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Holistic Thinking:

Part of my work with individuals and organisations is to help people think and act "outside of the box", and, instead, think and act  to the best of their individual ability in unison with:

• God & True Heaven            (The Spirit and Soul of True Reality)
• The Whole of Life &             (The Mind and Sensitivity of True Reality)
• Nature                                    (The Body and Motion of True Reality)

...with all the above viewed as one WHOLE...

So, in a nutshell, I facilitate HOLISTIC THINKING.

Now most people in the modern and developed world, it seems, have been trained during the past decades, centuries and probably even longer, to think using a process called LOGIC.

LOGIC is very very good at "Little Box Thinking"... and tends to struggle with genuinely being able to "Think Outside of The Box".

However, every single Sentient Being - including you and me - is also capable of thinking using a process called LOGOS, which is literally brilliant at "Thinking Outside of The Box".

So, the key to Thinking Outside of The Box is to practice and become skilled at thinking via LOGOS.

The ability to think via LOGOS has been supressed in many cultures around the world, for centuries, with the result that nowadays most people have heard the word LOGIC, and use it in everyday parlance, but very few people truly understand what the word LOGOS actually means - many people have never even heard the term.

This does not prevent you or anyone continuing to be able to think via LOGIC - in fact you will find that the ability to think via LOGIC as well as being able to think via LOGOS are the two things that make you able to genuinely be able to THINK - and also SEE (with BOTH of the Mind's Eyes) that which is Superficial (Logic is good at this) and that which is Substantial (Logos is awesome at this.)

When we think only with LOGIC, then that is like thinking with one of the Mind's Eyes closed.

So, given the above, you can see that we end up with another pattern of three, which does actually correspond to the first pattern of three (bullet-pointed) in this blog. viz:

LOGOS            (Whose primary focus is the Spirit and Soul)

THINKING       (Whose primary focus is the Mind and Sensitivity)

LOGIC              (Whose primary focus is the Body and Motion)

Obviously this is all very relevant to Education, on any subject whatsoever, and it is easy to confirm that the majority of our Educatoinal Institutions in the West, and now in many other countries in the world (following our lead) are massively biased, and sometimes totally biased, towards LOGICAL THINKING, as being the foundation or platform from which every single subject in orthodox education is taught.

Teaching our kids how to practice THINKING VIA LOGOS, generally speaking, just doesn't happen.

Not to put too fine a point on this, that is going on for exactly the same reasons that "the abused becomes the abuser"....

Way back whenever, (which some say was around the time of Descartés) (Creating that which is now often called "The Cartesian World View") ...LOGIC became the way of achieving its own self... and we have ended up where we are largely as a result of this.

Now, before Mr Descartés made Little Box Thinking so popular... (the body is separate from the mind, the mind is separate from the soul, the soul is separate from the spirit, the individual spirit is separate from God...and so on)...a few other people had popped in, so history tells us, with different ideas.

Some of whom had actually tried to persuade us to think via LOGOS first and foremost, but to also use LOGIC when appropriate.
 
For example, I believe there is a saying in the Koran, which translates as: "Trust in God, but tie up your camel" - in other words use LOGOS and use LOGIC too - be both Spiritually Awake and Practical in your actions.

And of course before that, other famous teachers had popped in for a quick visit and a chat, usually just before having their heads chopped off, being poisoned or getting themselves nailed to a tree and suchlike.

"Courage - Love and Wisdom (Courageous-Love-Wisdom)", was the short version of what they taught, but that maybe felt a bit too much like hard work, so the key decision makers amongst us opted, over the centuries, for Greed-Fear and Myopia instead...and trained the rest of us accordingly.

And we became very good at this, so by the time of Mr Descartés, LOGIC was King and pretty much every member of every society on the planet was walking around, going about their daily busy-ness, with one of their Mind's Eyes shut....half awake, at best.

And our educational systems, emerging out of this, became literally "Living Encyclopedias"...seeing the world like a cyclops...generally using only one of our Mind's Eyes...and educating us accordingly.

(And of course, you've probably already realised that we don't actually use the phrase "The Mind's Eyes" in common parlance, we tend to say, "The Mind's Eye")

The great thing that is happening now, is the NATURAL opening of our second Mind's Eye...the one that sees (and of course thinks) via LOGOS.

So what you will find happening pretty soon, throughout all of our educational establishments, little by little, is a re-awakening and genuine facilitation of:

INTUITION

INTELLIGENCE

INTELLECT

(Another pattern of three - fits with the first one - you get the point, I'm sure)

And another great thing is that people in communities like Zaadz will be helping this to happen.

Oh....and just to wrap this up....

Another word for LOGOS, which apart from meaning "The Word" or "The Law" is, quite simply:

LOVE.

Cool, huh?

Any comments welcome!

Ray

 

 

Enriching The World

The Global Recovery Initiative

 

Executive Summary

The Main Proposal:

This is the first draft document of a proposal which, once formalised into a final draft document, may be used as follows:

A] It may be submitted to an existing Ethical Bank, such as Triodos Bank (branches in Holland, UK, Spain and an associate in the USA) or any other Ethical Bank, if that would be more appropriate.

B] Alternatively, it may be used to form the springboard from which an entirely NEW and more proactive Ethical Bank may be created (by relevant Global Partners, working together authentically in unison, for the good of all.)

This document is thus primarily, at this stage, a discussion document, outlining relevant concepts and strategies which may ultimately help faciliate the process of Global Recovery with a view to achieving the overall aim of this initiative, which is true Global Unison.
 
Achieving that, and even working towards achieving that, will produce a better, more compassionate, more prosperous, more healthy, more peaceful, more enjoyable, abundant world for all of us.

Therefore this Global Recovery Initiative revolves around the establishment of a new and pioneering Global Ethical Bank.... either by working with existing Ethical Banks (and orthodox banks that genuinely wish to participate in this) or by creating a completely new Ethical Bank from scratch...

For the purpose of this document, let's provisionally call this new ethical bank, "The Earth Bank".

OK, fellow Zaadsters, the journey begins here:

The Earth Bank:

 "The Earth Bank"  would essentially do three things.

1. Immediately co-create with ourselves, and any other relevant Global Partners, a new and worldwide resource-pool called, The Global Recovery Fund.
   
2. Begin to fund and pragmatically support the work of The Global Recovery Initiative (and similar independent initiatives) from the resource-pool called The Global Recovery Fund.
   
3. Enable, thereby, the actual PROCESS of Global Recovery, by supporting Appropriate Practical Activities. (Defined later in this blog).

For the purposes of this discussion document, let's imagine that The Earth Bank has come into existence, and has money as well as other resources available.

The money and resources of The Earth Bank may be used by The Earth Bank for many ethical and wholly appropriate things of course. One of those things being the creation of:

The Global Recovery Fund 

(Obviously consisting of money, but also consisting of other resources, that are to be used to help facilitate the actual process of Global Recovery.)

Furthermore, let's assume that by the time The Global Recovery Fund resources are in place, a new Ethical Business called Global Recovery (or similar), with it's world HQ in Boulder Colorado, has been in existence as a lawfully registered as a U.S. 501 (c)(3) organisation in order to appropriately employ the resources made available through The Global Recovery Fund.
 
