We live in unprecedented times. Our world is a mess. Over-population, over-consumption, pollution, environmental damage, species extinction and climate change threaten our continued survival on this planet we call home. Inequality, poverty, famine, fundamentalism, terrorism, nationalism, militarism, refugee crises, illiteracy, debt, addiction, corruption, bigotry, abuse and crime create misery for whole swathes of our population.
David Jones
‘The beginning was potential; the potential to be everything there could possibly ever be’
Our national and international, political institutions seem hopelessly unable to offer any solution to our problems. They say, ’cometh the hour, cometh the man’; but where is the leadership we so desperately need? What too of religion? Why is organised religion unable to unite behind one understanding of god? Why are they unable to come together, to speak with one voice of hope, reason and love? How can religion continue to encourage mistrust, hatred, killing and war against someone who thinks differently? Given our long history of religious rivalries, you’d be tempted to wonder what happened to god? Where too, is god now, in this our hour of need?
If politics and religion can’t solve our problems, we have no choice but to do it for ourselves. We need a peaceful revolution – a people’s revolt. We need to discover a new way of looking at things – a way that will unite us all regardless of our differences. We need to come together with one common aim, to save ourselves from ourselves.
I want to do my bit to encourage the world to become a better place for everyone. How? By stimulating alternative ways of looking at things, especially things you’ve never thought to question – your understanding of the Universe, of life, of humankind and of God. I hope to open your mind to possibility, to the possibility that things could be better, if we just looked at them differently. To the possibility that we could all learn to live together in peace as equals. To the possibility too, that maybe, by working together, we could even begin to solve the catastrophic problems that confront our continued survival on this planet we are completely dependent upon.
We can do it, we can save ourselves – but we’ve all got to play our part in a global transformation of attitude. We’ve got to move away from a narrow focus on the self to a broader concern for community, from a me to a we orientation.
A rational, logical explanation of god is the key to us being able to unite together under one common understanding. An understanding that can transcend parochial religious mistrust, that can neutralise race, gender or sexuality bigotry, that can ignore tribal and nationalistic rivalries, that can focus our attention on the one thing we all have in common – our shared membership of the human race. We all breathe the same air, drink the same water, eat the same foods, suffer from the same threats and problems.
We’re all equally threatened by the global problems that confront us. We’ve all got everything to lose if we don’t all do something about them.
That’s why I’ve devised a new idea that I call Numosapienism. You could say, it’s a new human way of being human. One that offers hope to everyone, that promotes universal unconditional love, that demands regard and respect by everyone for everyone.
My books, especially those on Theolosophy and Deotheoism, will bring new insights to traditional, out-dated ways of looking at things. They will help you open your mind to alternatives, to the possibility that things could be different, that life could improve for all of us if we want it to.
Join me in doing what you can to help make the world a better place. Read my books, follow my blog, invite me to speak at your school, college, club, association, or workplace.