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I am serving with the Global Cooperative Forum, and am currently meeting with activists who have a truly global vision and the influence and means to make very large changes. The Global Cooperative Forum is a radical, or to the rofot, approach to changing the situation we are in as humanity and as a planet. It is based in the reality that before any of us identifies ourselves as part of a tribe, or country, or ethnic group, or religion, or even a member of a .org, we are in reality not separate from one another and the world. This truth is self-authenticating if you really look into it. Our actual situation is prior unity. So what does this mean for the changes that must occur? Lots of people have said "We're all one!" and it hasn't made enough difference so far. So what is different about the Global Cooperative Forum? The operating principle is prior unity, so all participants must represent everyone-all-at-once, and they must do this by leaving their personal and collective identities outside the door of the forum. No political leaders representing a country, no religious leaders up against other religious leaders, etc.

The current model of change, with non-profits (and for-profit change organizations) forming alliances and then super-alliances, hopefully moving toward greater cooperation, is not a strong enough cooperative model, and it is not going to happen quickly enough. A radically new paradigm must happen, one that is truly global in scale. If you look seriously at the ecological signs alone, not to mention all the other issues such as water, population growth, economics, large scale turf wars, religious intolerance, and so on, you will see that we must operate on the presumption that there is not much time, and the changes must be global.

We have begun. We have ordinary people, indigenous peoples, people of influence and means, we have momentun, but there is much yet to do.

Go to ispeace723.org for the underlying philosophy, and globalcooperationproject .org for how it is manifesting.