Why should devotees of Adi Da make and do
the Global Cooperative Forum?
5.17 Prior unity, and the need to implement prior
unity via a Global Cooperative Forum, must be
presented as tacitly, self-evidently heart-true, and
everyone’s participation is to be invited on that basis.
In the last two years of His life, Heart Master Adi Da gave the world His book
Not-Two Is Peace. This book is unique in Adi Da’s Teaching in that it proposes a new political entity, the Global Cooperative Forum, as the indispensable requirement for global human survival.
This book also introduces a new level of responsibility to Adi Da’s devotees.
Heretofore, devotees were obligated by their vow of devotion to Adi Da. Now
devotees are called, along with everybody-all-at-once, to make an additional
social contract, one in which they affirm prior unity as the basis of their
lives.
It is the unique position of Adi Da’s devotees that they have twogreat callings in life: The calling to Divine Self-Realization, and the calling to participate in the Global Cooperative Forum.
For devotees who have taken on the profound requirements of their vow to Adi Da, the calling to create and participate in a new global cooperative culture may seem daunting, or a part of Adi Da’s Teaching they would rather ignore, or at least relegate to secondary status. But if everybody-all-at-once doesn’t include Adi Da’s devotees, then we would have to wait for everybody-else-all-at-once to start the Global Cooperative Forum.
But why should devotees make and do the Global Cooperative Forum?
I think devotees should make and do the Global
Cooperative Forum for two reasons –
1. The Global Cooperative Forum is the
only way to save the world from destruction, and
2. The Global Cooperative Forum is the only way to ensure a new kind of dialogue within Adidam.
If these statements are true, then the Global Cooperative Forum is essential for devotees because it affords us the possibility of a future for Adidam and the human race. The Global Cooperative Forum also provides a context for a new kind of dialogue in the world, a dialogue based on a group of people who affirm prior unity. This new kind of dialogue is essential for Adidam’s survival, because it provides a neutral zone free from tribal labels, where devotees can speak openly about the most serious issues affecting Adidam.
p. 162 Who must make and do the Global Cooperative Forum of humankind?
Everyone.
p. 143 The working-presumption of prior unity – rather than the search for unity – is the right and true context for all human exchanges.
In this document I have attempted to create a framework through which I can effectively live the two callings, and thereby serve both Adi Da and the Global Cooperative Forum. It is my hope that this framework will clarify and enable every devotee’s practice of the two callings.
This framework is composed of four steps:
1. A Cautionary
2. A Confession
3. A Contract
4. A Means
A Cautionary
This is the step where we acknowledge how urgent it is for each of us as devotees of Adi Da to be partners in the making and doing of the Global Cooperative Forum.
1.47 The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge of destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once—meaning not merely
mob power, but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues.
5.30 The urgency of the global situation is such that the foundation work of activating the totality of humankind via the Global Cooperative Forum must happen now.
p. 101 A real and true global cooperative human community is not merely a “utopian ideal”, but a practical and actually realizable necessity for the physical survival and the natural well-being of humankind and even all of Earthkind.
p. 97 Either there will be universal war and death or, alternatively, humankind will become established in a global cooperative order, based on the working-presumption of universal prior unity.
p. 154 It is absolutely urgent that there be an immediate and total transformation at the root of human culture and society and politics.
Because I love Adidam and the Way of the Heart, and because I love planet Earth and the human race, and because I want to participate in the restoration of human civilization, I accept Adi Da’s Urgency and cautionary warning about the threat to life on earth, and the fact that only the Global Cooperative Forum can counter the threats and save the world.
A Confession
This is the step where I confess what I am always doing – I am always being Narcissus, the self-contraction, and I am also a “mummer”, or a falsifier of Truth and Adidam. Therefore, I confess to everyone, “I am Narcissus”. I am also a mummer in“Saint-and-Ear”, insofar as I contribute to the status quo of Adidam.
p. 153 The last tyrant is “Everyman”.
In making this confession, I am making it known to everybody that I am willing to take responsibility for my activity, and be an accountable partner in the self-rightening process in Adidam.
A Contract
This is the step where I take on a new social contract, which enables me to participate in global cooperative culture in a new way.
p. 308 A new mode of social contract must emerge –a mode of social contract not founded on egoity. There must now be an egoless mode of social contract – based on cooperation, tolerance, and universal participation and accountability.
One way to make a new form of social contract is to state, “I affirm prior unity”. All of us are free to make this affirmation.
For example:
I ________________________ (your name) affirm prior unity.
Devotees who have publicly affirmed prior unity are making a new kind of social contract, which creates the context for a new kind of dialogue within Adidam. Devotees who have affirmed prior unity and
are participating in the Global Cooperative Forum are uniquely equipped to
engender a dialogue free from the limits of ego culture, and all the old
patterns in Adidam. And it is this kind of dialogue that is essential for Adidam
to righten itself and transform itself out of limiting patterns.
