The Academy announces the goals created by EARTHRISE thought leader Jim Channon and the fellows of the Academy below.

EARTHRISE …
The 100 year positive vision for planet earth
EARTHRISE GOALS IN CAPS

As we awaken to the grand new global infrastructure we have built as a by-product of both the industrial age and the information age, we now find ourselves a functioning global civilization, without realizing how it quite happened. We are moments away from having the COLLECTIVE GLOBAL PUBLIC VOICE that will redistribute our more centralized and mostly obsolete institutions and birth the decentralized VISIONARY MINDSET that will move humanity to a direct and comforting NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH NATURE.

Jim uses Maya 3D images and animations (see above) to illustrate the progress of a world that is by his reckoning thirty years in advance of the incidental news reports we recieve. Note here that this is a one second snapshot of the 100 billion global communications a day that occur on planet earth. We have a planetary civilization!!! Click on each thumbnail image to enlarge and then click again on "original" to further enlarge and even export these image files.

This is a sample of Jim's high speed graphic recording style. He uses two inch markers and captures content and as you can see here (energy) that allows for many cultural ideas to be included in the record of the meeting. In addition the large 4 X 6 foot foamcore boards become a very substantial and displayable medium and can grace the hallways of any institution by simply adding an easel.

Here an organization with spiritual intent and cultural history of consequence chooses their strategy to be included with their ethos as a community.

Here objectives, phases, costs, support and the like can be assembled for a coherent action plan. Notice the perspective drawing is enhanced with a leaping quality so popular in cartoons to give more life to this already colorful and exciting portrayal of work.

Some leaders enjoy keywords to present their visionary ideas. Here Ford Motor Company harnesses and important campaign with a compelling digital image enlargable to billboard size. Sprinkled among the icons and project illustrations are the key words the speaker needs to make the presentation with one graphic.

THE GALACTIC PROMISE
An artist describes the universe.
audio to follow

The entire universe is a whorl of shimmering dark soul. She stands thirty light years across and is three trillion years in the making. She has within that delicious and potent grand flux of dark soul the sparkling pieces of love that began to swarm freely in the fine mix.

Over what eventually became known as time, those small pieces of pure love found each other and packed themselves up together into larger and larger celestial bodies. As they huddled in tightly to each other the mass created by these most highly charged attractive particles began to show up as light when the orb was viewed from outside its mass.

At what point do you suppose we actually accepted … as a planet … that the world was round? Was it when every blooming person on the Earth was fully conscious about that possibility? No, my guess is we aren’t there even now and at the same time there is the moment when a sufficient number of people accept a new idea and we act as if it is so.

Well then, when do you suppose we reached the point where a sufficient number of people accepted that our global culture is connected, collectively aware of our common interests, and functioning with an exchange of goods and services common to civilized groupings anywhere?

This is a place holder for an overview piece on the Social Architecture course.

I OFFER A PAPER RECENTLY completed at the Combined Arms Center by a Major Brian Stuckert a student in the SAMS course for advanced military studies.

I have only copied his summary with footnotes to attest to his scholarship but the essence of an American Bias in strategic policy is seriously evaluated.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

research paper: The implications of millenialism on strategic policy ...he concludes: