[gha] Re: Building the New World Conference
- From: "Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com" <cookcomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Glen,
I congratulate you on this conference.
I would be honored to join you as a co-sponsor. My organizations for this would
be my website group, The Author-me.com Group. The specific website I would
offer is a subset of author-me:
www.ArticlesonPeace.com
I'm certain Leo and others will be contacting you with regard to GHA, etc.
Thanks,
Bruce Cook
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:52 AM, "Martin, Glen T" <gmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>Re: [gha] Re: (peace from harmony) Re: Some Thoughts of First Two Chapters + +
>Our discussion is prolonged until May 31
>Dear Leo and other friends and colleagues in the Global Harmony Association,
>
>I am pleased to announce the Building the New World Conference (www.btnw.org)
>that will take place at Radford University in Virginia May 28-31, 2015.
>
>Alternative thinkers and new age visionaries from all 11 of Barbara Marx
>Hubbard’s integrated matrix mandala will come together for the first time to
>articulate the compete New Age, demonstrating the global harmony of a truly
>new alternative vision of our planet and its future. Please see the attached
>announcement.
>
>The Radford University Peace Studies Program, of which I am chair, is hosting
>the conference. We are working with the Oracle Institute, directed by Rev.
>Laura George, and others to present something truly new and alternative to the
>world.
>
> I would like to invite the Global Harmony Association, as well as the peace
>organizations that many of you represent, to be co-sponsors, which simply
>means that you promote the conference on your websites and announcements, and
>the conference, in turn, promotes co-sponsoring organizations on our website,
>in our literature, broadcasts, etc. The conference will be a major event in
>revisioning the priorities of our world and promoting global harmony and
>integrated peace across all sectors. It will be broadcast using the latest
>technologies and digitally archived for worldwide access.
>
>I invite you to give this your considered thought and to join us in
>articulating this truly powerful alternative global vision.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you.
>
>Yours in peace, hope, and light,
>Glen Martin
>
>Dr. Glen T. Martin
>
>Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Program in Peace Studies, Radford
>University (www.radford/peace)
>President, World Constitution and Parliament Assoc.
>(www.worldparliament-gov.org)
>President, Institute on World Problems (www.earth-constitution.org)
>Professor of Philosophy, Radford University (www.radford.edu/gmartin)
>Laureate, GUSI Peace Prize International
>
>
>From:gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Leo Semashko
>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:14 AM
>To: Takis Ioannides
>Cc: peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [gha] Re: (peace from harmony) Re: Some Thoughts of First Two
>Chapters + + Our discussion is prolonged until May 31
>
>Dear Takis,
>
>Thank you very much for your support of GPS and your more ideas into it.
>
>We can agree with you that in the stone soul of politicians the seeds of peace
>not flourish. But we cannot agree with your extreme that "The belief that
>education will make people able to adopt peace, is a fallacy. Politicians are
>very educated …".
>
> We recognize only one, non-violent way to peace through education, which
>gives people the science, culture, faith, philosophy, art, politics and law of
>peace. Another thing is that this true peace education is only in its embryo,
>which is still missing its
core - GPS, we only create more. Therefore, education of policymakers is, par
excellence, the military and not peaceful. Because education is teaching not
only good but also bad things. Similarly with science, the fruits of which are
used in two ways: for
the benefit and to the detriment of humanity. In addition, bad science
develops rather than useful, for example, military science was created 200
years ago and peace science has not been created so far and GHA only creates it
now almost alone without the support
of other peace organizations because of the limitations of their traditional
thinking. We will show it in our GPS.
>
>Of course, you're right, that true peace education of children need in school
>and family to have peace and we could choose peace politicians without
>ignorance in peace and harmony. I agree with you that only such education can
>grow peaceful SOUL CULTURE. I
will be happy to publish your article (in an edited and abridged form) about
it in GPS book. But I have not found in your article, unfortunately, nothing
about the king of the ancient city of Elis Ifitos, who revived the Olympic
Games for peace. Could you
write about this king in more detail in your article?