A Means
This is the step where devotees embrace the means given by Adi Da to righten,
and thereby“save”, His Sangha.
December 4, 2007
There should be a convocation of Adidam to establish the Way as I have
Revealed it, the Divine Self-Emergence Way as I've Given it. The entire
worldwide culture should be involved in such a convocation, and establish the
gathering and its institutional responsibilities.
p. 145 There needs to be a fundamental right dialogue
functioning in the human world.
p. 158 The Internet is an indispensable and, altogether, key and central tool – unique and new to global humankind –for organizing, and implementing, and surely (in every practical sense) happening the global cooperative order of the totality of humankind. Therefore, the Internet should immediately be made thus to serve.
Adi Da has given us the means of a convocation to handle our business and our issues, and the dialogue within the convocation will be enhanced by the presence of devotees who have made the new social contract, and are also serving within the Global Cooperative Forum.
A functioning Global Cooperative Forum will inform and inspire the Adidam Cooperative Forum and the Bright House, by modeling the principles from Not-Two Is Peace and applying them in positive ways. The Global Cooperative Forum and the Adidam Cooperative Forum represent areas of critical cultural growth and regeneration for Adidam, in terms of connecting devotees to each other and to a process of effective cooperative self-governance, while helping to achieve the goals of self-rightening and sustained growth in the Sangha.
I invite everybody who is interested in the Global Cooperative Forum to participate in a global conversation via webinar about building cooperative culture in our Sangha and in our world.
I will work with all who want to make and do the Global Cooperative Forum now, for the sake of preserving Adi Da’s “Brightness” Seat at Adi Da Samrajashram, which is the greatest source of blessing for planet Earth, and I will do it for the sake of Adi Da’s Sangha and Institutions, which are declining in numbers and money, and I will do it for the sake of the cooperative culture of Adidam, which is only beginning to break free of the cocoon of the status quo, and I will do it for the millions whose ears and eyes and hearts ache to hear and see and feel the Living Divine Person Adi Da Samraj, and I will do it because my Heart Master’s Shout and Criticism are ringing in my ears from His Scapegoat Book and Divine Discourses.
In service and prior unity,
Theo Cedar Jones
2012
www.ispeace723.org
www.nottwoispeace.info
the Global Cooperative Forum?
5.17 Prior unity, and the need to implement prior
unity via a Global Cooperative Forum, must be
presented as tacitly, self-evidently heart-true, and
everyone’s participation is to be invited on that basis.
In the last two years of His life, Heart Master Adi Da gave the world His book
Not-Two Is Peace. This book is unique in Adi Da’s Teaching in that it proposes a new political entity, the Global Cooperative Forum, as the indispensable requirement for global human survival.
This book also introduces a new level of responsibility to Adi Da’s devotees.
Heretofore, devotees were obligated by their vow of devotion to Adi Da. Now
devotees are called, along with everybody-all-at-once, to make an additional
social contract, one in which they affirm prior unity as the basis of their
lives.
It is the unique position of Adi Da’s devotees that they have twogreat callings in life: The calling to Divine Self-Realization, and the calling to participate in the Global Cooperative Forum.
For devotees who have taken on the profound requirements of their vow to Adi Da, the calling to create and participate in a new global cooperative culture may seem daunting, or a part of Adi Da’s Teaching they would rather ignore, or at least relegate to secondary status. But if everybody-all-at-once doesn’t include Adi Da’s devotees, then we would have to wait for everybody-else-all-at-once to start the Global Cooperative Forum.
But why should devotees make and do the Global Cooperative Forum?
I think devotees should make and do the Global
Cooperative Forum for two reasons –
1. The Global Cooperative Forum is the
only way to save the world from destruction, and
2. The Global Cooperative Forum is the only way to ensure a new kind of dialogue within Adidam.
If these statements are true, then the Global Cooperative Forum is essential for devotees because it affords us the possibility of a future for Adidam and the human race. The Global Cooperative Forum also provides a context for a new kind of dialogue in the world, a dialogue based on a group of people who affirm prior unity. This new kind of dialogue is essential for Adidam’s survival, because it provides a neutral zone free from tribal labels, where devotees can speak openly about the most serious issues affecting Adidam.
p. 162 Who must make and do the Global Cooperative Forum of humankind?
Everyone.
p. 143 The working-presumption of prior unity – rather than the search for unity – is the right and true context for all human exchanges.
In this document I have attempted to create a framework through which I can effectively live the two callings, and thereby serve both Adi Da and the Global Cooperative Forum. It is my hope that this framework will clarify and enable every devotee’s practice of the two callings.
