From:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lovingGod/message/353This is a long letter to inform the lab of Minciu Sodas where I am at in my personal development as well as in my endeavour of pursuing my vision up to this point, as of September 10, 2006.
I started with the lab after coming across a Loving God yahoo group in April 2005. I read several letters from Andrius and I replied to one. Andrius replied and he kindly engaged me to work on my key concept and investigatory question. Previous to that encounter, I had been intensively writing and wildly emailing letters to decision makers about a local-global vision of connectivity called …cleansing our vision of the Crown…
I had been doing so for thirty months as a stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter-taxpayer, before coming across Andrius.
I have no formal education as I dropped out in grade 10.
Apart from my own extensive experience of knowing that God knows me and that He is leading me to where I may be of service to Him with an increasing empowerment to obey faithfully, I came at Minciu Sodas with nothing concrete to offer other than a deep desire to grow personally and to hopefully discover how to move from cyber space to reality with the vision unfolding significantly.
I came on board with some 30 years of free lance social entrepreneurship experience, which have yet to consolidate into the community that I seek to build. The greatest challenge of my life was and is in seeking over all health for my marriage and family, which is comprised of mom, dad and four adult children, where one is physically challenged and where communication is yet to become functional, amongst any of us. To understand the difficulties that I bring to the situation from my background and which yet, do team up with social entrepreneurship, see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4549575When I started with the lab, I understood my work to be one of promoting spiritual unity as the basis of personal transformation and social reform.
In Canada, since October 2001, I have been promoting the idea of approaching our national unity crisis with a socio-cultural healing amongst the English, the French and the Aboriginal nations, instead of leaving it exclusively in the political realm, controlled by the divisive interests of high finance agendas. By healing the core of Aboriginal-English-French cultures, there is a local basis to invite all other cultures to the healing of humanity's cultivation of our global unity.
So shortly before joining Minciu Sodas, I had written my most potent and relevant letters to date in my campaign to promote such a vision of Canada. They were to the President of United States, Mr. George Bush jr.(1) and to her majesty, Queen ElisabethII of England(2). My letters to them is also to invite them to join …cleansing our vision of the Crown…
From the start with Minciu, the spectrum of my online development was being mentored and chiselled to establish a coherent distribution of the vision from micro to macro thinking. At the micro end was Andrius Kulikauskas(3) and at the macro end, there was Chris Macrae(4), whom I heard of from Andrius and who generously guided me to where I could establish an Internet presence, where sustainability and social entrepreneurship matters.
So I began to interact and to answer questions that I had never thought of before, but which were all connecting into the local-global equation.
My online interaction was with Minciu Sodas (orchard of thoughts), on the EU Knowledgeboard's (5) forum and with the Disruptive Mice site for 9 months.
By having written so extensively, my focus has become more deeply rooted and it allowed me to start learning about networking. So far, networking has come to mean, being alert in the name of service. Anywhere or anything that comes my way and which can be of use to someone else's cause in which I believe, then I am happy to pass it on.
All the while I am learning to network and to contribute to other's work, I get to go on promoting my key concept of the organic experience of spiritual unity, as I accumulate the opportunities to develop various angles to …cleansing our vision of the Crown… (…covC…)
In order to make it simple to understand, (…covC…) is the experience of being touched by the Authority of Life and once touched, one grows spiritually healthy and learns to wear the Crown and by applying its Authority within the oneness of obedience to the Spirit of truth, love and wisdom.
Because (…covC…) is all encompassing in its scope of human interest, my research is to develop how to embody the Faculty of Living in the most simple and efficient way to love with action and truth from one to all and from all to one. The local-global equation does not allow for any less and yet, justice cannot be compromise. Therefore, the transformation must proceed to invite one and all, by ensuring that no one gets left without the Crown within their life and upon their head, before proceeding to lead others.
In my personal language, this transformation has become the Recovery Road from self-destruction to self-control and community self-government.(6) The journey upon this Road is the cleansing part of the Crown's work within our personal life. The Faculty of Living is the wearing of the Crown with God and with all of His family.
So in terms of initiative, I am still working on Healing the Inner Circle in Edmonton Canada.(7) The intent of this initiative, or any other one if this one fails, is to grow into a community, with a centre open 24/7, where we can grow the alliance between Restorative Justice and Community Mental Health.(8)
The alliance is to be forged by families who become engaged in personal and communal exploration of the functions of the inner life, with the 4 music disciplines and with the Traditional Chinese Medicine. The 4 disciplines are voice, rhythms, wind and string instruments.
