Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please note the change in dates for the 13th session of the Provisional World Parliament to December 14-17, 2013. An agenda for the new dates is attached. With peace and hope, Dr. Glen T. Martin President, World Constitution and Parliament Assoc. (www.wcpa.biz<http://www.wcpa.biz/>, www.worldparliament-gov.org<http://www.worldparliament-gov.org>) President, Institute on World Problems (www.worldproblems.net<http://www.worldproblems.net/>) Professor of Philosophy, Radford University (www.radford.edu/gmartin<http://www.radford.edu/gmartin>) From: gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leo Semashko Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 5:05 AM To: Laj Utreja Cc: peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gha] Re: (peace from harmony) Approve the GHA Letter about Global Peace Science for G20 up to August 3, 2013 + Your article Dear Laj, Thank you very much for your insightful and profound feedback and kind words. With regard to the Vedic philosophy and its ideas of division of the population into four harmonious spheral classes, it is an excellent historical example of the fact that even similar intuitively found true division of the population, without science, scientific knowledge and understanding of the objective social causes of this division, eventually degenerates into its disharmonious opposite - the closed castes. I really appreciate the philosophy of the Indian Vedic era, but I know it is not enough. In this regard, I am pleased to invite you to write in September-October, thorough scientific paper on 10-15 pages of detailed research about the topic with about title: "Four Spheral Classes of Indian Population of Vedic Era and their Degeneration in Caste System." This article will necessarily be published not only on the GHA website, but in the GHA next book. Introduction to this article, you could make a scientific survey of the most important sources on this subject. If you want, I'd be happy to be your co-author of this article within a brief presentation of the theory of spheral classes of Tetrasociology in it if you want. Then we would have the more opportunity to discuss this topic in depth. What do you think about this? I also fully share your view on the need CSSS in each country, which will provide an objective basis for the GPS. But first it must be tested in several countries, as it offers CSSS and the search for funding of which we are now engaged. You know it's good. Thank you. 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); Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org<http://www.peacefromharmony.org> Global Peace Science from Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582<http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582>; World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541<http://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<http://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<http://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: Laj Utreja, lutreja7@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:lutreja7@xxxxxxxxx> To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: 2 августа 2013 г., 19:40:09 Subject: [gha] Re: (peace from harmony) Approve the GHA Letter about Global Peace Science for G20 up to August 3, 2013 [1 Attachment] Dear Leo: I applaud your persistent efforts to bring harmony. In support of your ideas, I offer the following feedback for your review; My views about peace, harmony and freedom are based mostly on Vedic philosophy. In my view, the origins of the philosophical thoughts of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Pythagoras, and others, are rooted in the Vedic philosophy as well. They were all great thinkers and philosophers of their times. They searched for truth through knowledge (the path of knowledge) and gained wisdom and understanding. Buddha, Jesus, and Gandhi searched for truth through sacrifice (the path of action and indomitable will) and attained liberation by practicing the highest virtues. They all offered either a principle, doctrine, or a moral value based on a perspective suitable to that space and time. Peace is our origin in as much as we have a subjective principle associated with us. The subjective principle has no properties, qualities or attributes. By virtue of its state it is complete in itself, because it is independent basis of all there is to know. Since it has no properties, it is complete, free and just. It is from that source where all moral and ethical principles originate. It is through the subjective principle that we perceive the world, the objective principle of matter and energy. For a perception to take place, it is necessary for the subjective principle (to make an observation) to have a body (to provide capacities for making observations). In order to achieve this connection, the subjective principle, with some process (unknown to humankind) makes a link and gets attached to the objective principle to create life. It is this process that provides a subtle link (of thoughts), the origins for connecting the subjective principle to the objective principle of matter and energy (with properties). As soon as the attachment is made, the subjective principle by ignorance identifies itself (state of attributelessness, peace) with the newly formed attachment with the objective principle of properties (biochemical). Once boundless, the subjective principle gets bounded by the properties of the attached objective principle (including good and evil) in life. That's where and how, both, good and evil, in addition to other properties, are attached to the self. In this context, the Vedas regard a good action as one that is for the benefit for the other and gives the other comfort; an evil action as a selfish action that is good for the self) and gives pain to the other. By practicing the Golden Rule and the Inverse Golden Rule (Do not do unto others what you wouldn't want done unto you), one can assure doing good actions. Whereas, the objective world can be observed by our limited senses of perception, and understood by the methods science, the subjective principle is immune to any scientific investigation. An observer (unlimited in scope) while it is observing, is beyond scientific observation by tools with limited capacity and limited (in a limited space-time continuum). However, the effects of the process (which connects the observer with the observed) on the body (change in biochemical properties) may be attempted for measurement. That however doesn't change the immeasurable subjective principle. Peace is a state of satisfaction, and completeness with no demand. As long as, we are attached to our bodies and we have demands, we cannot be peaceful. Peace is subjective to a point that in the hypothesis that everyone else is peaceful, for an individual, tormented by physical pain, for example, in a state of physical indisposition due to disease, or mental anguish, for example, in the state of loss of a loved one, or losing job, there is no peace. Simultaneously, in most cases of normal life, we are still self-conscious (being short, fat, poor, not good-looking, bald, not knowledgeable enough, or whatever else have you) in comparison to others and we are not at peace. Given all that, it is universal that our destination is peace, because we all want freedom from physical and mental pains associated with our bodies. Correspondingly, global peace is possible only when all are at peace. (According to Gandhi, the rule of 51-percent on 49-percent is not democracy). Peace, howsoever subjective and hence impractical, is yet possible is possible by our willingness to do so. It is achieved through practicing strict disciplines of sacrifice, service to others, or total surrender (a state of egolessness). In those states, we only perform good actions by serving others, possible through self-conditioning. When