This framework is composed of four steps:
1. A Cautionary
2. A Confession
3. A Contract
4. A Means
A Cautionary
This is the step where we acknowledge how urgent it is for each of us as devotees of Adi Da to be partners in the making and doing of the Global Cooperative Forum.
1.47 The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge of destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once—meaning not merely
mob power, but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues.
5.30 The urgency of the global situation is such that the foundation work of activating the totality of humankind via the Global Cooperative Forum must happen now.
p. 101 A real and true global cooperative human community is not merely a “utopian ideal”, but a practical and actually realizable necessity for the physical survival and the natural well-being of humankind and even all of Earthkind.
p. 97 Either there will be universal war and death or, alternatively, humankind will become established in a global cooperative order, based on the working-presumption of universal prior unity.
p. 154 It is absolutely urgent that there be an immediate and total transformation at the root of human culture and society and politics.
Because I love Adidam and the Way of the Heart, and because I love planet Earth and the human race, and because I want to participate in the restoration of human civilization, I accept Adi Da’s Urgency and cautionary warning about the threat to life on earth, and the fact that only the Global Cooperative Forum can counter the threats and save the world.
A Confession
This is the step where I confess what I am always doing – I am always being Narcissus, the self-contraction, and I am also a “mummer”, or a falsifier of Truth and Adidam. Therefore, I confess to everyone, “I am Narcissus”. I am also a mummer in“Saint-and-Ear”, insofar as I contribute to the status quo of Adidam.
p. 153 The last tyrant is “Everyman”.
In making this confession, I am making it known to everybody that I am willing to take responsibility for my activity, and be an accountable partner in the self-rightening process in Adidam.
A Contract
This is the step where I take on a new social contract, which enables me to participate in global cooperative culture in a new way.
p. 308 A new mode of social contract must emerge –a mode of social contract not founded on egoity. There must now be an egoless mode of social contract – based on cooperation, tolerance, and universal participation and accountability.
One way to make a new form of social contract is to state, “I affirm prior unity”. All of us are free to make this affirmation.
For example:
I ________________________ (your name) affirm prior unity.
Devotees who have publicly affirmed prior unity are making a new kind of social contract, which creates the context for a new kind of dialogue within Adidam. Devotees who have affirmed prior unity and
are participating in the Global Cooperative Forum are uniquely equipped to
engender a dialogue free from the limits of ego culture, and all the old
patterns in Adidam. And it is this kind of dialogue that is essential for Adidam
to righten itself and transform itself out of limiting patterns.
A Means
This is the step where devotees embrace the means given by Adi Da to righten,
and thereby“save”, His Sangha.
December 4, 2007
There should be a convocation of Adidam to establish the Way as I have
Revealed it, the Divine Self-Emergence Way as I've Given it. The entire
worldwide culture should be involved in such a convocation, and establish the
gathering and its institutional responsibilities.
p. 145 There needs to be a fundamental right dialogue
functioning in the human world.
p. 158 The Internet is an indispensable and, altogether, key and central tool – unique and new to global humankind –for organizing, and implementing, and surely (in every practical sense) happening the global cooperative order of the totality of humankind. Therefore, the Internet should immediately be made thus to serve.
Adi Da has given us the means of a convocation to handle our business and our issues, and the dialogue within the convocation will be enhanced by the presence of devotees who have made the new social contract, and are also serving within the Global Cooperative Forum.
A functioning Global Cooperative Forum will inform and inspire the Adidam Cooperative Forum and the Bright House, by modeling the principles from Not-Two Is Peace and applying them in positive ways. The Global Cooperative Forum and the Adidam Cooperative Forum represent areas of critical cultural growth and regeneration for Adidam, in terms of connecting devotees to each other and to a process of effective cooperative self-governance, while helping to achieve the goals of self-rightening and sustained growth in the Sangha.
I invite everybody who is interested in the Global Cooperative Forum to participate in a global conversation via webinar about building cooperative culture in our Sangha and in our world.
I will work with all who want to make and do the Global Cooperative Forum now, for the sake of preserving Adi Da’s “Brightness” Seat at Adi Da Samrajashram, which is the greatest source of blessing for planet Earth, and I will do it for the sake of Adi Da’s Sangha and Institutions, which are declining in numbers and money, and I will do it for the sake of the cooperative culture of Adidam, which is only beginning to break free of the cocoon of the status quo, and I will do it for the millions whose ears and eyes and hearts ache to hear and see and feel the Living Divine Person Adi Da Samraj, and I will do it because my Heart Master’s Shout and Criticism are ringing in my ears from His Scapegoat Book and Divine Discourses.
In service and prior unity,
Theo Cedar Jones
2012
www.ispeace723.org
www.nottwoispeace.info