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Achieving World Peace And Ecological Balance

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

Influential leaders of the United Nations are on a mission to achieve world peace and ecological balance by, both, establishing a one world government and by also uniting the worlds religions into a one world religion - a world unifying and eco-friendly religion... a religion based on religious syncretism and the scientific Gaia Hypothesis.

For many indigenous people, in 1994, the birth of Miracle, a female white buffalo calf, signaled a time of earth changes and the coming of the mending of the "Rainbow Hoop" - the sacred Circle of Nations - a necessary step toward achieving world peace and ecological balance.

Nineteen generations ago, a woman of supernatural origin appeared to the Lakota and transformed herself into a white buffalo calf. She was given the name White Buffalo Calf Women. She brought instruction in sacred ceremonies of how to live in balance with all life. She left behind a sacred bundle containing a sacred pipe of peace and prophesied that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that she would soon return to purify the world.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Lakota) is the current Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Carrier for the Lakota-Dakota-Nakota Nation. Arvol has been working to bring to the world the peace-message as taught by White Buffalo Calf Woman through an annual event he named World Peace and Prayer Day. He has brought his work of peace to the United Nations - and Canada has officially declared June 21 World Peace and Prayer Day.

Chief Looking Horse and an associate of his, Hanne Strong, have worked together on world peace initiatives. In the year 2000, they attended and participated in the United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. During the summit, Hanne's husband Maurice Strong, the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Millennium World Peace Summit, gave a speech on Religion, Peace and the United Nations. Top representatives from many world religions participated in this Summit's mission to bring the world's religious traditions to the United Nations World Peace Initiative. (ref.)

The goal of world peace has been sought by religious leaders, philanthropists and philosophers alike throughout the centuries. However, for over a decade and a half there has been a resurgence among postmodern scholars and liberal theologians to try to achieve world peace through religious partnerships, even unification. The Millennium World Peace Summit of the United Nations is one of their latest attempts to gain more credibility and influence at the international level. By gaining more and more credibility and influence they hope to eventually accomplish their goal of world peace.

Some of today's most influential scholars and liberal theologians have an United Nations initiative to establish religious partnership agreements that they hope will ultimately lead to the unification of the world's religions, which, in their view, would be an important step toward achieving world peace.

The "unification of the world's religions" means the end of all separate religions through a syncretistic blending of all religions into a New World Religion - or One World Religion.

Hanne Strong and her friends are working to unite the world's religions into a single religion - a One World Religion. And doing so, by working hand in hand with some of the leaders of the United Nations Global Ethic Initiative.

A leader of the UN Global Ethic Initiative, Hans Kung, was commissioned by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to create a "Declaration of Global Ethic". Kung writes in Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic:

"Any form of church conservatism is to be rejected....To put it bluntly: No regressive or repressive religion - whether Christian, Islamic, Jewish or of whatever provenance - has a long-term future." Furthermore, according to Kung, "there will be no...room for diversity" (including religious diversity), because, "If ethics is to function for the well-being of all, it must be indivisible. The undivided world increasingly needs an undivided ethic..." If we eliminate religious diversity we will have a single global religion - a One World Religion.

Another leader of the UN Global Ethic Initiative, Gerald Barney, wrote: "Five billion of us humans must prepare to die to 20th century ways of thinking and being...Every person must think like earth, to act like earth, to be earth." World renowned ecologists and liberal theologians who are involved with the UN Global Ethic Initiative religiously believe in and honor Mother Earth as a goddess.

Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, called the global ethic movement an "eco-religion". He said it manifests itself "as a new spirituality that supplants all religions, because the latter have been unable to preserve the ecosystem."

Vatican Radio said the popular film Avatar "cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium".

Ecology as a religion stems from the "Gaia Hypothesis", which James Lovelock, a world renowned scientist and futurist, offered as a paradigm shift to the Western world's mechanistic (nature-as-machine) world view. In this paradigm shift, the Earth, which has been given the name Gaia, is believed to be a living organism with a self regulating consciousness.

For the people who are of a particular version of the Gaia eco-religion, she (Gaia) is an ecologically-conscious goddess that they honor, pray to, and come close to worshipping. Their religion is simular to, both, the Hindus religion and Native America religions. The Hindus whorship God and honor, pray to, and come close to worshipping the "earth goddess", who is the Earth. Also, many Native Americans honor Mother Earth and worship the Great Spirit.

The Gaia Hypothesis states that all life, and all living things on this planet, are part of a single, all-encompassing global entity or consciousness. Gaia teaches that this "consciousness" must be protected. It is this belief that fuels the global ethic movement, environmental movement, sustainable development, and a global push for great multitudes of people all around the world to radically change their earth-destroying ways, so that ecological balance can be regained and preserved.

While researching the Gaia Hypothesis I have been astounded by how many prominent environmental leaders, politicians, scientists, and religious leaders profess a literal belief in Gaia. Gaians appear to have infiltrated every level of power at the United Nations.

Influential leaders of the United Nations are on a mission to achieve world peace and ecological balance by uniting the worlds religions into a One World Religion based on syncretism and the Gaia Hypothesis... and by also establishing a One World Government based on (1.) "the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation", and (2.) the new imperatives of global security cooperation associated with preventing warfare.

(1.) The new imperatives of global environmental cooperation: During the opening ceremony of the UN Earth Summit, which was centered around a Viking long-ship named Gaia, Maurice Strong gave a speech wherein he said: "The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security."

(2.) The new imperatives of global security cooperation associated with preventing warfare: One of the most compelling arguments for a new world order is the danger of global annihilation. The threat of war, especially nuclear war, causes people who value personal peace as well as national and global security to desire and work for the establishment of an authoritarian one world government which would be able to remove the threat of war. Those who push this agenda are at the forefront of global disarmament and a one-world peace-keeping military force, namely the United Nations.

Most of the influential scholars and liberal theologians who are involved with UN initiatives and working to unite the worlds religions by incorporating the good aspects of all the world's religious traditions into a developing New World Religion are earth-focused and ecologically-conscious pagan panentheists. They are of a type of panentheism that is also partially pantheistic. They are advocates of the inclusive new age doctrine of a pagan panentheistic/pantheistic (or, theopanistic) New World Religion.

It's a new global spirituality that they advocate, a pagan, panentheistic/pantheistic, blend of mostly the world's "earth-centered religions", including those religions which honor and pray to Mother Earth and worship the Great Spirit as well as celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature, religions such as traditional Native American religions and the Hindu religion, etc.

They are advocating the type of contemporary paganism that emerged as part of the hippie counter-cultural, New Age Movement in the 1960s, a type of paganism that emphasizes the sanctity of the Earth and Nature. They are, in a way, opposed to all the world's separate religions, and they are especially opposed to Christianity and Islam; which are remote-heaven-focused and (in their view) polluting, earth-destroying, religions.

