Global Oneness Project

Finding Our Shared Values Through Film

Welcome to the Global Oneness Project group on WiserEarth, where members can connect with others around the world and share stories, practices, resources and media that contribute to a shift in consciousness toward oneness.   Many people have written to us and said, "Okay, I've watched the Global Oneness Project films. I'm inspired. What can I do to contribu ...learn more

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We appreciate the effort you have made to organize screenings of Global Oneness Project films in your community. And we want to hear about your experiences.

How are folks responding to these films? Have the films generated valuable conversations? Have the films inspired community members to take action locally?

Please share you stories here. And include a photo, if you have one.

Thank you for participating!
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From New Zealand:

 

"Thanks so much for the DVD, and for the opportunity to show it here in New Zealand.  The film night was a SUCCESS!!!! Full house (seated 85! Had to get the bean bags and couches out to fit extra people on the floor!).  We raised $350 for Kauri 2000 (a non-profit organisation who plants native NZ trees around here) and raised $350 on the bar for the Monkey House Theatre which is a small community theatre in town. We had 4 speakers half way through the film (after time for drinks)., and they were very inspiring..one on climate change, one on peak oil, one on organic farming and one on sustainable living from a well respected green builder.  In fact, they didn't talk on those subjects per say, but spoke from the heart about the oneness of us all, our community and the earth.  Very kind, inspiring talks that left us moved!!

Anyway, the great thing is that this has inspired another showing of the DVD at another local communtiy hall for a fundraiser for a children's playgroup shed.  So we'll show it again and bring people together for a good night and a good cause.  ALL GOOD!"

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From Erick in Venezuela (in Spanish and English):

 

Hi my name's Erick I'm from Venezuela and I have 19 years old. I'm going to write this in Spanish to express correctly what I want to meant. I hope that you can understand this.

Yo creo que la unidad global es una gran meta para el hombre pero un pequeño logro para la humanidad. Creo que es deber de la humanidad cambiar las bases ideológicas por las cuales se ha movido el viejo mundo. Hoy en día se puede decir que tecnicamente estamos "globalizados" pero esta globalización está fundamentada en el individualismo del hombre como coacción social y la competencia como metodología de interrelación con los demás individuos; lo cual nos ha dado como resultado, pobreza, guerrass, terrorismo etc.

Yo creo que para que se pueda lograr una unidad global; no sólo en aspecto económico competitivo como lo es hoy en día, se requiere de establecer bases ideológicas en métodos y sistemas para poder así encaminar a la humanidad a una verdadera unidad global.

Se puede decir que los mayores obstáculos para poder conseguir una unidad global parten del ceno de todas las naciones en ideas como el Nacionalismo, Racismo etc.

Global oneness project debe abrir un foro de debate democrático en el cual todos los que compartimos la idea de unidad global tengamos voz y voto, para definir metodologías y sistemas, y así poder empezar actuar nacionalmente hacia un objetivo de unidad global verdadera. Global Oneness Project debe convertirse en un agente ejecutivo de acciones políticas, culturales, sociales en cada nación con sus propios ciudadanos; por eso la necesidad de definir un sistema entre todos los que compartimos la idea de unidad global; ésto no antentaría contra el principio constitucional de cada nación ya que la necesidad de una unidad global partiría del ceno de la ciudadanía de las diferentes naciones.

Pero la gran pregunta sería ¿Cual sería ese sistema cultural, politico y social?

Como dijo Sami Awad: "el mundo necesita una nueva identidad" pero ¿cómo darle al mundo esa nueva identidad? Yo creo la respuesta está dentro de la misma pregunta.

Permitanme citar una teoría, La Teoría General de Sistemas (TGS): es un esfuerzo de estudio interdisciplinario que trata de encontrar las propiedades comunes a entidades, los sistemas, que se presentan en todos los niveles de la realidad, pero que son objeto tradicionalmente de disciplinas académicas diferentes.
La TGS plantea que: si unimos dos conocimientos diferentes, el resultado no será la totalidad del conocimiento, sino un nuevo conocimiento; si llevamos esto a un plano cultural quiere decir que: Si mezclamos dos culturas diferentes, el resultado no será la unión de dos culturas, sino la creación de una nueva cultura.

Entonces podríamos utilizar este mismo principio para crear un nuevo sistema, lo cual nos dará una nueva cultura y ésto nos dará una nueva identidad; una identidad compartida, basada en la diversidad y todo esto finalmente nos daría como resultado una nueva sociedad global, la cual podríamos definir como "Neosociedad" ("Neosociety") una Sociedad de Sociedades con una "Neocultura" ("Neoculture") una Cultura de Culturas.

 

 

(In English):

I believe that global unity is an enormous challenge for humans, but a small achievement for humanity. I think that it is the duty of the mankind to change the ideological axes on which the old world has turned. These days, we could technically call ourselves ‘globalized’, but this globalization is grounded in individualism as a way of working together, and rivalry as a means of interrelating with other individuals, yielding a result of poverty, war, terrorism etc.

I believe that, in order to achieve global unity - not only in modern competitive economic terms - ideological bases must be founded on methods and systems, by which humanity can make steps towards true global unity.

It could be said that the greatest obstacles to achieving global unity stem from within each nation in concepts such as nationalism, racism, etc.

Global Oneness Project should launch a forum for democratic debate, in which all those who share the idea of global unity have a voice and a vote to decide on methodologies and systems, allowing us to start moving nationally towards a goal of real global unity. Global Oneness Project should develop into a political, cultural and social decision-making entity, within each nation, with its own people; hence the need to establish a system among all those who share the idea of global unity. This would not jeopardize the constitutional principle of each nation, since the need for global unity would derive from the citizenship among people of different nations.

But the big question is: what would this cultural, political and social system consist of?

As Sami Awad said, “the world needs a new identity”, but how to create this new identity? I believe that the answer lies within the question.

Allow me to quote a theory, that of the General Systems Theory (GST). This is a field of interdisciplinary study that looks for the common properties among entities - namely systems - which appear at all levels of real life, but are traditionally the concern of various academic disciplines.
The GST proposes that if two different insights are combined, the outcome will not be the sum total of the existing knowledge, but new knowledge; if applied on a cultural level, merging two cultures will not result in the union of two cultures, but in the creation of a new one.

Therefore we could use this same principle to create a new system, which would give us a new culture and a new identity - a shared identity, based on diversity - which ultimately would grant us a new global society, definable as a “Neosociety”, a society of societies with a culture of cultures, a “Neoculture”.

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