(Please note that at the time of writing this blog, 15 - October - 2007 such an enteprise called Global Recovery has yet to be registered in the USA)

Of course, one of the first things to do in this Global Recovery Initiative will be to appropriately link together the necessary people who will BE that new organisation called Global Recovery.

Ideas on what that might look like, how that can come about will be the subject of another blog - this blog basically looks at The Whole Picture - and from there we will go down into more detail, in this blog and subsequent blogs (which will hopefully be co-created by the Zaadz Community, and not just consist of postings by yours truly.)

OK...

A reasonable first question is:

"What kind of things might be done with those funds, and why?"

Imagine that the new enterprise called Global Recovery, in order to cut its teeth, starts off with a fairly small amount of money (relatively speaking) to start the ball rolling, step onto its own learning curve, (very important) and begin making a beneficial difference in the world.

Global Recovery starts off with (say) $45 000 000 (forty five million dollars), which it allocates to at least three distinct projects around the world, to commence the tangible facilitation of Global Recovery...

(And please note that for the purpose of this document these are just examples that can initiate appropriate discussion, however they are not fluffy or wifty-wafty fantasies - each one of these could happen and indeed would like to happen - but it may prove to be the case that other, MORE appropriate projects would begin first or instead of these suggestions.)

Global Recovery (the organisation) will use that money to facilitate projects (for example) in Spain, the UK , the USA and perhaps other countries around the world - with each focus existing for one reason, namely: 

To proactively facilitate the PROCESS of Global Recovery, for the good of all.

The Global Recovery Initiative

Purpose, Goals and Policy:

Synergy & Synthesis:

Clealry, the whole purpose of The Global Recovery Initiative is to facilitate the Process of Global Recovery, so that our species and the world as a whole have a future worth having.

Triodos Bank already deals only with individuals and organisations with positive social, environmental or cultural goals and it can easily be shown that the goals of The Global Recovery Initiative are entirely in keeping with those of Triodos Bank and no doubt other bona fide Ethical Banks. (I am really only familiar with Triodos, which is why I refer to them in this example.)

Obviously the goals of The Global Recovery Fund would also be entirely in keeping with those of Triodos Bank, especially if Triodos Bank and its associates join with us to become the joint "founding fathers" of The Earth Bank and its Global Recovery Fund.

The policy of The Global Recovery Initiative is to be flexible and open to the input of all the individuals and organisations who wish to support it.

Therefore, we see a natural fit between the goals of Triodos Bank and the goals of The Global Recovery Initiative however it is worth stating up front what the proposed current goals of The Global Recovery Initiative actually are (in my view - this should be something we all agree upon):

1. To faciliate the creation and sustainable development of The Earth Bank, which will in turn create and sustainably develop The Global Recovery Fund.
    
2. To facilitate the sustainable development of a new International School for Ethical Business (ISEB) either as an independent entity, or (preferably) as a distinct department of "Global Recovery", the organisation.
   
3. To facilitate the creation and sustainable development of "Global Recovery",
   the organisation, with numerous bases around the world (each with its own ISEB).
   
4. To facilitate the creation and sustainable development of a new International Super University or "Global Life-Skills Omniversity", with numerous campuses around the world. (Working title for this enterprise: "The Eartheart Omniversity")
   
5. To facilitate the creation and sustainable development of "Global Recovery Educational Parks" around the world.
   
6. To facilitate the creation and sustainable development of other new Projects, Ethical Businesses and Social Enterprises around the world. (See later)
   
7. To thereby facilitate the actual processes of Global Recovery, Global Sustainability and Global Unison locally and globally.

Proposed Adopted Projects, Ethical Businesses & Social Enterprises:

Undoubtedly many Zaadsters (probably all of us!) have specific projects in mind, or which have already been commenced.

So long as each of those projects genuinely helps to facilitate the process of Global Recovery, then, resources permitting of course, each of those projects should be supported and enabled to come to fruition by The Global Recovery Fund.

Examples of projects initiated by myself or some of my existing associates, already some way down the pipe:

• The International School for Ethical Business (The ISEB) (This enterprise is already in process of being co-created in Spain, the UK and the USA. It will teach the holistic principles of Ethical Business, Sustainable Community and Humane Integration with the Wider Environment. It will also proactively initiate appropriate initiatives, projects, businesses and enterprises that are profit friendly, people friendly and planet friendly and which also support The Global Recovery Fund. This entire Global Recovery Initiative has in fact been initiated by the founders of The ISEB.)(The International School for Ethical Business and The ISEB (UK) have already lawfully registered as UNLIMITED COMPANIES in the United Kingdom, and on paper I am the Director of both of these new Social Enterprises, but they are just ticking over, since the main focus ought to be establishing Global Recovery, with the ISEB existing as a distinct department of Global Recovery, the organisation. )
• Horse World Spain (Almería, Spain based venture which will include Horse World Trails, Horse World Enterprises and Horse World Equine Rescue Centre. Horse World in Spain will also include a world class Riding For The Disabled facility. Hopefully it will be possible to link this with the charity called "Horse World" in Bristol, England.)(Check out temporary website http://www.horseworld.es/ - needs updating, horse trekking side of this now taking a back seat, will be re-launced, God Willing, by Easter 2008, and focus now is on the establishment of the first Equine Sanctuary in the whole province of Almeria, Spain.)
  
• Movie World Spain (Almería, Spain based venture, linked to Hollywood via Andrew McCarthy, ideally to be based at Cinema Studios Fort Bravo. Movie World will include the creation of a new Film School, Movie Studio, but the jewel in its crown will probably be  "Level Three Productions", a new Film Production Company that will exist to make movies which directly market and support the processes of Global Recovery, Global Sustainability and Global Unison.)
  
• Eco World Spain (Almería, Spain based venture, ideally to be based in the desert at or near to Cinema Studios Fort Bravo. Eco World will include examples of new and old Technologies for Sustainability, ranging from (for example) SolaRoof Structures to Native American Tipis and Mongolian Yurts, which are actually inhabited on a full time research and development project which will identify Appropriate Technologies for Sustainability.)
• The Eco-Shelter Project (UK-based project to develop high-quality but low-cost shelter and sustainable community solutions for people in need of humanitarian aid.)
  
• LifeSynthesis (UK and Almería Spain based Multinational Ethical Business and International Social Enterprise aimed at promoting and developing SolaRoof Technologies and related technologies to support the creation of Sustainable Communities around the world - core focus being "Living Ecologically".)

A Note on Cashflow Forecast & Guarantors:

At this time it is simply not possible to produce a full and detailed Cashflow Forecast for every single aspect of this proposal to accurately predict how any money invested into a given area of activity would create a strong financial return from that activity.

However, given the global scale and infinite potential of this project, it is hoped by the author of this document that any reader will appreciate the following to be true:

Any Cashflow Forecast produced is at best a guess of what might happen in the future, it may indicate what money any specific piece of work is likely to generate, but there is no way to truly produce a Cashflow Forecast that is 100% accurate.

