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Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field

“The power of love in action: Something happens in the hearts and souls of participants of Constellating for the Collective when we work together in service of a larger purpose for coherence and health of the Whole.”  Diana Clair Douglas

Author Diana Claire Douglas, Meshworker for the Year 2018,  the lead Constellator for Integral City Meshworks and member of Integral City’s Core team will be releasing her new book Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field in 2022. We are delighted to share an extract from her book, Chapter 6, Doorways into the Collective – which tells the stories of her contributions to both Integral City and The Hague Centre (another luminary of our constellation of Integral City associated organizations arising through the work of Anne-Mare Voorhoeve Meshworker of the Year 2019 also a member of our Core Team.)

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by Diana Claire Douglas

Chapter 6
Doorways into the Collective

Although I like focusing on Collective Work, I do facilitate all three branches of Systemic Constellation Work.
It took me a while to realize that I could focus on Collective Work no matter which branch of Systemic Constellation Work I was on. Each branch has a doorway into the Collective: Family Constellation Work (with individual clients doing family work) through transgenerational trauma; Organizational Constellation Work through organizations like Integral City and The Hague Center that have Visionary Purposes; and Constellating for the Collective where the starting point is the Collective, and the intention is to shift patterns in collective consciousness towards wholeness and greater Life.

One of the key differences between Constellating for the Collective and the other branches is that Family and Organizational Constellation Work each work with a client, whereas in Constellating for the Collective, no one person is representing the individual or organization as a client. For example, Humanity may be the client, or Society may be the client.

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2. Doorways into the Collective: Organizational Constellation Work
A way organizations and institutions move into the Collective Field is through their visions, missions, and responses to societal issues.
Invited to be on the core teams of Integral City3 and The Hague Center4 as lead Constellator, I see that much of my work since 2013 has been to use Constellating for the Collective to guide these Visionary Organizations to take the steps necessary in manifesting their Visions and Purposes. In both these examples, their Purposes are about Humanity (as a collective) contributing to a planetary shift towards Life.
Both Integral City and The Hague Center have experimented with what kind of organization they might be. Marilyn Hamilton, Integral City’s Founder, calls “Integral City Meshworks a Social Enterprise—and its working model is constellating/meshworking.” The Hague Center calls itself “an organ’ization and Co-creative Collective,” and as a legal entity, it is a Foundation in the Netherlands.
The two organizations work closely together, and a few of us are members of both core teams.

Integral City (IC), as an organization, was founded by Marilyn Hamilton. Why cities? In the developed world, 90% of the population is in cities. In the developing world, 50% of the population is in cities. Every threat to Gaia has coalesced in cities. We are at a choice point—to become Gaia’s reflective organ5 or to go extinct as a species.

Integral City is reinventing how cities work. We say, “Out beyond the traditional city, driven by transactional exchanges of the basics of life; out beyond the Smart City, driven by technology and industry; out beyond the Resilient City, driven by ecological and eco-regional inter-dependence; lives the Integral City, driven by the flex and flow of cultures, consciousness, and care.”6An integral city is a whole living system which Marilyn calls the “Human Hive.” As the beehive is for honeybees, the integral city is the collective habitat for the human species.

Click here to download the whole Chapter 6 as a pdf.

Whole Systems Design: Inquiries in the Knowing Field is an inspiring book of stories, conversations, and interviews about serving Life through a powerful process: Constellating for the Collective. Author, Diana Claire Douglas provides hope as well as methods for addressing the many issues we face as a global community in this 21st century. She writes for anyone who wishes to work from a whole systems perspective, honouring the complexity of All-Life.

Opportunities to engage with Diana Claire Douglas include the following:

Host Diana Claire with your group or organizationJoin Training Programs in Constellating for the CollectiveBecome involved with systemic research at The Hague Center for Field Inquiry

Diana Claire Douglas – find out more at these websites:

www.centerforfieldinquiry.orgwww.knowingfielddesigns.comwww.thehaguecenter.org

COP 26: Forests Saving our Planet

During Humanity Risings 12-day broadcast on COP 26, we learned about the importance of the Rain Forest. 

