Friday, August 28, 2015

OPAL Northeast Region Fall Gathering 2015...

September 26th through October 4th.

This is more of a "stay over" event stretching two weekends, with the main gatherings on the two Saturday nights for those who can come only a short time.

Strawberry Hill Farm
40 Chick Road
Wolfeboro, NH 03894

Due to a personal scheduling conflict, I will not be attending this Event as the Immersion Program, Session 4 at Sirius Community in Shutesbury, MA will be in progress from September 6th through October 9th, 2015 ~ JDHWB-R


Thursday, August 27, 2015

REBECCA COPE: FRACTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR NATURAL JUSTICE


A WORD ABOUT THE OPPT ROLE WITHIN THE ITNJ BREAK-UP...

When fractures occur, as the recent ITNJ break-up between Rebecca Cope and Sacha Stone, everyone is caught by surprise. It is easy to look for a scapegoat.  Lest that idea percolate too deep, let me be quick to point out that it was not Caleb Skinner who precipitated events.  It was his method of running the Tribunal put forth as a done deal that started the snowball rolling. His ideas never received a single vetting from the working committee that put the ITNJ together.

It was shocking, disturbing, and challenging. The American Team spent over a year in discussions, writing articles for NEO and the Sovereign Voice, working on The Source Documents through the Natural Justice Academy, participating on Radio Shows, and generally promoting a particular type of Tribunal.

Suddenly, all our input went out the window. “Delegated Authority” to the Judge, and the ITNJ Bar Association, replaced all our careful work.

Of course we protested.  Of course we pointed it out and demanded that the proper time be spent on settling the disagreements and getting our foundation secure before proceeding.  I expressed my feelings quite bluntly in one meeting, as I should have.

It is a fact that Caleb Skinner is a Trustee with OPPT.  He participated in the UCC Filings.  How that all plays into the model that he promoted is anybody’s guess.  We had every right to put that model under deep scrutiny, use our powers of discernment, and question everything before we made fatal errors with the ITNJ.

We did not have that opportunity.

Sacha Stone chose to attack the American Team and act as if we were responsible for the world problems, and the ITNJ problems. We dared to dream that we could hold the Agents acting as Corporate Enforcers accountable to the Rule of Law.  Did we rock too many boats?

It was Sacha who made the power grab.  His subsequent actions have down-played our work and our co-creative efforts to constitute the ITNJ.  The sheer venom of his attacks against us have been shocking, and revealing.

We can only guess at the true agenda in play that we were not aware of.

So often, we find this to be true.  Our Courts are not at all as portrayed.  Our educational efforts have focused on HOW the current court system operates.  It is difficult for most of us to accept that the Judges and Lawyers and County Administrators would put people in prison just to make money for themselves and their cronies.

How dare they treat us as War Criminals, as “Enemies of the State!”  But they do.  Everything is a business model.  Court Bonds are traded, and WE are the commodities. Every person who goes before a Judge is used to create the funds that go in the Judge’s retirement accounts.  When someone goes to jail, the opportunities to make money explode in exact proportion to the number of people who have been put in jail.  America has more people in prison THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, far more than China, with five times the population.

Of course we want to change that upside-down model.  We do NOT accomplish that job by putting the Judges and BAR back in charge.  How could we possibly support such a model?  We could not, so we made the only choice we could make.

Our work continues.  Judge Anna has put much time and effort into explaining HOW the system operates, and what we can all do about it.  If we can’t do it one way, we find another.

Look for a Series of Webinars coming soon, with Judge Anna and others, as we continue the work that is required of all of us during these challenging times.  Our Team is working together with more focus and more determination than ever.  Come join us!



Wednesday, August 26, 2015

IN MEMORY OF JULIAN ROBLES...


Julian Robles, Justin Deschamps, & Paul Conant
at Strawberry Hill Farm in Wolfeboro, NH

Last night I received an email from Tess von Maluski informing us at OPAL Northeast that Julian Robles made his transition last night and is no longer with us in density. His energy, which he shared with us during our two Summer Gatherings at Strawberry Hill Farm, will be sorely missed. Paul Conant, shown with Julian and Justin above, met them in Morocco at the One People Community, Aouchtam and brought them to Wolfeboro, NH to participate in these events with us. May you be at Peace, Julian, beyond the veil of third density where we all will meet at the time appointed by Source for The Event.... JDHWB-R


R.I.P. Jovan Julian Robles | "Because we know the truth, it is up to us to be the change"

I am sad and heavy hearted as I write this. Earlier today Jovan Julian Robles, my partner in life and the one who opened my eyes and many others, passed away today. He was a loving and compassionate man filled with dreams of a better world and a keen awareness that we were the ones to make it happen. All who came to know him could see the kindness in his heart. He was devoted to helping others, and we both worked tirelessly, on this blog and elsewhere, to do what we could to make this world a better place.


We brought him to he hospital last night and he seemed to be getting better. I left at 1:00am and he was happy and resting peacefully. Despite being on anti-clotting agents, his heart stopped at around 10:50am and the hospital staff tried to revive him for over an hours. I was able to be by his side and encourage him to come back for most of that time. I said I love you and that no matter what happens I'll continue to stand for truth and serve others. Just after 12:00pm they stopped the life support and he passed away.

I honestly don't know how I will continue to do the work of this blog without his help. He was a true partner, and helped make Stillness in the Storm what it is today. He had a constant drive to find the best information for empowering others. He had a take no 'shit from anyone' warrior spirit and refused to consent to tyranny whenever possible.

We met in 2009 while I was still deeply hidden from the world. It was his encouragement that caused me to come out and begin living my life openly. That choice was such a huge transformation in my life, and I am forever grateful to him for that. It was Julian who found the Gerson Miracle documentary on netflix in 2010 and insisted that we watch it, which was our red pill moment. Everything since then, all our research, discussion and activism has been hand in hand.
After researching for 6 months he had a moment of revelation and burst into tears. He realized back then that because we knew the truth we were the ones to make a difference and that it was up to us to help show others. All our work since then has been under that guiding light of hope and loving service.

We followed our passion by creating this blog and doing more work to help be the change. It was Julian's encouragement that pushed us to go and visit others, eventually leading us to Morocco. And it was his encouragement that brought us back to the US in May of this year, telling me we needed to come home and continue the work in a bigger way. He was always looking to reach more people and touch more hearts with all he was.

I will do my best to continue maintaining this site, as his passing fills me with even more drive to help others. I will not let his death be in vein. I will not let another suffer as he suffered and I know others will be inspired to do the same. I will continue on with even more conviction to be a force for change and give his life meaning through my efforts, along with all those others who have came before him.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes, positive intentions and loving messages. I am will do my best to respond to each of you and know that it has touched my heart deeply to see how many people were inspired by him and our work.

The next few days, weeks and months will be a huge change for me, but I know that the spiritual essence of this Julian, whom I love deeply, continue's on.

I will never forget the sentiment he shared that night many years ago when he realized we had to be the change for ourselves and others. He said:
"Because we know the truth, it is up to us to be the change"
I love you all so much.
- Justin


Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Impossible Technology Inventions that Work...

HopeGirl of Fix the World Organization
THE SPACE ENERGY CONVERTER

This class of inventions could wipe out oil crises and help solve environmental problems. More commonly called free energy or fuel-less electric generators, they put out more power than goes into them from any previously recognized source. No batteries, no fuel tank and no link with a wall socket. Instead, they tap an invisible source of power. Such unorthodox clean energy-producing devices exist today and were built as far back as the 19th century.

Forget the Rube Goldberg mechanical perpetual motion contraptions; they had to stop eventually. In contrast, new solid-state (no moving parts) energy converters are said to draw from an energy field in surrounding space. This source of abundant power is known by physicists as the zero-point quantum fluctuations of vacuum space. Zero-point refers to the fact that even at a temperature at which heat movement in molecules stops cold, zero degrees Kelvin, there is still a jiggling movement, said to be from inter-dimensional fluctuations or cosmic energy. Magnetism and vortexian or spin-upon-a-spin motions seem to line up these random fluctuations of space and put them to work, as in the Searl Effect (Atlantis Rising, first issue).

Inventors give various names to their space-energy converters. In the 1930s a scientist in Utah, T. Henry Moray, invented a Radiant Energy device powered from the sea of energy in which the earth floats. This sea that surrounds us, Moray said, is packed with rays which constantly pierce the earth from all directions, perhaps from countless galaxies. Converting this cosmic background radiation into a strange cold form of electricity, his device lit incandescent bulbs, heated a flat iron and ran a motor. His sons say he was thanked with bullets and other harassments, but that's another story.

A spiritual commune in Switzerland had a tabletop free energy device running in greenhouses for years, but members feared that outsiders would turn the technology into weaponry. Before the commune closed its doors to snoopers, European engineers witnessed the converter putting out thousands of watts. However, most other unorthodox energy technologies are still at the stage of unreliable, crude prototypes. (So was the Wrights first airplane; it only flew about a hundred feet.)

The inventor of AC (alternating current) electrical generating and transmission systems, the genius Nikola Tesla (1857-1943), was said to have run a Pierce-Arrow car on a free energy device in the 1930s. Although that's difficult to document now, we have his word that it's possible. It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature, said Tesla.

It may have been done before Tesla's time. Among the free energy inventions of John Worrell Keely (1827-1898) is the Hydro Pneumo-Pulsating-Vacuo motor that used cavitation (implosion) of water. Although Keely reached an advanced understanding of the science of vibrations, he failed to develop machines which other people could operate. Progress continues from other directions, a company in Georgia is selling water cavitation devices that range from 110 per cent to 300 per cent efficient.

Up in Vancouver, Canada, Tesla researcher John Hutchison says he has a feel for the natural flows of a subtle primal energy. In the spring of 1995 he showed his latest invention to the author and a mechanical engineer. The Hutchison Converter involves crystalline materials and the principle of electrical resonance. He twirls a few knobs to tune it, and the energy flow is amplified until it runs a one-inch diameter Radio Shack motor. The whirring of a small propeller isn't too impressive until you remember that there are no batteries and the device runs for days at a time.

The garage inventors come from many backgrounds. Wingate Lambertson Ph.D. of Florida, former executive director of Kentucky's science and technology commission, invented a device which converts the space energy fluctuations into electricity which lights a row of lamps. This dignified former professor took a roundabout route to the free-energy scene. In the mid-1960s he read There Is a River by Thomas Sugree, who writes about the destruction of Atlantis through misuse of a crystal energy collector. 

Lambertson's psychic friend later offered to collaborate on replicating the first Atlantean energy converter, but Lambertson eventually turned to his own knowledge of ceramics and metals to develop an energy converter. Neither his nor other known zero-point energy conversion methods of today are based on the first Atlantean crystal method, because the researchers found better methods. Also, the concept of a central power station providing electric power to a nation is obsolete, says Dr. Lambertson. Small energy converters will follow the path of the personal converter.

Source: Hope Girl and the Fix the World Team via email from admin@fixtheworldproject.ne

Sunday, August 23, 2015

SEVEN THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TESLA...


Nikola Tesla
The information below comes from interviews with W. Bernard Carlson, author of “Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age,” and Marc Seifer, author of “Wizard: Life and Times of Nicola Tesla.” Hope Girl and the Fix the World Team

1. HE WAS BORN DURING A LIGHTNING STORM

Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”

2. HE AND EDISON WERE RIVALS, BUT NOT SWORN ENEMIES

Many have characterized Tesla and inventor Thomas Edison as enemies (see this and this,) but Carlson says this relationship has been misrepresented. Early in his career, Tesla worked for Edison, designing direct current generators, but famously quit to pursue his own project: the alternating current induction motor. Sure, they were on different sides of the so-called “Current Wars,” with Edison pushing for direct current and Tesla for alternating current. But Carlson considers them the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates of their time: one the brilliant marketer and businessman and the other a visionary and “tech guy.”
On a rare occasion, Edison attended a conference where Tesla was speaking. Edison, hard of hearing and not wanting to be spotted, slipped into the back of the auditorium to listen to the lecture. But Tesla spotted Edison in the crowd, called attention to him and led the audience in giving him a standing ovation.