Cashflow Forecasts can produce extremely relevant information, so they are useful when it is possible to produce one, but they mostly feed THE ILLUSION OF SECURITY, referred to later in this document.

Financial Guarantors are also extremely welcome for any project, especially one which clearly requires significant amounts of money in order for it to begin and be developed appropriately, however the truth is that in life, NOTHING IS GUARANTEED.

Thus, for example, if "Company A" or "Individual B" is clearly wealthy enough to act as a guarantor when any project commences, that is no guarantee that if the project fails to generate the required financial return after a period of time that the said Individual B or Company A is still in a strong enough position to repay any money invested, with or without interest.

So long as "Company A" or "Individual B" is honourable and remains wealthy enough to return any money invested into a project, there is no problem, but if something unforeseen happens to that company or that individual which prevents them from being able to honour their commitment, then what?

The point here being that with or without Cashflow Forecasts and Financial Guarantees a truly Ethical Bank should be able to recognise what is or what is not Appropriate Practical Activity that is worthy of support by that bank. (See below for the ISEB's definition of what we deem to be Appropriate Practical Activity).

My associates and I submit that The Global Recovery Initiative oer se, and establishing The Earth Bank along with The Global Recovery Fund are precisely the types of Appropriate Practical Activity that a truly Ethical Bank should support, with or without cashflow forecasts or financial guarantees.

The Benefits To An Existing Ethical Bank like Triodos:

This work will take Ethical Banking to the next level, but for Triodos Bank per se, these are the main benefits to be gained from wholeheartedly supporting this proposal.

• Doing so will place Triodos Bank and its associates at the fore-front of this truly beneficial yet highly profitable and pioneering worldwide initiative.

• This will also help to transform Orthodox Banking into Ethical Banking.

• That genuinely will be for the good of all, but proactively supporting this work will naturally benefit Triodos Bank and its associates specifically, by enabling them to establish for themselves a key position in a completely new but long-awaited marketplace.

That new marketplace is the Marketplace of Global Recovery*.

*The Marketplace of Global Recovery is an emerging and SUSTAINABLE environment that is essentially the opposite of old and well-established marketplaces that are inherently NON-SUSTAINABLE.

Though currently the norm, those old marketplaces favour and tend to support Global Ownership, Global Domination and Global Consumption rather than Global Recovery, Global Unison and Global Sustainability.

Trading the Earth, instead of Loving the Earth is perhaps Man's greatest folly.

Therefore, in order to facilitate genuine Global Recovery, Global Unison and Global Sustainability, the new Marketplace of Global Recovery needs to be born and invigorated so that Appropriate Practical Activity is enabled and supported within that new marketplace in ways that are still Profit Friendly, but which are also People Friendly and Planet Friendly.

The PROCESS of Global Recovery:

Definitions:

With the help of The Global Recovery Fund, The Global Recovery Initiative will create a new Multinational Ethical Business and International Social Enterprise that will almost certainly be called, "Global Recovery".

However, that organisation is not "The Process of Global Recovery" per se.

"Global Recovery" the organisation will merely be one organisation, (though quite possibly a pivotal organisation), that will genuinely work to facilitate the actual Process of Global Recovery around the world.

• The central aim and objective underpinning all of this work is obvoiusly genuinely facilitating the Process of Global Recovery, for the good of all.

And we define the Process of Global Recovery as being:

"The return to, and re-instatement of, authentic ways of loving, living and working on Earth, in Unison with The Eternal, and with the Whole of Life and with Nature, in order that we Human Beings may thereby recover our dignity, our divinity and our True Humanity, individually and globally."

In other words, the genuine and practical realisation of a more Heavenly Earth by Mankind, living and working together, basically through Compassion married to relevant Work.

We maintain that this may be achieved through a blend of profound Spiritual Awareness and Mental Alertness expressed through Appropriate Practical Activity.

We define Appropriate Practical Activity as being:

Any work or activity, anywhere, that is consciously or naturally:

• Based in love, rather than fear...
• Based in compassion, rather than competition...
• Based in generosity, rather than greed...
• Based in intelligence, rather than hate...
• Based in courage, rather than worry...
• Based in wisdom, rather than folly...
• Based in truth, rather than falseness...

...and which thereby enables and facilitates Joy and the Process of Global Recovery.

Please note that actually creating both The Earth Bank and The Global Recovery Fund, and running these as together, as one, is in itself an Appropriate Practical Activity, which The Global Recovery Fund should support, as soon as it is able to do so.

The fund will thus be self-sustaining,

by being focused on sustaining the world.

Why The World Needs "The Global Recovery Fund":

Global Sustainability:

A) Orthodox Business pivots around Orthodox Banking, and both focus upon Global Ownership.

Such banking and business are currently the norm in the modern world, with the result that almost every human being on the planet strives to own this or own that, in order to feel safe and secure and to escape or avoid misery. This road, however, is inherently NOT SUSTAINABLE, inherently UNSAFE and creates only the ILLUSION OF SECURITY in our species. This road is hard, stressful, competitive, inhumane and all-consuming. It feeds and needs FEAR.

It could be called, "The Road of Illusion." (La Via Falsa) for mankind.

B) Ethical Business must pivot around Ethical Banking and be focused upon Global Recovery.

If such banking and business were the norm in the modern world, then every human being on the planet would be working and living in ways that are far safer more truly secure and great fun!. This road is inherently SUSTAINABLE, inherently SAFER and facilitates TRUE SECURITY for our species. This road is gentle, easier, compassionate, humane and all-liberating. It feeds and needs LOVE.

It could be called, "The Natural Way." (El Camino Natural.) for mankind.

The Global Recovery Fund, and similar resource-pools, each working in unison with the wholly natural process of Global Recovery, will eventually facilitate a shift from "A" above being the norm to "B" above being the norm.

Enabling us to leave The Road of Illusion and live in The Natural Way.

What The Global Recovery Fund Could Achieve:

This Global Recovery Fund is a resource-pool that will consist of monies donated by any party, plus any other resources donated by any party where those financial and other resources shall have been donated to aid or support any Appropriate Practical Activity, anywhere, that will actively facilitate the Process of Global Recovery.

Therefore any persons actively engaged in managing The Global Recovery Fund will not only manage and appropriately deploy the money in that fund, they will also manage and appropriately deploy any other non-financial resources in the fund.

Focusing on the monetary aspects of this, three main categories of Appropriate Practical Activity would be funded by The Global Recovery Fund, namely:

1. Category A: Relevant activities which repay all funds via an Interest Free Loan until all monies have been repaid, over an agreed period of time, plus, in addition, the project, business, person or community that has been funded by The Global Recovery Fund thereafter contributes whatever additional monies they can afford to The Global Recovery Fund, on a voluntary basis, for as long a period of time as the person, project, business or community chooses.
   
2. Category B: Relevant activities which repay all funds via an Interest Free Loan until all monies have been repaid, over an agreed period of time, however the project, business, person or community thus supported does not pay anything else into The Global Recovery Fund.
   
3. Category C: Relevant activities which do not repay any money.

These three different categories exist for the following reasons:

Category A funding will enable Appropriate Practical Activities to take place, and will also clearly enable The Global Recovery Fund to continue to exist, grow and be developed in a natural (organic) and sustainable way, through MUTUAL GENEROSITY.

