Introductory package on
the original vision of the Millennium Gathering,
the Earth Proclamation,
the Earth Rainbow Network
the First International Meeting of this network
last December 12, 13 & 14 1997 in California,
Hello,
You will find below the usual introductory information I used to email to new-comers on the Earth Rainbow Network (ERN) emailing list. If you would like to subscribe to the Earth Rainbow Network automated listserver and regularly receive compilations covering a broad range of subjects, including each new Meditation Focus issued every two week, simply send a blank email at earthrainbownetwork-subscribe@lists.riseup.net from the email account to which you want to receive the material compiled and networked by the Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator. Subscription is FREE!
Note: unless you request your email to remain private, I may elicit to publish partly or entirely any of your emails to me in one of my compilations regularly sent to the ERN list.
Here is a brief history of how Jean Hudon, from Quebec, Canada, the webmaster of this site and coordinator of the Earth Rainbow Network, got started in this work.
I've been actively involved on the web for over 2 years now (and I have been a peace, environmental and spiritual activist since 1981 with 2 books published so far in 85 and 87 - see my rŽsumŽ at the bottom of this page for more details) and have created an extensive website, initially to present the Millennium Gathering project (still in the work - not sure yet if any of it will take place because of lack of funding), over the course of those 2 years which has evolved from an initial vision (see the Vision link on this site) to the creation of the Earth Rainbow Network and then to a gradual build up of people and key contacts from around the world (more than 900 of them as of February 1999), many leaders in their own field and having their own extensive networks of internet and non-internet contacts, sharing occasionally their ideas and visions on all kinds of issues, local and global, but mostly receiving material that I circulate, after receiving it from any of a number of sources, with some additional comments on all this from me (sometimes I also generate some of it), material which often gets recirculated abroad to thousands more and which even gets printed in various journals and magazines. Some topics have elicited quite a number of strongly opiniated feedbacks which were then recirculated. (Only a very small portion of all these mass emails are posted on my site for lack of time.)
People on my list have often heard for the first time in these mailings about issues that eventually became hot topics - such as the Y2K challenge and the MAI agreement - and many have contributed to help make more and more people aware of those situations until they reached boiling point in world public opinion. So when I feel something *really* deserves our collective attention, then I just go for it and make it known.
Here is now the Earth Rainbow Network Introductory package...
You will find below the basic information on this global initiative. Please
feel free to share this with others who might also have an interest in this work
for peace and a better world. We welcome your participation at any level that feels comfortable
for you and hope you will enjoy reading this material.
Looking forward to hear from you soon
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
The Millennium Gathering
for a United World
and the Millennium Opening Ceremonies
The original vision
Here is the original vision of a global celebratory moment I'm hoping to put
together for a worldwide TV broadcast on January 1st, 2000, as well as some additional
considerations on this project. I'm including below some elements of the original
call I sent out last November 29, 1996 when I started on this long and eventful journey.
You will find a description of the vision that struck me that evening when I was
thinking once more about a letter which Jeremy Burnham, a friend from South Africa,
had sent me 2 months earlier to invite me to reactivate the Earth Concert project for
the year 2000...
It's always hard to capture through words and evocative descriptions the gist
of a haunting vision of unity and brotherhood and the intensity and profound effect
of the emotional response that surged from my heart at that moment, a surge of love
and hope strong enough to make me commit on the spot to dedicate myself to the best
of my abilities to make this vision come true... with a little help from all my friends
all over the world.
Here is this vision...
Almost two years before the crucial, almost mythical date of the year 2000,
the time has come to kindle the Great Hope of a coming together of humanity as One
United Family celebrating peacefully and with conscious intent, not the fact that
we turn a new page on our calendars, but the fact that, against all odds, we are succeeding
in making the transition from one of the most destructive and bellicose centuries
of our history into a new era that, hopefully, will be under the banner of Peace,
Sharing and Unity for all beings on Earth. The organization of a massive event, joining together
all the members of our great human family in a common celebration of our hopes for
a better future on the eve of the third millennium, will help to bring that awareness into sharp focus for all to see and cherish.