Seifer qualifies it more, saying the two had a love/hate relationship. At first Edison dismissed Tesla, but came to eventually respect him, he said.

“When there were fires at Tesla’s laboratory, Edison provided him a lab, so clearly there was some mutual respect,” Seifer said

3. HE DEVELOPED THE IDEA FOR SMARTPHONE TECHNOLOGY IN 1901

Tesla may have had a brilliant mind, but he was not as good at reducing his ideas to practice, Carlson said. In the race to develop transatlantic radio, Tesla described to his funder and business partner, J.P. Morgan, a new means of instant communication that involved gathering stock quotes and telegram messages, funneling them to his laboratory, where he would encode them and assign them each a new frequency. That frequency would be broadcast to a device that would fit in your hand, he explained. In other words, Tesla had envisioned the smart phone and wireless internet, Carlson said, adding that of all of his ideas, that was the one that stopped him in his tracks.

 “He was the first to be thinking about the information revolution in the sense of delivering information for each individual user,” Carlson said.

He also conceived of, but never developed technology for radar, X-rays, a particle beam “death ray” and radio astronomy.

4. ‘HE SHOOK THE POOP OUT OF MARK TWAIN’

One famous legend surrounding the eccentric Tesla was that he had an earthquake machine in his Manhattan laboratory that shook his building and nearly brought down the neighborhood during experiments.

Tesla’s device wasn’t actually an earthquake machine, Carlson said, but a high frequency oscillator. A piston set underneath a platform in the laboratory shook violently as it moved, another experiment in more efficient electricity.

It didn’t bring the block to ruins, Carlson said, but it did “shake the poop out of Mark Twain.” Twain was known for having digestive problems, so Tesla, who knew Twain through their gentlemen’s club, invited him over. He instructed Twain to stand on the platform while he flipped on the oscillator. After about 90 seconds, Twain jumped off the platform and ran for the facilities.

5. HE HAD FAMOUS FRIENDS

People aren’t aware that he was close friends with conservationist John Muir, Seifer said. Muir, one of the founders of the Sierra Club, loved that Tesla’s hydroelectric power system was a clean energy system. It runs on waterfalls, which Tesla referred to as “running on the wheelwork of nature.” Also among his friends: financiers Henry Clay Frick and Thomas Fortune Ryan. “He lived in the Waldorf Astoria, at the height of the gilded age,” Seifer said, adding that his fame later in life lessened.

6. PEARLS DROVE HIM CRAZY

Tesla could not stand the sight of pearls, to the extent that he refused to speak to women wearing them. When his secretary wore pearl jewelry, he sent her home for the day. No one knows why he had such an aversion, but Tesla had a very particular sense of style and aesthetics, Carlson said, and believed that in order to be successful, one needed to look successful. He wore white gloves to dinner every night and prided himself on being a “dapper dresser.”

Every photograph of Tesla, he said, is very carefully constructed to capture his “good side.”

7. HE HAD A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY AND A FEAR OF GERMS

Tesla had what’s known as a photographic memory. He was known to memorize books and images and stockpile visions for inventions in his head. He also had a powerful imagination and the ability to visualize in three dimensions, which he used to control the terrifying vivid nightmares he suffered from as a child. It’s in part what makes him such a mystical and eccentric character in popular culture, Carlson said. He was also known for having excessive hygiene habits, born out of a near-fatal bout of cholera as a teenager.

Source: Hope Girl and the Fix the World Team via email from admin@fixtheworldproject.ne

Friday, August 21, 2015

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN SEPTEMBER?


The Russian Media Is Talking About What Is Coming In September, But The U.S. Media Has Been Strangely Silent


Why does the Russian media seem to be far more on the ball than the mainstream media in the United States much of the time?  Could it be possible that Russian reporters have more freedom to talk about important issues than reporters that work for the major corporate conglomerates in the United States do?  Of course the Russian media is far from perfect.  They put out pro-Russian propaganda just like the U.S. media puts out pro-American propaganda.  But I must admit that I often find that Russian news sources are willing to tackle controversial issues that the mainstream media in the United States would not touch with a ten foot pole.  This includes the critical events that are coming up this September.

Even after everything that has been said and written in the alternative media about what is going to happen during September, most Americans are still completely ignorant about the history changing events that are going to take place next month.

First of all, the most important template for global governance that the United Nations has ever dreamed up is going to be launched at a major conference from September 25th to September 27th.  The launching of this “new universal agenda” is such an important event that the Pope is going to be traveling to New York City to give the address that will kick off this conference.  This new plan is known as “the 2030 Agenda“, and it is being called “Agenda 21 on steroids”.  This is one of the most significant steps toward global government in the history of the world, and yet the mainstream media in the United States is saying virtually nothing about it.

Secondly, we also know that a major push for the establishment of a Palestinian state is being planned for September.  It has been widely reported by the international media that France plans to submit a UN Security Council resolution which would formally recognize a Palestinian state for the first time ever.  This is one of the most critical moments in the modern history of the Middle East, and yet the mainstream media in the United States is saying virtually nothing about it.

In September we also have the end of the Shemitah year, the fourth blood moon, and the end of the Jade Helm exercises.  All over the Internet there is rampant speculation about a major stock market crash, devastating natural disasters and the weird “coincidences” that are pointing to the date of 9/23.

And even though articles and videos that discuss all of these things are going viral all over the Internet, the mainstream media in the United States has been strangely silent about all of it.

Fortunately, there are international news sources out there that are willing to address these topics, and some of them just happen to be in Russia.

When I first came across Sputnik News, I didn’t quite know what to make of it.  At first I thought that it might be some random blogger that had started up a news website and had chosen a really bad name.  But it turns out that it is actually fully owned and operated by the government of Russia.  The following comes from Wikipedia…

Sputnik is an international multimedia news service launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, an agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, which was created by a Decree of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013.[1] Sputnik replaces the RIA Novosti news agency on an international stage (which remains active in Russia)[2] and Voice of Russia.

And I have to admit that Sputnik News is willing to address many things that the corporate-controlled media in the U.S. simply will not touch.  For example, the following is from a recent Sputnik article about the financial crash that is coming this fall…

Thursday, August 20, 2015

GLOBAL MASS ASCENSION, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015, AS WAVE-X BOMBARDS THE EARTH!

The earth is moving into a region of the galaxy that is leading to increasing cosmic energies impacting our sun and altering human DNA. It is predicted this will lead to many changes in human society including major disclosures of advanced technologies, secret space programs and extraterrestrial life.

Here are some startling predictions about these incoming cosmic energies and their impact.

An acceleration and heightening of electromagnetic energy from the sun and other cosmic energies that will build especially from late August into late September that will cause, circa 28 September, what is described as a ‘frequency shift’ in consciousness.

An evolutionary changes emerging from world shaking disclosures as a result of the incoming cosmic energy he describes as a ‘WAVE X':

We are going to experience a wave of evolution. “What we’re about to find out on a major level, unheard of in history at a mass scale is the true answer of ‘Who are we?’, ‘Where do we come from?’, and ‘What is our purpose?’ The planet is going to take off in such an incredible ways.”

The Jade Helm exercise that began on July 15 and runs to September 15, is really aimed at gaining intelligence about the effects of the incoming cosmic energies in order to better manage the changes it triggers in humanity.

This exercise is very much connected to the frequency shift whereby the lower states where the exercises are being carried out will be experiencing a higher frequency field in July and August; the purpose being of learning from and managing the resultant effects on the population there before it heightens further in the upper states into September.

The U.S. Intelligence community is aware of the potential effects of the incoming cosmic energies and is taking steps to manage this. (They can’t stop it, so how can they manage it? –MrT.) The U.S. Intelligence community is very likely not the only global entity aware of the incoming cosmic energies that is taking steps to manage this.

A frequency shift will occur in the 23-28 September time frame is very significant. This is also the time that Pope Francis will be meeting with the president at the white house (Sept 23) and speaking before the U.S. Congress (Sept 24) and there will be an attempt to use CERN to deflect this massive incoming energy wave. To cap it all off, Pope Francis will address a gathering of world political leaders at the UN general assembly on Sept 25. The Vatican’s own intelligence service is also very likely aware of these incoming cosmic energies. It is more than coincidental that at the same time that incoming cosmic energy [is] predicted to peak on the planet that the world’s most powerful religious and political leaders meet. The Vatican appears to be aware of incoming cosmic energy and the powerful transformative effect it will have on humanity, and is placing itself to ride the cosmic wave so to speak.

Incoming cosmic energies are having profound effects on human DNA and will trigger major disclosures. Certain Star Ambassadors of the Galactic Federation stationed on Earth have already been appointed as delegates to a group of extraterrestrials called the Sphere Being Alliance. The Sphere Being Alliance showed up some time around 2012-2013 with huge Neptune sized spheres that formed frequency shields around the solar system and the sun. One of the major functions of these spheres was to regulate the amount of cosmic energy coming into our solar system and the earth so humanity could better integrate it and prepare for major changes:

The Sphere Alliance has been mostly focused on the energetic changes occurring in our local star cluster because of the area of the galaxy they are entering. They have been using the many thousands of cloaked spheres that are equidistantly spread out across our solar system and neighboring solar systems (electrically connected in the “cosmic web” and natural portal system) to buffer and diffuse incoming tsunami waves of highly charged energy that changed the vibratory state of space/time, energy and matter to cause it to raise to a higher state in the “density spectrum”.

Among the changes that will be triggered by incoming cosmic energies is the release of information concerning advanced technologies, secret space programs and extraterrestrial life in what Goode has described as a “full disclosure event.” Goode announced on Saturday that these Neptune sized spheres are about to leave our solar system since they have achieved their primary function:

The “spheres” seem to nearing the end of their purpose as they are also beginning to buffer less and less of the energy thus allowing more and more to enter into the inner sol system and directly affect the sun, planets and human beings that are so easily put into trigger mode by these energies. At some point the spheres will be gone and we will fully be considered a 4/5th density transition civilization. There are of course quite a few other events that will be occurring before this last event leaves us standing on our own finally.

At 11:11AM on 9/28/2015, WAVE X will bombard the earth with photon-gamma light particles traveling past the speed of light and an instantaneous DNA change will occur. The beings whose internal Schuman resonance is stabilized at 17 Hertz or higher will be propelled into the 5th Dimension!

The number of beings projected to ascend by Sept. 28, 2015 is a little over 2.3 billion and the exact number depends on the collective consciousness of humanity to manifest how the changes will play out. Cosmic energies are peaking and that the “spheres” are buffering these less and less. All this suggests that late September may well be a time where a cosmic energy spike causes significant changes in human physiology, thereby triggering a mass ascension of light beings who have raised their frequencies to a high enough level of self love!

The date Sept. 28, 2015 is known as the “EVENT HORIZON” and is the most important day in the history of humanity! It is not the end but the beginning of a mass global ascension from beings vibrating in upper 4D into 5D. Your real work will begin on this date as you will need to hold even more light in the body to assist the rest of humanity in their ascension!

God-Speed to all great beings of light!

