Authors for a Positive Millennium

Dear author:

In April of 1997, one thousand days before the start of the millennial year, authors Robert Muller, Linda Grover, Robert Silverstein, Steve Diamond, Barbara Gaughen and Desmond Berghofer formed a group to be called Authors for a Positive Millennium. It was envisioned that a large loosely formed global group of future-positive published authors could become a strong force for assuring that the coming turn of the millennium can also become a turning point for humanity and catalyze global transformation. Authors such as yourself can help facilitate this great endeavor by becoming beacons of light to help cut through what Robert Theobald has called "infoglut." The group would promote global change by creating a partnership between authors devoted to creating meaningful working partnerships and mutual cooperation.

We will do this by:

1. Speaking out, both individually and collectively on important issues.
2. Supplying speakers and panelists for programs pertaining to the millennial year.
3. Promoting our own conferences with the a theme of "global transformation through forgiveness" of which the butterfly will be the symbol.
4. Collaborating with other conference promoters. Those now interested include Paradign Promotions/Turning to Wisdom Conference, VisionQuest, and the Conscious Living Expo.
5. Supporting and participating in the UN People's Millennium Assembly.
6. Working with publishers, literary agents and, new writers and others to encourage the proliferation of future-positive books, television drama and film.

A recent gathering of some of these authors on Day 500, both in person in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and through the Internet, has underscored the fact that the time has come to put this plan into action. Among those who will be listed as founding members are: Arlene Arnold, Jay Bremyer, Judy Carman, Dr. Michael Cohen, Lonnie F. DeWitt, Susan Ferguson, Helen Fisher, Sue Anne Foster, Ph.D, Barbara Gardner, Gary Goldman, Jonathan Goldman, Lucille Green, Linda Grover, Judy Guggenheim,Thom Hartmann, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Norie Huddle, Kathleen Jacoby, Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph. D. Derrick Jensen, Kathy Juline, Ken Kalb, Linda Laird, Ron Lampi, Dr. Scout Cloud Lee, Michael Levy, Nick Manolukos, Tony McGettigan, Eric Meece, Alan Moore, Dr. Melvin Morse, Tricia (White Dove) McCannon, John Muni, Robert Muller, Antares Numi*On, Cathy O'Brian and Mark Phillips, Trina Paulus, Peace Pilgrim II, Ann Puryear, Elisabet Sahtouris, Carole Satchell, Howard Shapiro, Natalie Smith, Penelope Smith, Robert Theobold, James Twyman, and Kay Witmer Woods, Ph.D

We tentatively plan to publish a collection of essays from member authors entitled "Voices from the Chrysalis." We also plan to publish and Authors for a Positive Millennium brochure which will include a picture, bio and brief synopsis of the author's most relevant work dealing with global change. We will formulate a list of goals and mutually promote one another's ideas by distributing materials about those we recommend wherever we speak. We will also facilitate and promote conference and media appearances for member authors. Interested conference promoters include (here I would need to have confirmation from each of these groups before listing them). We will also work with and support an existing group called Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace. Perhaps it would also be possible to work with the Authors Guild, Writers Guild and other industry organizations. There are many possibilities; we just need your help to make them happen.

You are both cordially and urgently invited to become part of our group, serving in whatever capacity feels right for you. We also welcome any suggestions you may have. There are no contracts to sign. We will work through consensus. We will finalize plans and member lists by May 31, 1999. At that time you can evaluate our promotional plan, see the membership list, and decide if you formally want to stay on board. If you have interest in supporting or joining Authors for a Positive Millennium, please let us know or ask for more information to be sent.

If your response is positive please send a short bio, a synopsis of your most relevant book, fact or fiction, dealing with positive global transformation, an email picture of yourself, contact information such as your mailing address, phone number, website URL, publicist, and how you may see yourself supporting such an effort.

If you have no interest in joining us in any capacity, please indicate this as well. It would be helpful to have your thoughts on the subject.

In any case, if you can send an autographed copy of your book to Alan, it would be appreciated.

