Invite to a Musical Peace Movement Born on the Wings of Butterflies

It is said that a butterfly can, with a flap of its wings, change the world and that the ripple it sends out can spawn a hurricane. The butterfly initiative intends to do just that and become a catalyst for helping to cocreate a culture of world peace and global harmony. The butterfly could be the key to what we call the "paradigm shift." Our butterfly Earth Proclamation was endorsed by James Redfield and Dr. Paul Ray, coauthor of the book on Cultural Creatives.

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We are inviting you to discover how this project may be just what you have been seeking for a long time. We are collaborating with a consortium of groups and individuals to open up centers for peace, justice, and global healing all over the world, starting right here in the San Francisco Bay area. It will collectively house the Butterfly Gardeners Association, Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace, Project Chrysalis, Authors for a Positive Millennium, a branch of the International Association of Educators for World Peace, the Woodstock Nation Foundation, a nonviolence program for youth, a crisis program for women, a grief counseling program, a children's reading, gardening and environmental education program, and an indigenous support outreach among other things.

We are a group of individuals and organizations trying to build a worldwide network for global change. We intend to do this by developing and promoting events and programs that will inspire citizens on a worldwide basis. This coalition of organizations is in the process of coming together & getting a structure in place.

We are inviting you to work with us hand in hand. To be candid, we are looking for individuals and organizations that don't have ego vested interests & whose driving force is primarily focused on improving conditions for all people on Earth rather than focused on personal gain or greed.

We have discovered that there are thousands of organizations, big and small, working to bring people together to help heal the world in one way or the another. When fundraising, marketing and PR strategies begin to dominate an organization's goals, they risk losing site of the fundamental objectives and values that once birthed them. They risk becoming more and more like the system they once vowed to help transform. Our intention is to partner with those that understand this. We seek to create a network that transcends these limitations and offers hope of a global all-encompassing vision for the world.

Are you willing to support such a coalition? Are you interested in exploring what might be possible if we all worked together and synergized our efforts?

Here is a brief overview of some of our projects.

The Butterfly Gardeners Association seeks to foster an appreciation of butterflies, hummingbirds, dragonflies, and other lifeforms. We emphasize the need for conservation of natural habitats in our communities and around the world. Our programs promote the installation of butterfly gardens, children's environmental education, reading, and nonviolence programs. We also promote the belief that the butterfly is the symbolic representaion and catalyst for the conscious evolution of the human race amd will usher in the Butterfly Era of Global Civilization as outlined in Norie Huddle's book Butterfly. Please see http://www.butterflyspirit.org and Norie's site at www.bestgame.org

Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace will be promoting events and concerts to support our environment and peace organizing. We are working to help promote and organize a benefit with the Citizens' Campaign for Old-Growth Preservation to help save what remains of California's old-growth Redwood forests and with Suraj Holzwarth of the GrandMother Drum Project. The GrandMother Drum is the first intertribal, international “world drum” traveling the world with the message of Unity, Peace and Life with the theme, “The Heartbeat of One Family, One Earth.” The GrandMother Drum will be the centerpiece, the very heartbeat of creating multicultural, multimedia performances, workshops, ceremonies and celebrations that cultivate a deeper understanding of the connection of personal and community wellness with environmental stewardship.

In addition to our interest in world peace and the environment, our campaign will also cover election reforms such as campaign financing and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College, supporting Congressman Kucinich's proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace - see http://www.house.gov/kucinich/action/peace.htm, reforming the criminal justice system and the three strikes law, making the office of public defender an elected position, raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, supporting and developing sustainable communities, helping indigenous causes, increasing funding for art and music programs, ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male dominator culture, and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives. We will also be working in collaboration with Project Chrysalis.

The Vallejo Performing Arts & Conference Center is now the new home of Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace & the Butterfly Gardeners Association. I have become the director of the center. We are looking to book shows, concerts, dance events, workshops, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, weddings and banquets at our facility. We have two ballrooms with 10,000 square feet of space, a dance studio and a full size 16 x 26 foot commercial kitchen for food preparation and catering.

We also have spme work/live rooms and offices available for performers, musicians, artists, therapists and healing practitioners. We are going to transform the Old Masonic Temple into a community of resident artists, performers, educators and healers dedicated to global peace, love and transformative performing arts and healing.

