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Erich From in his renowned book, The Art of Loving, sixty years ago said, "This world is held together by love, it couldn't last one day without love." He was worried then that the breakdown of love was endangering the survival of the planet. We feel today it is dire. Buckminister Fuller in his insightful book, Critical Path, forty years ago, said we have the technology to save the world, but not the creativity. He said our technology is three levels ahead of mankind, meaning there are two levels of technology we haven't employed yet, because of our lack of creativity, which could be used to save the world.
We believe the creativity needed is going to come from a new consciousness, a human consciousness that doesn't exist in the world today, but is erupting throughout the world now. We believe this consciousness is attained through a combination of 1) gaining awareness and understanding and 2) applying self discipline and moral restraint. With this combination the individual in us all will view the world with heart and tap into the hidden creativity locked inside. The eruption of creative and loving solutions that will follow will overwhelm and replace the hateful, politically attained solutions that are destroying the world. Spiritandpoverty.com serves as a challenge to mankind to attain this new consciousness.
The name of the website Spirit and Poverty comes from a book of poetry by the same name, written by Mitch Carter. We are launching spiritandpoverty.com with an international contest, to find a loving, creative solution to some problem existing in the world today. There will be an entry fee of twenty-eight dollars, and a complementary book of Spirit and Poverty will be given with each entry fee. The winner of the contest will be determined by the most relieving of suffering in the world, and/or being the greatest stabilization of the world. The prize: all the proceeds from the contest, as well as donations, grants, and a fund raising drive will be applied to fulfill the winning solution, in what ever part of the world it exists.