CREDIT: DR. SIMON ATKINS


UNPRECEDENTED COSMIC WAVE TO IMPACT EARTH IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2015

Messenger Michael Love
A message from Archangel Michael
Posted on July 27, 2015

Dear ones,

Your world is about to change in a profound way over the next two months as a powerful wave of gamma light coming from the Galactic Core, (The Pleroma) impacts Earth and its beings! 

It’s important to note that we are already well inside this cosmic gamma blast referred to as WAVE-X and many of you have been feeling this energetic increase that will continue in intensity every day until September 28th, 2015. 

This great point in humanity’s evolution is known as “THE EVENT HORIZON”. 

September 28th, 2015 is when this Super-Wave peaks and is the highest energetic frequency ever measured in the cosmos in modern history.

Will anyone actually ascend on this date? Yes! Any light being [that] is already vibrating close to the 5D frequency of 21 Hertz will pierce through the protective 5D barrier known as “The Great Void” and will be able to experience a sustained perception of the New Earth at this great moment in our history.

Many beings do not realize that this new perceived reality, the New Earth will still be inside a hologram-matrix; however, it will be a greatly improved one over the old control grid we have known for over 300,000 years.

The New Earth is still a perceived hologram because being inside a hologram is the only way a soul can be physical and experience the 5 senses.

The physical part of all this is still vibrating in the 3rd dimension, but think of the 5th dimensional level as being overlayed on top of 3D. The only way to not exist in a holographic matrix, no matter how controlling or heavenly it may be, is to become non-physical.

You have incarnated here over and over for the purpose of evolving back to your higher nature, but the real reason you keep coming here and will stay here is because you love being physical and experiencing the five senses. If only you had a better environment to do this, everything would be perfect! That is what is about to happen!

At the same moment you are experiencing your 3D senses in a 5D light matrix, you will be able to move into your light body (The Merkaba) and be able to navigate in the higher realms with no limitations. 

“Behold, I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth”. These two things are not the same. The New Earth includes 3D, 4D and 5D and the New Heaven is dimensions six through 12 that you can only traverse in the light body.

It’s like this, you are not leaving 3D! Instead you will continue to exist in 3D, 4D and 5D in the same time-space (now here) and you will be fully aware of your experience in each dimension.

We are currently experiencing a steady bell curve in gamma light frequency increase as we move into the most intense part of the photon belt, so see if you can be aware of its effects on the body, mind and emotions over the next two months!

This intense gamma energy is coming in due to multiple celestial events all occurring at the same time, allowing an incredible amount of cosmic light-data to flow into this system!

This is [not a] bad thing and certainly nothing to fear as these new data frequencies bombard the earth and its beings!

There will be a level of chaos as this new photon data enters the matrix and is integrated, but it’s after effect will be the gradual transformation of the old control matrix hologram into the new crystaline grid matrix and is what we have worked towards for so long and want to see happen.

It is proven that gamma light can instantaneously evolve the DNA of any species into its higher form. You are literally evolving quickly now into the highest version of you!

Some are preaching doom and gloom about all this and there are others who are totally oblivious to what is truly happening.

There are many First-Wavers who blazed the ascension trail for the last 40-60 years who are not oblivious at all to this and are rejoicing because they know what is transpiring.

We say ride this super photon wave with everything you’ve got! See this as the beginning of true freedom for Humanity. Rejoice we say! 

Be impeccable in every area of your life, as we move ahead in each now moment as your ions begin spin faster and faster!

It’s important to let go of everything that has not served your soul to this point and open fully to the infinite possibilities of the universe. 

Most of you are already feeling the steady increase of frequency in the body. Many of you have noticed being shifted around to new locations, loss of relationships and material things. In some ways you may feel totally out of place, alone and even lost.

We assure you all that is happening is as it should be, and is a clearing of the old energies that you have held onto so strongly. These lower frequencies have to be transmuted so this divine wave of light and love can flow through the body and ground into the core of Gaia. It is impossible to take the lower frequency of repressed emotional trauma and errant DNA programming (limited belief systems) into the higher dimensions! These old trapped trauma energies must be released from the body so the light data can flow completely through you and be grounded correctly. This completes the divine circuitry that makes you the super being you truly are.

The highest level twin flames on the Earth play a major role in “THE EVENT HORIZON”.

A great multitude of illuminated twin flame Key Holders shall lead the way and open the cosmic gates with the intense power of their combined love and brings forth this higher vibrational perception called “The New Earth and New Heaven.”

We as the angels in human bodies came to hold space in our own bodies for this great light for all humanity and to herald this great message! Know that many Star Races are now here for the final curtain call in this great cosmic story you have played an important role in.

Great beings from many worlds are here on the edge of their seat to see how you are doing and to see what you will do next. They are applauding you!

We say that after the first-wave twin flame Key Holders go through the 5D veil, they will begin their real work as male/female teams in the greatest service to others, helping the rest of Humanity cross the great Rainbow Bridge.

We close in saying it’s important that you take good care of yourself during this great time so that you can be the best you can be for all!

The highest teaching in all universes is this:

Love God with all your heart, mind and soul and this is the secret to entering The Kingdom of Heaven. We ask you, who the identity of this great God is?

Love yourself with all your heart, mind and soul! There is no other work to do than this!

Thank you great ones for coming to Earth on this great purposeful mission.

Well done good and faithful ones… enter in. This is your hour to shine.

You are the light of this world, as a great master once said. Shine bright for all to see.

This is all very real dear friends. It’s already happening and will happen exactly as it has been spoken. It is beautiful and wonderful and there is nothing to fear. No harm shall come to any of you.

Your world will now be set free forevermore! The level of suffering and chaos on this planet cannot be sustained even past another few months! Something has to give at once and it truly already has as billions of Light Beings (YOU) continue to transmit in this Evolutionary Wave of Super Consciousness to transform ourselves and the outward perception of this place into the paradise it was meant to be!

The data contained in this message flows from source energy through this vessel.

I am the great Archangel Michael, The Guardian Angel of Love and Protection who speaks these words to you.
God-speed to all great beings of light!

Archangel Michael



***** AN EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR STAR FAMILY! *****


I HEARD THE MESSAGE AND I CAME TO SPEAK OF IT!

TETRAD, Sept. 28, 2015

“A GREAT WAVE WILL SWEEP OVER THE EARTH AND LIFT THEM UP!”

THIS IS THE MESSAGE GIVEN TO ME BY MY SIX RAINBOW BROTHERS!

OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS WE HAVE RAISED THE SCHUMAN RESONANCE WHICH IS THE FREQUENCY OF THE EARTH AND THE ENTIRE COSMOS FROM 7.8 HERTZ TO 16 HERTZ! 

THAT MEASUREMENT WAS DONE BY RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS SEVERAL MONTHS AGO! AS OF NOW IT IS AT 17 HERTZ!

5D RESONATES EXACTLY AT 21 HERTZ! 1/3 OF HUMANITY WILL BE AT DIMENSION 5 ON Sept. 28, 2015. 

THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF EONS OF EVOLUTION AND DNA UPGRADING AND IS THE TRUE BEGINNING OF 36,000 TWIN ILLUMNIATED FLAMES BEINGS WHO UNLOCK THE GATES AND BE ABLE TO PERCEIVE HEAVEN WHILE IN THE BODY! 

THIS IS THE CLOSE OF THE MISSION WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR AGES BUT ALSO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW DAWN! THERE WILL BE GREAT WORK TO DO AFTER THIS POINT TO BRING THE OTHER 2/3 OF SLEEPING HUMANITY INTO THIS KINGDOM OF LOVE CALLED ERRA, 5D PLEIDES, EDEN, PARADISE, ATLANTIS, LYRA, SHAMBALLA, NIRVANA, IT HAS MANY NAMES! IT IS NOT A PLACE IT IS A FREQUENCY THAT MANY OF YOU WILL VIBRATE TO WHICH SIMPLY CHANGES WHAT YOU WILL PERCEIVE AS YOUR REALITY! IT IS THE NEW DIAMOND LIGHT CRYSTAL MATRIX! 

IT IS THE FIRST BEGINNINGS OF THE FIRST FREEDOM ON EARTH! ALL OF THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME BY DIRECT CHANNELING AND I WILL BE SPEAKING TO THE ENTIRE WORLD ABOUT IT IN DIFFERENT FORMS OF MEDIA OVER THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.

GOD SPEED GREAT BEINGS OF LIGHT.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Beyond Occupy: The Sum Stratagem–a strategic plan for the remnants of the Occupy movement by Zevin X Cruz...



(A link to this was sent to me yesterday via email. I've re-posted it in its entirety ~ JDHWB-R)

“We’re not going to change the world one person at a time. We’re not going to clean up our ghettos one block at a time or save our national debt one dollar and one balanced budget at a time, or solve the crime problem in America one criminal at a time. It’s a nice fantasy, but that’s about all it is—a fantasy.

“Economies of scale make a difference. We live in a mass media, mass market, mass culture age—and we need some mass solutions. We need some sweeping changes, some aggregate solutions, and some all-encompassing reforms. Base hits aren’t going to do it. Not now. Not today. Not this late in the game. We need a couple of grand slams. And the first one, the most critical one, and the one that will pave the way for all the others is to remove all of our nationally elected officials from office, all at once in a single election of the new millennium. Nothing could be more appropriate, more timely, or more essential to revitalizing American democracy,” (Rob Nelson, Last Call, 2000).

THE SUM STRATAGEM

A 2016 Unified Mega-Movement Campaign For A Citizen Accountability Purge Of The Economic Oligarchy

INTRODUCTION: OCCUPY 3.0—The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Of OWS, Transition US, USSF, People’s Climate Strike, Spiritual Progressives & Socially Conscious Conservatives

When the clarion call to “Occupy Wall Street (OWS)” came from ADBUSTERS in July 2011, I knew it had the potential to be big and bold. It proposed a different activist approach compared to past progressive protests in recent decades because it suggested two very difficult objectives: 1) rally around a “single demand” to mend the fragmentation of activist forces and 2) “bring a tent” to indefinitely seize a public space at the center of the financial capital of the world until that demand was met. Nothing like it had been proposed since the mass social, economic, political and cultural movements of the 1960s and 70s, which is why the Occupy encampments were so significant in the beginning.

Although Occupy failed to collectively agree on a single demand during their encampment phase, which I have designated as Occupy 1.0, nevertheless, by seizing public space and occupying it for two months they went well beyond the traditional protest demonstrations and marches that typically last no more than a day or weekend at most. Unfortunately this stage of the movement proved short lived and soon after the clean sweep of the encampments nationwide they reverted back to traditional forms of activism by functioning largely as a set of loosely connected, issue-based campaigns, what I call Occupy 2.0, signified by organizing around marquee events like Earth Day, May Day and S-17 Occupy anniversaries. “Occupy would become, in many respects, a protest about its own right to protest—valid, of course, but also a muddying of the message, and one with a less broadly populist appeal.” Back in 2012, Even RT America (the on-line TV news media outlet that tends to provide positive coverage of the Occupy movement) concluded their series of reports of the first National Gathering with their last segment titled, “Was OWS’ National Gathering A Bust?” According to many attendees I spoke to and RT’s report the answer was unfortunately—yes.

“Do you think this,” asked the RT newscaster, “could be the beginning of a revival?”

“Unfortunately, I don’t think so,” retorted the reporter Gupta, “because the revival was supposed to happen around ‘May Day.’ On that day, there were protests in something like a 120 cities across the U.S. [in a movement that at one point had 500 encampments nationwide, Gupta stated earlier]. It was sparked by a call for a general strike but of course that did not happen. But there were dramatic protests including over 30,000 people in New York and there were attempts to take public space in downtown Manhattan but it was surrounded by the most fearsome displays of police power [that] caused people to filter away one-by-one because there was no organization…” (RT America, “Was The OWS’ National Gathering A Bust?” July 4, 2012).