>
>With regard to the present European Union, its disasters and poverty some of
>its members, such as Greece, Bulgaria and etc., it is also, in my opinion, the
>reason for the lack of a unified science of harmony and peace. Without this
>science (GPS) the EU, in
my estimation, will collapse in the near future. Unfortunately, the leaders of
the EU are far from understanding the need of this science as the population of
these countries. Without this science cannot be sustained harmony, lasting
peace and prosperity for
all the peoples in Europe and worldwide. Could you, as a journalist, promote
this idea for European politicians and the population? It would be your great
contribution to GPS. Thank you.
>
>With love, best harmony wishes,
>
>Leo
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: Takis Ioannides, takis.ioannides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 26 мая 2014 г., 23:27:13
> Subject: [gha] Re: (peace from harmony) Re: Some Thoughts of First Two
>Chapters + + Our discussion is prolonged until May 31
>
>Dear Leo and co-peace makers of GHA sisters and brothers in soul,
>
>please find below my approach to the deep questions, as follow, with a crtical
>addition,
>
>How to involve the governments and leaders in the new peace thinking with
>peace classification of the population?
>
>That’s a very good question.
>
>If we accept that in every rule there are exceptions, I believe that nowadays
>the governments of the nations do not want peace, and this is evidenced by
>their practices. Some nations attack to other nations, they conquered them
>with weapons, or money buying
politicians or exercise tyranny.
>
>If we take the seeds of a plant in granite, the plant will not flourish. In my
>opinion politicians are like granite, so the seeds of peace can not be
>flourished in stone souls. The belief that education will make people able to
>adopt peace, is a fallacy. Politicians
are very educated, like whoever scientists who have the knowledge and
manufacture weapons, nuclear, biological weapons, mutated, etc. they all don’t
care about peace, at all.
>
>The implementation of grabbing the money , the raw materials , the soils of a
>country , as it happens currently in my country Greece , brought hunger and
>poverty , desperation and fear in humans. How these people can be considered
>free citizens , to think freely
, to be interested in the concept and practice of peace under such adverse
conditions? Look at yesterday's results of elections in Europe. How then can be
convinced us that the Europe of unemployment and hunger is no peace . who
manages Europe. The governments.
>
>So, the governments have no will to educate the population properly about
>peace, but the opposite.
>The year 775 b.C. king of the ancient city of Elis Ifitos sent a messenger to
>the oracle of Delphi to ask the oracle Pythia, what will bring harmony and
>peace in the Greek cities societies. Τhe oracle of Delphi proposed to revive
>the Olympic Competitions, and
to crown the winners with a branch of wild olive. this award was called
kotinos. “Kotinos” occurres from the Greek world “kotos” which is the highest
level of a mix of malice plus rancor, odium and bad blood in the soul of
humans.
> At the same time, as it is common in the Greek language, it
>has also an opposite meaning. “Noble Rivalry” , which is the offer of sport to
>triptych body, spirit, society. Rivalry means striving for excellence,
>competition for supremacy. The adjective 'noble' identifies the guileless,
>without self-interest nature of this effort. The rivalry, therefore, requires
>collective activity in which they can compete. The outcome of every human
>activity depends on the historically subdued level. This grows from the ever
>increasing efforts of people working on it during its history. They occupy
>increasingly higher performance by competing them. The highest performance, in
>turn, becomes the measure for this activity. By exceeding each time the
>measure is evolving.
>
>During the competition the runner for example was trying to win the not the
>other runners but himself. That was the real meaning of Olympic Competitions.
>In other words the competitor tries to win his ego, and not his adversary.
>
>So Ifitos, the legislator Lycurgus of Sparta and Kleisthenis of Pisa made
>the vast antiwar triumph of antiquity. They concluded a treaty term, the
>Sacred Truce, which was respected by the Greeks all around and applied as an
>inviolable rule of international
law, even in the dramatic conflicts of the ancient world. With this Sacred
Truce the area of Olympia and Elis declared as sacrosanct denied crossing
troops from there lands and set the Sacred Month of the Olympic Games, during
which they stop all hostilities.
>
>That’s why I insist for the SOUL CULTUR , and I sent my article for the GPS
>based on this. This I think may reach also the second good question, the
>psychology of peace.
