When an individual discovers that their life is in turmoil and they decide they want to change that, they take steps to create more sanity in their life. If they are dedicated and stay with it, they can stabilize their commitment to the new path, and at some stage it becomes a way of being. This is also true for groups. When a group of people realizes things aren't going so well and are inspired

A basic tenet in most spiritual traditions is that all people are fundamentally good. In our essential nature we are kind, open, and wise. Yet when we experience the chaos and aggression in the world and in our own state of mind, this can be difficult to see.

However according to this view, chaos and aggression arise because we we lose the connection with our basic being. Since our nature isn't

Large companies reach massive numbers of people with a simple message: "Buy our product." They use a range of methods and systems to communicate with their audience, and they are very effective at what they do. Corporations are passionate and highly creative at achieving their goal of reaching as many people as possible.

Anyone who says it's not possible to save the world is not looking

This is a project to create a worldwide network of people meditating, praying, and sending love for world peace 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year (366 on leap years).

LuminEarth Overview

LuminEarth will be home to a worldwide network of people engaged in activities to help the world. The heart of the website is a schedule where people will be signed on to meditate, pray, and send

In order to reach large numbers of people with a message of positive change, it won't work to wait until everyone comes asking. A proactive approach is to offer the message where people can encounter it. Go to where people spend a lot of their time, the marketplace. There are endless possibly ways to do this.

One possibility would be to build an online marketplace that contains every business

One way we could make tremendous shifts in human society is by reconnecting citizens and politicians. We have a huge schism here, and working to heal it would create endless opportunities for spreading goodness in the world.

Politicians are widely despised and abused. How strange it is that we treat our leaders so horribly. While there are reasons for our complaints, perpetuating a culture of "us

Create an urban theatre group who act in public to share wakeful goodness.

Develop training programs that can be reproduced across the continent and beyond, to train people to act as "gentle jokers for peace." These Urban Ambassadors would be like the court jester who was there to keep the royalty on their toes, and like the native trickster who reminds us that life is usually not what we think

Over the years meditation has become increasing accepted in the mainstream of western society. However most people are still wary of it for a variety of reasons, a prominent one being a fear of organized religions.

In response we could create a secular meditation tradition and community. Build a body of teachings that uses everyday language and speaks directly to people's experience. This new