TED, NDE, Open Heart & Mind and Our Fundamental Unity

One characteristic of this blog is that it is a work in progress to refine and expound a universal worldview that can take any belief system, convictions, problem or it's huge promise - any information, and help us see the relevance, meaning and significance of any information, expressed in simple ideas, and wield it as the power to transform our world.  To transform our world into a more just and sustainable global home.

My belief system and your belief system or principles and convictions is the perspective that you and I  believe can transform our world but our diverse society, in order for it to strongly progress needs to be more aware of the fundamental unity that we all have.  This fundamental unity can be made more strong and apparent when we define it in a "universal" language that avoids bias and prejudice arising from our perceptions that other belief systems and cultures are different and are invading or converting our own belief system.  Our own perspective has wisdom and truth when it can take any other perspective and see its translation into our own, realizing our fundamental unity.

If you and I want to truly see this universal worldview, what our true freedom shows is that we can open our hearts and minds to any ideas that we perceive to be different or contradictory to our own set of principles and see how it translates into our own and realize that we do all have a universal worldview. The only difference is we express it in our diverse cultures and language.  When we open our hearts and minds to care and understand, the hope and promise is we will see this universal worldview.

The essence of the belief system that I have grown into and the NDE which I would call the"anomaly" of all belief systems (belief systems being only based on "faith") and non-theist convictions (the anomaly of scientific evidence of higher dimensions) has so far shown me our fundamental unity.

This what I call "universal perspective" has given me consistencies and meaning to any TED talk, news or any information that I have encountered so far.

This is the basis of my intuition that we can transform our world, if we all keep an open mind to understand and an open heart to care, and translate all these into concrete actions.

Here are some of the links to TED conversations that shows in one way or another our fundamental unity.

What do you think about NDE's (near death experiences)? Is it a phenomenon that can possibly help transform our world?

What IF... we share our top 5 desires we hope to accomplish on earth... A TED BUCKET LIST... ideas and angels unite here...

What have you learnt from watching TEDTalks?

Will we wait for other people to be converted to our beliefs or convictions before we can transform our world?

Focusing on Climate Change. Population will peak at 9 billion in 2050.

According to Dr. Hans Rosling, an expert statistician, in a TED Conversation thread (excerpts):

1.  "We face many environmental challenges, but the foremost is the risk for a severe climate change due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion. The populations with an increasing amount of children born are fully compensated by other populations with a decreasing number of children born. A final increase of 2 billion people is expected until the world population peaks at about 9 billion in 2050. But the increase with 2 billion is comprised by already existing persons growing up to become adults, and old people like me (+60 years). So when I hear people saying that population growth has to be stopped before reaching 9 billion, I get really scared, because the only way to achieve that is by killing.

So the addition of another 2 billion in number constitutes a final increase of less than 30%, and it is inevitable. Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

So the fact is that we have to plan for a common life on Earth with 7-9 billion fellow human beings, and the environmental challenge must be met by a more effective use of energy and a much more green production of energy.

The only thing that can change this is if the last 1-2 poorest billion do not get access to school, electricity, basic health services and family planning. Only if the horror of poverty remains will we become more than 9 billion.

So my question is: Are these facts known? If not, why?

It is important because placing emphasis on population diverts attention from what has to be done to limit the climate crisis."

2.  "The population growth we expect in the next 40 years are adults and old people that are already born. They will replace an earlier generation that was smaller, but the number of children born per year has already stopped growing since 20 years back.

So how would you avoid the final increase with 2 billion more. I can only see to options forcing 1 child policy upon young couples ... We should see it to that all have access to family planning, as an estimate 30 million of the children born each year are estimated to be unplanned. But 30 million per year is 300 million per decade and about a billion until 2050 so indeed with Utopian success in family planning we can avoid one of the two extra billion. But what more can we do? Already are 40 million abortions done per year. And had that not been the case during the last generation we would have been one more billion now. So the worlds women are already doing more abortions than they are giving births to unplanned children."  (http://bit.ly/HansPop, gapminder.org)

Is it easier to foucs on the population than the thorny issue of climate change because the latter is embedded in our economic systems?  But are we also aware that missing our climate change targets will cause more problems to our planet and to the population?

Can we take a look back and see that we, the people empower the system of government and business that is supposed to take care of everybody and our planet?  We empower our institutions and we work in this institutions but why don't we all get in return our basic rights and a healthy planet?   

What part of our solutions need more effort?

Solution 1.  Resolve crisis and global risks that may further weaken our world.  (UN MDG (un.org), WEF Risks Response Network (weforum.org), UN climate change conference, key nation's influence on global security and stability, etc.)

Solution 2.  Transformation of our economic systems into an equitable and earth-sustainable economic model. (WEF Global Redesign Initiative, businesses and governments, NGOs)

Solution 3.  Formulation and implementation of global transformation strategies of our industries. (WEF, businesses and governments, NGOs)

                                   

Solution 4.  Information campaigns to bring more awareness to people and strengthen our political resolve.:

                              -  more participation in our electoral process and constant dialog with our political representatives

                              -  social networks (TED.com, Facebook, etc.)

                              -  political and economic information and social network system to strengthen transparency and accountability

Solution 5.  Information campaigns to bring more awareness to what we can contribute individually, locally or as a nation (TED.com, carbon footprint awareness,  influence of our buying habits, etc.).

We also need an information system for solution and reform activities and see our progress and identify activities that needs more effort.

The premise of this website is to spearhead two key solutions that will help improve understanding,  cooperation and our power to transform and leave our true legacy: (1)  translate and contribute the power of our beliefs and convictions into the simple universal language of our mutual interests and wield it as a driving force to transform our world and (2) we energize our hearts, we energize each other, we energize our hearts and minds and help transform our world (TED.com, etc.)

