Spiritual Culture for Harmonious Civilization Citizens of Earth! Unite in harmony for love, peace, justice, fraternity and happiness! Global Harmony Association (GHA) Since 2005, GHA is an international NGO uniting more than 500 members in 56 countries and more than one million participants from the GHA collective members in 80 countries. Web: www.peacefromharmony.org Board: 35 GHA members from 16 countries www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=249 GHA Founder and President: Dr. Leo Semashko Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg, 194356 Russia E-mail: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Web: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253 GHA Mission is: To bring peace from harmony and to pave a conscious way for harmonious civilization on scientifically based ‘ABC of Harmony’ through harmonious education The ABC of Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GHA Message June 21, 2013: Fourth Global Harmony Day of Harmonious Civilization Publication: In English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=225 In Russian: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=257 Dear Creators of Harmonious Civilization! This GHA Message, on June 21, 2013 - Global Harmony Day by the GHA Harmonious Era Calendar - is dedicated to the Project "Comparative Statistical Sociological Study" (CSSS) of four countries: India, USA, Russia and Kazakhstan: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579 . This project of its 18 members, social scientists from 10 countries was approved by the GHA in early June and its completion is expected in about one year. CSSS is intended to prove that humanity possesses unknown, deep and inexhaustible potential of global social harmony and universal peace, growing from it as from its natural soil and eternal source. Humanity can tap this potential to use it consciously, obviously, only through its scientific, empirical and theoretical knowledge, without which humanity is doomed to total ignorance in harmony as in any field of reality. Theoretically, in a first approximation, this knowledge is represented in the ABC of Harmony, which opened a new epoch in human history - the Age of Harmonious Enlightenment beginning with the era of conscious harmonious civilization. In this era, global harmonious education in theoretical and empirical knowledge of harmony forms a harmonious consciousness and thinking, harmonious peaceful mind of humanity that will deliver it from all social pathologies of war, terror, violence, hunger, poverty and all tyrannies, including global ecological and financial dictatorship today. Only the harmonious humanity mind is able to create a harmonious partner of nature to ensure sustainable development in nature instead of ecological dictatorship. Only similar peaceful mind can consciously establish harmonious peace relations among all nations and groups. Of course, the path to a harmonious peaceful mind - opened into the ABC of Harmony – is endless and will require many new similar books and studies. The harmonious mind requires a common social knowledge, bringing together the social sciences, which are now torn between themselves and within themselves for hundreds of alienated scientific branches. This condition is typical for our internally torn, disharmonious industrial civilization. These sciences are, by definition broken subjects, not able to understand and express the natural integrity of social harmony. Traditional social sciences express the mind of traditional disharmonious industrial society, so they are doomed to total ignorance in harmony. These sciences can see only parts of it but cannot combine them into the single coherent and holistic knowledge of harmony, in its single scientific image. However, we can see positive rare exceptions from this rule. For example, a holistic philosophical image of a living harmonious universe as God was explained by Plato. The scientific image of social harmony - social genome of harmony (Socionome) - was first set up in the ABC of Harmony. (It is detailed in the GHA Video – 8 minutes: "Social Genome of Harmony - SOCIONOME (4x4x4x4): Synthesis of Social Sciences in Synergy as Mind of Harmonious Peaceful Humanity" on the address: http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA) CSSS is the first conscious step towards creating a global knowledge through of social sciences synthesis. CSSS constitutes an indissoluble unity in the two global science - global sociology and global statistics. This quality gives CSSS unique an innovative epistemological sense for the 21st century, opening a wide road of synthesis and synergy for social sciences on basis of social harmony knowledge. CSSS provides an understanding of the mechanism for unity within hundreds of diverse areas of social science (and religion) in harmony on the basis of knowledge of its deep structure in the ABC of Harmony and Socionome. In the disharmony of industrial society there has been no harmony and unity in the social sciences, so harmony and unity have been absent in human mind, thought and consciousness. Their harmony can arise in the formation of harmonious civilization in the early 21st century. All the science in it, first of all, social sciences, can become sciences of social harmony. They can find their own cognitive harmony within holistic harmony knowledge. CSSS provides the first example of this way. CSSS puts the scientific theory of social harmony – tetrasociology, most fully represented in the ABC of Harmony and forming its scientific platform, on the level of empirical scientific proof that will be a compelling argument for this theory. A similar argument (except for similar private studies of Russia in 1995 and 2000) for this theory does not yet exist. Therefore, CSSS has key importance for the GHA by providing scientific empirical evidence of natural social harmony and its global social actors - the spheral classes of the population. In theory of tetrasociology these classes have been known since 1976, but no empirical evidence has been offered. CSSS is the first such global and empirical study. These ideas of tetrasociology provide a basis for all projects of