http://www.tigblog.org/group/AVHY What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe? en-us http://www.tigblog.org/group/AVHY/post/465297
Here's a letter that I wrote today to 2 yahoo groups of the Internet lab called Minciu Sodas. The letter is pasted from:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/message/3456

Janet, Andrius and all,

As I read about aiming the empowerment of the proposal toward the women in Africa, I am wondering if we could take on the approach of Health-Education-Correction at the heart of the application.

The 3 can be joined as one social policy designed to link the individual and the community in the training of decision-making.

Democracy is the wisdom of agreeing as equals, for the utmost benefit to all.

Leadership of this kind needs to get consolidated by cultivating decision making from home to school, to work, at play and back home by a participation in the Spirit Who teaches that the greatest in our midst are the servants of the others.
Conflict resolution and peaceful political renewal is then possible, because the changes are decided by the people, in accordance to their needs locally.
Such empowerment could be the means by which to convey the message that democracy is a way of life, applicable and needed in every decsion that affect more than one person.

Democratic maturity is found in the simplicity of deciding with care and of doing with complete dilligence, what is best for the majority so that the majority gets to extend its benefits in all simplicity to all minorities

Inspiration is at the heart of democratic participation.

How do we tap into inspiration and do we get on to channel inspiration?

By embodying the simplicity of love comminted in action and in truth in our daily lives. Healthy inspiration reaches out to all ages. With it, we get to be invigorated in the present with hope.

Again, this is where communities need to realise that school is the middle ground of personal and communal cultivation and that it is crucial to develop the framework of functional democracy, grown around the heart of Health-Education- Correction.

Here is a piece I wrote in 2002, in an attempt to describe how we could approach and deploy such a school policy at the personal and communal level:

MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY/
A NATIONAL RETREAT TO ENTER THE LIFE OF OUR COLLECTIVE DESTINY

History is generally understood by young people, as this boring academic chore required of them by the education system.
The intent and purpose of the curriculum in teaching history, is to cultivate the relevancy of the past to the present, thereby preparing students in what provides them with the awareness of continuity.
Because of such a low level of interest for history among students, a new approach could be tried. Instead of academically bringing the past to the present, why not equip each student with what is needed to explore the past, starting from their own personal present.
By bringing the students to explore what brought about their own life, it will generate the ability for the in-depth look needed to understand their present.
Such transparent movement of clarity will gradually connect our lives with the past and thereby, eliminate the irrelevancy of a constant promise of a better future that never comes from generation to generation.
This method of personal and communal apprenticeship to journey together as one,would motivate by inspiring as opposed to go on force-feeding the memory for the sake of the curriculum's aproval.

Because of the state of stress and terror in which we live locally and globally, anyone with noble concerns for education is aware of the massive need to heal the individual identity’s growth process, by tuning in the dynamics of inter-personal activity with reconciliation and co-operation. History of the whole human race is screaming to remind us of that.

It doesn’t make much sense to teenagers to learn that their parents, teachers, governments and authorities at large, are going on repeating history without any alternative being offered other than: “That's the way things are”, type of responses.
If the history courses were to bring together the sciences relevant to the healing of personal and ancestral history, such as sociology, psychology and all the way to psycho-neuro immunology, there could be a path getting paved to develop the learning method from play school on, with the parents and child, serving the need to assemble the relevancy of each along with all, so as to bridge school solidly with home life, work life and re-creational's regenarating energies with purity of soul and body.
History classes would then become a time in school when one is given a chance to assemble the components of his or her existence, where one learns to assimilate each life experience in a maturing perspective of his or her life.
It would develop the sense of rationality from understanding the path of their own life and identity.

By entering history in such a personal manner, school would evolve to provide a forum for the apprenticeship of communicating in the comfort of intimacy and in the confidence of trust.
It would gradually lead the “I am” of each student into the relevancy between their life and the flow of history in the riverbed of time.
Once well rooted, such a method could even become key to open the doors of the community, reaching out through the cultural and social walls of divisions, by entering the dimension where academic theory and practice find trust and harmony with each other.
In practical terms, it would be the neutral ground to bridge and to complete the distance and the incompatibilities between home and community life.
This approach also provides the opportunity to embark on a massive research and development movement into the human faculty of living.
The faculty of living is an expression I use to describe the holy grail aimed at by all people of good will through out humanity’s history.
It is the initial and final frontier to experience the solemn beauty of being human to emerge.
The faculty of living is what brings each individual to be penetrated and to penetrate the meaning of existence, while providing guidance and nourishment to live in the state of justice, peace and joy.

Historically, this faculty has been painfully growing through millenniums of dark, fearful and evil resistance on the part of those who hold on to knowledge, intellectually acquired, as opposed to spiritually acquired knowledge, so that theory and experience do not get seperated from their togetherness.
Such resistance is present in all human beings and is responsible for the perpetuation of the never-ending power struggle and misery among humanity.
The faculty of living is the healthy state of spiritual human living in all that it means and separated apart from all the lies that it never meant and yet, that are still upheld today in various forms.