Imagine for a moment... In parks and venues all around the world, hundreds
of millions of people have come together to celebrate while large viewing screens
are showing images from around the world of people doing just the same thing and
watching similar viewing screens. Billions of TV viewers at home are also watching and joining
in their hearts this global moment of Unity. At a predetermined moment a solemn ceremony
begins with appropriate symbolism and grandeur to mark the beginning of the new millennium. Dignitaries and celebrities from all over the world stand together around
a huge Earth globe representing our planet to accentuate the momentous importance
of what is about to happen. Then runners bearing a symbolic flame of Life converge
to join the dignitaries and celebrities circling the central globe.
We then see on TV successive close-up views of indigenous people from Amazonia,
from the heart of Africa, from North America, from Asia and Europe, from the Pacific
islands and the taigas of the North, from all the corners of this magnificent planet, all dressed in their traditional attires, marching solemnly towards the center,
followed by small groups of people representing all the other cultures now sharing
the Earth, each group joining successively the central gathering as the world is
watching the rich diversity of our human family. As people from all over the world watch this
live on TV, they all have this inner realization, viewing the representatives from
their culture joining the big circle, that they too are being represented at this
Global Gathering and that for the very first time in the whole human history, the entire
human family is about to join hearts in a shining moment of collective attunement,
changing forever the inner sense and view we have on all other humans, no longer
strangers from faraway lands, but true brothers and sister in the universal Circle of Life.
The momentum is growing apace as the last groups join the crowd of people now gathered around the slowly rotating Earth globe in the middle of the vast amphitheater. Then the final ceremony begins. Children from all the cultures converge from the crowd and form a large circle, holding hands around the Earth globe. A Declaration of Intent expressing in a few well crafted words the spirit of the moment and spelling our common hopes for the future is solemnly read. Simultaneously translated in all languages through national televisions and radios all over the world, these few well chosen thoughts help us all, just before the moment of attunement, to join our minds in a common appreciation of the new reality now dawning on Earth. Then the theme song of this global event begins, "The Children of Peace", sung by an international celebrity. The whole planet is entranced by this song as we enter the last few minutes before the change of century, according to the Greenwich time in London. Children choirs linked by satellites from around the world conclude this song with the words "Peace, Love, Harmony" sung in 8 different languages and then the final word "Unity". During these three minutes of grace and beauty, every human being is able to truly commit his or her remaining days on this planet to do the best he or she can to contribute to the betterment of the world. And the final countdown of the twentieth century begins 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. And the cheers go up with the fireworks and the fiesta begins!
Imagination can give an ephemeral reality to what has just been described,
but human ingenuity and a lot of dedication and heart will need to be devoted by
a great number of people to make such an event possible. Despite our best intents
and the great need for such a unifying event, mountains will have to be moved to make it happen.
Yet, faith can move mountains! So, let's just hold this vision and start working
together to make it happen.
Some additional considerations
My interest goes well beyond the purely cultural aspect of this event - which
needs to represent the multifaceted tapestry of our common cultural heritage from
around the world. In fact, it goes to the heart of what may help bring about a global
unification of mind and spirit of our planetary human family. We are all well aware
that the future of our world is still in jeopardy because of the relentless over
exploitation of its natural resources and its accompanying overpopulation in certain
parts of the world, not to mention decades of cumulative pollution, some very lethal and dangerous
for future generations. Despite great progress in this decade to stem the tide of
destruction and alleviate the pollution, recent reports state that the governments
are way behind in their pledges of implementing sustainable policies made at the 1992
Rio Earth Summit.
Something very fundamental needs to change in our collective attitude and
understanding regarding our relationship with the countless other life forms constituting
WITH US the entire Web of Life on Earth. To me and to many other leading edge thinkers, nothing less than a spiritual revolution in our hearts and minds, in our emerging
collective consciousness, is necessary to help stir the world on a true sustainable
path, on a path to sanity, justice, sharing and truly lasting Peace. Nothing less
will suffice. To this goal, like many other kindred souls on Earth, I have dedicated most
of my life and I will keep working relentlessly to bring my contribution to this
collective task of renewal and metamorphosis of our culture and global civilization.