What we need now is to incorporate the best of both phases of Occupy (version 1.0 and 2.0) and jettison their deficiencies. The following is a list of Occupy’s positive aspects: 1) It created a national public dialogue of the prevailing problems and issues often ignored. 2) It shifted the national political debate from austerity economic policies to the massive income inequality between the “1% and the 99%” in the United States, so much so, making Republican strategist Frank Luntz advise his business conservative clients to avoid using the word “capitalism.” 3) It wisely chose not to be coopted into the tyranny of the two party political system where social movements go to die by running any candidates in the 2012 general election or officially endorsing any democratic party presidential candidate. 4) It created a public nexus that connected activists in person through General Assemblies, work group meetings and coordinated political dissent actions, while also having an online presence via live streaming, virtual work groups, bulletin boards and information dissemination. 5) The encampments became pseudo-activist centers for launching different political dissent protests, marches, demonstration and guerrilla art actions and activities. 6) During the daily struggle to maintain their occupation sites by providing themselves with food, water, shelter, clothing, waste disposal, teaching-ins, work group supplies, media equipment, etc., they had to develop strong social bonds among themselves that required trust and cooperation and thus becoming a living example of an emerging community (a precious social commodity sorely needed in the activist world. 7) Such a process led most of the occupations to create social capital by providing free, pseudo-public services for themselves and stakeholders in nearby areas thanks to the support of the surrounding community like churches, non-profits and individual donors there and abroad. 8) Such creations allowed the encampments to successfully continue and achieve an unceasing national presence, which the tents themselves had come to symbolize. 9) The longer the presence of these occupations the more media exposure they got and the more media, the more it inspired people to flock to the encampments to offer support, encouragement and even join. 10) Those that directly participated in the encampments were invigorated and inspired—ushering in the inaugural era of a whole new generation of Millennial activists, which answered veteran activists questions on how to engage the youth. 11) When the nationwide, clean sweep of the encampments occurred almost simultaneously in a massive coordinated law enforcement crackdown, it demonstrated the repression and authoritarianism of the power elite. 12) This oppressive backlash proved that such activities were an effective and real threat to the authorities and the social system if the occupations continued here and around the world, otherwise they would have just been dismissed and ignored like so many protests of the recent past.

However, despite these positive attributes of the movement, there were plenty of shortcomings that doomed the encampment phase of what I am calling “Occupy 1.0.” These included the following: 1) Offering a partial picture of the prevailing problems plaguing us by concentrating mostly on the exterior consequences of the individual (behavior and actions) and the collective (institutions and social system), while mostly ignoring the interior domains of the individual (intentions and consciousness) and the collective (values and worldview). 2) Due to this incomplete identification of social problems the analysis to the root causes was only partially accurate leading to symptoms-oriented-solutions like “creating more jobs” without distinguishing the types of jobs we need to evolve our economy into ecologically sustainable occupations that helps heal the planet and ourselves. 3) Such incomplete analyses led to a partially accurate picture of the economic oligarchy power structure and means of social control. 4) As such, the movement failed to provide new and necessary memes and mandates to base all our future social change actions. 5) Failed to unite around a single global demand like what I proposed The Grand Imperative: “Abolish Empire and Establish Earth Community,” depicting what we would be for and what we are against in one, simple, short, six-word-phrase. 6) Offered no new theory of social change to effectively overcome the common obstacles facing all activists. 7) Lacked the ability to create or endorse a new spiritual foundation to help inspire, encourage and retain the movement’s participants through difficult and discouraging periods of time by providing existential nutrition to continue the struggle for as long as it is necessary by incorporating it into our own personal life mission and authentic identity. 8) Failed to draft its’ own alternative political policies beyond public proclamations. 9) Possessed an aversion to creating a cohesive program of a holistic and systemic deconstruction of the social system and the reconstruction of society through creation of alternative institutions. 10) Adhering to a fault the motif of a “leaderless movement” as a result of extreme egalitarianism, when in fact it should have been a “leaderfull movement” with many layers of integral leadership. 11) This of course was the result of anarchists’ correct view of pathological dominator hierarchies but it led to “throwing out the baby with the bath water” by rejecting all healthy growth hierarchies (holarchies) found all around us in nature and the universe, thus failing to create a sustainable organizing structure in order to endure. 12) They produced no official demands or ultimatums that could have been backed by the people through the threat and implementation of a mass civil disobedience campaign (like the one proposed in the “The Sum Stratagem”). 13) Failure to create a cohesive vision, grand unified strategy and well-articulated new philosophy but instead only provided a list of grievances and vague generalizations of how they want the world to be in the form of a wish list of issues ranked in order of importance like those that emerged from the well-intentioned, first Occupy National Gathering in 2012 at Philadelphia during the week of July 4th. 14) Failed to create long lasting alliances with the clergy and churches like the Quakers and Unitarian Universalists that often provided sanctuary and support for those in the movement. 15) No substantial or significant outreach to students, parents, teachers, veterans, blue collar workers and unions across the country, which is why their May Day call for a general strike in 2012 failed. 16) Although they admirably rejected succumbing to the lures of the two-party system, they mistakenly overlooked the need and importance for any movement to create an alternative governing body by foregoing the creation a new third party, a people’s congress or even try to unite most if not all third parties like the student revolution of Otpor in Serbia during the year 2000 (elaborated more later). 17) Failed to officially create a common code of conduct to denounce and abstain from counter-productive actions of violence and property destruction by negative rebels within groups like the “Black Block,” in order to safeguard the movement from being marginalize and justifying the authorities’ tyrannical repression in the eyes of the American people. 18) Inability to significantly subvert the existing social system by failing to offer an attractive and alternative parallel model. 19)  Failure to win over the social institutions that serve as pillars of support for the economic oligarchy. 20) Movement participants were understandably blinded by the rage against the brutal and violent response of police but it failed to recognize that law enforcement officers (and for that matter the military) are also unknowingly victims of authoritarian conditioning by the social system and victims should not be fighting with fellow victims but instead win them over (a perfect example of a lost opportunity of the Zuccotti Park Occupation in NYC was to have two or three occupy participants assigned to each police officer stationed along the park’s perimeter in order to bring down the psychological barrier of “us versus them,” and perhaps cultivate a relationship by getting to know the officer and vice-versa, in order to establish empathy and making it more likely for them not to engage in any future acts of oppression, violence and ultimately disobey the order of conducting a clean sweep of the encampment). 21) The movement failed to act on its three greatest weapons—one, we, the 99% outnumber the 1% economic elite;  two, the power elite require our obedience and consent to be ruled; and three, we, the 99%, run the machinery of society that the economic oligarchy depend on, therefore, we have the power to unplug the machine as a strategic leverage point through the social, political and economic noncooperation and civil disobedience of a general strike, instead of playing by the financial elites’ rules and field of battle like electoral politics, which substantial amounts of money tends to combat the large numbers of the masses.

It’s only through honest self-reflection and a courageous critique of itself that the Occupy Movement (what little remains of it in its current state of fragmentation much like activism in general for the past four decades) that we will be able to overcome our current limitations by jettisoning the weaknesses and preserving the best qualities and characteristics listed—in essence to transcend and include—the “artivist” motto of the Integral, Metamodern, Neo-Transcendentalists—Occupy 3.0. The SUM Stratagem is based on this new philosophy described in my first three books published in 2015 (The SUM, SUM II and The Dynamic Decalogue). It resolves all of the listed shortcomings of Occupy, while incorporating all of the best assets and positive attributes of the movement and subsequent sub-movements. An example, is integrating one of the movements’ greatest asset in its tool box, which was the occupation model that offered the opportunity to create what was mostly missing in the activist world—community. And community is usually created in shared spaces for long periods time as strong social bonds are formed when groups of people work together to maintain public spaces of occupation. I realize occupations are very time and energy consuming but if they were reestablished in “safe spaces” on or near spiritually progressive sites like the Unitarian Universalists and the Quakers or socially conscious conservative churches and progressive libertarian establishments that act as sanctuaries against police encroachment. It would also serve as activist nexuses and community centers for post carbon relocalization and national nodes of networking that will revitalize and unite all of the environmental, social, economic and political movements and sub-movements by developing a visually stable and consistent national presence once again, a constant reminder to all Americans of the work being done to prepare for a nationwide general strike.

STRATEGY SYNOPSIS:

An Integral Approach To Activism & New Proposed Plan For Profound Change

THE SUM STRATAGEM is an integral approach to art, activism and fundamental social change through a Nonviolent General Strike of social, political and economic noncooperation. It would begin on Monday, November 7, 2016 (after the weekend of the November 5-6, Million Mask March to Washington D.C. and one day before the November 8th U.S. Congressional and Presidential elections). This will be made possible by the Cultural Creatives’ Convergence of political third parties, the Green Shadow Cabinet, Move To Amend, the 2015 U.S. Social Forum, Transition U.S., the Occupy Movement, Religious Liberals like the Unitarian Universalists (UU), Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) that includes Tikkun readers, in addition to conservatives within the Ron Paul Libertarian factions among the Tea Party and We The People’s 2009 Continental Congress. Not to mention the blue-green alliance of the Labor Network for Sustainability.

It begins with Zevin Cruz & S3K’s introduction of the 2016 SUM STRATAGEM at the June 25-28, 2015 U.S. Social Forum in Philadelphia. Then over the next three months work with the Occupy movement to unite most political third parties to form a “Grand Unified Alliance (GUA)” by signing “The Oath” and  drafting a “Grand Unified Platform (GUP)”—a synthesis of Left-Right issues to address climate chaos, peak everything and income inequality by getting money out of politics. We will also integrate excerpts from the We The People’s 2009 Continental Congress’ “Articles of Freedom,” and the “99% Continental Congress’ 2.0 Declaration” to synthesize a final “Redress of Grievances (RG).” All of which would be publically proclaimed on Nov. 5, 2015 as a “Grand Ultimatum (GU)” for the U.S. government to ratify into law by Nov. 5, 2016.  Within that one year countdown, the GUA will eventually go on to democratically elect a “People’s Congress” of 870 citizen legislators (one male and female in each of the 435 congressional districts), to form a mock parallel governmentlike the Green Shadow Cabinet (adding Libertarians), citizen supreme court justices, a people’s President and Vice-president—creating a new Third Continental Congress (CC 3.0)—to convene a Constitutional Convention to draft and ratify new amendments to create a new ecologically sustainable cultural, economic, political and social system based on the values, worldview and way of life emerging from the Great Turning of Earth Community, otherwise known by the Neo-Transcendentalists as the Society of the Third Millennium (S3K).

The one year countdown towards a nationwide general strike begins on Nov. 5, 2015. We will announce a massive mobilization of civil society for creating community resiliency through a post-carbon relocalization through the 154 Official Transition Towns & Initiatives nationwide in conjunction with OWS Reoccupation of America and in collaboration with the 1,000-plus Spiritually Progressive churches—all to serve as Community Convergence Centers (C3)—creating the necessary activist infrastructure to sustain the possibility of a long, nationwide general strike. During this one year period, Transition U.S. would help coordinate a national relocalization campaign with the Re-Occupy Encampments and Network of Spiritual Progressive (NSP) churches and organizations, while the Third Continental Congress (CC 3.0) will tour the states to spread the word of this National Unified Purpose (NUP) and gather input from the people of their suggested constitutional amendments until June 30, 2016. During the week of July 1-4, 2016, the CC 3.0 will convene a Constitutional Convention to debate and ratify the new amendments. On July 5, 2016, they will publically proclaim their success in a “Declaration of Re-Independence,” and the Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Quest (C3Q) will be launched, which is a four-month, cross-country, 48 site-specific, outdoor guerrilla art installations to create a “Catching Fire” crescendo campaign in order to produce the necessary momentum heading into the Nov. 5, 2016, Million Mask March to our nation’s capital where the CC 3.0 will march to and set up a mock parallel government encampment with disgruntled war Veterans, religious leaders, students and unions to kick off the nationwide, general strike on Nov. 7, 2016. Those unable to go to Washington, D.C. will be encouraged to participate by marching to their local power centers like town and city halls,  county offices and government branches—wherever they deem necessary to demonstrate people power and solidarity with the mega-march.


STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES & TIMELINE OVERVIEW
THE TEN 2015-16 “CULTURAL CREATIVES’ CONVERGENCE” DATES & EVENTS

CALENDER BENCH MARKS

June 28, 2015 (US Social Forum) Zevin X. Cruz’s SUM STRATAGEM Proposal Introduction In Phil

Sept. 17, 2015 (OWS 4th Anniversary) Official Public Announcement To Adopt The SUM Stratagem

Oct. 5, 2015 (Otpor! 15th Anniversary) Third Parties Summit To Ratify RGS, GUP, OA, GUA & GU

Nov. 5, 2015 (Guy Fawkes Day) Art Project, CC Election, GU Proclamation, Re-Occupation, Countdown

Nov. 26 to Dec. 12, 2015 (People’s Climate  Strike) Rehearsal For 2016 Nationwide General Strike

May 1, 2016 (Transition US) A [National] Community Resilience Challenge & Transition Streets

July 1-4, 2016 (Constitutional Convention) New Amendments & Declaration of Re-Independence

July 5, 2016 (Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Quest) Launch Cross-Country Guerrilla Art Campaign

Nov. 5-6, 2016 (Million Mask March) GUA, People’s Congress & Green Shadow Cabinet Occupy D.C.

Nov. 7,8,9, 2016 (Nationwide General Strike) Stratified Social, Political & Economic Noncooperation


A MONTH-BY-MONTH BREAKDOWN OF OBJECTIVES & GOALS

JUNE 25-28, 2015: US SOCIAL FORUM (Zevin & S3K’s Introduction Of SUM STRATAGEM & Next Steps)

(July) Disseminate “The Sum Stratagem” To The Following Groups, Organizations & Movements:

Occupy, Green Shadow Cabinet, Political 3rd Parties, People’s Climate Strike, Economic Justice Org

Transition US Movement, Sustainability Groups, Environmentalist Organizations, 350.org, etc.

Spiritual Progressives, Churches & Organizations Like Unitarian Universalists, Quakers & NSP

Activist Coalitions: National Organizers Alliance (NOA), Labor Network For Sustainability, MoveON

Socially Conscious Conservatives, Progressive Libertarians (Tea Party, WTP, Ron Paul Supporters

(July & Aug) Draft & Distribute The Following Documents For Collective Feedback & Revisions:

Redress Of Grievances Synthesis (RGS): Left-Right Common Proclamations

The Grand Unified Platform (GUP): A Common Ground Agenda For The People

The Oath Of Allegiance (OA) To The Grand Unified Alliance (GUA): A Coalition of Third Parties

The Grand Ultimatum (GU): Drawing A Line-In-The Sand For The Corporate State Of America

SEP 17, 2015: OCCUPY 4TH ANNIVERSARY (Official Public Announcement To Adopt The SUM Stratagem)

Coordinate With OWS 4th Anniversary Occupy Groups & Activities For Public Press Conference

Officially Endorse The SUM Stratagem (Affirmation List Of All Occupy Groups, Orgs & Affiliates)

Announcement Of Oct 5 Political 3rd Parties Summit (Public Invitation & Challenge To 3rd Parties)

Nominations For Nov 5 Online Election Of Continental Congress 3.0 (A Peoples’ Congress of 875)

Planning Of Political Third Parties Summit (Venue, Time & Place, Reservations & Preparations)

Nominations & Preparations For The 3rd Continental Congress (CC 3.0) Online Election For Nov. 5

Seek Assistance From 2009 Continental Congress, 99% Declaration Group’s CC 2.0 & 2012 Occupy National Gathering Organizers To Create & Coordinate National Online Nominations & Election

Create Website & Mechanisms To Facilitate The Online Nomination & Electoral Process

Publicize Online Nomination & Election (30-Day Nominations Period Begins Aug 16 To Sep 16)

Coalition Building Towards Grand Unified Alliance (GUA) Of Activists & Third Parties:

Outreach To NOA, Transition US, Churches, Spiritual Organizations, Libertarians, WTP, Tea Party

Outreach To Unions, Workers, Teachers, Students, Veterans, Police & Opinion Leaders, Media

OCT 5, 2015: OTPOR! 15TH ANNIVERSARY—Political 3rd Parties Summit To Ratify GUP, OA, GUA, GU

(Fri, Oct 2 to Sun, Oct 4) Debate, Revise & Ratify The RGS, GUP, OA, GUA, GU & Next Steps

(Mon, Oct 5) Public Announcements (Press Conference) Of The Grand Unified Alliance (GUA) & Docs

Continue Preparations For Online Election Of CC 3.0 (Website Of People’s Congress Nominees)

Prep For National Re-Emergence Of OWS Encampments On Church Grounds w/Transition & CC 3.0

Planning & Preparation For The Inaugural Guerrilla Art Project To Garner A National Media Spotlight

NOV 5, 2015: GUY FAWKES DAY (Art Project, Election, GU, Re-Occupation & 1 Yr. Countdown Begins)

Inaugural Unfurling Of National Breakthrough Guerrilla Art Project To Promote The Day Events

Online Democratic Election Of 875 Citizen Legislators For Third Continental Congress (CC 3.0)

Announce The Grand Ultimatum For The US Government’s Last Opportunity To Voluntarily Pass GUP

Occupy Encampments Reemerge Nationally w/Transition U.S. & Spiritually Progressive Churches

The One-Year Countdown For The Million Mask March To Washington D.C. & General Strike Begins

Continue Collective Efforts For Relocalization In Preparation For The Nationwide General Strike

Nationwide Campaign Tour Of The Third Continental Congress (CC 3.0) Begins At Re-Occupation Sites

Launch A National Call For New Constitutional Amendments

Visit All Participating Churches, Relocalization Transition Sites & Reoccupation Encampments To Solicit Input, Offer Support, Create Publicity, Be Inspired By Participant & Offer Inspiration To All

Exhibit The Relocalization Efforts Of The Emerging Earth Community As Alternatives To The Status Quo In A Parallel Campaign Alongside The 2016 Presidential Candidates Itinerary To Offer Americans And The World True Alternatives During “The Silly Season” Of The Presidential Elections

DECEMBER 2015: THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CONVERGENCE STRIKE (A Dry Run For The Nov. 5, 2016 Strike)

Participate, Observe & Report: Noting Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats (SWOT)

Network & Promote The SUM STRATAGEM To The Mainstream

Post-Event Assessment & Analysis (Participation Rate, Media Coverage, Logistics, etc.)

MAY 1-30, 2016: TRANSITION U.S. NATIONAL COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CHALLENGE (Transition Streets)

National Progress Report To Americans Of Current Relocalization & Strike Preparation Status

Announce Second Leg Of Reoccupations & Relocalization Efforts To Re-Ignite Enthusiasms (If Needed)

JULY 1-4, 2016: CONVENING A CONSTITUTION CONVENTION (Third Continental Congress Ratifications)

Debate & Ratify New Amendments

Draft & Discuss Declaration Of Re-Independence

JULY 5, 2016: THE CULTURAL CREATIVES CONVERGENCE QUEST (C3Q) LAUNCH (Public Proclamations)

Public Declaration Of ReIndependence >From Economic Oligarchy & New Constitutional Amendments

Public Launching Of C3Q: The Cross Country, 48 Guerrilla Art Projects Campaign Begins

NOV. 5-6, 2016: WEEKEND MILLION MASK MARCH TO WASHINGTON D.C. (Grand Ultimatum Expires)

Govt. Expiration Of Legislating The Proposed Integral Policies Of The Grand Unified Platform (GUP)

Nationally Broadcast The March Of The Masses To Occupy Our Nation’s Capital

Establish The Third Continental Congress (CC 3.0) Encampment At Washington D.C., As A Mock Parallel Government Of The People (Green Shadow Cabinet, People’s Congress, People’s President, etc.)

NOV. 7-9, 2016: NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE BEGINS (Indefinite Period Of Noncooperation)

Mon, Nov. 7, SOCIAL (School Walkouts, Sports Boycott, Withdrawal Of Social Events)

Tues, Nov. 8, POLITICAL (Delegitimize Elections By Withdrawing Consent Through Voting Boycotts)

Wed, Nov. 9, ECONOMIC (Unplug The Corporatocracy By Withholding Labor & Boycotting Purchases)

Contact: zevinxcruz@hotmail.com or visit the website at s-3-k.org or facebook “Zevin X. Cruz.”


THE REVOLUTIONARY SUCCESS OF THE OTPOR MOVEMENT:
A Contemporary Example Of The Nonviolent Overthrow Of A Dictatorial Regime

For those of you who are extremely skeptical at such an ambitious plan and bold Unified Mega-Movement Campaign (UMC), I offer the following from the documentary Bringing Down A Dictator from “A Force More Powerful” website, which provides an overview of actions during the Otpor movement in Serbia.

[…] While Milosevic’s overthrow was widely reported as a spontaneous revolution, most of the world’s news organizations missed the real story—a year-long battle involving thousands of Serbs in a calculated strategy to strip the tyrant of his legitimacy, turn his own police and army against him, and force him to call for elections, which he lost and then tried to steal.

By the mid-1990′s the brutality and corruption of Milosevic’s regime were affecting most Serbians. In 1996, a coalition of opposition political parties won a clear victory in municipal elections, but Milosevic refused to acknowledge his party’s defeat. For 88 days, nonviolent protests brought normal Serbian life to a standstill. The building of the Electoral Commission was covered in toilet paper, and when the administration cited a mosquito infestation in the Parliament building as an excuse not to convene the legislature, crowds armed with aerosol cans of insecticide marched on the building. Finally Milosevic capitulated to pressures both internal and international and allowed the opposition to be seated.

Milosevic’s popular support was declining even in 1998, when a dozen students met to form Otpor, Serbian for “resistance.” Analyzing the mistakes of 1996-97, they realized they needed much better organization, a strategy, planning, recruiting, and all the other ingredients necessary for a sustained fight. Galvanized by outrage over new laws that imposed political control of their universities and harassed the independent media, the Otpor students called for the removal of Milosevic and the establishment of democracy and the rule of law.

Declining popular support had no effect on Milosevic’s command of a massively corrupt system, with the despot’s usual instruments of repression, secret police and informers. But the Otpor kids had seen what happened to other resistance movements, and learned from their failures. The fate of Tiananmen Square’s democracy movement taught them not to challenge the armed might of their opponent. Seeing that Milosevic maintained control by fear, they chose a kind of cheerful insolence, methodically mocking the state’s power and renouncing any ambition to political office themselves.

At the start, Otpor simply improvised, using their wits & good instincts. Later, they studied nonviolent strategy, primarily through the writings of American scholar Gene Sharp, and discovered they had intuitively done the right things. They immediately adopted Sharp’s ideas as the basis for their training manuals, combining them with a natural flair for marketing—evidenced in their catchy slogans and wry humor—and the creation of a sophisticated bilingual website launched even before officially opening an office.

