"With the insight into our profound interrelatedness you know that actions undertaken with pure intent have repercussions throughout the web of life, beyond what you can measure or discern." - Choegyal Rinpoche

I. Promote the spirit of open minded free inquiry in all areas of human endeavors including alternative-integrative-holistic approaches to Self-knowledge, medicine, healing, science, technology, architecture, environment, space, performing arts, psychology, religion, forms of organization, education, work, recreation, life and living... II. Pursue true freedom in all human knowledge, thought and actions with responsibility and realize the highest human ideals, aspirations and potentials in ways that honor and serve all life in the planet.

III. Create a vibrant network of community among all forward thinking, positive and constructive initiatives that are taking shape at local, regional and global level; such initiatives will create a new vision and ultimately a grand human experience for all to participate in by receiving and giving freely!

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We often do not realize how fragmented, overspecialized and self-limiting knowledge has become! Pursuit of Universal Knowledge and Truth must remain free from all categorical boundaries and belief systems; it must be evolutionary, expansive, pragmatic and able to fulfill the true needs of the world at present time. The word 'science' itself is simply the Latin word 'scientia' for knowledge. Forms of science historically developed out of philosophy or more specifically Natural Philosophy . Current notions of science and scientists date only to the 19th century! The word 'Christos' also means knowledge (Ramtha). The word 'Buddha' means the "Awakened one who knows." The word 'Buddh' in Sanskrit means 'to know.' The word Gnosis derives from Greek and connotes "knowledge" or the "act of knowing". The word 'Shaman'literally means "he (or she) who knows." The word "Catholic" in Latin, derived from Greek means "Universal". Buddha and Jesus did not teach people to 'worship' them, but to 'become' them.

Now to know, means to have a direct personal experience of the Ultimate Reality (Brahman), a union of seeing and knowing beyond all dualities and doubt, and a direct comprehension of Nature of Reality and the Nature of (transcendental divine) Self (Observer in Quantum Physics). The three vehicles of knowing/knowledge are the primordial lineage led by inner knowing, intuition, innate intelligence and inspiration, transmission lineage led by innovation, and organizational lineage led by institution. The primordial lineage which emphasises each individual's innate divine potential (Christ and Buddha nature) to self-awaken without the help of external authority is the most ancient one. Mystical traditions within all world religions highly regard such direct experience as an important source of transcendental knowledge, understanding, and wisdom (see Mysticism and Vedanta, Translation Vs. Transformation by K.Wilbur).

There is a great need for knowledge to become whole or holistic, because life is an indivisible whole! The seemingly unbridgeable gap between science and spirituality (which is the essence of all religions), art and technology, education and work, and life and occupation in general exist because Knowledge is not whole. In our conventional learning we mostly experience the heavy burden of knowledge (through continual reinforcement of past assumptions, facts and beliefs) and not the freedom and ecstasy of discovering something new and unknown!

The solutions to our most pressing human needs and persistent socio-economic and political problems already exist; we are not simply looking at those directions! The best solution is one that is most inclusive, non-dualistic and self-evident in its simplicity and beauty. A "Great Awakening" and Renaissance in human consciousness is taking place in many fields. Now is a great time to learn and step out of the human cocoon mind . The ultimate goal of all Spiritual or Scientific quest is to bridge gaps in perception through Knowledge of the whole unified energy field of mind-matter. Make Knowledge your teacher! See Jñāna Paramita, Jnana Yoga and Way of Buddha

What is Knowledge?

The ancient meaning of the word 'Prana' is Knowledge. "Knowledge is not the things that are usually associated with it. It is not ideas. It is not a body of information. It is not a system of belief. It is not a process of self-evaluation. It is the great mystery of your life. Its outward manifestations are profound intuition, great insight, inexplicable knowing, wise perception in the present and in the future and wise understanding of the past. But despite these great achievements of mind, knowledge is greater than this. It is your True Self, a Self that is not apart from life." - Steps to Knowledge

"Virtue is knowledge" - Socrates "Even if you are in the minority of one, Truth is still the Truth" - Gandhi "Purpose of the body is to serve the mind, and purpose of the mind is to serve Knowledge." - Mita

The Virtuvian Human is a Universal Human Being; see female figure in circle, horz arm, feet at angle

"If many little people, in many little places, do many little deeds, they can change the face of the earth!" - African Proverb Knowledge without practice is lame; practice without knowledge is blind. Life that is continually changing and unfolding in its higher expression is not obligated to conform to any human theory or institution; theory and practice by necessity must embrace, evolve and be informed by Life, Here and Now. - Susmita Barua

Bhikkhus, just as the dawn is the forerunner and first indication of the rising of the sun, so is right view the forerunner and first indication of wholesome states. For one of wholesome (samyak) view, bhikkhus, wholesome intention springs up. For one of wholesome intention, wholesome speech springs up. For one of wholesome speech, wholesome action springs up. For one of wholesome action, wholesome livelihood springs up. For one of wholesome livelihood, wholesome effort springs up. For one of wholesome effort, wholesome mindfulness springs up. For one of wholesome mindfulness, complete concentration springs up. For one of complete concentration, wholistic knowledge springs up. For one of wholistic knowledge, total deliverance springs up. - Buddha in Anguttara Nikaya 10:121 Note the word 'samyak' has been incorrectly translated as 'right' as in the eight-fold middle Path Holistic Education

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"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King <><><>

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung <><><>

Every religion, culture, community, party, profession, and organization must continually strive towards self-renewal - reforming and transforming itself from within than without, for its own sake and the sake of common good of all! If the leaders are failing, the members must assume that responsibility. That is perhaps the only way to preserve the integrity, essence, and character of the entity concerned. Lack of integrity eventually leads to disintegration! - Susmita Barua <><><>

"Truth is not mere data or information. Truth is the full realization of a concept or paradigm of thought into experience and personal wisdom." - Ramtha <><><> "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." - Max Planck

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"Knowledge is meant to set us free from all mortal fears. Everyone who yearns for and abides by knowledge with right attitude and intent is counteracting the forces of ignorance, needless suffering, error and confusion in this world! - Susmita Barua

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"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. Mind is the matrix of all matter" - Max Planck

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"You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality." - Ramtha

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"Knowledge is inner knowing carried to the leading edge through gathering of experience realized into wisdom in the outer world."- Susmita Barua

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"What we observe is not nature, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."- Werner Heisenberg

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. Never lose a holy curiosity." - A.Einstein

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"Sometime, somewhere, you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it." - Buddha

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"Be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height." - Buddha's last message to Ananda

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"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Life 10-10-1949. "All scientific knowledge is provisional. Everything that science "knows," even the most mundane facts and long-established theories, is subject to reexamination as new information comes in." - Scientific American editorial, December 2002

"The World does not need another guru; the world does not need another preacher, the world does not need another priest; the world does not need another spiritual interpretation of the Stars; what the world needs is Truth." - Ramtha

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