A Dream for One World
Segev Perets | IONS Noetic Sciences Review | IONS Review #55 |(1 rating)We the People of planet Earth, every last one of us, from the darkest to the lightest, from the biggest to the smallest, the strongest to the meekest; from every street of every city, town, or village, from every farm or settlement, across every continent, of all ethnicities, from all persuasions, of all lifestyles, of all colors, from all cultures, of every heritage, of every profession, of every difference; from the laborer to the artist, the teacher to the scientist, the poet to the engineer, the lawyer to the athlete, the politician to the street cleaner; every heart on this big green planet, every soul under its bright blue sky and warming sun, every man, woman and child, across every ocean and over every mountain; all of us, collectively, on this glorious day, pledge of our own independent free choice, now and forevermore, to stand whole, united and undivided, as one people, of one political body, one spirit, one race, in which all members are of equal value. All people are of equal worth. All children of this planet we all call our home are of equal freedom to be as they wish and live their hopes, dreams and desires with the equal right, opportunity and encouragement to fulfill the fullest beingness of who we each are.
We the People, of this Earth, choose today to seek the highest interest of every person; to provide the basic needs of all residents of the planet; to protect the rights of all people; to promote and preserve the dignity and respect of all human beings; to proclaim every person's will their own; to pronounce the future of every living soul secure in the eternal love of God.
We, each and all; individually, but of one voice, announce our choice to see the benefit of all as our own; to acknowledge and make a reality the truth that we all succeed or none of us succeeds; that if one of us falls, we all fall; if one of us is without food, then we are all hungry; if one of us is cold, then true warmth escapes us all; if one of us is unsafe, then security belongs to no one; if one of us has nowhere to call home, none of us has true shelter; if violence is unto one of us, then peace is not for any; if one of us is without love, then all our hearts are empty. We know that the joy of our brothers and sisters is our joy, the pain of our brothers and sisters, our pain. We choose not the greatest good for the greatest number of people. We choose the greatest good for all.
Today, it is so and for all eternity shall it be, that we each take the joyous responsibility to help, protect, preserve, respect and love all citizens of the Earth, as we do ourselves. We acknowledge that separation is a falsity and that unity and oneness is the only reality.
We the People of Earth collectively stand, proud and rejoicing, as one race of one heart with one love.
One for all. All for one. All for all. Indivisible today and forevermore.
I wrote this "Declaration for Interdependence" to create the feeling of being in the future, in a time when it has already happened. Imagine traveling there, and seeing that it is real. This is a big vision, I know. It may inspire you. It may move you to tears. It may make you laugh at my naïveté. However this makes you feel, it probably strikes you as a dream beyond reach. That would not surprise me, nor would it discourage me. If you are touched by the very idea of this dream existing, or by the vision that it may become real, then I urge you to hear what I'm saying:
It can happen. I am not saying it will—I have no way to know that. I cannot peer into the hearts of the billions that live today and the billions that will come, and foresee what choices they will make in their lives. I do know one thing: I believe in this vision of wholeness and oneness from the depth of my soul.
No matter how much we may be moved by such a thought as the unification of all humankind behind a common cosmology and a common purpose, we are a long way from its actuality. It will require the most radical shift in consciousness imaginable, an enormous, all-encompassing, global change in paradigm—a shift that must occur one person at a time, throughout all humanity.
Segev Perets is a student in transpersonal psychology at John F. Kennedy University. He wrote this "Declaration" after waking from a dream that the people of the world had agreed to erase all physical and mental borders, and establish a one-world government.
