To form a Synergy Circle for content/vision discussion and action steps regarding all aspects of “An Ecological Civilization” noting especially three subthemes: the implications regarding “Culture”, “Environment” and “Economics.” To build this discussion outward, from vision to action steps, through any number of appropriate working groups and subgroups.

Wholistic Design is a discipline that encompasses any methodology that focuses on the interconnected and interdependent nature of all things to inform the rules and processes of design. Models are generated on a foundation of ecocentrism which places everything that is and sustains life, at the center of the value system. Consistent with this, biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature to address complex human questions and challenges. Combining current philosophical, scientific, and energetic understandings of the universe, human-designed systems can be made to comply with the same principles as natural ones, which have the complexity and precision of billions of years of evolution.

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The purposes of this Synergy Circle are, initially, (1) to support and nurture Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites worldwide particularly with activities that increase their role in the vitalization of Mother Earth (or "Gaia") and especially in line with activities already initiated by some founding members of this circle (see https://issuu.com/lightonlight/docs/lightonlight_issue_3) and (2) to create an effective and influential media narrative with regard the meaning and significance of "Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites and Sacred Science."

"Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites" is a UNESCO term referring to sites considered "sacred" for either their biological and/or cultural significance. "Sacred Science" refers to ancient and current wisdom and modalities, particularly of indigenous peoples ["modalities" is further defined as "a particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed." [Webster] and which modality may, or may not, be understood by conventional empirical science].

Members: The circle is an Open Circle (including ELs and non ELs), by invitation.

There are currently five subcircles, some overlapping in membership, each contributing to a sector of the visioning and planning of the Circle:

(1) original founders [ELs Mindahi Bastida, Ken Kitatani, Kurt Johnson, Oscar Miro-Quesada, Duane Elgin, J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Robert Atkinson];

(2) from the EL Ultra-Violets Synergy Circle [ELs Kurt Johnson, Adam Hall, Lynnaea Lumbard, J. J. Hurtak, Desiree Hurtak, Nina Meyerhof, Oscar-Miro Quesada, Jude Currivan];

(3) the Four Worlds Institute Group [EL Chief Phil Lane with Chief Dwaine Perry, Owl, and Linda Bjork;

(4) the Australian Group [EL Ben Bowler with Prof. Jim Bowler, Jason Kelly;

(5) the Media Group [ELs Kurt Johnson and Robert Atkinson with Ariel Patricia, Karuna].

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Plans for 2021-22 include events, on-line programming, e-magazine creation and participations, and moving toward a book on the meaning of Sacred Sites (esoterically and exoterically).

Gathering themes from across the Synergy Circles, it is based on the generally recognized four foundations for a partnership civilization, four interconnected foundations or cornerstones that determine if a social system is either more partnership-oriented, or dominance-oriented.

The first cornerstone is childhood: Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, especially in their first 5 years, shapes nothing less than the architecture of our brains, and with this, how we feel, think, and act – including how we vote. So how children are raised is a key social issue.

The second cornerstone is the attitude toward gender: We’ve been taught this is just a secondary “women’s issue,” but it’s a key social issue. Ranking the male form over the female form of our species is a template for equating all differences with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving -- a model for in-group versus out-group prejudices: racism, anti-Semitism, and so-forth. Moreover, traits and activities that in domination systems are associated with real masculinity, such as conquest and domination, are ranked over those stereotypically associated with femininity, such as caring—be it for children in families or caring for our natural life-support systems. This negatively affects everyone, and must be transformed.

The third cornerstone is economics: Current economic systems, both capitalist and socialist, follow this gendered system of values, failing to adequately reward the work of caring for people and caring for nature in ways that put food on the table and a roof over people’s head. That’s why we urgently need a new caring economics of partnerism.

The fourth cornerstone is story and language: Many normative stories, whether original sin or selfish genes, present violence and domination as normal and inevitable -- despite the evidence from neuroscience to the contrary. Not only that, the social categories provided by our languages fragment our consciousness, marginalizing or ignoring the majority of humanity: women and children. We must transform these as well.

Consciousness evolves toward an increasingly comprehensive and coherent understanding of justice and oneness. This evolution is a dialectic between individual and collective, not simply the sum total of individual evolution. Therefore, as we work toward the evolution of consciousness, it is essential to engage the socio-historical structures that scaffold it.

While the world is still steeped in a 17th century frame of reference that emphasizes national sovereignty, borders, and nationalist militarism, we are witnessing a massive and growing worldwide awakening to our spiritual reality of interdependence, and a growing push toward peaceful governance that reflects and protects the spirit of all life. Our biggest challenge is to lead the way and to mobilize all available resources toward the creation of the next level of evolutionary global governance.

With that challenge in mind, the purpose of the Unitive Justice and Global Security Synergy Circle is to articulate an evolutionary spiritual understanding of the practical steps involved in moving from a world organized around the power to dominate to a world organized around the power to protect and steward the spirit of life.

This Synergy Circle will engage in a broad educational effort to cultivate understanding of what unitive justice may look like amidst our existential climate and political crisis, why it requires a federalist international structure, and how this structure can gradually and effectively subsume the task of the protection of peace and planetary life through a global force which frees humanity from military competition in the creation of ever more sophisticated weapons of destruction. It will articulate the integrative spiritual principles that underly unitive justice and human security, and that must become embedded in education on every level.

This effort is our contribution to the global push toward the next level of human social organization that can scaffold the path to universal peace.

