Glen Martin: World Constitution for Global Harmonious Civilization of the Spherons

GLEN T. MARTIN

President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), USA
www.worldparliament-gov.org

President, Institute on World Problems (IOWP)
www.worldproblems.net

Professor, Philosophy and Peace Studies, Radford University
www.radford.edu/gmartin

Laureate, GUSI Peace Prize International
"The ABC of Harmony" 2012 coauthor:
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478

In Russian: http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=458
gmartin@radford.edu
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Glen Martin. «The ABC of Harmony [its Peace Science, Spheronics is] Our New Planetary Paradigm. The fundamental revolution in science and paradigm shift in human consciousness emerging from the most advanced thinking of the 20th century is expressed with great insight by Leo Semashko in his together the GHA coauthors ABC of Harmony. Nature and the cosmos have now been understood as an evolutionary upsurge of wholes within ever-greater wholes from the micro level to the totality of the cosmos. The ABC of Harmony draws upon this cosmic and ontological context to articulate schemata of human social and personal harmony capable of integrating human civilization into the deeper harmonies of the cosmic reality within which we are immersed.

The evolutionary upsurge within our holistic cosmos could and should animate human consciousness and society, but it is up to us to actualize this potentiality. As the ABC of Harmony puts this "All the necessary and sufficient elements of social harmony are completely created by society and depend only from it as only society creates for itself these preconditions." Human civilization, therefore, arising from our universal common humanity irrespective of particular differences, desperately needs this paradigm shift from fragmentation, conflict, and division to the integrated elements articulated in the ABC of Harmony. It is up to us, and a path to harmony and integration is laid out in this document.» (2012: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489)

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Glen Martin's Quotes from his article below

for the Peace Science Primer, PSP:
https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1224

- 1. Human institutions reflect the egoism, fragmentation, and disharmony of human consciousness.

- 2. Today, war is institutionalized, racism is institutionalized, religious dogmatism is institutionalized, nationalistic egoisms are institutionalized, and repressive gender relationships are institutionalized.

- 3. Repressive institutions influence human consciousness in the direction of war, racism, dogmatism, nationalism, exploitation, and patriarchy.

- 4. Changing consciousness transforms human institutions and human institutions in turn transform consciousness. one is not prior to the other: the relationship is reciprocal.

- 5. Study of the Earth Constitution from a holistic point of view reveals a synergistic integration of parliamentary, executive, judicial, and human rights institutions forming a holarchy that brings each person on Earth into a regime of equality, respect, and dignity before the law.

- 6. Dynamic holism integrates the functioning of each part with the functioning of the whole providing a perpetually moving integration of part and whole.

- 7. Our superconscious intuition of human dignity arises from the unsayable infinity constituting the fullness-emptiness of the unity in diversity of all existence.

- 8. Fragmented and divisive national sovereignty is replaced by the holistic sovereignty of all humankind.

- 9. The fragmented competition among militarized national entities is replaced by a House of Nations in which each national identity is protected under the principle of unity in diversity, while at the same time each national member of parliament takes a pledge of service to all humanity.

- 10. Each central organ of the holarchy complements the others serving, … as a complementary set of checks and balances preserving the transformative integrity of the whole while simultaneously empowering the dignity and integrity of the parts.

- 11. The Earth Constitution designed to save humanity from impending self-destruction while laying the foundations for a flourishing civilization of peace, freedom, justice, and environmental integrity.

- 12. The oneness of humanity within this constitutional framework manifests in multiple ways such as recognizing that the biosphere belongs to the common heritage of us … belong to our common humanity.

- 13. Study of the Earth Constitution reveals our common human future of Earth Federation as a necessary stage on the way to a communion of all humanity…

- 14. The fractal/holarchical structure of the Earth Constitution parallels the dialectical structure of love as it moves to embrace ever-larger wholes.

- 15. At present we have the chaos of a fractal pattern that has yet to unite and coordinate all its parts.

- 16. When the holism of civilization is recognized and actualized, humanity will exist on a level closer to Sri Aurobindo’s “super-mind” in deep contrast to its current fragmented level that can be termed “sub-mind.” For contemporary thinkers such as Ervin Laszlo, this holistic pattern formation should be termed “holarchy” (2002, 51-52).

- 17. the organic world moves through levels of interconnectedness from relatively simple systems through intermediate levels linking below with above to higher-level wholes. This is precisely what the Earth Constitution brings to humanity.

- 18. An emergent Earth Federation government would represent the worldcentric self-awareness of humanity. Human intelligence, now representing the sovereign authority of the people of Earth and reflecting the holism of humanity, could effectively address the elimination of war, the protection of universal rights, and the problems of establishing a sustainable world system. The grass-roots of humanity needs to flourish within a holarchical framework provided by democratic world law. Top and bottom dialectically require one another and empower one another.”

- 19. To overcome the fragmentation, hate, and fear that pervade so much of human life today we must look to our fragmented institutions that perpetuate and consolidate that hate and fear, such as the dogma of national sovereignty.

- 20. In the sense of one democratic world system under the Earth Constitution, love and law go together. Love would and should result in good laws, and good laws cultivate and foster love. Holism draws love and law together in synergistic ways that engender the transformative process toward ever greater holism, compassion, freedom, and justice.

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Цитаты Глена Мартина для Букваря Науки Мира, БНМ:

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1091

- (1) Человеческие институты отражают эгоизм, фрагментацию и дисгармонию человеческого сознания.

- (2) Сегодня война институционализирована, расизм институционализирован, религиозный догматизм институционализирован, националистический эгоизм институционализирован, репрессивные гендерные отношения институционализированы.

- (3) репрессивные институты влияют на человеческое сознание в направлении войны, расизма, догматизма, национализма, эксплуатации и патриархата.

- (4) Изменение сознания преобразует человеческие институты, а человеческие институты, в свою очередь, преобразуют сознание. Одно не предшествует другому: отношения взаимны.

- (5) Изучение Конституции Земли с целостной точки зрения раскрывает синергетическую интеграцию парламентских, исполнительных, судебных и правозащитных институтов, образующих холархию, которая приводит каждого человека на Земле в режим равенства, уважения и достоинства перед законом. (Сравнить с «тетрархией»).

- (6) динамический холизм интегрирует функционирование каждой части с функционированием целого, обеспечивая постоянно движущуюся интеграцию части и целого.

- (7) сверхсознательная интуиция человеческого достоинства возникает из невыразимой бесконечности, составляющей полноту-пустоту единства в многообразии всего сущего.

- (8) Фрагментированный и разделяющий национальный суверенитет заменяется целостным суверенитетом всего человечества.

- (9) Фрагментированная конкуренция между военизированными национальными образованиями заменяется Домом Наций, в котором каждая национальная идентичность защищена принципом единства в многообразии, в то время как в то же время каждый национальный член парламента принимает клятву служения всему человечеству.

- (10) Каждый центральный орган холархии дополняет другие … в качестве дополнительного набора сдержек и противовесов, сохраняющих преобразующую целостность целого и одновременно усиливающих достоинство и целостность частей.

- (11) Конституция Земли… призвана спасти человечество от надвигающегося самоуничтожения, закладывая при этом основы для процветающей цивилизации мира, свободы, справедливости и экологической целостности.

- (12) Единство человечества в рамках этой конституционной структуры проявляется несколькими способами, такими как признание того, что биосфера принадлежит к общему наследию всех нас, … принадлежит нашему общему человечеству.

- (13) Изучение Конституции Земли раскрывает наше общее человеческое будущее Федерации Земли как необходимый этап на пути к единению всего человечества.

- (14) Фрактально-холархическая структура Конституции Земли параллельна диалектической структуре любви, поскольку она движется, чтобы охватить все большие целые.

- (15) В настоящее время мы имеем хаос фрактальной модели, которая еще не объединила и не скоординировала все свои части.

- (16) Когда целостность цивилизации будет осознана и актуализирована, человечество будет существовать на уровне, более близком к «сверхразуму» Шри Ауробиндо, в глубоком контрасте с его нынешним фрагментированным уровнем, который можно назвать «суб-разумом».

- (17) органический мир движется по уровням взаимосвязанности от относительно простых систем … к более высоким уровням целостности. Именно это и приносит человечеству Конституция Земли.

- (18) Возникающее правительство Федерации Земли представляло бы мироцентрическое самосознание человечества. Человеческий интеллект, теперь представляющий суверенную власть людей Земли и отражающий целостность человечества, мог бы эффективно решать проблемы ликвидации войны, защиты всеобщих прав и проблем создания устойчивой мировой системы. Низовые слои человечества должны процветать в холархической структуре, предоставляемой демократическим мировым правом. Верх и низ диалектически требуют друг друга и уполномочивают друг друга.

- (19) преодолеть раздробленность, ненависть и страх, которые так сильно пронизывают человеческую жизнь сегодня, мы должны обратиться к нашим раздробленным институтам, которые увековечивают и консолидируют эту ненависть и страх, например, к догме национального суверенитета.

- (19) преодолеть раздробленность, ненависть и страх, которые так сильно пронизывают человеческую жизнь сегодня, мы должны обратиться к нашим раздробленным институтам, которые увековечивают и консолидируют эту ненависть и страх, например, к догме национального суверенитета.

- (20) смысле единой демократической мировой системы в соответствии с Конституцией Земли, любовь и закон идут рука об руку. Любовь будет и должна приводить к хорошим законам, а хорошие законы культивируют и поощряют любовь. Холизм объединяет любовь и закон синергетическими способами, которые порождают преобразующий процесс в направлении все большего холизма, сострадания, свободы и справедливости.

- Весь мир нуждается в свежем подходе, в новом фундаменте. И этот новый фундамент должен включать не только политические и экономические преобразования, но и духовное измерение — зрелость и самореализацию человеческого духа. Книга Г. Мартина «Человеческое достоинство и мировой порядок: целостные основы глобальной демократии» (2024: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428) представляет собой попытку создать эту новую основу. ...

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Dear Maria Christina (and all other GHA friends),

Thank you somuch for your warm words. Weare now in the early stages of our World Democracy Campaign (WDC) to build momentum for the 16^th session of the Provisional World Parliament to be held in Pondicherry, India, December 7-10, 2025. December 7 is the day that Sri Aurobindo passed away and the 10^th is Human Rights Day, and, of course, Pondicherry is the famous center of unity in diversity where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother centered their work and where Auroville is located.