By choosing irony and sarcasm as their means of confrontation, Otpor’s student activists not only achieved the moral and political high ground; they also clung to a fundamental belief, quoted by one of the organization’s leaders from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, “Violence is the last sanctuary of the weak.

By mid-1998, the time was ripe for the tactics of Otpor. While most Western powers continued to deal with Milosevic as an elected president—even as horrific evidence was uncovered of massacres of ethnic Albanians—these young people began to challenge the autocrat. Their spray-painted symbol, a clenched fist, started to appear on buildings throughout Serbia. While the outside world recoiled at Milosevic’s brutality and intransigence, and NATO air forces began a bombing campaign to stop the ethnic cleansing, Otpor’sappeal grew.

Says filmmaker Steve York, who began thinking about Bringing Down A Dictator in the unsettled period while Milosevic was still in power, “Every nonviolent movement has as its first obstacle the problem of overcoming fear. The Otpor kids were brave. They expected to be arrested, but they prepared for arrest with all sorts of publicity stunts and by training their activists how to behave when interrogated, by recruiting lawyers to help, by building solidarity. They calculated that their arrests, combined with their use of humor and ridicule, if sustained long enough, would persuade ordinary people to overcome their fear.”

In place of barricades, Otpor staged raucous rock concerts and guerrilla theatre in the streets: a lunar eclipse observation featuring the gradual obliteration of Milosevic’s image; a New Year’s Eve party in which the year 2000 was rung in with the names and pictures of those who were killed in Milosevic’s wars; a public parody of Milosevic’s socialist party congress.

Otpor’s ideas caught on quickly among young people, who had little to lose and saw a bleak future under Milosevic. In just over a year, Otpor’s membership list grew to 70,000, mostly in the provinces where discontent was strongest. Their symbol—the [black and white] clenched fist—and their slogans—“Bite The System” and “Resistance, Because I Love Serbia” blanketed the country on stickers and leaflets. Otpor became a ubiquitous brand-name, as familiar as Coca-Cola and Nike.

A self-proclaimed nonviolent movement, Otpor’s stated goal was to remove Milosevic at the ballot box, not an easy feat against a regime that controls the electoral machinery. In the spring of 2000, with scheduled elections a year away, Otpor mobilized its national network, using neighborhood kids as organizers, building an email network, distributing leaflets, drafting quick response plans to meet the repression and arrests which they expected. Increasingly threatened by Otpor’s successes, the state information minister went on national television to declare Otpor a terrorist organization. Otpor responded by sending out thousands of clean-cut kids, well-known in their communities, wearing T-shirts with the words: “Otpor Terrorist.”

Against Milosevic’s traditional weapons of oppression and control, Otpor used intelligence, creativity, and irony, preserving its unblemished image by refusing to align with any political party. Meeting in cafes and communicating by cell phone and e-mail, against a government apparatus that was technologically hapless, they organized a sustained and disciplined effort to create a nonviolent army.

In the meantime, opposition political parties, whose bickering and rivalries had strengthened Milosevic, came under intense pressure–from Otpor and others—to join in a unified front. In the summer of 2000, as Milosevic saw his popularity slipping badly, he called for elections ten months ahead of schedule. Seeing their chance, the opposition formed a coalition behind a single candidate, a law professor and the leader of a small party, Vojislav Kostunica. Otpor went into action, with a national organization far superior to anything the political parties had. And Otpor’s marketing department came up with a slogan—“Gotov Je” or “He’s Finished!”—that took off like wildfire. Printed on stickers, “He’s Finished” was attached to cars, walls, traffic signs, even faces. Otpor distributed six tons of the stickers in seven weeks. The regime tried frantically to choke off free expression, but Serbia’s scrappy independent news media, especially in the provinces, refused to be intimidated.

By the September 24th election, independent groups had trained 30,000 volunteer election monitors assigned to some 10,000 polling places to prevent fraud. By midnight, independent tabulations showed that Kostunica had won.

When a desperate Milosevic demanded a runoff vote, a transparent ploy to buy the time needed to manipulate the official count, Kostunica called for a general strike. As more and more workers joined, and as Otpor mobilized to build road blockades, the country ceased to function. Ten days after the election, hundreds of thousands of Serbs – miners, farmers, men and women from all walks of life–converged angrily on the capital, in convoys that clogged the highways in every direction. Police, with whom Otpor and the opposition had quietly worked for months, acknowledged their orders but refused to carry them out. On October 6th, Milosevic conceded defeat and stepped down. He was “finished” at last. In his victory speech, Kostunica declared, “We have answered their violence with nonviolence!”

On April 1, 2001—April Fool’s day—Milosevic was arrested. He was extradited to The Hague for trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. His trial began February 12, 2002. 



WHY THIS WAY FORWARD? The Demise Of The Democrats

For the past several decades, if not centuries, activism has failed to bring about systemic change despite past and present local experimentation with new social, economic and political alternatives.  Why? There are several reasons (read my book, “THE SUM II,” for a complete list and in depth analysis). Briefly, despite successfully winning four out of the last six presidential elections, electing a “community organizer” and the first African-American President in United States history twice, (which says more about our political culture than its supposed triumph considering that South Africa, a country that had Apartheid elected Nelson Mandela a whole decade before us), we have actually gone backwards. It’s almost as if electing Barack Obama, provided the power elite with the necessary cover to lull progressives into sedation, allowing the economic elites more free-reign and gave American imperialism a face-lift to achieve even more authoritarian policies here and abroad, more so than the Republican President George W. Bush could ever do. And there is no better indictment against this “Change We Can Believe In,” than Adolph Reed’s March, 2014 article in Harper’s Magazine’s titled, “Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals.” In it, he pulls no punches by throwing cold water into the faces of misled liberals to wake them up and perhaps acting as a sobering warning not to make the same mistake in voting for the first female President in 2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton. “For nearly all the twentieth century there was a dynamic left in the United States grounded in the belief that unrestrained capitalism generated unacceptable social costs.”

Today, the labor movement has become in has been largely subdued [due to their shift away from social justice to mainly fighting for salaries and benefits, thus, becoming just another special interest group] and social activists have made their peace with neoliberalism and adjusted their horizons accordingly. Within the women’s movement, goals have shifted from practical objectives such as comparable worth and universal child care in the 1980s to celebrating appointments of individual women to public office and challenging the corporate glass ceiling. Dominant figures in the antiwar movement have long since accepted the framework of American military interventionism. The movement for racial justice has shifted its focus from inequality to “disparity,” while neatly evading any critique of the structures that produce inequality.

The sources of this narrowing of social vision are complex. But its most conspicuous expression is subordination to the agenda of a Democratic Party whose center has moved steadily rightward since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Although it is typically defended in a language of political practicality and sophistication, this shift requires, as the historian Russell Jacoby notes, giving up “a belief that the future could fundamentally surpass the present,” which traditionally has been an essential foundation of leftist thought and practice. “Instead of championing a radical idea of a new society,” Jacoby observes in The End of Utopia, “the left ineluctably retreats to smaller ideas, seeking to expand the options within the existing society.”

The atrophy of political imagination shows up in approaches to strategy as well. In the absence of goals that require long-term organizing — e.g., single-payer health care, universally free public higher education and public transportation, federal guarantees of housing and income security — the election cycle has come to exhaust the time horizon of political action. Objectives that cannot be met within one or two election cycles seem fanciful, as do any that do not comport with the Democratic agenda. Even those who consider themselves to the Democrats’ left are infected with electoralitis. Each election now becomes a moment of life-or-death urgency that precludes dissent or even reflection. For liberals, there is only one option in an election year, and that is to elect, at whatever cost, whichever Democrat is running. This modus operandi has tethered what remains of the left to a Democratic Party that has long since renounced its commitment to any sort of redistributive vision and imposes a willed amnesia on political debate. True, the last Democrat was really unsatisfying, but this one is better; true, the last Republican didn’t bring destruction on the universe, but this one certainly will. And, of course, each of the “pivotal” Supreme Court justices is four years older than he or she was the last time.

Why does this tailing behind an increasingly right-of-center Democratic Party persist in the absence of any apparent payoff? There has nearly always been a qualifying excuse: Republicans control the White House; they control Congress; they’re strong enough to block progressive initiatives even if they don’t control either the executive or the legislative branch. Thus have the faithful been able to take comfort in the circular self-evidence of their conviction. Each undesirable act by a Republican administration is eo ipsoevidence that if the Democratic candidate had won, things would have been much better. When Democrats have been in office, the imagined omnipresent threat from the Republican bugbear remains a fatal constraint on action and a pretext for suppressing criticism from the left.

Reed goes on to point out that the differences between Democratic and Republican candidates are exaggerated and exclusively social, which regardless who wins, does not threaten the overall financial structure of society.  So when it comes to economics they are neoliberal parties, which means they both adhere to the free-market, and utopian ideology of infinite growth that create concrete programs to redistribute wealth to the top. The social wedge issues like women reproductive rights and identity politics like gay rights serve to perpetuate the façade that fundamental differences exist between both parties to keep the masses divided, especially between conservatives and progressives, despite the emergence of overlapping issues and analysis between anarchists and libertarians (the latter statement being my assessment and not Reed’s). Nevertheless, Reed does go on to write, “Exaggerating the differences between Democratic and Republican candidates, moreover, encourages the retrospective sanitizing of previous Democratic candidates and administrations.”

Anticipation of jobs and “access” — the crack cocaine (or, more realistically, powder cocaine) of the interest-group world — helps to make this scam more alluring, especially among those who have nurtured their aspirations in elite universities or the policy-wonk left or both. Such aspirants can be among the most adamant in denouncing leftist criticism of the Democrat of the moment as irresponsible and politically immature.

But if the left is tied to a Democratic strategy that, at least since the Clinton Administration, tries to win elections by absorbing much of the right’s social vision and agenda, before long the notion of a political left will have no meaning. For all intents and purposes, that is what has occurred. If the right sets the terms of debate for the Democrats, and the Democrats set the terms of debate for the left, then what can it mean to be on the political left? The terms “left” and “progressive” — and in practical usage the latter is only a milquetoast version of the former — now signify a cultural sensibility rather than a reasoned critique of the existing social order. Because only the right proceeds from a clear, practical utopian vision, “left” has come to mean little more than “not right.”

The left has no particular place it wants to go. And, to rehash an old quip, if you have no destination, any direction can seem as good as any other. The left careens from this oppressed group or crisis moment to that one, from one magical or morally pristine constituency or source of political agency (youth/students; undocumented immigrants; the Iraqi labor movement; the Zapatistas; the urban “precariat”; green whatever; the black/Latino/LGBT “community”; the grassroots, the netroots, and the blogosphere; this season’s worthless Democrat; Occupy; a “Trotskyist” software engineer elected to the Seattle City Council) to another. It lacks focus and stability; its métier is bearing witness, demonstrating solidarity, and the event or the gesture. Its reflex is to “send messages” to those in power, to make statements, and to stand with or for the oppressed.

This dilettantish politics is partly the heritage of a generation of defeat and marginalization, of decades without any possibility of challenging power or influencing policy. So the left operates with no learning curve and is therefore always vulnerable to the new enthusiasm. It long ago lost the ability to move forward under its own steam. Far from being avant-garde, the self-styled left in the United States seems content to draw its inspiration, hopefulness, and confidence from outside its own ranks, and lives only on the outer fringes of American politics, as congeries of individuals in the interstices of more mainstream institutions.

With the two parties converging in policy, the areas of fundamental disagreement that separate them become too arcane and too remote from most people’s experience to inspire any commitment, much less popular action. Strategies and allegiances become mercurial and opportunistic, and politics becomes ever more candidate-centered and driven by worshipful exuberance about individuals or, more accurately, the idealized and evanescent personae — the political holograms — their packagers project.

