It’s been more than thirty years since Werner Erhard issued his challenge to create a world that works. He said in 1977: “We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our love for the world be what our lives are really about. “Each […]
Creating a World That Works for Everyone
Werner Erhard, the founder of the est Training, is the source of the idea (he would call it a “context”) of “a world that works for everyone” and of many other abstractions that have worked their way into our language. (1) One of these is “making a difference” and there isn’t a greater difference we […]
The Extent of Hunger in Our World
Folks, I’d like to begin focusing on areas of the world’s unworkability that must be addressed if we’re to build Nova Earth. The material below is taken from a Hunger Project presentation. The Hunger Project was begun by Werner Erhard to end world hunger. It was in the beginning an educational project, but I see […]
Principled Communication – 2/4
(Continued from Part 1.) Lately, I seem to have been entering into more and more conversations and communications that have serious consequences or can lead to serious outcomes. And because of this, I seem to be wanting to focus more attention on ways of communicating. Many of us, I think, base our communicational style, especially […]
Toward a World That Works for Everyone
Reposted from Dec. 7, 2009 If we were looking for a phrase that would describe the world we’re headed for, for me, it’d be Werner Erhard’s memorable phrase: “a world that works for everyone.” (1) I now see that Werner was looking through eyes that knew the Fifth-Density world that we’re aiming at. The rest […]
On Peace in the Middle East: Setting the Context
Luisa Vasconcellos has sent me an item on a Jewish-Palestinian cooperative effort that led to this series of posts on the subject of peace in the Middle East. The conflict in the Middle East has been called intractable and has in fact been going on for many centuries. It’d be very difficult to find out […]
Watch for Wayshower Werner Erhard
My brother Paul was over visiting the other day and showed me a Wayshower who is making his presence known again after years of working behind the scenes. Remember the name: Werner Erhard. We all hear that it is time for the Wayshowers to step into the limelight and I think that Werner us one […]