Criteria for a
Thriving World
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Adapted from writings from the 1970s onwards. Updated Aug, 2017.
The following
Set of Criteria may be used in evolving, forming, and drafting Documents such as
Treaties, Agreements, MOUs, Position Papers, Project Proposals and the like
(referred to as Documents in the
Criteria) for a better world.
1)
In evolving preliminary
versions of Documents use this Set of Criteria to provide a wise-values frame.
2)
When
people of diverse backgrounds come together in Gatherings for forming the
Document use this set of Criteria to offer profound glimpses of what rich
agreement attendees may generate between themselves such that transforming occurs in the very process of coming to
Agreement about the Document. The final version of such Document for
ratifying and signing will evidence the
Agreement that attendees have already come to as attendees immerse
themselves in gathering, engaging in ceremony and celebrating prior to the
ratifying and signing ceremonies relating to the Document.
3) This
Document and associated Gatherings for forming the Document contribute to
creating a shift in human affairs
towards engendering (to bring forth) a major bio-cultural shift – evolving
humanity towards wise loving people -
a shift to a world
where all of humanity in bringing wellness to ourselves and all life forms on
planet earth are continuing to live
well together based upon value priorities including:
a) supporting
humanities’ unalienable rights
b) moving
away from opposing towards flowing well together
c) peacefulness
and harmony
d) ecological
quality and abundance
e) economic
wellbeing, and
f) social and
political justice.
and
the equity, friendship, freedom, prosperity, abundance that flow from
these priority values in wise action.
The emerging and varied nurturing community action for wellbeing based bio-cultural ways of differing locales and regions may be universal in their locales, and the bio-social within them varied, while the new bio-psychology is emerging with the potential for infinite individuation like the loving mother nurturing the individuation of her children. New forms of psychological sociological, cultural and inter-cultural experience emerge as the self evidencing outcome of living well in evolving local, regional, and global nurturing community for wellness throughout earth.
4)
This Document has to contribute to consciousness raising creating
possibilities for significant transforming of current sovereign nation state
and sovereign micro-nation behaviour. Sovereign nations and other entities,
from the very powerful to the very weak cannot
continue their current practices. Things have to change.
5) This Document has to be worded so as to be attainable, desirable, and durable:
a) Attainability - the plausibility and credibility of achieving
sufficient societal and structural leverage;
b) Desirability - harmony of likely actions with value priorities;
c) Durability - likelihood of enduring global shifting to a new
paradigm embodying value priorities detailed in these criteria.
6)
While the Document has to
meet Criteria 4, namely being attainable, desirable, and durable, it also
has to be, from time to time, an evolving document without ever being
compromised, as people realise and exercise the potential of their essence -
their unalienable rights - including self-determination and governance.
7) Nation states, especially the very powerful have habitually imposed, and they also have a very long history of being preoccupied with ensuring that their national interest is maximised at the expense of others. Their every action on the international stage is put through the filter of national interest.
Sovereign nation
states have been engaging in extra-judicial, covert, false flag, & black
operations, as well as engaging in harsh brutal smashing for subjugating.
Very weak
nations and non-state actors have evolved their own processes for taking
advantage of other nations and people using un-conventional warfare.
Sovereign nation
states also tend to be using assumptions from the 19th Century that
no longer fit what is happening in radical modernity (the last 15 years); some
features of modern life:
a) The pervasive presence of delinear processes
b) Rapid change
c) Pervasive indeterminacy and uncertainty making probability
modelling inexact
d) Interconnectedness and inter-dependency and the necessity of
evolving inter-relatedness between people previously in conflict.
Given the above and recognising that the
world currently has extreme inequality in the power of nation states, and that
the powerful think that power is their unquestionable right, this Document has to convey massive benefits to the
currently powerful and weak alike such that it is acceptable to all.
1)
This Document has to:
a) firstly, embody and embrace loving, caring, and nurturing along
with a profound respecting of difference, while also respecting humanity’s
unalienable rights, including the right to determine differing ways of living,
and evolving and sustaining differing local governances that respect and
celebrate difference and that collaborate with locals from other localities in
forming regional and global governances, and
b) secondly, it has to have humane caring processes for engaging with
those who at first reject this Document;
c) thirdly, it has to create a context between and within sovereign
nations for humanity in all of its differences to evolve together the incoming
epoch on earth;
d) fourthly, it has to do all of this
without triggering financial and societal collapse.