>
>Of course we can not compare the governers like Iphitus, Cleisthenes and
>Lycurgus, with the current politicians and rulers. But if we can educate
>directly the people, especially children in schools and in families with the
>idea of Peace, then I believe that
we will achieve our target, not via the current rulers and politicians I
repeat.
>The knowledge nowadays is spread out via internet, reaching citizens and
>children. But If we manage to enter the GPS book in the universities, it will
>be a great achievement.
>
>with haronious wishes and Love
>Takis Ioannides
>
>
>2014-05-26 21:59 GMT+03:00 Takis Ioannides <takis.ioannides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>Drar Leo and co0peace makers of GHA sisters and brothers in soul,
>
>please find below my approach to the deep questions, as follow,
>
>How to involve the governments and leaders in the new peace thinking with
>peace classification of the population?
>
>That’s a very good question.
>
>If we accept that in every rule there are exceptions, I believe that nowadays
>the governments of the nations do not want peace, and this is evidenced by
>their practices. Some nations attack to other nations, they conquered them
>with weapons, or money buying
politicians or exercise tyranny.
>
>If we take the seeds of a plant in granite, the plant will not flourish. In my
>opinion politicians are like granite, so the seeds of peace can not be
>flourished in stone souls. The belief that education will make people able to
>adopt peace, is a fallacy. Politicians
are very educated, like whoever scientists who have the knowledge and
manufacture weapons, nuclear, biological weapons, mutated, etc. they all don’t
care about peace, at all.
>
>The implementation of grabbing the money , the raw materials , the soils of a
>country , as it happens currently in my country Greece , brought hunger and
>poverty , desperation and fear in humans. How these people can be considered
>free citizens , to think freely
, to be interested in the concept and practice of peace under such adverse
conditions? Look at yesterday's results of elections in Europe. How then can be
convinced us that the Europe of unemployment and hunger is no peace . who
manages Europe. The governments.
>
>So, the governments have no will to educate the population properly about
>peace, but the opposite.
>The year 775 b.C. king of the ancient city of Elis Ifitos sent a messenger to
>the oracle of Delphi to ask the oracle Pythia, what will bring harmony and
>peace in the Greek cities societies. Τhe oracle of Delphi proposed to revive
>the Olympic Competitions, and
to crown the winners with a branch of wild olive. this award was called
kotinos. “Kotinos” occurres from the Greek world “kotos” which is the highest
level of a mix of malice plus rancor, odium and bad blood in the soul of
humans. During the competition the
runner for example was trying to win the other runners by himself. That was
the real meaning of Olympic Competitions.
>
>So Ifitos, the legislator Lycurgus of Sparta and Kleisthenis of Pisa made
>the vast antiwar triumph of antiquity. They concluded a treaty term, the
>Sacred Truce, which was respected by the Greeks all around and applied as an
>inviolable rule of international
law, even in the dramatic conflicts of the ancient world. With this Sacred
Truce the area of Olympia and Elis declared as sacrosanct denied crossing
troops from there lands and set the Sacred Month of the Olympic Games, during
which they stop all hostilities.
>
>That’s why I insist for the SOUL CULTUR , and I sent my article for the GPS
>based on this. This I think may reach also the second good question, the
>psychology of peace.
>
>Of course we can not compare the governers like Iphitus, Cleisthenes and
>Lycurgus, with the current politicians and rulers. But if we can educate
>directly the people, especially children in schools and in families with the
>idea of Peace, then I believe that we will achieve our target, not via the
>current rulers and politicians I repeat.
>The knowledge nowadays is spread out via internet, reaching citizens and
>children. But If we manage to enter the GPS book in the universities, it will
>be a great achievement.
>
>with haronious wishes and Love
>Takis Ioannides
>
>ps tomorrow morning my mother will make a critical abdominal surgery. I shall
>try during nights to find time to contribute to two chaptres of GPS book till
>31 May.
>
>
>
>2014-05-26 11:21 GMT+03:00 Takis Ioannides <takis.ioannides@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>Dear Leo and co peace makers of GHA.
>About the first question I think I have the answer, coming from the order
>given by Delfi to king of city of ilida Ifitos, in order to bring peace and
>progress of the Greek cities-kindoms, via OLYMPIC competitions, not games.
>When i return home tonight from the hospital I shall sent it to you. I have
>mentioned this in a book of mine.
