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and the rendering destitute most of the remnants of these people,

is such an ingrievous wrong,

that we believe, that we have to deal with that,

to come to grips with that, in a fundamental way,

understanding that they are not wrongs, that were done and completed,

a 150 years ago.

They're wrongs, that are continued every single day.

So you have through the history of North America and the U.S.

over 500 treaties signed

with indigenous nations,

were every single one of them now has been violated.

In fact, tremendous amount of wealth

have been generated from indigenous people's lands and resources

and billions of dollars every year is still being generated by corporations in European nations,

based on the continous exploitation of indigenous people's lands and resources.

If we didn't have large corporations and Western governments

defining how you and I were to relate to each other,

living here in North America now together,

how would we relate to one another, how would we make it different.

It's going to take time and courageous effort,

to shift the consciousness and accomplish the tasks,

that will move us toward the world, I'm talking about.

And yet I know of no greater gift, that we could give to future generations.

We can't do everything at once.

I envisioned three overlapping stages of the solutions process.

In stage one we bring as much integrity as possible to our current systems.

If we cut the U.S. military budget in half,

it would still roughly equal to defense spending of the entire rest of the world.

Between that and getting rid of the Federal Reserve

over a trillion dollars a year would be freed

enough to feed everyone on our planet,

deal with social issues and heal our environment.

Many people believe that widespread starvation and poverty are inevitable

but compared to war, eliminating poverty and restoring the environment are cheap.

According to Lester Brown's "Earth Policy Institute"

it would take under $ 200 billion dollars a year to restore the earth's environment

and meet global social goals.

But this stage isn't the endgoal of the liberty perspective.

While stage one has lot of the compassion,

typically associated with liberal-democratic agenda,

stage two reflects much of the wisdom

of the traditional conservative worldview.

In stage two we shrink government's role,

to protect the individual liberty

and storing things we share in common,

like ecosystems and the airwaves we use to communicate.

As the system gains integrity

and will move to sound currency,

people will have enough money to have more control over everything that affects them.

Stage three grows out of the increasing freedom,

that people gain in stages one and two,

as they have more money and more time.

There is no involuntary tax and therefore no involuntary governments.

There is no monopoly on force.

There are rules, but no rulers.

Rigorously protecting individual rights

turnes out to be key for honouring our interdependence.

We can be distinct, and unified, at the same time.

As utopian as this can sound at first

I'we been thrilled to see how much practical thinking has been done

to deal with tough issues like health care,

crime and education.

These three stages validate the best of both the liberal and conservative perspectives

that have divided us for so long

and then reconcile them at a new level,

around non-violation

a core ethic we all share.

Stage three honours human incentive

and finally includes the rights of not just many,

not just most, but everyone.

The torus provides a template for a society based on integrity and wholeness.

It conserves, what's working.

It has built in feedback, so it can self-correct and innovate

to maintain balance.

We can apply these and other features of the torus dynamic

to our human social systems.

I truely believe that aligning conciously with a fundamental life energy pattern,

at every level:

physical,

emotional,

mental,

interpersonal and environmental

it's ultimately the art, science and the celebration of love.

That's what we're here to learn!

The fundamental insight of our interconnectedness

changed the way I approach everything.

In my own life I found a practical expression of this philosophy,

in the modern non-violent martial art of Aikido.

It offers powerful guidance

on how to respond effectively and non-aggressively to the global domination agenda.

Morihei Ueshiba, its founder,

talked that to practice Aikido, one must mimic the movement of atoms and galaxies.

As free energy technology blends with the toroidal pattern,

to access unlimited power,

Aikido, the way of harmony

blends with the energy of an attacker ...

redirecting it ...

to peaceful resolution.

Aikido is not a technique to fight and defeat an enemy.

It is a way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

Gandhi and King applied these principles of non-aggressive power,

at the economic and social levels.

If we respond with violence to the domination agenda,

other than in self-defense,

it would only continue the old "us versus them" paradigm

and provide an excuse for even more police state measures.

I believe, that it's essential, both morally and strategically,

that we take the path of non-aggression.

There is another aspect of the torus,

that has profound implications for how we can respond to the challenges before us.

It is the absolute stillness, the zero point,

that lies at the center of each toroidal system.

I believe that you and I, as well as every other being,

are torus energy fields,

centered by stillness

and each connected to one another

into the boundless consciousness of a living universe.

As much as I benefit from the experience of others,

as highlighted here with the navigating insights

and as valuable as daily feedback is

about what's really going on in the world,

as we see with the vitals

I'we come to recognize that our primary compass

is our own inner guidance.

As we learn to quiet the noise

and amplify the inner signal

we can better hear the voice,

that naturally knows and offers wise direction.

We have an entire inner life,

a vibrant and lively inner life,

that is truely the navigator of the path, that we take on the outside.

If your inner life is the driver of how you show up in the world,

it makes sense, that if you want to have anything to do with where you're going,

that you have to be in relationship with that inner life, with that driver.

As we develop increased relationship to who's in the driver seat,

what happens is that here is a synergy, it's a symbiotic relationship,

that our inner lives are actually able to be more in tandem

of we're choosing to go

and we're able to get there.

We are not nearly as insignificant in our impact, as we think we are.

In order to heal the world, we have to start telling a different story to ourselves,

we have to start engaging a different story with others.

It's a collective story, that manifests as the world.

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