climate is a hot topic, at the forefront of common concern. No trendwatcher had foreseen the speed of this collective change in awareness.
Global
Marshall Plan Initiative World
Peace One, Inc.
The key to the Renaissance
person of The New Millenium
Whether its psychic
phenomena, mystical experiences, communications with the dead...whatever
it is, you're implying that reality is different from the way they
taught you in school. Sooner or later we're going to say "Well
if all of that's so, then our emphases in business and economics
have to be different, as well as our emphases in politics, education
and healthcare." Willis Harman was Professor Emeritus of Engineering Economic Systems at Stanford University, USA, and President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He died on 30th January 1997. in the subject of consciousness start? Was it an early passion? HIGHER CREATIVITY "Noetic refers to 'inner knowing', a kind
of intuitive consciousness-
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