Below is a list of projects which Joyful Being members are supporting.
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Active Since: November 21st, 2008
To enable and empower local respect for animals.
Active Since: November 14th, 2008
This Charter for Compassion is a collaborative document and you have a chance to help write, or to increase awareness about a global Charter for Compassion that includes all world religions in a common purpose.
Active Since: August 21st, 2008
Core Principals - For all Joyful Being projects the core principals articulate a vision of an area of our community life organized around the desire of individuals to feel alive and connected and to increase the Joyful Being values. Until we learn to organize around something that is inclusive of but larger than current institutions and ideologies our attempts to create positive social change will embedd us deeper in current problems. If these core principals better capture your vision of a health care system then show your support by joining and then participating in this project. If the numbers in support of this vision of health care becomes large enough then you have participated in creating the necessary leverage to change large systems. Please help us add to, refine, or promote these core health care principals.
The following six core principals are from the Network of Spiritual Progressives. www.spiritualprogressives.org
1. Universal healthcare is a necessary collary to the belief that every human is created in the image of God, an embodiment of the sacred, has inherent worth and value. We have a sacred obligation to care for each other. Health care workers should be honored as conduits for this community care.
2. Incremental, step by step reforms of the for-profit healthcare system have failed to inspire the mass movement necessary to pass them because such plans are not sufficently visionary and inclusive. So long as it is possible for any individual to imagine they would not be covered by the plan - would be outside the circle of care - the plan will not evoke the spirit of communal caring that is the most powerful force behind the idea of universal healthcare.
3. The campaign for universal health care should involve an acknowledgement that human beings are more than material bodies. Our physical health cannot be divorced from environmental, social, spiritual, and psychological realities.
4. The entire medical system needs to be reshaped so that it addresses these environmental, social, spiritual, and psychological realities. For example, how can the practice of medicine address lonliness and social disconnection? Can a health center help build community? How might hospitals be reimagined if we took seriously the human need for beauty, wonder, and celebration?
5. The practice of medicine should be based on a sense of awe, and wonder at the workings of the human body.
6 These reforms would have powerful ramifications for the training of medical professionals. Students would be encouraged to pay attention to their emotions and intuitions as well as their senses and to assess patients’ emotional, spiritual, and social lives as well as their physical symptoms.
Active Since: August 24th, 2008
All Joyful Being projects start with core principals which help us articulate a vision from a perspective or organization built around the desire of individuals to feel alive and connected and to promote the Joyful Being values. Please help us co-create our core principals and to make this a living document for our local community.
The following core principals were taken from the web site Network of Spiritual Progressives. www.spiritualprogressives.org
- The current environmental crisis represents a spiritual crisis as much as an economic, technical, or political one. A culture of materialism and me-first-ism encourages us to view other human beings and the earth as “resources,” whether “human” or “natural,” to be used for our own advancement.
- Addressing the deep spiritual roots of the environmental crisis requires that we acknowledge our addiction to endless consumption and challenge the belief that the price and number of things we own are the measure of our worth in the world.
- Deep denial prevents many of us from acknowledging the severity of the environmental crisis. That denial will not be overcome through scare tactics and doom-and-gloom predictions but through an invitation to become more mindful and happier human beings by reducing our consumption and instead finding meaning in the gifts of the natural world and of human community.
- One of the core spiritual teachings of all our great wisdom traditions, and increasingly of science, is that all life is interdependent. That means that it is impossible to tend to one’s own well-being without also tending to the well-being of all life. Our public policies should be revised so that they are fully in alignment with this insight. Likewise, federal environmental agencies should take as part of their mission the explicit teaching of our interdependence with all life.
- We must champion voluntary simplicity and ethical consumption while simultaneously changing the global economy so that it is ordered in rational, just, and sustainable ways.
Active Since: September 14th, 2007
The objective of this project is to help people feel alive and connected and to increase the love, joy, peace, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, health, beauty, and humor in the world through Village Hope Christian Community Development.
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