Within the next several paragraphs there is information about (1.) a type of panentheism that is also partially pantheistic. Plus, (2.) several paragraphs about Christianity's physical, cultural and spiritual genocide against indigenous peoples with nature/earth-based pagan panentheistic/pantheistic religions. After those paragraphs there are (3.) a few paragraphs that present UN statements about the earth-destroying histories of the Christian and Islamic religions.

(1.) Panentheism/Pantheism: There is a type of panentheism that is partially pantheistic, claiming the universe is a part of God, and that God is, also, more than the universe. It believes God is ultimately independent of the universe, and that the universe will eventially come to an end, but God will exsist forever and is now in the universe and nowhere outside it. It claims that the universe is the outward manifestation, or body of, a lesser "God", who is a, imperfect manifestion of the Supreme Cosmic Spirit (God). This type of panentheism claims that, ultimately, God is the only reality: everything is a part of God, and all things find their true identity in God. This is a description of the type of panentheism that the mentioned above scholars and liberal theologians believe in, it's called theopanism.

Theopanism conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything emanates: "God becomes everything", necessarily, incessantly, without beginning and without end. Theopanism includes among its major concepts pantheism and panentheism. It is the most common way in which Hindu philosophy conceives God and the world.

Theopanists believe that God existed as the Absolute Reality, a formless Spirit Being without boundaries before It created the universe, and that God will be, once again, without boundaries when the universe comes to an end. They believe that everything in essence is the ever-living Absolute God who has become personal and visible to us for a time through this cosmos.

(2.) Christianity's Genocide And Continuing Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: A growing number of indigenous people are seeking the formal revocation of the 1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera", which was one in a series of 15th Century papal bulls, collectively call the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. Inter Caetera was issued by the Vatican to Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Caribbean. It sought to establish Christian dominion over the globe and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and theft of their lands. As a result, an estimated 100 million indigenous people of the western hemisphere - plus many more indigenous people of other places around the world - were killed off in the genocidal process of Europe's Christian colonization of the indigenous world.

This papal edict has never been repealed and is the foundation-stone of the international system we live under today. It is also the foundational-stone of U.S. Federal Indian Law and directly related to the earth-destroying and people oppressing, U.S. corporate-state, empire-building mission. This U.S. mission is a militaristic/greedy-capitalistic/Christian-evangelization-of-the-world, total global-domination mission. It's a mission that is, to some extent, a continuation of the 15th Century, Inter Caetera Vatican directed, Christian empire-build mission. It is responsible for a lot of damage to the earth's life-supporting ecosystems and also for America's paternalistic/militaristic and economic oppression of weaker nations around the world, including many indigenous nations. I call it America's Christian globalization mission.

In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued to King Alfonso V of Portugal the bull Romanus Pontifex, declaring war against all non-Christians throughout the world, and specifically sanctioning and promoting the conquest, colonization, and exploitation of non-Christian nations and their territories. In this bull Pope Nicholas directed King Alfonso to "capture, vanquish, and subdue the saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ," to "put them into perpetual slavery," and "to take all their possessions and property." In the Inter Cetera bull, Pope Alexander stated his desire that the "discovered" people be "subjugated and brought to the faith itself." By this means, said the pope, the "Christian Empire" would be propagated. ref.

In 1823, the Christian Doctrine of Discovery was adopted into U.S. law by the Supreme Court in the celebrated case, Johnson v. McIntosh. According to Chief Justice John Marshall, the United States - upon winning its independence in 1776 - became a successor nation to the right of "discovery" and acquired the power of "dominion" from Great Britain. Also, according to Marshall, Christian European nations had assumed "ultimate dominion" over the lands of America during the Age of Discovery, and that - upon "discovery" - the Indians had lost "their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations," and only retained a right of "occupancy" in their lands. ref.

In April, 2010, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) presented a preliminary study on the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. The expert members of the UNPFII have declared that the doctrine is "the historical root of ongoing violations of indigenous peoples, which for centuries served as 'legal' rationale for stealing land and dehumanizing indigenous peoples, as well as justification for the establishment of boarding schools throughout North America to 'civilize' Indian children."

Internationally renowned human rights advocates contend: (1.) past human rights violations faced by indigenous peoples, such as religious persecution, forced conversion to Christianity, genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, wars of conquest, slavery, grand theft of lands and resources, denial of their full sovereignty rights, desecration of many of their sacred sites, destruction of their eco-spirituality, pagan panentheistic/pantheistic religions, etc. - and (2.) present-day human rights violations being faced by indigenous peoples, including the continuing dehumanizing subjugation of these peoples - mainly by denying them ownership of their sacred ancestral homelands and full sovereignty rights on those lands (see article on this topic) - can all be traced to the 15th century Christian Doctrine of Discovery, which was - and still is - an international legal construct. They're also saying that the doctrine comes very close to a religious root cause of the world's major problems.

Indian Country Today Media Network, the world's largest Indian news source, recently published a letter of mine about my work to expose and rectify the injustices caused by the Christian Doctrine of Discovery. The letter includes my correspondence with and support from the international renowned leader of the movement to expose and rectify the doctrine's injustices. His name is Steven T. Newcomb.

Christianity's colonial-imperialistic mission did not bring justice or equality but aggression and dehumanizing subjugation to indigenous peoples around the world. Its racial and religious bigoted beliefs led to the world's worst genocide the wanton destruction of tens of thousands of earth-focused, ecologically-conscious, indigenous cultures and religions. And most Christian leaders have not yet repented. The Pope and many other Christian leaders have not yet apologized for Christian colonialism and the consequential current dehumanizing subjugation of indigenous peoples. more... (1.) or (2.)

(3.) United Nations statements about the earth destroying histories of the Christian and Islamic religions:

A statement in a UN Environmental Programme document reads: "the root causes of the loss of biodiversity are embedded in the way societies use resources. This world view is characteristic of large scale societies, heavily dependent on resources brought from considerable distances. It is a world view that is characterized by the denial of sacred attributes in nature, a characteristic that became firmly established about 2000 years ago with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious tradition." The document also states that Eastern cultures with religious traditions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism did not depart as drastically from the ancient religious traditions that were aware of the sacred attributes in nature and ecologically conscious.

Following the release of the UN Earth Charter a series of international forums, called "The Earth Dialogues" were held at the United Nations. One of those forums was the roundtable for Inter-Religious Groups and Spiritual Leaders. As stated in the forums official meeting minutes, this roundtable was held to deal with "the ethics of intolerant righteousness and the greed of short term gain, as these cannot lead us to sustainable development despite enduring beliefs in the one right religion or the invisible hand. It is clear that our religious institutions have barely begun to articulate the core values of sustainable development. In their fundamentalist - fanatical forms, religions throughout history have justified terrorism, (Islamic) jihads and (Christian) crusades against people who hold different beliefs and against the Earth itself."

During the opening speech of the UN Earth Summit, Maurice Strong said: "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable...." The United States of America and many other industrialized nations are made up of mostly middle class Christians who live in non-sustainable suburban houses, use to much fossil fuel and eat to much meat. And the Pastors of Christian churches in these industrialized nations are not telling their parishioners that they need to repent and reform their lives. They have barely begun to articulate and preach "the core values of sustainable development".

