Now Congress has passed a law that has some chilling potential negative effects on the Bill of Rights. As readers know, NPD focuses on new paradigm solutions and, we also have a responsibility to inform readers about challenges to our Constitutional freedoms. Some might say this seems overblown but its definitely worth understanding the issues so we can each decide what, if any, actions we may choose to take.

To watch an eye opening EnviroNews feature story on this issue, click on the link below.

http://environews.tv/congress-votes-with-senate-to-end-the-us-constitution

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to colleagues to enlist support for his dramatic, new, concrete plan to get Americans working again, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and regain control of our monetary policy from private banks to promote the public interest.  “It is time to get real about creating jobs.  Not just talk about it.  But come up with real, concrete proposals which can put America back to work,” he said.  Kucinich is planning to introduce the National Emergency Employment Defense Act later this year.

Dear Colleague:

Our nation is in crisis.  The economy is still on the edge of a precipice.  The old ways aren’t working and won’t work.  We can’t continue down the road that takes us deeper into debt and despair.  There is a way out.

That is why I am introducing The National Emergency Employment Defense (NEED) Act of 2011.  It will end the debt.  It will rebuild America.  It will make the American Dream a reality for everyone; for today’s generation and for the generations to come.  It gives our youth unrivaled career opportunities.

The NEED Act assures a sustainable fiscal path.  It can reduce deficits to nothing, without tax hikes, spending cuts, or inflation.  And it will pay off the national debt as it comes due.  My legislation can end the recession, unemployment and the foreclosure crisis.

The Constitution vests the power over money with Congress.  Congress gives this power to the banks.  In the last 10 years, banks have added an average of $500 billion to the money supply per year.  This is a huge amount of power that Congress has given away.

The banks have shown that they’re incapable of using this power responsibly, or in the widest economic interest.  Instead they’ve wasted most of it by pumping it into a series of unproductive bubbles.  The loss to the nation is truly enormous, especially considering the opportunity cost of the real wealth that could be created with first use of that money.

My bill reasserts the Constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to furnish the nation with a money supply fit for purpose.  No more wild swings from economic boom to bust.  No more erosion of purchasing power.  We can at last have a stable currency. To do this is surprisingly simple.  My legislation does three things:

·   Incorporate the Fed into the Treasury and make monetary policy truly accountable to the Congress and the American people.

·   End the banks special privilege by no longer allowing them to create our money supply when they make loans, through a simple and non-disruptive accounting change.

·   Invest money into renewing our crumbling infrastructure, making it fit for the 21^st Century; creating real wealth and millions of good jobs at the same time.

These essential changes will ensure our economy is the most efficient and prosperous in the world.  It will raise demand for American-made goods at home and abroad and reduce our trade deficit.

I look forward to your support in restoring America’s economy to full health.

Sincerely,

/s/

Dennis J. Kucinich

Member of Congress

www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24friedman.html?

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Dear Mr. President,

This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country. Decisions are being made about the national budget that will impact the lives of virtually every American for decades to come. As we address the issue of deficit reduction we must not ignore the painful economic reality of today – which is that the wealthiest people in our country and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well while the middle class is collapsing and poverty is increasing. In fact, the United States today has, by far, the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth.

Everyone understands that over the long-term we have got to reduce the deficit – a deficit that was caused mainly by Wall Street greed, tax breaks for the rich, two wars, and a prescription drug program written by the drug and insurance companies. It is absolutely imperative, however, that as we go forward with deficit reduction we completely reject the Republican approach that demands savage cuts in desperately-needed programs for working families, the elderly, the sick, our children and the poor, while not asking the wealthiest among us to contribute one penny.

Mr. President, please listen to the overwhelming majority of the American people who believe that deficit reduction must be about shared sacrifice. The wealthiest Americans and the most profitable corporations in this country must pay their fair share. At least 50 percent of any deficit reduction package must come from revenue raised by ending tax breaks for the wealthy and eliminating tax loopholes that benefit large, profitable corporations and Wall Street financial institutions. A sensible deficit reduction package must also include significant cuts to unnecessary and wasteful Pentagon spending.

Please do not yield to outrageous Republican demands that would greatly increase suffering for the weakest and most vulnerable members of our society. Now is the time to stand with the tens of millions of Americans who are struggling to survive economically, not with the millionaires and billionaires who have never had it so good.

Respectfully,

Sen. Bernie Sanders;
and Co-signers

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released a new book titled, “The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class” based on his famous 8 1/2 hour filibuster of the Bush tax cuts in December 2010.