Category B funding will enable Appropriate Practical Activities to take place, and will also enable The Global Recovery Fund to continue to exist.

Category C funding will enable Appropriate Practical Activities to take place, but will not directly benefit (financially) The Global Recovery Fund.

The Purpose of The Global Recovery Fund:

Linear and Non-Linear Returns:

The purpose of The Global Recovery Fund will be to enable and facilitate Appropriate Practical Activity around the world, even if that Appropriate Practical Activity will not produce any short term direct financial return to The Global Recovery Fund. (Though such activity may very well produce an indirect financial return to this fund in the medium to long-term.)

Therefore The Global Recovery Fund truly will truly exist to hep make this world a better place, for the good of all, rather than existing only to keep itself alive. That said, if properly sustained and developed, The Global Recovery Fund and similar resource-pools would each have infinite growth potential.

Of course the more Category A funding and Category B funding awarded by The Global Recovery Fund the better this will be for The Global Recovery Fund per se in the short term, but the criteria for awarding funding or other practical support from The Global Recovery Fund must not be:

• Selfish Reason: "We alone have to make a significant financial profit from our investment into any activity, as quickly as possible". (Greed Based)

It needs to be:

• Ethical Reason: "This activity will benefit the world, the whole of life and nature. It needs financial and / or practical help. We can afford to provide that help and are able to do so. Therefore we will help." (Generosity Based)

Please note, however, that it is likely to prove to be the case that the greatest amount of money and other resources re-invested into The Global Recovery Fund will come in a non-linear fashion from investments made back into the fund by the "wealthy children" of the initial category A, B and C recipients.

This is just like planting a tree, and instead of the fund taking all or much of the early fruit of that tree within a defined period (to pay back the initial investment as quickly as possible) that fruit is planted and enabled to grow into many other trees, each of which pays into the fund a little of its fruit, for an indefinite period (thus the fruitful children, acting in unison with the process of Global Recovery, collectively pay back the initial investment and much more, as soon as practicable).

This approach may mean that it takes a little longer to recoup any initial investment made by The Global Recovery Fund, but all things considered, this approach should sustain and develop The Global Recovery Fund ad infinitum.

The Global Recovery Fund

Helping To Change The Engine Of Change:

A Better Future For All:

To achieve the true purpose of The Global Recovery Initiative, it will be necessary to positively change the biggest engine of change in the world, so that this engine of change proactively facilitates and supports the Process of Global Recovery.

This needs to happen sooner rather than later so that our species, and the world as a whole, have a future worth having.

If banks and other financial institutions in the world each become resource-pools and function as The Global Recovery Fund will function, then little by little the general ways of doing business would also change from ways that are inherently NON-SUSTAINABLE to ways that are inherently SUSTAINABLE.

This would be a natural knock-on effect, because on a practical level the biggest engine of change in the world is, "The World of Orthodox Business". In turn, that orthodox business world pivots around "Orthodox Banking and Finance".

Unfortunately, orthodox banking has become so focused on money matters that the main aim of "The World of Orthodox Business" has become myopic and selfish rather than visionary and ethical, so businesses in general now exist primarily to "Feed Banking and Finance".

Therefore, for our species, and others, to survive, thrive and truly come alive in this world, that engine of change needs to change itself to become "The World of Ethical Business".

When that happens, so that generally speaking the only kind of business that exists in the future really is Ethical Business, then this will then not only "Feed Ethical Banking and Ethical Finance" it will also Feed The World!

In short we submit that:

• All banks should become Ethical Banks, and all Ethical Banks should support The Global Recovery Fund, or similar enterprises.

Clearly it follows that The Earth Bank and The Global Recovery Fund could be created at this present time with the involvement of existing Ethical Banks and Ethical Financial Institutions like Triodos Bank and its associates, hence the final draft of this proposal will be presented  to Triodos Bank and / or other (more appropriate?) banks or financial institutions.

As suggested at the start of this blog The Earth Bank and The Global Recovery Fund could be created by us, starting from scratch.

Or, perhaps, The Earth Bank could be created from scratch, by the Zaadsters, and the actual Global Recovery Fund could be co-created by relevant Global Partners working with The Earth Bank.

Please also note that The Global Recoveyr Fund will actually be a resource pool, operating internationally, that achieves results through a process known as Hypothecated Resource Management* and it is not just a pot of money.

*Hypothecated Resource Management basically means that resources are allocated to specific activities, and those activities in return provide accurate and clear reports back to The Global Recovery Fund management team on how any money and other resources has been used or is being used, to support the process of Global Recovery.

Resources can be anything - skills, knownow, time, land, equipment, raw materials, livestock - anything that can be of use, anything that can be used to help facilitate success, in the context of Global Recovery.

The whole process is transparent.

Now, one way or another, as you will probably have gathered by now,  The ISEB is determined to co-create The Global Recovery Fund with relevant Global Partners as soon as possible, and it is our hope that Triodos Bank and their associates, viewed as one corporate whole, will become amongst the first of those Global Partners.

Sustaining, Growing and Developing

The Global Recovery Fund:

Parents & Children:

Please note that the type of work supported by The Global Recovery Fund would fall broadly into two types, namely:

1. Work which creates wealth directly where some of that wealth is poured back, through a Voluntary Agreement, into The Global Recovery Fund in order to sustain, grow and enable the appropriate long-term development of The Global Recovery Fund. (Wealthy Parent)
   
2. Work which creates wealth indirectly, by sowing seeds that each become new wealth creation enterprises, even though the original work is not able to pay anything back to the fund. However, some of the wealth produced by the "children" of the original work or project is poured into The Global Recovery Fund by each new "wealthy child" in order to sustain, grow and enable the appropriate long-term development of The Global Recovery Fund. (Working Parent with Wealthy Children)

In type (ii) work above, the "working parent" initiative or project per se merely keeps itself alive and helps its children to do well. It does not become wealth-producing in its own right.

Indeed it may not be able to pay back anything at all to The Global Recovery Fund. (This would be a Category C type of recipient.)

However at least some of the "children" of that Category C initiative or project do become wealth-producing, and the "wealthy children" voluntarily pay whatever they can afford to pay into The Global Recovery Fund, as do their "wealthy children", and their "children's" "wealthy children" and so on, ad infinitum.

Orthodox Banking basically restricts itself to investment only in work that creates wealth directly, essentially saying to anyone it supports, "I will lend you money, on condition that you alone pay me back. If you do not pay me back quickly enough, then our agreement is that I may sell what you own in order to recover my investment in you."

That is an extremely myopic and domineering way in which to secure a return on any investment.

It actually tends to facilitate POVERTY, GREED and FEAR.

However, if banks were more visionary, and invested their funds into (i) and (ii) above, then this would actively facilitate PROSPERITY, GENEROSITY and LOVE.

Therefore, given all the above, part of the work of the people who are responsible for maintaining The Global Recovery Fund will be to be aware of work that is type (i) work and work which is type (ii) work. (Or any mixture of the two.)