The earth-destroying Western world's attitudes and actions towards nature were shaped by the Judeo-Christian religion. A document mandated by the UN - sponsored Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, explicitly refers to Christianity as a faith that has set humans apart from nature and stripped nature of its sacred qualities.

"Conversion to Christianity has therefore meant an abandonment of an affinity with the natural world for many forest dwellers, peasants, fishers all over the world ...The northeastern hilly states of India bordering China and Myanmar supported small scale, largely autonomous shifting cultivator societies until the 1950's. These people followed their own religious traditions that included setting apart between 10% and 30% of the landscape as sacred groves and ponds."

While calling for a new spiritual relationship between man and nature, Al Gore, in his book Earth In The Balance, praises traditional Native American spiritualism, which has a true spiritual sense of our place in nature. He blames Christianity for the elimination of the ancient goddess religion, which he believes had a true spiritual sense of our place in nature.

"The spiritual sense of our place in nature predates Native American cultures; increasingly it can be traced to the origins of human civilization. A growing number of anthropologists and archaeomythologists, such as Marija Gimbutas and Riane Esler argue that the prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things...The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity as late as the fifteenth century in Lithuania."

"The richness and diversity of our religious tradition throughout history is a spiritual resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to teachings first offered outside their own system of belief. But the emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously through the world has ...spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization's responsibility for the earth is concerned."

For Al Gore and other influential environmentalists, the Judeo-Christian faith is the root cause of the ecological crisis. They believe that the Judeo-Christian faith, in a terrorist way, threatens all life on earth. Gore asserts it is the deluded, Hell-fearing, paranoid Christians who are afraid to open their minds to teachings outside their own system of belief who have become a dangerous threat to the survival of the earth's life sustaining ecosystems. To Al Gore, it seems obvious that a better understanding of a religious heritage preceding our own by so many thousands of years could offer us new insights and help assists us in establishing a new faith that will resanctify the earth.

The halls of the United Nations have long been a haven for one-world religion spirituality. Former Secretary-Generals like Dag Hammarskjold (founder of the UN Meditation Room), U Thant and former Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller were outspoken advocates of a new panentheistic/pantheistic global spirituality, using the UN as a vehicle to spread their doctrine.

The earth-focused and ecologically-conscious new panentheistic/pantheistic global spirituality that has become so popular in the United Nations is not only undergoing a renaissance...it's giving the remote-heaven-focused and earth-destroying religions - Christianity and Islam, a run for their money.

Many leading scholars and theologians with an United Nations mission to achieve world peace and ecological balance are New Age believers. They believe in a soon to come new age wherein humanity will be united within a single global culture, religion and government.

Western society is in a dramatic shift away from the panentheistic religions that are not also partially pantheistic - Judaism, Islam and Christianity. In many cases, former believers are turning to the New Age panentheistic/pantheistic global religion being promoted by UN leaders. It's an earth or nature friendly panentheistic/panthetistic religion that embraces the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism and incorporates the eco-spirituality of traditional indigenous tribal religions and some aspects of the ancient goddess religions. Plus, aspects of Christianity, Islam and other not yet mentioned religion are also incorporated into this developing New World Religion.

The next several paragraphs are about the New Age panentheistic/pantheistic global spirituality that is based, primarily, on Hinduism and traditional Native American religions and being promoted by leaders of the United Nations.

New Age teachings became popular during the 1960s youth counter-cultural revolution. John Lennon's Imagine lyrics read: "I hope someday you'll join us - and the world will live as one." New Age believers who are of the panentheistic/pantheistic global spirituality that is being promoted by leaders of the UN believe in the unity of science and religion. They also believe that all that exists is derived from a single source of divine energy, or one divine reality/mind/consciousness, called Brahman in Hinduism.

They also believe in the concept of the divinity of the individual, that we are all divine, and that we are - when all together and in an enlightened state of consciousness - God. They believe that originally, we were all together as ONE and that, in the future, we will be all together again as ONE. They do not seek God as "revealed" in Biblical text or in the panentheistc religions that are not also partially pantheistic, nor do they seek God in a remote heaven; they seek God within the self and throughout the entire universe.

In contrast with Hindu and New Age believers' nature/earth-based panentheistic/pantheistic beliefs, Christianity was established on:

(1.) the false dualism of man and nature - man (in his mortal existence) was viewed as separate from nature and above it, not a part of nature.

(2.) the belief that God assigned man to rule over the earth or nature, not live in harmony with nature.

(3.) the false dualism of man and God - man was viewed as separate and distinct from God, not one with God.

(4.) the false belief that God resides not only within the universe but also beyond it. Meaning, God resides "beyond" the universe's outer boundaries, not "beyond" associated with God being the Divine Spirit and existing independent of the universe while residing only within it, for as long as it exist.

(5.) the false belief that the universe is not a part of God, or a temporary outward manifestation of God.

(6.) the false dualism of there being an eternal Hell and Heaven, where humanity will be eternally divided, some humans being eternally separated from the rest of humanity and burning/suffering in an eternal Hell. Instead of on the belief that, ultimately, we (all of humanity) will be together as One, in love and eternally happy.

(7.) and later, Christianity established the false belief that it was the will of God that white Christians exploit nature and the natural-world indigenous peoples for their "proper" ends.

Hindus and panentheist/pantheist New Agers have a concept of 'only god' (monism). Everything that exists is said to come from a single entity, called Brahman, and everything ultimately returns to this original state.

If you stand between two mirrors, an infinite series of reflections of yourself can be seen, though there is only one 'you'. Similarly, owing to illusion or Maya, the singular Brahman appears as different souls. The ultimate goal of every individual soul is to pierce the veil of ignorance, and return to one's original divine nature.

The panentheist/pantheist New Age believers believe that we all are (in our mortal existence) a part of nature, and we all have a divine-super or cosmic level of consciousness that Hinduism refers to as God Consciousness or Brahman. From this Hindu and New Age believers' view, humanity is God. However, because most of us are not yet experiencing enlightenment, the enlightened souls segment of humanity is sometimes referred to as God.

There is a Hindu and adopted New Age believers' concept of God Almighty being in essence the sum total of all purified souls in the cosmos at a given point of time. Each individual soul ultimately regains its original pure pristine form. All individual human souls will return to their eternal home where they will have (upon arrival) regained their original pure pristine form. Hindus and New Age believers believe that no one goes to an "eternal Hell" and burns forever and that there is no such place, or state of being called: "Hell". They believe that, ultimately, we will be all together as One, in love and eternally happy.

Panentheists who are also partially pantheists and known as "process theologians" believe that the evolution of the universe and life are but manifestations of an evolution taking place in God. God created the universe, they say, because He grew to a point in His evolution where He realized that He had to become embodied in order to continue to evolve. Therefore, He created the physical universe to be His body.

