(This weblog creates, for us all, a chance to meet at the interaction of Life and the New Spirituality. It is written by the author of Conversations with God, the worldwide best-selling series of books. The “New Spirituality” is defined by the author as “a new way to experience and express our natural impulse toward the Divine without making others wrong for the way in which they are doing it.”)

HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY’S BLOG…
* Continuing the discussion about The Group of 1000
* How 1% of your resources can help change the world
* A commitment of those who agree
* The calling of a select few

(This is the tenth in a series of blogs on the seemingly unending conflict in our world. The series makes the point that there is a way to avoid the constant conflict and killing upon the earth, and that way is for the earth’s people to adopt a New Spirituality — a new “story” about God, about Life, and about Each Other.)
In our last entry of this series, I talked about The Group of 1000, which, I said, has now launched a worldwide Action Plan, a global undertaking to approach the solution to humanity’s problems at the level of Cause, rather than at the level of Effect. You may wish to revisit that blog (Aug 2) to pick up on where we are in this discussion.
I said then that in the next blog of this continuing series, on Monday, I would outline, specifically, what the commitment is that we are inviting every potential member of The Group of 1000 to embrace. We are going to take a look at that right now.
Tomorrow I will speak more specifically of the Action Plan itself, for which members of the group will supply the supporting energy. You will know, then and there, whether you are in deep agreement with me, and wish to be a member of this group. It will be (obviously) totally okay if you do not. In fact, I do not expect everyone to agree with me. Yet of those who do, I will ask sacrifice and determination.

I am excited today to be able to continue rolling out to you my ideas and plans for The Group of 1000. I want you to know that I will be asking a great deal of the members of this group, in terms of commitment and willingness to serve a specific agenda — namely, the Action Plan to Change Our World.
In order for you to make such a commitment I know that you would have to be in deep agreement with my point of view on many things, including: the world and how it is, one solution to humanity’s problems and how to achieve it, and the strategy and timetable for doing so.
If we disagree on any of these points, there is no way that I could or would ask you to do what I am going to ask you to do. On the other hand, if we are in deep agreement around these issues, I know that you will want to offer your support and your deep commitment.
In my next blog in this multi-part series I will discuss those items in detail. I will lay out the Action Plan for which The Group of 1000 will supply the supporting energy. In this message, I want to describe just what kind of energy that all of us in The Group of 1000 will be asked to provide.
Now you may think this is backward — that I should first tell you what we are going to do before I tell you how we are going to do it — but I have turned things around a bit in this presentation because I want you to know “up front” what I’m going to ask of you before I even tell you why. That way you won’t feel as if I’m trying to “sell you a bill of goods” before telling you the price.
I want you to know right here, right now, that members of The Group of 1000 are going to be asked to make a very personal commitment and a modest but significant sacrifice. I am looking for energy to support a world-changing idea.
I am seeking, with the creation of this group, a select number of people who see that creating a shift in our global reality is imminently important. Who, indeed, see it as their own personal mission — and who have just been waiting for a way to come along in which they can undertake that mission with confidence that it is both practical and possible.
The way that I am going to propose is not the only way. It is just one way. But it is a way that will work. We are shown this path in the last three books of the Conversations with God series, which lays out the huge problem facing humanity right now — and which lays out the solution, clearly, cleanly, and without ambiguity.
So I make no bones about the next point: I am looking for people who view the ideas in Conversations with God as seminal, valid, and important. Who, indeed, view them as their own. I am looking for people who have said to themselves, “I could have written that.”
I seek — and I candidly admit this — a handful of people worldwide who find themselves in such Deep Agreement with the assessment, understandings, and insights of CwG as expressed in The New Revelations, Tomorrow’s God, and What God Wants that once The Group of 1000 is formed and its goals are explained (as I will, in my next entry here, express, define, and articulate them), there will be discussion but not debate, discourse but not dissension, and alignment without argument.
This energy with be coupled with and fueled by Deep Determination and Deep Commitment to move forward with astonishing speed in the fulfillment of an ambitious agenda.
Not everyone will fall into this category. Not everyone will wish to. Not everyone will feel comfortable in such a profile. That is perfectly understandable and perfectly all right. Those who do not may choose to remain active in one of the many other change-agent programs or activities available in the world today, in which extended discussion and back-and-forth interplay between participants is more a part of the whole process. There is plenty of room in our lives for that kind of profoundly important contribution.
Those who do join The Group of 1000 will be, quite frankly, those who hold a point of view very similar to my own. Like any group of supporters standing behind, and energizing, a political candidate or a not-for-profit group such as MoveOn.org or The 700 Club, The Group of 1000 will not exist to discuss and determine a course of action, but to support a course of action that has already been determined.
Of course, you cannot know whether you agree with those determinations until you know what they are. That is why we shall go into detail in my next blog, explaining these ideas and what I believe we can do if we choose to work together.
After reading tomorrow’s blog, you will know without a doubt whether you see yourself as a member of The Group of 1000.
But before you even hear of this plan, I want you to know of the deep commitment we will ask you to make, so that you can decide now if you are even capable of making it. I want you to see the sticker price before I start telling you about the features of the car. Unlike a slick sales person, I’m not going to get you all excited about the vehicle first, and then make you deal with sticker shock after I get you wanting it real bad. That’s not fair. You should know the price up front.
So here’s the price: I am hoping that you will be willing to set aside One For God. One what? Well, if you join The Group of 1000 we will ask you to…
1. Tithe 1% of your income each month to implement an Action Plan. This contribution will, of course, be fully tax deductible in the countries where such donations are deemed tax deductible.
2. Contribute 1% of your time each month to implement the Action Plan.
3. Tell 1% of the people you talk with each month about this Action Plan, and how they can join you in supporting it.
We will ask you to do this consistently and continuously for at least 1 year.
This is about experiencing that we are all one. And it is about demonstrating that we are one with God by setting aside One for God.
1% for 1 year. That would be your commitment. I am already meeting this commitment, and I am looking for 1,000 people to do the same. I know that it is only through the exponential power of numbers that you and I will be able to make a difference in the world at a level that will satisfy our soul — and that will make a difference to anyone ELSE.
We plan on using the Rule of Multifold Return as a mechanism for spiritual, social, and political change on the earth. This is a mechanism so powerful that — like an idea whose time has come — nothing will stop it.
Okay… so what kind of Action Plan could I have in mind that could possibly cause you to offer your support at such a consistent level? If you came to this information as a result of hearing me talk about it in a public presentation, you already know. And if you read about it before on my personal blog, you, too, have a pretty good idea. And in my next entry in this space, tomorrow, I’m going to line it all out to you again. I know that it’s going to have to be a pretty darn exciting plan –something that is really worth putting your personal resources behind — for you to embrace it.
I believe that it is. What I’m going to suggest to you in tomorrow’s blog is going to be the venture of a lifetime…an idea to turn this planet upside-down in 15 years or less. An idea that will take time and energy to bring to fruition — a lot of hours and a lot of energy.
This is an idea about how to spread an idea. This is An Idea Whose Time Has Come. This is an Action Plan to Change Our World.