Any project, business, individual or community that has been directly or indirectly supported by The Global Recovery Fund would be invited to support The Global Recovery Fund in return, in order to sustain, grow and develop The Global Recovery Fund.

Thus a Voluntary Agreement will be offered to every new project or business that has come into existence because of this fund or because of work supported by it. That agreement will essentially be an invitation to that project or business, and its children, to contribute to the fund for as long as possible, whatever they can truly afford to contribute, whenever they can truly afford to do so.

It really is that simple.

The Global Recovery Initiative:

 

The Work of The Global Recovery Initiative:

The Global Recovery Initiative may engage in type (ii) work, rather than type (i) work, as explained on page 10 of this proposal. (It may be a Category C activity.)

The Global Recovery Initiative will of course do all that it can to be a Category A type of activity, and produce a direct financial return on any investment made into it either by The Global Recovery Fund or by any other party, ad infintum.

However, the fact is that it may not directly produce any financial return to The Global Recovery Fund, simply because it will invest all it can in the creation, support and sustainable development of new projects and initiatives around the world.

Please note, however, that the main work of The Global Recovery Initiative, will be to give birth to as many "children" as possible, around the world, where those "children" actually become the wealth-producers that support The Global Recovery Fund.

One of those children will be "Global Recovery", the organisation, which will be wealth producing and which will invest as much as it can afford back into The Global Recovery Fund, ad infinitum.

The Global Recovery Initiative will of course encourage and enable all of its "children" to invest as much as they can afford back into The Global Recovery Fund, ad infinitum. (For the good of all)

The Formation Of The Global Recovery Initiative:

Please note that at the time of writing The Global Recovery Initiative per se is an embryonic and informal International Association, currently needing to be formalised, with its first three phyiscal bases being in Spain, the UK and the USA.

God Willing, it will formally begin work in the next few weeks or months, once it is registered as an appropriate type of organisation in the UK (Limited Liability Partnership - already registered as such in the UK), the USA (U.S. 501 (c)(3) organisation - yet to be registered) and in Spain, where it will probably be registered as a "Socially Responsible Association".

This has all been initiated and developed so far by the following individuals and enterprises, who are defined as Key Associates and Supportive Associates:

(A Key Associate is an individual or organisation who is working full time on The Global Recovery Initiative. Other individuals or organisations who otherwise support The Global Recovery Initiative, privately or professionally, are known as Supportive Associates. A Supportive Associate may at some stage become a Key Associate and vice versa.)

The Key Associates (For The Moment!):

1. Raymond Murray: (Ray is a British National who works internationally, mainly in Spain and the UK, currently trading as a freelance consultant on Ethical Business and Sustainable Community Development, under the trading name of Planetwise. He is the founder of The ISEB, and is the initiator of, and for the time being, the global co-ordinator of: The Global Recovery Initiative.)
   
2. Timoteo Bruno Friedenelli: (Tim is a Spanish National, based in Spain, currently working in the movie industry, and he is willing to become the formal Spanish Coordinator of The Global Recovery Initiative.)
   
3. Roy Martin MBE: (Roy is a British National who currently works mainly in the UK currently trading as The Joy for Life Company and he is willing to become the formal UK Coordinator of The Global Recovery Initiative.)
   
4. Vincent Mancarella: (Vin was born and lives in the United States of America, he was an actor, is now an entrepreneur and is willing to become the formal USA Coordinator of The Global Recovery Initiative.)

As part of The Global Recovery Initiative, Ray, Tim, Roy and Vin are currently in process of formally launching together The International School for Ethical Business (The ISEB) with bases in the UK, Spain and the USA. The International School for Ethical Business and The ISEB (UK) are already registered as two distinct Unlimited Companies in the UK. 

A new Virtual ISEB will soon be launched through a  Zpro site here at Zaadz, and also through its own website(s).

It is hoped that GAIAM, Triodos Bank and their associates,

viewed as a whole corporate entity,

will also become one of

The Key Associates of

The Global Recovery Initiative
But please note that:

FORMAL PROPOSALS TO THESE ORGANISATIONS HAVE YET TO BE SUBMITTED.

Examples of Supportive Associates:  (This is not an exhaustive list, there are others...)

1. Peter Ballard (Peter is a British National who currently works internationally out of the UK as the Managing Director of Genus Pharmaceuticals. He is also one of the co-founders of The ISEB) (Genus Pharmaceuticals is the initiator of a worldwide project to eradicate Tuberculosis, once and for all - they are genuinely aspiring to operate as a bona-fide ethical pharmaceutical company - and that term does not have to be an oxymoron, as some people may presume.)
   
2. Robert Knowles (Robert is a British National who currently works internationally out of the UK as a Director of Omni Worldview)
   
3. James Wallace MSc (James is a British National who currently works internationally, out of the UK as a Director of Omni Worldview)
   
4. Lawrence C Bloom FRICS (Lawrence is a British National who currently works internationally out of the UK as a Director of Omni Worldview. He also owns several businesses based in London.)
   
5. Andrew McCarthy (Andrew was born and lives in the USA. He works internationally out of America as a renowned Hollywood Actor and Film Director.)
   
6. Anna Twinney (Anna is British, with American citizenship. She is the wife of Vincent Mancarella and was the Head Instructor at The Monty Roberts International Learning Centre in California for some years. She now works independently and internationally as a world-class teacher of Natural Horsemanship, and is the owner of, "Reach Out To Horses" [http://www.reachouttohorses.com/]. Anna will also work as Head of the Faculty of Natural Horsemanship for The International School for Ethical Business - Anna, Vin and Ray Murray already work together in Spain and the USA, on the theme of facilitating Compassionate Leadership Skills  - under the umbrella of "Reach Out To Leadership")
   
7. Richard Nelson: (Rick is a Canadian inventor, and creator of SolaRoof Technologies. He is the director of LifeSynthesis and original initiator of The Eco-Shelter Project. Currently based in the UK, with strong connections internationally, especially in the Middle East and Malaysia. He is keen to establish a working base in Almeria, Spain and will work with Ray Murray to ethically facilitate the process of Global Recovery in any way possible)
   

Initial Financial Investment Required:

When The Global Recovery Fund actually is established by a consortium of relevant Global Partners, then that forty five million dollars or more of funding would take the form of a simple grant that would be the first monies paid out of The Global Recovery Fund.

Some ideas regarding how Global Recovery could use that initial investment of forty five million dollars are contained in the following pages, however in brief, if these suggested projects were approved to go ahead, then the money would be allocated for use on Appropriate Practical Activities initially in Spain, the UK and the USA along the following lines:

Almería, Spain Projects:

Funding required is around $15million (Fifteen Million Dollars) (Or more if available).

To establish the HQ and offices in Spain for The Global Recovery Initiative (Spain) and Global Recovery (Spain) (The organisation.).

The HQ would ideally be based at Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, with at least one additional office in Madrid, and perhaps one other in Asturias, Spain.

To create a suitable physical HQ, the intention would be to purchase, staff and appropriately develop Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, in the Desert of Tabernas Natural Park, Almería, Spain along with some of its surrounding land.

This will also enable the most important film-set in Europe to continue to be used for the making of movies, instead of being transformed into another orthodox housing development.