we all render our duties we are at peace with ourselves. In the present day degraded political and economic systems promoting competition, inequality, injustice, and undue emphasis on rights only disturb mental balance and cannot bring peace. Only those political and economic systems, which can render justice, bring equality, promote cooperation and rendering of duty by all, are conducive for building a harmonious society. These systems only bring harmony in societies, a process for peace. Peace only becomes a goal. However, a harmonious society is generally possible by a fair social, economic and political system. Harmony is a state of accepting the other as they are without any attempt of changing them. In a society of people with different backgrounds (race, faith, culture, gender, and others), skills and aptitudes, there is harmony as long as we respect the other and the service they provide and all are equitably compensated either through self-regulation, or through a political, or a socio-economic system, which offers a strict rule of equal law (justice) for all. Simultaneously, all human beings choose to follow sustaining principles (present in the material world) in human conduct (beginning with husband and wife, both doing their duties in a family). In the distant past of the Vedic era, the society was divided into four classes (varnashram) for the smooth functioning of society. Each class had duties, because their rights were taken care of when all rendered their duties. In time, the system degraded, because one class started taking advantage of the other (it might've started with one individual, the individual subjective principle), leading to the stereotypical view of the Indian caste-system. I support Tetrasociology, because it offers a division of society, based on the present day division of labor. So long as the society falls under those classes (a subject of investigation) and people have appropriate skills and aptitudes to fall in one of those categories. However, in my view, a society categorized in spheral classes of the population does not by itself lend to harmony. There must be an accepted system (social, economic or political) that creates equality in the sense of equal need for each class. In that sense, it becomes a function of space and time during which the proposed division is the only formative norm of a society and thus a subject of scientific investigation. I recommend GPS conduct study to determine conditions under which Tetrasociology will stand the test of time in each respective country in which investigation is made. That will give an objective basis to GPS study. With love and regards, Laj On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Leo Semashko <leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: [Attachment(s) from Leo Semashko included below] Dear friends! The extraordinary circumstance - preparation of GHA to G20 Summit on September 5-6, 2013 forces me to invite you within the summer vacation (excuse me) to work with peacemaking document that meets the GHA mission. I am pleased to invite you to discuss and approve by your YES (approve, support, etc.) or NO (not approve, not support, etc.) during three days up to August 3 inclusively "GHA Open Letter: Global Peace Science for G20 and Humanity - Growth through Peace and for Peace but not for War" (5 pages in the attachment). This letter includes the well-known you ideas, about which you wrote many times and discussed repeatedly in various books and GHA projects. So I formed a provisional list of the co-authors in this letter - please read it attentively. But the final list will be formed on the basis of your response in these 3 days: who responds, he/she will be included in this list. We welcome all your suggestions, comments and ideas, but above all for your editing this letter as a whole (I'm waiting for this editing, especially from Bruce, Glen and Laj and others), or any part thereof. Translation of this message to other languages will begin after its approval, after August 3. As Bruce's experience showed, which we appreciate, with sending the article "Global Peace Science" in the three leading U.S. newspapers, that they will accept only unpublished article, and all of our articles and letters are published on the website. Therefore, I invite every member of the GHA on the basis of article and letter GHA to G20 Summit to prepare yourself for your language short article or information on 1-2 pages, not more, about the GHA peace initiative to G20 with the creation of the Global Peace Science under the G20 aegis and to hold a relevant International Scientific Contest. Then you can feel free to send this article / information in any of your national newspaper in your language. This will be your great personal contribution to the global peace and a great gift for the September 21 - International Day of Peace. Of course, all of your progresses on this way will be very interest to all members of GHA and find in GHA high recognition. Thank you. 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); Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org<http://www.peacefromharmony.org> Global Peace Science from Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582<http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582>; World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541<http://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<http://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<http://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<tel:%28812%29%20597-65-71>; Skype: leo.semahko Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn __._,_.___ Attachment(s) from Leo Semashko 1 of 1 File(s) !_TO G20_PEACE SCIENCE_GHA Letter_27-07-13.doc<http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19945954/74085303/name/%21_TO%20G20_PEACE%20SCIENCE_GHA%20Letter_27-07-13%2Edoc> Reply via web post<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peace-from-harmony/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxcGtrMmg3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5OTQ1OTU0BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTc1OTMzNQRtc2dJZAM1NjAxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTM3NTI5MDI0Mw--?act=reply&messageNum=5601> Reply to sender <mailto:leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx?subject=Re%3A%20Approve%20the%20GHA%20Letter%20about%20Global%20Peace%20Science%20for%20G20%20up%20to%20August%203%2C%202013> Reply to group <mailto:peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Re%3A%20Approve%20the%20GHA%20Letter%20about%20Global%20Peace%20Science%20for%20G20%20up%20to%20August%203%2C%202013> Start a New Topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peace-from-harmony/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJmaGRsbmJ2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5OTQ1OTU0BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTc1OTMzNQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEzNzUyOTAyNDM-> Messages in this topic<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peace-from-harmony/message/5601;_ylc=X3oDMTM1MWJmb2s4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5OTQ1OTU0BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTc1OTMzNQRtc2dJZAM1NjAxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTM3NTI5MDI0MwR0cGNJZAM1NjAx> (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peace-from-harmony;_ylc=X3oDMTJma3FmdnM1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE5OTQ1OTU0BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTc1OTMzNQRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzEzNzUyOTAyNDM-> More detailed information about our community is located on our International Website "A New Culture of Peace from Social Harmony and Children's Priority" (shortly "Peace from harmony") www.peacefromharmony.org<http://www.peacefromharmony.org>. 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