Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Thu 14 Sep 2006 12:32 PM PDT
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
As
the impact of 'globalization' on the world’s cultures escalates, so
does the need to honor and preserve the rich treasury of perennial
wisdom that we share. Cross-cultural storytelling can be an opportunity
to explore the genius of all the world’s indigenous and traditional
communities. Within that vast and varied repository of human art and
spirituality are the keys to hold and understand our collective nature,
even as the accelerating pace of change transforms life on the planet.
This Internet site will therefore be expanded to provide highly
engaging, multi-sensory learning experiences where parallel myths,
stories and symbolic imagery will be cross-culturally linked as a
unique and exciting way for visitors to access all phases of the human
present and past, and our unconscious depths. In addition to this site
an interactive HD-DVD game of storytelling, moving images and music is
planned for school and home use and finally, a public-access
multi-media exploratorium. The World Memory Theatre can fill a pressing need by
presenting
contemporary, living stories from around the globe, and open the way to a more humane and inclusive future. |
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O U R M I S S I O N |
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Individuals
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
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 twentieth 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 and the reconnection to universal patterns informing human imagination will contribute to a more integral world in this new millennium. |
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