4.b.2)    Ricochet responses to family trauma

Suggested ideas for discussion in Junior High School Classes, from which an imaginative creative
teacher can form deep learning experiences.

An important issue for our age, and one we should consider. We question "Is it possible
to impose behaviour responses so there is less stress damage when a family suffers
trauma."
 
 

We invite your input on Ricochet responses to family trauma.
 
 

4.b.3)    TIMSHEL  -  The right to make choices:
           Personal Sustainable Development for Children

Suggested  ideas upon which a creative teacher may build a program in Personal
Sustainable Development for Children, which develops their ability to make decisions.

Most of us have been brought up with the knowledge adults make their own choices ~ and
pay the price. Could children not be made aware of this as well?

Even a child could see if he acts in certain ways, things can backfire and cause harm. And also
that he can act in ways that attracts good things ~ even over a period of time.

If a child has the habit of reacting to unpleasant life events in knee-jerk revenge or angry
responses, sparks fly and nasty side-effects flare up all around him. Such action causes
memories that rankle for years.

It is very important for children to have experience in choosing to react well, even in little
things.

It is not so important that one agree with other children all the time. One obeys parents and
teachers. But a child has to be taught it is not required of him to be somebody's victim; that
is o.k. to disagree with a course of action.

What must be let go is the uncontrolled way some children react to the troubles of their lives.
Let us teach them making unproductive choices attracts even more trouble and frustration.
Reacting in inappropriate ways in time of conflict must stop.

Teaching a child how to sustain the development of his own life toward happy solutions calls
for a series of small victories, each one easily achieved.

Perhaps the best place to start is care and management of the child's own room at home,
and his own personal care. Once the child feels he has his personal space just the way he
wants it, he can advance to dealing one by one with family members, later on, school-mates.

Older children could be encouraged to keep a journal about incidents, and how things happened
and were worked out.

Referring back to these records, a child gains a sense of mastery, and quickly builds up finesse
with successful ways and means, good phrases to use and so on.

It won't take long before a child has solid evidence that bad luck and tough breaks were only
wrong moves that could have been avoided.

He'll get the conviction it is not people or "things" that makes him happy. He is making himself
happy ~ it is a state of mind he has created for himself.

This self-improvement journey will sustain him for as long as he uses it, the results to be
enjoyed for ever.
 

4.b.4)    The need to change the "who cares?" attitude in children.

Human beings and other life species need oxygen to live. Trees, plants and growing things
provide oxygen. Therefore we destroy the source of oxygen at our peril.

The above is a vitally important fact. It is very important to have many areas of healthy
green growth. It is not so important that every person owns his own green area.

But what has to go is the "who cares?" attitude which stems from ignorance about the
importance of green growing areas.

Everyone who wants a life has to take responsibility for it.

Russia, particularly, is working on environmental education which is so much fun because
children actually get to conduct experiments on their own, in the wild, that I would like to
collect a body of unusual environmental lesson plans. Interested?
 
 

4.b.5)    Humanistic research needed on the subject of children.

As a former teacher I am convinced children, going into a classroom filled with too
many other children, frantically do whatever they can to attract the adult re-assurance
they crave.

Since they have not yet developed a sense of who they are, what they are, what they
want out of life, they seek personal attention for re-assurance, hugs, verbal "stroking"
in the form of compliments, and concentrated adult individual help with things they
do not understand. Adult company is vital to children. (Even household pets left alone
go a little crazy. Pets need the company of their own species.)

Ignoring these natural needs will cost us dearly, not only in this generation, but in the ones
which follow.

August 1999 Newsletter
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4.    Articles:

        a.    Personal Sustainable Development pathway
                by Germain Dufour
                     1.    Introduction
                     2.    The appalling dilemma of decision-making
                     3.    What is personal sustainable development?
                     4.    What to decide?
                     5.    Spiritual values and survival
                     6.    Old rules to deal with old fears
                     7.    Human conscience
                     8.    What are the universal needs of a family, a community
                     9.    Governments self-serving politics
                     10.   Do laws serve more governments and selected groups than the overall population?
                     11.   Creating a universal code of conduct acceptable to all?
                     12.   The Universal Scale of Values
                     13.   The Glass Bubble Concept of a Global Community and Evolution
                     14.   Teaching children to become self-confident thinkers
                     15.   Is the human race becoming more intuitive or instinctive?
                     16.   Personal sustainable development for children
                     17.    In sustaining the development of your own life

4.    Articles:

a.    Personal Sustainable Development pathway
       by Germain Dufour
1.    Introduction
What do we want from the World Congress?
To plant a seed of conscience: an idea which will sprout and bear fruit.

