Leading Social Change by Owen Waters

Leading Social Change
by Owen Waters

The way to bring about social change in a spiritual way is to
change the energy of a situation. Conflict is counter-
productive as that just invokes more conflict as a reaction.
Because conflict adds more energy, feeding energy to the
situation, it typically makes matters worse, not better.

The key to accelerating evolutionary change lies in educating
large numbers of people into the facts that they need to know.
It takes work and dedication to spread the word far and wide,
but it is this dedication which eventually manifests the
desired shift in the public mindset.

People spread the word on important issues to their friends,
causing the information to become more familiar within the
global mind atmosphere and therefore more easily accepted by
the general public. New ideas evolve from the early stage of
seeming strange to the later stage of becoming obvious to all.
At that point, any campaigns for the old way of thinking cease
to gain support.

Protest is perfectly valid, provided it takes the high ground
of being the voice of reason and avoids any temptation towards
becoming destructive. In recent history, the champion of
protest with passive resistance was Gandhi. He single-handedly
inspired the nation of India to resist the injustices imposed
by foreign rulers, always insisting that the protestors must
maintain a non-violent stance. When his movement built up to a
climax, he firmly but politely asked the occupiers, the
then-British Empire, to leave his country.

Today, the Internet provides a key to the evolution of true
democracy. With the Internet, our political system can evolve
from one of representative rule to one of rule by majority vote
on every significant issue. Currently, we elect representatives
to evaluate critical issues for us and then vote on our behalf.
These same representatives could equally well spend their time
briefing the voters on core issues so that people could vote
directly on each one. Then, the will of the people would be
carried out directly instead of by proxy through an elected
representative.

Once Internet democracy replaces representative democracy, the
stage is then set for an even fairer system - one beyond
democracy. In a system where the majority vote rules, 51% of
the public can decide what the other 49% must do, whether they
like it or not. This problem can be reduced by requiring a
two-thirds majority vote, but there would still be some unhappy
people who would be imposed upon by the majority.

Because the Earth is designed to be a free will zone of human
experience, freedom of choice is actually a birthright created
by the Creator of humanity. Therefore, no political system has
the right to remove freedom of choice, nor to ration it as a
privilege granted in exchange for conformity.

In an ideal system that evolves beyond majority rule by
democracy, your personal choices will be held as essential
options. No one will be forced to be a part of anything that
they disagree with. For example, if the nation is to go to war,
then the cost should be paid by those in favor and not by those
against.

That way, the dignity of the individual is honored, as is
freedom of choice. Then, if the war turns into a quagmire worse
than the Vietnam War that nobody wants any more, they can
simply choose to stop paying the bill.