Sense in the City  Issue 13, November 15,2006    Page 1

 

What You Can Do To Contribute to an Integral City Today: Ten Benchmarks of an Evolved Consciousness

November 15, 2006, © Ervin Laszlo

excerpt from “The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads”, Chapter 7 What You Can Do Today, pp. 80-81 ; reprinted with permission Hampton Roads Publishing, www.hrpub.com

 You possess a more evolved consciousness when you:

  1. Live in ways that enable all other people to live as well, satisfying your needs without detracting from the chances of other people to satisfy theirs.

  2. Live in ways that respect the right to life and to economic and cultural development of all people, wherever they live and whatever their ethnic origin, sex, citizenship, station in life, and belief system.

  3. Live in ways that safeguard the intrinsic right to life and to an environment supportive of life for all the things that live and grow on Earth.

  4. Pursue happiness, freedom, and personal fulfillment in harmony with the integrity of nature and with consideration for the similar pursuits of others in society.

  5. Require that your government relate to other nations and people peacefully and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing the legitimate aspirations for a better life and a healthy environment of all the people in the human family.

  6. Require business enterprises to accept responsibility for all their stakeholders as well as for the sustainability of their environment, demanding that they produce goods and offer services that satisfy legitimate demand without impairing nature and reducing the opportunities of smaller and less privileged entrants to compete in the marketplace.

  7. Require public media to provide a constant stream of reliable information on basic trends and crucial processes to enable you and other citizens and consumers to reach informed decisions on issues that affect your and their life and well-being.

  8. Make room in your life to help those less privileged than you to live a life of dignity , free from the struggles and humiliations of abject poverty.

  9. Encourage young people and open-minded people of all ages to evolve the spirit that could empower them to make ethical decisions of their own on issues that decide their future and the future of their children.

  10. Work with like-minded people to preserve or restore the essential balances of the environment, with attention to your neighborhood, your country or region, and the whole of the biosphere.

 

For Integral information and action on evolving your consciousness for an integral city:

AQAL - Link to QOL Citizen for Leadership Development insights on motivation, intention, community development, and quality of life .

UL/LL - Order and Read Ervin Laszlo's books: The Chaos Point ; Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos

AQAL - Become an integral activist with ideas from David Korten's The Turning Point

AQAL - Check out leadership through the lenses of Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science

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