I’m a dreamer.  I always have been.  And I dream big.

I dream that we humans can unite to successfully meet the crisis we are facing now while we also build a better world.

My mission is to present my ideas for how to make this dream a reality, to plant seeds that, hopefully, others will take up to create a major movement that brings us together to solve our problems and live better lives.  My ideas are driven by these beliefs:

We face today crisis that are bringing us suffering and death:

• Global warming.  The flooding, droughts, extreme storms -- and the suffering and death they bring -- will only get worse unless we drastically cut our contributions to the warming.
• Polarization. The ease with which we judge and reject others based on race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, etc., creates suffering and hinders our working together harmoniously to resolve issues.
• War.  Our acceptance of war as a means for settling differences, and the never-ending quest for weapons with greater kill rates maintains the suffering and death that war brings while giving deranged leaders the opportunity to annihilate us all.

We now have, for the first time in our history, the means to address these crises, to cut the suffering and death and build a better world.

• A root cause of these crises is greed and self-interest, e.g.: corporations that supply fossil fuels and energy utilities that burn them are more driven to retain their profits than to reduce climate warming emissions; legislators are driven more to protect donations from these sources than to enact legislation that will reduce the emissions.  In short, legislators are far more committed to powerful special interests than they are to meet the needs of all of their constituents.
• Yet most of us are basically kind, good, caring people.  We have demonstrated in our daily lives our capacity to care for others as well as for ourselves -- to behave with compassion and altruism.  My mission is based on my belief that there are enough caring people to force change, to gain more power than the special interests now have over the politicians who must enact the change. We need to unite caring people into a powerful force for change.    
• The Internet provides a facile means of uniting caring people.  It can provide the information, communications, guidance, and tools that caring individuals need to apply their votes and their pocketbooks to convincing their leaders and politicians that change must be made.

In short, I believe that we humans are incredibly beautiful and resourceful beings; also that we are spiritual beings living in a spiritual universe, that we have Better Angels to guide us in our relationships with others, with ourselves, and with nature; finally, that we are one race, the human race, and can live together in harmony and mutual support as one family, the human family.  We can make this happen if enough of us join together to build a force powerful enough to overcome the dark forces that perpetrate suffering and death.  And we now have, in the Internet, the means of communication that makes a massive movement like this possible.  Accordingly, I am preparing proposals for two initiatives that I believe could get us started.  

• Good People Unite. I envision a movement that engages many millions of caring people in a change effort that works.  The movement will initially focus on curbing our contributions to global warming.
• A Course in Caring. I am outlining a learning/personal change program that will provide learning, practice, and support to enhance one’s caring for both ones-self and others, and to help people understand and embrace their Better Angels while contributing to creating a better world.  

The proposals will be published on the Web, with requests for feedback and support in preparing and implementing the initiatives.  If you would like to share your thoughts on this now, I would appreciate receiving them.  Click here to contact me.  

“What one truly believes is measured by acts and their effects, not merely by professed ideals.”

                                                   William James