Online Sunday Meetings 2017

• January 8 – Straight Line Thinking with Rikki Thomas, H.W., m.
• January 29 – Accelerated Creativity with Hugh John Malanaphy, H.W., m.
• February 19 – New Reality — What are you investing in, and is it to make a difference? with Calvin Harris, H.W., M.
• March 12 – Ontological Activism with Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

Link:  http://www.theprosperos.com/sm2017-home/

A history of the Metropolitan Community Church in Portland and the sexual minority communities of Northwest Oregon. Spiritual men and women started meeting in an inner city hippie hangout to worship the Christian God they knew they could not reject. Beginning in 1976, the group grew into a thriving congregation of 200+ members in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. They became a central force in the gay and lesbian subculture of Portland, Oregon, fending off political threats, nurturing the community through the AIDS epidemic. celebrating PRIDE, and working with government to advance the cause of gay rights.

The first truth concedes that life is surfeited with suffering. This includes the common suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death, the anxiety of constant change in people and situations and the lack of satisfaction brought on by ignorance. The second truth is that all suffering is caused by desire. This includes the craving for sensory pleasures, the craving to dominate others and the craving to be freed from pain. The third truth gives the hope of the cessation of suffering by freedom from attachments. The state of cessation is referred to as nirvana. The fourth truth is the way to the end of suffering known as the Eightfold Path.

The stages of the Eightfold Path support and complement each other. Daily practice involves developing all of these factors simultaneously. They include right understanding, right intention, right speech, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right action and right livelihood. The Eightfold Path is also known as the Middle Way, as it helps devotees avoid the extremes of overly severe asceticism and self-indulgence.

(Contributed by Robert McEwen, H.W., M.)

A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This video explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe. Who were these populations – pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether?

Some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. Examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation we find in the Flood myths of most of the world’s traditional religions. Goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.

Note from Robert McEwen:  

This video is an astounding insights into astrology and the history of it. The evolution of consciousness and the severing of the link to Spirit.  The importance of the restoration of the Spirit.   It is on my front page of my Face Book page.  Please watch it.  It will enrich you, at least it did me.  It fits with Prosperos Thinking in consciousness and Principle in Action.  Powerful and passionate delivery of the speaker is wonderful and scientific principles. 

Here are 50 simple ways in which you can add to your happiness:

1. Accept that life is not perfect.
2. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
3. Don’t take others too seriously.
4. Appreciate yourself.
5. Have meaningful goals – they give you purpose.
6. Get a pet.
7. Cultivate friendships. To have friends, be a friend.
8. Be supportive and seek support when needed.
9. Don’t confuse materialism with success.
10. Know that money does not buy happiness.
11. Enjoy what you have.
12. Simplify your life.
13. Be more creative.
14. Be yourself.
15. Be more spontaneous.
16. Spend more time with happy people.
17. Keep a happiness journal for writing about the things that give you joy.
18. Find what you love to do and make it your life’s work.
19. Be willing to learn and experience new things.
20. Be flexible.
21. Be open-minded.
22. Enjoy simple pleasures.
23. Practice gratitude.
24. Think improvement, not perfection.
25. When things aren’t going well; know that it will pass.
26. Know that it’s not what happens to you, but how you perceive it that’s important.
27. Learn to live in and savor the moment.
28. Exercise regularly.
29. Get enough sleep.
30. Maintain a healthy diet.
31. Enjoy good conversation.
32. Have a hobby.
33. Take time for fun.
34. Practice moderation.
35. Cultivate an appreciation for the arts.
36. Read inspiring material.
37. Help others.
38. Have faith.
39. As Richard Carlson has said – Don’t sweat the small stuff.
40. Smile for no particular reason.
41. Be agreeable.
42. Love yourself.
43. Listen to good music.
44. Watch less TV.
45. Give it your best.
46. Pamper yourself.
47. Practice mindfulness.
48. As Bessie Anderson Stanley wrote in her little verse Success: “Live well, love much and laugh often.”
49. Be happy now. Don’t make it conditional.
50. Share your happiness with others.

TT/Stefan Gustafsson

By Tom Turula (businessinsider.com)

November 2016

Laszlo Szombatfalvy, one of Sweden’s most successful investors of all time, is urging on the younger generation to rethink global governance.

Now he has issued a large award for the best idea to replace the current global governance system, through a competition called ‘A New Shape’. This was reported by Jill Bederoff, who interviewed Szombatfalvy for Veckans Affärer.

Laszlo Szombatfalvy is something like the Warren Buffett of Sweden.

Like Buffett, he started life in very humble circumstances. He arrived to Sweden from Hungary in 1956 when his native country faced Soviet oppression.

The 88-year old finance sage has one of the world’s best investing track records. Over 45 years, he has achieved an average annual return of 30 per cent.

His philanthropy aims to solve global problems.

Szombatfalvy is donating more than half a billion Swedish krona ($50m USD) through his fund, Global Challenges Foundation.

He believes radical measures are required to tackle inequality, and that the world’s rich need to take more responsibility.

Szombatfalvy believes the global governance system is failing:

”The biggest threats to humanity stem from the global community’s inability to deal with them effectively” he told Veckans Affärer.

“[The Politicians] cannot agree on the necessary measures [for climate change]. Even less are they able to agree on how to divide the costs between countries; or the responsibilities for future generations. Now only short-term national interests dominate” he continued.

His fund’s Global Challenges Prize is awarding $5m USD “in prizes for the best ideas that re-envision global governance for the 21st century”.

The Foundation’s website explains further:

“Entrants should focus on designing a decision-making structure or framework that could galvanize effective international action to tackle these risks.  The proposed model may encompass an entirely new global framework or a proposed reform for existing systems.”

The competition, called ‘A New Shape’, is open to any individual or organization, and at least $1 million will be awarded to the winner. The fund is accepting proposals until May 2017.

Here are Szombatfalvy’s 4 advice for young people:

1. Be conscious of the fact that you are not only your own country’s citizen; you are a global citizen.
2. Realize that your children’s and grandchildren’s living conditions to a growing extent will depend on other countries’ citizens, even more than on their compatriots.
3. Understand, that without a global governance system that cantackle global risks, the likelihood of major catastrophes will become incomparably higher.
4. Demand action from your elected politicans! Vote out the incompetent people – you cannot afford them!

In November 2016, the Global Challenges Foundation launches a new prize competition, a quest to find models of global cooperation capable of handling the most pressing threats to humanity. The New Shape Prize will offer US$5 million for the best ideas for a global governance frameworks to better manage the threats posed by four interlinked ‘mega-risks’: climate change, environmental damage, conflict (including nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction) and extreme poverty.

1.  Truth is the vehement vehicle/body, sharing knowing/consciousness, “canning,” fully furnished, just.
2. Reality perfect Being, the universe observing Mind is all knowing awareness that is sound and whole life force.
3. The Truth I We Thou Evidences and Absorbs all weaves all with Ease Joy and Sound Able Harmony.
4. To come.
5. To come.