And so it is from this perspective that I approach the task of co-creating with others
what could potentially be a major steppingstone in our path to collective self-renewal,
namely the moment of entry into a new millennium. From this unique vantage point
in our history, we will stand at the threshold of untold opportunities to create a more
just and healthy world for all. We will all have a chance at this point in time to
assess our course of evolution, change and development, and possibly make a conscious
choice to dedicated our entire life from then on to improve our options in the face of
the mounting crisis that, on all sides, will assault us more and more frequently
as a result of past neglect and sheer greed.
To achieve such a change of hearts and attitude, I firmly believe that a special
ceremony must be designed to help mark this important moment of transition into a
new era and, at the same time, create an opportunity for the entire human population
viewing this event to participate to a much needed experience of spiritual attunement
into one collective whole awareness. At a certain moment of the ceremony, as described
above, all should have a few minutes, after listening to proper instructions, to
join their thoughts and minds and delve deeply into the awareness of our unity as One
Human Family, sense the inexpressible beauty of being all alive on this planetary
Jewel of Life, and turn our attention as One group consciousness to the task awaiting
us to make this world a better place to live for all human beings and all species. A specially
designed musical segment will infuse this moment of soulful cohesion with exactly
the right vibrations, thus magnifying the unifying effect of that Instant of Magic.
There is another aspect which to me is likewise vital to insure a true success
and lasting effect to this project. Nothing of this nature stands a chance of seriously
influencing the course of our history, if it's just an ephemeral blip on the calendar of our civilization. The spirit emanating from this project and the means to
achieve it must be shared as widely as possible long before and well beyond this
event. To this end, there are many tools that have been created in the last few weeks
which, once they are shared and widely recognized all around the world, will create the right
context and atmosphere for such an event to flourish and bear fruits. The Earth Rainbow
Network and the Earth Proclamation are such tools and are designed to gradually reach out to the multitude in an effort to create an all-inclusive momentum of anticipation
for what is intended to become a turning point in our collective history.
The general idea here, at the basis of these tools, is to open to all the
option of participating in the co-creation and implementation of this project, a
bit the same way Earth Day in 1990 offered to the whole world the chance of being
part of this environmental awareness day of activities, thus rallying the participation of over
300 million people from all countries. This is also what was achieved on a smaller
scale with the first Earth Concert I promoted in 1989, with 20 concerts taking place
in 15 different countries, and the involvement of thousands of people in 40 countries
in the preparations leading to this event. My experience is that when the people
can appropriate an idea and make it their own, it has a much more powerful impact
than when they simply witness the efforts and achievements of others. Offering to a wide array
of people, cultures and organizations the option of contributing a portion of a global
project such as this one will offer them the possibility of co-authoring this collective effort and thus being infinitely more proud of it and dedicated to its success
and continued effect. This is why I sensed it is so important that almost everyone
watching this global event in about 2 years from now, be able to recognize at some
point that someone from his/her part of the world is representing him/her there and participating
to this great Gathering of all the cultures of this planet.
So it is with these thoughts that I will leave you for now hoping that you
have been touched by this vision of a global Millennium Gathering for a United World. May we
enter the 21st century united and invigorated by a common, powerful and empowering
vision of our future.
Jean Hudon
Email: <globalvisionary@earthrainbownetwork.com>
To get more information on the Millennium Gathering, the Earth Rainbow Network and
the Earth Proclamation , visit the Millennium Gathering web site at http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com
The Earth Proclamation
We are One people...
We share One planet...
We have One common dream...
We want to live in peace...
We choose to protect and heal the Earth...
We decide to create a better world for all...
We will do our best to make that dream come true...
We will change what needs to be changed...
