Publisher's Synopsis
The SUM is an integral approach to art & activ-ism for radical evolutionary trans-formation influenced as a past participant of USSF, Transition, Occupy, the Ron Paul Libertarian faction of the Tea Party & We The People's 2009 Continental Congress. This groundbreaking book 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 Decalogue: The Ten Philosophical Pillars of Neo-Transcendentalism). It consist of the following novel synthesis: 1) Evolutionary Cosmology (Conscious Evolution), 2) Integral Philosophy (The AQAL Model), 3) Integral Theory of Activism (The Grand Unified Strategy of Evolutionary Transformation), 4) The New Narrative (Cultural Evolution from Empire to Earth Community), 5) Collective Identity (Neo-Transcendentalists), 6) Common Code of Conduct (The Evolutionary Enlightenment Ethos), 7) Cohesive Vision (The Society of the Third Millennium), 8) Coherent Plan (Seven Strategic Initiatives), 9) a National Unifying Purpose (The Grand Ultimatum) and 10) A Global Goal (The Grand Imperative)-"Abolish Empire & Establish Earth Community!" Within The Decalogue is the Grand Unified Strategy (GUS) made of "Seven Strategic & Interdependent Initiatives." 1) Cultivate Counter-Institutions like OWS through Bill Moyers' Movement Action Plan (MAP). 2) Build Alternative Institutions through the revolutionary act of relocalization like the Transition movement. 3) Create a Mock Parallel Government cabinet & congress consisting of 870 nationally elected citizen legislators (one male & female) that pledge to get money out of politics. 4) Convene a Mock Second Constitutional Convention to draft new amendments like The Second Bill of (Economic) R"