As the “human cipher” Matt Taibbi described, Obama is the pure product of this hollowed-out politics. He is a triumph of image and identity over content; indeed, he is the triumph of identity as content. Taibbi misreads how race figures into Brand Obama. Obama is not “without” race; he embodies it as an abstraction, a feel-good evocation severed from history and social relations. Race is what Obama projects in place of an ideology. His racial classification combines with a narrative of self-presentation, including his past as a “community organizer,” to convey a sensation of a politics, much as advertising presents a product as the material expression of inchoate desire. This became the basis for a faith in his virtue that largely insulated him from sharp criticism from the left through the first five years of his presidency. Proclamation that Obama’s election was, in [philosopher] Žižek’s terms, a “sign in which the memory of the long past of slavery and the struggle for its abolition reverberates” was also a call to suspend critical judgment, to ascribe to the event a significance above whatever Obama stood for or would do.

In fact, Obama was able to win the presidency only because the changes his election supposedly signified had already taken place. His election, after all, did not depend on disqualifying large chunks of the white electorate. As things stand, his commitments to an imperialist foreign policy and Wall Street have only more tightly sealed the American left’s coffin by nailing it shut from the inside. Katrina vanden Heuvel pleads for the president to accept criticism from a “principled left” that has demonstrated its loyalty through unprincipled acquiescence to his administration’s initiatives; in a 2010 letter, the president of the AFL-CIO railed against the Deficit Commission as a front for attacking Social Security while tactfully not mentioning that Obama appointed the commission or ever linking him to any of the economic policies that labor continues to protest; and there is even less of an antiwar movement than there was under Bush, as Obama has expanded American aggression and slaughter into Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and who knows where else.

Barack Obama has always been no more than an unexceptional neoliberal Democrat with an exceptional knack for self-presentation persuasive to those who want to believe, and with solid connections and considerable good will from the corporate and financial sectors. From his successful wooing of University of Chicago and Hyde Park liberals at the beginning of his political career, his appeal has always been about the persona he projects — the extent to which he encourages people to feel good about their politics, the political future, and themselves through feeling good about him — than about any concrete vision or political program he has advanced. And that persona has always been bound up in and continues to play off complex and contradictory representations of race in American politics […].

An equal longer-term danger, however, is the likelihood that we will find ourselves with no critical politics other than a desiccated leftism capable only of counting, parsing, hand-wringing, administering, and making up “Just So” stories about dispossession and exploitation recast in the evocative but politically sterile language of disparity and diversity. This is neoliberalism’s version of a left. Radicalism now means only a very strong commitment to antidiscrimination, a point from which Democratic liberalism has not retreated. Rather, it’s the path Democrats have taken in retreating from a commitment to economic justice.

Confusion and critical paralysis prompted by the racial imagery of Obama’s election prevented even sophisticated intellectuals like Žižek from concluding that Obama was only another Clintonite Democrat — no more, no less. It is how Obama could be sold, even within the left, as a hybrid of Martin Luther King Jr. and Neo from The Matrix. The triumph of identity politics, condensed around the banal image of the civil rights insurgency and its legacy as a unitary “black liberation movement,” is what has enabled Obama successfully to present himself as the literal embodiment of an otherwise vaporous progressive politics. In this sense his election is most fundamentally an expression of the limits of the left in the United States — its decline, demoralization, and collapse.

The crucial tasks for a committed left in the United States now are to admit that no politically effective force exists and to begin trying to create one […]. We need to reject the fantasy that some spark will ignite the People to move as a mass. We must create a constituency for a left[-right] program — and that cannot occur via MSNBC or blog posts or the New York Times. It requires painstaking organization and building relationships with people outside the Beltway and comfortable leftist groves. Finally, admitting our absolute impotence can be politically liberating; acknowledging that as a left we have no influence on who gets nominated or elected, or what they do in office, should reduce the frenzied self-delusion that rivets attention to the quadrennial, biennial, and now seemingly permanent horse races. It is long past time for us to begin again to approach leftist critique and strategy by determining what our social and governmental priorities should be and focusing our attention on building the kind of popular movement capable of realizing that vision. Obama and his top aides punctuated that fact by making brutally apparent during the 2008 campaign that no criticism from the left would have a place in this regime of Hope and Change. The message could not be clearer.

THE GRAND UNIFICATION OF ACTIVISM:
Maximizing The Movement Of Movements’ Collective Impact By Addressing The Four Terrains Of Reality

We are currently experiencing the converging calamities of civilizational collapse due to a multiple of reasons: climate change, peak oil and a second great depression as a result of the dominating mode of imperial consciousness otherwise known as Empire. We are quickly approaching the precipice of mass extinction or at the very least a societal breakdown, oppression by the soft authoritarianism of the surveillance state and ruled by the imperialism of a plutocratic corporatocracy. Conclusion—we must cure ourselves of this cancerous malady by cleansing the system. There is no reforming it. Nothing less than comprehensive change of our thinking, behavior, lifestyle, and economic, social and political systems will do—half measures avail us nothing. However, failure to realize this reality is at the crux of the problem for activists. It’s only by addressing the true sources of our societal ills that we take the first step towards “Integral Activism.”

Using the Integral Philosophy of Ken Wilber’s  AQAL model (All Quadrants, All Lines), I have classified the true sources of our social problems into four categorical causes: 1) Stunted CONSCIOUSNESS—Individual Interior (I); 2) Maladaptive BEHAVIOR—Individual Exterior (It); 3) Pathological CULTURE—Collective Interior (We); and 4) Dysfunctional SOCIAL SYSTEM—Collective Exterior (Its). Another way of putting it is the unsustainable manifestations of human Thinking (I), Practices (It), Worldview (We) and Institutions (Its) under theDominating World Order of EMPIRE. It can be broken down even further in more specific terms: 1) the western worldview of infinite growth (We); 2) the self-destructive values of prioritizing profits over people, the environment and life itself (We); 3) the wasteful way of living in an over consumptive lifestyle (We); 4) the unfair income inequality (Its) due to the concentration of power and wealth within a monetary market system of debt, fractional reserve banking, compound interest and fiat currency (Its) among all three existing social systems of Capitalism, Socialism and Communism (Its); 5) the class stratification of the social system (Its) based on dominator hierarchy, excessive competition and coercive violence (Its); 6) the obsolete social institutions (Its) and corruption of big government, big business and big media (Its); and 7) the psychological (I), emotional (I) and spiritually (I) dysfunctional individuals derived from psycho-social stress (I)due to the underlying economic structure (Its) and the misinformed masses (We) manipulated by the mainstream corporate media (Its), inadequate critical thinking skills (I) and the inauthentic cultural trance of societal myths (We) that make up the false map of reality (We)resulting in a citizenry feeling powerless, cynical and disillusioned (I) leading to disengaged behavior (It) and indirectly complicit by being unwilling or unable to withdraw consent to be governed accordingly (It). Without this proper integral analysis of the root causes of our social problems, conventional activists will continue to tinker around the edges of a system-wide collapse of industrial civilization.

Some anthropologists cite other causes of our problems like our failed relationship with the universe based on false myths and maladaptive ethos that has created a deep disconnection from the natural world, a separation of humans and the earth, instead of adhering to a new cosmology that we are the universe being conscious of itself. We need to redevelop this relationship with the sacredness of the earth and universe through emotions, a psycho-spiritual process and not solely through an intellectual awareness of it. Therefore, it is major mistake to be content with “winning” reforms that alleviate the symptoms but never truly address root causes.

What we need then is a redefinition of winning based on what kind of social change is really needed and what that looks like. Then and only then, will we be in agreement as to what to strive towards without capitulation through “uncompromising integrity.” This is the reason why radical transformation has not been achieved. Activists have failed, again and again, to identify and address the four broad domains of our social problems and instead they put most of their time, energy and limited resources towards fleeting media events, issue-focused-movements and symptoms-oriented-solutions.

The real solutions lies in addressing all four domains by doing the following: 1) Supplant The Superstructure (We), which is the prevailing paradigm, worldview and collective values of the dominant culture; 2) Subvert The Social System (Its) by creating alternative institutions that will undermine the stratified society that supports the Superstructure); 3) Change Of Consciousness Among Individuals (I) in order to have the people withdraw their consent and refuse compliance with both the social system and the superstructure; and 4) Alter TheMaladaptive Behavior Of Individuals (It) by resolving their economic hardships and addressing their personal dysfunctions, bad habits and neuroses that impede the citizenry’s engagement on a bigger scale of resistance for radical transformation. This integral approach to activism is how we can begin to unite virtually all of the social change forces for coordinated strategic action in the immediate future. The next step is to adopt the integral vision of the Society of the Third Millennium (S3K), the ten philosophical pillars of Neo-Transcen-dentalism called The Dynamic Decalogue that serves as the new activist framework of creating a common code of conduct, Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) and the slippery-slope of the Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives (SSII).

All address the four “root cause-quadrants.” In doing so, it will allow us the best opportunity to resolve the following differences that have often divided progressives in the past by: 1) integrating all four different activist roles (citizen, rebel, change agent and reformer); 2) incorporating all five different activists parameters (local interests, idealism versus pragmatism, radical change versus moderate advocacy, types of thought processes); 3) synthesizing the six basic progressive modes of thoughts (socioeconomic, identity politics, environmentalists, civil libertarian, spiritual and antiauthoritarian); and 4) encapsulating most of the activist causes and even some libertarian issues—as a “monumental milestone” that is briefly described below.

BACKGROUND

This groundbreaking strategic framework is based on my three books, The SUM, The SUM II and The DYNAMIC DECALOGUE, which has been in the works for the past 15 years since the 1999 “Battle In Seattle”—the trigger event of the Economic Justice/Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement—which has its modern roots to King’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and its Resurrection City encampments. It offers what has been missing from the activist community for decades—a new FOUNDATIONAL FRAMEWORK (The Dynamic Decalogue: The Ten Philosophical Pillars of Neo-Transcendentalism). It consist of the following novel synthesis: 1) An Evolutionary Cosmology (Conscious Evolution), 2) An Integral Philosophy (The IOS/AQAL Model), 3) An Integral Theory of Activism (The Grand Unified Strategy of Evolutionary Transformation), 4) A New Narrative (Cultural Evolution from Empire to Earth Community), 5) A New Collective Identity as the Integral Metamodernists (Neo-Transcendentalists), 6) A Common Code of Conduct (The Ethos of Evolutionary Enlightenment), 7) A Cohesive Vision(The Society of the Third Millennium),  8) A Coherent Plan (The Sum Stratagem: Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives), 9) A National Unifying Purpose (The Grand Ultimatum) and 10) The Ultimate Goal (The Grand Imperative)—“Abolish Empire And Establish Earth Community!”