The campaign is described on our website at www.earthconstiution.world . We have been adding “supporter coalition” groups who do not necessarily affirm the Earth Constitution directly but who want a united world under democratic world law, and we are also adding “convener coalition” groups who support our work directly. We are also compiling a list of prominent persons who support the campaign. We invite you to join us.

One of our Convener Coalition groups is CEMERG (Center for Global Responsibility) of Mexico led by Francisco Plancarte and Tiahoga Ruge. Perhaps you know Tiahoga who has been prominent at the Paris World Peace Summits? She recently spoke about our Campaign at our November 7 online event.

I have attached a brochure for the World Democracy Campaign that gives some of the details.

With blessings and warmest wishes,

Glen

Dr. Glen T. Martin

President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA)

President, Earth Constitution Institute (ECI)

www.earthconstitution.world

17-11-24

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Holism and Transformative Love in the Earth Constitution

Glen T. Martin

November 2024

Personal page: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428

Cosmic consciousness is holistic. To the degree that we free ourselves from all forms of egoism, fragmentation, and disharmony, it flows into our lives. Our consciousness responds to the call of the ‘superconscious’ and begins to transcend the repressive and conflicted ‘subconscious’ toward the fullness of life. We encounter the vast emptiness and unsayable mystery that emerges into awareness everywhere and nowhere. The cosmic nisus moves toward harmony, integration, compassion, equality, freedom, and distributive justice. It has become individualized and conscious of itself in us. How do we participate in this process of the superconscious bequeathing its gift of love to all humanity and all beings?

Human institutions reflect the egoism, fragmentation, and disharmony of human consciousness, operating historically in what can be termed a ‘dialectical’ manner. Changing consciousness, of course, will result in transformed institutions. However, today, war is institutionalized, racism is institutionalized, religious dogmatism is institutionalized, nationalistic egoisms are institutionalized, and repressive gender relationships are institutionalized. Nevertheless, the dialectical opposite is also true: changing our institutions will result in transformed consciousness.

Those who live their lives to the best of their abilities in the service of the transformative love flowing from the cosmos into human awareness need to be thinking about how to transform our institutions at the same time that we are practicing mindfulness and meditative openness to the influx of superconscious cosmic love. Institutions powerfully influence human consciousness, and repressive institutions influence human consciousness in the direction of war, racism, dogmatism, nationalism, exploitation, and patriarchy. Changing consciousness transforms human institutions and human institutions in turn transform consciousness. one is not prior to the other: the relationship is reciprocal.

The Constitution for the Federation ofEarth was written by hundreds of world citizens inspired by a vision of holism, harmony, and the rule of just, democratic law for all persons on Earth. Study of the Earth Constitution from a holistic point of view reveals a synergistic integration of parliamentary, executive, judicial, and human rights institutions forming a holarchy that brings each person on Earth into a regime of equality, respect, and dignity before the law.

The classical democratic ideas of separation of powers coming from 18^th century French Baron Charles Montesquieu and the ideas about government arising deriving from the sovereignty of the people coming from British thinker John Locke are here holistically transformed into a dynamic unity that can be compared to the three-dimensional geometrical figure of a torus, a dynamic holism in which the functioning of each part integrates with the functioning of the whole providing a perpetually moving integration of part and whole.

Our superconscious intuition of human dignity arises from the unsayable infinity constituting the fullness-emptiness of the unity in diversity of all existence. This dignity is reflected everywhere in the holistic ‘torus’ created by the integrated agencies and organs that make up the Earth Federation under the Earth Constitution. Fragmented and divisive national sovereignty is replaced by the holistic sovereignty of all humankind. The fragmented competition among militarized national entities is replaced by a House of Nations in which each national identity is protected under the principle of unity in diversity, while at the same time each national member of parliament takes a pledge of service to all humanity. The ‘tragedy of the commons’ now destroying the world oceans and biosphere is replaced by common stewardship by the people of Earth.

Each central organ of the holarchy complements the others serving, like the interpenetrating holomovement of dark and light in the Tao symbol, as a complementary set of checks and balances preserving the transformative integrity of the whole while simultaneously empowering the dignity and integrity of the parts. In my view this document was inspired by the superconscious nisus flowing through these world citizens working together to create a document designed to save humanity from impending self-destruction while laying the foundations for a flourishing civilization of peace, freedom, justice, and environmental integrity.

The oneness of humanity within this constitutional framework manifests in multiple ways such as recognizing that the biosphere belongs to the common heritage of us all as mentioned above—the oceans, the atmosphere, the great rain forests, the northern and southern polar caps all belong to our common humanity to be not only cherished but simultaneously legally protected with due process of law. Under the Constitution, due process of law is afforded equally to all persons, nations, religions, races, and genders, rich or poor. Study of the Earth Constitution reveals our common human future of Earth Federation as a necessary stage on the way to a communion of all humanity within a superconscious nisus that guides the cosmos toward its mysterious fulfillment and our human participation within that fulfillment.

The dialectical movement of consciousness influencing our institutions, and of our institutions influencing our consciousness, forms a necessary feature of our human condition. We need to cultivate love, and we need to establish institutions that allow for the cultivation of love. We need to foster unity-in-diversity and we need to establish institutions that foster unity in diversity. At this stage in our evolutionary history, we cannot do without laws, police, human rights with judicial protection, and all the central features of effective democracy. The fractal/holarchical structure of the Earth Constitution parallels the dialectical structure of love as it moves to embrace ever-larger wholes. As I have previously written:

“World democratic government under the Constitution is designed as a fractal – a representation of unity in diversity elaborated in parliamentary, judicial, administrative, and conflict resolution functions. Moreover, these patterns of democratic governance would repeat at ever smaller levels from the national to regional to local levels. At present we have the chaos of a fractal pattern that has yet to unite and coordinate all its parts. It’s as if the blood were trying to circulate without a whole living body to animate and enliven.

“When the holism of civilization is recognized and actualized, humanity will exist on a level closer to Sri Aurobindo’s “super-mind” in deep contrast to its current fragmented level that can be termed “sub-mind.” For contemporary thinkers such as Ervin Laszlo, this holistic pattern formation should be termed “holarchy” (2002, 51-52). Such a formation is fundamentally different from the “hierarchies” that have hitherto prevailed in human affairs—wealth hierarchies, gender hierarchies, caste hierarchies, racial hierarchies, nation-state hierarchies, etc. We need to abolish all such hierarchies in favor of unity in diversity. But this does not obviate the fact that the organic world moves through levels of interconnectedness from relatively simple systems through intermediate levels linking below with above to higher-level wholes. This is precisely what the Earth Constitution brings to humanity.

“What would it look like if we federated Earth into a holarchy – from the lowest community levels, through regional levels, national levels, all the way to the global level? Such an emergent Earth Federation government would represent the worldcentric self-awareness of humanity. Human intelligence, now representing the sovereign authority of the people of Earth and reflecting the holism of humanity, could effectively address the elimination of war, the protection of universal rights, and the problems of establishing a sustainable world system. The grass-roots of humanity needs to flourish within a holarchical framework provided by democratic world law. Top and bottom dialectically require one another and empower one another.”

These features, as embodied within the holistic framework of the Earth Constitution, help make possible, the transition to a fulfilled human community before it is too late. If one asks how we are to overcome the fragmentation, hate, and fear that pervade so much of human life today we must look to our fragmented institutions that perpetuate and consolidate that hate and fear, such as the dogma of national sovereignty. The very praxis of promoting ratification of the Earth Constitution or the Provisional World Parliament provided for by the Constitution dialectically works to enlarge our consciousness and the awareness of other persons worldwide.

In this sense, in the sense of one democratic world system under the Earth Constitution, love and law go together. Love would and should result in good laws, and good laws cultivate and foster love. Holism draws love and law together in synergistic ways that engender the transformative process toward ever greater holism, compassion, freedom, and justice. Let us hold up the Earth Constitution as a beacon for humanity and let us act to embody its rule of holistic love in human affairs. The very future of the cosmic nisus, as it manifests itself in and through us, is at stake in this endeavor.

Dr. Glen T. Martin

President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA)

President, Earth Constitution Institute (ECI)

www.earthconstitution.world

16-11-24

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Дорогая Мария Кристина (и все остальные друзья GHA),

Большое спасибо за ваши теплые слова. Сейчас мы находимся на ранних стадиях нашей Всемирной кампании за демократию (WDC), чтобы набрать обороты для 16-й сессии Временного всемирного парламента, которая состоится в Пондичерри, Индия, 7-10 декабря 2025 года. 7 декабря — день смерти Шри Ауробиндо, а 10-е — День прав человека, и, конечно же, Пондичерри — знаменитый центр единства в многообразии, где Шри Ауробиндо и Мать сосредоточили свою работу и где находится Ауровиль.

Кампания описана на нашем веб-сайте www.earthconstiution.world. Мы добавляем группы «коалиции сторонников», которые не обязательно напрямую подтверждают Конституцию Земли, но которые хотят единого мира под демократическим мировым законом, и мы также добавляем группы «коалиции организаторов», которые напрямую поддерживают нашу работу. Мы также составляем список видных деятелей, которые поддерживают кампанию. Приглашаем вас присоединиться к нам.

Одной из наших групп коалиции организаторов является CEMERG (Центр глобальной ответственности) из Мексики во главе с Франсиско Планкарте и Тиахогой Руге. Возможно, вы знаете Тиахогу, которая была видной фигурой на Парижских всемирных саммитах мира? Недавно она рассказывала о нашей кампании на нашем онлайн-мероприятии 7 ноября.

Я прикрепил брошюру (2стр.) для Всемирной кампании за демократию, в которой приведены некоторые подробности.

С благословениями и самыми теплыми пожеланиями,

Глен

Доктор Глен Т. Мартин

Президент Всемирной ассоциации конституции и парламента (WCPA)

Президент Института конституции Земли (ECI)

www.earthconstitution.world

17-11-24

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Холизм и преобразующая любовь в Конституции Земли

Глен Т. Мартин

Ноябрь 2024 г.

Космическое сознание целостно. В той степени, в которой мы освобождаемся от всех форм эгоизма, фрагментации и дисгармонии, они вливаются в нашу жизнь. Наше сознание отвечает на призыв «сверхсознания» и начинает выходить за рамки репрессивного и конфликтного «подсознания» к полноте жизни. Мы сталкиваемся с огромной пустотой и невыразимой тайной, которая проявляется в сознании везде и нигде. Космический нисус (НАПРЯЖЕННОЕ УСИЛИЕ) движется к гармонии, интеграции, состраданию, равенству, свободе и распределительной справедливости. Он стал индивидуализированным и осознающим себя в нас. Как мы участвуем в этом процессе сверхсознания, завещающего свой дар любви всему человечеству и всем существам?

