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Table of Contents:
  1. Introduction
  2. Preface
  3. Foreward
  4. Part 1: Introduction
  5. Part 2: The Problem
  6. Profit, Power and Progress
  7. Democracy
  8. Education
  9. Religion
  10. Primitive Beliefs
  11. Part 3: The Solution
  12. Earth
  13. Religion
  14. Sacredness: A New Understanding
  15. Spiritual
  16. Sacred Construct
  17. Critical Mind Shift
  18. Three Simple Rules
  19. Our Competing Sets of Survival Instincts
  20. The Foundational Relationships
  21. Relationship With Self
  22. Opportunity and Responsibility
  23. About the Author

Seven Words that can Change the World

A NaturalNews Special Report by Joseph R. Simonetta


Education

We live at a time when it is necessary to evaluate our beliefs. Such an exercise is always healthy and should be ongoing. That which is antiquated and dysfunctional must be discarded. As we mature, our beliefs and priorities change. That is normal and healthy.

At one time our planet seemed like an immense and limitless place. Huge territories were unexplored and undiscovered. There was true separation between continents and peoples. Activities and consequences were confined within definable boundaries. As we grew and evolved, we began moving beyond self-defined limits, reached out, explored, connected, and interacted. We continued doing this as we became increasingly sophisticated in our abilities to travel, communicate, and trade. Today, we are, indeed, a global community. It is evident that the fate of all living things is interconnected. We have become responsible for that fate. We are guardians of life itself.

We live at a pivotal time. We stand to either learn and benefit from our experiences and knowledge or ignore both and suffer. It is essential that we embrace a new way of relating. Whereas the first lesson of evolution was one of conflict, today’s is one of kinship. We need to evolve into something more than we’ve been. We are called upon to make a crucial decision and choose either a world divided against itself—engaged in power struggles between its parts—or one whose richly diverse components work together for their mutual benefit. The choice is obvious.

It is important that we focus on our common interests rather than on stubborn positions that lead only to conflict. Once our interests are defined, options for mutual gain can be explored and developed. We can then address the issues that benefit everyone rather than cling to religious or political ideologies that separate us. If we hope to transcend our divisiveness, our attention must be directed at the interdependence of diverse interests. More than the outcome of any debate, we need to protect this kind of approach and process. Until we do, we are ill fated. We no longer have the luxury of greed or ignorance. We now exist in a world community where problems anywhere have the potential to affect anyone, anywhere.

Ultimately, the problems of cities and the environment, of production and consumption, and of crime, health, and world peace are educational problems.

Our task, for which our age is well suited, is education. An enlightened public will move from alienation to community, from despair to hope, from idleness to action, from ignorance to knowledge, and from apathy to concern. People will return to the political process. As they do, politics will return to the people. Ecological balance will be integrated with human productivity, social welfare will be tempered by individual responsibility, and localism and globalism will share equal importance.




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