Hmm... just as an aside, in this blog, I appreciate that any reader not knowing this area or this specific location may be wondering, "Why on earth would you do that?"...

Short indication of the relevance of this is as follows:

Almost everyone on the planet has heard of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" - and other Spaghetti Westerns (which were mostly filmed here in Spain, but were made by Italian film-crews).

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, like all movies, is entertaining, but it also hints at or even deliberately contains some MORAL MESSAGES....

What if we made a movie called:

The Good, The Great and The Godly...(storyline does not matter at the moment, hasn't even been written - hope you see what I am getting at here--- a completely new genre of Hollywood Calibre Movies, which are not only Entertaining, but also Enlightening... producing a genre that could be called "Enlightentertainment")

Anyway, apart from making movies at Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, this project would also establish at and around Fort Bravo the world's first, "Global Recovery Educational Park". (Housing an International School for Ethical Business and so forth - see later.)

However, if it does not prove practicable to purchase Cinema Studios Fort Bravo for any reason, then we would purchase another piece of land outside of the Natural Park area, but still in the province of Almería, where we may create the world's first "Global Recovery Natural Park" based around a facility that would complement Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, to be called, "The Mini Texas Western Ranch". (See details of this later in the proposal)

Devon, UK Projects:

Funding required is around $15million (Fifteen Million Dollars) (Or more if available).

Establish World HQ and offices in the UK for The Global Recovery Initiative and Global Recovery (The parent organisation.) on or near to The Dartington Hall Estate.

The establishment of the World HQ for Global Recovery on or close to The Dartington Hall Estate would facilitate greater synergy between the distinct schools, colleges and educational enterprises already based on The Dartington Hall Estate, to co-create there, with assistance from The Global Recovery Initiative the first campus of a completely new International Super-University or "Omniversity" that will promote and facilitate:

• Ethical Business
• Sustainable Communities
• Global Unison

This will also make The Dartington Hall Estate into a Global Recovery Educational Park, linked to all other such Global Recovery Educational Parks around the world.

Colorado, USA Projects:

Funding required is around $15million (Fifteen Million Dollars) (Or more if available).

Establish the American HQ and offices in the USA for The Global Recovery Initiative and Global Recovery (America) with those offices being in or near to Boulder, Colorado.

In addition to this, purchasing a ranch that will be known as Reach Out Ranch, linking this with the work of Anna Twinney, who would be based on that ranch with her husband, Vincent Mancarella and other core personnel.

This location will also be a "Global Recovery Educational Park" in its own right and it too will become a campus of the "Omniversity", specialising in Advanced Experiential Learning Programmes.

Please note that the initial total sum of forty five million dollars is money that would come out of The Global Recovery Fund, which in turn would be safeguarded by The Earth Bank.

The money required to establish and run The Earth Bank and The Global Recovery Fund, for the purposes of this discussion document, is NOT included in the $45,000,000 referred to in this document - that $45,000,000 is for project initiation and development.

Please also note that that $45,000,000 or more of "project money" would be invested, it would not be spent, and it would be invested in the following:

1. Sustainably developing the Global Recovery Initiative itself via the recruitment, training and employment of appropriate part-time or full-time personnel who together will co-create the Organisation to be called "Global Recovery", which will manage The Global Recovery Initiative and engage in other Appropriate Practical Activities to facilitate the Process of Global Recovery. (This organisation will initially have bases in Spain, the UK and the USA as indicated above.)
   
2. The purchase and sustainable development of pieces of land and buildings that would help to create at least three Global Recovery Educational Parks and "Omniversity" campuses in Spain, the UK, and the USA. If funds and other resources allow, we will create others elsewhere.
   
3. The purchase and sustainable development of Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, located in the Desert of Tabernas Natural Park, in Almeria, Spain, around which the Global Recovery Educational Park in Spain would be created.
   
4. As an alternative to 3 above, or in addition to 3 above, the purchase and sustainable development of an area of land with buildings, and livestock to create "The Mini Texas Western Ranch", and "The European Cowboy School" in the province of Almeria, Spain, to directly link with items 2 and 3 above.
   
5. The purchase and sustainable development of Aller Park, on The Dartington Hall Estate, Devon, England, around which another Global Recovery Educational Park would be created. (Or the rental of other facilities, on or very close to Dartington)
   
6. The purchase and sustainable development of land, with or without suitable buildings, in Colorado, USA, around which another Global Recovery Educational Park would be created.
   
7. The employment of suitable full-time and part-time personnel who, by engaging in Appropriate Practical Activity, will together support the sustainable development of 1,2,3,4, 5 and 6 above, in order to create thereby a world-class "Global-Life-Skills Omniversity" or "International Super University", (Possibly to be called "Eartheart Omniversity").
    
8. The Marketing and Advertising of all relevant areas referred to above.

Creating Global Recovery  ~ The Organisation

Examples of Appropriate Practical Activity that will be practised by the organisation to be called, "Global Recovery" are detailed below:

This section relates to:

1:               Sustainably developing the Global Recovery Initiative via the recruitment, training and employment of appropriate part-time or full-time personnel who together will co-create the Organisation to be called "Global Recovery", which will manage The Global Recovery Initiative and engage in other Appropriate Practical Activities to facilitate the Process of Global Recovery. (This organisation will initially have bases in Spain, the UK and the USA as indicated above.)

Explaining The True Purpose of the Organisation to be called: Global Recovery:

There are five Global Industries which currently exist that have a very negative effect on our Wellbeing, Prosperity, Enjoyment, Peace and general Harmony. This is a fundamentally UNHEALTHY situation for every person on the planet (and for other species too.)

You will not normally hear or read anyone referring to these things in the world of Orthodox Business, since many orthodox businesses are operating, usually unconsciously, in ways that support the continuation of these five Negative Industries.

However, it is easy to demonstrate that these five Negative Industries do already exist and that they operate on a world-wide scale. Indeed billions of people around the world are innocently employed in support of these industries without realising that that is the case.

The first four Negative Global Industries are as follows:

• The Global Sickness Industry (Which is basically in service of Death)
• The Global Greed Industry (Which is basically in service of Poverty)
• The Global Disruption Industry (Which is basically in service of War)
• The Global Misery Industry (Which is basically in service of Entropy)

And viewed as a whole these four Negative Global Industries create, in effect:

• The Global Ownership Industry (Which is basically in service of Limitation

On the other hand, if the following four Positive Global Industries were to exist:

• The Global Wellbeing Industry (Which is basically in service of Aliveness)l
• The Global Prosperity Industry (Which is basically in service of Abundance)
• The Global Peace Industry (Which is basically in service of Awareness)
• The Global Fun Industry (Which is basically in service of Synergy)

Then, again viewed as a whole, these four Global Positive Industries would co-create and sustain:

• The Global Unison Industry (Which is basically in service of Freedom)

Given the above, it is self-evident that if the Negative Global Industries were replaced by the Positive Global Industries, then this world would genuinely be a better place, a healthier place and a happier place in which to survive, thrive and truly feel alive.

Therefore the original idea behind creating The ISEB (and then Global Recovery) was  purely and simply in order to facilitate the co-creation, establishment and sustainable development of those five Positive Global Industries, which the world needs, but which do not properly exist at this time.