2)
This Document, in bringing
together sovereign nation states that have all manner of laws, systems of law,
or breaking down of law, or lawlessness, has to embody, as the Law above all
law, the wellness of earth and people.
3)
This Document cannot take away
people’s unalienable rights while claiming to recognise and protect their
unalienable rights.
This means that this Document must not be prescriptive in
detailing a New Paradigm.
This Document has to set the scene and support a mood and climate
for a New Paradigm to emerge through people of the world taking back ability
over their lives in exercising their unalienable rights.
4)
The Document has to
allow space for both universal input and scope for difference. No entity can
impose their universal recipe on everyone else. Oppositional reaction would
inevitable occur.
5) It follows that this Document cannot impose the beliefs, views, feelings, ideas, and passions of the few on the many. In nature, wombats remain wombats and engage in wombat way. Creatures maintain their differences and differing ways of living. That is nature’s way.
6)
In fitting the preceding
Criteria, the Document has to result in local, regional, and global
transitioning that is peaceful, loving, caring, and nurturing. It has to
generate a loving caring mood. Hence, it must not be a smashing of the existing power structure, and then using control of
global finance and other power structures to impose a new power structure; that
is repeating the current failed World Order Model and repeating old paradigm
behaviour!
The sudden
collapse of our taken-for-granted really throws people. Smashing the ‘old’
system has a very high probability of ‘letting loose the dogs of war’ spreading
mass contagion of a mindless destruction.
7)
This Document must make the
minimum of changes to the existing taken-for-granted while meeting all of the
other Criteria of this Document.
8)
The Document has to recognise,
support, and contribute to consciousness raising that has already been extensively happening on the margins for ages;
behaviour change, mobilising of transitioning, and transforming starting in human relating in the
relational social spheres of life
(mutual-help and self-help) and spreading through the economic and political
spheres of life in the many and varied located contexts on earth.
9)
The Document has to recognise
that people immersed in the old paradigm have little capacity to comprehend
anything outside of their comprehension. Thomas Kuhn who introduced the concept
‘paradigm’ was identifying that people have a very particular shared ‘window’
or ‘world view’ that is an explanatory framework for everything in the view.
‘Paradigms’ include never-questioned ways of knowing, theories, methods, as
well as the content of the shared knowing. Paradigms are very resistant to
change. For paradigm holders, typically, if they do not comprehend it, it’s a
sham and nonsense. New paradigm consciousness is for many powerful people, outside their comprehension. Hence,
the Document has to engage old paradigm people while working with the free
energy of the emerging consciousness.
To paraphrase Thomas Kuhn who introduced the
concept ‘paradigm’, old paradigm people typically live lives parallel to new
paradigm people and take their version of the old paradigm with them to the
grave. People with the emerging new consciousness recognise anomalies - where
happenings are no longer accounted for by the old paradigm and they begin
transforming and entering into an emerging new paradigm.
10) The Document has to allow room for the emergence of new
hetero-paradigms; that is, multiple differing paradigms of living well together
(cleavered unity - as in ‘united in
separateness’) that are the natural consequence of people exercising their
unalienable rights. This entails inter-paradigm perception - something that
interculturals tend to be evolving.
11) In fully recognising humanity’s unalienable rights to determine
how they live with each other and to determine their own forms of governance,
this Document cannot specify, direct, or control sovereign nations’ in their
ways of administering their respective nation states like global finance does
today. That would maintain the dominant, imposing, and dominating aspect of the
old flawed World Order Model.
12) While this Document is an agreement within or between sovereign nations and peoples including Unique Peoples
(indigenous people) it has to recognise that we all live in a massively
interconnected world, and that what happens within
and between one or more sovereign nations can have massive detrimental
effects outside the sovereign nation(s).
In recognising this, Signatories also agree
to some limits on things that happen within their respective sovereign nations.
