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The alternative to the existing world order can only emerge as a result of a new human dimension of progress.... We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking...."
Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum, 1996
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"O ee lah eh la," chanted Native American Chief Leonard to the beat of his drum. "Ahah ela laha."
The six hundred people participating in the
Second Annual State of the World Forum, organized by the Gorbachev
Foundation, stood up and joined in the prayer. "Oho ela helah,"
they chanted.
Behind the chief hung a large banner showing
the swirling winds and waters of planet Earth-a stirring reminder
that all its inhabitants share "one home, one planet"
and had better take care of her. This banner had been flanked
by the flags of the nations when the five-day Forum opened in
San Francisco on October 2. But now, two days later, those reminders
of national sovereignty had been replaced by two single blue flags-not
the familiar blue symbols of the UN, but the insignia of the global
Gorbachev Foundation.
"We have the heart beat of Mother Earth,"
said chief Leonard. "We are still connected to the earth
from which we came." He handed Gorbachev a native blanket.
"We give this blanket with a sacred prayer....We shall continue
to come and join with you until together we change and transform
this entire Mother Earth into a new world civilization organized
on the principle of justice and hope."
Amidst the applause, a wave of fluttering
fingers rose into the air. "Those are Mayan butterflies,"
whispered the youth leader sitting next to me. "We want to
acknowledge the people who have spoken to us and have created
a sense of aura in the air. Clapping disrupts that aura. The Mayan
butterflies are silent."
I nodded my thanks and pondered the paradigm
shift transforming America.
A year had passed since Mikhail Gorbachev
brought Ted Turner, George Bush, George Shultz, Deepak Chopra,
Bill Gates and other spiritual, political, business and intellectual
world leaders to San Francisco to form "a global brain trust."
According to Jim Garrison, president of the Gorbachev Foundation,
they would "focus on the principles, values and actions that
should guide humanity as we enter the next phase of human development."
Now, in 1996, that "council of the wise"
would lay the "ground rules for resolving disputes and problems"
around the world. Numerous dialogues and roundtable planning sessions
would define the rights, responsibilities, beliefs, and values
of the 21st century world citizenry-behind doors closed to all
but the chosen few.
Yet, Gorbachev promised equality. "We
are opening this forum... on the birthday of Mahatma Ghandi, the
great humanist of the 20th century to whom all of us owe priceless
experience," he told his followers in his welcoming message
on October 2. "Ghandi set great goals to be achieved peacefully
without violence....The use of force may be sometimes an instrument
of politics... but from the standpoint of evolution of civilization...
the road lies through democracy... Let us think together what
we should do to democratize democracy."
Democratize democracy?
In reality, Gorbachev's version of "democracy"
looks more like the Soviet "people's government" than
the American constitutional republic. It would force everyone
into community "dialogues" using the manipulative dialectic
or consensus process birthed by German philosopher Georg Hegel
and embraced by Karl Marx-which comes as no surprise since Gorbachev
has never renounced Communism. This strategy for managing discussions
and blending beliefs would achieve his goal of "harmonizing
the interests of all nations, peoples, and civilizations."
The new democracy demands the "right"
kind of information. "Knowledge and information will define
human experience," said Gorbachev, "and man's spiritual,
moral and aesthetic needs will define man's behavior." Of
course, the "knowledge and information" that would define
experience would be controlled by the state.1
Few seemed to remember that the former chief
of the worldwide Communist movement had approved some of the world's
most abusive assaults on human minds and on natural resources.
Instead, they listened in rapt attention as Gorbachev continued
to address "the main issues of the 21st century":
1. Globalization: "If we leave the world
to its own devices.... it will mean new sufferings, the death
of many people from hunger, epidemics and wars.... The humane
and moral mind cannot accept this prospect. The alternative is
a managed process... on a global level."
2. Environment: "Ninety-three percent [of the American people] want the United Nations to act more effectively on global issues, primary on the environment. Eighty-four percent spoke in favor of the UN helping to develop a more sustainable development. Eighty-two percent favored giving UN a right to institute global pollution taxes...."
3. Business: "Local and national economies
are... integrated into a global economic system with a universal
regulation system.... Transnational corporations have become a
kind of common system that own one third of all production capacities
on our planet."
4. Education: "Transition to an information
based society requires a change in system of education.... Maybe
the time has come for... a congress of reason. ... We could bring
together the best minds... who would speak out on the most important
issues of our time.... As the Bible said, 'In the beginning was
the word"-the word that would generalize and summarize the
powerful achievements of the intellectual forces after the end
of the cold war. This word should be spoken out.'"
