The Brilliant Plans initiative is based on 5 core values. These are the values by which all proposals will be evaluated.
Set out below is the philosophy from which they originate.
1. Inspiration
The present situation:
The problems confronting humanity are vast and include the highly possible self-destruction of our species and most life on Earth.
The very idea that we have come to rely on our politicians to solve them, is bizarre. Politicians are expert at maintaining the status quo, and hopefully improving on it. They are incremental decision-makers, catering for a wide range of vested interests. It is not their fault. They didn’t invent this system, we all did.
We have become accustomed to watching our political leaders self-aggrandise and focus on points scoring, while the situation deteriorates daily. And we’ve become addicted to criticizing our politicians, their bureaucracies, big business, and anyone else we can find to complain about, thereby fuelling our problems with negative energy.
In forfeiting our inherent ability to manifest the sort of world we’d all like to live in, we have become a big part of the problem. We have become hope-less.
The main difficulty we face is that our political systems do not provide us with the mechanisms through which to express that ability. However, we don’t need them to do that – we don’t need anyone’s permission.
Our Potential:
We humans have a profound ability to create desired realities, through the intelligent use of our thoughts and emotions.
Amidst all the talk of terrorists and environmental devastation etc, it’s time for us to remember to dream and manifest.
It is this ability, properly channelled, that can deliver us from our problems.
We stand on the brink of the most amazing opportunity to ever confront humanity – to create utopia.
How to achieve it:
First we need a vision.
This website will provide the opportunity for you say what you would like our world to be like.
Second, we need a master plan, consisting of numerous specific plans, to fulfil that vision.
Third, we need the capacity to implement that plan:
2. Empowerment
The present situation:
We have effectively handed our power over to others to make decisions on our behalf. The best we can hope for is that our political leaders will do the right thing by us, although our experience tells us otherwise.
So a sense of helplessness and hopelessness pervades the national and world-wide psyche.
One of the great problems confronting thinking people is that in our democratic system, majority decisions rarely reflect best case-solutions for the greater good. Rather, they reflect the wants of the majority, a fact well understood by our political leaders. Nowhere in the world does the idea of genuine people empowerment enter into political thinking.
Our Potential:
Once thinking people are directly involved in an equitable decision-making process, a sense of empowerment returns.
Empowerment gives rise to inspiration and optimism, which, though the law of attraction, will guarantee our success at whatever we undertake.
Empowerment threatens those who aspire ambitiously to power. So it must be introduced in ways that supplement and redirect their aspirations.
How to achieve it:
We can and must now initiate decision-making processes that reflect the finest of our collective thinking, according to predetermined criteria. In the case of this website, the criteria are our core values. Each individual, regional group or country must define what their particular core values are. That is the basis for empowerment. Given a firm base and an active culture of consultation and involvement, we will mobilize forces that will quickly transform the situation our world finds itself in.
3. Open Co-operation
The current situation:
The essence of competition is to strive to gain an advantage over another. This has only limited place at a time when we can only survive by supporting each other.
Our Potential:
We humans have the ability to live harmoniously with each other, once we let go of the indoctrination of survival of the fittest.
This website foresees that open co-operation is our birthright and that the lessons we learn in this coming chapter of planning for survival will prepare us well for that.
How to achieve it:
Necessity will force us to embrace the notion of open co-operation and we will practice it through selfless participation in forum situations. The Brilliant World movement explores that very dynamic.
4. Self-sufficiency
The Current Situation:
At the national level, globalisation has forced us to focus on what we do well and import commodities we can buy cheaper overseas, including food.
At the individual level, the backyard vege/chook garden has become almost a thing of the past. Consequently, our food bills are higher and our diet less healthy, which directly impacts on the medical costs borne by the community.
There is an even greater cost that we are only just starting to realise and that is the psychological damage we suffer, both individually and nationally, when we lose that connection with the supply of our own food source. We become less grounded.
It is a tragedy that Australia can no longer feed itself.
There is no pride in globalisation, only an increase in wealth for those who control it. Once we lose that pride, we lose hope – and that is exactly what we have done.
The Potential:
Australia (or any country for that matter) can and should be supplying almost all of it’s own living needs. First and foremost that applies to foods, but it also applies to clothing and shelter.
In countless ways, we need to get back to a sense of community, with people working together, joyfully, fulfilling their needs, with some luxury items bought in.
How to achieve it:
In every capital city of Australia we now have community market gardens which exemplify and carry the joyful spirit of providing one’s own needs.
The seeds have been sewn to enable us to enable us to get back to basics and the rewarding way we lived before the chemical revolution.
5. Sustainability
The current situation:
Through unsustainable practices at every level of our existence, we now confront the possibility that our planet will soon be uninhabitable.
The process of getting to that stage will require incalculable and unimaginable suffering, not just for us, but also for most species on the planet.
The cause of the problem is the fundamentally flawed, egocentric nature of the human consciousness – our inability to act for the greater good. That is what has led us to this stage.
The Potential:
The Earth is a magnificent place to live. This website contends that by the turn of this century we can have developed ways of living on this planet that are absolutely harmonious and sustainable. By that stage, any form of polluting action; any violation of nature, will represent a crime against society.
How to achieve it
There is only one way we can save our civilisation, and that is the same way we can create the sort of world we long for. It involves 2 steps:
- We have to change the way we think. Instead of focusing on what’s going wrong, we need to find ways to start thinking about what we can do that is right.
- We have to change the way we govern ourselves. We can no longer leave the responsibility of decision-making to the few who aspire to power. We need to initiate forum decision-making models that involve, potentially at least, every one of us.
That is the stark reality of where we find ourselves. These steps are not optional-maybes. They are what we must do immediately if a child being born today is to reach old age.
It’s all about a change of mind that will lead to a change of heart that will lead to a life of abundance for all.
We do not need a one world government, controlled by a few. We need government by forum.
Summary:
This website is set up to identify, for your consideration, the mechanics of the situation we find ourselves in, and to offer a medium through which you can play your part in providing positive solutions.
Once the template of co-creating a new reality is in place and enough people support that way of thinking, being and doing - then anything is possible.
This is our world. It does not belong to others who appear to be selfishly destroying it. Once we claim that space of ownership, constructively, then the possibility is there for us to create a society that really does think and act for the greater good.
Seen in this light, adversity has brought humanity to the point where it can now reach it’s finest potential.