(1) Человеческие институты отражают эгоизм, фрагментацию и дисгармонию человеческого сознания, действуя исторически в том, что можно назвать «диалектической» манерой. Изменение сознания, конечно, приведет к преобразованию институтов. Однако (2) сегодня война институционализирована, расизм институционализирован, религиозный догматизм институционализирован, националистический эгоизм институционализирован, репрессивные гендерные отношения институционализированы. Тем не менее, диалектическая противоположность также верна: изменение наших институтов приведет к преобразованию сознания.

Тем, кто живет в меру своих возможностей, служа преобразующей любви, текущей из космоса в человеческое сознание, нужно думать о том, как преобразовать наши институты, в то же время, когда мы практикуем осознанность и медитативную открытость притоку сверхсознательной космической любви. Институты оказывают мощное влияние на человеческое сознание, а (3) репрессивные институты влияют на человеческое сознание в направлении войны, расизма, догматизма, национализма, эксплуатации и патриархата. (4) Изменение сознания преобразует человеческие институты, а человеческие институты, в свою очередь, преобразуют сознание. Одно не предшествует другому: отношения взаимны.

Конституция Федерации Земли была написана сотнями граждан мира, вдохновленных видением целостности, гармонии и верховенства справедливого демократического закона для всех людей на Земле. (5) Изучение Конституции Земли с целостной точки зрения раскрывает синергетическую интеграцию парламентских, исполнительных, судебных и правозащитных институтов, образующих холархию, которая приводит каждого человека на Земле в режим равенства, уважения и достоинства перед законом.

Классические демократические идеи разделения властей, идущие от французского барона XVIII века Шарля Монтескье, и идеи о правительстве, возникающие из суверенитета народа, идущие от британского мыслителя Джона Локка, здесь целостно трансформируются в динамическое единство, которое можно сравнить с трехмерной геометрической фигурой тора, (6) динамический холизм, в котором функционирование каждой части интегрируется с функционированием целого, обеспечивая постоянно движущуюся интеграцию части и целого.

Наша (7) сверхсознательная интуиция человеческого достоинства возникает из невыразимой бесконечности, составляющей полноту-пустоту единства в многообразии всего сущего. Это достоинство отражается повсюду в целостном «торе», созданном интегрированными агентствами и органами, составляющими Земную Федерацию под эгидой Земли конституция. (8) Фрагментированный и разделяющий национальный суверенитет заменяется целостным суверенитетом всего человечества. (9) Фрагментированная конкуренция между военизированными национальными образованиями заменяется Домом Наций, в котором каждая национальная идентичность защищена принципом единства в многообразии, в то время как в то же время каждый национальный член парламента принимает клятву служения всему человечеству. «Трагедия общего», которая теперь разрушает мировые океаны и биосферу, заменяется общим управлением со стороны людей Земли.

(10) Каждый центральный орган холархии дополняет другие, выступая, подобно взаимопроникающему голодвижению тьмы и света в символе Дао, в качестве дополнительного набора сдержек и противовесов, сохраняющих преобразующую целостность целого и одновременно усиливающих достоинство и целостность частей. На мой взгляд, этот документ был вдохновлен сверхсознательным нисусом, текущим через этих граждан мира, работающих вместе над созданием документа, (11) призванного спасти человечество от надвигающегося самоуничтожения, закладывая при этом основы для процветающей цивилизации мира, свободы, справедливости и экологической целостности.

(12) Единство человечества в рамках этой конституционной структуры проявляется несколькими способами, такими как признание того, что биосфера принадлежит к общему наследию всех нас, как упоминалось выше, — океаны, атмосфера, великие дождевые леса, северные и южные полярные шапки — все это принадлежит нашему общему человечеству, которое не только лелеется, но и одновременно юридически защищается надлежащей правовой процедурой. Согласно Конституции, надлежащая правовая процедура предоставляется в равной степени всем лицам, нациям, религиям, расам и полам, богатым или бедным. (13) Изучение Конституции Земли раскрывает наше общее человеческое будущее Федерации Земли как необходимый этап на пути к единению всего человечества в сверхсознательном нисусе, который направляет космос к его таинственному исполнению и нашему человеческому участию в этом исполнении.

Диалектическое движение сознания, влияющего на наши институты, и наших институтов, влияющих на наше сознание, формирует необходимую черту нашего человеческого состояния. Нам нужно развивать любовь, и нам нужно создавать институты, которые позволяют развивать любовь. Нам нужно развивать единство в многообразии, и нам нужно создавать институты, которые способствуют единству в многообразии. На этом этапе нашей эволюционной истории мы не можем обойтись без законов, полиции, прав человека с судебной защитой и всех основных черт эффективной демократии. (14) Фрактально-холархическая структура Конституции Земли параллельна диалектической структуре любви, поскольку она движется, чтобы охватить все большие целые. Как я уже писал ранее:

«Мировое демократическое правительство в соответствии с Конституцией спроектировано как фрактал — представление единства в многообразии, разработанное в парламентских, судебных, административных и конфликтных функциях. Более того, эти модели демократического управления будут повторяться на все меньших уровнях от национального до регионального и местного. (15) В настоящее время мы имеем хаос фрактальной модели, которая еще не объединила и не скоординировала все свои части. Это как если бы кровь пыталась циркулировать без целого живого тела, которое бы оживляло и воодушевляло.

«(16) Когда целостность цивилизации будет осознана и актуализирована, человечество будет существовать на уровне, более близком к «сверхразуму» Шри Ауробиндо, в глубоком контрасте с его нынешним фрагментированным уровнем, который можно назвать «суб-разумом». Для современных мыслителей, таких как Эрвин Ласло, это целостное формирование паттерна следует называть «холархией» (2002, 51-52). Такое формирование в корне отличается от «иерархий», которые до сих пор преобладали в человеческих делах — иерархий богатства, гендерных иерархий, кастовых иерархий, расовых иерархий, иерархий национальных государств и т. д. Нам необходимо отменить все такие иерархии в пользу единства в многообразии. Но это не отменяет того факта, что (17) органический мир движется по уровням взаимосвязанности от относительно простых систем через промежуточные уровни, связывая нижние с верхними, к более высоким уровням целостности. Именно это и приносит человечеству Конституция Земли.

«Как бы это выглядело, если бы мы объединили Землю в холархию — от самых низких уровней сообщества, через региональные уровни, национальные уровни, вплоть до глобального уровня? Такое (18) возникающее правительство Федерации Земли представляло бы мироцентрическое самосознание человечества. Человеческий интеллект, теперь представляющий суверенную власть людей Земли и отражающий целостность человечества, мог бы эффективно решать проблемы ликвидации войны, защиты всеобщих прав и проблем создания устойчивой мировой системы. Низовые слои человечества должны процветать в холархической структуре, предоставляемой демократическим мировым правом. Верх и низ диалектически требуют друг друга и уполномочивают друг друга».

Эти особенности, воплощенные в целостной структуре Конституции Землиn, помогут сделать возможным переход к полноценному человеческому сообществу, пока не стало слишком поздно. Если кто-то спросит, как нам (19) преодолеть раздробленность, ненависть и страх, которые так сильно пронизывают человеческую жизнь сегодня, мы должны обратиться к нашим раздробленным институтам, которые увековечивают и консолидируют эту ненависть и страх, например, к догме национального суверенитета. Сама практика содействия ратификации Конституции Земли или Временного Всемирного парламента, предусмотренного Конституцией, диалектически работает на расширение нашего сознания и осведомленности других людей во всем мире.

В этом смысле, в (20) смысле единой демократической мировой системы в соответствии с Конституцией Земли, любовь и закон идут рука об руку. Любовь будет и должна приводить к хорошим законам, а хорошие законы культивируют и поощряют любовь. Холизм объединяет любовь и закон синергетическими способами, которые порождают преобразующий процесс в направлении все большего холизма, сострадания, свободы и справедливости. Давайте будем держать Конституцию Земли как маяк для человечества и давайте действовать, чтобы воплотить ее правило целостной любви в человеческих делах. В этом начинании на карту поставлено само будущее космического низа, как оно проявляется в нас и через нас.

Доктор Глен Т. Мартин

Президент Всемирной ассоциации конституции и парламента (WCPA)

Президент Института конституции Земли (ECI)

www.earthconstitution.world

16-11-24

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Дорогой Глен!

Поздравляю вас с гениальной философской статьей, которая составляет фундаментальный вклад в эволюцию холизма, целостного сознания и мышления человечества, которое единственное обеспечивает выживание человечества в рамках внутренне раздробленной на множество враждебных частей ядерной цивилизации с Хиросимы, что лишает человечество возможности выживания в ней.Я был рад опубликовать ее на вашей персональной странице (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428) с русским переводом и отбором из нее 20 цитат на 1+ странице для нашего «Букваря Науки Мира» (БНМ: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1091).

Это позволяет нам пригласить вас его соавтором, чтобы вы могли контролировать адекватность использования ваших цитат, и чтобы мы вместе могли обеспечить новый уровень холизма в интеграции вашей политико-правовой Конституции Земли и нашего макросоциологического БНМ. Мы с вами сотрудничаем в этом предельно сложном вопросе с 2010 года, пусть с перерывом, что не мешает нам сближать понимание наших позиций. Вы - соавтор нашей, ГГСГ Науки Мира и в высшей степени оценили ее еще 12 лет назад как «фундаментальную революцию в науке и парадигмальный сдвиг человеческого сознания» (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428), а мы всегда признавали федералистскую природу вашей уникальной Конституции Земли как высший уровень целостного международного права и всегда содействовали ее развитию во многих наших миротворческих проектах и книгах.

Сегодня, в рамках катастрофической, неотвратимо суицидной фрагментации на пороге геноцидной для всех ядерной войны, нам необходимо возродить наше сотрудничество, чтобы обеспечить интеграцию в синергии наших парадигм. Только их холизм открывает путь спасения человечества в ядерной смертоносной цивилизации, открыв в ней фундаментальный путь его выживания. Мы надеемся, что вы услышите и примите наше приглашение стать соавтором нашего общего с вами БНМ в соответствии с вашим холизмом, чтобы преодолеть нашу фрагментацию. Но, даже если вы откажетесь от сотрудничества, мы, все равно, используем ваши цитаты в БНМ.