We will learn, to love, share and forgive...
We are One people, we want to live and we will.
Personal Commitment
I, the undersigned,
aware that human activities are seriously endangering the fragile ecosystems of our
planet,
aware of the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots,
aware of the need to redirect my energies to protect and restore the global Web of
Life,
decide to begin right now to rethink my ways and values, and change what needs to
be changed in myself and around me.
I want the year 2000 a symbol for a New Beginning to be the turning point in the
local and global efforts now underway to create a better world based on equality,
justice and a sustainable planet a world in which Peace on Earth prevails.
Understanding that we are all individually responsible for the kind of future we will
create for our children and for countless generations to come, I will participate
in initiatives, locally and globally, to transform our world and protect this Jewel
of Life we call Earth.
I agree with this Earth Proclamation and personally commit myself to do all that I
can to spread it throughout the world and help make our shared dream of Peace, Love
and Harmony on Earth come true.
_____________________ Signed on the ____ of __________ 199__
(Make copies before signing to share it with others, then stick it up and read it
from time to time.)
In preparation for the year 2000 millennial celebrations that will take place all
around the world, an international effort has arisen to use this opportunity to create
a sense of anticipation about the great changes that can occur for the well-being
of all people and all life forms on Earth. We therefore present this Earth Proclamation
to foster a more responsible vision of humanity's role for our future and ask that
you help copy and spread it throughout the world.
If everyone reading this for the first time decides to introduce one more person,
everyday, to this common goal hereby described, millions of people will have a chance
to make this personal commitment by the year 2000.
This Earth Proclamation is circulated by the Earth Rainbow Network. For more details,
visit our Web site at: http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com
or immediately sign the Earth Proclamation online.
It is also available in French, German, Italian, Croat and Czech, and new translations will be added
as they will come in.
The Earth Rainbow Network
"One Planet, One People, One Peace"
Overview
The Earth Rainbow Network was formed in January 1997 by a small group of people interested
to use the approaching millennial celebrations as a catalyst to unify the world.
By cooperating with a wide range of people and organizations, we hope to co-create
a sustainable future for the entire community of Life on Earth. We believe the time
is right for a global event bringing together representatives from all the cultures
of the Earth in a celebration of our common desire for Peace on Earth.
The Earth Rainbow Network proposes a multifaceted unifying Earth Gatherings 2000 for the upcoming millennial celebrations, with the theme "Celebrating Peace, Life and Unity on Earth". Please join us!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"
Margaret Mead
MISSION STATEMENT
* We will strive to help unify the world and bring Peace on Earth.
* We commit ourselves to support all creative, cooperative endeavors advancing the
following goals:
To promote life-sustaining spiritual values.
To make the world a better place for every living being.
To unify humanity beyond all cultural differences.
To inspire caring and respect for one another.
To share the world's bounties more evenly.
To safeguard the environment.
To BE a world family.
* We will respect the following Code of Conduct:
1. Support the Mission Statement of the Earth Rainbow Network and its goals.
2. Communicate supportively, honestly and openly.
3. Acknowledge that whatever is being communicated, is true for the speaker at
that point in time.
4. Be responsible for your agreements, make only agreements you can keep and
resolve any disagreement as soon as possible.
5. If you see a problem, communicate it to the group along with any suggestion
you might have to resolve it, and trust that in due time, a solution will be found.
6. Work to the best of your ability and don't be afraid to ask others for help.
7. Win quietly and celebrate when others win.
8. Focus on what works.
9. When in doubt, ask.
10 Agree to compromise to reach a resolution, and when a matter is resolved,
support it.