Finally, the creation of this circle recognizes the upcoming 2023 United Nations Summit of the Future as an opportunity to make a vigorous contribution to the strengthening of civil society’s ability to bring about the transformation of the United Governments Organisation that it currently is in practice to the United Nations that the founders had envisioned.
(https://globalgovernanceforum.org/saving-humanity-from-the-scourge-of-war/ )

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The purpose of the Circle is for content/vision discussion and action steps regarding all aspects of “Integral and Wholistic Cosmologies.” To build this discussion outward, from vision to action steps, through any number of appropriate working groups and subgroups.

The purpose of the emerging Bridging Synergy Circle is to engage in a deeper inquiry/conversation into what it means to bridge our divides – consciousness, spiritual, cultural, racial, gender, social, political, economic – within ourselves, our communities, our countries, and in the world.

We explore how we as a learning community use this inquiry to catalyze collective action and/or inform the work we do in the world. The synchronicities in our Circle are leading to synergies and the synergies lead to opportunities. We choose to skillfully and collectively act on those opportunities through sub-groups, partnerships, and/or together as the larger Circle.

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The circle is an Open Circle (including ELs and non ELs), by invitation.

Structural Note: in accordance with the self-governing provisions of the “Guidelines for Synergy Circles,” the group may choose to have a core “Vision Keepers” group/circle (comprised of the Founding Members and selected others) which will serve to “anchor” the Synergy Circle in the event that many additional members join.

The following strands/potential sub-groups are emerging with Storytelling/media outreach, to explore:

• How to hold our evolutionary journey as a consciousness journey
• What might we, as ELs, have to offer the broader community – our countries and the world – from the perspective of heart-mind?
• How might we write about bridging/healing divides from the vantage of consciousness, of spirit?
• How might we outreach to the entertainment industry – writers and producers of movies and television shows – to incorporate bridging language and conscious behavior into storylines that reach vast audiences?
• Exploring, defining and understanding levels (a continuum, a mandala) of consciousness, and how that relates to collective action
• Delving into the root causes of the consciousness divide we see today, and how to encourage healing
• A spiritual inquiry within the EL community
• What do we mean by spirit, by consciousness?
• How do we understand/work with conflict, as spiritual beings in physical form?
• What spiritual technologies or practices might be useful for our group or elsewhere for building healthy bridges?
• What are we doing on this planet, what is our role, how do we move to the next level of human expression?

Other directions that will emerge.

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The purpose of the Education Circle is to gather persons from across the diverse meanings and activities of "Education" and discover thematic and action areas from which can emerge tangible plans toward collective "products" like discussions, conferences, events, initiatives, media and so on.

It is an "Open Circle" open to ELs and non-ELs. There is an Application to join the Circle. This is a diverse discussion which, to date, has resulted in multiple subgroups strategizing varied and diverse activities. Subgroups continue to expand with new Circle members. From this diversity the Circle searches also for common themes and actions areas in which it can collectively participate, especially through media. The Application to join the circle provides additional details.

Subcircle Activities: Currently the Circle contains twelve subcircle initiatives:

• new advances in humanist education [EL's Ken Kitatani and Mindahi Bastida, with Scott Carlin, Gaston Meskons and Silke Van Cleuvenbergen;
• concepts of planetary education [EL's Gordon Dveirin and Scott Alan Carlin];
• education around the UN SDG's [EL Kurt Johnson and Scott Alan Carlin with Richard Bowell and Michael Shewchuk];
• education around Laudato Si [ELs Ken Kitatani, Mindahi Bastida and Kurt Johnson],
• education media development [EL Jon Ramer, Bob Jayco];
• education centered on works of We.net [EL Rick Ulfik], One Humanity Institute [ELs Nina Meyerhof and Domen Kocevar],
• Friends of the IONS [ELs Kurt Johnson, Rick Ulfik, J.J. and Desiree Hurtak and Alan Steinfeld],
• Academy for Future Science [J.J. and Desiree Hurtak];
• Earth Constitution and global structural change [ELs Kurt Johnson and Rick Ulfik with Glen Martin, Laura George, Ariel Patricia, Robert Levine and Gina Maza];
• Atlas Hugged counterproposal to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged [ELs David Sloan Wilson, Kurt Johnson, Lynnaea Lumbard, Elisabet Sahtouris, and Michael Wayne, with Jeffrey Genung];
• Global Unitive Healing [ELs Robert Atkinson, Kurt Johnson, Claudia Welss, non-ELs Elena Mustakova, Ariel Patricia].

Circle Activities:

• The Circle sponsored a 2019 event for the United Nations NGO community at Sukyo Mahikari Center on new advances in humanist and planetary education.
• It published in 2021 a free e-book Universal Principles and Action Steps a compendium of published statements re: same from global leaders and organizations since the 20th Century.
• Members regularly collaborate in diverse social media education programs with EL Jon Ramer's Synergized Impact Network Exchange.

The SDG Thought Leaders Synergy Circle is an "Open Circle" (open to EL's and non EL's). With some 90 members the Circle was initiated to create and nurture a broad and robust discussion of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) with other organizations and NGO's both within and outside the global United Nations community.

An extensive website about the Circle was created including description of the Circle's mission, goals & strategy; participants; activities; and participant commentary and contributions. It is located at https://www.SDGThoughtLeadersCircle.org.

Along with the larger membership there are two EL Coordinator/Liaisons, Dr. Kurt Johnson and Daniel Stone, supported by two core group founding members, Gregg Braden and Jude Currivan, and two EL/SOSF Advisors, Diane Williams and Deborah Moldow.


For more information, or to join, inquire to kurtjohnsonisd@yahoo.com or djs@danielstone.com