Dear Friends:

Last year we have initiated a series of talks on "Creating a Culture of Responsibility" and an experiment on dialogue "Vision In Action Business Consortium." Thank you very much for your participation.

The following is a new version of what I have already shared with those who are in our dialogue group, which briefly explicates the four pillars of my work, the work of Vision In Action, to which I am dedicated and to which I would like to invite you to participate in a manner that would best serve you.

Now, some people seem to think that I am into saving the world. No. I am definitely not into saving the world. If anything, I am into saving myself and others from the world — from the world of our own making, from the world of illusion, delusion, and collusion that is being projected right in front of our eyes, everyday.

My message to humanity is very simple: Let us wake up and rejoice! We will continue with our dialogue groups and will organize other gatherings throughout 2005. We extend our invitation for you to participate.

Four Pillars of the Work of Vision In Action:

(1) Contributing to the transformation of the ideosphere (the global sphere of ideas) from the concentric configuration (authority-follower structure) of the past to the omnicentric configuration (everyone being self-authority) of the future by promoting authentic, independent thinking and thereby eradicating the culture of belief- or opinion-based dependence on external authority in the matter of thinking and knowing.

(2) Contributing to the development of a culture of responsibility (wholeness, integrity, and authenticity) and of the new principle of societal organization, which we call Alignment Beyond Agreement. (We will organize gatherings in California, Chicago, and Toronto on this theme. An international journal with 3000 readers has asked me to write an article on this theme. You will witness a gradual spreading of this concept in the world.)

(3) Contributing to the general understanding of the phenomenon of the evolution of consciousness. Human consciousness has two fundamental and interacting faculties: perception (including sensation, feeling and emotion) and conception (metaphysical abstraction in the language space). There is another faculty, which only relatively few have been able to develop throughout human history. For the lack of a better word, let me call it "metaception" (a bad mixture of Greek and Latin roots) or "supraception" or "transception," which Richard Bucke and Walter Russell called "cosmic consciousness." This is the faculty of consciousness by which consciousness becomes conscious of itself — by which consciousness turns the light of awareness upon itself — to be one with the Source or the Ground, which is Primordial Consciousness.

The awakening of this faculty is often called (spiritual) enlightenment. The combination of perception and conception is the necessary condition of being fully human, but not sufficient. When one awakens and develops the faculty of metaception, one attains the necessary and sufficient condition of being fully human and the genuine sense of wholeness. Unresolved philosophic, scientific, societal, and political problems will find entirely new resolutions once this faculty is awakened and developed. [1] To transcend and to free oneself from one's egological preoccupations is possible only when one has sufficiently developed this faculty and integrated it with one's perceptual and conceptual faculties. To be born human is to be born into the possibility of being fully human.

(4) Completing the development and writing of a tripartite, omnicentric model of new holistic cosmology that seamlessly integrates spirit, soul, and body, and combines the esoteric cosmology of the East and the scientific cosmology of the West. This cosmology will completely resolve what the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead called the bifurcation of nature.

Our dialogue projects are of vital importance because dialogue process directly impact the ideosphere itself — the configuration and the dynamic movement of the global field of ideation itself. This ideosphere, this global field of ideation, is the Matrix of Meaning through the interaction with which people derive their own meanings and values. In dialogue, we interact inside this dynamic field and process of ideation and thereby directly partake in the movement, the generation, and the transformation of the ecology of ideation itself. [2]

Humanity thus far has only developed a mono-logical mind and what people think dialogue means is only a two-way monologue, not a dialogue. Through the engagement in a dialogue process, we each can develop a dia-logical mind beyond a mono-logical mind, which is essential for the development of an omnicentric configuration of the ideosphere. [3]

Thank you very much for your participation. Thank you very much for your presence in the world. I deeply appreciate and honor your participation and presence. Let us continue to wake up and rejoice.

With warmest personal regards,

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
Founder and Chairman
Vision In Action
www.via-visioninaction.org

Vision without action is empty.
Action without vision is blind.

Ideology and opinion divide.
Quest and commitment unite.

[1,2,3] For additional information, read Supersymmetric Integration

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