Seed thought:
Improvement based on conscience is self-improvement which requires discipline to get rid of things that have to go and be replaced by actions that succeed.

Conscience in the minds of children is needed for they will inherit the earth.
The seed planted in the mind of a child will grow along with his children and will see it was good.

Conscience in the mind of an adult:
He realizes his personal life needs changes. He needs self-empowerment...free thought upon which his creativity for a better life will grow.
He will face, and reject all that must go.
He will replace bad habits.
He will meet his needs with self-empowerment.
No one else's.
To empower himself is the first step.

The ultimate war of independence is to decide for yourself
to know what you want
to "own" your life quest outright free and clear of imaginary obligation or laid-on guilt.

A man (a woman) has the right to decide what he will become and must go through his personal clean-up with the aim of becoming: a better person, a better neighbour, a better citizen, and more useful member of his global community.

Every man (woman) must make a personal decision about;
What is most important to me?
What about me deserves to be nurtured?
What is holding me back?
What requires serious attention?
What about me needs "starving out" so good qualities can grow?

Each and everyone of us is part of "a Global Community" wherever we go throughout our life. Personal sustainable development has to do with our behavior within this global community, what we do or dont, cause and effect, and how we interact with someone else global community and, on the planetary scale, with The Global Community. We are constantly required to re-evaluate our values and make decisions. The following is meant to question our ways and behaviors and start a discussion amongst us all about a universal scale of values. A Roundtable Discussion on a Scale of Values has been proposed.

2.    The appalling dilemma of decision-making
Life's major problems make us react ~ and there are myriad possible reactions ~ but to be of a mind-set that allows one to calmly face the problem detached from emotion in order to pick the best solution, may quite possibly be the most powerful tool of any person interested  in personal development.

Human desires, vanities, attachments to family mores, influence these decisions and so they tend to be accurate expressions of each individual's character at that particular time.

Our choice, in the end, is what we want because of what we feel.

This particular assessment of any given situation appears to express  our level of development as a human being devoted to building strong character.

One feels the most honest thing to do is face exactly what is presented on the horns of our dilemma for our choice:~
One solution will satisfy old values . The other will be in accord with new.

As a human, one is challenged - go forward, or not (just yet).

We are endlessly faced with the same choice hidden in endless guises unitl we "get it right."

3.    What is personal sustainable development?
Personal sustainable development has to do with each and everyone of us:

        3.1    being with self-control; eating to accommodate your body's needs and holding hereditary ills in check; maintaining a well working physical vehicle(your body); balancing our life with work, play and rest; feeding our mind and being constantly learning; communicating with others
       3.2    living with the empowerment of free-thought, creativity
       3.3    taking charge of our lives
       3.4    planning for our own future

Everyone has to decide this by himself. Knowing our weaknesses we can work eliminating them or at least making sure they would not affect significantly our decision-making process. It is a struggle that spans our lifetime.

 4.    What to decide?
Once an individual is in control of his own being then he can extend his empowerment out to his global community and The Global Community.

This way each person has to decide what:

    4.1       are the things holding us back and requiring serious attention and how can they be starved-out so good things may grow
    4.2        is most important
    4.3        deserves to be nurtured

At the end each and everyone of us decides what sort of person we want to become. After going through this personal clean-up we become a better citizen, a more sensitive neighbour, a moral responsible father, and a more useful and respected member of The Global Community.

5.    Spiritual values and survival
What conduct is correct if survival is the issue?
In Nature:
Predators are involved in eating other life forms, young of any other species sometimes their own.
In our History:
We have seen cannibalism, murders, wars. Wars have been and are still the most unsustainable action of our species. Wars destroy everything and everyone. Wars satisfy self-interest of a small group of people. Wars keep gun, ship, plane, computer manufacturers and people working with them happy and well fed and give them security for the rest of their lives. Wars are often taken or created in another country by a superpower for the purpose of creating wealth and a healthy economic development in the country of the superpower but completely destroy the country(ies) submitted to the war machine.

Having said that what are spiritual values to sustain life?

6.    Old rules to deal with old fears
Many rules are made to empower the rule-maker only learn to recognize those kind of rules! For they are seldom good for the person who obeys such rules.