My Life-giving Source is Christ-Jesus Who has loved us all the way by taking on Himself on behalf of humanity, a debt that was not His to pay.(9) By His Spirit am I supplied with all the lead to find and to live out the connection between the meaning of my personal history and the course of my destiny.(10)
As a result of these 17 months with Minciu Sodas and of Internet networking, the journey to connect the micro and the macro connectivity of the local-global equation has taken the shape of a
cyber classroom that we call Spiritual Hygiene 101. The decision to start up this class came as a result of meeting up with Helen from Tanzania. She dreams of coming to Canada to find out how she could help her people with supplies for schools and an orphanage for street children. Between the two of us, we are working to establish the Tanzania-Canada connectivity of mutual completion, from our micro innovation of Spiritual Hygiene 101 to the macro distribution of the Personal Sector.(11)
The Personal Sector is where people grow in the intimacy of confidence and the clarity of transparency by coming out of the codes of silence of the private sector and from out of the public sector's official secrecy.
(1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4305098(2)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4414457(3)
http://www.ms.lt/(4)
http://www.valuetrue.com/home/default.cfm(5) https://secure.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/whoswho.cgi?action=detail&authorid=11471&id=7464
(6)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4694411(7)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A9247296(8)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A8464692(9)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4305719(10)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A10601155(11)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A13728035I terms of where are my networking activities, I am a member of several yahoo groups with the Minciu Sodas lab, hoping to see …cleansing our vision of the Crown… becoming part of the convergence that we are witnessing taking shape in our midst. I also carry on with my personal space at h2g2 of the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/U1590685I also write at the Stratagility site of Mark Ranford
http://www.stratagility.com/home hoping to contribute in sorting out the merging or co-operation of the Ethical Public Domain as pursued by Andrius Kulikauskas along with the Creative Commons. The space I write from at Stratagility is called GUP
http://www.stratagility.com/connect/og/gup_0I also maintain a group at a site which is dedicated to the youth of the world. It has 150,000 members in 250 countries and it is sponsored by a Canadian family Foundation as well as being maintained in Canada. It is called Taking It Global and the group I opened up there is called The Ancient Voice of Humanity's Youth at:
http://groups.takingitglobal.org/AVHYI use ancient voice of humanity's youth along with 2 other elements of thoughts architecture, so that together, they may begotten to generate the combustion that fires up the flame of the torch that my life is all about for the last 32 years. It goes: "The Solemn Beauty of Being Human answering the Ancient Voice of Humanity's Youth, adapting within the fluidity of Common Sense." All in all, being here to promote The Faculty of Living over death, by celebrating the Perpetual Easter upon the Land of Emmanuel, until day when death shall be eliminated from the equation by God Her/Himself.
In closing, I ask you to please, keep your prayers up with us, for Helen, myself and our families so that our adventure may become a live Tanzania-Canada video bridge-building, demonstrating the simplicity of the devotion to Christ-Jesus, in the overcoming state of good over evil, from personal to communal, from local to global with the appropriate balance of melody and rhythm to harmonize the scaling needed from micro to macro. Thank you for your ongoing focus to grow in the focus.
As a result of a recent experience at the lab, with the death of a love one of 10 years old in Africa, we have been faced with how to be, during such very very profound moment of intimate brush with a deepest human sorrow of ultimate consequences. I end this report with an adaptation to now, of what I wrote then:
---My prayer is that You make Your way into each of our lives dear God as the wise voice from the Quietening Silence of Patient Wisdom and that You open our eyes with Your lenses, bringing us to see with Your focus, keeping our attention where You need our service, so that we hear as You hear, to listen as You do, to speak as You speak and to love as You love. Be with us all and make use of each one's personal situation with the most benefit to all...Amen to Your Yes..."
How do we dispose ourselves to host the miracle we need and how do we formulate it's materialization?
One other way to ask the same question:
How do You, dear God, live in our personal and communal life on earth, without restraint upon Your complete manifestation?
…all blessings be with us all…
Benoit Couture
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From:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/1568Jeff, Tom,
I can't help but jump in on this one, when Jeff says:
"Right now the political system is beyond our control and really our
relevance where we can make a difference is scaling our ideas towards
applied and practical development models."
The best and most simple way which is still available to use as a launching pad for major changes to occur peacefully and efficiently, was offered by President Bush jr. when, during a fairly recent Address to the State of the Union when he stated bluntly: "America is ADDICTED to oil." I highlight the word addicted because it is THE word that has the power be the trigger to the right movement's deployment.
In the democracies of the world, where capitalism rules, there needs to be a simple surrender to the reality that we all face as a species, and addiction does have the meaning to convey with simplicity, the drastic nature of the changes needed.
Now that the top of the world has admitted to being addicted, treatment is called for. In this case, we are dealing with energy. Let's understand the healthy nature and energy, and we aim in the right direction. This idea of using energy addiction applies in all matters of human life and across the board of our entire existence, all the way from the way we each breath, eat, drink,sleep and interact with one another, to how we go about exploiting the environment.
One simple formula that I use in order to tune with the top-down admission of the President, so that there can be an appropriate response from the bottom-up is that we ought to use the financial resources that go in the war on drugs and translate their use into the investment into the victory over stress.
By addressing the nature of stress for what it is in terms of cause, effects and side effects over the healthy functions of human energy of its specific and over all implications, we are then positioning our focus at the junction point of demarcation between intelligent decision-making or not. The blurr of addiction gets removed from governing and the clarity of transparency appears.