13) The Document has to set in motion a return of the common-wealth
value of the planet to the people in ways that inevitably result in a peaceful,
caring loving transitioning in the many spheres of life and that does not cause
consumption, waste, and exhaustion of earth’s resources to the detriment of
future generations.
14) This Document cannot attempt to transform people’s behaviour or
spread love by legislation and regulation. Such an attempt will fail. The wise
of the Ages have embraced values-based guiding principles over and above laws
and regulation.
Evidence demonstrates that humane caring
networks at the margins do have
transforming processes that work in the many spheres of life through people
engaging in self-help and mutual-help in exercising their unalienable rights,
and rights linked to unalienable rights.
15) This Document has to have what’s called face validity; that is, it
has to immediately make sense and be acceptable to people.
16) A Document aiming to be universal has to have all, or nearly all
sovereign nations signing, especially the powerful nations.
17) This Document has to create social cohesion rather than polarisation.
Example: collaborating and cooperating rather than bickering and war.
18) This Document has to have a loving caring relational mediating in
resolving differences, and at worst, contain process for addressing/living well
with current and potential non-compliers.
19) The Document has to fit all of the sovereign nations involved such
that they can, without compromising the Document, readily ratify and implement
it within or alongside their current constitutions and legal/regulatory
systems.
20) The Document has to have scope in the longer term to be able to
explore a world that does not have the hardly noticed carryover of old paradigm
impositions of institutions, concepts, and practices.
One example, is exploring futures that have alternatives to the notion
‘nation’ that is today a universal.
Other modes of groupings and collectivities may be explored, as is
an unalienable right. Another example is a world that tempers the dominant
world’s pervasive use of control through categorisation – pervasively using
splitting, departmentalising, sectorising, and disconnecting – rather, moving
towards holistic modes of sense making and engaging that mirror the
interweaving and co-mingling of nature.
21) The Document must not have undesirable unintended implications and
consequences.
22) The Document has to have a pervasive loving caring nurturing feel
to it with themes expressed in the positive with scarce reference to former
times.
23) The Document has to recognise procrastination as a form of
non-compliance.
24) The expression and language in the Document must be universally
acceptable.
25) Most importantly, the Document must not remove unalienable rights
of people in their various groupings and places to determine their own governance.
The
Evolving of the Above Criteria
From earlier action in North
America via the Rio Earth Summit, resonant people adapted Document wordings in
forming the following treaties:
a) Inter-people Healing Document Between
Non-government Organisations and Unique Peoples
b) The Young Peoples Healing Learning Code
From the above
two treaties emerged the idea of forming the above Set of Criteria to be used
for action and agreement and drafting papers, documents, MOUs and treaties
between peoples and bodies coming together in gatherings from the 1960s
onwards. For example, the following two Treaties were signed at the Small Island Coastal and Estuarine
Peoples Gathering Celebration in Far North
Queensland Australia in June 1994. This happening was funded by UNHRC in
Geneva. Macro Projects have been evolving using these Criteria
These common
understandings about values based benchmarks and Criteria may pass through
peoples, cultures, and societies right through to leaders of sovereign nations
around the world.
One of these
potential agreements became known as the Preliminary UN-INMA Document.
The above set of
Criteria were evolved during a series of gatherings as standards for sensing,
feeling, determining, and appreciating what may be included and excluded in
drafting this Criteria Document and associated documents.
Given the implications of this massive and vital endeavour, these
Criteria were scrutinised for their appropriateness and then used for
benchmarking during drafting the Preliminary Documents. One document that
emerged was The UN-INMA Document where:
a)
UN refers to Unique Nurturers or Unrepresented
Nations, and
b)
INMA refers to Intercultural Normative Model Areas.
A later version of the UN-INMA Document is the Thriving Earth Document – refer link at
the end of this page.
Note that these Criteria are essentially inter-connecting, inter-depending,
inter-affecting, inter-relating, and inter-weaving, and the associated
documents take this same form.
The following Preliminary Document may be used in organising
Document Gatherings.
It has been in the process of evolving since the late 1950s and
has be woven together to meet every one of the above 31 Criteria.