With all the above in mind this is why we who are already in process of co-creating The ISEB are now working to create and sustainably develop Global Recovery as a new Multinational Ethical Business and International Social Enterprise that will create, develop and deliver a range of products and services in Five General Focal Areas, namely:

• A. Global Recovery: Health & Wellbeing Enterprises. (Wellbeing For All)
• B. Global Recovery: Prosperity & Abundance Enterprises. (Abundance For All)
• C. Global Recovery: Planet & Peace Enterprises. (Peace For All)
• D. Global Recovery: Life Enjoyment Enterprises (Fun For All)
• E. Global Recovery: Global Unison Facilitation Enterprises. (Unison With All)

It is almost certain that in time five distinct Companies will be formed as part of The Global Recovery Group of Companies where each such company focuses on one specific area.

The Global Recovery Group of Companies:

As soon as Global Recovery formally exists, its ISEB's in the UK and elsewhere will work in UNISON with Global Recovery as part of "The Global Recovery Group of Companies", and that work is now normally referred to simply as Global Recovery Work.

So all of the work of The International School for Ethical Business (The ISEB) in the UK and in other countries may now legitimately be regarded as both an integral part and a pioneering part of the work of Global Recovery.

Therefore, even though The ISEB could continue to operate as an autonomous corporate entity, if it does so it will also operate as "A wholly independent subsidiary of Global Recovery".

In effect, The ISEB will be a formal "department" of Global Recovery, not necessarily OWNED by Global Recovery, but perhaps fully SUPPORTED by Global Recovery and working in UNISON with Global Recovery.

This is a completely different business model to the norm in the world of orthodox business where one would usually expect The ISEB to become "A wholly owned subsidiary of Global Recovery".

However, that would merely perpetuate unhealthy patterns of Global Ownership and perpetuate The Global Ownership Industry when it is our intention to facilitate and demonstrate working together in True Global Unison and support the establishment thereby of The Global Unison Industry.

Given the above, it is recommended that Global Recovery per se be recognised as being,

"A wholly independent subsidiary of one or more appropriate FOUNDING ORGANISATIONS"

All of which will help to enable and facilitate the practical achievement of the Process of Global Recovery, as defined earlier in this blog.

General Appropriate Practical Activities of Global Recovery (The Organisation):

In broad terms the core activities of Global Recovery will be:

• The design, development and delivery of Advanced Educational Services
  
  
• The initiation and / or support of Projects which directly or indirectly support Global Wellbeing, Global Prosperity, Global Peace, Global Recovery and Global Unison
  
  
• The conduct of Research & Development, including Ethical Commercial Development, related to activities, processes, products and services which directly or indirectly support Global Wellbeing, Global Prosperity, Global Peace, Global Recovery and Global Unison.

These activities are all in service of Enabling Humanity to Create Truly Sustainable Communities locally, globally and eventually elsewhere in the cosmos.

The work of Global Recovery will naturally create a new International Super University or "Global Life-Skills Omniversity" which has provisionally been named "Eartheart Omniversity".

 

Some specific Appropriate Practical Activities of Global Recovery:

A] The Advanced Educational Services, the Projects and the Research & Development activities of Global Recovery will promote, ascertain, advance and proactively establish the true appropriateness, the real value and the actual benefits to humanity and this planet (as a whole) of:

1. Technologies and Science
2. Ethical Business as a local and global catalyst for beneficial change
3. Governments and Religions
4. Education and Educational Services       (The pivotal area)
5. Food, Food-Supplements, "Life-Style Products and Services"
6. Medicines and Health-Services
7. Orthodox and alternative Human Strategies for enabling our whole species to survive and thrive in the 21^st Century and beyond (As well as Work, this area includes our Leisure-Activities, Pastimes, Sports, Art and Music etc.)

B] The specific activities of Global Recovery will include designing and delivering Advanced Educational Services, initiating and supporting Projects plus conducting Research & Development relating to:

The commercial, social and global value of the practical facilitation of Attitude Change towards, and the Profound Awareness of the ethical achievement of Truly Sustainable Development, in harmony with The Eternal, The Whole of Life and Nature

Some specific Appropriate Practical Activities of Global Recovery (Continued):

C] The specific activities of Global Recovery will include designing and delivering Advanced Educational Services, initiating and supporting Projects plus conducting Research & Development relating to:

The commercial, social and global value of the practical facilitation of True Enlightenment in staff and students in Nurseries, Schools, Colleges, Universities, Business-Schools, "Think Tanks" and other Centres of Learning and Excellence Development.

D] The specific activities of Global Recovery will include designing and delivering Advanced Educational Services, initiating and supporting Projects plus conducting Research & Development relating to the relative effectiveness and value of:

• Distance Learning methodologies
• Extractive Learning methodologies
• Experiential Learning methodologies
• Emanational Learning methodologies and other
• Educational Products & Services...

...employed for the purposes of training, development and enlightenment in relation to any or all of the themes referred to in [A], [B] and [C] above.

Facilitating Global Wellbeing:

In the field of Global Wellbeing, the organisation to be called "Global Recovery", is being formed in order to launch and manage various projects which will achieve at least the following noble aims:

1. The worldwide eradication of Tuberculosis. (Project #1)
2. The worldwide eradication of Malaria. (Project #2)
3. The worldwide eradication of HIV. (Project #3)
4. The ending of Misery, worldwide. (Project #4)
5. The ending of Greed, worldwide. (Project #5)

These projects are likely to run concurrently, rather than sequentially, and hopefully it will be appreciated that creating The Global Recovery Fund is a natural part of "Project # 5", which has the aim of ending Greed, worldwide.

It is self-evident that Greed is a global dis-ease in human beings, if not an actual global disease.

Clearly, any such dis-ease will have a detrimental effect on the wellbeing of individuals, our species and the world as a whole.

It is also self-evident that any widespread dis-ease such as Greed, also tends to facilitate Global Poverty.

Therefore although the above projects 1 to 5 are classified as "Projects to Facilitate Global Wellbeing", they will naturally enhance any Global Recovery projects in the following categories:

• Projects to Facilitate True Prosperity for All.
• Projects to Facilitate World Peace.
• Projects to Facilitate FUN, Locally and Globally
• Projects to Facilitate Global Unison.

Similarly, any projects which facilitate Prosperity, Peace etc., will also naturally help to facilitate Global Wellbeing. (Now please see next Blog on Global Recovery Educational Parks)

Ray

 

Global Recovery Educational Parks:

This section should be read after the main blog entry on Global Recovery, since this sectoin follows on from that and relates to:

2:         The purchase and sustainable development of pieces of land and buildings that would help to create at least one Global Recovery Educational Park in Spain, one in the UK, one in the USA and others elsewhere if possible.

3.         The purchase and sustainable development of Cinema Studios Fort Bravo, located in the Desert of Tabernas Natural Park, in Almería, Spain, around which the first Global Recovery Educational Park in Spain would be created.

4.         As an alternative to 3 above, or in addition to 3 above, the purchase and sustainable development of an area of land with buildings, and livestock to create "The Mini Texas Western Ranch", and "The European Cowboy School" in the province of Almeria, Spain, to directly link with items 2 and 3 above.
 