5. Solidarity: "We should... help in
the development of a global consciousness... to change the world
for the better."
Gorbachev's concerns were discussed in the
secretive roundtables as well as in open panel dialogues. The
ideas, information, conclusions, and initiatives generally fell
into the same categories Gorbachev had listed in his opening plenary:
1. GLOBALIZATION.
"Fifty years from now, we won't recognize nation-states as
we know them today," said ATT&T vice president Waring
Partridge during at a roundtable dialogue on global communications
systems. Internet, more than telephones, television, and planes,
has linked education, economies, and cultures around the world.
But, said Forum speakers, the rapid changes has brought social
chaos, and the global environment, "our collective body",
is desperately sick.
The time had come, suggested Forum organizer
Jim Garrison, to "examine what governing structures and what
social contract we should design as we keep apace of the globalization."
The goal seemed clear: Like the United Nations, the Forum envisioned
a unified planet where all people would be equally informed, entertained,
housed, fed, and trained according to international guidelines
for sustainable development, the 3 E's: Environment, Economy,
and Equity.
Global managers, supposedly the within United Nations, would monitor and control lands, people, information, education, and values. They would demand total disarmament. No nation would have power to start a major war-nor to resist the totalitarian controls of global tyrants.
2. ENVIRONMENT.
Chemical pollutants would provide a new environmental "crisis"
that would help prepare people to accept the global management-including
the costs Al Gore refers to as "sacrifice, struggle, and
a wrenching transformation of society."2 As Jim Garrison
said, "The issue of toxic pollutants is to the environment
in the 1990's what global warming and the greenhouse effect were
in the '80s....Through education and more research, the issue
gains momentum until it assumes its place as a legitimate environmental
concern. We hope this conference will provide the breakthrough
needed to focus world attention on this current growing threat."
If the "scientific" research used
to back this new environmental crisis works anything like the
pseudoscience used to validate ozone holes and global warming,
it would be based on political fantasy, not scientific facts.
With the media on their side, global leaders would once again
twist ambiguous data and local problems into devastating global
scenarios designed to stir the imagination and frighten people
into compliance.
For years, the sobering voices of factual,
non-compromising scientists have been drowned out by the propaganda
of green activists and government-sponsored idealists. Meanwhile,
young and old are learning what globalist educators, entertainers,
politicians, and CEO's want them to know: unless they conform,
the earth will die.
3. EDUCATION.
The "school-to-work" education system that Gorbachev
promoted in the USSR is now being implemented in the US--thanks
to President Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz, who co-chaired
the 1995 State of the World Forum. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation,
Shultz negotiated the US-USSR Education Exchange Agreements signed
in 1985. With guidance from Carnegie president David Hamburg (a
speaker at the Forum), it which traded US technology for USSR
psycho-social strategies used to indoctrinate children, modify
behavior, and monitor the people to ensure compliance.
In spite of what parents are told, America's
Goals 2000 not only outlines the Soviet education system, it is
a link in the vast United Nations education system established
at the 199O United Nations Conference on Education for All.3
Few individuals have pushed this agenda more
zealously than former UN Under-Secretary Robert Muller, who once
again brought his global/occult education ideas to the Forum's
discussion tables. For more than a decade, his World Core Curriculum
has defined education and steered our children toward global citizenship,
earth-centered beliefs, socialist values, and the collective mindset
which is becoming a requirement for the 21st century workforce.
To complete the legal framework for this revolutionary
education system, local activists must engage parents and other
"partners" in community dialogues. "Grassroots
education and community development is critically important,"
said Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense
Fund, in her plenary speech. She stressed the need to develop
political activists, "making sure as well that we are developing
a successive generation of young leaders to be empowered to be
a part of changing the world."
4. BUSINESS.
"Lifelong Learning"-the UNESCO vision now mandated through
Goals 2000-means involving employers in educating the masses.
Business leaders must be trained to manage "human resources"
and modify behavior through the same dialectic or consensus process
used in the classroom. The "universal regulation system"
Gorbachev mentioned is only a beginning, and the spreading acceptance
of ISO 90004 illustrates how quickly this can happen.
"A redefinition of the relationship between
business and society is the core of the current paradigm shift,"
said George McCown, president of the World Business Academy. In
his report to the Forum titled "The New Paradigm", he
explains that the current "paradigm shift " can be seen
as an inevitable alignment between personal, business, and societal
needs and values. ... Only through an empowered society composed
of healthy individuals can we ever begin to confront the myriad
problems.... Business is the engine of most modern societies and
will play a dominant role in shaping the future."
