Global Assembly Dialog

Guidelines for the Emerging Global Civilization by Juan Carlos Kaiten - WiserEarth

Humanity is living one of its most crucial moments. The time of the great empires is in decay. There is no specific culture or country arising as a new empire, but instead there is a Global Emerging Culture. It seems that the planet is growing a new social body where all humans are connected giving birth to a global brain.

We are living in the peak of an evolutionary leap. The past century we started riding horses and ended riding to the moon. We have reached a high level of development in technology, but we haven't evolved in the same proportion in the development of our consciousness. That is indeed a dangerous formula for our planet.

Taking that in consideration the guidelines I suggest for the Emerging Global Civilizations are the following:

1) Personal Mastery: We can go global, participate in forums and work for Global peace and unity. But we won't get far if we don't go to the last frontier of humanity. The inner self.

I have seen great endeavors for the sake of humanity fail just because the members of the project, couldn't get along. I have seen with sadness big ego battles among leaders of many organizations which claim be working for global peace, but inside their organizations there is a silent war in the hearts of its members. We will not reach global peace and a global civilization if we first don't learn how to live in harmony with oneself.

I recommend that any person claiming to be a servant of the world, should be deeply involved in a personal mastery process of any way.

2) Social Technologies: We have to make use of all technologies available in order to be able to come together as a Global Community. It won't happen just by itself. We need to build it, and for that we need tools that can help us see each other, understand different perspectives, and be able to work successfully together in a multicultural environment with many countries and thousands of people involved. There are several workbooks available and a wide range of consultants around the world, teaching how to use social techniques like World Cafe, Open Space, System Thinking, new governability models like holacracy, the effective use of Social Networks etc. We need to learn how to use all of them in order to work effectively as a Global Community.

3) Global Collective Intelligence: Through the use of Social Technologies we can learn how to access the Global Collective Intelligence as a path to Global Collective Consciousness and Wisdom. When civil society learn how to reach Global Collective Intelligence we will move in a more precise and organized manner in order to find what is the best way to live as a Global and harmonious Community, where we respect oneself, each other and the entire planet.

4) Citizens of the World: Technology has help humanity to see the world as a beautiful sphere floating in the space, to see the beauty of the planet as never before, and to reduce distances. The spirit of being a Global Citizen is being spread and a new breed is being born. Special attention should be put into this topic. Only when we see ourselves as Global Citizens we will be able to address humanity’s problems with the right perspective.

This list could be longer, but I consider this to be the most important steps in order to engage in a positive dialogue and be co-creators for a new humanity.

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