Project Chrysalis is a therapeutic program to bring performers, musicians, dancers, artists, clowns, story tellers, puppeteers, and mimes into hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth facilities, senior centers and other institutions that can use joy and healing entertainment for adults as well as children. We also plan to use other therapies such as horticulture (butterfly gardening), drumming, healing touch and massage, comedy, and theater as well. We believe that love and caring can be powerful therapeutic tools. Patch Adams is honorary chairman of this effort.


Our Earth Proclamation was featured on James Redfield's Celestine Vision site. He thrilled us all by featuring the Earth Proclamation on his front page for about a month beginning in February 2000.

We are a magically attuned world peace, environmental and spiritual network built on Synchronicity. Please let me know if this resonates with you.

I have a whole collection of amazing stories, poetry, and happenings that people have been sharing. If you can endorse the Earth Proclamation and forward it and any other material from us to your email buddies, it would be very much appreciated.

I have also coined a new meaning for the word butterfly, which used a verb means to give or teach someone the gift of looking at the world, as with butterfly eyes, and seeing only the beauty, love, and harmony in the world around them. If we can reach out and butterfly people all over the world, we may be heralding the dawn of a major paradigm shift and find ourselves living in the Butterfly Era of global civilization that author Norie Huddle envisions.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Alan D. Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Director and founder
Vallejo Performing Arts & Conference Center - Director
International Association of Educators for World Peace - Western States Program Director
Authors for a Positive Millennium - Co-director
707 Marin Street, Vallejo, Ca 94590
Send mail to: POB 1511, Vallejo, Ca 94590
707-552-9886
bflyspirit@aol.com

http://www.butterflyspirit.org
http://www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/musicians_and_artists.html
http://prop1.org/butterfly.htm
http://www.homeplanet.org/iaewp
http://www.petitiononline.com/bfly2012/petition.html The Earth Proclamation


"...Beauty seems to be an intrinsic part of nature, and perhaps even the organizing principle of reality. Scientists, in testing their theories, invariably find that the simplest, most elegant, most beautiful equation, is the correct one. Rainbows, butterflies, and the periodic table are some examples of intrinsic beauty. The world will be saved by beauty." (National Geographic Magazine)

"We may . . . come to see them as embodying all the beauty and complexity of nature itself. It is said that a butterfly can, with a flap of its wings, change the world . . . that the ripple it sends out can spawn a hurricane."


YES, I WANT TO BE A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE BUTTERFLY GARDENERS ASSOCIATION

___ Individual $25
___ Dual/family $35
___ Butterfly Lover $50 You get to sponsor up to 33 children to raise butterflies in their classroom.
___ Sustaining $100
___ Small Business $100 Includes advertising as a sponsor
___ Benefactor $500
___ Life member(1 x pay) $750
___ Corporate $1000
___ Students, Seniors $15
___ Limited Income $0-$14 Sliding Scale (Get emails only)

As a member, you'll receive a packet with the "Butterfly Gardening & Conservation" booklet, and choice of bumper sticker. Specify either I Brake for Butterflies or Butterflies Not Bombs.

Send your check to Butterfly Gardeners Association, P.O. Box 1511, Vallejo, Ca 94590

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"The Future of Freedom"

Democracy based on traditions of liberal principles of individual human rights and protection under rule of law are the framework of a success rule of freedom in western democracies. To successfully transplant this idea into nations where there had been no such tradition will be the major challenge of the 21st century. The first test case may be Iraq, along with Afghanistan, with the hope that if successful they will serve as models for other nations of the region. Education, information, a deeper understanding of the values of western democracy, equality of men and women, all will serve to make this possible. To merge the values of western ideas of freedom, especially religious freedom, with the fundamental values of cultures rooted in ideology(that it is a human being's duty to do God's will), may be more problematic than we had envisioned, for those who had taken it upon themselves to interpret God's will may be unfriendly towards western democratic ideals, perhaps even threatened by them. To overcome this fear we will need to hear strong voices from the secular and moderate scholars of Islam, so that interpretation of God's will are not left to those who would do so in an atmosphere of hate and suspicion. That any man can claim that he knows God's will may be presumptuous to our western minds, but this is the issue the new voices of a progressive Islam will have to address. Can there then be a Future of Freedom? One should sincerely pray the answer will be "yes". If this can be done in a ideology rooted in the 21st century's culture of peace, rather than a 7th century's culture of war, then it will be so.

Editors

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