Council for Planetary Transformation

Vision Story:
Council for Planetary Transformation

The situation is now that unless a significant number of us actually evolve to a higher level of development very quickly, we're not going to make it. Our race isn't going to make it. That's at the very worst. At the very best, we'll survive, but it'll be awful, what's going to happen. I don't want to scare you, but it seems to be the truth.

...we do have the capacity to save ourselves...we also have the capacity to save the planet...if we all came together and said "we want to save ourselves and save the planet", don't you think we could do it?...if we made up our minds that we wanted to save ourselves and save each other and save this planet, if we all made up our minds that it was the most important thing to do, we could definitely do it...if we all make that decision that we're all going to come together and do it. We're all going to do whatever we have to do, in order to pull this off. Together. Because we know that we can't do it, if we're not together...

- Andrew Cohen, The New Enlightenment

In 2009, the first meeting of the world's leading Thought Leaders, Transformational Activists, Teachers, Authors, Consultants, Coaches, and Leaders of Transformational Organizations was held. More than 500 personal invitations were sent, calling people to attend this meeting. Attendees came from the following groups and organizations:

• Landmark Education (in 2006, graduated their one-millionth participant)
• The Secret, 22 Teachers and their organizations and affiliates
• Transformational Leadership Council, 79 members
• Institute for Noetic Sciences, researchers/authors/teachers/affiliates
• Omega Institute, teachers/programs/affiliates (20,000 participants annually)
• Hay House, I Can Do It! Conference circuit, affiliated authors and lecturers
• Shambhala Institute, affiliated authors and lecturers
• Publishers/authors/lecturers/teachers/consultants/coaches organizations in the Transformational Movement

This Gathering of individuals, whose personal and professional lives were consciously dedicated to the intentional work of transforming the planet, was convened to consider the question, "How can we work together, in the spirit of Creative Collaboration and Collective Intelligence, to synergistically maximize our mutual efforts to birth the New Earth?"

The situation on the planet was, as all of humanity was becoming aware, increasingly grim. The alarming depletion of natural resources and destruction of the planet's biosphere, combined with the rapidly accelerating global population, formed the foundational basis of concern. Most experts agreed that no workable solution was anywhere in sight. Those in positions of power worldwide, as well as their best advisors, appeared clueless as to what action to take. News headlines continued their coverage of wars, terrorism, and celebrity antics. As the 2008 Presidential Campaign gained momentum in the United States, none of the candidates exhibited any noticeable focus on possible answers to the global crisis.

Researchers in the fields of personal and planetary transformation report that what is happening on earth is the death of an old paradigm, giving birth to a new paradigm. This paradigm is in the realm of consciousness, in the realm of humanity's understanding of its purpose on earth. The leading edge of thought is telling us that the universe is striving to birth a future in which humanity evolves to a higher order of being. In this new paradigm worldview, the global citizenry returns to its roots as an integral part of the natural order. Mankind recognizes its unity both with the natural world, and with one person to another. The evolving consciousness of the universe, most visibly apparent in the cognitive capabilities of humanity, awakens from its sleep of the ages and takes a proactive, collaborative stand in the ongoing planetary evolutionary process.

The old paradigm, with its consciousness of separation, has led to mankind separated from nature and separated from one another. In this paradigm, competition and isolation reign supreme. Nation states, family units, turf wars, and protecting one's piece of a limited pie at all costs are the natural result.

At the 2009 Gathering of Transformational Leaders it was proposed that this group of individuals take on walking the walk and talking the talk of the new paradigm. Given the dire situation of the planet, the lack of leadership in doing something about it, and the complete absence of any body of individuals claiming accountability for handling the global emergency, the proposal was made that a Planetary Transformation Project be declared into existence.

It was further proposed that the Transformational Leaders in attendance take on ownership of this Project. That they form a body, the Council for Planetary Transformation, to be the steering committee of this global project. In the absence of leadership from the level of the formal world political process, this group of committed Thought Leaders and Global Activists were urged to rise to the occasion and take the helm of this ship.

In the spirit of the Founding Fathers declaring their freedom from British tyranny and oppression, this group of Activists did indeed rise and take on the challenge. They stood firm and declared their accountability for the state of the planet. They declared their allegiance to the work ahead, a united effort to right the ship of planet earth and bring in the New Day.

In this initial meeting were sown the seeds of a new global political party that came to take hold in the hearts and minds of the millions of Cultural Creatives worldwide: "We the People of Planet Earth." The mission of this movement became saving the earth, saving the biosphere, reengineering our planetary wide systems, retooling our joint paradigms.

The following ideas were considered at this initial meeting:

• 1. How do we bring the concepts of personal and planetary transformation to the forefront of awareness, in both the Western world and globally?
• 2. How can we create and launch a 24/7 TV network dedicated to transformation?
• 3. How can we create a Transformational Reality Series that within weeks of launch, has an audience larger than American Idol?
• 4. How can we create "viral memes" for transformation, thereby sowing the seeds for cultural paradigm shift?
• 5. How can we create an infrastructure for transformation? A social networking infrastructure, for the Cultural Creatives to gather together? Major communication channels, to regularly speak to and with the Cultural Creatives?
• 6. How do we stimulate and accelerate the momentum of the awakening on this planet? (in 2000 Cultural Creatives were 26% of the population in America and Europe, up from 4% in the 1960's)
• 7. How do we "pop" the awakening process? How do we support those who are awakening?
• 8. What joint initiatives might we create for Planetary Transformation, if we act together as one body for and on behalf of the planet?
• 9. How can we fully utilize the world's best practices, the cutting-edge technologies that have come to the surface and been field tested in organizational management, in executing a global Planetary Transformation Project?
• 10. How can we rally the existing resources of this planet to fund this vast endeavor?
• 11. How can we, through our mutual affiliation, create a Transformational Revenue Generating machine that will generate new wealth in the billions of dollars, to fund this vast endeavor?
• 12. Consider the planetary impact of creating a communication network comprised of the email lists of all the Transformational Organizations of the planet. How can we all come together in one accord, acting with one voice, for and on behalf of the planet?
• 13. How do we all, each and every one of us, get past the "my turf/my agenda" conversation and work together selflessly to birth the New Paradigm that is seeking to emerge?
• 14. How do we rally all of the people of this planet who are concerned for the fate of the earth, to join with us in this Planetary Transformation Project? How do we market, publicize, manage, and follow through on this endeavor?
• 15. How do we coordinate a Planet-Wide effort to Intentionally and Strategically design and manifest a New World?
• 16. How do we form a leadership board? How do we structure this project?
• 17. What is our next step, after this meeting? Where do we go from here?