Old fears have sometimes to do with family feud over several generations.
Old fears could be:
    6.1    a traditional hatred of people based on religious differences, skin colour, life styles, language differences, inter-marriage
    6.2    suspicious of strangers
    6.3    supertitions
    6.4    inaccurate beliefs due to ignorance
    6.5    inaccurate knowledge and interpretation of a religion

Things to go:
    6.6    Living in the past with old traditions, old wives'wisdom
    6.7    Family beliefs(racism)
    6.8    Old-age values
    6.9    Archaic mores
    6.10    Ghetto-ism
    6.11    Class systems
    6.12    Slavery
    6.13    Cast systems
    6.14    Sweatshops
    6.15    Perversions: child prostitution, child selling, etc.
 

7.    Human conscience
Conscience means human have the knowledge to keep the planet healthy; it is the science of determining right and wrong. In case of the human conscience towards the planet's survival it is:
    7.1    Saving the planet from becoming an uninhabitable place
    7.2    Stopping the planet from becoming an uninhabitable place
Human conscience should prevent the planet from becoming uninhabitable. How much of what we have in spiritual values do we have to leave behind? Old ideas and thoughts, traditions, laws, ways of doing things must be re-evaluated and some left behind.

Human conscience will insist all possible measures be taken to prevent the planet from becoming uninhabitable.

Education is necessary to awaken all people in all countries to the frightening fact that unless we all take responsibility for plant life it will soon become uninhabitable. It will no longer be able to support human life.

The most important factor in human existence is survival. To survive we need oxygen and we need food and shelter. Oxygen is provided by green plants. Therefore, we'd darn well better see we have lots of green growing plants.

Most people nowadays are urban dwellers. Urban people do not know the source of their food. Therefore people have to be taught to protect their food supply.

Things we do in our country can affect people on the other side of the planet. We exchange food with one another; there is a constant exchange of goods, services, manufactured products, basic products, energy, etc. If our manufactured plants produce pollution into theair this will affect food produced South of us.

Self-interest, self-preservation as a species, as peoples and inhabitants of this planet, instinct, are all driving forces of global human consciousness. Global consciousness is about a chain of dependence; everything depends on another form of life for survival like a symbiosis: lifeforms who contribute to the food or well-being of another species.

8.    What are the universal needs of a family, a community
What are real needs? Of whose survival do they depend on? Of what interest?
What is working?
What is missing?
Are there over-supplies of unnecessary things (cars,  ...); too many products?
Is over-automation a cure or is it creating unemployment, human misery, and a new class of people?

There are families all over the world (a few examples here):
    8.1    Canadian family in a small town
    8.2    Nomad family on the Gobe desert
    8.3    New York executive family
    8.4    Aboriginal family in Australia
    8.5    Chinese farmer's family
    8.6    Japanese patters'family
    8.7    English farmer's family
    8.8    Prairie farmer's family
    8.9    African tribes mans'family
    8.10    City peoples'families

All families need shelter, food, parents, children, language, body of knowledge, certain skills, a source of income, etc.

There are interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood, parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each must have an educational program (parents to children type, school, college, university, etc.).

It is important to have a home-base (for a sense of security), a house, a campsite in the bushes (for nomades).
 
 

9.   Governments self-serving politics
Governments self-serving politics should be investigated with respect to:
    9.1    Over-government(too many rulers)
    9.2    Over-taxing
    9.3    Over-paid politicians
    9.4    Too much power given to rulers and/or dictators of all kinds
 

10.   Do laws serve more governments and selected groups than the overall population?
The criminal system needs investigating to be in step with the times, and it should be based on needs of people rather than dictate through laws.

Could we create a universal law system to work and be applicable in all countries?
 

11.   Creating a universal code of conduct acceptable to all?
Such code would include many aspects: intermarriages, colour barriers, language barriers, respect between one another; etc.
 

12.   The Universal Scale of Values
We have no intention of imposing a scale of values. It has to be developed by us all.

The special factor in the work of those submitting papers to the World Congress is that all are evaluating impacts with respect to four interacting concerns (people's lives, resources, economic development and the environment) based on a new scale of values. The scale of values is about establishingwhat is very important to ensure a sound future for Earth, and to keep our planet healthy,  productive and hospitable for all people and living things, what is important, what is not so important, and what should be let go. From this scale, agreed upon by all members of TheGlobal Community, the assessment of sustainable development can be conducted. The benchmark is the scale established in year 2000 along with the first evaluation of sustainable development conducted with respect to the four levels.

 Their work will show how their field of interest influences all four interacting areas of concerns and they will develop policies (workable sound solutions) to submit to The Global Community.