The actions, initiatives and activities we support so far include:
* The worldwide dissemination of the Earth Proclamation, available at http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/proclamation.htm
* The project of a great Millennium Gathering to herald the beginning of the new millennium
and unify the entire human family in a celebration of our common desire for Peace
on Earth. contact: Jean Hudon at <globalvisionary@earthrainbownetwork.com>
or http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com
* The campaign to begin the year 2000 with a symbolic day of armistice (One Day In
Peace, January 1, 2000) and declare the Year 2000 itself as a "Year For Peace On
Earth". Contact: Bob Silverstein: (609) 443-5786 or at <PforPEACE@aol.com> and Steve Diamond at -- web site: http://www.pinn.net/~caspita/odpeace.html or http://www.countup2000.com
* The "Imagine Weaving The Dream!" project, a celebrational "Live-Art Weaving" to create a symbol of our "Woven Seamless-Web Planetary Fabric". A world-wide participatory event to be held in Washington D.C. on The Mall or the LA Coliseum or ?, during the summer of the year 2000. Contact: Penny McManigal: (714) 640-1931 or .
You may also read HERE about Penny's beautiful account of her participation to the Healing Summit where a big "Weave" was first created with the collaboration of many, many people. Check also her new website giving all the latest details about this exciting project: "Weaving The Dream!" at http://www.ashlandweb.com/millennium.weave
and also at http://www.weilands.com/millennium.weave
* The Global Wellness and Unity Activity - "In Balance With Earth" - a ten minute
sensory ecology activity that induces lasting personal and global responsibility.
Contact: Michael Cohen: <nature@pacificrim.net> or go at http://www.ecopsych.com
* LIGHTSHIFT 2000 - Imagine millions of men, women and children merged in the same beautiful spirit. We invite you to be part of the most powerful and positive shift in human history. On January 1st, 2000, before, during and after 12:12 am in your local time zone, we will turn on the Light of the world.
And on the first of each month at Noon, please join in silent meditation for 15 minutes from the pure light within and become a radiant thread in the tapestry we are weaving around this planet which will be fully woven for the quantum event -- January 1, 2000 -- One Day in Peace."
Web site at http://www.lightshift.com
* Milenio - Celebrating our humanity - An international festival celebrating the new millennium from December 28, 1999 to Sunday, January 2, 2000 at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. Contact: Mary Granfors at or go at www.milenio.com
* The "Peace Walk of the People" - From 4th to 10th July 1999 people will make their way on foot to their capital cities. They will walk for one week, starting in many places and moving from all directions towards their seat of government. The Walk will remind people of their interdependence and that they are responsible for and also capable of sharing in the shaping of the future of our planet. Contact: Roland Schutzbach <100650.2463@compuserve.com> in Switzerland.
* The annual ÒDigital Be-InÓ brings together an eclectic blend of people and groups whose work and play with creative digital media is transforming the worlds of publishing, media production, communication and education. Over the past 10 years, the event has become an influential cyberculture gathering featuring futurists, cultural innovators, techno-artists, and innovative music and visual performances.
Contact: Bob Gelman -- Web site: http://www.be-in.com
* Global Visions Directory: An online searchable directory of spiritual and humanitarian people, projects, organizations and events. You are invited to add your information to this expanding planetary resource. Contact: John Helion Tibayan -- Web site: -- Web site: http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/anasazi/ilyes.html
The Earth Renaissance
The power of an idea whose time has come
The Earth Rainbow Network
A tool to serve the Great Spirit of Life
NOTE:
You may want to sign the Earth Proclamation online.
online on this site.
The Results from the Earth Rainbow Network
Gathering of the Peacemakers
The first international meeting of the Earth Rainbow Network (ERN) took place at La Casa de Maria, in Santa Barbara, California, from December 12 to 14, 1997. Almost a year after forming this group, 20 participants from the Earth Rainbow Network met in person for the first time, some coming from as far away as Quebec, Miami, Washington D.C. and the States of Washington and Pennsylvania. They came together to find a way to manifest the vision expressed by the Earth Proclamation, which calls for the worldwide manifestation of Peace on Earth and the expression of compassion, generosity and unconditional love in all fields of human activities. Their main goal: "Co-creating a common vision of our millennial actions and projects as well as a strategy to implement this vision."