The World Business Academy's mission, wrote
McCown, is "to engage in the continuing exploration and clarification
of the fundamental paradigm shifts... thereby enabling members
to integrate the evolving knowledge and consciousness into their
lives..."
Knowledge management is crucial. Again, only
the "right" information would be disseminated-thus building
a knowledge base that supports globalism and affirms its propaganda.
Few would know the facts needed to resist.
Although the Forum's international business
meetings were closed to most reporters, the literature left behind
offer more clues. A paper titled "Translating Knowledge into
Action: A Collaborative Approach for Leveraging Technology to
Build Systems that Support the Knowledge Workforce of the 21st
Century" states:
"To put it bluntly, we have access to too much data. What we really need is access to just the right information at the right time. In the next wave of organizational development, we must harness this data for our employees using diverse technologies combined in arrays that are being called knowledge systems. These systems help transform this voluminous data into knowledge, and make that knowledge available, understandable, and the basis for action. To this end, leading edge companies today are creating executive positions for knowledge management called chief learning officer...."
The author of this report, Patricia Reilly,
suggests that multiple working groups hold "Future Search"
conferences that help "entire communities to build a common
vision" and "allow new knowledge to bubble to the surface
of the participants' awareness."
In other words, the new planned stimuli will
produce a new public consciousness-spontaneously. No need to engage
the intellect with facts and logic. Change simply happens. Buzzwords
such as stakeholders, teams, working groups, visioning, and common
ground describe this dialectic process. Quenching dissent and
banning absolutes, it guides the collective mind toward the predetermined
goal: solidarity.
5. SOLIDARITY. The planned outcome of the consensus process is uniformity-the shared beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors needed to complete the utopian vision of a unified world. Our Global Neighborhood, the report from the United Nations' Commission on Global Governance which was available in the Forum book store/library, describes it well:
"In our rapidly changing world, the standards
and restraints provided by commonly accepted values and norms
become ever more essential. Without them, it will be hard-if not
impossible-to establish more effective and legitimate forms of
global governance."5
Our Global Neighborhood suggests a threefold
approach to establishing "an ethical dimension to global
governance." Do they sound familiar?
* "Encourage commitment to core values... and strengthen the sense of common responsibility for the global neighborhood."
* "Express these values through a global ethic of specific rights and responsibilities...."
* "Embody this ethic in the evolving
system of international norms, adapting, where necessary existing
norms of sovereignty... "
Like shared dreams, common memories build
that sense of common responsibility. "By remembering the
universe as a whole, we draw everyone in," said physicist
Brian Swimme, "for we hold the universe in common. Our starting
point is the realization that we are a single community."
He showed a slide of Stonehenge to illustrate man's ancient quest
for connection to the sun, stars, and cosmos. Next, a picture
of an African ape showed "how deeply rooted the human is
in the animal world." Yet, humanity evolved beyond the animal
state through "conscious self-awareness", becoming its
own "a planetary power".
Strange, isn't it? No wonder facts, logic,
and absolute truth no longer fit. They simply cannot be squeezed
into the mystical whole-or into the evolving "truths"
created through the consensus process. They remain incompatible
with today's blended or global spirituality. Biblical Judaism
and Christianity must go.
"Religion is as much the problem as it
is the solution," said Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a member of
a roundtable preparing "A Charter of Religions and Human
Responsibility, in his plenary speech. "Religions continue
to act... as the cheerleaders of hatred."
A roundtable discussing "The Transformation
of Buddhism in the 20th Century" reported that "the
spread of Western capitalism is muting spirituality in the developing
countries." In contrast, "no other religion has had
a more profound effect on the world than Buddhism." Apparently,
its changing face and illusion of compassion-in contrast to the
practical compassion demonstrated in true Christian cultures-blends
readily into the evolving truths of today's global spirituality.
"Buddhism is not an ideology," explained
Martine Bachelor, coordinator of the Buddhist College in England.
"As people change, Buddhism will change."
THE NEW CONSCIOUSNESS.
That's why it fits! Among the free books available to participants
was Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture
and Consciousness. It gives a dreamy vision of global solidarity
inspired by a Buddhist-like spirituality.
"With the rise of a compassionate consciousness,"
says author Duane Elgin, "humanity will be busy creating
sustainable communities.... People will focus on "environmental
restoration, rebuilding cities.... lifelong education... Regular
rites and rituals will celebrate the recurring cycles of the planet.
'Earth Days' will acknowledge our bonding as a human family and
our connection to the living planet, 'Gaia.' ...