Click here to view a CBS interview with Bernie.

In a time when politics appears nothing more than a Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb affair and a lost cause and when it looks like we have the best government money can buy, the philosophy and activism they have begun sharing with diverse and empowered audiences is both refreshing and hopeful and absolutely worth a try.

Steve and Joseph need funding to complete their book and road show and if you agree their efforts are worth supporting, please join me in donating what you can afford to accelerate this emerging political paradigm. I will keep you posted on their progress. Perhaps we will finally understand and release the power of a United State of Us.

“….it was the story of a mighty vision given to a man too weak to use it; of a holy tree that should have flourished in a people’s heart with flowers and singing birds, and now is withered; and of a people’s dream that died in bloody snow. But if the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.”

– Black Elk

“There are no sides, only angles … and when we see things from the proper angle, we see we are all on the same side.”

– Swami Beyondananda

Back in the early 70s, Steve Bhaerman lived in a commune he and friends playfully called The Embassy of Atlantis because of its simultaneous location on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. and in a parallel reality.

In the early 1980s Joseph McCormick was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute.

Obviously, these two individuals started out on very different paths coming from very different places.  And yet now, in these truly evolutionary times, their paths have united.  Despite vastly different backgrounds and experiences, they have come to similar conclusions, and find themselves on the same mission:  To reunite America around the virtues and values we have in common, because it appears to be the only way to coalesce the whole-brained, whole-hearted intelligence required to transform the current spiritual, political, ecological and economic crises into an evolutionary opportunity.

If you take a look at the current political landscape and see angry folks on either side of a barricade, it’s easy to feel discouraged.  However, when you also consider the “fierce conversations” Joseph has been leading in small communities and large cities, there is a genuine cause for optimism.  Individuals from both left of center and right of center – primarily conservative libertarians and progressive greens – have been gradually developing a new narrative that can lift the body politic out of the box of our current dysfunction.  By examining assumptions, comparing notes, sharing information and learning together, these two factions are calling forth a new political order that serves both the individual and the community, and honors ecology and economy.

By sitting in “council,” by airing all opinions and exhausting all positions, these groups have come to an obvious truth:  No political savior will be coming down from the heavens to make everything right.  We are left with the wisdom and resources of “we the people.”  We have met the savior, and he / she is us.  Moreover, the solutions don’t lie in the positions we find ourselves in but rather in a process that uses the energy of strongly held values inside a sacred circle to create emergent solutions that everyone in the group “owns” as opposed to unsatisfying compromise where each side loses something.

The American Evolution

In coming together from such different experiences and worldviews, Joseph and Steve have a remarkably similar take on America’s past, our present and our future.  While neither of them buy into the “American exceptionalism” that keeps us blind to our own shadow, they both deeply appreciate the practical spirituality behind the founding of this country.  What other country in the world was created on the notion of inalienable rights to life, liberty and happiness – where the formulators weren’t just blowing gas, but meant it?  And where else – particularly 235 years ago – did a band of extraordinary ordinary citizens stand up to the largest multinational corporation in the world, the British East India Company, and defeat the British army and navy?  Finally, and most importantly, what nation prior to then proclaimed that the citizen had the same sovereign rights as the king?

Joseph and Steve also share a similar view of the present.  The bipolar insanity – encouraged and cultivated by those who benefit from a divided body politic – has weakened us locally and globally.  Instead of focusing on finding outside the box solutions together, we tend to gather in the safe harbor of being right – or left.  While we might find comfort in positions and stands, there is no movement possible if everyone stays in their position.  There are those who appreciate the “stalemate” as the ultimate balance of power, making sure things don’t teeter this way or totter that.  However, if the problem is the proverbial house on fire, inactivity is not an option.

In regard to the future, Joseph and Steve have once again reached a similar conclusion.  We must integrate the most functional elements of progressivism (growth) and conservatism (protection) into a whole-brained, full spectrum politics where citizens from all across the political landscape come together to address the questions, “How do we wish to progress?” and “What do we choose to conserve?”

Is this possible?

Well, as Joseph has more than demonstrated in his transpartisan groups and meet-ups, when ordinary citizens are temporarily liberated from media “babblum,” and are held in a sacred circle of mutual respect, extraordinary clarity and wisdom emerges.

