I was watching Barack Obama on television a couple of weeks back. He talked about moving the political discussion from “divisive politics” to a more “civil politics”. He shared that partisan politics is getting in the way of real progress. I profoundly agree with him.

This got me thinking . . . Imagine what our world looks like, deeply consider how it feels, when we go one step further and remove all division and separation from politics and worldly living, when collective consciousness has shifted and we know ourselves to be One with God, humanity and all of life, when we see this is a precise description of reality. Imagine how it feels when we see God’s presence, the sacred and divine, in everyone and in everything and we treat people this way.

As I imagine walking down the street, this is how it feels to me — we will experience a deep love and empathy for each person we encounter and the world around us. We will share and we will appreciate. We’ll realize we are always looking at parts of God when we look out in the world. God is love, truth, joy, equality, acceptance, gratitude, innocence, and blessing so our hearts will merge with all we see and meet. We’ll see there is no separation between our mental, emotional and spiritual selves [with a little practice we can feel each other's mental and emotional energy]. Of course, we’ll see our individual physical bodies but we will not confuse this with real separation. We’ll see this for what it is: diversity in Oneness expressing and opportunity for physical connection from something as simple as a hug or kiss to something as elegant as making love. Cynical attitudes and judgments will be discarded. Prejudice based on race, culture, gender, faith tradition and sexual orientation will be impossible because no part of God can “have it wrong.” Outdated attitudes and orientations will be left behind like a chrysalis as we move into butterfly states.

We’ll see our daily life and living as an invitation to be in relationship with each other we encounter. Our primary concern will be how we nurture, love, and support the other. Of course, we’ll notice how others treat us and we’ll put energy into creating functional and loving relationships when they are dysfunctional but our primary concern will be with our own thoughts, words and actions. Are we coming from integrity? Are we being loving? Are we helping in ways we can?

Partnership relationships will have special place. Creatively loving the partner will be something delicious. Checking in with the other, offering assistance, sharing a complement, and planning the unusual will be staples in our daily relationship. Creating deep relationships with fantastic intimacy and real freedom will be the norm. We will become conscious of Self rather than Self conscious. Sexual expression will be unbounded. Deep love, imagination and creativity will create sparks…melting bodies together. Gone will be the stale, tired, worn-out sexual patterns that are commonplace today.

Everything will change. Our cultural story will come alive with new power and purpose. We will understand the invitation in life is to love and nurture each person in our life and all the life we come in contact with. We will enjoy creative new possibilities…manifesting health, loving relationships and abundance in all its various forms. Passion will come back into education, deep connection will accompany our interaction with the outdoors and environment, integrity and collective well-being will come back into politics, and so much more! We will see new possibilities and dream new dreams!

We in Humanity’s Team are creating this world today. Many of us will live to see it and feel it because we have collectively called forth this shift. The world is changing little by little, day by day. We will reach a “tipping point” within a generation. If this feels unrealistic and outrageous, please carefully consider the reality we know to be true. We are all part of God today. We have inherited God’s deep love, God’s creativity, God’s imagination and God’s eternal nature. The question is not, “how can we create this new world in a generation?” The world is as it is but most are asleep. The question is, “why are we living as though we are merely physical bodies limited in most ways when we know this is not true?” How long can the game go on? It must end and it will end — in our lifetime!

THANKS for being part of this fantastic journey – awakening humanity to Who We Really Are!!

All my love,
Steve Farrell, Worldwide Coordinating Director, Humanity’s Team

Archbishop Tutu Signs Humanity's Team Oneness Petition

Desmond Tutu to Receive Spiritual Leadership Award

PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ — South African Desmond Tutu will receive an international award recognizing his “vision, understanding and building of bridges,” a global spiritual group said.

The Nobel Peace laureate and retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town will receive the Spiritual Leadership Award from Humanity’s Team, a global movement “awakening the world to oneness,” the group said.

Tutu — who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid and brought reconciliation to South Africa’s people a decade later — will receive Humanity’s Team’s highest honor April 18 at the movement’s 2009 global Oneness Summit in Pretoria, South Africa, said the group, based in Boulder, Colorado.

The summit will focus on oneness, especially as expressed in the southern African ethic of “ubuntu,” which means, “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

“Archbishop Tutu has dedicated his life to solving some of the world’s most insurmountable challenges with vision, understanding and building of bridges,” Humanity’s Team Worldwide Coordinating Director Steve Farrell said.

“He embodies many of humanity’s greatest visions of spiritual courage — of ubuntu — and is now an icon of hope far beyond South Africa,” Farrell said. “We consider it a great privilege to give this award to this spiritual leader and we are extremely honored he has agreed to accept it.”

Tutu, 77, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said he was “deeply grateful” to receive the Humanity’s Team honor, which has become the standard among global awards for extraordinary expressions of inclusive visionary spiritual leadership through one’s life lived.

In support of the movement’s oneness vision, he signed a Humanity’s Team petition asking the United Nations to declare an annual global Oneness Day.

“We must recognize our common humanity — that we are all one, that our destinies are bound up in another’s, that I need you for me to be me and that we complement each other as essential parts of a greater whole,” Tutu said.

“If we could but recognize this fundamental law of our being, then we would create a glorious world in which all of us live harmoniously together as members of one human family, God’s family,” Tutu said, echoing a statement from his “God Has a Dream.”

“Life would truly be ‘on Earth as it is in heaven,’” he said. “God’s dream would become a reality.”

To learn more about the award, the petition and the Oneness Summit, visit http://www.humanitysteam.org.

United Press International has published press release.  Go to: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/10/Tutu_signs_appeal_seeking_UN_Oneness_Day/UPI-58711234284241/

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu signs a Humanity’s Team petition at his office in Cape Town, South Africa, asking the United Nations to declare an annual global Oneness Day. – http://www.ereleases.com/pr/2009-Tutu-Photo1.jpg

Anna-Mari Pieterse, Humanity’s Team South Africa coordinator, Oneness Summit principal organizer and Oneness Day Petition coordinator, presents a copy of the Oneness Declaration to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his office in Cape Town, South Africa. Humanity’s Team plans to present the declaration and a petition with at least 50,000 signatures to the United Nations urging the world body to declare an annual global Oneness Day. – http://www.ereleases.com/pr/2009-Tutu-Photo2.jpg

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