Yes, I continued my practises
in August, but I was kept quite busy otherwise... travelling back to Spain, then adapting and making up for time spent
elsewhere, then a week of caring for my honey bunny with a bad foot. Now a new
routine has been fixed and this morning at 6am I went back to one ritual and
then it was off to Bikram Yoga to start the day.
Meanwhile, a whole month
has gone by since my last entry, and although I kept more or less up to date on Facebook and the media, I
haven’t seen any news about some significant World Days that should have
been mentioned.
29 August was the United Nations’ International Day against Nuclear Tests, and UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says “there is an urgent need to end the dangerous
impasse on this issue.” If, as we have already established, nuclear weapons must be immediately banned,
all new testing must also be immediately halted. A total of over 3,500 tests
have already contaminated the Earth quite enough since 16 July 1945. I heard no
new about this on 29 August. In fact, a few days later, North Korea conducted yet another test, and the Western
powers are still “thinking about how to deal” with this. The traditional “nuclear
powers” did take the first steps some years ago due to public outrage. There have been no atmosphere
explosions by the USA since the four in 1963. The UK continued till 1974, as
did France with 9 explosions that year. Then China took over and set off one explosion a year till 1980. Total atmospheric explosions in history: 1,558. Underground
explosions were more popular, with a total history of some 2,055, with the USA
stopping in 1992 with 6 last bangs, France continuing to contaminate till 1996,
along with China. In 1998 India and Pakistan had the dubious honour of
conducting two underground nuclear explosions each, just in case they had to
annihilate each other. Since then, the only nutcase left is DPRK, Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, the euphemism for Supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s
fascist state, which set off an underground explosion in 2006, 2009 and has
just done it again this year. Information from https://www.ctbto.org/map/. When will
this madness stop?
4 September was “World Government
Day”, or Gary Davis Day, because on September 4, 1953, Davis announced from the
city hall of Ellsworth, Maine the formation of the "World Government of
World Citizens" based on 3 "World Laws" — One God (or Absolute
Value), One World, and One Humanity. Following this declaration, mandated, he
claimed, by Article 21, Section 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
he formed the United World Service Authority in New York City as the
administrative agency of the new government. Its first task was to design and
issue a "World Passport" based on the UN articles. Gary Davis was
born Sol Gareth Davis on 27 July 1921, and was an American citizen until 1948,
when he renounced his citizenship and gave up his US passport until his death
in 2013. He founded the World Service Authority and was its president until
his death. He wrote books like “My Country is the World: The Adventures of a
World Citizen” (1961); “Passport to Freedom, A Guide for World Citizens.” (1992);
“World Government, Ready or Not!” (2003); “Letters To World Citizens.” (2004); “A
World Citizen in the Holy Land.” (2001); “Cher Monde, Une Odyssée a travers la
planete.” (2005); and “DEAR WORLD, A Global Odyssey.” (2006).
5 September was the UN “International
Day of Charity”, and we did hear something about charity on this day, as
Mother Teresa, after being beatified in 2003, was canonised as a Saint on the
eve of this day because it marked the anniversary of her death in 1997. Whether
the charity and mercy message actually came across is another question, as most
viewers were more interested in the personality of the Saint that in following
her teachings and example. I could not detect any sudden increase in charity in
the world the day after her canonisation. As already mentioned extensively on this blog, "charity” is amongst the four main virtures of the 5000-year old document, the Bhagavad Gita: "Fearlessness, Purity of Mind, Perseverance, and Charity”, so we can't let another 5000 years go by without at least trying out some kind of charity, and trying it today better than tomorrow. OK?
Our next big date, as
far as “World Days” are concerned, is coming soon - 26 September, the International
Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. A dire day, as according
to the UN “as of 2015, not one nuclear weapon has been physically destroyed
pursuant to a treaty, bilateral or multilateral, and no nuclear disarmament
negotiations are underway.” What can we do to promote this day and tell our
leaders we do not want nuclear weapons for ourselves or our children or our
children’s children or for any future generation? Shall we write a letter to
our senator, MP, congressman or whatever? Why are the decisions of the UN
falling on deaf ears? Why has the smartest species on this planet invented something so destructive that our own survival has been placed in the balance, and NO GOVERNMENT DOES ANYTHING REASONABLE ABOUT THIS?
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Sculpture of St. George and the Dragon., with the "dragon" being fragments of Soviet SS-20 and
US Pershing nuclear missiles. Credit: UN Photo/Milton Grant |
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