Destiny is calling each and all to the citizenship that expresses the solemn beauty of being human. This is, after all, what the ancient voice of humanity’s youth has been longing for throughout the ages, feeding and reverberating the growth of common sense.

Yes, the history curriculum can indeed become a safe and yet potent tool for the authorities of care to cultivate our individual and collective growth into the stability of well-being.

In time, as the cultivation takes root, we could attain the point at which we begin the process of harnessing the lessons of the past and learn to live, with great contagion across all of the Earth, in the solemn beauty of being human, cheered on by the ancient voice of humanity’s youth and enjoyed in the health of common sense.

Offered to all the moms, dads and children who seek inner justice, peace and joy within and amongst us all...

...may all blessings be with us all...
Benoit Couture
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http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/news/1947/]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:03:00 EDT http://www.tigblog.org/group/AVHY/post/243139 53.55 -113.553.55-113.5 http://www.tigblog.org/group/AVHY/post/226777 The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia in the United States has put his house for sale. Asking price:

135,000,000 American dollars.

The French speaking TV news person who reported this was asked by the anchor, with a tone of disbelief:

"Is it furnished"

"Yes" was the answer, "except for the art on the walls", did the answer conclude with...

Can Al-Quaeda leadership please ask to the Saudi Arabia Embassy in the United States, if they accept to put that 135,000,000 millions at the disposal of fighting peacefully by setting up the open source base, for the training of the "Heart Forces" in the way that Andrius Kalikauskas has attempted to deploy at the check stop borders of the Israel-Palestine geo-political conflict?

The seed of this training is already rooting in progress from cyber space to reality through the Minciu Sodas work in Africa. To follow up about this info, view the yahoo groups called Learning from Each Other, Holistic Helping, Global Villages and Back To The Root.

The Heart Forces of Minciu Sdoas's lab are shaping up in a dynamic that brings together the connectivity of resources, scaling from the micro considerations to the macro accomplishment, to cultivate eternal life from personal to communal, providing the ground's fertility from local to global. As a sample of such aim in progress, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A13728035

Does the West actually have enough intelligence to allow Al-Qaeda to respond?

Does Al-Qaeda actually have enough self-control to fight peacefully by responding to the calling of justice, peace and joy, in the powerful Spirit of love and wisdom? Fighting peacefully specifically means to give up violence from suicide to rape to murder.

In truth, there is no such a thing as one side, such as terror, versus the other, being anti-terror. Each side need the other in order to exist, hence, the ENTITY of TERROR-ANTI-TERROR is the ennemy, common to both and affecting all, as it lives as a parasite within our own sense of percetion rooted in tradition, distorting and keeping each one, for whatever reason, from the Eternal's peace of God within our hearts, spirit, soul and body.

In God's name, I ask for both sides of the equation to join in causing the death of the entity of terror-anti-terror, by learning to get into the passage from the spiritual division of human DNA to the organic experience of spiritual unity. This exercise shall empty the power of self-destruction into self-control and community self government.

Please, do find inspiration and a sense of direction by viewing the potential of fighting peacefully through Minciu Sodas' s vision and progress. http://www.ms.lt/?thinker=Andrius_Kulikauskas

http://www.ms.lt/

http://www.ourculture.info/wiki.cgi?OpenLeader

Peace to us all...

...may all blessing be with us all...

Benoit Couture

To view the letters of the group go to:

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Here are 2 thoughts that I offer, hoping that these thoughts will
behave like seeds being planted in our existance, so that we may go
on proceeding within the eternal value of life.
I hope to draw everyone's attention to the organic experience of
spiritual unity, in the work we do from online to the ground,
because of Andrius, of his vision and how VISION spreads with
thoughts and language.
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THE TONGUE of VISION

I once heard an Aboriginal Chief from Canada describing how their
language is different in the sense that when they speak, they
describe images in order to convey meaning. It got me to start
practicing when I talk, in either French or English.
I figured if a picture is worth a thousand words and that I learn to
use 20, 50 or 100 words to describe a picture that's worth a
thousand words, then it means that with every 100 hundred words or
so, I end up speaking a thousand white man's words... Isn't that
economy at its best?

That post got me thinking and I wrote:

THE SOUND of VISION

Vision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear,
as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the
experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open
personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the
maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the
perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of
envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly
established in the daily living, then comes the invisioning. The
invisioning is the imagination' s inner screen lighting up in context
of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from
soaking in the atmosphere. To invision is the focus coming in
contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning
atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the
personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of
perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is
confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses
and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the
imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal
perceptual relatedness. It is also recognized from the pure joy of
effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument...offered with
love in faith and hope...

...may all blessings be with us all...
Benoit Couture

Ps: Here to promote The Faculty of Living over death, by celebrating the Perpetual Easter into our hearts and spirits, upon the Land of Emmanuel, where God is with us to reach all the way to our souls and bodies in the presence and energy of the Christ's resurrection.
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To view the conversation that it generated, see:
http://www.ccel.org/node/716

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