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Alan D. Moore
Authors for a Positive Millennium - Co-director
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Project Chrysalis - Director and founder
Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace - Director and founder
International Association of Educators for World Peace - Western States Program Director
1563 Solano Ave. # 477, Berkeley CA 94707
510-528-7730 Email: bflyspirit7@aol.com

http://www.butterflyspirit.org

Robert Muller

Born in Belgium in 1923 and raised in the Alsace-Lorraine region in France, Robert Muller experienced constant political and cultural turmoil during his youth. His grandparents had five successive nationalities (French, German, French, German, French) without leaving their village as a result of three wars (1870-1871, 1914-1918, 1939-1945). Often as a child, Robert Muller would look out of his window at the border he could not cross and long for the day when he, like the birds, the clouds, the sun and the stars, would no longer have to observe the imaginary line. Today, thanks to the dream and effort of his compatriot Robert Schuman who similarly hated these borders, Robert Muller's passport reads, "European Union" with the sub-title France, and he is free to cross all western European borders.

Robert Muller knew the horrors of World War II, of being a refugee, of Nazi occupation and imprisonment. During the war he was a member of the French Resistance. After the war he returned home and earned a Doctorate of Law from the University of Strasbourg. In 1948 he entered and won an essay contest on how to govern the world, the prize of which was an internship at the newly created United Nations.

Dr. Muller devoted the next 40 years of his life behind the scenes at the United Nations focusing his energies on world peace. He rose through the ranks at the UN to the official position of Assistant-Secretary-General. He has been called the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the United Nations. Robert Muller is a deeply spiritual person. From his vantage point of a top level global states-person he has seen a strong connection between spirituality and the political/cultural scene.

Robert Muller created a "World Core Curriculum" and is known throughout the world as the "father of global education." There are 29 Robert Muller schools around the world with more being established each year. The "World Core Curriculum" earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989. Based on this curriculum and his devotion to good causes, Dr. Muller has recently drawn up a "Framework for World Media Coverage" as a public service, as well as a "Framework for Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness" and a "Framework for the Arts and Culture."

Now in active "retirement," Dr. Muller is Chancellor of the University for Peace created by the United Nations in demilitarized Costa Rica. He is in great demand to make speeches to educational, environmental, spiritual and political conferences around the world. Dr. Muller concentrates his efforts on promoting greater human understanding and global awareness. He was recently the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer International Prize for the Humanities and the Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision Award.

Dr. Muller lives most of the year at his small farm overlooking the University of Peace, on a sacred indigenous hill, Mt. Rasur, from which according to indigenous prophecy, a civilization of peace will extend to the entire world. His traditional Costa Rican house is located just up the hill from the Peace Monument of the University. In addition to his duties at the University, he devotes time to his writings and is an internationally acclaimed, multi-lingual speaker and author of fourteen books published in various languages. He has published his Testament to the UN as well as his plans and dreams for a peaceful, happy world.

At the prompting of many of his friends, admirers and non-governmental organizations Robert Muller was a candidate as a global citizen in 1996 for the post of Secretary General of the United Nations.

barbara@ran.org

Linda Grover ("Author of Tree Island")

Linda Grover's interest in changing the world began with an early stint as Clerk of The House Indian Affairs Subcommittee in the U.S. Congress. She later worked with The National Committee for An Effective Congress and the International Rescue Committee. Her books and lectures have all reflected social themes. Her success led to an active role in reform politics. She organized the Tree Island Millennium Gathering in Klamath Falls, Oregon held August 18-20, 1998.

The House Keepers, (Harper & Row) was a humorous account of a successful seven year battle to save her Manhattan apartment building from an urban renewal project. The book was excerpted in McCalls, serialized in the New York Post, optioned by CBS, featured in a New York Times editorial and became required reading for city planning courses at several universities.

Her second nonfiction work, Looking Terrific: The Language of Clothing, (Putnams and Ballantine) written with co-author Emily Cho, was a New York Times national bestseller (#4 trade paperback), became a Literary Guild selection and was translated into Hebrew and Spanish. It concerned women's identity in the wake of the sexual revolution. Linda is also the author of August Celebration, about the discovery of the wild-grown algae superfood in Klamath Lake. It has sold a half million copies to date.

She later became head writer of The Doctors, NBC; Search for Tomorrow, CBS; and CO-head writer of General Hospital, ABC.

Linda is also the author of August Celebration: A Molecule of Hope for a Changing World, published in both paperback and audio. (Gilbert, Hoover & Clarke.) It recounts the discovery of a wild-grown superfood in an Oregon Cascades lake and examines the resulting network of socially conscious consumers and distributors across North America. Nearly a half million copies have been sold to date.

She currently sits on the Board of the Butterfly Gardeners Association and is organizing the Millennium Meal Project.

See: One Day In Peace