On the day of the Grand Finale Rob Laet wrote this impassioned email, and we have received permission to publish it as below. The relevance for cities is obvious – in order for us to breathe, we depend on the Amazon Rain Forest – and understanding its ecology helps us to appreciate the intricate web of life in which we live.

Dear Jim and Humanity RisingYou and Humanity Rising are a force to reckon with, thank you and all of you what you are doing. The governments of the world are past their expiry date, they just didn’t get the message yet as they have not gotten so many messages in the last few decades. COP26 releases us of the social contract with them as they do not serve the preservation of our children and life in general on our beautiful, living, intelligent Planet.We, the adults and elders, need to step aside and be in service to the climate youth. They can form a movement of movements of regeneration in alliance with the Indigenous peoples and the global to lead the regeneration of our communities, of Nature and our Planet and maybe most of all heal our hearts from generations of trauma. We have the resources, we have the solutions, we should not wait for anyone because as Bill McKibben would say :Winning this fight slowly equals losing it. My particular role is to support the regeneration of the Amazon Rainforest, starting at scale within years. I have worked 2,5 years to design a plan that makes that feasible.If it is lost, we have lost; if we can make it there, we can make it anywhere.For those who resonate with that short message, I humbly invite you to come and listen to this story that brings resources to the Indigenous people and rural poor in the area to regenerate with millions the tropical zones, sequesters carbon at huge scale and calms and cools the climate.One last message: the most important greenhouse gas is, as you know, not CO2 but water vapor. We do not focus on it, because water’s movements are complex and difficult to study especially in the sky. I leave you with this blog of Antonio Nobre, brother of the famous climate scientist and Nobel prize winner Carlos Nobre, who shows that the world is underestimating the cooling capacity of forests several fold over. In part we are barking up the wrong tree for solutions. Of course we need to decarbonize the economy as fast as possible, of course the energy transition needs to be accelerated, of course we need to make our food system carbon negative and localize it. But do not underestimate the role of forest – we do so at our own peril. Forests serving the climate

With Love & Gratitude,

Rob de Laethttps://www.linkedin.com/in/robdelaet/

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26, Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26, Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP COP 26, Day 2 Soil our Future Beneath our FeetCOP 26, Day 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels InfographicCOP 26, Day 8 Cities are Gaia’s Regneration Hubs InfographicCOP 26, Humanity Rising Day 9-10-11 and 12 Grand FinaleCOP 26, Day 12 People’s DeclarationCOP 26, Forests Saving our Planet

Humanity Rising COP 26 Grand Finale

From November 9-11, 2021 Humanity Rising continued broadcasts on significant themes for COP 26, including Oceans, Rain Forests and Biodiversity.

Links to the Panels and Recordings are set out below. The greatest hope came unexpectedly on Day 12 – despite the COP 26 governments’ tepid performance – because the Civil Society Coalition published the People’s Declaration with 10 Demands. (Read more here.)

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Day 359: Oceans at the Tipping Point

All indicators are that we will continue to squander time and resources gobbling up fossil fuels, spewing CO2 into the atmosphere, and refusing to change a way of life that has wiped out two-thirds of the biodiversity on our planet in the last 50 years. 2021 will mark the second-highest carbon emissions in history with no let-up in sight. We are now at the climate tipping point. Escalating ecological turbulence is now unavoidable.

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Day 360: A Message from the Amazon Rainforest to COP 26

The Amazon is in great danger from dehydration and dieback. It’s a self-reinforcing, exponential process. It is very likely that within a few decades parts the size of several European countries will dry up and burn. This will release enormous amounts of CO2 that are not included in the models of the IPCC.

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Day 361:  Biodiversity and Bio Regional Regeneration

Climate activists across a range of perspectives, cultures and organizations will come together to express their concerns about government inaction, their plans for climate justice and their aspirations for a world aligned with natural systems.