He assures his readers that people "will
embody a balance between masculine and feminine archetypes"
and "the alienation and cynicism of the past will be transformed
as people are offered innumerable ways to participate in dialogue...
The constant flow of information and dialogue will create a palpable
global consensus.... Cosmic consciousness-or knowing our connection
with the consciousness of the living cosmos-becomes a widely shared,
experiential foundation for the global culture."6
The dream sounds good-even credible-to those
who see reality from the perspective of the global paradigm. Most
people have begun that shift, for our schools and culture have
been teaching its values for decades. So it's no surprise that
the consensus statements by the Forum's Youth Summit reflected
these same ideals.
Like their leaders, the thirty-four youths from around the world listened to speakers, researched UN data, and used the Hegelian dialectic process to synthesize individual views and reach consensus. As Harvard student Bill Burke-White said, "We have spent this week re-imagining-re-envisioning-the world we have inherited." Speaking for all the youth leaders, he unveiled a youth culture well-tutored in globalist ideals:
"Just a few short steps from your meeting
rooms this week there is a community of youth who were born into
the global village; a community that has always known our earth
a Gaia, a living system to be treated with reverence and reciprocity...
It is a community that values collaboration and partnership over
competition.... It embraces both the feminine and masculine principles....
"This is a community that will not tolerate
the continued ecological devastation of the sacred landscape of
our home... that knows that every lost species is an irretrievable
loss of self... that has no tolerance for dogmatism and fundamentalism.
"This community needs to learn about
the new paradigm or to unlearn the old-we were born into an awakening
Earth.... Imagine, if you will, a world which has realized the
Youth summit's vision of building a Global Youth Alliance, a planet-wide
conversation, an interlinking, a networking of the many youth
organizations that share these heart-felt visions for the new
millennium."
At the start of the Forum, Gorbachev used
the Bible, specifically John 1:1, to validate these visions and
his grandiose schemes. Equating the living "Word" with
the "achievement of the intellectual forces", he twisted
God's truth into a lie that promotes the very deception God tells
us to shun. Squeezing biblical words into a New Age context, Gorbachev
exposed the irrational and deceptive foundations of the paradigm
he promotes.
God Himself, the living and unchangeable Word,
told us long ago that basing social values on arrogant intellectualism
would only lead to despair: "Woe to those who call evil good,
and good evil.... Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and clever in their own sight!" (Isaiah 5:20-21) True wisdom
is based on God's eternal absolutes-a fact so intolerable to the
global mindset that its "democratic" dialogues must
censor any such notion.
Almost 2000 years ago, that Word foretold
a global reign, a cashless society, and a world conditioned to
accept a global tyrant, and a murderous hatred for all who refuse
to conform to a compulsory global spirituality. The technology
to implement the controls described in Revelation 13 is now being
perfected. Yet, few see the sign post that spell danger ahead.
Could the world be too blind to notice?
HOPE. Rabbi Hertzberg, who spoke on "The Sins of Religion," may see more than his hosts had guessed. At the end of his talk he shifted his message back to biblical realities-to the apparent dismay of Gorbachev. Don't ask "ancient communities to dissolve," he warned, "for they will not!" Challenging globalist lies, he declared the globalist hope of synthesizing "all preceding religions" into a united "world religion" to be utopian. "I warn against the delusion that we can make a shining heaven on earth," he concluded. "That can happen only at the end of days, when God wills it."
He is right! And between now and then, we
had better learn the facts, expose the lies, follow the truth,
and place our hope in the only God who can win this war. Revelation
21 shows us a glimpse of His final plan for those who refuse to
compromise:
"Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.... And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be
no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more
pain, for the former things have passed away.... I will give of
the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He
who overcomes shall inherit all things." (Revelation 21:1,
4-7)
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For practical information about the international education system and environmental spirituality designed to mold the minds of all Americans, read Brave New Schools (Harvest House Publishers) by Berit Kjos. Available through Christian bookstores or call 1-800-829-5646.
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Endnotes:
1 See report on Executive Order 13011: "A National Information System".
2 Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992) 274.
3 Explained and documented in Brave New Schools.
4 "ISO 9000 is a series of international standards and requirements that define quality, principles and practices in all element of a registered company's operation. This registration is recognized throughout the European Community, European free Trade Association Countries and in 90 countries around the world." News Release, Micropump, Inc., October 9, 1996.
5 The Commission Global Governance, Our Global Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 1995), 47.
6 Duane Elgin, Awakening the Earth
(New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993), 164-171.