A Call to Conscious Evolution:

My focus is on the section called Encouraging Conscious Media: "We must find innovative ways to use the new electronic media as the mirror of our positive evolutionary story, investing in their capacity to reach across differences of generation, culture, religion, wealth, and gender to build a working consensus about our collective future." See http://www.mythosforcreatives.com/

I feel that what will ultimately accelerate a shift is equalizing (for children) the vast difference in the education and exposure to all that is wonderful in the world to the different economic levels. Children at the lowest economic levels do not have the same positive outlook of possibilities and therefore are discouraged that there are no options for them. They feel so behind that they cannot ever catch up. They see the disparity and are angry. They don't have the positive activities available. Everything including sports special events at school all cost money. There are not enough programs that provide money for the activities. Then the differences in schools alone and what they have to offer. Kids know they are getting the short end of the stick. Yes college tuition is great, but we need to make the road to college more positive, and not let kids fall through the cracks. No child wants to fail, they only give up when discourage. So when a child is not doing well instead of punishment we need to take a look at what is really going on. Either emotional or a learning difference. Pull these kids self- esteem up by encouraging that there is a way to achieve excellence. Also if there was a way to educate young people about how to raise children without emotional or physical violence. If this was implemented that this is not a blaming of how parents have been taught to bring up children but a new way of raising children, so that they have a full and open spirit that has not been squashed. I teach a program called strengthening multi-cultural families and communities, a violence prevention program. If a child is not exposed to personal emotional or physical violence along with being protected from the violence on TV and games. they have a much better chance of seeing the positive in the world. They are just seeing to much and parents are not aware of how electronic violence effects children. They get desensitized. They get violence in rearing, then TV then video games, movies, in their own community. Where is the respite the calm the ability to see and feel the love in the world. My dream has been to bring this knowing into middle schools. Have it be a mandatory class. We have drivers education, sex education, but no education on what it takes to raise a healthy happy human being.