This is the challenge to leave our mark and our legacy in this troubled world.  We take stock of our current power and influence and see what part of our solutions we can push and together we shall transform our world and leave a lasting and happy legacy for our children.

Transforming our Nations

I sincerely admire and appreciate the care and concern that many citizens are devoting to their nation.  I wish there is an easy solution for bringing justice and peace to our countries but with my current understanding let me contribute some ideas.  The constitution is supposed to be the fundamental law of the land and thus is the basis for running the government.   Unfortunately, some citizens don't agree or are ambivalent to the constitution and are sometimes contributing more problems.  Maybe it's possible to set aside the differences and concentrate on common interests like the need of all people to live in freedom, justice and peace.  I believe a civil dialog could result in arriving at more common ideas that can strengthen national resolve. 

We start with the basic needs and rights - food, shelter, education, work and security.  What are other common interests and rules?  Obviously nobody wants war and violence.  Can all people agree to not use violence?  Can people agree on common national or spiritual identities,  agree to have a civil discussion and work on common and basic interests?,  Agree that force will only be used to protect the people from violence and from people's weaknesses?

Can people agree on the concept of a government as the central structure and voice of all nationals whose only function is to guarantee the basic needs and rights.  Can people agree to encourage each other to participate in electing leaders and make sure they implement the mandates and are held to account on their responsibilities.  Agree that the businesses that are empowered and regulated will take care all citizens?

In doing all these, we exercise our two basic faculties - our minds and our hearts.  There is no question about the role of our faith as long as we continue to let it empower us to strive for our common needs and rights.  What I believe though as the fundamental resource of our empowerment is our hearts.  We let our faiths and convictions empower it and 'energize' it - make our hearts a very caring and loving heart.  Our loving hearts will in turn help inspire our minds to work for our common needs.  We care and love our family the same way we care and love our national family.

Most people today I believe can see the fundamental role of our hearts and minds in our lives.  There seems to be a fundamental rule on how our hearts , our love and our happiness are essentially connected.  I believe that our heart is meant to love and our love is meant to bring happiness to one another.  It's a cycle of love going around and hearts being loved and happy, and minds inspired - hoping and trusting.  Minds that are innovating, reinventing and working for our common needs.  We look at our world today, any nation, any family and we can see that the problems that we have today is the fundamental result of our heart and our love, our happiness and our minds being misused in ways that it's not meant to be used.  The true essence of our faiths and convictions will tell us this.

The emerging nations might ask, will this nation will look like the other nations with many social ills because the system has some similarities?  Not when the fundamental reasons are understood.  We study and learn how other nations fail and avoid the pitfalls.  The nation may seem like it's just starting to stand on its own today but I believe it is necessary for it to go through our debates and cooperation, our sacrifices, before things can get better.  I believe there can be an inherent harmony between a peaceful earthly life and the essence of our faiths or convictions.

A possible solution to poverty and world hunger. Venus Project. Global Redesign Initiative.

I like many of the ideas of Venus Project.  It helps to create a clear vision of our future that most people can picture and work on.  In the current state of the world today, I am also concerned on how we are going to resolve our crises and at the same time transform our world to an ideal world like the Venus Project envisions.  According to the Weforum.org, the efforts of the UN needs more speed and cooperation and we need to transform our WWII era institutions.  The forum had initiated a Global Redesign Initiative worked on by top leaders of business and government and they identified that one key driver of transformation is "Hope".  The Venus Project could bring more hope and more help from people. (thevenusproject.com, bit.ly/GRedesign)

I think what most people are realizing right now is to enhance the power of our hearts and minds to hope and work for solutions.  I believe that by energizing and directing the power of our hearts and minds, it can have a positive fundamental impact to our world today.  It will eliminate a lot of waste, improve our efficiencies and help transform our world. 

What  is the common idea that most people would understand could help transform our world?  It's the power of our hearts to love and be happy.  Think of the state of a heart that is in love.  When we are truly in love, we are highly inspired and motivated.  We can energize more people, we turn our hopes and trusts in delivering the right political mandates, join the reform movements and help influence our systems to transform in our economic choices (buying habits). 

     
How can we have a critical number of people with energized hearts that can transform our world?   Everyone have a heart and the way to energize our heart is to stimulate it with the force of love that will keep it loving and energized.  It is like the forces that keeps powering the particle and galactic systems.  We give the force.  We give our love.  But not just any kind of love.  We give our true love, our unconditional love.

True love is loving one another the way our heart is designed to love and make us happy.  When our heart is used other than to love another person (we love things, we hate), we have problems and we are not happy.  When our love is used other than to make other hearts happy (we love with conditions, we are buying our love, love is transactional - there is no real love), we have problems and we are not truly happy.  When our heart is unloved and unhappy, we have problems. (we don't want to be sad, we buy our happiness) .  When we stop loving altogether, we have big problems (we don't care, we are selfish).  When our heart and our love is misused, we are not happy and it brings out our weaknesses - we don't care, we can lie, we can steal and we can destroy.

We don't have to be sad, we don't have to be weak.  We have our love, we have our relationships, we have our family, relatives and friends.  Our global family needs help.  We can start giving our love, we can start energizing hearts, we can start inspiring minds.  We have the power to hope and trust.  We have the power to reinvent and innovate.  We have the power to transform our world.

http://bit.ly/ThePowerToTransform 

http://www.ted.com/conversations/3219/how_can_we_energize_the_hearts.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3331/a_possible_solution_to_povert.html