Я, как философ, давно использующий диалектику сферных холонов*, целого и частей в макросоциологической Науке мира, не буду сейчас касаться тонких когнитивных проблем этой диалектики, общее и популярное решение которых будет представлено в некоторых параграфах нашего БНМ для нашего обсуждения с вами как давних коллег-философов. После завершения БНМ в феврале, мы могли бы более активно включиться в ваш процесс экспериментальной институализации Конституции Земли. Но об этом мы поговорим позже.

*Их раскрытию на всех уровнях посвящены три тома «Сферы» (1998-2004, ~ 3000 pages) немецкого философа Питера Слотердайка: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=862

Лучшие пожелания вам успехов, здоровья и мира,

Дружески,
Лев Семашко

18-11-24

Dear Glen,

Congratulations on your brilliant philosophical article, which is a fundamental contribution to the evolution of holism, holistic consciousness and thinking of humanity, which alone ensures the humanity survival within internally fragmented into many hostile parts nuclear civilization since Hiroshima that deprives humanity of the survival possibility in it. I was glad to publish it on your personal page (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428) with Russian translation and selection of 20 quotes from it on 1+ page for our "Peace Science Primer" (PSP: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1224).

This allows us to invite you as its coauthor, so that you can control the use adequacy of your quotes, and so that together we can ensure a new level of holism in the integration of your political and legal Earth Constitution and our macrosociological PSP. We have been cooperating with you on this extremely complex issue since 2010, albeit with a break, which does not prevent us from bringing together the understanding of our positions. You are our GGHA Peace Science coauthor and highly appreciated it 12 years ago as “the fundamental revolution in science and paradigm shift in human consciousness” (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428). We have always recognized the federalist nature of your unique Earth Constitution as the highest level of holistic international law and have always contributed to its development in many of our peace projects and books.

Today, in the context of catastrophic, inevitably suicidal fragmentation on the threshold of genocidal nuclear war for all, we need to revive our cooperation to ensure integration in the synergy of our paradigms. Only their holism opens the way to saving humanity in the nuclear deadly civilization, opening in it a fundamental way of its survival. We hope that you will hear and accept our invitation to become the our common PSP coauthor in accordance with your holism in order to overcome our fragmentation. But even if you refuse to cooperate, we will still use your quotations in the PSP.

As the philosopher who has long used the dialectics of spheral holons*, the whole and parts in the macrosociological Peace Science, I will not now touch upon the subtle cognitive problems of this dialectic, the general and popular solution of which will be presented in some paragraphs of our PSP for our discussion with you as long-time colleague-philosopher. After the PSP completion in February, we could more actively engage in your process of the Earth Constitution experimental institutionalization. But let us talk about this later.

*Three volumes of “Spheres” (1998-2004, ~ 3000 pages) by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk are dedicated to their disclosure at all levels: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=862

Best wishes for your success, health and peace,

Friendly,

Leo Semashko

18-11-24

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The Israeli computerized kill system is called “Lavender”

The Destruction of Human Civilization by Israel & the USA

Glen T. Martin

25-04-24

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=c30e293db453a290ea076b7d8&id=b9c159e58b

EXCERPTS

The essence of human civilization points to the rule of democratically legislated laws designed to protect freedom, justice, and keep the peace. The very foundations of civilization include the pursuit of truth, beauty, goodness, and dignity within a framework, in all complex societies, of enforceable laws protecting everyone equally. Due process of law arises from our common human dignity and constitutes a basic meaning of planetary civilization.

... The “laws of war” apply to all armed conflicts, including wars of independence or rebellions against oppression, but the prohibition against aggression does not apply to liberation struggles because the rebellion of an oppressed people against foreign or domestic oppression is not considered aggression. Under these rules the attack by Hamas on October 7 was rebellion by an oppressed people, not an act of aggression.

War crimes conventions prohibit widespread or systematic attack on any civilian population, including deportations, the use of siege tactics to force immigration or starvation, extermination, enslavement, torture, enforced disappearances, murder, rape, or systematic persecution of a group. However, whether there are major conflicts going on around the world or not, the US, like Israel, has committed itself to an institutionalized policy of crimes against humanity, from WW II to the present, on a truly systematic and bone-chilling scale. ... Israel was borne in 1948 in a mighty act of violence that displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and the subsequent “settler colonial” displacement of Palestinians from their homes from then to the present. ...

The Israeli computerized kill system called “Lavender” generates the home addresses of suspected Hamas supporters using social media, phone records, etc. Then surveillance drones wait for these persons to come home, and their home is targeted. The building where they live or their house is bombed. This often kills at least ten additional people, usually mostly women and children, and sometimes hundreds of people. However, this fact means nothing to the Israeli kill machine, just as it means nothing to the killers at the Pentagon and the CIA. ...

After 9/11, the US began compiling its kill lists on a worldwide basis, sending militarized drones over Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere to blow up its “enemies” from above, sometimes mistakenly blowing up wedding parties or funeral processions. In its occupation of Iraq, it systematically compiled lists of those suspected of resisting its occupation, targeting them for arrest, torture, or simply elimination.

Israel, therefore, has had an astute teacher of how to destroy all civilized living and act with utter moral depravity. No unalienable human rights, nor habeas corpus, no innocent until proven guilty. Just murder anyone suspected of resisting you and indiscriminately kill everyone around them, including women and children. It is this world of utter moral depravity that the Earth Constitution is designed to replace.

Under the Earth Constitution, the weapons-systems of these depraved moral monsters will be removed and dismantled, and the rule of democratic law will establish civilized living for the entire Earth. Everyone ... will enjoy respect for their inalienable rights and their common human dignity. ... the global war-system on Earth blocks our ascent to planetary civilization,... READ MORE

To contact the author: gmartin@radford.edu

Mailing address is:

Earth Constitution Institute/ World Constitution and Parliament Association

88 Oracle Way Independence, Virginia 24348 USA

03-05-24

Израильская компьютеризированная система уничтожения называется «Лаванда».

Уничтожение человеческой цивилизации Израилем и США

Глен Т. Мартин

25-04-24

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=c30e293db453a290ea076b7d8&id=b9c159e58b

ВЫДЕРЖКИ

Сущность человеческой цивилизации указывает на верховенство демократически установленных законов, призванных защищать свободу, справедливость и сохранять мир. Сами основы цивилизации включают стремление к истине, красоте, добру и достоинству в рамках всех сложных обществ действующих законов, защищающих всех в равной степени. Надлежащая правовая процедура вытекает из нашего общего человеческого достоинства и представляет собой основной смысл планетарной цивилизации.

Коммент Льва Семашко. ПОЧЕМУ, на каком основании правовой процедуре отводится приоритетное, определяющее место в планетарной цивилизации??? – Научного ответа нет и не может быть.

... «Законы войны» применяются ко всем вооруженным конфликтам, включая войны за независимость или восстания против угнетения, но запрет на агрессию не распространяется на освободительную борьбу, поскольку восстание угнетенного народа против иностранного или внутреннего угнетения не считается агрессией. Согласно этим правилам, нападение Хамаса 7 октября было мятежом угнетенного народа, а не актом агрессии.

Конвенции о военных преступлениях запрещают широкомасштабные или систематические нападения на любое гражданское население, включая депортацию, использование тактики осады для принудительной иммиграции или голодания, истребление, порабощение, пытки, насильственные исчезновения, убийства, изнасилования или систематическое преследование групп. Однако независимо от того, происходят ли в мире крупные конфликты или нет, США, как и Израиль, взяли на себя обязательство проводить институционализированную политику преступлений против человечества, начиная со Второй мировой войны и до настоящего времени, в поистине систематическом и леденящем кровь масштабе. ... Израиль родился в 1948 году в результате мощного акта насилия, который вынудил сотни тысяч палестинцев покинуть свои дома и последующего «поселенческого колониального» перемещения палестинцев из их домов с тех пор и по настоящее время. ...

Израильская компьютеризированная система уничтожения под названием «Лаванда» генерирует домашние адреса подозреваемых сторонников Хамаса, используя социальные сети, записи телефонных разговоров и т. д. Затем дроны наблюдения ждут, пока эти люди вернутся домой, и их дом становится объектом нападения. Здание, в котором они живут, или их дом разбомблено. Это часто убивает как минимум еще десять человек, обычно в основном женщин и детей, а иногда и сотни человек. Однако этот факт ничего не значит для израильской машины убийств, так же, как он ничего не значит для убийц из Пентагона и ЦРУ. ...

После 11 сентября США начали составлять свои списки убийств по всему миру, отправляя военизированные дроны над Йеменом, Пакистаном, Афганистаном, Сомали и другими местами, чтобы взрывать своих «врагов» сверху, иногда по ошибке взрывая свадебные вечеринки или похоронные процессии. . Во время оккупации Ирака они систематически составляли списки подозреваемых в сопротивлении оккупации, предназначая их для ареста, пыток или просто уничтожения.

Таким образом, у Израиля был проницательный учитель того, как уничтожить всю цивилизованную жизнь и действовать с крайним моральным разложением. Ни неотъемлемых прав человека, ни хабеас корпус, ни невиновного, пока его вина не будет доказана. Просто убивайте всех, кто подозревается в сопротивлении вам, и без разбора убивайте всех вокруг, включая женщин и детей. Конституция Земли призвана заменить этот мир крайнего морального разложения.

Согласно Конституции Земли, системы вооружения этих развращенных моральных монстров будут удалены и демонтированы, а верховенство демократического закона установит цивилизованную жизнь на всей Земле. Каждый... будет пользоваться уважением своих неотъемлемых прав и общего человеческого достоинства. ... глобальная военная система на Земле блокирует наше восхождение к планетарной цивилизации,... ПРОЧИТАТЬ ДАЛЬШЕ

Для связи с автором: gmartin@radford.edu

Почтовый адрес:

Институт Конституции Земли / Ассоциация Всемирной Конституции и Парламента

88 Oracle Way Independent, Вирджиния 24348 США

03-05-24

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Human Dignity and World Order

The Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy

Glen T. Martin

EXCERPTS

It may be that human beings today face our ultimate challenge. The global climate that sustains us is collapsing. Nuclear war appears ever more possible and imminent. The United Nations is in chaos, unable to stop a genocide going in while the entire world watches. To say we need a rebirth, a renaissance, may be an understatement. ...The entire world needs a fresh approach, a new foundation. And this new foundation must include not only political and economic transformation, but the spiritual dimension as well—the maturity and self-realization of the human spirit.

Human Dignity and World Order: Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy is an attempt to provide this new foundation. ...

