Declaration of Humanity

[Charlotte Gilruth]

DECLARATION OF HUMANITY
October 11, 2001

Since the shocking events of September 11, and the cascade of reactions and
responses that have followed, people everywhere have been asking, "What can
I do? How can I possibly make a difference in this complex and volatile
situation?"

Perhaps what we can do - as a beginning - is to join together on behalf of
humanity in a simple Declaration:

* We shall peacefully and lovingly bring to an end human want, violence,
war, hatred, crime, hunger, poverty, disease, and inequitable distribution
of prosperity.

* We shall accept responsibility for the evolution of life and
consciousness on our planet.

* We shall restore, protect, and nurture Earth's ecosystems.

* We shall meet our material and energy requirements without diminishing
natural or human resources.

* We shall heal our hearts, our minds, and our bodies - individually and
collectively.

* We shall heal our relationships with one another, with the Earth, and
with the Cosmos.

* We shall be one united people, the sovereign people of Earth.

* We shall live in harmony with one another and with all other species of
intelligent life that we encounter.

* We shall learn to balance within ourselves the material and the spiritual
realms.

* We shall consciously evolve as a species, continually enhancing our
intelligence, our creativity, our ethics, our compassion, our love, our
wisdom, and our Knowledge.

* We shall successfully pass through our current evolutionary threshold and
those that await us in the future.

* We shall vigorously protect, defend, and nurture the sovereignty and
freedom of our people and our world.

* We shall respect, honor, and support the sovereignty and freedom of all
sentient species we encounter.

* We shall responsibly venture beyond our home planet.

* We shall be conscientious participants in and generous contributors to
the Greater Community of the Universe.

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To join those who are discussing and adopting this Declaration, respond to
this message via e-mail (addressed to declaration@yahoogroups.com), or
visit the Declaration of Humanity website
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/declaration). Please be sure to include any
statement you would like to add, along with relevant information about
yourself. Also, please forward this Declaration to everyone you feel may
resonate with it.