The following is the seed for a new activity that we call Building the Foundations. The intent here is to get some common understanding of what is needed for the foundations of a new society or community, then to start making commitments to take action to make it so. Our hope is that by planting the seed NOW, it will have time to grow into a tree and bear fruit by the time harvest comes in the Fall. Yes, our time horizon is that close. We choose to make 1997 a Year of Manifestation. Please join with us in this bold new adventure.

New submissions should include:

VISION OF COMMUNITY

The overall VISION is to build a world where people are much more elegantly applied to meet the needs of humanity for goods and services in a manner that also allows us to meet our obligation as stewards of the Earth. People will get more of their needs met sooner and will enjoy what the do because it is in line with their talents and abilities. Further no ones talents and abilities will be wasted. People will cooperate in activities and lessons learned will be made available to others to prevent making mistakes over and over. Overall, humanity will progress quickly and souls will be as fully enfleshed as is possible at this time on this planet. Under these conditions, there is no telling what can be accomplished how quickly.

For background, see Chapter 2 of Beyond Imagination book.

Declaration of Cooperative Interdependence

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all souls are created equal, that we must through determined action create the conditions that allow souls to be fully expressed in flesh, that cosmic consciousness must be expressed in a physical vehicle to enable souls to be fully expressed in flesh, that individuals form the cells of the physical vehicle required by cosmic consciousness, and that only by establishing a cooperatively interdependent society will cosmic consciousness have the vehicle it needs to be embodied on Earth.

Further we freely choose to declare our cooperative interdependence to allow for the creation of this physical vehicle for cosmic consciousness to be put into motion. To achieve this end, we establish the following contract between and among us:

• From each individual according to that individual's purpose and abilities,
  to each individual according to that individual's needs and desires.

• Always we act in peace and harmony, and as true brethren.

We are all One People

We realize that we are all one people, that whatever happens to any one of us happens to all of us. We choose to treat one another with dignity and respect, and to assist and help one another when in need. Further, we choose to live in peace and harmony, resolving any and all conflicts among us in ways that are peaceful and just. We call to cosmic consciousness to assist and guide in our endeavor so that the vehicle for the expression of the ONE can be created in the most effective and expeditious manner possible so that the Age of Aquarius can be brought forth with the least turmoil and suffering to our fellow beings.