The beginning of the third millennium will definitely be a time of great worldwide attention as countless individuals and organizations are preparing to fittingly celebrate this historic moment. As their contribution to the meaningful observance of this moment, the ERN members have decided to foster the organization and linking over a 2 year period (from January 1st, 1999 to January 1st, 2001) of all kinds of local and global events and activities, all around the world, under the overall theme of "Celebrating Peace, Life and Unity on Earth".
The ERN members invite all interested groups and people to adopt this common theme for their millennial events and to cooperate or affiliate with the ERN in coordinating and linking all these activities under the banner of "Earth Gatherings 2000". The ERN members also plan to offer educational and inspirational material based on this theme and hereby invite all interested people to contribute their complementary activities and materials to the list shown below, thereby creating a vast resource bank of tools to further assist in manifesting peace on earth, a sustainable relationship with all other life forms and unity with the entire human family.
Here are some of the projects the ERN members have agreed to mutually support so far:
1. Dissemination of the Earth Proclamation, co-created by the ERN members;
2. "Millennium Gathering", proposed by Jean Hudon;
3. "Global Wellness and Unity Activity", proposed by Mike Cohen;
4. "Imagine Weaving the Dream!", proposed by Penny McManigal;
5. "One Day in Peace, January 1st, 2000", proposed by Steve Diamond and Bob
Silverstein;
6. "LightShift 2000", proposed by Ken Kalb;
7. "Milenio, a Celebration of Humanity", proposed by Catherine Margerin and
Mary Granfors;
8. "Digital Be-Ins", proposed by Bob Gelman;
9. "People's Walk for Peace" (in 1999), proposed by Roland Schutzbach;
10. "The Crop Circle Awareness Project", coordinated by ilyes;
The connections and feeling of being one big happy family was solidly established and the participants all came out of this gathering in an upbeat mood and very happy with the big step they had all taken with this first meeting. Lots of work awaits them in the weeks and months ahead but they trust that the inner forces and hope for a better world that have driven them to come to this meeting will similarly drive thousands more people from around the world to join and assist them in co-creating a magnificent moment of peace and unity on earth, a moment that will be the shifting point in our common quest for peace, unity and love.
To get more information about the Earth Rainbow Network, the Earth Gatherings 2000 or any other activity and project we support, as well as receive updates on future developments or suggest your own complementary idea or project, please visit our web site currently hosted at http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000
Prepared by Jean Hudon, Ed Elkin and Penny McManigal on behalf of the Earth Rainbow Network participating members.
JEAN HUDON
He was born in Quebec City on the 19th of June 1952, and lived there up to 1979. After completing his education, he became a self-taught musician, playing electric bass in many bands, as well as composing songs and lyrics in a progressive rock band called ÒMaelstromÓ which recorded an album and played at major venues. In 1979, after a 10 year musical career interspersed with various jobs, he moved to a rural community in the Saguenay area where he built a comfortable three-storied house, and learned to organically grow his own vegetables. He also took part there in the creation of an intentional community called ÒLes Plateaux CommunÔ™ÕTerreÓ on their 540 acres communally-owned land, home today of 10 adults and 9 children living in 7 individually-owned homes.
In 1981, he became a social activist when he joined a local environmental group which organized the first demonstration in Quebec against the scourge of acid rains. In 1982, he set up the Quebec branch of a program called ÒPlanetary Initiative for the World We ChooseÓ and, as a result, more than 50 ÒExploration GroupsÓ were formed all across Quebec to study documents on various mega-problems facing humanity, and discuss ideas to solve them. With 20 delegates from Quebec, he participated to a ÒPlanetary CongressÓ in 1983 in Toronto which resulted in a final document later presented to the U.N.
At the end of 1983, in view of the growing threat of a nuclear holocaust, he launched a global initiative to help increase public awareness and commitment to defuse the crisis. Called ÒPeace BombÓ, this 5 minute globally synchronized moment of prayer/meditation was widely publicized and observed in numerous countries on the 21st of December 1983. After 3 more such Peace Bombs on the following solstices and equinoxes, a weekly meditation called ÒLove ChainÓ was then launched to help sustain the momentum for peace and is still going on.