The material sent so far is remarkable and original. All abstracts will appear in the Preliminary Program to be published in February 2000.

The effects of climate changes will certainly be a major issue. New ideas about energy and environmental accounting will also be discussed. However, your creative thinking is paramount. We do not dictate what to do. It's new ways of thinking that is important at the World Congress.

New standards, goals and objectives have to be defined. Firm universal guidelines are essentials in keeping the world healthy. Already we notice throughout the world  new ways of thinking being embraced, new behaviors and attitudes adopted. Sound workable solutions to all our problems will have to be researched and developed and made available to everyone on the Internet. This is la raison d?être  of The Global Community organization.

The aim of The Global Community is to give people an opportunity to meet, encourage and advise one another about original ways to best harmonize impacts upon

 We must abandon ideas and old ways which have not worked well, including traditional ways that have simply become habits. Getting rich at the expense of everyone else is no longer acceptable. Over the decades, history has proven projects and actions which ignored everything except a special interest have resulted in ultimate failure and human misery.

 The Global Community aims to establish a UNIVERSAL BENCHMARK for the 21st Century made up of a Scale of Values for sustainable development based on universal indicators.

 All members will assess and agree upon this scale.

 Your input is vital. We need to hear your voice in these matters. Every country must be heard from to arrive at a workable universal scale of values.

In this Newsletter we are exploring the issue of Personal Sustainable Development and, of course, all other issues have to be explored in a similar fashion.

For example:
Human beings and other life species need oxygen to live. Trees, plants and growing things
provide oxygen. Therefore we destroy the source of oxygen at our peril.

The above is a vitally important fact. It is very important to have many areas of healthy
green growth. It is not so important that every person owns his own green area.

But what has to go is the "who cares?" attitude which stems from ignorance about the
importance of green growing areas.

In other words, everyone who wants a life has to take responsibility for it.
 

13.   The Glass Bubble Concept of a Global Community and Evolution
This is an exercise in creative thinking designed to occur over a period of weeks.

Aim:    To explore how vital is the food we eat to survival as a species and wherein lies a great danger in climate change, which we are unable  to control.

Area of Exploration (pick one): Wild horses,    Bears,      Apes.

Experiencing Exercise

Using evolution-of-species charts, maps of continental drift and records of climate over the ages examine the evolutionary changes in your chosen species, imagining the glass bubbles, or global communities in which they lived at each stage of development.

Consider climate, food supply, possible life hazards.

Use your imagination to pretend you are actually inside that glass bubble, that global community, with your selected species. Feel the situation. Respond to the need of your species. Understand what makes things happen.

*    Describe why major physical changes came to the body of your chosen species over time, even causing sub-species.

*    Clarify how climate changes caused the need for a different kind of food, and illustrate how the body adapted and changed in certain areas to accommodate the new food, new location, new climate. Document how life-styles changed and sub-species developed over the ages.

*    Record the special skills in survival, collection of food, dealing with danger, of the various sub-species as evolution occured in its different branches of the family tree.

Bringing the new knowledge home to see how it fits in our lives as well.

You are in your private glass bubble, the global community in which you live every day.
Changes have come to your environment:
-    Temperatures have shot up 10% and stayed there.
-    There is no place for the water to drain off, and the rain falls every day.

Suppose the climate change in our imaginary scenario persisted.

How might the human species evolve over the next 10,000 years?

Create a class project

Make a panoramic model of a global community with evolved humans, who have survived the heat and the water. Show all the likely adaptations they would make. Record other life-style changes including food.

Students taking part in such a study are quite likely to internalize the following basic truths:

14.   Teaching children to become self-confident thinkers
Could this be the subject of a Roundtable Discussion during the World Congress?
What makes children unable to think for themselves?
Rules?
Bossy parents?
Fear of adults?
Electronic media?
 

15.   Is the human race becoming more intuitive or instinctive?
Being intuitive means we know things without knowing "how we know."
How much information children/grown-ups pass information intuitively?

Examine this:
posture, body language, kind of movement made (a happy walk,shoulder back, eye expression, etc.), a mood is set and seen; we get a feeling from that person (that person is sending off vibrations, energy, waves, and we perceive this mood or wave).

Children in a school yard are much more intuitive than grown-ups.
 

16.   Personal sustainable development for children
"The body is the horse the soul rides on ~ you dont get far on a sick horse."