... It reexamines the opening statement of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 as a basis for this new understanding: “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” If this is true, and Human Dignity and World Order holds that it is true, then why is the world such a mess? ...

...That is exactly the point, although it is something not clearly understood. Our world system, composed of global capitalism interfaced with a collection of militarized sovereign nation-states, is based on wealth, power, greed, violence, and conflict. It is not based on human dignity. ...

... To be “sovereign” already means there is no democratically legislated enforceable law over the nations. The consequence of this lawlessness is that each nation feels it necessary to militarize. ...

...We live in a globalized world where both capitalism and nation-state militarism have been extended planet-wide (missiles today can deliver nuclear weapons anywhere around the planet). ...

... We have globalized economics and war, but not the key to justice and peace, which requires the rule of democratically legislated laws premised on human dignity. Chapters Six and Seven show that the Constitution for the Federation of Earth does just that—it globalizes democracy and in doing so converts the world system from a wealth and power system to a dignity-based system. ...

... Perhaps the tour de force of the book is found in Chapter Eleven, ... the chapter shows in what ways every normal human being is embraced by a “utopian horizon” beckoning us to transform our lives and our societies in the direction of truth, beauty, justice, freedom, and sustainability. ...

...This is named “utopian horizon value theory,” an understanding of our human situation making it clear that there is really little (except our own lack of awareness and maturity) stopping us from ratifying the Earth Constitution and inaugurating a world system premised on human dignity. ...

...This book reveals our true possibility of rebirth, of renaissance, and human liberation. It shows the way toward a “new heaven and earth” (if it is still permissible to use these symbols). -- Glen T. Martin

[DWF NEWS Editor - This book's description is liberally edited to provide readers a more concise summary.]

To contact the author: gmartin@radford.edu

Mailing address is:

Earth Constitution Institute/ World Constitution and Parliament Association

88 Oracle Way

Independence, Virginia 24348 USA

20-04-24

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ВЫДЕРЖКИ

Возможно, сегодня человечество сталкивается с нашей главной проблемой. Глобальный климат, который поддерживает нас, рушится. Ядерная война кажется все более возможной и неизбежной. Организация Объединенных Наций находится в хаосе и не в состоянии остановить происходящий геноцид, пока за этим наблюдает весь мир. Сказать, что нам нужно возрождение, ренессанс, может быть, ничего не сказать. ...Весь мир нуждается в свежем подходе, в новом фундаменте. И этот новый фундамент должен включать не только политические и экономические преобразования, но и духовное измерение — зрелость и самореализацию человеческого духа.

Книга «Человеческое достоинство и мировой порядок: целостные основы глобальной демократии» представляет собой попытку создать эту новую основу. ...

... Он пересматривает вступительное заявление Всеобщей декларации прав человека Организации Объединенных Наций 1948 года как основу для этого нового понимания: «Признание неотъемлемого достоинства и равных и неотъемлемых прав всех членов человеческой семьи является основой свободы, справедливости и мира во всем мире». Если это правда, и организация «Человеческое достоинство и мировой порядок» утверждает, что это правда, то почему в мире такой беспорядок? ...

...В этом-то и дело, хотя это и непонятно. Наша мировая система, состоящая из глобального капитализма, соединенного с совокупностью военизированных суверенных национальных государств, основана на богатстве, власти, жадности, насилии и конфликтах. Она не основано на человеческом достоинстве. ...

... Быть «суверенным» уже означает отсутствие демократически закрепленного и действующего закона над народами. Последствием этого беззакония является то, что каждая нация чувствует необходимость милитаризации. ...

...Мы живем в глобализованном мире, где и капитализм, и милитаризм национальных государств распространились по всей планете (сегодня ракеты могут доставлять ядерное оружие в любую точку планеты). ...

... У нас есть глобализированная экономика и война, но это не ключ к справедливости и миру, который требует верховенства демократически установленных законов, основанных на человеческом достоинстве. Главы шестая и седьмая показывают, что Конституция Федерации Земли делает именно это — она глобализирует демократию и тем самым превращает мировую систему из системы богатства и власти в систему, основанную на достоинстве. ...

(Коммент Семашко. Неверно. Никакая Конституция не способна ничего глобализировать, если за ней не стоят объективные социальные потребности и глобальные акторы, которые нуждаются в ней. Глобализированные «капитализм и милитаризм национальных государств», вместе со своими частичными демократиями, приспособленными под их нужды, не нуждаются ни в какой Конституции, сковывающей их, поэтому предлагаемая Конституция не принимается ими десятилетиями и никогда ими не признается. Да и сам институт западной демократии, предлагаемый Конституцией, давно находится в кризисе, упадке и разложении, хотя в ней есть одно рациональное зерно – это федерализм. Но федерализм традиционных и отмирающих капиталистических классов национальных государств бессилен его обновить и возродить. Это способны сделать только сфероны, которые установят на основе науки мира новую, сферную демократию в национальных государствах, которая обеспечит глобальный федерализм и целостную мировую демократию. Ее приоритетной целостной основой может быть не Конституция и федерализм, а сфероны и сферная структура демократии: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=452, https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=424)

... Возможно, главная сила книги находится в одиннадцатой главе... глава показывает, каким образом каждого нормального человека охватывает «утопический горизонт», манящий нас изменить нашу жизнь и наше общество в направлении истины, красоты, справедливости, свободы и устойчивости. ...

...Это называется «теорией ценностей утопического горизонта», понимание нашей человеческой ситуации, дающее понять, что на самом деле мало что (кроме нашей собственной неосведомленности и зрелости) мешает нам ратифицировать Конституцию Земли и создать мировую систему, основанную на предпосылках о человеческом достоинстве. ... (Еще одно заблуждение, постправда: на самом деле, ВСЕ мешает ратифицировать Конституцию. Поэтому, к сожалению, сам автор находится в плену построенной им субъективной, лишенной истины и верификации «теории ценностей утопического горизонта»)

...Эта книга раскрывает нашу истинную (???, скорее и в большей мере – ЛОЖНУЮ) возможность возрождения и освобождения человека. Он указывает путь к «новому небу и земле» (если еще разрешено использовать эти символы). -- Глен Т. Мартин

[Редактор DWFNEWS — описание этой книги тщательно отредактировано, чтобы предоставить читателям более краткое изложение.]

Для связи с автором: gmartin@radford.edu,

Почтовый адрес:

Институт Конституции Земли / Ассоциация Всемирной Конституции и Парламента

88 Путь Оракула

Индепенденс, Вирджиния 24348 США

20-04-24

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Комментарий Льва Семашко,

Частичные достоинства и непреодолимые научные пороки Конституции Земли анализировались и обсуждались в ГГСГ еще 10 лет назад, в 2014, но эта критика была проигнорирована автором:

https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/Nauka-globalnogo-mira-2015.pdf, с 175-187

Глен покинул ГГСГ, хотя до этого признал сферонику в Азбуке гармонии «Нашей новой планетарной парадигмой и революцией в науке»: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=517

The Earth Constitution partial merits and insurmountable scientific vices were analyzed and discussed in the GGHA 10 years ago, in 2014, but this criticism was ignored by the author: https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf, pp. 154-163

Glen left the GGHA, although before he recognized spheronics in the ABC of Harmony as “Our new planetary paradigm and revolution in science”: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=489

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Brief Bio

Dr. Glen T. Martin is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University in Virginia and founder in 1994 of the Radford University program in Peace Studies, of which he is currently Chairperson. He is also President of the Radford University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Since long before receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he was a conscientious objector to war and active in movements for peace and the transformation of our brutal and violent world order.Much of his writing and scholarship has centered around the interconnections between the spiritual and social-political dimensions of achieving peace and human liberation.

During his twenty-five years at Radford University, Dr. Martin has been active in both national and international work of philosophers focusing on issues of peace.Since 1996, he has been President of International Philosophers for Peace, an organization with members in 25 countries that works to promote the social, political, and economic conditions necessary for world peace

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These words of Mahatma Gandhi bring out the revolutionary Truth of our human situation.Today they grow ever more compelling as we watch our planetary environment disintegrate everywhere into droughts, wildfires, water shortages, superstorms, floods, and relentless, stifling heat waves (Wallace-Wells 2019; Romm 2018).These words of Mahatma Gandhi grow ever more compelling as the Lords of Death and Destruction dedicate yet another trillion US Dollars to upgrading nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. This paper argues that true noncooperation with evil requires action in support of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

Some groups are beginning to realize the absolute imperative for revolutionary transformation of our broken and anti-life planetary systems.One group calls itself “Extinction Rebellion.”Without massive rebellion against the systems of evil that are destroying our planet and our future, there will soon be simply no planet and no future. Yet rebellion without a concrete vision of what must replace the system of evil is hardly sufficient. You cannot effectively resist evil without concretely understanding the good, the ideal, what should be there in place of evil. Like Gandhi, we capitalize the word “Truth” because it names our fundamental human and cosmic reality.

Mahatma Gandhi was a revolutionary who envisioned total transformation of life on Earth, a transformation from violence to nonviolence, from evil to good, from hate, fear, greed, exploitation, and domination to love, justice, freedom, and Truth. Swaraj or liberation was to include all aspects of life, from economics to politics to world order (see Jesudasan 1984). Similarly, Martin Luther King Jr. declared “I have a dream.”Without a dream of total transformation of our broken humanity and this evil world system we can do nothing. We cannot be “evolutionaries” working within the system to slowly change things but must be “revolutionaries” acting on a credible vision of total transformation of our partitioned, fragmented, anti-life world system. Today, Swami Agnivesh in India is one such revolutionary (see Agnivesh 2015).

Yet our duty is not simply to be followers of Gandhi or King or Agnivesh. It is not to adopt their vision or their dream. Our duty in Gandhi’s formulation is satyagraha, clinging to Truth, acting on Truth, living according to the gigantic Truth at the heart of our cosmic and human situation. We must see for ourselves the evil nature of the world system and discern clearly the requirements of goodness, nonviolence, and justice. This requires self-actualization, self-realization. Each of us can realize the divine Truth within as we grow out of immature egoism and self-centeredness toward worldcentric and cosmocentric forms of consciousness (see Wilber 2007).

The vision of good transforming the immense evil of our present world system arises within each of us as we discern our common humanity and the oneness of our human project. We must see for ourselves the absolute need for love, justice, compassion, and Truth to replace, hate, injustice, hardness of heart and ignorance.We do not follow Gandhi or King.We embrace the Truth of our cosmic and human situation.