Is there a political avenue that exist to demonstrate the model of what I am talking about?
Well, I wrote an open letter to the President last year, several months before he came out with his State of the Union admission to America's addiction problems. In it, I outline a way to deal with decision-making itself as well as a practical avenue which is available for him to use, if he so chooses. Here is a bit of that letter:
"... The horizon of humanity is in the healing journey and the present world crisis gives Alberta an opportunity for our 4Th Klondike!
This is the invisible gold rush, the one to make sense of the first 3 Alberta Klondikes of golden, green and black gold, in light of the global clashing climate! Because of the energy resources in our economy, we, Albertans are given a special position to lead Canadians to strengthen our place in the western world. We are needed to provide the starting point for the healing trail that the entire world populations are in need to witness and to participate in! By launching the updating and the healing of Canadian democracy from within the context of a sovereign Albertan-Quebecois challenge, energies can be channelled to raise the bridge of our unity, from the Covenant designed to heal us from the stress that feeds and leads on the crisis of human terror. Albertans are aware of the need and are now requested to move where from we host the faculty of living! In doing so, along with Canadians from coast to coast to
coast, we can, provide a safety valve to the human race, in the US transfer of energy supply from Saudi to Wood-Buffalo. George W. Bush has had to win some personal battles in the inner man’s war, in order to be made ready for President. Let us please, dear Canadians, bring on our unity to rise up to rescue Mr. George Bush, his followers and the US Presidency. Let’s be the alternative to set them free from the blind agitation of military intelligence!
Let us reach the victory of maturity, to take our place as the offering from a people of God, so that we overcome the historical temptation of worldly Christian might. ”Mr. Bush, you now stand on the threshold of the crossroad, where in the one direction, you will go on helping America and the market economy to fuel the fire of mortal appetites in the bush of the great prostitute, or, in the other direction, you can stand before God until He ignites you into His Presence by His Word and brings you to experience the New Covenant’s burning bush.
There, His Spirit enables His children to know Him, His will and His instructions for any questions we might have. By such stand of His people, Yahweh (or any name by which you relate to Life-Force) gets to demonstrate His victory lane! Americans and the entire world population need to follow the lead driven by the powerful Spirit of love and of wisdom, to show us how to overcome evil from the inner justice He gives, with the peace He grows from within each one and by His joy to strengthen us in our
journey.
The alpha and omega of decision making reside there. No human can love his enemy, bless those who curse them, to do good to those who hate them nor to pray for those who mistreat and persecute them, except for the individuals who live by the life you claim to live by, and for that, the Lord of Life of Justice and of Peace does not need our weapons, but rather, our obedience.
The image you try to project to the world from the start of your Presidency, Mr. Bush, is one opportunity granted like never before by the Creator to you and to the entire Christianity on Earth, to bow to the Spirit of all prophecies…the testimony of Jesus-Christ amongst His creation!!! May God give the man you are, to grow into the janitor He and we need, to clean up the vision of America’s Presidency, in view of
the global freedom of individual liberty…amen! Benoit Couture,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada..."
Now, currently there is a timely junction of circumstances that can take the ideas of that letter and bring them at the forefront of Americans' attention. Our Alberta Premier is retiring this week and he is going for 3 months as an invited lecturer, at an institution across the street from the White House. That Premier had written back to me some years ago, in appreciation of the poetry I had sent him.
I cannot help myself but to feel very energize with hope by it all and when I think of the potential of a team like Tom-Jeff-Steve-Franz-Andrius-Janet and on and on with all the beautiful minds of peace making and of initiative designers for people's well being such as who meet here at Minciu Sodas, getting a call to assemble by the power that be of capitalism saying to us: "Ok dear team of Minciu Sodas crisis management unit, where to from here?"
The motto under this Alberta Premier was "The Alberta advantage" So here is a link to some thoughts I've put together that I call :
"My personal and communal Alberta advantage":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A6656439The complete letter to the President Bushjr. is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4305098Being Canadian myself and in context of the Alberta Premier and of this letter here, I should mention this other letter I wrote in about the same time to her majesty, queen Elisabeth II, which is directly connected to what I hope to see getting launches as a result of the 3 months of lecturing of Mr. Klein in Washington.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4414457I sincerely think that it is possible to see emerge with the complete funding and freedom needed to assemble and to deploy the Minciu Sodas crisis management unit out of following through with the energy of this letter amongst ourselves.
The first step of the strategy is to define how we can help Mr. Klein with his 3 months in Washington, in such a way as to grab the attention of Albertans in time for the next provincial elections If we manage to get on stage with Mr. Klein's lectures from the office of global citizenship training from out of addictions and stress and into sustainability, the launching of "Be the Change" shall ignited to blaze on like a bush fire. Let us pray for the sacred bush fire to light up out the path of our souls and bodies from within God's gift in our heart and spirit. Such energy does not run out when used with love and wisdom...
...all blessings be with us all...
Benoit Couture
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