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Day 362: What is Next for Climate Action?
This Webinar event will present an innovative research project called “The Earth Charter Index: Measuring the Contributions of Countries to Planetary Well-being,” for which a pilot project has already been developed. It is envisioned that this instrument will enable leaders, policymakers, and citizens to visualize how much their country contributes to keeping the planet habitable and thriving.

Read more >

RECORDINGS

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP COP 26, Day 2 Soil our Future Beneath our FeetCOP 26, Day 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels InfographicCOP 26, Day 8 Cities are Gaia’s Regneration Hubs InfographicCOP 26 Humanity Rising Day 9-10-11 and 12 Grand FinaleCOP 26, Day 12 People’s Declaration

People’s Declaration COP 26

On Nov. 12, 2021 Humanity Rising brought its 12-day broadcast on COP 26 to a conclusion.

A surprising last minute Declaration from Civil Society, gave an unexpected twist to what appeared to be a repeat of prior COPs lack of commitment to emission targets, climate justice reparations or mitigation from the Global North to South. With the Declaration you read below we see two of the 4 Voices of the City stepping forward and claiming centre stage. Civil Society, lead by 350.org signed on to 10 Demands. Read their manifesto below and follow the links to add your own name.

The People’s COP 26 Decision for Climate Justice

A new Coalition from Civil Society has taken a stance against the government-run COP 26. They say:

Climate change already impacts and threatens billions of lives, with billions more on the line: it is those that have done the least to cause climate change that are most impacted, especially women, Black, Indigenous Peoples, and people of colour, peasants and rural people, youth, people with disabilities, local communities and frontline communities.

The climate crisis also amplifies the structural inequalities and injustices that have been hardwired into our economic and political systems that have resulted in a spiralling debt crisis, Covid vaccine apartheid and growing inequality and poverty.

Governments in the UNFCCC have repeatedly failed to deliver meaningful and just outcomes that will keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius despite growing urgency: time is running out.

Countries of the global North have the greatest historical responsibility for emissions and have grown rich through centuries of colonisation and exploitation of communities and nations in the global South. These countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Norway, Japan and those in the EU must finally do their fair share to address the climate crisis and pay their climate debt without delay.

Throughout the existence of the UNFCCC, governments have moved from policies, to empty pledges, to press releases and proclamations made outside the negotiations process that mean they cannot be held to account for failing to meet them. “Net zero” pledges without concrete plans to achieve Real Zero emissions, without adequate  legally binding commitments to protect human rights, are simply greenwashing, a smokescreen hiding the intent to continue polluting  and digging the graves of our present and future generations with impunity.

People are tired of waiting for governments to prioritize people and the planet over profits while so many lives are being impacted and lost. We are out of time and out of patience.

10 Demands

Civil Society Signatories therefore demand:

Global North countries pay their climate debt:Deliver a Global Goal for Adaptation: Address climate injustice and pay up for Loss and Damage:Urgently deliver your fairshare of action:Reject False Solutions:No trade off of Human Rights: Big Polluters removed from this Process:Deliver Just Transitions:Co-operation and Solidarity Do not exclude the People:

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The Declaration Concludes

The time for words without action has come and gone. We no longer have the luxury of time to sit back and allow governments and private interests to destroy our future. Scientific predictions are increasingly dire; it is not hyperbolic to assert that the very future of humanity depends on the outcomes of these negotiations. Governments must immediately heed the growing demands of those already facing crisis and those who will face crisis and bravely reimagine our world in a way that guarantees everyone the right to live with dignity and in harmony with our planet.

The Era of Injustice is over!

Read the full manifesto here.See who in Civil Society has signed on to the Coalition here.

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP COP 26, Day 2 Soil our Future Beneath our FeetCOP 26, Day 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels InfographicCOP 26, Day 8 Cities are Gaia’s Regneration Hubs InfographicCOP 26, Day 12 People’s Declaration

COP 26 Days 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels

On Oct. 28, 2021 Humanity Rising convened anchors and panels for all of the12-day broadcast on COP 26.

Here are the Infographic Links to Days 3-7 – so MUCH is going on this is the fastest way to give you insights from global experts who offer many positive and hopeful strategies. If our governments don’t or can’t respond let us call the 4 Voices from City Regenration Hubs to act now.