There are a number of ideas to keep a child's development sustainable:

    16.1    Eating for power: combinations of foods that create vitality and health.
    16.2    Making good things to eat: simple meals children can make for themselves.
    16.3    Where good food comes from: individual garden plots at school growing food that keeps them strong and healthy. Community effort is necessary to make this work ~ gardens grow during summer holidays. They need constant care.
    16.4    Developing the perfectly healthy body: games and exercises, activities that develop a great body(swimming, skating, skiing, roller-blading, etc.)
    16.5    Developing an open mind: ideas, concepts, attitudes that have proven to work well in foreign societies as well as our own.
    16.6    How learning works:  how to study, how to memorize, how to think, logic. Finding "best ways" to do things, workable sound solutions.
    16.7    Children have to learn to become problem solvers as they will be facing global problems on a daily basis.
    16.8    How kindness works: how people react; cause and effect of action; living smoothly.
    16.9    What is happiness: LOVE is a verb; one does nice things for others.
 
 

Suggested  ideas upon which a creative teacher may build a program in Personal
Sustainable Development for Children, which develops their ability to make decisions.

Most of us have been brought up with the knowledge adults make their own choices ~ and
pay the price. Could children not be made aware of this as well?

Even a child could see if he acts in certain ways, things can backfire and cause harm. And also
that he can act in ways that attracts good things ~ even over a period of time.

If a child has the habit of reacting to unpleasant life events in knee-jerk revenge or angry
responses, sparks fly and nasty side-effects flare up all around him. Such action causes
memories that rankle for years.

It is very important for children to have experience in choosing to react well, even in little
things.

It is not so important that one agree with other children all the time. One obeys parents and
teachers. But a child has to be taught it is not required of him to be somebody's victim; that
is o.k. to disagree with a course of action.

What must be let go is the uncontrolled way some children react to the troubles of their lives.
Let us teach them making unproductive choices attracts even more trouble and frustration.
Reacting in inappropriate ways in time of conflict must stop.

Teaching a child how to sustain the development of his own life toward happy solutions calls
for a series of small victories, each one easily achieved.

Perhaps the best place to start is care and management of the child's own room at home,
and his own personal care. Once the child feels he has his personal space just the way he
wants it, he can advance to dealing one by one with family members, later on, school-mates.

Older children could be encouraged to keep a journal about incidents, and how things happened
and were worked out.

Referring back to these records, a child gains a sense of mastery, and quickly builds up finesse
with successful ways and means, good phrases to use and so on.

It won't take long before a child has solid evidence that bad luck and tough breaks were only
wrong moves that could have been avoided.

He'll get the conviction it is not people or "things" that makes him happy. He is making himself
happy ~ it is a state of mind he has created for himself.

This self-improvement journey will sustain him for as long as he uses it, the results to be
enjoyed for ever.
 
 
 
 

17.    In sustaining the development of your own life
If making these ideas on personal sustainable development a natural pattern for your life, you may quickly internalize them by starting to practice them
                        17.1    in your own room
                        17.2    in your own family
                        17.3    with your own friends
                        17.4    in your own Global Community

Try them out. Keep a journal and refer back to the results occasionally. Record whose welfare you were considering as well as your own when you came to a decision how to act. Soon you will find ways to "finesse" your behaviour, phrases that work. Actions that pays off in a good way.

You will realize what you had formerly considered "back luck", or "tough breaks" now has an entirely new explanation and, best of all, YOU are in control of you. Besides, others like you better. You like yourself better too.

Worth a try?


November 1999 Newsletter
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12.    Articles

        a.    To-day's children evoke a VISION of new millennium, by Virginia Dufour, retired teacher
        b.   The Personal Sustainable Development pathway for children, by Germain Dufour, Physicist
        c.   The Personal Sustainable Development pathway for an adult, by Germain Dufour, Physicist
        d.   Globalization  vs  The Global Community Concepts and its Organization, by Germain Dufour, Physicist

12.    Articles

12 a. To-day's children evoke a VISION of new millennium,
         by Virginia Dufour, retired teacher

With the advance of a new millennium one tends to dream of a new Eden.

The signals of what the world could become are already apparent in the life-style of to-day's children.

From babyhood our little ones have been privileged to enjoy group activities. They develop a circle of friends from many ethnic backgrounds, boys and girls together. They learn consideration for others early on, the rewards of sharing, and a special code of conduct necessary for a group to function as an harmonious whole.

By the time our children have become teen-agers the group of friends has virtually replaced the family unit in importance. It is most apparent in High School years. As they enter University the group of friends has solidified to the point where a group-home will be rented, all sharing the cost.