However, to access this wisdom requires … (ready, all you Creationists?) … evolution!  We must evolve from children of God to adults of God (or, for the non-religious, adults of Good) and stop acting like “tenants” of America and begin to act like “owners.”  This means facing the uncomfortable truths behind the real don’t ask, don’t tell policy (we promise not to ask the government what it is doing to “protect” us, and they promise not to tell us), and disabusing ourselves of the wishful thinking that our rulers will rule wisely without our involvement.  As Lord Acton said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

And here is another fundamental principle Joseph and Steve agree on.  Just as there is no top down political savior, transformation involves a “critical mass of the heretofore uncritical masses” waking up to the realization that there can be no integrity at the top without integrity at the bottom.  The political evolution we seek is first a spiritual and psychological evolution, as we reconnect with our own internal Source and acknowledge and face our own individual and collective shadow with courage and compassion.

The Possible Dream

Those who mistook hopium for hope last time around may be understandably defended against being fooled again.  So let us affirm that we WILL be fooled again by the two major party candidates.  We can plan on it, in fact.  When push comes to shove in 2012, we will be leveraged to hunker down with whichever cultural tribe we feel most affinity for, and once again Lucy will pull the proverbial football away and we the people (Charlie Brown) will fall on our collective ass.

We will once again fall prey to political lies unless …

Unless we expose the current political game and refuse to play it, AND gather around a higher, deeper and more enduring truth.  The one unifying issue that both progressives and Tea Partiers agree on is, the rule of gold has overruled the Golden Rule.  In order to establish this “One Suggestion” as the true heart and soul of who we are, we have to recognize, acknowledge and celebrate the coherent field of love that “undertruths” both the religious expressions of God and the non-religious expressions of Good.

As the Swami would say, “the upwising is gathering esteem,” and the chutzpah of those in power has become so obvious to so many that a mass awakening seems to be occurring.  While there are those who would like to misdirect this anger against the wrong targets, there are enough people awakening on both sides to actually change the game this time around.  Thanks to information and activism, both on the internet and the outernet, we now have the power to gather ordinary people together to access extraordinary wisdom – and coalesce a heartful, soulful moral authority that will be so universally obvious that it will effectively encircle the mechanism of government.  When 80 percent of the people favor a principle or policy – and everyone knows it – that will effectively check the power of lobbyists lobbying against it.

Here’s the Wind Up … And the Pitch

On behalf of Steve and Joseph, I am inviting those subscribers who are motivated and able to join me in supporting a project they are dedicating themselves to for the next 18 months – completing their book, Reuniting America:  A Manifesto For Changing the Political Game, AND empowering transpartisan conversations, actions and policies that will make the 2012 election our first “real” election in generations.  The book will significantly expand upon the e-book version, using Joseph’s story and his own to “pace” both conservative and progressive sensibilities, while evoking the best of both impulses.  They will address the important issues of why we need to reunite America, and around what?  Finally, they will offer the principles and practices that are most likely to yield breakthough results inside these sacred circles.

Their intention is to have the book ready for publication by Labor Day, and self-publish at first for two reasons:  First, they want to have the book out, gathering momentum this fall as a lead up to next year’s electoral season.  Secondly, an already-successful book is a much easier sell to major publishers.  And, it’s far more compelling to have a book you can hold in your hand than a PDF you can download.

There are a number of forces in play right now that could very well launch the transpartisan movement through national media, and have it be part of the conversation whether the media likes it or not.  As Scoop Nisker used to say, “If you don’t like the news, make some of your own.”

Meanwhile, the budget for four months of writing and research plus the wherewithal to design, print and distribute books is $50,000.  Normally, a publisher would pay an advance like that (or at least they would in the old days) but they don’t have the time to wait.  Fortunately, they have a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 fiscal sponsor who has set up a fund to support Reuniting America as a nonpartisan endeavor to educate and inspire the body politic.  They are set up to take tax-deductible donations of $250 or more, and we invite you to make a donation and become a sponsor.  Here are the Sponsor Categories:

Profounder Founder: $5,000

Profound Founder: $2,500

Founder: $1,000

Founding Sponsor: $500

Sponsor: $250

All of the above will be honored on our Founders Page (unless you wish to remain anonymous) as will those who make lesser donations! To make a tax deductible donation of $250 or more, please make check payable to their 501c3 sponsor: Global Citizen Journey, 4425 Baker Ave. NW, Seattle, WA  98107  (Memo: Transpartisan Upwising)

For those who wish to make a donation of any other amount, please visit PayPal (http://paypal.com) and use sinfo@transpartisan.us to end your contribution.

