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Paradigms for a New World
A
few months ago I submitted an article entitled The
Energy of Numbers to The Sedona Journal of Emergence. I was
informed via a phone call from one of their editors that it was
accepted and was to be published in the November, 2004, edition.
I have yet to see this edition. That particular issue was not available
in any of the local stores and bookstores.
I know that it was, in fact, published because I received a fan
letter about the article from a man who currently resides in Folsom
Prison.
As
I was sharing this little story with my coach, Margie
Summerscales Heiler, I began to receive an inspiration about
the highest and best use of our prisons. It's through her encouragement
that I write about it here. It goes like this:
The
Highest and Best Use of Our Prisons
Our prisons are demonstrably a very expensive failure in the experiment
of rehabilitating people who have exhibited some form of danger
to the rest of their fellow humans. The current view of prisons
is that they are strictly for punishment and it is believed that
this will act as a deterrent for future demonstrations of dangerous
behavior. Obviously, this system is not working. Our prisons are
overcrowded and as fast as new ones are built, they become overcrowded.
The
vision I received was that of prisons as educational facilities,
where offenders are given the opportunity to be counseled, coached,
and re-conditioned so that they are able to overcome their stance
as angry, violent victims. In my vision, prisons are not places
where law breakers go for a few years to experience even more deeply
the reality of being powerless victims.
Note:
what happens when your power is taken away? Right. You become angry
and resentful. Witness the feminist movement, which was about women
regaining their power. Witness the Black Power movement, which was
about African Americans regaining their power. Witness yourself
when someone takes your choices away and disempowers you.
Teaching
personal empowerment to the prisoners will reinsert them into society
as more balanced, aware, and responsible people rather than keeping
them locked up for a few years so that they can become even more
angry and hostile about their powerlessness.
On
to the Military
As
I was sharing my vision with Margie, the military came into focus.
"What
if the military shifted their intent and purpose from killing people
and wrecking havoc in countries, which they then have to rebuild
at great expense to us taxpayers. What if, instead, they simply
rebuilt them to begin with?" I queried.
"Imagine
the situation in Afghanistan or Iraq", my musings continued.
"What if our military personnel had gone over to those countries
with building materials and tools to help build housing, schools,
and other necessary shelters. What if they had brought tools such
as tractors, and taught the people how to use them so that they
had a sustainable living?"
What
do you suppose the outcome would have been in relation to how the
people of those countries - and of the world - viewed us? How do
you imagine we might have felt about ourselves? How might we all
benefit?
Well,
these are pretty far-fetched fantasies.
Or,
are they?
Just
by reading this, you are helping these new paradigms to become reality.
All the things we now have in our world began as a thought, a vision.
At some point the vision became so enormous that it manifested into
reality.
Help
these visions become a reality by sharing them with someone. And
invite them to share the visions with someone they know.
Love,
Kathy
p.s.
I invite you to share your grandest visions of new paradigms for
a better world. Email
me and tell me your vision. With your permission, I'll post
it in the next edition of this ezine so that others can share it
and, thus, help it become reality.
Copyright
©2005 Under One Roof
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