Here in Venice the streets are filled with people on holiday from all over the world, families, couples, visiting groups—tourists all. They walk the streets, alleys, and bridges, and ride the canals, laughing and conversing, sitting in endless restaurants or gaping into the brightly lit shop windows of this consumer paradise. They appear oblivious. Some may worry that Venice is sinking beneath the sea as waters continue to rise and ever more frequent floods begin to envelop the precious Medieval and Renaissance heritage that this city represents.

Yet none appear to realize that our entire planet is suffocating under evil institutions destroying the future of everyone—every man, woman, child, and living creature. The evil institutions comprising the militarized sovereign nations around the world that these tourists call home is so “normal” to them, so much in the unspoken background of everyday life, that they do not question it. Their ignorance is part of this evil system. Ignorance is indeed evil, but we must repudiate the evil itself, the ignorance itself, not the persons who are lost within this planetary criminal matrix of deceptions, lies, and propaganda.

Likewise, the correlative evil institution of a global economic system that has empowered them to have money for travel and tourism at the expense of the world’s billions of poor living in wretched hunger and scarcity again lies in the background of their consciousness, so pervasive as to be invisible, like the air we breathe. Their ignorance is palpable was they tend their credit cards or pay out their Euros to shops and restaurants in this mecca of global tourism and consumerism.

Mahatma Gandhi’s thought today is pigeonholed and marginalized. It has been truncated into a mere resistance against British colonialism in India. Few realize that he saw the world system itself as intrinsically evil. He demanded a total revolutionary transformation of our ways of living on the Earth predicated on Truth. He demanded that we live from the gigantic Truth of our universal common humanity, from the gigantic Truth of our precious planet Earth that sustains and embraces us, and from the gigantic Truth of God becoming ever more self-aware within our human reality.

Gandhi declared that the modern nation-state was “violence in a concentrated and compacted form” and that, under the capitalist system, “the few ride on the backs of the millions.” He lived through the two world wars in which these evil systems expressed their true anti-life imperatives, wiping out tens of millions of persons and destroying the planet that sustains us with bombs, explosives, chemicals, and poisons. Gandhi called not only for grassroots economic independence for the masses but also for a World Parliament above the nations, predicated not only on ending war but on removing poverty, misery and exploitation from the entire Earth (see Kripalani, ed. 1972; Hudgens 1986; Martin 2017).

The great Eastern religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism generally spoke of “knowledge versus ignorance,” rather than good and evil.The great Western religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally spoke of “good and evil,” rather than knowledge and ignorance. Gandhi was influenced by both traditions. He was deeply influenced by the Christian Gospels, Leo Tolstoy, and John Ruskin as well as the readings from the Quran in his own Hindu temple when he was a boy. He rightly saw the confluence of these two traditions and declared that all the religions come from the same source (see Iyer 1973).

Noncooperation with evil is a duty, and the economic and political institutions that dominate our planet are evil. Evil is what destroys life and the future, whether from ignorance or malice or both. The system of militarized sovereign nation-states, fragmenting our common human project into some 193 competing national projects with their absolute borders, secrecy, manipulations, bombs, warplanes, ships, and missiles, is evil and anti-life. It destroys our ability to live in peace with one another as well as our ability to respond to the climate crisis. It results in an immense militarism that pours some 1.5 trillion US dollars down the global toilet annually while the poor languish in hunger and the climate that sustains us rapidly disintegrates.

The global capitalist economic system is evil. It is predicated on endless growth on a finite planet, an omnicidal quest of the unredeemed human ego. It is predicated in creating money as debt, to sinking humanity into endless indebtedness to the one percent (the banking-corporate elite) with their minions and academic enablers in the top twenty percent, and enslaving the bottom eighty percent to endless scarcity, economic desperation, lethal competition, and financial liability. It is a system designed for the domination by the rich and the elite, the few, who ride on the backs of the honest labor of the rest of humanity (see Martin 2010b, Part Two).

It is a system that promotes the lucrative military destruction of people and our planet, an industrial military complex that reaps trillions in profits from its institutionalized order of death and destruction. It is a system that promotes fragmentation and collapse of the planetary environment, pumping out endless fossil fuels and limitlessly devouring the finite resources of the planet that sustains our life. Capitalism, like the militarized sovereign nation-states, is intrinsically evil.We need a revolutionary transformation of our world system predicated on life rather than death.

How is it possible not to cooperate with these gigantic planetary institutions that have so colonized our thinking and our world processes that they are everywhere and nowhere, like the air we breathe? The militarized sovereign nation-states force us to pay taxes to support their military death machines and their “national security” insanities.They force us to use their debt-based monetary systems. If we spend some of our money organizing meetings and educational events to resist their evil system, they make a profit from our action. How do we cling to Truth when the untruth controls the media, the banking, the governments, and the very infrastructure of our lives?

The answer lies in the dream, in the vision of Truth that lies within every human heart and cannot be killed by their evil institutions. The dream of transformation and redemption is always there (see Martin 2018). Yet the dream must be made concrete. It must tell us how to transform evil into good, how to transform the world system from a broken and fragmented nightmare of injustice and untruth to one of justice, Truth, and sustainability.That concrete vision is available to humanity in the form of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth (see Martin 2010a).

The Earth Constitution is predicated on the gigantic Truth of our common human situation. It is founded upon the unity in diversity of human civilization. It is founded on the absolute imperative to organize our planetary system premised on the common good of all. The “broad functions” of the Earth Federation government specified in Article one articulate the premises of this common good: ending war and disarming the nations, protecting universal human rights, ending poverty and “diminishing social differences,” and protecting the ecological fabric of the Earth to make the planet “a safe and happy home” for all.

The system of sovereign nation-states interfaced with the global debt-based economic system is centuries old, (some three to four hundred years old). It developed long ago when the Truth of our common humanity living together with fragile planetary ecosystem were entirely unknown. These developed within an age of slavery, colonialism, discrimination, and inequality. These developed long before the idea of universal human rights, planetary justice, or comprehension of our global, holistic ecosystem. The vast momentum of these interfaced institutions has colonized every corner of our world and today threatens to destroy our entire human project and the life support of nature’s other living creatures.Their evil and ignorance are palpable.

The duty of noncooperation with evil is most effectively achieved by advocating ratification of the Earth Constitution in thought, word, and deed.Article 19 of the Constitution demands that we begin the World Government here and now in its provisional, pre-ratification form.We can act now to create it though establishing provisional world ministries, a provisional world judicial system, a provisional world parliament, and worldwide programs for global grassroots empowerment for sustainability and justice.

We have little choice to avoid living within the framework of the evil system of militarized sovereign nations with its corresponding corrupt monetary system of exploitation, debt, and scarcity. But the Lords of the Earth cannot stop us from dreaming, from speaking out for gigantic Truth of our common humanity, our common planetary ecosystem, and our common human destiny of love, justice, compassion, and freedom. By spreading awareness of the Earth Constitution as an institutionalization of gigantic Truth, of satyagraha, we are actualizing our noncooperation with evil.

By making no concessions to their so-called pragmatic, practical, reality of “evolving toward the good,” we resist the evil and declare it for what it is. Their evil propaganda system also claims to honor the good. But we must go slow, they tell us, we must evolve the good patiently and incrementally. Their lies and deceit pollute even the vision of the good.

We cannot “evolve” toward the good. Those days and that possibility are over.Our future on this planet is in imminent danger and we can no longer compromise with the corruption and ignorance that are destroying that future. We need revolutionary transformation of our broken world system through ratification and activation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

The Constitution does not give us a set of empty ideals about loving one another and our planet with no concrete way to make this a reality. It is not an Earth Charter or an unenforceable set of UN system ideals. Rather, it gives us a blueprint on how we can transform the system that now blocks and derails love, compassion, justice, and Truth. The Earth Constitution provides a nonviolent revolutionary manual for human liberation. It explicitly incorporates all viable UN agencies into its framework.

We must study it, promote it, organize around it, and speak from its premises in everything we say, think, or do. Noncooperation with evil is a duty.We fulfill that duty by living from the premises of a transformed future. We begin living from the framework of valid law provided by the Earth Constitution and recognizing that no government of any sovereign nation is any longer legitimate.

A legitimate government serves the common good of its citizens, but today no government can any longer do that because the common good is planetary, not national. No national government can protect the environment of its citizens or their universal human right to peace with justice. only democratic world government under the Earth Constitution can do this (see Harris 2008, Chapter 8). National governments can regain their legitimacy only insofar as they unite under the Earth Constitution, thereby becoming participants in actualizing the common good for humanity and future generations.

Our absolute duty is noncooperation with the evil world system of militarized sovereign states interfaced with their global economic system of exploitation, debt, and misery. This noncooperation requires a vision of a transformed world system under the Earth Constitution.This vision can be actualized here and now as we establish the agencies and institutions called for by the Constitution. The most effective from of noncooperation with evil is dedication to ratification and implementation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. We must act now. Tomorrow will simply be too late.

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Many thanks for your excellent, admirable article in all respects, except for the final conclusion. I was glad to publish it on your page (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428) in two versions - in your original and with my underscores and comments, so that you can see my conscientious interested work with it instead of superficial "opinion."

Especially important are my final comments and the invitation to conduct a statistical research of the spherons of America at any level within 2-4 hours, no more. This practice will be the best criterion for the truth of our long-standing dialogue on spherons. With hope for understanding,

Where can we find a source of real, affirmative hope and vision within today’s fractured and deranged world? The daily news appears to reveal only hopelessness and despair. But a negative prognosis may well become a self-fulfilling prophesy in the direction of even further disaster, just as real vision and hope might become a self-fulfilling prophesy in the opposite direction. What is the news telling us today?

The banks in Cyprus, without the democratic consent of the people of Cyprus, have just now confiscated the savings of depositors.Cyprus was forced, against the will of its people, to do this in order to maintain the liquidity of the country through paying off the giant private banking concerns that fund the European monetary system. We knew the bankers were thieves, but this is truly a new low.

The news is now full of the new “solution” that the big private banks have come up with to continue filling the coffers of their investors: appropriate (i.e. steal) the savings of people from the banks when these banks need bailing out, perhaps turning the money into stocks that can entirely disappear with the collapse of the bank.According to Ellen H. Brown, author of Web of Debt, this “solution” can also happen in the U.S. or anywhere the private banks have control.She calls it a “long-planned confiscation scheme”. (www.webofdebt.com/articles/battleofcyprus.php) Even the FDIC, which supposedly protects individual savings accounts in U.S. banks up to $250,000 would not apply.As we sink further into the end of the capitalist post-war boom, the huge banking corporations that control politics and world governance are calling in every last exploitation card.

