Off topic or perhaps not?

[Guest guest]

I heard this lecture awhile back and found it interesting, so thought i

would share it. " How can individuals and small groups make a

difference. Synthesised by Dr.Stephen Swartz from Quaker and Sufi

studies of social change. The Quakers are .0008 percent of the religious

population in the US, yet most social change has come from this small

group says Swartz.

 

The Eight Laws of Social Change.

 

 

1. The individuals individually and the group collectively must share a

common intention, with common ideas and purposes. (Learning how to

communicated, compromise, tolerate, etc.)

 

2. Individuals and group may have goals but may not have cherished

outcome. ( You can have a goal, but you cannot have a cherished outcome

as to how it is suppose to happen. It must be fluid as to not restrict

the group and individuals from uniquely expressing itself with the

Divine mechanism.)

 

3. Individuals in the group must accept that the desired results may not

happen in this lifetime and for that to be okay. (Patience)

 

4. Individuals in the group must accept that they may not get credit or

even be acknowledged for what they have done, and for that to be okay.

(Submission of the ego) He tells a story about a man from England that

won the Nobel Peace Prize and no one in his community knew that he had

been a recipient until his death and it came out in the obituaries from

the Nobel committee in another country.

 

5. Each person in the group, no matter the gender, race, or nationality

must be granted equality even as the various roles and responsibilities

of the hierarchy are respected and assumed. ( All are equal and all must

also respect that all have different jobs and skills. There has to be

those with organizational roles and responsibility or it will become

dysfunctional, yet there is absolute equality of personhood.)

 

6. Each person in the group my forswear violence; by word, deed, and

even thought. ( Must live lives of act affirming consciousness . )

 

7. The individuals in the group must make their private selves

consistent with their outwards postures. ( Must walk talk or the

individual will implode, and this will destroy the greater whole. )

 

8. The individuals in the group, and the group collectively must act

from life affirming integrity.( All life is interconnected and

interdependent. We are all in this together. We are not free until all

are free.)

 

He says it is the little things that we do individually the effects the

change. It is the choices of what kinds of foods we eat, the products we

buy, and where we put energy, intention, and resources on a minute to

minute basis.