Welcoming All Humans

The Human Unity Project:
Optimizing the Security and Wholeness of All Life and Environments on Earth

"We must create not only a massive but a basic change in our culture, in our entire approach to our relationships with other human beings."
—Walter Cronkite (America's consummate journalist; signer of the Declaration of Human Unity)

"If a weapon of mass destruction is detonated in a major city tonight, citizens will stop everything and demand action to prevent the next attack. Why wait until the day after?"
—Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (co-chair and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative)

Contents

• Imagine . . .
  
• Purpose of HUP
  
• Genesis of HUP
  
• Declaration of Human Unity
  
• Realizing Inclusive Diversity
  
• Humans As Humans
  
• Which World Shall We Choose?
  
• Pathways for Security and Wholeness
  
• Expressing Our Quintessence
  
•    Communication and Conversation
  
•    Human-focused Journalism
  
•    Human-focused Popular Culture
  
•    Human-focused Science
  
•    Human-focused World Public
• Life at the Crossroads
• The World's Greatest Investment
• How You Can Contact Us
  
   

Dear Friends,

Imagine . . .

A world in which the human agenda is front and center.

A milieu in which each of us rejoices in our individuality while cherishing and rejoicing in all our diversity as fellow humans.

An era in which everyone as humans agrees and shares interest in protecting our planet—and in achieving optimal prospects for all of its inhabitants.

A world fellowship that embraces an ongoing, ever-unfolding conversation and inquiry—through and for each and all humans—on how to actualize our highest aspirations and shared priorities.

A home base from which all of our cultural traditions and all of our institutions connect affirmatively with our lives, serving to uplift all our horizons and—without even intending it—creating a network of reciprocal healing throughout the planet.

A mutuality through which each of us becomes a benefactor as well as a beneficiary of humankind and the planet in which we all live. 

The Human Unity Project (HUP) has raised its horizon, dedication and agenda to such a vision of the world. And this agenda offers not only a forum, but sets in motion a uniquely practical process involving ongoing inquiry and discovery—a process that includes and profoundly benefits all humans. Key to the realization of human unity is a bedrock agreement already in place and already at least latently held by every human on Earth. This agreement is both so obvious and so easy to overlook, yet it can extinguish our conflicts and disclose the inherent majesty and wholeness of all of our lives. It is even critical for saving planetary life and civilization from extinction.

The agreement is as simple-sounding as they come: We are all humans.

However, far from being a platitude or tautology, the agreement that "we are all humans" derives from the deep wellspring of our essence, and it is the binding force that creates human unity. At some level, each of us—every one of our 6.8 billion humans—has already "signed on" to that agreement, but only in a semiconscious or perfunctory way (similar to the way we sign on to the fine print on documents we don't care to read). But perhaps it's time we look closer at what we humans have essentially agreed to, for it has a virtually limitless bounty of significance.

As crucially obvious and important as it is, our human-focused agreement is almost invisible to us. And even when we are made aware of it, we fail to grasp its significance. How can this be?

First, the word "human" itself has been subjected to a legacy of misunderstanding and misuse (explained below in the section "Humans As Humans").

Because of that misuse, the profound positive implications of the human have been closed off to examination.

We are so habitually identified with our various secondary identities (as individuals, religions, nations, cultures), and the levels of seemingly intractable disagreement they engender, that the genuine possibility of an essential, underlying set of primary interests, priorities and agreement scarcely attracts our notice.

Yet nothing is more exciting, more vibrant, or more practical than is our human-focused agreement in its capacity to safeguard and elevate our diverse identities, institutions and cultures for the highest good. Simply lifting our eyes, we can see and recognize our inherent identity as humans, allowing everyone and everything to blossom anew. Nothing can be a stronger catalyst toward fulfilling our lives than this recognition. It enables an undreamed-of level of exploration and celebration of our creative individuality and diversity. And it allows us to begin the stimulating and enchanting consummation of our lives as humans.

                                                             BUT WHY CAN'T WE LIVE AS HUMANS?

And imagine (if you can): You are, of course, a human. Yet you do not—indeed can not—actually live as a human. Apparently, over millenia, and now over the world, we have been enculturated to live solely out of our myriad differences. Effectively, we humans are quite permitted to be born—but not, as humans, to invent and to consummate our own lives!

More on this singular state of affairs below at "Humans As Humans," and elsewhere in this blog and website. Without fail, this primary anomaly of our lives calls forth primary conversation and inquiry among all humans. Of course, we especially invite your sober considerations and choice comments on this astonishing matter.

 
Purpose of the Human Unity Project 

"There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings, to human beings: remember your humanity and forget the rest."
—Bertrand Russell (1950 Nobel Laureate in Literature; philosopher, mathematician and writer)

"The awareness that we are all human beings has become lost in war and through politics."                       —Albert Schweitzer (1952 Nobel Peace Prize; philosopher, theologian, musician and medical missionary in Africa)