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    <title>Gaia: Handbook for the New Paradigm - Final Thought - REVOLUTION v EVOLUTION - read first</title>
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      <title>Re: REVOLUTION v EVOLUTION - read first</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:37:51 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      My own response to Argus&amp;#39;s response can be found &lt;a href="http://pods.zaadz.com/new_paradigm/discussions/view/66890" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>REVOLUTION v EVOLUTION - read first</title>
      <author>http://Argusthewatcher.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Argus</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:10:45 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;h4&gt;EVOLUTION v REVOLUTION&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;All men are born free and equal in dignity and rights&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meditation, contemplation, deliberation, reflection, &lt;strong&gt;action or NON-action ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entirety of the Handbook, thus far, and no doubt to be continued to the last word - has been written from the perspective of the third person - and in no way different than the message conveyed to Moses in the form of the 10 commandments or Mohammed and the Qur&amp;#39;an.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The context, therefore, in which all of these documents have and continue to be considered - must be one of - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what changes when change changes ? &lt;/strong&gt;- in consideration&amp;nbsp;of the &lt;strong&gt;ever increasing rate&lt;/strong&gt; at which change changes and the thought that &lt;strong&gt;things will never ever be the same again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;By that I mean - all were delivered by a messenger and as such open to interpretation, interpretation of interpretation&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; interpretation of interpretation&amp;nbsp;of interpretation&amp;nbsp;- by the original receiver of the message and those to whom it was subsequently communicated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as I have said elsewhere - &lt;a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/9/dont_kill_the_messenger#comments" target="_blank"&gt;Don&amp;#39;t KILL the Messenger &lt;/a&gt;- because it is the &lt;em&gt;underlying message&lt;/em&gt; which each and every one of us&amp;nbsp;6 billion on earth today have a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;universal responsibility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You yourself have written in your&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Declaration of Sovereignty&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;Life, Liberty &lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the pursuit of &lt;/em&gt;Happiness.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it not the case,&amp;nbsp; however, &amp;nbsp;that rights only&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; &amp;rdquo; follow on &amp;ldquo;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; &amp;rdquo; return &amp;ldquo;&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; &amp;rdquo; happen as a &lt;strong&gt;reaction&lt;/strong&gt; to the &lt;strong&gt;ACTION of assuming RESPONSIBILITY - &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;in the manner of what goes around comes around ?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;- &amp;nbsp;I am therefore of a mind that we should &lt;strong&gt;consider the responsibilities&lt;/strong&gt; of&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Life, Liberty &lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the pursuit of &lt;/em&gt;Happiness - as a priority from which RIGHTS then follow on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equally is it not the case that - Rights speak to the EGO and Revolution&amp;nbsp; - and that Responsibility speaks to the &lt;a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/9/towards_authentic_self#comments" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;ldquo;authentic SELF&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt; and Evolution ? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; or should it be&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wie.org/j19/vimala.asp" target="_blank"&gt;Total Revolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; as espoused by Vimala Thakar ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If as Andrew Cohen has said &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;- human incarnation is not intended to be living to fulfil the desires of ego -&amp;nbsp; but individual responsibility to switch,&amp;nbsp; as a result of the activation of&amp;nbsp; conscious choice,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; to assuming the burden of&amp;nbsp; positive &amp;amp; qualitative evolution - and that that switch is a big thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; - and furthermore that&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;- there is an elegant simplicity to all I&amp;#39;m saying &amp;hellip; it&amp;#39;s very satisfying &amp;hellip; it&amp;#39;s very simple really &amp;hellip; it&amp;#39;s not complicated &amp;hellip; it just takes time for people to get it&amp;nbsp; &amp;hellip; when you get it it&amp;#39;s very simple &amp;hellip;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;hellip; I can think of &lt;a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/9/zero_to_zero_to_zero_to_zero_to_10_000_zeros#comments" target="_blank"&gt;no better simple example of this switch &lt;/a&gt;-&amp;nbsp; than that which takes place in joining the ends of a long paper quadrangle to make a&amp;nbsp; mobius strip - the &lt;strong&gt;rights switch&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;creates a band where exterior &amp;amp; interior never ever meet&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; - whereas - the &lt;strong&gt;responsibility switch&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;enmeshes responsibilities &amp;amp; rights, exterior &amp;amp; interior, self &amp;amp; SELF &lt;/em&gt;- together in a never ending cycle of events -&amp;nbsp; committed to the qualitative evolution of&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Life, Liberty &lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the pursuit of &lt;/em&gt;Happiness &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;.. it is surely this &lt;strong&gt;switch between the perception of rights and responsibilities&lt;/strong&gt; which must be applied to the whole of your own document and then it would truly become &lt;strong&gt;a manifesto of universal parcipitative action&lt;/strong&gt; rather than &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the message of a cult&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; committed to the correction of what some might say is the most advanced culture in human history. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would like you to consider this and then post it with your response - wherever you feel fit throughout your zPod etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;My very kindest regards&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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