“As the old, impotent, outworn and dying world order, based on greed and materialistic economic models, becomes more unstable, many governments, to try and control the social and political disintegration process, will increasingly violate human rights and create conflicts, among others, to seek to protect themselves! As these abuses and injustices increase, an ever greater number of Human Beings will react to them with more significant 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 being realized, by growing numbers of the Human Family, is that the dying, old world order, based on 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, which surround us, will we rebuild our Families, Communities, and Nations.”
Excerpt of my presentation to UN Secretary General, Perez de Cuellar, and World Commission on Culture and Development, UN Head Quarters, New York City, April 1995