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP COP 26, Day 2 Soil our Future Beneath our FeetCOP 26, Day 3-7 Humanity Rising Global Panels InfographicCOP 26, Day 8 Cities are Gaia’s Regneration Hubs Infographic

COP 26 Day 2: Soil Our Future Beneath our Feet

On Oct. 28, 2021 Humanity Rising convened the team who will anchor the 12-day broadcast on COP 26. Lead by Jim Garrison, President of Ubiquity University he shares our intentions with this map of conference broadcasts.

Humanity Rising: COP26 Humanity Rising Day 352 Soil Carbon: Our Future Beneath our Feet

“A positive vision of the future is possible if we accelerate the use of living soil to effectively reverse climate change, not only reduce future emissions which, is what the world is focusing on today. We can build a flourishing future for all life forms if we change the way we produce our food.”

Those are the words/convictions of Ed Mueller, Founder of Internation University of Cooperation. On COP 26 Day 2, Ed convened this Program for Humanity Rising Day 352:

Program

Eduard Mueller: introduction: Role of regeneration, agriculture, and cattle to reverse the planetary boundaries.Tom Newmark: Magic of soil life and the potential to build to bring atmospheric carbon down.Larry Kopald: Global efforts of TCU in mainstreaming regenerative agriculture and the progress towards effective measurements of carbon in the near future.Abbey Smith: Holistic Management for climate health: livestock as a tool to build soil health. A discussion of this scalable, accessible, biological solution to global climate health through the lens of the Savory Global Network.Mel Landers:  Overview of how regenerative agriculture provides real solutions to the problems of soil life, fertility, structure and water retention and of food insecurity and climate instability, among others.Ed Mueller: Concrete results of Costa Rica Regenerativa.

You can listen to the full recording – just click here.

Voices Inside the City Glasgow:

Rupert Read reported from Glasgow again – from his lodging this time. On this second day we heard that the major announcements have already been made.

Unlike previous COP’s, the staging of the world leaders at COP 26 has come in the first 2 days of the conference instead of the last few days.

We heard from Presidents Biden, Macron, G20 and others, good news about:

an agreement to end deforestation by 2030reduce methane by 30% by 2030

But Rupert wondered where announcements would come relating to the health of Oceans, Biodiversity and Soils?

So we are alert to the following days to see if we will hear any further announcements or the national teams will be working mainly on the details?

Voices Outside Around the Planet

Ed Mueller, Rector of International University of Cooperation, Costa Rica, lead the Humanity Rising team on Day 2 inquiring into the critical topic of Soil health and its capacity to sequester CO2.

His panel shared the well established capacity of Nature to heal herself if she is not infected by the damage of chemical fertilization – which is also acidifying the Oceans as it runs off.

It was also noted in the Humanity Rising Chat that Costa Rica had won a “Restore Earth” award for its success at restoring its ecoregions.

Further links to Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising Coverage can be found here:

Description: https://ubiverse.org/events/humanity-rising-day-352
Library of Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity/videosEach Zoom live webinar will have a maximum capacity of 500 participants. If you are not able to join on Zoom, we will be live streaming here on the UbiVerse and on:

UU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UbiquityUniversityOnline
UU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity

The detailed Humanity Rising schedule can be found here: https://humanityrising.solutions/agenda/
If the maximum amount of Zoom webinar participants is reached you can watch the live stream here:
https://www.facebook.com/UbiquityUniversityOnline
https://www.youtube.com/c/UbiquityUniversity
If you missed a session the recording can be found here:
https://ubiverse.org/groups/humanity-rising-global-solutions-summit/documents

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP COP 26, Day 8 Cities are Gaia’s Regneration Hubs InfographicCOP 26, Day 2 Soil our Future Beneath our Feet

Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs – Infographic

On Oct. 28, 2021 Humanity Rising convened its 12-day broadcast on COP 26.