An increasing number of New Age believers are coming to believe in a new belief, based on modern-day science and religion, that God was originally ONE, and that about fourteen billion years ago It decided to divide and experience Itself as many separate human beings who were spirits and did not have physical bodies. When this happened, time began, and the "big bang" creation of our universe occurred.

The universe is an essentially undifferentiated mass of light. The illusion of it being made up of separate and distinct multiple forms of matter comes from a part of humanity developing a false identity of who they were at the time of the "big bang" creation, a false identity that most people have in this present time/age. They identify themselves as being separate and distinct from God and not essentially one with God.

God who was solitary decided to become many, to be a family that would live in bliss together. So It devided into many human beings without physical bodies. At the time, they experienced themselves as being essentially One Being having traces of separate individual identities and they had free will.

At this time the "universe" was created as an essentially undifferentiated mass of light. Then a part of humanity decided to separate and become distinct from God in their own minds, and did so, by committing an act that caused them to believe that they could recognize the difference between good and evil, which was, and still is, a delusion. Good and evil are not real.

In the beginning (about fourteen billion years age), before "Adam and Eve" received physical bodies and before they sinned, by eating the "forbidden fruit" from "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil", they had no real 'egos" and it is precisely in the belief that they were each somebody, that they each had a "self" and even recognized the difference between good and evil, that caused the "fall" from enlightenment, where attachment and sorrow lies.

Because "Adam and Eve" (or a segment of humanity) ate of the "forbidden fruit", or recognized the difference between good and evil, while in a pre-moral state of existence without physical bodies, they underwent the "fall". They wrongly believed that they could recognize the difference between good and evil and that, likewise, they could recognize the difference between themselves and God. They came to believe that they were separate and distinct from God.

This delusion caused the universe to appear to be made up of separate and distinct multiple forms of matter, which is an illusion. The goal of the part of humanity that is still suffering from the delusion of being separate and distinct from God is to return to their original state of Being, so that the totality of humanity is eternally experiencing its essential Oneness with God.

Many New Age believers believe in the Hindu scriptures that describe Bhoomi Devi as the personification of Mother Earth or nature as a goddess. Nowadays, they call her Gaia, who they do not worship, but highly honor and pray to - she is to some extent regarded as "God". She is the temporary outward manifestation of God, appearing as the Earth and Heavens, or Nature.

The belief in a world soul that is honored and prayed to, as is Gaia, by some Gaians, is not just a contemporary belief and spiritual practice. This belief and spiritual practice is ancient and found in both Eastern and Western culture. This world soul is usually conceived as a "formative force," an active, intelligent, purposeful spiritual presence at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution. It is not accorded the status of being the ultimate source or Creator but might be looked upon as an archangelic being or Mary the mother of Jesus in the Roman Catholic religion presiding over the well being of the world, or the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth. ref.

The Judeo-Christian tradition arises from the Semitic spiritual perspective of God and creation being separate and distinct, as well as from patriarchal social structures. In such a context, sacredness has overtones of authority, power, distance, and maleness that would have been alien to the spirituality of, for instance, the ancient Celts or the Native Americans, two cultures that incorporated a sense of the living earth.

Nature is not a perfect outward manifestation of God. Therefore, nature is the outward manifestation of both enlightened and un-enlightened souls, and as such "She" is the "Divine Nature" on Her way to perfection. A long time ago, God established the laws of Divine Nature that are still being used today to lead humanity to its/our most glorious destination.

In a United Nations speech Maurice Strong said, "It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature."

Alice Bailey, and Helena Blavatsky, renowned New Age leaders, used these terms often. Their writings state that the 'force of darkness' are those who adhere to the 'out-dated' Judeo-Christian faith; those who continue along their 'separative' paths of the 'one true God'. The 'force of light', in their view, is the inclusive New Age doctrine of a neopagan panentheistic/pantheistic New World Religion. They have said that: "In the New Age there will be no room for the 'force of darkness' and 'separativeness'."

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken of the need to protect the environment, but warned against multitudes of people coming to believe that "neopaganism" is the religious solution to the ecological crisis. Pope Benedict XVI also warned against "the dangers of turning nature into a new divinity." He said by doing so people would "open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man's salvation in nature alone."

There are different types of pantheism, including a type of so-called "pantheism" that is also a type of panentheism, the type that is partially pantheistic. This type of pantheism is tinged with neo-paganism and is "turning nature into a new divinity" by claiming that Nature is Divine because it is God's Body. It is also claiming that because God is temporarily contained within nature, it, therefore, see's "the source of man's salvation in nature alone".

Because most Gaians are also New Age neo-pagan panentheists who are partially pantheists - or of "a new type of pantheism" - they refer to nature as "Divine Nature" and believe that the spreading of their neo-paganism throughout the world is the religious solution to the ecological crisis, therefore, Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican seem to believe that they are pantheists who worship nature; they do not worship nature. However, they come close to worshipping her; and they do worship God in nature and not beyond nature or rather beyond the outer boundaries of the universe. Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican believe these Gaians are of the "new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism".

Gaia belief is at the very heart of the Global Green Agenda, Sustainable Development, Agenda 21, the UN sponsored Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Global Ethic Initiative and the United Nations Earth Charter. The Gaians are on a mission to save Mother Earth from the ecosystems-destroying segment of Her human population. Gaians have succeeded in uniting the environmental movement, the New Age movement, Eastern religions and the United Nations behind this type of neo-paganism.

Gaians believe that nature or the universe encompasses God who is inwardly Spirit and that It is temporarily manifests Itself outwardly as nature. Therefore, they see the source of man's salvation in nature alone, and do so, because God is in nature alone. Christians believe that the earth or nature is not, in any way, a (perfect or imperfect) outward manifestation of God, but believe that He resides, both, in nature and beyond its borders. Therefore, they believe that mans salvation comes from in nature and beyond nature, which is panentheism; and not from in nature alone, which is pantheism.

I believe that there is no single person God or three persons God who resides in nature and also beyond its outer boundaries. However, there is a great-multitude-of-persons God (all enlightened human souls through out the cosmos) who resides in nature and nowhere beyond nature. God (referred to in Hinduism as Brahman), is the source of the threefold aspects of the Godhead - Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. So the source of man's salvation comes from Brahman, and He exists independent of nature (or, in this way, beyond nature), but as long as nature exist He dwells in it and through out it. He is the "heavenly Father", the Absolute, Unmanifested, existing beyond the creation.

A Vatican newspaper article criticized the movie Avatar for supporting nature-based faiths. It criticized the film for promoting nature as a part of God over Christian beliefs. The article said: "The plotline of aliens who live on a distant unspoiled planet and the humans who want to pillage their resources is a universal theme that can be reminiscent of past colonizations and wars."

There's a huge, very racist problem with the Vatican critisizing the movie Avatar for supporting nature-based faiths. It wasn't that long ago that the Roman Catholics, Protestant, and Anglican residential schools did their level best to eradicate 'pagan' nature-based faiths or spiritualities out of myriads of aboriginal cultures around the globe in what is now universally accepted as a physical, cultural and spiritual genocide, as well as the root cause of our current ecological crisis.