And, of course, you can get a jump start on the whole idea by downloading their e-book here. (http://reunitingamerica.org)

Four-Month Budget

Steve Bhaerman, Writer’s Advance: $4,000 / mo x 4 months =  $16,000

Joseph McCormick, Writer’s Advance: $4,000 / mo x 4 months =  $16,000

Authors’ Travel, Research expenses: $2,000 / mo x 4 months =  $8,000

Book Design, Publishing Expenses: $5,000

Printing, 1000 copies: $5,000

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Total Production Expenses: $50,000

Finally, in the midst of all the bad news, here is some good news:  There will be good news … IF we make it.

Steve and Joseph send a wave of deep gratitude to their Evolutionary Co-Hearts.

Rather than reviewing his book, I’m going to share a great video interview with Brad and my cousin Alan Hutner, the host of Transitions Radio, a three hour live Sunday radio show and web cast from Santa Fe. Alan has developed an extensive library of interviews with some of the leading visionaries of the past 25 years. An excellent lighthouse of wisdom. Enjoy.

To watch the remaining six segments of Alan’s interview with Brad, click here.

Watching events unfold in Egypt, I can’t help but remember that I lived through an Arab revolution myself when I was ten years old. I was living in Morocco at the time. Both my parents were working for the U.S. military, my father as an intelligence agent and my mother as a registered nurse. We lived on the U.S. Air Force base of Nouasseur, about twenty miles from Casablanca.

At the time Morocco was a French protectorate. The king, Mohammed V, had been exiled, and the French ran essentially an apartheid state in which the native Moroccans had virtually no rights whatsoever. In October of 1955, an Arab liberation army, the Jaish al-tahrir, began a revolt. At first we were unaffected. Life on the airbase went on as usual. Then the principal of our grade school was killed by French troops. They had mistaken him for a rebel while he was driving back to Nouasseur with his wife from a party in Casablanca. At that point the base went into lockdown. For several weeks, we were not allowed outside the fenced compound. Eventually, though, the French conceded control of the country to the Moroccans, and the king was reinstated.

These events touched my family directly. One of my father’s jobs was to act as a liaison for the U.S. government with the King, the royal family, and his advisers. This sent him into the countryside on a number of clandestine missions on behalf of both the King and the United States. Some of these involved counter-espionage against the Soviets who were also working behind the scenes during this revolution to prevent the Monarchy from being reinstated and promoting a communist take-over instead.

When Morocco gained its independence the following year, the King gave my father a proclamation making him an honorary Moroccan citizen. The world had Lawrence of Arabia but in our family, we had Marshall of Morocco!

My father died a number of years ago, but I can’t help thinking of how he would respond to the events happening in the Middle East. He loved the Arabs, and in all the universities in which he worked as a teacher, he was always the faculty adviser for Arab and other Middle Eastern students. But he knew from his own travels how prevalent corruption, oppression, poverty, and the lack of human rights were throughout North Africa and the Middle East. He often commented to me that the situation in these countries was a powder keg that would one day explode. And now it looks like that explosion may have come.

On the surface the driving force behind the protests is largely economic. Chronic poverty and unemployment in many Arab countries coupled with lack of opportunity for advancement has been met in previous years with corruption, indifference or oppression on the part of their governments. No more. The youth of these countries, better educated, desiring a freer and more fulfilling life, and united by social media with the rest of the world won’t stand for business as usual any more.

But apart from economic and political concerns, are there other forces at work “under the hood,” so to speak? What subtle forces are active here?

As the protesters took over Tahrir Square in Cairo, I felt I wanted to tune in to see what information might be available from inner colleagues. I was thinking I might communicate with a spiritual being attuned to the Egyptian people but instead I found myself in contact with a Presence that seemed like an “Angel of Humanity.” This Presence said in effect, “What is happening here is part of a process that goes beyond Egypt and its concerns. It is a human occurrence. It is one expression, conditioned by the circumstances of the Middle East, of an unfoldment that all humanity is experiencing, not just Egyptians or Arabs. This is the most important thing to know.”

I found it interesting that I was asked not to focus only on what was happening in Egypt, as important as it is, but to see it in a larger context. It was a request to appreciate the extent to which all humanity is participating in change and that none of us is exempt from the need to confront old ways of thinking and acting in order to gain the freedom and insights necessary to construct a future that will better serve us and all of life.