These young people habitually hold two or three part-time jobs, or engage in some entrepreneural activity, for money is regarded as the energy source for their way of life.

They spend their extra money investing in the money-market ~ even real estate. They finance their own educations for they are keenly aware they go nowhere if they are not intellectually prepared.

Freedom of lifestyle is more important to them then mounds of possessions. These young people are not trapped by "things" although they own the best of sports equipment and outdoor clothing, being very health conscious. They eat very well.

All of their lives they have been educated by osmosis through T.V., movies, computers, and on another level by enlightened teachers in sophisticated educational settings. They drive cars, some fly planes, all use machines of every kind every day. And all of these things, in conjunction with the close security of the group of friends, lays the ground work for a new life-style, this new world just beginning, in the care of these brave new souls.

And what a great, wide, wonderful world they have upon which to lavish their uninhibited imaginations!

Being outdoors-aware, these young people will be focusing on the air we breathe, the water we drink. Few of them really know where their food comes from for all their lives they have bought food in boxes from stores. They will have to address food supply ~ perhaps influenced by the food prepared for astronauts, but it will be health conscious food, with low preparation time.

Food was bountiful in the original Eden. It is hoped in the new Eden everybody will have enough to eat. Unfortunately, today, starvation in some countries forces people to kill and eat their animals. This means rare species have to be herded into safe areas to avoid extinction. Even oceans are filthy. Some people wonder if the giant world-wide business conglomarates, who have made so many marvellous philanthropic gifts to the world, will take it upon themselves to help the starving in an intelligent manner. Globalization could become the "god who will provide"!

The young adults in charge of our new Eden will benefit from the popularity of small businesses cropping up. It is to be expected they will have re-acted to the businesses in the past whose job-security plan was built on products with built in obsolescence, and the creation of one of our major new industries to-day-waste control! Garbage makes a lot of money! Our young people will be the first to grasp that fact! It will pay them handsomely not to allow this "creative energy" to escape their grasp!

Most of us are somewhat aware we have to unload. It is necessary to follow the job market at the first opportunity. Possessions are costly to buy, but far more costly to move across country. The result is Thrift Stores flourish and bulge at the seams! Department stores have empty aisles. Our new generation already exhibits the inner awareness: less is more.

Living with a group of friends in a Space Age may involved jobs in Space. Take Tourism for example. The Tourist Trade is making a very clear statement about its future ~ at present the practice is to take customers to all the remaining unique cultural outposts for the picturesque experiences ~ but since the aboriginal people who live there tend to ape their viewers with such alarming speed, soon the only place Tourism can advertise is Outer Space!

And if our group of friends work in Space their human mating practices will have to change to deal with extended periods away from Earth.

Furthermore, their children may be born in a gravity free environment. Will these babies have to be especially genetically altered to survive?

One very re-assuring fact is that the young people of to-day are interested in all the secret wisdom behind all the existing religions and sifting out the common truths. They seek the best of the best.

Their childhood conditioning has prepared them to act on a firm understanding of what it takes to get along with others, working as a group.

They are educated to understand a broad panorama of human truths ~ all those universal needs and rights every one shares.

They see money for what it is - energy to use for good.

Their idea of power is power over Self.

Each and every Self is dedicated to an idea for good that others can share together in creating this new Eden.

What we have here is the birth of genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour which could well change the functioning of global communities everywhere.
 

12 b.    The Personal Sustainable Development pathway for  children,
            by Germain Dufour, Physicist

Improvement based on conscience is self-improvement which requires discipline to get rid of things that have to go because the results are negative and be replaced by actions that succeed because the results are positive.

Conscience in the minds of children is needed for they will inherit the earth.
The seed planted in the mind of a child will grow and when he has children they will see it was good.

"The body is the horse the soul rides on ~ you don't get far on a sick horse."

There are a number of ideas to keep a child's development sustainable:

    *  Eating for power: combinations of foods that create vitality and health.
    *    Teaching your child how to make good things for himself.
    *    Making good things to eat: simple meals children can make for themselves.
    *    Let your child know where food comes from ~ the labour required to get food; give him personal experience in the growing of edible food by means of  individual garden plots at school growing food that keeps them strong and healthy. Community effort is necessary to make this work ~ gardens grow during summer holidays. They need constant care.
    *    Developing the perfectly healthy body: games and exercises, activities that develop a great body(swimming, skating, skiing, roller-blading, etc.)
    *    Developing an open mind: ideas, concepts, attitudes that have proven to work well in foreign societies as well as our own.
    *    How learning works:  how to study, how to memorize, how to think, logic. Finding "best ways" to do things, workable sound solutions.
    *    Children have to learn to become problem solvers as they will be facing global problems on a daily basis. Give them confidence in problem solving.
    *    How kindness works: how people react; cause and effect of action; living smoothly.
    *   What is happiness: LOVE is a verb; one does nice things for others. It is not enough to just say "I love you."
    *    Build a program to develop the ability of the children to make decisions.