>
>About the phsyhology of peace, i describe it via my essay i sent for the GPS
>book.
>
>Sorry i have to stop my message here, problem....
>
>With peace and love
>Takis
>
>Στις Παρασκευή, 23 Μαΐου 2014, ο χρήστης Leo Semashko leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx
>[peace-from-harmony] <peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> έγραψε:
>
>Dear Bruce,
>
>Many thanks for your deep thoughts and kind words of support and also for your
>editing.
>
>You put some very important questions that I do not have the clear answers
>now.
>
>The first question is how to involve the governments and leaders in the new
>peace thinking with peace classification of the population? The first thing
>that is required here - it is change in education, as we have talked a lot in
>the GHA. Second - this is understanding
of the political importance of such thinking. Third - it's understanding of
the advantages of the new thinking of spheres and SPHERONS. Of course, it
sounds very abstract yet but a more specific answer I do not have now.
>
>The second question is the psychology of peace. This is another science,
>although it is closely linked with GPS. This requires the private approaches
>similar to Galtung, etc. Every new theory not only solves the old problem but
>also raises the new questions,
which takes many time to answer them and test those answers. This will be our
next step.
>
>With love, best harmony wishes,
>
>Leo
>
>Dr Leo Semashko:
>State Councillor of St. Petersburg,
>Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony;
>Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia;
>Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005;
>Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org
>Global Peace Science from Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585
>and
>In Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=606;
>World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base:
>www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541;
>GHA Program Book, The ABC of Harmony for World Peace:
>www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478;
>GHA Peace Video: http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA;
>My Web page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253;
>Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg 194356, Russia
>Phone: 7 (812) 597-65-71; Skype: leo.semahko
>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com, cookcomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 21 мая 2014 г., 17:36:40
> Subject: [gha] Some Thoughts of First Two Chapters
>
>Dear members,
>
>Leo has asked me to share some thoughts on the first two chapters of the GHA's
> new book, which I have edited.
>
>Perhaps others in the group will have a similar reaction.
>
>First, I believe we should state that our purpose is to create harmony in the
>world. And our individual articles in the book will suggest some ways in which
>that may be made more possible.
>
>With regard to the chapters themselves, I admire the intricate structuring Leo
>has devoted to his theory of Global Peace Science. My problem lies with the
>purpose of the categories he describes in the complexity of his theory. I also
>admire his objectivity in presenting the theory.
>
>Naturally we can argue that there are various "classes" of people in every
>country of the world. And the world's census workers constantly work to refine
>these categories, especially the areas of employment, which is contrasted with
>age, sex, race, culture.
Leo has created a separate classificatory system in which it is easier to
pinpoint those in the world's populations who might be categorized as
peacemakers. As Leo observes, until this peaceful mindset is adopted, the
existing militaristic mindset is most
like to prevail.
>
>What's missing, for me, is the jump between these classifications and the
>leadership of nations. For example, it's possible (and very likely) to have a
>nation with almost 100% of the population in agreement with a peaceful
>mindset. But, as we all know, the
leaders of nations feel themselves in competition for power in relationship
with leaders of other nations and tend to become obsessed with their personal
charisma (like a Hollywood actor or singer on drugs). In that situation,
despite the most favorable sociological
classifications, peace takes second place. And our problem becomes how to
handle these power brokers. How to persuade them to work with each other in
productive ways. Thus, we find ourselves discussing conflict resolution and
psychology, etc. in the school
of thought founded by Johan Galtung. And, above all, how to persuade leaders
to avoid killing people as a measure of a success.
>
>But I lack the sociological perspective that seems to cover this lapse.
>Perhaps there is some way in which classifying people in a new way will lead
>to harmony and peace. If so, I endorse the exercise. I will do my best to edit
>the book to help clarify everyone's
ideas.
>
>Yours in pursuit of harmony and peace,
>
>
>Bruce
>Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D.
>President, GHA-USA
>Vice-President, GHA
>Director of CSSS Publishing and Editorial team
>President, World Writers Resources, Inc.
>Author, Harmony of Nations: 1943 – 2020, Just Fiction Editions, 2012
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>Elgin, IL 60123 USA
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