According to Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar, author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World Is Dissolving into Liquid War, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will be meeting this week in South Africa to discuss an alternative global economic arrangement that will abandon the U.S. dollar as a key international exchange currency, promote trade agreements among these five countries, and set up set up an international “Bank of the South” as an alternative to the Western dominated World Bank and IMF. This coalition, representing more than half the world’s population, might well marginalize the U.S. dollar and economy, leading to further rapid economic decline for the West.

In Rob Kall’s Op Ed News interview with Paul Craig Roberts, author of the Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the development of high speed internet, the West has been gutted of its industrial base. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the development of a globalized economy beginning with the Clinton Administration, the manufacturing base within the U.S. was rapidly shifted overseas to places like China and India where labor costs were significantly cheaper.With the development of high-speed internet, even non-manufacturing, professional service jobs have been more and more outsourced to India and other foreign countries. Globalization has been a disaster for the economic well-being of the U.S., and for the ordinary citizens of most countries in the world.

Roberts sees no future for the U.S.He thinks we are “washed up”. He states:“So the demand and use for the dollar is about to rapidly constrict. We'll have a situation where the Feds are not only creating a trillion new dollars more than the demand is growing, but the demand will be shrinking! And so the thing will blow up. And when the dollar bubble pops, so does the bond market bubble, the stock market bubble. We will have the biggest economic catastrophe in the history of the world, and there is no solution. The United States will go from being a so-called superpower to a nothing!” (http://www.opednews.com/articles/4/Paul-Craig-Roberts-Transcr-by-Rob-Kall-130330-454.html)

The only thing that is booming in the U.S. is the industrial-military complex, which makes a small elite very rich but is hardly sufficient to provide employment to the masses of citizens who are likely to rapidly sink into unemployment, poverty, and misery. As of 2011, the U.S. has spent 3.7 trillion on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan alone. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/us-usa-war-idUSTRE75S25320110629) Chalmers Johnson, in his book, Dismantling the Empire, describes the massive militarism of the U.S. and the immense costs of maintaining more than 700 military bases worldwide. He argues that this militarism is bankrupting the country and that the only way to avoid collapse is divestment of this vast system of military bases. The fact that the transnational corporations who control this militarism, in league with the Pentagon, have no intention of abandoning their cash cow seems to escape Johnson. The militarism is there for a reason: to promote the interests of the U.S. ruling class and prevent coalitions like BRICS from successfully undermining U.S. global hegemony.

Meanwhile, on top of the economic bad news, we have terrible news about our planetary environment. 27 of the world’s top ocean experts have made public an international report describing the unprecedented speed at which the world’s oceans are deteriorating. They report that coral reefs are dying, and biodiversity is rapidly declining with many invasive species; there are rapidly growing open-water dead zones, widespread depletion of the fish populations, and rapidly spreading toxic algae.(http://coastalcare.org/2011/06/the-speed-of-change-oceans-in-distress-an-international-report/)

This comes immediately after a January 2013, 1000 page report by 300 U.S. scientists, from both the private and governmental sectors, on the present and pending effects of climate crisis on the U.S. The future will be significantly hotter, drier, more disaster prone and may lead to epidemics, social unrest, shortages and disastrous storms throughout the U.S.This scientific community represents a compelling consensus of experts.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/11/climate-change-america-hotter-drier-disaster?amp;buffer_share=98d2f)The future looks bleak no matter how we assess our present situation of the Earth or within the U.S.The solution to our global problems is certainly not found in further nation-state rivalries and intrigues. If we want to survive and flourish, it clearly cannot be a matter of BRICS versus the West. Nor can it be merely a matter, as Roberts puts it in the above named interview, of merely maintaining the right balance between the power of government and the power of corporations.

Most people appear unable to imagine any force on Earth that might be more powerful than the bankers who now control the global economy or the militarized nation-states that jockey for position and ascendency through militarism or economic maneuvering. People today appear unable to imagine any institutions for the Earth other than globalized corporate capitalism and sovereign nation-state militarism (that could really overcome these forces).Yet many leading thinkers and activists have been doing just this since at least World War one, when leaders of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, such as RosikaSchwimmer and Mary Georgia Lloyd, pointed out clearly that the system of sovereign nations was an unworkable war-system that needed to be replaced by an Earth Federation.

Since that time many thousands of world citizens have discussed, written, and finalized a document that could solve the problems of our planet in an integrated, practical, and efficient manner: the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Thinker after thinker concerning the “global issues” that transcend the boundaries of all sovereign nation-states (global population explosion, resource depletion, militarism, environmental collapse, economic disparity, poverty, etc.) have pointed out that all these problems are interrelated and interdependent. We cannot solve the global economic problems without solving the immense waste of money and resources in global militarism, and we cannot direct resources into restoring and saving the environment as long as we waste trillions on global militarism. We cannot prevent deforestation and its horrible environmental consequencesas long as global poverty forces poor peopleto burn wood as cooking fuel. Compelling evidence of the interrelatedness of our global crises has continued to mount for more than half a century, but, still, the principle does not appear to sink in.

The Earth Constitution is a 30 page document that sets up a brilliantly conceived democratic world systemaddressing all these problems at once, in an integrated and comprehensive fashion.There is simply no other alternative. Economic collapse can only be prevented if a worldwide authority takes the power out of the hands of private bankers and regulates for the common good of the planet and its citizens. If even 5% of the thoughtful and articulate people of the world decided to unite behind this practical and simple solution, we could create a real future for our planet, whereas it appears now that we have no viable future.We could create the energy of real vision and hope, whereas it appears now that we have no vision and little hope.

Under the current global economic system, controlled by private banking corporations, and under the current system of “sovereign” militarized nation-states, none of these problems can be effectively addressed or solved.We are forced, despite ourselves, to look for an integrated, global democratic solution.That solution is readily available in the form of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, which can be found on many websites (e.g., www.worldproblems.net, www.worldparliament-gov.org), and has been translated into all the major languages of the world.If we stop thinking as parochial and Lilliputian citizens of fragmented nation-states, we can begin thinking as citizens of a democratic Earth Federation that, alone, has the enforceable democratic authority to control the bankers, demilitarize the nations, and establish a global peace system, justice system, and sustainability system.

Along with otherswithin the Earth Federation Movement going back at least a century, I have written a number of books presenting the philosophical, moral, and practical foundations for this paradigm shift that must happen if human beings are going to survive on this planet (and have an intact planet on which to survive).These include Ascent to Freedom (2008), Triumph of Civilization (2010), and The Earth Federation Movement (2011).Asolid groundwork of reasoning and justification is not lacking. As Paul Craig Roberts points out, economic globalization has been singularly destructive of the well-being of ordinary citizens worldwide. But what has not been globalized is a democratic force that can transform private corporations and militarized nation-states for the common good of the people of Earth.

The only thing that appears to be lacking in politically aware people today is vision: the vision, will, and the discipline to think as a global citizen rather than parochially—not to think like a flea but rather like an elephant.We need people to think big and who dream of real solutions, planetary solutions. We need a positive vision of integral human liberation that will become a self-fulfilling prophesy for human civilization.

The 13^th session of the Provisional World Parliament is coming up in Lucknow, India, December 19-21, 2013. These Parliaments operate under the authority of Article 19 of the Earth Constitution.They are important historic, paradigm-shifting events. We invite all who have the vision and courage to think as global citizens, to think like elephants rather than fleas, to join us in transforming our world system to one of peace, justice, and sustainability.It is surprisingly easy, it is exciting, and it is our only serious option on this planet. We need to unite behind the vision of a global social contract, a real Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

(Glen T. Martin is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Professor of Philosophy at Radford University in Virginia.His website is www.radford.edu/gmartin.)

Please find attached a copy of my new op-ed article about despair and hope in our time. It is being published on-line with OpEd News and Reader Supported News. In peace, Glen

I was amazed at the wisdom of your short - 3 pages, but a deep and troubled paper for the future of humanity, despite the hopelessness of the world current situation.

Many thanks for this wonderful article, which I was happy to publish on your personal page here: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=428.

I invite all members and friends of GHA read it carefully - it has great spiritual significance for all of us. Importantly, it highlights the main way out of the world hopeless state. on this way I want to say specifically.

During the decades of your stubborn creativity you have created a brilliant world achievement - your "Constitution of the Earth." No less brilliant global achievements created by Dr. Norman Kurland - the theory of justice global economy; Dr. Bruce Cook - his book "Harmony of Nations"; Dr. Kurt Johnson - his theory of Interspiritual Age of religions; the ABC of Harmony authors - the theory of a harmonious civilization and harmonious education. You have given this book the highest rating, you wrote: the ABC of Harmony is "Our New Planetary Paradigm, the fundamental revolution in science and paradigm shift in human consciousness" (The ABC, p. 296).

However, all these global achievements in various sectors for decades remain scattered and fragmented. It is clear that without the internal globalization, integration, and holistic harmony they will never find acceptance in a globalized world, which goes to a harmonious civilization and to internal harmonization of all its achievements in all fields. Their inner deep synthesis, integration and holism in harmony is now, in our era of globalization and harmonization, the first fundamental obstacle before global recognition of these achievements.

Therefore, each of us must now clearly understand that without the integration and synthesis with other achievements his personal and private achievement is doomed to oblivion and will be deprived of world recognition. Each of us is personally responsible for the lives of their own achievements through the synthesis with other achievements. Other way is not exist, and we have no choice. GHA is clear about this, therefore GHA is doing everything possible in this direction. But without you in this spiritual synthesis of our achievements, we are also weak as like every one of you.

We need to realize that by one we will never succeed, none of us, none of our brilliant achievements. Internal integration, synthesis and integrity - it is our destiny, from which we can not avoid, and which we should devote every day most of our time and effort.

After the ABC of Harmony, the next attempt of synthesis of our achievements is the Center (School) of Interfaith Harmonious Education (CIHE): www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=561. Unfortunately, we do not see in it any part of Glenn, nor Norman. For example, Glenn, I invite you to write the CIHE curriculum for the course "The Constitution of the Earth for Interfaith Harmony", and Norman - "Just Economy for Interfaith Harmony." The CIHE project is open and we look forward to your participation in it with your learning course on your achievements. This is a very important step of the synthesis of our achievements in global problem of interfaith harmony, covering more than half of humanity if no in a whole.

