THE SUM: A Cohesive Vision, Coherent Strategy & Comprehensive Philosophy Of Integral Activism For The Cultural Creatives' Conver

"THE SUM: A Cohesive Vision, Coherent Strategy & Comprehensive Philosophy Of Integral Activism For The Cultural Creatives' Convergence Of Movements (Book 0.1)," is the first book in a series of seven. It also serves as a 140-page summary to the second book "The SUM II" (400-plus-pages) to be release by the end of March, 2015 and the third book (1,100-page)called "THE DYNAMIC DECALOGUE: The Monolithic Milestones From The Ten Philosophical Pillars Of Integral Activism For Radical Evolutionary Transformation (Book 0.3)," out by the end of May 2015.

It is an integral approach to art, activism and fundamental social change, articulated as “The Ten Neo-Transcendental Tenets for Transformation,” which was partially influenced as a past participant of Transition US, USSF and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movements along with the Ron Paul Libertarian-Conservative faction of the Tea Party and the 2009 Continental Congress. This groundbreaking strategic framework has been in the works for 15 years since the 1999 “Battle In Seattle”—the trigger event of the Economic Justice/Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement—which has its modern roots to King’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and its Resurrection City encampments. It offers what has been missing from the activist community for decades—a new FOUNDATIONAL FRAMEWORK (The Dynamic Decalogue: The Ten Philosophical Pillars of Neo-Transcendentalism). It consist of the following novel synthesis: 1) An Evolutionary Cosmology (Conscious Evolution), 2) An Integral Philosophy (The IOS/AQAL Model), 3) An Integral Theory of Activism (The Grand Unified Strategy of Evolutionary Transformation), 4) A New Narrative (Cultural Evolution from Empire to Earth Community), 5) A New Collective Identity as the Integral Metamoderns (Neo-Transcendentalists), 6) A Common Code of Conduct (The Ethos of Evolutionary Enlightenment), 7) A Cohesive Vision (The Society of the Third Millennium), 8) A Coherent Plan (The Sum Stratagem: Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives), 9) A National Unifying Purpose (The Grand Ultimatum) and 10) The Ultimate Goal (The Grand Imperative)—“Abolish Empire And Establish Earth Community!”

The DYNAMIC DECALOGUE is a comprehensive framework for swift and sweeping social change derived from a deep, full-spectrum analysis that incorporates the ideas of Ken Wilbers’ “Integral Theory of Everything” otherwise known as the AQAL Model (all quadrants, all levels) comprise of three main perspectives personified with pronouns and subdivided for symmetry as “I,” “WE,” “IT,” “ITS.” It begins with “An Accurate Assessment of the Present Predicament” that we are running out of time and creating a new sense of urgency (Pillar One). The Ecological, economic, cultural, social and political crises have converged to make 2016 "The Year" for radical transformation otherwise we could traverse the tipping point of human extinction. It then becomes imperative to identify the true source of our societal ills, “The Crux Of The Crises” (Pillar Two), which is the Pathological Culture of Empire consisting of Value Disorder (“We”), Dysfunctional System (“Its”) and the Manufacturing of Stunted Individuals (“I”) leading to Maladaptive Behavior (It) due to economic distress, plagued with feelings of powerlessness, crippled with neuroses, ineffectively coping through overconsumption, inundated with constant environmental health threats, and distracted with electronic gadgets, trivial lifestyle pursuits, political scandals, celebrity worship and other pop culture addictions and dysfunctions. From here it becomes necessary to understand how we are ruled and the means of control by “Deconstructing the System of Dominance” (Pillar Three) through the identification of our common opposition, the prevailing paradigm of infinite growth, and the maladaptive social system of oppression, economic inequality and social injustice. Such power mapping analysis has led to a synthesis of suggestions from various groups, organizations and publications that has been designated as “The New Millennium Memes & Metamodern Mandates” (Pillar Four) that provides diverse strategic courses of actions. Resulting in an all-encompassing purpose: “The Grand Imperative—Abolish Empire & Establish Earth Community—The One Global Demand & Ultimate Goal,” (Pillar Five) that can finally mend the fragmentation of all of the new social and consciousness movements. Analysis of the current state of activism has resulted in the organic development of a new integral theory and stratagem for social change called the “Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) For Radical Evolutionary Transformation,” (Pillar Six) that prioritizes cultural change (Phase I: Cultural Evolution), which is divided into three Continuums (X: Separation, Y: Transition, Z: Integration) before institutional change (Phase II: Structural Revolution) that comprises of Continuum A: Deconstruction and Continuum B: Reconstruction leading to Phase III: Global Transformation (Continuum C: Dynamic Equilibrium Through The Post-Carbon Third Industrial Revolution of the worldwide Hydrogen Energy Web (HEW). However, to accomplish such a comprehensive feat in the long run would have to be based on a new set of beliefs about the nature of reality, knowledge and the essence of being, forming a new narrative: “The Ethos Of Evolutionary Transcendence” (Pillar Seven) based on “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” the AQAL Model and Integral Life Practice (ILP). “Envisioning & Exhibiting Earth Community” (Pillar Eight) offers a concrete alternative to the self-destructive status-quo in order for a "radical acceptance" to emerge and make the necessary paradigm shift required to accept a new alternative vision. All of which provides the guidance to formulate integral “Proclamations, Policies & Plans For Earth Community otherwise known as the "Society of the Third Millennium (S3K),” (Pillar Nine), which is comprise of (on the global scale) “The Earth Charter,” the "Peak Oil Protocol," on the national level the “Second Bill of (Economic) Rights,” by FDR in 1944, the conservative-libertarians' "Articles of Freedom," the liberal-progressives' 99% Continental Congress 2.0 Declaration and (on the local level) the “Community Bill of Rights,” drafted in 2010 to preserve our local sovereignty to safeguard our environment, our health and natural resources against corporate pillaging. The catalyst for comprehensive change is (Pillar Ten) The SUM Stratagem: Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives (SSII).

