A few years ago I had an idea to form a worldwide movement, and call
it Humanity's Team. Since that time over 10,000 have responded to
this idea in a positive way, joining the Team and working toward its
goals.

I thought I would take just a moment today to review some of my
original thinking on HT, to allow those of you to whom this is new
to catch up -- and to remind those of you to whom this is an old
idea to catch the bug again

Humanity's Team was created as a non-profit worldwide movement three
years ago in response to the crisis I saw the human race facing
following the 9/11 tragedy.

I believe that we are still facing that Moment of Crisis. "Moments,"
in evolutionary terms, can extend across several years -- even
decades. In that context, this is our Moment of Crisis. I have
attempted to define our current evolutionary event, or crisis, in
terms that will allow us to better understand it -- and solve it.

The crisis humanity is facing is not a political crisis, it is not
an economic crisis, and it is not a military crisis -- yet we
continue to try to solve it with political, economic, and military
means. The crisis humanity faces today is a spiritual crisis, and it
can only be resolved by spiritual means.

That is where we come in: Humanity's Team is a social-spiritual
movement of worldwide proportion that is growing every day and
gathering the strength and force that only large numbers and massive
energy can produce. Its global activities are based on the messages
in the Conversations with God series of books.It seeks to change the
world by creating the space of possibility for a New Spirituality to
emerge upon the earth.

It proposes a spirituality that enlarges and enhances humanity's
current beliefs about God and about Life in a way that could change
forever how we live with each other, bringing peace and harmony to
our planet at last. The idea behind this New Spirituality is to
bring God back to life. Right now it feels as if God is far away
from life, as if God has nothing to do with it.

The New Spirituality says that God is not separate from anything --
and neither are we. Humanity's Team seeks to bring God back to Life
by placing spiritual messengers and educators on the ground around
the globe, working to create study groups, formal classes, weekly
gatherings, larger special events, seminars and retreats focusing on
another way to understand and relate to God -- and thus, another way
to live life.

There is another way to experience God and ourselves and our
relationship to God and to each other, and when we begin to learn
more about that other way, when we begin to embrace it, we will find
ourselves quite naturally creating another way to do politics,
another way to do economics, another way to do religion and
education and social interactions of all kinds -- a way that
eliminates ruthless competition as a means of surviving, violence as
a means of control, killing as a means of conflict resolution, and
the empowerment of the few through the disempowerment and oppression
of the many.

Life does not have to be this way. There IS another way. Yet
changing the way we experience God, Life, and each other will take
an increase in our awareness of Who and What God is, who and what WE
ARE, and what Life is truly all about. It is the intention of
Humanity's Team to elevate and expand that awareness.

If you desire, as do I, for people everywhere to be able to
experience at last the peace and the harmony, the safety and
security, the abundance and the joy that has always been life's
greatest promise, you are now invited to actively assist in
producing that outcome. For those of us whose lives have been deeply
touched by Conversations with God, the rapid dissemination of this
and other material of the New Spirituality is the place we choose to
begin.

We know that putting the With God books -- and especially the latest
and most socially focused of these, The New Revelations, Tomorrow's
God and What God Wants -- into the hands of as many people as
possible can change the world, because the With God books contain
messages that offer workable alternatives to humanity's most
prevalent beliefs -- beliefs that continue to create humanity's most
persistent problems.

We also know that we can do a great deal more than simply share the
message. The CwG books invite us all to inspire the world by being
the change we wish to see. And a new booklet I have written -- BEING
THE CHANGE: Ten Steps to Becoming a Spiritual Helper -- offers
specific action steps allowing us to achieve these goals. It invites
us to put our spiritual truth into action by becoming Spiritual
Helpers of the first rank, ending our days sitting on the sidelines,
and now joining forces to create a newer world.

As New York columnist Jimmy Breslin said, the problem in the world
today is that "The civil are not organized, and the organized are
not civil." It is high time that people of high purpose became
highly organized.

I am talking here about organization on a worldwide basis to produce
a specific result. And the result I propose? Peace on earth,
goodwill to humans everywhere.

Yes, this has been proposed many times before. We've called for it
and we've prayed for it and we've put the sentiment on our holiday
greeting cards for generations. And still we have failed to achieve
it. And so, some may think that it is impossible to achieve. Yet I'm
on the side of Albert Einstein, who observed, "If it's not
impossible to do, there's no point in attempting it."

Humanity's Team seeks to render the impossible possible, to render
the undoable doable, to make the unthinkable thinkable, and to turn
the unimaginable into the imaginable once again. This is our
calling, this is our purpose, this is our gargantuan agenda. Yet
that agenda is not bigger than the human heart, and its size is a
tiny speck compared to the human soul.

The Soul of Humanity calls now to the heart and to the mind of
humanity: Is it time yet? Have we had enough yet?

Have we had enough of the arguing and the fighting and the killing
and the war? Have we had enough of the sadness and the suffering and
the turmoil and the fear?

Are we ready yet? Are we ready to look at why things are the way
they are, why this is the way they have always been, and what it
will take to change things?

The Soul of Humanity calls to us...Is it time yet? Are we ready yet?

And the Soul of Humanity asks, If how the world now is is not what
any of us want, why is this what all of us have?

Then the Soul of Humanity cries out, Who is on Humanity's Team?

And our answer is that we are.

And though we may be outnumbered, with those who oppose humanity's
grandest dream on every side, and those who block us from our
greatest vision on every horizon, and those who stand in the way of
our taking the highest road on every path, we affirm that we will
yet find our way.

We will find our way to peace on earth, goodwill to humans
everywhere. We will find our way because we will make our way.

For what the world needs now is not a peacekeeping force, but a
peacemaking force. And that is what we intend to be. We intend to
help humanity help itself, to make peace at last -- peace in each
human heart, and peace in the collective experience of the lot of
us.

There is a place for you on Humanity's Team. You may claim that
place now by going to www.HumanitysTeam.org Without you there is
little we can do. With you, there is little we cannot do.

Why you? Simple.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Neale's blog: http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/blog.cfm

Saturday, August 20, 2005