5.         The purchase and sustainable development of Aller Park, on the Dartington Hall Estate, Devon, England, around which another Global Recovery Educational Park would be created.

6.         The purchase and sustainable development of land, with or without suitable buildings, in Colorado, USA, around which another Global Recovery Educational Park would be created.

Education Is Vital and Re-Vitalising:

You will probably have gathered from this blog that the pivotal area in the seven Focal Areas of Global Recovery (the organisation) is Education.

There are four main types of Education which Human Beings employ around the world, in order to Train, Develop and Enlighten themselves. These are:

• Extractive Learning
• Basic Experiential Learning
• Advanced Experiential Learning
• Emanational Learning

Extractive Learning: In orthodox education it has become the norm for Extractive Learning to be employed when teaching children and adults about anything. The common phrase for this in teaching circles is "chalk and talk", referring to the days when the teacher would write information on a blackboard, using chalk, then verbally explain whatever was being taught. That may be supplemented by the student reading from books, or nowadays looking for information on the internet.

However, this approach requires the student to EXTRACT something useful from all of the information they encounter, and it helps to form an EXTRACTIVE MENTALITY.

It has also been widely recognised for decades that this is the least effective method of teaching or facilitating learning that exists and a common adage for Extractive Learning is, "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember". It requires students to utilise their ears and their eyes, or for Braille readers, their fingers. This way of learning therefore mainly utilises the physical senses of Hearing, Seeing and Touching. It is useful for Training.

Experiential Learning: Has become more and more popular in recent years, even in orthodox educational establishments, simply because it is far more effective than Extractive Learning.

This type of learning is not lecture based. It is based in people having relevant experiences.

In Basic Experiential Learning some Extractive Learning usually still takes place, however this is reinforced by the student engaging in Appropriate Practical Activities which require the student to use all of his or her physical senses.

In Advanced Experiential Learning, again, some Extractive Learning usually takes place, and just like in basic experiential learning, this too is reinforced by the student engaging in Appropriate Practical Activities, requiring the student to use all of his or her physical senses.

However, in addition, in Advanced Experiential Learning the emotions of the student are also engaged.

The common adage for Basic Experiential Learning is, "I do and I understand"

Whilst an appropriate adage for Advanced Experiential Learning would be, "I do and I feel and thus I understand MORE"

Basic Experiential Learning is highly effective and Advanced Experiential Learning is even more effective. All types of Experiential Learning are useful for Training and Development.

Emanational Learning: This is generally not deliberately employed in the West, and some educational institutions may not even be aware that this exists, however it is by far the most effective method of learning that human beings may currently employ. (It is deliberately employed in learning institutions in countries like Tibet, for example.)

Briefly, Emanational Learning consists of allowing the Mundane Mind to be open to True Mind or Soul.

These in turn are naturally open to The Mind of God (within us / internal) and The Ways of Heaven (above us / eternal) and Nature (around us / external).

The True Mind or Soul involved in this educational process may be your own, or it may be that of some teacher, friend or other enlightened being. (Horses are great at this, by the way.)

Being open to Emanational Learning facilitates KNOWING, which includes understanding, but goes beyond this into GENIUS. It is the most common form of learning in Nature, and the source of all that may be known is God, The Whole of Life and Nature, as one (All).

There are countless examples of this, but a simple example in Nature can be found by observing any bird hatching out of an egg.

The chick in the egg KNOWS how to get out of the egg, yet it has never done this before. It has not read a book on how to hatch. Therefore neither Extractive Learning nor Experiential Learning is being employed by the chick. The chick is simply making use of Emanational Learning by being in unison with All

And the GENIUS of The Whole of Life and Nature, working in UNISON, is to provide the chick, whilst still in the egg, with an extra hard knobbly bit on the end of its beak, with which to more easily break its way out of the egg - that knobbly bit disappears after a while, once the chick has hatched - how cool is that!.

Through Emanational Learning all living things are able to behave in ways that are INSTINCTIVE, and INTELLIGENT and all fully sentient beings are so because they are also INTUITIVE. Emanational Learning is the key to True Enlightenment, it may also be employed to supplement any Training and Development.

Eartheart Omniversity:

This section relates to:

7.               The employment of suitable full-time and part-time personnel who, by engaging in Appropriate Practical Activity, will together support the sustainable development of 1,2,3,4, 5 and 6 above, in order to create thereby a world-class "Global-Life-Skills Omniversity" or "International Super University", (Possibly to be called "Eartheart Omniversity").

As previously stated, a natural by-product of creating Global Recovery, the organisation, along with a number of Global Recovery Educational Parks around the world, will be the establishment of an "International Super University" or "Life-Skills Omniversity".

Such an "Omniversity" will make appropriate use of all learning methodologies to facilitate Global Recovery, Global Sustainability and, ultimately, Global Unison.

Such an "Omniversity" would clearly be an educational facility, but it would also be an enthusiastic and pro-active supporter of the Process of Global Recovery.

Just like The International School for Ethical Business (The ISEB) and Global Recovery the organisation, this Eartheart Omniversity and other "Omniversities" will pragmatically initiate the birth and sustainable development of new "children" in the form of projects, ethical businesses and other international social enterprises that do the following:

• Help to facilitate the Process of Global Recovery
• Help to sustain, grow and develop The Global Recovery Fund
• Help to create and establish the Five Positive Global Industries*

For the good of all.

*Those five Positive Global Industries being:

• l The Global Wellbeing Industry (Which is basically in service of Aliveness)
• l The Global Prosperity Industry (Which is basically in service of Abundance)
• l The Global Peace Industry (Which is basically in service of Awareness)
• l The Global FUN Industry (Which is basically in service of Joy)
• l The Global Unison Industry (Which is basically in service of Freedom)

These new industries in turn would sustain and appropriately develop Ethical Banking and Ethical Business around the world.

Marketing & Promoting Global Recovery:

This section refers to:

8.               The Marketing and Advertising of all relevant areas.

There are of course myriad ways of Marketing and Advertising the various products and services that will arise out of The Global Recovery Initiative, and all mainstream methods of promoting relevant activities will be employed, as and when appropriate.

However please note the reference earlier to the creation of at least one distinct enterprises that will support the Marketing of items such as The Global Recovery Fund, The Global Recovery Initiative, Global Recovery as an organisation, ZAADZ, GAIAM and so on, as well as help to ENLIGHTEN people regarding what really is entailed in the Processes of Global Recovery, Global Sustainability and Global Unison.

One such proposed new enterprise being:

• Movie World Spain (Almería, Spain based venture, linked to Hollywood via Andrew McCarthy, ideally to be based at Cinema Studios Fort Bravo. Movie World will include the creation of a new Film School, Movie Studio, but the jewel in its crown will probably be  "Level Three Productions", a new Film Production Company that will exist to make movies which directly market and support the processes of Global Recovery, Global Sustainability and Global Unison.)

As and when it is relevant, between us we will produce specific Marketing Plans and formal Business Plans for any given aspect of this whole initiative..

PHEW!!!!


Ray