The next attempt of synthesis - is Social Statistics Study (SSS), which we wrote and in which we also look forward to your participation. Thus, the fate of our life is the movement from our alienation and fragmentation to the synthesis and integrity in harmony. GHA calls on all of you to move together on this path, the single for our survival in this era of globalization, harmonization, global synthesis and integration. This is the most difficult way, but only for us. We must learn to walk this route through our various joint works and projects.

In 1958, an agreement to call a World Constitutional Convention was initiated by Philip Isely and others and circulated worldwide for signatures, with a request that both national governments and people of each country send delegates.From this call began a movement of world citizens from many countries to create a constitution for the Earth and initiate democratic world government.In 1968, a World constitutional Convention was held at Interlaken, Switzerland, with 200 people’s delegates from 27 countries.

During the next 8 years, with many international meetings, a strategy for “Reclaiming Earth for Humanity” was circulated and a drafting commission was chosen to write the Constitution according to the guidelines developed at the first World Constitutional Convention. This commission completed the first draft of the Earth Constitution in 1972. Between 1973 and 1975, the draft was finished, printed in 1974, and circulated worldwide for comment, together with the call to the second session of the World Constitutional Convention (now defined as the “World Constituent Assembly”) in 1977.

In June 1977, the second session of World Constituent Assembly was held in Innsbruck, Austria. The proposed Earth Constitution was debated paragraph by paragraph, amended, then adopted with 138 original signers from 25 countries and 6 continents.A worldwide call for ratification by the nations and peoples of Earth was issued.The Constitution was sent to U.N. General Assembly and to all national governments. The Third Session of World Constituent Assembly was held January 1979, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 1982 in Brighton, England, under Article 19 of the Constitution, the people of Earth begin holding sessions of the Provisional World Parliament.

The process of development of provisional world law had begun, continuing at the Second Session of the Provisional World Parliament in New Delhi, India, in 1985 and the Third Session in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1987. A Fourth Session of the World Constituent Assembly was held in Troia, Portugal, in 1991 that resulted in a number of minor changes in wording.During the course of its 33-year development, literally thousands of world citizens worked at developing the Earth Constitution in the form that we have it today. It is the only world constitution in existence that has undergone such a rigorous process of democratic, participatory development.

Since 1982, the Provisional World Parliament has met at eleven times in different cities around the world. A substantial body of quality provisional world law has been created as a basis for a future world civilization of genuine peace, prosperity, and justice before for every citizen of our planet. At the same time, the worldwide campaign to ratify the Earth Constitution continues to grow. The Institute on World Problems was created in 2001 to work with WCPA and the Earth Federation Movement in this process of nonviolent transformation toward a decent, democratic, and sustainable future for our precious planet Earth.

The Constitution for the Federation of Earthmay well be the most important document of the 20^thand 21^st centuries. It is comparable in significance to the U.N.Universal Declaration of Human Rightsor the Charter for the International Criminal Court. However, unlike the latter documents, the Earth Constitutionwill be hailed as establishing the paradigm shiftthat made possible peace, justice, and environmentalsustainabilityfor the Earth. These latter documents appear among those representing the highest moral and legal thinking possible under the present world order dominated by the system of sovereign nation-statesfor well over four centuries. The Earth Constitution establishes the foundations of a transformed world order premised on the holismthat has been uncovered by every 20^th century science from micro-physics to macro-physics to ecologyto systems theory to the basic social sciences.

When future historians consider the history of the 20^th century, they will not only see it as the century of global wars and mass exterminations, and they will not only see it as the century that produced nuclear weaponsand delivery systems that could wipe out the human race, they also may well see it as the century that produced mankind’s greatest hope in the form of the Earth Constitution. For the Earth Constitution embodies a true paradigm shiftfrom fragmentation and fragmented thinking to holistic thinking under the principle of unity in diversityinstitutionalized within planetary democratic government. It transforms the fragmentation of the modern world systeminto the holismthat will make possible the sustainable, peaceful flourishing of humankind for the next millennium. In the view of many, it represents the paradigm document for the third millennium.

Mahatma Gandhi’s dictum that all men are brothers does not merely betoken a moral “ideal” that informs our human situation. It expresses a reality, a fundamental truth of our planetary condition that must be actualized if we are to survive and flourish on our tiny Spaceship Earth. In the face of our present endangered future, and in the face of our incessant chaotic world of warand violence, our partiality for our own culture, race, nation, language, ethnicity, or tradition must give way to the universality of the most fundamental of all moral and existential principles: all human beingsare brothers and sisters.

The greatest foundation that this universal truth could possibly have would be embodiment within an Earth Constitutionthat legally establishes universal citizenship for all the people of Earth. Legal citizenship establishes equality, freedom, and responsibility for citizens to act for the common goodof society, the Earth, and future generations. The fundamental existential and moral truth of our planetary condition must be enshrined within the majesty of world law.

“World peacethrough world law” is a frequently heard maxim of world federalism. Its meaning is quite literal. There can be no peaceunless a peace systemis established for the world. Such a system has perhaps four most fundamental components: (1) it must involve enforceable world law, (2) this world law must be enforceable over individuals, (3) it must be democratically legislated by a world parliament, and (4) it must be part of a federal system in which governmental power resides on many levels from the local to the planetary levels. Vibrant democracy, legally empowering all persons as world citizens in equality, freedom, and responsibility, enshrined at all levels from local to global, actualizes the universal moral and existential truth at the heart of our situation. In doing so, it becomes the foundation of world peace with justice.

Each of these components is fundamental to democracy, and the chaos, corruption, and unending violenceof our world order stems most basically from lack of authentic democracy. Nations spend a large portion of their wealth militarizing themselves in order to confront a lawless and dangerous world. In doing so, they fail to address poverty, education, sanitation, healthcare, human rightsviolations, and other serious problems within their own borders.

When they do attempt to address these issues within their own borders, they soon come to understand that our present planetary monetary and political system prevents effective change within countries. These systems are predicated on the fragmentation of our human reality to the point where no part, within the fragmented world order, is capable of realizing the common goodof its citizens, let alone of the precious Earth, or future generations. The structural chaos of the present world systemitself prevents our highest human ideals from becoming actualized.

Global economic and structural conditions prevent fragmented nation-statesfrom creating a decent life for their citizens while simultaneously inhibiting effective united action to address climate crisis, rapidly depleting resources, massive poverty, weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, and other planetary issues beyond the scope of individual nations. Immense debtstrangles even the so-called developed nations, yet there appears no way out of an economic system premised on crushing debt. Militarismdrains the wealth of most nations, yet there appears no option but to participate in a never-ending arms race to keep up with the latest technological developments in weapons within a dangerous world.

Global climate crisesand resource depletion meanwhile create ever-more scarcity of arable land, fresh water, ocean fisheries, and life-sustaining forests. Rainfall becomes erratic, regular seasons necessary to agriculture lose their reliability, desperate citizens become socially unstable and may resort to violence. Protection of human rightsand democratic governance becomes less and less tenable and possible. Universal surveillance and the national securitystateappear more and more necessary due to the social chaos engendered everywhere by the militarized fragmentation of the world systemin tandem with our disintegrating planetary ecosystem.

It is relatively meaningless to believe that something called “international law” can address the chaos, confusion, and endless wars generated by the present world system. You cannot govern the behavior of militarized collective entities called nations who see themselves as “sovereign” and therefore independent of any effective laws above themselves. You cannot address climate crisis, resource depletion, or proliferation of nuclear weaponsthrough a “treaty system” that is largely voluntary on the part of nations and from which they can withdraw at any time as their self-interest dictates or, within which, they can manipulate and interpret the agreement as their perceived self-interest dictates.

World peacethrough world lawnecessarily requires genuine planetary democracy. It necessarily requires that world law be enforceable over every individual by a civilian policeforce trained to follow due processand the protection of innocent bystanders. World peacecan only be created through a democratic world parliamentlegislating on the basis of the common goodof people everywhere and dealing with planetary matters beyond the ability of individual nations to handle. Finally, world peace with justicecan only be created through a federal system in which localities, regions, and nations share levels of sovereigntywith a world parliament representing the sovereignty of all the people who live upon the Earth.

Even though human beingshave been widely aware of the democratic idea since the 18^th century, authentic planetary democracywould constitute a genuine paradigm shiftfrom a worldwide warsystemto a peacesystem. For planetary democracy under the Earth Constitutionestablishes a world order on the holistic principle of unity in diversity. The system of sovereign nation-statesis inherently fragmented, inherently incapable of uniting humanity. World peacewith justiceand sustainabilitycan only flow from this principle of holismthat constitutes the fundamental discovery of every 20^th century science.

The highest moral and legal thinking possible under the present fragmented world system, illustrated in the U.N.documents mentioned above, generates ideals in the service of a slow evolution of humankind toward a decent world order. Documents such as the charter of the International Criminal Courtor the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rightsdo not challenge the system of sovereign nation-statesthat blocks both peaceand genuine cooperation for dealing with global crises, nor do they challenge the global economic system of crushing debtand unlimited accumulations of private wealth that prevents human flourishing everywhere on Earth. The institutionalized structures of fragmentation turn human unity in diversityinto a set of mere “ideals” that ring of an impossible utopia.

Only the new paradigm of genuine planetary democracy, premised on a constitution that institutionalizes unity in diversitythrough effective world law, can transform our endangered planet before it is too late. We do not need ideals within a model of the slow evolution of hopelessly fragmented institutions. We need a genuine paradigm shiftthat places the fragmented institutions within a new set of premises that transforms and empowers them to become cooperating units within an authentic world peacesystem. only within such a system can the moral and existential truth that all human beingsare brothers and sisters become a living reality enshrined in universal world citizenship.

The wonderful diversity of the world’s nations, religions, races, cultures, languages, and forms of life must be preserved and protected, and this diversity must govern itself democratically at the local and regional levels worldwide. But this can only happen if there is genuine unity for the whole, premised on the dignity, freedom, and equalhuman rightsof people everywhere. In a world lacking such unity, the more powerful cultures, races, fragmented institutions, and political powers will simply overwhelm, digest, and assimilate genuine diversity.

Such a unity can only derive from the concrete institutions spelled out in workable detail by the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. From within the chaos and apparent hopelessness of the 20^th century, thousands of world citizens worked together to create that century’s most important document, a document founded on a new, holistic paradigm, showing the way forward to a peaceful and just human communityliving sustainably on our precious planet Earth.