World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality

World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality


 * Member of the Awakening Mind Alliance

"Since its Inauguration in l998 the World Commission (WC) has taken as one of its highest priorities the importance of forming powerful networks, partnerships and collaborations in the interest of fostering growing circles and forces for creative transformation on a planetary scale. Over the past five years the Commissioners have sought to implement this stratagem in seeking to fulfil our vision and mission of working to bring forth a more peaceful, just and humane world...

"Although there are no funds at this point to subsidize these Councils, it is hoped and expected that the timeliness and power of this initiative will attract significant funding. This of course would open all sorts of exciting creative possibilities for future separate and plenary meetings of the Councils with the ((World Commission)) as this initiative takes root and evolves. So in this spirit here are the initially proposed names and provisional nominees of the Councils:"

1) Global Council on Indigenous Wisdom & Wellbeing: Leroy Little Bear, Angaangaq Lybert, Woody Vaspra, Diane Longboat, George Amiotte, Chief Jake Swamp, Judy Swamp, Vickie Downey, Joseph Rael, Nancy Maryboy, Leon Secatero

2) Global Council on Education in the 21st Century: Jane Goodall, David Scott, Helga Breuninger, Riane Eisler, Sunita Gandhi, Dee Dickinson, Fred Mednick, Usha Ballamore, Manish Jain

3) Global Council on Peace & Conflict Resolution: Desmond Tutu, Arun Gandhi, John & Susan Marks, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Elie Wiesel, Rama Vernon

4) Global Council on Spirituality & Deep Ecology: Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grimm, Brian Swimme, Duane Elgin, Wangari Maathai, Thomas Berry, Rupert Sheldrake, Jean Houston, Diane Williams

5) Global Council on Spiritual Politics & Global Citizenship: Al Gore, Dennis Kuccinich, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Cornel West, Robert Thurman, Tu Weiming, Barbara Bernstein

6) Global Council on Personal & Planetary Security: Jonathan Granoff, Mikhail Gorbachev, Douglas Roche, James George

7) Global Council on Planetary Ethics and Values: Steven Rockefeller, Ervin Laszlo, Vaslav Havel, Mary Robinson, Bette Williams, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Hafsat Abiola, Hans Kung, Diane Williams

8) Global Council on Conscious Economies, Corporate Responsiblity and Economic Justice: William Wallin (CAUX Round Table), David Korten, Thom Hartmann, John Dalla Costa, Christopher Laszlo, Rama Mani, Theo Cosmora

9) Global Council on Interfaith Dialogue & Inter–religious Relations: Karan Singh, James Parks Morton, William Vendley, Jim Kenney, Houston Smith, Suheil Bushuri, Diane Eke

10) Global Council on Planetary Sustainable Futures: Sesh Velamoor, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Don Beck

11) Global Council on Integral Medicine & Planetary Health: John Kabat–Zinn, Daniel Coleman, Andrew Weil, Larry Dossey, Rachel N. Remen, Lewis Mehl–Madrona

12) Global Council on Frontier Science & Sustainable Technologies: John Hagelin, Yasuhito Kimura, Elisabet Sahtouris, Mark Cummings, Fritjof Capra, Fred Alan Wolf, Peter Russell, Beverly Rubik, Peter Russell

13) Global Council on Islam & The West: Dr. Seyyed Nasr, Dr. Riffat Hassan, Dr. Akbar S. Ahmed, Dr. Michael Sells, Prince Hassan of Jordan, Queen Noor of Jordan, Dr. Omid Safi, Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

14) Global Council on the Welfare of Youth and Emergence of Youth Leadership: Dr. Nina Meyerhof, Valentin Vollmer, Juliana Hepp, Helga Breuninger

15) Global Council on the Welfare, Wisdom & Empowerment of Women: Riffat Hasan, Audrey Kitagawa, Hafsat Abiola, Wangari Maathai, Diane Williams

16) Global Council on Mindful Media: Gill Wright, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Hazel Henderson, Thom Hartman, Marcus Morrell, Sandra Hay, Ashok Gangadean, Kit Thomas

17) Global Council on Awakening Arts & Entertainment: Bono, Peter Gabriel, Steven Speilberg, Kit Thomas, Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Simon, Robert Redford

DMembers
Accessed July 2008:


 * Ervin Laszlo, Co–Chair
 * Robert Muller, Co–Chair
 * Karan Singh, Co–Chair
 * Audrey Kitagawa, Co–Convenor
 * Ewert Cousins, Co–Convenor
 * Ashok Gangadean, Co–Convenor
 * Theo Cosmora, Executive Director, Global Councils


 * His Holiness The Dalai Lama
 * Former President Abdurrahman Wahid (Indonesia)
 * Archbishop Desmond Tutu
 * Seyyed H. Nasr (Distinguished Professor of Islamic thought and culture)
 * Tu Weiming (Harvard Professor and eminent voice for Chinese culture)
 * Hazel Henderson (Eminent Author, Futurist, Ecology of Global Economics)
 * Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize Laureat, Moral Leader, Head of Green Belt Movement, Nairobi)
 * Robert Thurman (Buddhist Tibetan Scholar, Columbia University, Advisor to The Dalai Lama)
 * Sir Sigmund Sternberg (Winner of the Templeton Prize, Inter–religious relations)
 * Rodrigo Carazo (Elder Statesman, Leader, The University for Peace)
 * His Royal Highness El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (President, Club of Rome)
 * Barbara Marx Hubbard (Futurist, President–Foundation for Conscious Evolution)
 * The Very Rev. James Morton Parks (President, Interfaith Centre of New York)
 * Cornel West (Princeton U. Professor, Leading African–American voice)
 * Elizabet Sahtouris (Evolution Biologist, Ecology, Voice for Indigenous People)
 * Riane Eisler (Distinguished author, visionary leader for Partnership Education)
 * Mary Evelyn Tucker (Distinguished Scholar, leading voice for Religion & Ecology)
 * Jane Goodall (Distinguished Primatologist, Voice for Wildlife Conservation)
 * Jim Kenney (Exec. Director of Common Ground; Exec. Director, Inter–religious Engagement Project)
 * Jonathan Granoff (President, Global Security Institute)
 * Angaangaq Lybert (Eskimo Inuk Elder & Healer, Greenland)
 * Betty Williams (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Pres. – World Centres of Compassion for Children International)

Contact

 * Web: http://globalspirit.org