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ON A SACRED VISION FOR AMERICA
by Linda Sechrist
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tephen Dinan, founder and CEO of T e Shiſt
Network, is committed to creating a healthy, sustain- able, peaceful and pros- perous world, as are the 200,000 members of his worldwide organization. Interested in personal growth and spirituality since his early 20s, Dinan’s core passion has been to shiſt society, not just the individual. In his book Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfi lling Our Mission in Service to All, Dinan harvests the world’s wisdom and his own experiences to show how humans can grow, evolve and mature psychologically and spiritually, laying out an envisioning process for what’s possible when America achieves its full potential. Positing that envisioning is not only
the work of leaders but of all of America’s citizens, Dinan sheds light on a new sacred conversation and overriding vision that can guide us to fi nding the will and the way to midwife a new chapter in American history.
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What is a sacred worldview? We have a lot of forces pulling us into our separate identities, whether this is as Americans, Democrats, Republicans or identifying as counterculture or main- stream culture. Bifurcations, which happen when we identify with a part of reality and make the rest wrong, bad or problematic, keep us in a state of suff ering. A sacred worldview means living
in reverence for all humanity and all life; seeing divinity in all people and things, not
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just in a few people, a group or political party; seeing the higher, nobler and deeper dimension to all manifest reality that is expressed in humanity’s spiritual and religious im- pulses. A diff erent way of engaging each other and designing how life works fl ows out of seeing life as the great mystics do; from a higher vantage point of interconnectedness.
At its heart, what is Sacred
America about? Sacred America, Sacred World is about rec- ognizing our role within the larger whole. It’s about our unity as one human family. When we can redesign our society from this stand- point, we’re fulfi lling the deepest principles upon which this country was based. Part of the fulfi llment of a sacred vision for our country is building upon our most ancient principles. For example, “E pluribus unum” is a deep metaphysical concept meaning out of many, one. It’s not that all is oneness. T is principle tells us that we evolve out of our “manyness” into our oneness, with each of us having a diff erent role. Our many- ness, our individuality, the unique fl avors of life, diff erent cultures and languages, is not something we want to erase. We do want to remember that we share this unitive ground and vision, as well as the powerful founding code of liberty, equality and justice for all. Our country is coded with a mis-
sion to lean toward unity, to lean toward oneness. As the melting pot for the world, we integrate more cultures than any other
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