Most of us have been brought up with the knowledge adults make their own choices ~ and
pay the price. Could children not be made aware of this as well?

Even a child can see if he acts in certain ways, things can backfire and cause harm. And also
that he can act in ways that attracts good things ~ even over a period of time.

If a child has the habit of reacting to unpleasant life events in knee-jerk revenge or angry
responses, sparks fly and nasty side-effects flare up all around him. Such action causes
memories that rankle for years. Children need to be aware of this. It is one of Nature's Laws.

It is very important for children to have experience in choosing to react well, even in little
things.

It is not so important that one agree with other children all the time. One obeys parents and
teachers. But a child has to be taught it is not required of him to be somebody's victim; that
is o.k. to disagree with a course of action.

What must be let go is the uncontrolled way some children react to the troubles of their lives.
Let us teach them making unproductive choices attracts even more trouble and frustration.
Reacting in inappropriate ways in time of conflict must stop.

Teaching a child how to sustain the development of his own life toward happy solutions calls for a series of small victories, each one easily achieved.

Perhaps the best place to start is care and management of the child's own room at home, and his own personal care. Personal experience will teach him a sense of order affects his life for good in all ways. Once the child feels he has his personal space in good control, he can advance to dealing with problems with family members, later on, school-mates.

Older children could be encouraged to keep a journal about incidents, and how things happened
and were worked out.

Referring back to these records, a child gains a sense of mastery, and quickly builds up finesse
with successful ways and means, good phrases to use and so on.

It won't take long before a child has solid evidence that bad luck and tough breaks were only
wrong moves that could have been avoided.

He'll get the conviction it is not people or "things" that makes him happy. He is making himself
happy ~ it is a state of mind he has created for himself.

This self-improvement journey will sustain him for as long as he uses it, the results to be
enjoyed for ever.
 

12 c.    The Personal Sustainable Development pathway for an adult,
            by Germain Dufour, Physicist

Conscience in the mind of an adult:

He realizes his personal life needs changes.
He needs self-empowerment...free thought upon which his creativity for a better life will grow.
He will face, and reject all that must go.
He will replace bad habits.
He will meet his needs with self-empowerment.
No one else's.
To empower himself is the first step.

The ultimate war of independence is to decide for yourself
what you want
to "own" your life quest outright free and clear of imaginary obligation or laid-on guilt.

A man (a woman) has the right to decide what he will become and must  his own personal clean-up with the aim of becoming: a better person, a better neighbour, a better citizen, and more useful member of his global community.

Every man (woman) must make a personal decision about:

What is most important to me?
What about me deserves to be nurtured?
What is holding me back?
What requires serious attention?
What about me needs "starving out" so good qualities can grow?

Each and everyone of us is part of "a Global Community" wherever we go throughout our life. Personal sustainable development has to do with our behavior within this global community, what we do or dont, cause and effect, and how we interact with someone else's global community and, on the planetary scale, with The Global Community. We are constantly required to re-evaluate our values and make decisions. The following is meant to question our ways and behaviors and start a discussion amongst us all about a universal scale of values. A Roundtable Discussion on a Scale of Values has been proposed.

Life's major problems make us react ~ and there are myriad possible reactions ~ but to be of a mind-set that allows one to calmly face the problem detached from emotion in order to pick the best solution, may quite possibly be the most powerful tool of any person interested  in personal development.

Human desires, vanities, attachments to family mores, influence these decisions and so they tend to be accurate expressions of each individual's character at that particular time, at that age in his life. These tend to constantly change as we frow in expereince.

Our choice, in the end, is what we want because of what we feel.

This particular assessment of any given situation appears to express  our level of development as a human being devoted to building strong character.

One feels the most honest thing to do is face exactly what is presented on the horns of our dilemma:

One solution will satisfy old values. The other will be in accord with new. Make a choice!

As a human, one is constantly challenged - go forward, or not - just yet! Are you ready for it?

We are endlessly faced with the same choice hidden in endless guises until we "get it right."
 

