“As the old, impotent, outworn and dying world order, based in greed and materialistic economic models, becomes more unstable, many governments, in an effort to try and control the social and political disintegration process will increasingly violate human rights and create conflicts, between others, to try and protect themselves! As these abuses and injustices increase, an ever greater number of Human Beings will react to them with greater social unrest and violence! In response, local, regional and global movements for social, environmental justice and, at times, acts of increasing terror and violence, will not only be directed against governments. There will also be greater and greater conflict created between ethnic, religious and racial groups, as well.
The spiritual reality that is being realized, by a growing numbers of the Human Family, is that the dying, old world order, based in greed, materialism and economic elitism, is no longer able to meet the needs of the growing spiritual consciousness of the Peoples of Mother Earth. Only by providing positive, spiritually-based alternatives to the destructive, materialistic, undemocratic, non-participatory, and inharmonious patterns of living, that surround us, will we rebuild our Families, Communities and Nations.”
Excerpt of presentation to World Commission on Culture and Development, UN Head Quarters, New York City, April, 1995