On COP 26 Day 8 our Humanity Rising Day 358 theme was Cities. Here is the Infographic of the session hosted by Dr. Marilyn Hamilton. Scroll to the end to find the link to the whole session with guest panelists: Dr. Monica Sharma, Dr. Coleen Vogel, Dr. Leonora Grcheva, Duncan Crowley Phd Cand.

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for HumanityCOP 26, Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Inside-Outside COP 

COP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351(2) Inside/Outside COP

On Oct. 28, 2021 Humanity Rising convened the team who will anchor the 12-day broadcast on COP 26. Lead by Jim Garrison, President of Ubiquity University he shares our intentions each day for the set of conference broadcasts.

Humanity Rising Day 351 (2):   Inside/Outside the COP

As we gather in our Humanity Rising COP 26 Green Room we are alive with the privilege of sharing the perspectives from a team around the world. We are listening intently to what COP 26 announcements herald as intentions from the world’s nations and leaders. And we are sensitive to all the Voices who have gathered in Glasgow to present, connect and influence one another from the 4 Directions.

Here is what we heard from Glasgow direct followed by our international studio comments.

Voices Inside the City Glasgow:

Rupert Read, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion (reporting from the COP 26 Blue Zone inside the conference) is now inspiring a “moderate flank” of the activist movement so that it can embrace more people than those activists who are willing to protest with non-violent action but also willing to go to jail to make a point.

Rupert points out that it is “5 minutes past midnight” on the world-time-to-act clock. He declares, “It is up to us. If not now, when? “ It is time to open up space so that we can build resilience together.

Alden Meyer,  an expert on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and other aspects of international climate change, points out that it is cities who are taking the initiatives on the ground. The non-state actors in cities are the ones seeking and making impact. Together with Business actors, Citizens are pressing for market mechanisms with environmental integrity. We are seeing sector signals that fossil fuels must be replaced by clean and renewable energy. He reports that the G20 who just met in Rome (before COP 26 in Glasgow) affirmed the importance of climate change.

Although many narratives are mixed and incoherent with one another – they all contain elements of truth. In the midst of cries for equanimity, realism, hope and grief – we must realize, “ Impossible is not an option”>

Kosha Joubert, leader of the Pocket Project calls for the process of collective trauma healing to restore fragmentation across the many cultures. We must clean up the accumulated pain inside our hearts/beings in order to clean up climate outside in our cities, bioregions and planet.

Voices Outside Around the Planet

In the Humanity Rising Broadcast Zoom we hear:

Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya, author of Earth Democracy, calls forth James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis’ scientific revelations that the Earth herself is a living system.

Vandana reminds us of her many confrontations she has had with World Trade and capitalism whose histories and economies have benefitted from the over-exploitation of fossil fuels coal and gas. Vandana calls for “Soil not Oil” – still reminding us (from her repeated attendance of prior COPs) that living soil is the most effective method of CO2 sequestration.

She points to the futility of geo-engineering and CO2 capture as unlikely artificial/mechanistic solutions to our climate conditions – which need to be recognized as symptoms of a living entity replete with other living entities (including humans), all interconnected as a living ecology.

Martin Palmer, theologian, Sinologist, author and international specialist on all major faiths and religious traditions and cultures reminds us that all the faiths are major investors and key stakeholders in the Planet’s wellbeing. He points out that many traditions can cite that, “What God created is blasphemous to destroy.” So, humans are called to steward and nurture the life-giving qualities of Earth and all living systems.

Dita Vizoso, a farmer in Scotland and a Grief Tender, presenced the heart of compassion. The grief that so many people feel in the loss of Earth’s biodiversity, beauty, relationships. But Dita also brought forth the restorative power of story telling/sharing.

Jon Ramer, founder of SINE network (through which the Humanity Rising broadcast is streaming to millions around the world) speaks also of story. He sees the power of weaving together the many networks he can now connect through SINE. Not only the technical language of COP 26 gives us the power to change – but also the networks of Peace and Unity that Jon has so adeptly connected. He invokes, “May Peace Prevail on Earth”.

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration HubsA COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David SpanglerCOP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for Humanity

COP 26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for Humanity

On Oct. 28, 2021 Humanity Rising convened the team who will anchor the 12-day broadcast on COP 26. Lead by Jim Garrison, President of Ubiquity University he shares our intentions with this map of conference broadcasts.

COP26 Day 1 Humanity Rising Day 351: Code Red for Humanity

COP 26 in Glasgow takes place within “Code Red for Humanity,” thus making it the most consequential Conference of Parties in its 26 year old history. Never before has so much been at stake for so many. The whole world hangs in the balance around whether humanity will radically curtail its use of fossil fuels in time to avert its own destruction. All indicators are that we will not, we will continue to squander time and resources gobbling up fossil fuels, spewing CO2 into the atmosphere and refusing to change a way of life that has wiped out two thirds of the biodiversity on our planet in the last 50 years. 2021 will mark the second highest carbon emissions in history with no let up in sight. We are now in the climate tipping point. Escalating ecological turbulence is now unavoidable. How we respond, whether we take action to regenerate the global ecosystem, how we navigate through what is coming, will determine our fate.

Because of the importance of this COP, Humanity Rising (HR) is convening a 12 day Global Regeneration Summit to coincide with activities in Glasgow from Nov 1 – 12. Each day, HR will be taking up a different theme and hearing from a panel of specialists as well as activists in Glasgow both inside and outside the conference. Climate activists across a range of perspectives, cultures and organizations will come together to express their concerns about government inaction, their plans for climate justice and their aspirations for a world aligned with natural systems.

Today HR convened an array of voices who will be part of the 12 day program as it unfolds:

Ben Bowler, co-founder, World Unity WeekKurt Johnson, author, member, Evolutionary Leaders,Kosha Joubert, Director, Pocket ProjectBill McKibben, author, founder, 350.org, Third ActAlden Meyer, Chief Policy Officer, Union of Concerned ScientistsMartin Palmer, author, founder, Alliance for Religion and Conservation, FaithInvestJon Ramer, coordinator, SINE NetworkRupert Read, author, co-founder, Extinction Rebellion; co-founder, Transformative AdaptationVandana Shiva, author, founder, Navdanya, Earth UniversityRick Ulfik, co-founder, We the World, Eleven Days of Global UnityDita Vizoso, climate activist, farmer, rewilder, Now What?!, Grassroots to Global

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

A COP26 Message from the Subtle Realms, via David Spangler

We interrupt this Humanity Rising 12-day broadcast on COP 26 to hear a message from David Spangler, Founder of the Lorian’s and spiritual advisor to Findhorn Foundation and Community.

[image error] David Spangler is the spiritual director of the Lorian Association, and was a key member of the Findhorn Foundation.

David shares a request from a subtle being for a Meditation for Humanity during COP26 in Glasgow.

On Monday morning, November 1, 2021, I had a request from one of my subtle colleagues, just before I was about to give a lecture to an online class I am teaching. I said I would pass it on. The following is a transcript of that part of my talk in which I did pass on my subtle colleague’s request:

As you know, many of the world leaders are gathering right now in Glasgow, Scotland for a climate summit. That being that I call the Angel of Humanity, or the Spirit of Humanity, the collective soul of Humanity, is overlighting this summit. The request that has been asked of me to pass on is for you to take time to attune not to the summit, per se, but to the spirit of creative humanity. This is very important that you’re not attuning to suffering humanity, to humanity that’s caused these environmental difficulties, to humanity that’s the worst side of our nature; you’re attuning to the soul of humanity that holds all the possibilities and the creative potentials and the vision that can shape a positive future.

David explains further “There’s a wisdom in our deep collective knowledge of how to move through these things.”

Read David’s full message here.

This blog series follows the gathering, proceedings and commentary on COP 26 in Glasgow Scotland from October 30 to November 12, 2021.

The series includes the following blogs (unfolding as COP 26 unfolds):

COP 26 – Preparing the Ground – Code Red on Humanity Rising Day 350COP 26 – Cities are Gaia’s Regeneration Hubs