It is easy to forget this participatory side of things. I look out my window at a peaceful neighborhood, and the protests in Egypt and elsewhere seem far away, visible only on my computer or television screen. The challenges the Egyptians are facing are not my problems; I am not out marching in the streets to overthrow an oppressive regime that has lasted for thirty years and seemed prepared to extend its rule for more years into the future. One elderly man in Cairo said in an interview that for the first time in his life, he felt he could think for himself, without fear and without others telling him what to think. That brought me to tears, but I don’t personally have that issue in my life. I do not have to rebel against a secret police state that dictates what I can believe and not believe.

Because of this, I can feel distant from what the people in Cairo and Alexandria and Port Said are experiencing. I can sympathize, I can empathize, I can wish to support their efforts, but at the end of the day, their issues are not mine. All that turmoil I see on the television is happening in Egypt, not in the little town where I live. I can feel united with the protesters by our shared human aspirations for freedom, peace and a better life and also by a shared understanding of suffering, but we are separated by the differences in the specific issues that confront us and in the circumstances those issues create.

What the Angel of Humanity (if that is what it was) was saying, though, is that underneath these surface differences is an activity that goes beyond the commonality of shared aspirations or empathy. Rather than letting the differences in our specific needs and circumstances separate us, we can see more deeply and broadly into what is happening in our time. We can realize that we are all facing and struggling with a need to change and go beyond our current ways of treating each other and our world if we are all going have a livable future, much less realize the fullness of our human potential.

In December of 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a talk at Western Michigan University on the theme of social justice and the emerging new age. In it he said:

“All I’m saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

This thought by Dr. King catches the sense of what this Angel was implying, but there was more to it even than this. It was, I think, an invitation to see ourselves as revolutionaries in the context of seeking to overthrow oppressive and limiting thought forms and ways of thinking.

We, of course, are focused on the physical realm; it is the environment most apparent and immediate to all of us. But our colleagues and helpers in the spiritual realms deal with the invisible environment of subtle energies, thoughts and feelings. This environment can be every bit as oppressive as a tyrant; it can be every bit as harmful as a department of secret police. Certainly it can’t cause us physical pain and suffering, at least not directly, but it’s this environment that in its polluted and negative states gives rise to and energizes such physical phenomena such as tyrants and secret police, torture and terrorism, murder and mayhem. It’s this environment that can hold beliefs and thought forms that limit our conceptions of ourselves, that blind us to the wholeness of the earth, that make us doubt the goodness of the earth and the presence of the Sacred.

It is the oppression of this inner tyranny of ancient and outworn thoughts, emotions, habits, and beliefs that all of us, all of humanity, is now struggling against, like a butterfly trying to break out of a cocoon. We are all being called to make our way to the Tahrir Square of our minds and hearts, there to stand together and demand the old ways step down so a new humanity may emerge.

The world and we revolve around this pivot point of history in search of a new and better tomorrow, demanding creative and holistic change. The Revolution is upon us! What inner tyrannies will you overthrow today?

If you wish to share this letter with others, please feel free to do so; however the material is ©2011 by David Spangler.

There is the classic story about a man who is down on his knees in a parking lot one night, obviously looking for something. A passerby asks him what he’s doing.

“I’m looking for my car keys,” is the reply.

“Oh, let me help,” the stranger offers. “Where do you think you lost them?”

“I lost them in the bushes over there,” the man replies, pointing.

“Then why are you looking in the parking lot?” the stranger asks, puzzled.

“Well, because there’s more light here.”

That story is the story of well-meaning political activism in America. Those who want to create a healthier world for our children tend to invest time, resources and hopes in organizations and campaigns working in the familiar well lit spaces. However, as we are finding out, most if not all of the political and economic decisions that impact our lives and world are made in the endarkened corridors of power.

Go ahead, pick an issue:

* Health care “reform” completely bypassed a single-payer system, and instead coerces Americans to buy insurance from a private monopoly.

* In spite of hope and hype, the foreign policy of the new boss is not that different from the old one. (Can you say, “Egypt?”)

* Again, despite a “regime change,” Monsanto rules the Agriculture Department, the banksters regulate the banks, the drug companies run health care, and big media owns the FCC.

Meanwhile, our elections cost seventeen times what they did 35 years ago, and with each election we the people seem to be less and less in charge of what really happens. The “free press” that our Founding Fathers hoped would inform the electorate has devolved into a brainwashing machine stuck on spin lobbing weapons of mass-distraction from behind the Irony Curtain.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans from all across the political spectrum mistrust the corporate state, we have been divided into two warring tribes, and while the red and blue tribes have been arguing about whether it’s worse to kill the born or the unborn, our commonwealth has been stolen out from under us.