The Bible based panentheistic religions believe and teach that God created human beings and the cosmos out of nothing. Hindus and panentheists/pantheist New Agers believe and teach that God created human beings and the rest of the cosmos from the sacred spiritual energy within Itself.

The physical substance of the earth (matter) does not actually exist; it's an illusion. From the highest realm of human consciousness, the earth is perceived as a field of energy (temporarily manifesting as an essentially undifferentiated mass of light) that is part of Divine Consciousness. The Divine Spirit (God) manifests Herself in the earth realm as Gaia, who personifies the entire ecosystem of Planet Earth. Despite misleading forces that oppose Her, She is always working to achieve and maintain harmony, wholeness and balance within the environment. Mother Nature heals, nurtures and supports all life on this planet. In time, Mother Nature in the earth realm (Gaia) will ultimately (as She does God's will) lead us and our planet to world peace and ecological balance.

The Great Spirit, or God, is the central figure in the cosmology of a number of indigenous north American tribes, most notably among the Dakota or "Sioux". Unlike the Semitic "God", the Dakota's Great Spirit (Wahkontonka) is described as "many and one" and takes on numerous forms. In this, and other ways, Wahkontonka is simular to the Hindus' God, Brahman. Like Brahman, Wahkontonka is not personified, but aspects of it are. In respect to the Dakota religion, the "aspects" are often personified or manifested in the sun, moon, sky, earth, winds, lightning, thunder, and other natural phenomena. When the Dakota pray to Wahkontonka they address the sum total of sacred supernatural help available.

Wahkontonka is not an abstract concept of godhead; He, who is "many and one", personifies and is expressive of everything sacred in the material universe - including the earth, sun, moon, wind, fire, rocks trees, planets, stars, etc. He is not the god of a monotheistic religion but rather signifies a panentheistic/pantheistic philosophy in Dakota thought. Wahkontonka is not easy to understand for the uninitiated. He transcends the idea of divinity of someone brought up in a Semitic, monotheistic culture - where, in no way is everything sacred in the universe believed to be a part of God. A more closer analogy can be found in the Hindu religion.

The Dakota world is characterized by its oneness, its unity. There is no separation of the natural world from the world of the supernatural. Even human beings are considered to be a part of Wahkontonka. This unity is thought to be beyond the comprehension of mankind and can only be shared in through the practice of rituals. To the Dakota, the animating force that acts as the common denominator of the universe is Wahkontonka. Wahkontonka is in everything in the universe and everything that is sacred in the physical world, which is almost everything, is composed of the manifestations of Wahkontonka. Wahkontonka is most precisely defined by incomprehensibility. He is the "Great Mystery".

The Dakota believe Wahkontonka has a mind and created the universe, and through inferior spirits, which are manifestations of Itself (who is called "Grandfather"), cares about each of us in a personal way. They also believe that Wahkontonka outwardly manifests Itself as all that is sacred in the physical universe, but is also greater than all that is sacred in the universe. This is a type of panentheism that is partially pantheistic. It is partially pantheistic because it does not claim that God is only in all things, but that Wahkontonka is in all things and manifest Himself as all sacred things, while being also greater than all things sacred in the universe.

In essence, the Dakota believe that every object is spirit, or "wahkon". For this reason, the Dakota hold a view of the universe in which nothing physical is real. Everything in the material world has only the appearance of being real.

Everything has its own spirit but all share the same spiritual essence that is Wahkontonka. Wahkontonka's Spirit slit itself up into rocks, trees, water, earth, sky, stars, etc. - they being sacred "material" objects that make up most of the universe and are made of Wahkontonka's spiritual essence or divine invisible-energy, as are all "material" objects, and they all have no material substance to them.

Each generation of scientist has searched for the building blocks of matter, the smallest quantum or indivisible unit. The smallest unit was once thought to be the atom, but this belief changed as the compound microscope gave way to the electron microscope. With greater magnification the wall and nucleus of the atom were found to be made of more empty space and so on until the particles became wholly invisible. Physicists found no material substance at all in the building blocks of matter, only invisible energy. Two thousand years before Christ, the Vedics in India were teaching that matter is not real, that it's an illusion.

The Dakota believe that Wahkontonka employs the use of "Wahkon people" (inferior spirits) who are a part of Itself to interact with the material world and inform and guide the lives of human beings. The "Wahkon people" are often the objects of worship and praise. Likewise, the Hindus' Brahman takes on many forms that Hindus worship as gods or goddesses. Like Wahkontonka, Brahman informs and guides people in a personal way through Its inferior spirits. White Buffalo Calf Woman is one of the most important "Wahkon people" to the Dakota.

In the Hindu Book Rig Veda, Purusha, a cosmic being, is sacrificed by the gods in order to supply from his body the material by which all things in the world can arise. Thus, the ground of all material objects lies in this cosmic being's transformed body. Similarily (to some extent), in respect the material world, Wahkontonka is everything sacred in it, which is almost everything.

While this, examined apart from a complete study on this topic, can be interpreted as pantheism. It's, however, actually only partially pantheistic, because Wahkontonka is expressive of not only everything sacred in the material universe, but also everything sacred in the spirit world, a world that is, in part, independent of the phyisical universe - and, also, in respect to Hinduism, a larger body of Hindu gods committed the sacrifice of this cosmic being (Purusha), which indicates that there is a higher divinity independent of the universe. Further, this godly existence of Purusha pre-exist before the actual physical world, indicating that the divinity of God is in some way a transcendent precursor to the world that God will later sustain. Simularily, according to the Dakota, Wahkontonka created the universe and now sustains it. With these considerations, elements of panentheism and pantheism can be identified in, both, Hinduism and the traditional religion of the Dakota Oyate (People).

In Minnesota, "the land of ten thousand lakes", there is a large and beautiful lake named Mille Lacs. Its outlet river is named Rum. The Dakota or "Sioux" name for the "Rum River" is Wahkon, translated (Great) Spirit.

[note: Wahkon is the Dakota people's traditional name for the Great Spirit. Wahkon is sometimes spelled Wakan. Mille Lacs Lake's Dakota name is Wahkon. A bay on Mille Lacs Lake is named Wahkon, Wahkon Bay.]

According to historical documents found in, "Minnesota Geographic Names", a book written by Warren Upham, and published by the Minnesota Historical Society... in the late 1700s, white men gave the "Rum River" its current English name by way of a "punning translation" that "perverted the ancient Sioux name Wakan".

I became aware of this profanation of the sacred Dakota name for the "Rum River" some twenty five years ago. And then over a decade ago I established a movement to change the river's profane name.

