People in every walk of life are feeling the call to be part of a transformative evolutionary force that is moving through all our institutions. At the global level, popular access to the World Wide Web is increasing rapidly and the satellite communications network continues to proliferate. Thus we see for the first time a worldwide community attempting to constellate a more egalitarian approach to our collective presence and to human history. This community is seeking and will respond to a new educational dimension; one that taps more readily into the culture of all the world’s people, to bring forth perspectives that reveal our common experience.

This emerging planetary gestalt has already begun to remove the legitimacy from war and the very idea of international armed conflict, just as it rejects exploitive value systems based on dominance and the contests of history. Looking back on the excesses of the 20th century more than any other, we feel an ever greater need to release the old conditioning that emphasized racial and ethnic separation and fragmentation, and replace it with a more participatory and inclusive paradigm.

Our project therefore promises a unifying overview of the philosophic commonwealth and honors cultural diversity through the exchange of stories on a global scale. We believe that for all people a restoration of mythic sensibility through a deeper connection to universal patterns informing human imagination will contribute to a more integral world in this new millennium.