social harmony and harmonious civilization within the GHA. Therefore, the CSSS project is a GHA and my priority for the coming year. This is the main meaning, motivation and justification of CSSS for GHA and for me personally. At the same time, these goals create the enormous scientific and organizational problems before the CSSS, particularly in its funding, without which it is impossible. Particularly important is the search of professional statisticians and funding to pay for them key work. Traditional sociological and statistical institutes treat it with suspicion and doubt that showed their probing in the GHA invitation letters to them. But we have reasons to hope for the implementation of CSSS in the coming year. However, we have found that traditional sociological and statistical institutes seem to relate to CSSS with caution in responding to our GHA invitation letters. This may well reflect a long-standing crisis and impasse in the social sciences, including sociology and statistics. Wright Mills (1959), Charles Snow (1963), Alvin Gouldner (1970), Bernard Phillips (2001, 2003) and many others have written of this. Lacking knowledge of harmony, many scholars find it difficult to recognize the value of our scientific research. However, a trend toward synthesis and scientific interest in harmony is now growing among the social sciences. This gives us a foundation to hope for CSSS implementation in the coming year. GHA CONGRATULATES OUR MEMBERS AND ALL WORLD PEOPLE ON THE FOURTH GLOBAL HARMONY DAY OF HARMONIOUS CIVILIZATION, WHICH IS MARKED BY THE NEW SCIENTIFIC STEP - CSSS – IN KNOWLEDGE OF GLOBAL HARMONY AND SYNTHESIS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES BASED ON OPENING THE MIND OF HARMONIOUS AND PEACEFUL HUMANITY! GHA announces summer holidays on July and August, as always, and wish all of you a pleasant rest to accumulate energy for the new steps towards global harmony. Dr. Leo Semashko GHA President GHA Social Ideal The GHA members’ gifts at Global Harmony Day: 1. Video: Social Genome of Harmony - Leo Semashko, Leonid Timoshenko, Paul Hindemith, Lida Sherafatmand, Alla Ivashintsova, Ivan Ivanov: http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA 2. Painting: Dove of Peace from Harmony - Celia Altschuler 3. Poem: Harmony of Suns – Ayo Ayoola-Amale 4. Poem: The Infinite Form of Harmony - Tholana Chakravarty. Other gifts: Recognition and important achievements: 1. The Nobel Committee recognized the GHA for creation of the ABC of Harmony as an unprecedented tool of world peace as one of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize 2013 2. GHA approved the peace project: Center (School) of Interfaith Harmonious Education (CIHE). Director, Kurt Johnson: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=561 3. Bruce Cook has created three electronic version of the ABC of Harmony: http://harmonyofnations.com/abc.html 4. Number of visits to the GHA website “Peace from Harmony” was approached 4 millions. The GHA greatly appreciates these wonderful gifts and is heartily thankful for them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celia Altschuler, Puerto Rico DOVE OF PEACE FROM HARMONY www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=557 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO GLOBAL HARMONY DAY, 21 ST JUNE, 2013 POEM by Ayo Ayoola-Amale Muse of Poetic Harmony of Africa HARMONY OF SUNS My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens to embrace the sun. I saw harmony enter to hold the sun on my heart. I saw my mind flee from material slums to know harmony, and become beautiful like nature. My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens the infinite within the infinite. I saw harmony grows like life. I saw colours in union fleeing from mental slums. Souls becoming heavens heavens becoming souls. My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens to my mind’s soul. I saw a stronghold of peace from harmony. I saw in the mind’s place, the mind’s place burning ablaze the ugliness of breath and transcending all differences. My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens to the ways of being human, to live true to myself. I saw heaven grow within me. I saw souls giving harmony to souls from the roots to all the earth, breaking through the skies. My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens in my mind’s place. I saw minds open a heaven of harmony. I saw minds grow glorious as the sun. to bring mortality to immortality. My heart opens. My heart opens. My heart opens to harmony of suns. Copyright © 2013 Ayo Ayoola-Amale www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=524 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE INFINITE FORM OF HARMONY (A poem in commemoration of Global Harmony Day, Global Harmony Association, celebrated on 21st June) ------------------------------------------------------------------ If the revered flags of peace Are tagged to the thoughts of war, If the gracious pigeons of peace Are freed across the war-torn skies, If the peace-thirsting forces Are flown into the war-torn terrains, If the deeply disgruntled elements Are smoothened to uphold peace, If the advocators of suppression Are given the nectarine tonic of love, If the innocent victims of conflicts Are treated with humane concern, If the conspirators of aggressions Are persuaded to desist from wars; Will there be any crisis or a scope For enmity to co-exist amongst us? There would arise a prospect of hope To foresee a peace-filled tomorrow. Harmony shall liberate the humankind If we conquer peace and shed hatred. The chains of enmity and selfishness Shall cave in, - inviting auspiciousness. If the pleasure of it is experience once Can anyone distance the bliss of peace? The need of the hour is a selfless action For executing the action with dedication, Then the finite form of conflicts disappear And the infinite form of harmony appears. Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, Litt.D e-mail : tacvarthy@xxxxxxxxx Hyderabad, A.P., INDIA www.worldpeacepoetry.com www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=286 --------------------------------------------------------------------------