When I discovered this profanation of the sacred Dakota name Wakan, I was participating in a world-view around the word wahkon movement. This movement originated as a part of the 1960s youth counter-cultural revolution. A revolution with a mission to establish a single united global culture, a culture made up of the best of the past of all different people's cultures and traditions. A culture wherein, we hoped, all of humanity would eventually be united. This movement was founded on lyrics in the Beatles' song Imagine: "hope you join us and the world will be as one".

And this movement is still active. Near Summertown, Tennessee, there is a 250-member and very successful youth of the 1960s counter-cultural commune with a world-view around the word wakan. Its founder and leader, Stephen Gaskin, is an internationally renowned environmentalist and his commune has gained national recognition as a successful environmental community and organization.

The "Sioux" are used to portray all Native American tribes in Hollywood, anyone wanting to see a "real Indian" wants to see a war bonnet and a tipi. Therefore, I believe that the world psychic views all Native Americans as "Sioux"; and that when people watch the traditional Hollywood movies about Native Americans they often hear the "Sioux" using the word wahkon (sacred), or the combined words Wahkon-Tonka (Wahkontonka), meaning Spirit-Great or Great Spirit. Hence, a lot of people believe that the word wahkon and the name Wahkontonka are used by all Native Americans. Stephen Gaskin wrote: "The word wakan has a strong and universal concept and people all around the world know something about it."

The word wahkon is used by a number of Native American tribes. And because we believe that Native American culture has the most valuable features of all cultures, features such as kinship tribalism, an ecological spirituality, a charismatic spirituality...etc., we have, therefore, made it the predominant culture of our one-world-culture, world-unifying globalization movement. We, therefore, describe our movement as a world-view around the word wahkon movement.

And it is by way of this movement that we are promoting respect for traditional Native American culture and spirituality. And we are doing so by showing respect for the sacred multi-tribal Native American word wahkon.

The Tekakwitha Conference is an international Catholic Native or "Indian" conference that has, during some of its annual conferences, represented over one-hundred tribes throughout North America. At the 1983 annual Tekakwitha Conference, a conference that I attended, a missionary Priest addressed the conference and said: "There is a whole world-view behind the word wahkon".

During the 1983 conference I was interviewed by Matthew Fox. At the time Fox was the international leader of the Catholic Church's somewhat syncretistic, one-world-religion in the making movement. At the beginning of the interview, Fox told me that Thomas Merton had asked him to reach out to the youth of the 1960's counter cultural revolution with the intent to help them find the truth and live holy lives.

And then Fox asked me, a counter cultural revolutionary with a syncretistic mission to unite the world's religions into a one-world-religion, what I thought about this connection with Thomas Merton. I responded by telling him about my - strongly influenced by Merton - worldview around the word wahkon - counter-cultural, world-unifying mission.

And near the end of the interview Fox ask me to keep in touch with him, so as to keep him informed about the progress of my mission. Years later, Fox sent me a letter giving his support for my organization's effort to change the Rum River's name.

And during the 1984 Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family reunion my uncle Don Rainbow addressed the seventeen families gathered at that Rainbow family reunion and said: " A Rainbow is a sign of God's salvation plan and I believe that we may be used to glorify God more than any other family in the world." He made this very grandiose statement after I spoke to him about my vision of our family coming together in kinship tribalism in order to promote the tribal way and to also promote my expression of the counter-culture's - worldview around the word wahkon - one world movement.

Years later I met and became friends with Chris McCloud, an internationally renowned song writer who in the 1960s socialized with Paul McCarthy and other internationally renowned counter cultural leaders. When McCloud was socializing with McCarthy he was of a, strongly influenced by Thomas Merton, expression of the counter culture's world unifying globalization movement.

These mentioned above experiences inspired me to increase my dedication to my mission of promoting my expression of the counter-culture's world-view movement around the word wahkon, and to do so, by showing respect for the multi-tribal Native American word wahkon and traditional name for their Great Spirit (Wahkon). And in order to show due respect for the sacred Native American word wahkon and name Wahkon, I (as previously mentioned) established a movement to change the derogatory name of the Rum River back to its sacred Dakota name Wahkon or Wakan.

My organization's efforts to change the river's name has received support from a long list of organizations and individuals, including, to name some of them: a Mdewakanton Dakota band, the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community, Leonard Wabasha (a traditional chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota people and a leading Minnesota Native activist), Cankdeska Cikana Community College, the Tekakwitha Conference, the UN Secretariat of the Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues, the National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans, Joe Day (Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council), Russell Means (internationally renowned American Indian activist), Pat Albers (Chair of the University of Minnesota's American Indian Studies Department), Archbishop Harry Flynn (of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul), American Indian Cultural Research Center at South Dakota's Blue Cloud Abbey, the University Creation Spirituality, Pax Christi USA, and many other historic preservationists, human rights organizations as well as thirty pastors of Christian churches located within the "Rum" River area. In my effort to change the river's name I have found that there is almost unanimous support for the name change by Christian ministers.

In the 1960s, I met and became friends with Richard H. Carter. Carter was a San Francisco Bay area leader of the counter-cultural revolution and he occasionally attended Stephen Gaskin's "Monday Night Class" and he once spoke with Gaskin. When Gaskin and his commune moved to Summertown Tennessee, Richard Carter, his wife (Lois) and I traveled to Wahkon, Minnesota with the intention of establishing a commune. And my Rum River Name Change Organization's headquarters are now located in Wahkon, Minnesota, located on the south shore of Mille Lacs Lake.

When, Richard Carter, his wife (Lois) and I came to Wahkon in the late 1960s there was some thought of making Wahkon the permanent headquarters of our counter-cultural world-unifying globalization mission. Currently, Carter is a bi-nationally renowned environmentalist. Recently, I contacted Richard Carter and informed him and his wife about my mission and work. I am hoping that in the near future we will be working together again in Wahkon.

In order to usher in the New World Religion an old out-dated foundational dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, the dogma which describes "the mission of Jesus Christ", a mission that has been proven to be impossible to accomplish by modern-day science, has to be renounced as a false doctrine by the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy. Then, a new church, the Wahkon Catholic Church, an expression of the youth of 1960s counter-cultural, New Age syncretistic universal religion needs to be established in the place of the old out-dated Roman Catholic Church. Its land and buildings can then be used by the members of this New Universal Religion or New World Religion, its headquarter being located in Wahkon, Minnesota.

Biblical scriptures say that after God created the universe, including the earth, He said it was "good"; and that only after the first humans ("Adam and Eve"), whom we all are descendents of, sinned did the whole creation, including earth, become corrupted, or, became a mixture of good and evil.

According to Hindu scripture, Brahma, the Creator of the illusionary physical universe, is, both, the son of the Supreme Being (Brahman) and Maya. Paramahansa Yogananda, hailed as the father of Yoga in the West, described "Maya or Satan as the Cosmic Magician who produces multiplicity of form to hide the One Formless Verity".

When Brahma created the illusionary physical universe, it came into existents as a mixture of good and evil or as a manifestation of Brahman (God) and a deceptive force called Maya. The creation was not "good" or "pure" from its origins. Modern-day science has proven that for billions of years before the existence of the first human beings ("Adam and Eve") the creation was not "good" or "pure". However, Biblical scriptures and Christian doctrine/dogma erroneously say it was.