The DYNAMIC DECALOGUE is a comprehensive framework for swift and sweeping social change derived from a deep, full-spectrum analysis that incorporates the ideas of Ken Wilbers’ “Integral Theory of Everything” otherwise known as the AQAL Model (all quadrants, all levels) comprise of three main perspectives personified with pronouns and subdivided for symmetry as “I,” “WE,” “IT,” “ITS.” It begins with “An Accurate Assessment of the Present Predicament” that we are running out of time and creating a new sense of urgency (Pillar One). The Ecological, economic, cultural, social and political crises have converged to make 2016 “The Year” for radical transformation otherwise we could traverse the tipping point of human extinction. It then becomes imperative to identify the true source of our societal ills, “The Crux Of The Crises” (Pillar Two), which is the Pathological Culture of Empire consisting of Value Disorder (“We”), Dysfunctional System (“Its”) and the Manufacturing of Stunted Individuals (“I”) leading to Maladaptive Behavior (It) due to economic distress, plagued with feelings of powerlessness, crippled with neuroses, ineffectively coping through overconsumption, inundated with constant environmental health threats, and distracted with electronic gadgets, trivial lifestyle pursuits, political scandals, celebrity worship and other pop culture addictions and dysfunctions. >From here it becomes necessary to understand how we are ruled and the means of control by “Deconstructing the System of Dominance” (Pillar Three) through the identification of our common opposition, the prevailing paradigm of infinite growth, and the maladaptive social system of oppression, economic inequality and social injustice. Such power mapping analysis has led to a synthesis of suggestions from various groups, organizations and publications that has been designated as “The New Millennium Memes & Metamodern Mandates” (Pillar Four) that provides diverse strategic courses of actions. Resulting in an all-encompassing purpose: “The Grand Imperative—Abolish Empire & Establish Earth Community—The One Global Demand & Ultimate Goal,” (Pillar Five)that can finally mend the fragmentation of all of the new social and consciousness movements. Analysis of the current state of activism has resulted in the organic development of a new integral theory and stratagem for social change called the “Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) For Radical Evolutionary Transformation,” (Pillar Six) that prioritizes cultural change (Phase I: Cultural Evolution), which is divided into three Continuums (X: Separation, Y: Transition, Z: Integration) before institutional change (Phase II: Structural Revolution) that comprises of Continuum A: Deconstruction and Continuum B: Reconstruction leading to Phase III: Global Transformation (Continuum C: Dynamic Equilibrium Through The Post-Carbon Third Industrial Revolution of the worldwide Hydrogen Energy Web (HEW). However, to accomplish such a comprehensive feat in the long run would have to be based on a new set of beliefs about the nature of reality, knowledge and the essence of being, forming a new narrative: “The Ethos Of Evolutionary Transcendence” (Pillar Seven) based on “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” the AQAL Model and Integral Life Practice (ILP). “Envisioning & Exhibiting Earth Community” (Pillar Eight) offers a concrete alternative to the self-destructive status-quo in order for a “radical acceptance” to emerge and make the necessary paradigm shift required to accept a new alternative vision. All of which provides the guidance to formulate integral “Proclamations, Policies & Plans For Earth Community otherwise known as the “Society of the Third Millennium (S3K),” (Pillar Nine), which is comprise of (on the global scale) “The Earth Charter,” the “Peak Oil Protocol,” on the national level the “Second Bill of (Economic) Rights,” by FDR in 1944, the conservative-libertarians’ “Articles of Freedom,” the liberal-progressives’ 99% Continental Congress 2.0 Declaration and (on the local level) the “Community Bill of Rights,” drafted in 2010 to preserve our local sovereignty to safeguard our environment, our health and natural resources against corporate pillaging. The catalyst for comprehensive change is (Pillar Ten) The SUM Stratagem: Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives (SSII).

The SSII consist of the following: 1) Cultivate Counter-Institutions like OWS through Bill Moyers’ Movement Action Plan (MAP). 2) Build Alternative Institutions through the revolutionary act of relocalization by the Transition movement. 3) Create a Mock Parallel Government cabinet and congress consisting of at least 870 nationally elected citizen legislators (one male and one female from each of the 435 congressional districts) that pledge to end the infinite growth paradigm and get money out of politics. 4) Convene a Mock Second Constitutional Convention to draft new amendments like The Second Bill of (Economic) Rights, a Common Ground Agenda for the People and a new Declaration of Re-Independence from the corporate tyranny of the economic oligarchy. All publicly proclaimed on July 5, 2016, (for example) along with 5) The Grand Ultimatum to launch a “Massive Mobilization of Civil Society” by “Drawing-A-Line-In-The-Sand,” and creating a sense of urgency as a National Unifying Purpose (NUP) to accelerate all relocalization efforts in preparation for the possibility of a sustained, nationwide, general strike by November 7, 2016, two days after Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5) and one day before the U.S. national elections to unplug the machinery of the system through withdrawal of our consent by abstaining from political participation within the two-party system. 6) The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Quest (C3Q) is launched to promote a profound paradigm shift required to trigger a tipping point in this cross-country, site-specific, outdoor, guerrilla art installations as a live Reality TV show of a change of consciousness campaign culminating during the weekend of November 5, 2016 as a “Million Mask March” to Washington D.C. If the government refuses, implementation of Gene Sharp’s methods of nonviolent actions begins with 7) a Nationwide General Strike that countdown in the following strategically staggered manner: Mon, Nov. 7, 2016—Day 1: Social Noncooperation (school & sports boycott);Tues, Nov. 8, 2016—Day 2: Political Noncooperation (boycotting the U.S. Presidential & Congressional Elections); Wed, Nov. 9, 2016—Day 3: Economic Noncooperation (withholding of labor)—all done until the government complies or forced to relinquish their power in a peaceful political purge to usher in the Society of the Third Millennium (S3K).

Due to the converging crises of climate and civilizational collapse currently under way, it now require us to accelerate our efforts for a profound paradigm shift in order to save ourselves from possible mass extinction as early as 2030, if it’s not too late already. The book proposes that in the coming months, the “Integral Neo-Transcendentalists” among the Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and the Millennials that emerges from the Cultural Creatives’ subculture to quicken the revolution of everyday life through a post-petroleum, community relocalization (like “Transition US”) that is commonly referred to by Neo-Transcendentalists as the stratified vision of the “Society of the Third Millennium” (S3K 1.0). It is a rallying call to embark on a nationwide guerrilla art campaign called the “The Cultural Creatives Convergence Quest” (C3Q) to disseminate the vision of S3K that encompasses a National Unifying Purpose (NUP) of creating a new financial system through an innovative energy regime based Jeremy Rifkin’s idea of a worldwide Hydrogen Energy Web for a “Post-Carbon Third Industrial Revolution” (S3K 2.0) to be solely powered by renewable energy like solar, wind, geo-thermal and wave technology in order to lift us out of economic collapse and mitigate the negative effects of civilizational collapse, climate chaos and the peak oil energy crisis. All of which will serve as the necessary stepping stones for the creation of a Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy (S3K 3.0) described by industrial designer Jacques Fresco’s “The Venus Project,” featured in the third documentary film “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.” It also serves as a summoning to accelerate the implementation of the Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) for Evolutionary Transformation” by creating community convergence centers across America to build a sustainable activist infrastructure that supports a “Unified Mega-Movement Campaign (UMC)” called the “Citizen Accountability Purge.” It is through this underground construction of a parallel social system before the ignition of a nonviolent, nationwide, general strike of social, political and economic non-cooperation that leads to the peaceful political purge of all 535 nationally elected officials, the President and the Supreme Court as the final advance of cultural change. This type of comprehensive change will transcend the dysfunctional elements of our society and include its best features by supplanting the superstructure, subverting the social system and humanizing the machinery of society that facilitates the transformation of the individuals who operate it through a change of consciousness. And with 80 million Cultural Creatives in the United States, approximately 100 million in Europe and about 20 million in Canada, a global constituency of at least 200 million and counting are awaiting the ultimate millennial moment of epic convergence. So the new rallying call for the third millennium will not only echo Thomas Paine’s—“Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!”—and Karl Marx’s popularly paraphrased slogan—“Workers of the World, Unite!”—but go beyond both by proclaiming, in the spirit of the emerging ethos of evolutionary transformation:

CULTURAL CREATIVES of the EARTH—CONVERGE! To Transcend the Great Unraveling of Empire and Transition to the Great Turning of Earth Community, the next global revolution must be the cultural evolution of humanity. Behold! The Integral Metamodern NEO-TRANSCENDENTALISTS have EMERGED!
ZEVIN X. CRUZ IS AN INTEGRAL PHILOSOPHER, ARTIST, ACTIVIST & AUTHOR

As an “Integral Metamodern Philosopher” he founded “Neo-Transcendentalism,” a holistic approach to art and activism (“Integral Artivism”). His “Ten Integral and Neo-Transcendental Tenets of Radical Evolutionary Transformation” otherwise known as “The Dynamic Decalogue” is based on Ken Wilbers’ “Theory of Everything—the AQAL Model (All Quadrants, All Lines)—serving as an Integral Operating System (IOS) for humanity.

As an Artist, Cruz has pioneered a bold and new Integral Art movement called Neo-Transcendentalism: Culture Jamming, Trans-Genre Recontextualization, Community Co-Creation, Vision Building and Mission Oriented Strategic Art. The latter consist of guerrilla art projects known as “cultural interventions” on controversial public spaces that received some public notoriety through print and local television media.

As an Activist, Cruz was in the Natural Leaders Initiative, former Founder and Director of the San Diego Cultural Creatives (SDCC) in 2002, which in 2004 its steering committee voted to approve his “Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) of Evolutionary Transformation.” John Falchi, an elder in the activist community and former steering committee member of SDCC, referred to Cruz’s work as “Genius. Pure genius.” The writer was a member of the World Future Society (WFS), the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), the National Organizers Alliance (NOA), Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN) and the Ithaca Unitarian Universalists Church. He trained with the Ruckus Society in preparation and participation for the “2001 Biodevastation Protest” in San Diego. Cruz has been featured on WS Internet Talk Radio, community newspapers, a panelist in community dialogues, given lectures and conducted workshops on comprehensive efforts for fundamental social change.

As an Author, Cruz was a newspaper reporter in 2006 for the Dryden Courier, Lansing Ledger and Groton Independent in upstate New York. In California, Cruz wrote freelance articles for the Light Connection and Street Light where he honed his skills to become an ambitious author and an advocate for bold and transformative change. He also writes “conceptual poetry” fused with experimental visual art, which typically begins as a concrete poem that “evolves” (by transcending previous parameters and including its prior favorable features) through six other different artistic genres only to be integrated into a grand, seventh holistic piece.

Cruz’s formal education consist of two AA’s in Journalism and Philosophy, BS in Criminal Justice, Minor in Sociology and Master’s in Human Services: Organizational Management & Leadership from Springfield College in California, where his academic graduate advisor, Gil Ontai, called his project thesis (Grand Unified Strategy of Evolutionary Transformation) as a “modern update on Karl Marx’s Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis model.” And Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, senior managing editor of Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., referred to Cruz’s “Decalogue” as “a new philosophy for activists and humanity.” Cruz has also participated in the 2012 “Transition U.S. Weekend Training in Kingston, New York,” and the 2010 and 2007 U.S. Social Forum. He formed the “Cognitive Work Group” of Occupy Cortland (a local OWS think tank in upstate New York) and collaborated with Occupy Ithaca. Cruz has visited Zuccotti Park during the early weeks of the occupation and was an active member in the NYCGA’s online work groups and think tank. His series of seven books is a synthesis of all of his experiences and work with these various groups and diverse people.

“THE SUM: A Cohesive Vision, Coherent Strategy & Comprehensive Philosophy Of Integral Activism For The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Of Movements (Book 0.1),” is the first book in a series of seven. It also serves as a 140-page summary to the second book “The SUM II: A Critical Analysis Of The Current State Of Activism To Create A Cohesive Vision, Strategy & Philosophy Of Neo-Transcendentalism,” (Book 0.2)” (700-pages) released in March, 2015 and the third book (1,000-page) called “THE DYNAMIC DECALOGUE: The Monolithic Milestones From The Ten Philosophical Pillars Of Integral ‘Artivism’ For Evolutionary Transformation (Book 0.3),” will be out by Aug 2015. To order any of his books, go to Facebook and friend him with your request or by email at zevinxcruz@gmail.com. There is also a crowd sourcing campaign to raise funds to finish writing and self-publishing the 3rd book at fundly.com (called “The Decalogue” under the “creative projects” section).