Personal sustainable development has to do with each and everyone of us:

      *  being with self-control; eating to accommodate your body's needs and holding hereditary ills in check; maintaining a well working physical vehicle(your body); balancing our life with work, play and rest; feeding our mind and being constantly learning; communicating with others
      *    living with the empowerment of free-thought, creativity
      *    taking charge of our lives
      *   planning for our own future

Everyone has to decide this by himself. Knowing our weaknesses we can work at eliminating them or at least making sure they would not affect significantly our decision-making process. It is a struggle that spans our lifetime.

Once an individual is in control of his own being then he can extend his empowerment out to his global community and The Global Community.

This way each person has to decide:

   *      what are the things holding him back and requiring serious attention and how can they be starved-out so good things may grow
   *        what is most important
   *        what deserves to be nurtured

At the end each and everyone of us decides what sort of person we want to become. After going through this personal clean-up a person becomes a better citizen, a more sensitive neighbour, a moral responsible father, and a more useful and respected member of The Global Community.
 
 
 

12 d.    Globalization  vs The Global Community concepts and its organization,
          by Germain Dufour, Physicist
 
 

The concept of "a Global Community" gives back control on our lives to each one of us. We all have a say about what we want. We feel alive and responsible. We are moral individuals with a conscience but we also belong to The Global Community. We have an identity, a meaning, a part to play in the world.

One tends to be alarmed at the popular concept of globalization because  it is based on greed. Globalization is here to stay and is a fact of life. The world has become global. Societies throughout the world are struggling to be in step with the most powerful nations. National economies and financial markets are connected through computer link-up and are interlocked. Commercial banking and business ownership has no economic or political borders. Because of the dynamic of trade in goods and services and because of the movement in capital and technology, production in different countries has become increasingly dependent on one another.

In consequence of globalization, the new economic and political distribution of power around the world has become very different then we were used to. It has become very fluid, in perpetual motion and affected by global markets. Giant new markets are forming all over the world. Competition is hardening. National economies can no longer insure or guarantee rights of possession on any property. National borders no longer mean protection, security, cultural boundaries, resources ownership, political and economic control.

International market regulations try to control or ease the effects of globalization. The effects are often devastating. With globalization comes global problems such as:

    *    unemployment in industrial nations
    *    poverty increases world-wide ~ entire countries in a state of starvation
    *    environmental degradation
    *    national interests of a country changing and becoming more trade oriented and trying to go with the wave of global trade
    *    international interests of a country take prime importance
    *    in developing countries, national debts constrict the institutions of the national state and contribute to the destruction of the economic activity which, in turn, as the effect of creating unemployment
    *    national currencies of many countries are affected by national debts and contribute in destroying social life, creating ethnic conflicts and civil wars
    *   the large corporation is becoming larger and getting more power and control falls into the hands of a few people
    *   globalization is another way of keeping control on our lives in the hands of a few people
    *   with globalization, we have no control and no say in our future and the world becomes a game played by a few people just as it has alway been through history, leading to revolutions and war
    *   with globalization there is no sense of direction and meaning, no security for the individual, just a few people getting richer and controlling us all

Human conscience will insist all possible measures be taken to prevent the planet from becoming uninhabitable. Globalization has the effect of a giant tidal wave on all our values. The Global Community organization has the task of proposing to the world a new system of values.

Human conscience means humans have the knowledge to keep the planet healthy; it is the science of determining right and wrong. In case of the planet's survival it is:
  *   Saving one's own country from becoming an uninhabitable place
  *   Stopping the planet from becoming an uninhabitable place

Human conscience can prevent the planet from becoming uninhabitable. The need to survive can put checks and balances  on the rampantglobalization effects already raging like a virus in our world.

To survive what must be re-thought? Old ideas and values, traditions, laws, ways of doing things must be re-evaluated and some left behind.

It's your life at stake here. Your life and the lives of your children ~ there is no such thing as you taking a Spectator Sport position in the grandstands, enjoying the happenings of the time with detachment and amusement!

Men have the right to be able to provide for their families. We can help the Planet recover from wanton destruction. We can control the resources of our world with good sense. Greed and power of the few can be replaced by Community Conscience and the desperate will to survive!!

The choice is simple survival:

*    every man has the right to be able to provide for his family
*    people have the right to food
*    children have the right to be educated
*    the world has a right to clean healthy fields, streams, meadows and mountains, water and breathable air
*    resources can be helped to last indefinitely

Actions by groups that lead to revolution and war must be curtailed. Power based on greed is not in the best interest of humanity.