According to the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, Jesus Christ's mission is to "restore creation to the purity of its origins" (CCC, 2336)....or, to restore creation to the way it was before the first modern-day humans sinned, or committed "original sin", which science has proven would have had to have occur around 200,000 years ago. This proclaimed mission of Jesus Christ can not be fulfilled, because the creation was corrupt from its origins and has been corrupt ever since, right up to this present-day.

For hundreds of millions of years before modern-day humans came forth upon the earth, many different types of carnivorous animals, including many types of dinosaurs, were killing and eating other animals. Also, six near total mass extinctions of all animals had occurred. In addition, there were humans living on earth for around 3.2 million years before modern-day humans ("Adam and Eve") came into existence on the earth. They experienced natural catastrophes, diseases, injuries, debilitating effects of aging and death.

St. Symeon wrote: "Neither Eve nor Paradise were yet created, but the whole world had been brought into being by God as one thing, as a kind of paradise, at once incorruptible yet material and perceptible."

St. John of Damascus wrote: "The creation of all things is due to God, but corruption came in afterwards due to our wickedness...For God did not make death, neither does He take delight in the destruction of living things" (Wisdom 1:13). But death is the work rather of man, that is, its origin is in Adam's transgression."

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov wrote: "Plants were not subjected either to decay or to diseases; both decay and diseases and the weeds themselves, appeared after the alteration of the earth following the fall of man."

St. Basil the Great wrote: "...it is customary for vultures to feed on corpses, but since there were not yet corpses, nor yet their stench, so there was not yet such food for vultures. But all followed the diet of swans and all grazed the meadows... the beasts...were not carnivores...such was the first creation, and such will be the restoration after this."

According to Biblical scriptures no corruption on earth, including the mentioned above types of corruption, began to occur until after the first modern-day humans ("Adam and Eve") sinned. Therefore, the creation story of the Biblical scriptures (which was viewed as reality), and from which Christianity's foundational doctrine is based (the doctrine that describes Jesus Christ's supposed mission), is a deceptive myth. Therefore, Christianity's foundational doctrine, which is based on this myth, is a false doctrine/dogma. Creation can not be "restored to the purity of its orgin" at the end of history, because it has never been "pure".

U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote: "The whole Bible is spanned by the narrative of the first creation (Gn 1:3) and the vision of a restored creation at the end of history" (RV. 21:1-4) The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins." Modern-day science has proven this Catholic doctrine/dogma to be untrue and deceptive. Therefore, science has also made the Roman Catholic Religion an out-dated religion. more...

Robert Muller (1923 to 2010), who was most well known for his role as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, worked for world peace and even created a global education curriculum. He was called the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the United Nations. He wrote:

"Decide to open yourself to God, to the Universe, to all your brethren and sisters, to your inner self... to the potential of the human race, to the infinity of your inner self, and you will become the universe...you will become infinity, and you will be at long last your real, divine, stupendous self."

The underlying philosophy upon which the Robert Muller School is based can be found in the teachings set forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey. Alice and her husband started World Goodwill - an official Non-Governmental Organization within the United Nations. One of this organization's three aims is: "To cooperate in the work of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ." However, this aim-statement is not referring to the traditional Christian concept of who Christ is, but rather the New Age Cosmic Christ who would unite all religions and countries. This is one example of how UN global politics are being used for the agenda of uniting humanity within a One World Religion and Government.

Muller wrote a brief complementary review for Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi. Prior to the 21st Century it was displayed on the back cover of the autobiography. Autobiography of a Yogi was selected by Harper-Collins Publishers as one of The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century. Mr. Binay Ranjan Sen, a former Indian Ambassador of the United States said, in a March 4, 1952 eulogy for Yogananda: "If we had a man like Paramahansa Yogananda in the United Nations today, probably the world would be a better place than it is."

[In an Autobiography of a Yogi footnote associated with the Biblical scripture Psalms 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God", Yogananda wrote: "The goal of the science of yoga is to obtain that necessary inner stillness by which one may truly 'know God'".]

[footnote, pg. 198-190: While quoting his Guru/Master, Yogananda wrote: "Theologians have misinterpreted Christ's words," Master said, "in such passages as 'I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (Jn. 14:6). Jesus meant, never that he was the sole Son of God, but that no man can attain the unqualified Absolute, the transcendent Father beyond creation, until he has first manifested the 'Son' or activating Christ Consciousness within creation."]

[On pages 314 and 315 Yogananda wrote: "God, the Sole Life, is Absolute Unity; to appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation He wears a false or unreal veil. That illusory dualistic veil is maya...To rise above the duality of the creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived of as man's highest goal...With the recent devising of an electron microscope came definite proof of the light-essence of atoms...the atom is energy rather than matter...There is no material universe... A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light (vibrations of life energy)...Sir James Jean writes in The Mysterious Universe, 'the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine.'"

[On page 311 Yogananda wrote: "Those who cling to the cosmic illusion must accept its essential law of polarity: flow and ebb, rise and fall, day and night, pleasure and pain, good and evil, birth and death. This cyclic pattern assumes a certain anguishing monotony after man has gone through a few thousand human births; he begins then to cast a hopeful eye beyond the compulsions of maya...To remove the veil of maya is to uncover the secret of creation...So long as man remains subject to the dualistic illusions of Nature, the Janus-faced Maya is his goddess; he cannot know the one true God"]

Robert Muller wrote: "We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one-world leader." He also declared that fundamentalism's "inflexible belief systems have played an incendiary role in global conflicts". "Peace will be impossible", he said, "without the taming of fundamentalism through a United Religions that professes faithfulness 'only to the global spirituality and to the health of this planet'."

Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California is the President and Founder of the United Religions Initiative (URI), an international, grassroots, interfaith bridge-building organization modeled after the United Nations. The URI is currently engaged in initiatives and agendas of the United Nations. Bishop Swing's URI mission has found favor among others who share his vision for spiritual unity -- a oneness designed to replace the old divisive Biblical absolutes blamed for war and conflict. Many prominent URI supporters openly equate evangelism -- preaching the Gospel -- with conquest and manipulative proselytism; they see orthodox Christians as fundamentalists who put peace at risk.

Alice Bailey said, "The day is dawning when all religions will be regarded as emanating from one great spiritual source; all will be seen as unitedly providing the one root out of which the universal world religion will inevitably emerge." Likewise, Episcopal Bishop William Swing believes that all religions "come together at the apex, in the Divine." Knowingly or not, their affirmation of religious unity echoes Blavatsky, who said that all religions have "been derived from one primitive source," and that separate religions are "but shades of human error and the signs of imperfection." New Age writers say that we will accept the New World Religion when we understand that all religions have the same source and the same end.