No wonder the topic of politics – hearing the word, actually – for most people, including your editor, elicits feelings of disgust, anger, hopelessness, apathy, and even dread for our future. In spite of it all, dedicated activists seeking a better world continue crawling around the parking lot playing the only game in town. Until now…

If we want to have genuine change instead of chump change, if we want a political system that serves the commonwealth and not just the uncommonly wealthy, we must change the political game.

How? Read on.

A Recipe for Political Climate Change

As you may or may not know, Steve Behrman’s background is in political science and history. And, after more than four decades of political activism and awareness, I believe we now have a political game-changer thanks to his friend and colleague Joseph McCormick. Steve first met Joseph nearly three years ago, and they instantly had a meeting of the minds and hearts. Although their backgrounds couldn’t be more different – Joseph is a former Army Ranger and Christian Coalition activist, and Steve is a one-time Vietnam War protester and lifelong progressive – their “foreground” is remarkably the same.

They both resonate with the Declaration of Independence’s radical contention that our rights to life, liberty, and happiness derive not from an external sovereign, but from our intrinsic sovereignty as human beings.

And they both recognize that only by integrating the opposites that seem to divide us – left and right, progressive and conservative, feminine and masculine, heart and mind, and even science and religion – can we successfully rule ourselves in this challenging time, and bring the vision of America’s Founders of a nation built on freedom, justice, truth, and unity into this new century.

After a ten-month collaboration, they are publishing – now in e-book form and soon in print format – a book that can transform politics in America, and profoundly impact the world we live in. The book is largely Joseph’s story of political transformation from political divider to political unifier. Just as valuable as his inspiring personal story are the lessons he has learned along the way, the practices and principles that will turn “We, the People” into a force powerful enough to “overgrow” the current system based on the unchecked, unbalanced, unmitigated rule of money.

From Joseph’s personal story, you will learn:

* How Congressional campaigns are really run, and what candidates have to do to “qualify” for special interest money.

* How losing everything led to a spiritual and political epiphany.

* A journey to “look for America” where interviews with Americans as politically diverse as Ralph Nader and Ross Perot, Grover Norquist and Noam Chomsky revealed striking similarities in regard to what’s wrong with America and how to set it right.

* A remarkable Reuniting America retreat that brought Al Gore face-to-face with the leading Republican debunker of climate change – and might have been the reason Pat Robertson told his flock, “Climate change is real.”

* The issue that united the Christian Coalition and MoveOn.org, and jammed the switchboard of Congress.

* How an Oregon town transformed local governance, by not lobbying.

* How a politically-diverse group of Seattle citizens meeting for eight months offer a glimpse of what nearly all Americans want, and are willing to work for.

From Part II of the book, Lessons Learned, you will discover:

* Why it’s important to bring all parties and viewpoints into the room.

* How to use political polarities as a dynamo to propel a group past positions toward practical solutions.

* How to manage emotional triggers so that both conservatives and liberals feel safe.

* Why and how a new political alignment is emerging between “conservatarians” (conservative libertarians) and “progreensives” (progressive greens) and how this can transform politics from the grassroots up.

* The practices and principles that will create a “sacred container” for a democratic republic.

* What “Sunshine Governance” of We, the People could look like – and how amazingly close we are to having it.

You like me, may be so turned off by politics that you don’t believe anything could turn you on. Maybe you’ve sworn off “hopium,” or find the challenges too overwhelming or have decided to focus on the personal, your own life and family. Maybe you have taken a peek down the political rabbit hole and just “don’t want to go there.” The undeniable truth is, “there” has already come here. We are already subject to “subtle dictatorship” thanks to government secrecy, the so-called Patriot Act and myriads of directives seeking to consolidate power at the top. These conditions will impact our lives and the lives of children whether we like it or not. Denial – or as the Swami calls it, “not-seeism” – will only make the current conditions worse.

Two principles of political science are operative regardless of what we do or don’t do:

1. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
2. When few rule, few benefit.

Reuniting America
If you’ve read and were inspired by Spontaneous Evolution, Steve and Bruce Lipton’s eye opening examination of science and history, prepare yourself to be inspired by a practical blueprint for political evolution that will take us past both hope and hopelessness to genuine empowerment as healthy cells of a healed body politic.

Let the new political game begin, and let’s get ready to take the field.

Order or learn more about this book here now for just $9.97. It may be the most important $9.97 you have every spent on politics or anything else. It’s a tiny investment in a paradigm shifting political blueprint that you can activate immediately. Once you have read their transpartisan manifesto, Steve and Joseph invite your comments on their website, reunitingamerica.org