In 1985, he was invited to participate to the founding meeting of a group called ÒWorld Federation for PeaceÓ whose motto was The Earth is my Home and Humanity my Family. His contribution was to write, compile and publish in French and English a ÒGuiding Manual for a New WorldÓ presenting various perspectives on the emerging new paradigm as a way to foster a transformation process within participating individuals. Also translated in Spanish, this book was subsequently used by a number of groups around the world focussing on personal and planetary transformation.
In 1986, he was spiritually inspired to write a book called ÒThe Immortal ChildÓ whose purpose was to present to a vast audience the concept of our planet as one single global entity, also known as the ÒGaia HypothesisÓ. This book, so far published in English, French, Japanese and Portuguese, led to 2 years of intense work to promote the idea of an ÒEarth ConcertÓ which finally took place on December 31st, 1989 through 20 large public concerts that took place in 15 different countries. Hundreds of people in over 40 countries were directly involved in organizing this event and a major heightening of public awareness ensued as to the plight of our endangered planet.
In 1990, he planted 40,000 tree seedlings during a 6 week period in summer. He then made the transition towards becoming a professional translator on a full time basis and has so far translated over 20 channeling books and spiritual novels. In addition, he regularly wrote and mailed out around the world various position papers outlining his vision, as a way to foster change and action on key issues of peace, environment and global governance.
In 1993, he joined the Green Party of Quebec as an elected member of the National Executive Committee. After 2 years of efforts to promote ideas of sustainability, decentralization, participatory democracy and social justice he jumped on the Parti QuŽbŽcois bandwagon, 6 months before the provincial election, with the hope of increasing the exposure of its leaders and members to the ideas mentioned above. Following this, he was hired as a writer to compile the official green platform of the Parti QuŽbŽcois and produce a video on sustainable development featuring Mr Jacques Parizeau, former prime minister of Quebec.
On November 29, 1996, he decided to re-activate the Earth Concert project (now called the Millennium Gathering) in order to create an unifying global event to mark the beginning of the new millenium. An extensive website has been created (see at a href="http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000">http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000), an Earth Proclamation was co-created and widely circulated, an Earth Rainbow Network established and a Mission Statement adopted, an international meeting was held in Santa Barbara, California, in December 1997, to make common plans for the millennium, and over the course of 2 years, information on a wide variety of subjects was shared and discussed through a large emailing list he manages (with over 1500 subscribers from nearly 50 countries as of September 1999) as a way to expand and deepen global awareness and the sense of forming a global spiritual community gradually empowering itself to contribute in shaping the future of this world.
AND HERE ARE SOME PICTURES...
Jean Hudon (on the right) at the Santa Barbara meeting in December 1997.
Some participants to the first international meeting
of the Earth Rainbow Network in Santa Barbara, California.
Cover of Jean Hudon's first book, The Guiding Manual for a New World.
Cover of his second book, The Immortal Child.
The Immortal Child
by Jean Hudon
Amongst all the new books offered to the public, here is one which clearly stands out by its story, which concerns all of us very closely, as well as by the way in which it was written, or rather "received", should we say...
The fruit of an inspiration directly connected to the very womb of all Life on Earth, this book features a very likeable central character with which everyone can easily identify, at least at the beginning. For rapidly this child, called Gaia, comes to embody a most vital awareness for Humanity's survival.
From the first stages of Life forms which appeared billions of years ago in an obscure corner of the primeval universe up to a striking apotheosis which will test even the most fertile imagination, this book carries us into an adventure in which we all play a central part. For in fact, there is a spark of this Immortal Child within each one of us...
Yes, this book is really not something which can be called ordinary, half fiction, half reality, in the heart of the most fascinating adventure ever: the evolution of consciousness! And whether we like it or not, this concerns all of us!
To find out how you may order these 2 books, write to him at at globalvisionary@earthrainbownetwork.com.
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