Muller was also a strong believer in Pierre Teilhard de Cardin's theories. Telhard de Cardin, who died in 1955, was a world renowned author, scientist, theologian and philosopher. Teilhard had always viewed the United Nations as the progressive institutional embodiment of his philosophy. Teilhard teachings on unity and the universal Christ had a deep impact not only on the New Age world but on the leaders of a worldwide unity movement: the United Nations.

Al Gore quoted Teilhard, "The fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon the emergence of a new faith in the future.' Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth..." Gore often quotes an old Native Indian saying "Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our Mother. What befalls the earth, befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know - the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse wrote: "We are now in a time of prophecy: Animal Nations would stand upon Mother Earth a different color than their natural being and be born white. The Buffalo, Lion, Dolphin, Raven, Deer, Black Bear, and now the Moose...They are speaking to us with the only voice that can be heard. These messages are of a blessing and yet a great warning!...It is a time of great urgency to unite for Peace and Harmony upon Mother Earth in order for our future generations to survive...Mother Earth is not a resource, but rather the source of life itself." [ my white deer videos]

The United Nations even had its own in-house prophet, Sri Chinmoy, who died on Oct. 11, 2007. He was an Indian mystic and the official Spiritual Advisor to the United Nations. Sri Chinmoy and Robert Muller believed that, world peace would ultimately depend "on divine and cosmic government". Muller once went so far as to call the UN "the body of Christ." The United Nations "will be the last word in human perfection," Sri Chinmoy proclaimed, it will "stand as the pinnacle of divine enlightenment."

Robert Muller preached. "Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life. Hindus call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly see no difference between our earth and the divine. This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon humanity, as we are about to enter our cosmic age and become what we were always meant to be: the planet of God."

The new-world religious perspective regards the Earth itself as an ecologically-conscious goddess that is opposed to the continuation of the polluting, ecosystems-destroying, Semitic religions (the worst one being Christianity), and that the UN is the organization through which all people will be led into appropriate religious beliefs and practices. The new-world religious perspective is promoting the establishment of a One World Religion that will be a, Panentheistic/Pantheistic, earth-centered, neo-pagan religion, which is utterly incompatible with Biblical faiths.

Pope John Paul II wrote: "The New Agers are the ideological ground troops of the globalists." According to the most popular UN globalists' world-unifying ethic their must also be a UN religious spiritual empowerment to solve the world's current crisis and establish a world-wide reign of peace.

The United Religions Initiative (URI) is an attempt to be this needed spiritual empowerment. According to Cardinal Arinze, head of the Vatican's Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, the Roman Catholic Church is opposed to the URI. And Pope Benedict XVI has stated that he is opposed to "the effort to establish a world-wide reign of peace by means of a world union of religions", which is the ultimate mission of the URI.

Until the Biblical prophesied "reign of terror", happens the Roman Catholic Church is opposed to any attempt to solve the world's current crisis and establish world-wide peace by means of uniting humanity within a one world government and world union of religions, even if it would becomes necessary by this means to solve the current crisis - a crisis that could destroy all life on earth if not soon solved. Therefore, the Roman Catholic Church is opposed to the mission of the United Nations.

When Pope Benedict XVI was a Cardinal, he wrote that the "Antichrist" will present himself as a messenger of "peace and security" (a reference to I Thess. 5:3) and will be "precisely the one who terms himself the establisher of world peace". This is how the New Agers' "Christ" is expected to soon manifest himself to the world. New Agers believe that he will establish a One World Government and lasting world peace.

On July 25, 1920, Pope Benedict XV, when referring to Biblical prophesied end time events, said: "A world government shall arise, all national loyalties will be vanquished, there will inevitatably follow a reign of terror."

Do to the misguided belief in the fulfillment of a deceptive Biblical prophecy, the Roman Catholic Church teaches that the "Antichrist" (presumed to be the UN, soon come, New Agers' "Christ") will establish a One World Government and attempt to bring lasting world peace. It also teaches that the "Antichrist" will "persecute" the Church (which would include exposing its horrible destructive history and false underlining foundational dogma) and that Jesus Christ would then bodily return and destroy the "Antichrist" and establish world peace, as well as "restore creation to the purity of its origins"... which modern-day science has proven can not happen.

The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to a particular type of attempt to establish world peace at this time. It includes all attempts to do so by means of establishing a one world government. Which includes the current attempt to establish world peace and ecological balance... by, both, establishing a One World Government and uniting the worlds religions into a syncretistic New World Religion that is compatible with modern-day science.

When Pope Benedict XVI was a Cardinal he said the mission of the Roman Catholic Church is not to bring peace to the world, but to bring eternal salvation to as many people who would accept the Gospel and be baptized into the Faith. "Accepting the Gospel" and being baptized, which "brings eternal salvation" necessarily includes believing in the underlining Catholic foundational dogma that teaches that Jesus Christ will "restore creation to the purity of its origins"... which science has proven can not happen. This proves that the Roman Catholic Church's message of eternal salvation is not reality and that the Church's opposition to establishing world peace NOW, by means of uniting humanity within a one world government and one world religion is insane and extremely dangerous.

UN leaders in the forefront of establishing a one world religion and government all agree that the Earth is in a crisis state and this ecological emergency is the result of Christian traditions. They believe that the Judeo Christian belief that God assigned man to rule over the earth has caused us to exploit and abuse it. Christian doctrines and world evangelization efforts, they assert, have separated humans from their ancient connection to the earth, and to reverse this trend governments, the media, education systems, artists, and other areas of influence must help promote the, earth-centered, New Age panentheistic/pantheistic global spirituality and religion that has become so popular amongst people who believe in the United Nations initiatives to achieve world peace and ecological balance.

I am of the youth of the 1960s (hippie) counter-cultural syncretistic New Age religion. In the late 1960s, (as previously mentioned) I was a friend of a California, San Francisco Bay area leader of this expression of the New Age religion. At the time, we (Richard Carter and I) believed, along with his wife (Lois) and a friend of ours that we (a least this is my perception of what we believed) were on the forefront of this expression of the New Age religion and that we would usher in the New Age.

Now-days, I believe that I am on the forefront of this expression of the New Age movement and that I, with help from, both, my extended maternal kinship family (the Rainbow family) and some other relatives and friends (hopefully including Richard and Lois Carter), will usher in the New Age.

I am an indigenous peoples rights activist who corresponds with international renowned Indigenous scholars and activists as well as with an internationally renowned multicultural educator and social justice activist.

In a letter of mine that was published in Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN), the world's largest Native/Indian news source, a letter titled A New Paradigm, I expressed my perspective as why people of faith are now beginning to open their minds to teachings of other faiths. This perspective of mine is another perspective other than Al Gore's valid perspective, which was mentioned above.

The ICTMN letter is about my perspective on how a new paradigm is being established, a new paradigm that will help unite the world's religions into a single religion - a single religion that will serve as the basis and principle of unity for a new world order, wherein humanity will be united, liberated and experiencing world peace; and the earth will be saved from the current ecological crisis and on its way to experiencing ecological balance.