The SSII consist of the following: 1) Cultivate Counter-Institutions like OWS through Bill Moyers’ Movement Action Plan (MAP). 2) Build Alternative Institutions through the revolutionary act of relocalization by the Transition movement. 3) Create a Mock Parallel Government cabinet and congress consisting of at least 870 nationally elected citizen legislators (one male and one female from each of the 435 congressional districts) that pledge to end the infinite growth paradigm and get money out of politics. 4) Convene a Mock Second Constitutional Convention to draft new amendments like The Second Bill of (Economic) Rights, a Common Ground Agenda for the People and a new Declaration of Re-Independence from the corporate tyranny of the economic oligarchy. All publicly proclaimed on July 5, 2016, (for example) along with 5) The Grand Ultimatum to launch a “Massive Mobilization of Civil Society” by “Drawing-A-Line-In-The-Sand,” and creating a sense of urgency as a National Unifying Purpose (NUP) to accelerate all relocalization efforts in preparation for the possibility of a sustained, nationwide, general strike by November 7, 2016, two days after Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5) and one day before the U.S. national elections to unplug the machinery of the system through withdrawal of our consent by abstaining from political participation within the two-party system. 6) The Cultural Creatives’ Convergence Quest (C3Q) is launched to promote a profound paradigm shift required to trigger a tipping point in this cross-country, site-specific, outdoor, guerrilla art installations as a live Reality TV show of a change of consciousness campaign culminating during the weekend of November 5, 2016 as a "Million Mask March" to Washington D.C. If the government refuses, implementation of Gene Sharp’s methods of nonviolent actions begins with 7) a Nationwide General Strike that countdowns in the following strategically staggered manner:

Mon, Nov. 7, 2016—Day 1: Social Noncooperation (school & sports boycott); Tues, Nov. 8, 2016—Day 2: Political Noncooperation (boycotting the U.S. Presidential & Congressional Elections); Wed, Nov. 9, 2016—Day 3: Economic Noncooperation (withholding of labor)—all done until the government complies or forced to relinquish their power in a peaceful political purge to usher in the Society of the Third Millennium (S3K).

The book argues that the converging crises of climate and civilizational collapse that is currently under way now require us to accelerate our efforts for a profound paradigm shift in order to save ourselves from possible mass extinction as early as 2030, if it’s not too late already. The book proposes that in the coming months, the “Integral Neo-Transcendentalists” among the Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and the Millennials that emerges from the Cultural Creatives’ subculture to quicken the revolution of everyday life through a post-petroleum, community relocalization (like "The Transition Movement") that is commonly referred to by Neo-Transcendentalists as the stratified vision of the “Society of the Third Millennium (S3K 1.0).

It is a rallying call to embark on a nationwide guerrilla art campaign called the “The Cultural Creatives Convergence Quest” (C3Q) to disseminate the vision of S3K that encompasses a National Unifying Purpose (NUP) of creating a new financial system through an innovative energy regime based on a worldwide Hydrogen Energy Web for a “Post-Carbon Third Industrial Revolution" (S3K 2.0) to be solely powered by renewable energy like solar, wind, geo-thermal and wave technology in order to lift us out of economic collapse and mitigate the negative effects of civilizational collapse, climate chaos and the peak oil energy crisis. All of which will serve as the necessary stepping stones for the creation of a Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy (S3K 3.0) as described in Jacques Fresco's “The Venus Project,” featured in the third documentary film "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward."

It also serves as a summoning to accelerate the implementation of the Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) for Evolutionary Transformation” by creating community convergence centers across America to build a sustainable activist-infrastructure that supports a "Unified Mega-Movement Campaign (UMC)" called the "Citizen Accountability Purge." It is through this underground construction of a parallel social system before the ignition of a nonviolent, nationwide, general strike of social, political and economic non-cooperation that leads to the peaceful political purge of all 535 nationally elected officials, the President and the Supreme Court as the final advance of cultural change. This type of comprehensive change will transcend the dysfunctional elements of our society and include it's best features by supplanting the superstructure, subverting the social system and humanizing the machinery of society that facilitates the transformation of the individuals who operate it through a change of consciousness. And with 80 million Cultural Creatives in the United States, approximately 100 million in Europe and about 20 million in Canada, a global constituency of at least 200 million and counting are awaiting the ultimate millennial moment of epic convergence.

So the new rallying call for the third millennium will not only echo Thomas Paine's---"Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!"---and Karl Marx's popularly paraphrased slogan---"Workers of the world, unite!"---but go beyond both by proclaiming, in the spirit of the emerging ethos of evolutionary transformation:

CULTURAL CREATIVES of the EARTH---CONVERGE! To Transcend the Great Unraveling of Empire and Transition to the Great Turning of Earth Community, the next global revolution must be the cultural evolution of humanity. Behold! The Integral & Metamodern NEO-TRANSCENDENTALISTS have EMERGED!