Heeding Our Inner Voice looks at things logically and says, “Two plus two is four.”
The Global Oneness Project (GlobalOnenessProject.org), a But the Mother Mind does not think in a straight line; rather,
nonprofit organization that produces films and Web-based it thinks sideways and upwards and downwards. “We must
multimedia featuring scores awaken the Mother Mind within us. We must feel what is
of world thinkers and vision- going on in the world,” he urges. “We mustn’t just listen to
aries, is exploring how the newspapers.
radically simple notion of “It is said by our Zulu people that women think with
interconnectedness can best their pelvic area, where children grow and are born. We
be lived in an increasingly must think that way,” explains Mutwa. “I must no longer look
complex world. Since 2006, at a tree [and see simply a tree], I must see a living entity
the nonprofit’s staff and like me. I must no longer look at a stone as just a stone, but I
volunteers have circled the must see the future lying dormant in that stone.”
globe, gathering and telling Bob Randall, another Global Oneness participant, is a
stories of creative, coura- Yankunytjatjara elder and a traditional owner of Uluru (Ayers
geous people who believe Rock) in Australia. Randall is one of the Stolen Generation
that we bear responsibility of the Aboriginal people, taken from his family at age seven.
for each other and Throughout his life, he has
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
our shared world. worked as a teacher and
Founder and Di- leader for Aboriginal land
rector Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, a producer, direc- rights, education, communi-
tor, composer, musician and practicing Sufi, is the ty development and cultural
son of renowned Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn awareness. He expresses the
Vaughan-Lee. awakened consciousness of
While working on the film One: The Movie, in oneness simply: “The land
2005, Vaughan-Lee the younger says he was struck owns us.”
by the response to the film’s focus on unity. “People “Life is the binding and
from all walks of life and backgrounds were telling the connecting way, the one-
me they wanted to see more of this. So we devel- ness—if you’re alive, you’re
oped the Global Oneness Project to explore how connected to everything else
people around the world were applying a unitive that is alive,” Randall avers.
consciousness to practical problems within their lo-
Bob Randall
“Our [Aboriginal] relation-
cal and global communities.” ship to the land is different
from the English [non-Aboriginal] way—the land owns us.
“We always divide the world into little
The land grows all of us up. No human is older than the land
itself.”
pieces, and we think that this camera, for
Thus, he observes, Aborigines have a caring, uncondi-
instance, [the journalist’s camera or some
tional love and responsibility for the land. “You feel good
when you’re in that space—you feel like you’re living with
other inanimate object] is isolated from
family,” is how he expresses this intimate relationship. Ran-
the wholeness. It is isolated because it has
dall’s expansive smile and contented, warm radiance accom-
pany his words.
no consciousness. But if you go into the
“When you include everything that is alive in that
deep consciousness, there is no separate-
space—and that is a huge space—it is a beautiful way of be-
ing. It doesn’t push anyone out, but brings everybody in. And
ness. There can’t be.”
this completeness of being who you are, where you are, is a
beautiful feeling.”
~ Vera Kohn, community leader,
psychologist and Zen teacher
Listening with the Heart
Bringing everyone in represents the life work of Ibtisam
One of the project’s online interviews, among several
Mahameed, a Palestinian peaceworker on the board of
highlighted here, shares the perspective of Vusamazulu
Middleway, a non-governmental organization (NGO) pro-
Credo Mutwa, a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from
moting compassion and nonviolence. A Muslim, Mahameed
South Africa. “We must awaken the Mother Mind within
embodies interfaith respect and understanding in her bid for
each human being,” advises Mutwa, author of several books
global oneness, encouraging Palestinian, Jewish, Druze and
on African mythology and spiritual beliefs and well-known
Christian women to learn about each other’s religions and
for his work in nature conservation.
cultures. She asks us all to learn the language of mutual love.
“Every human being has two minds: the Mother Mind
“First,” advises Mahameed, “we have to learn about all
and the Warrior Mind,” Mutwa continues. The Warrior Mind
the principles found in the world. As a Muslim, Arab, Pales-
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