From a spiritual Planetary Manager’s perspective strategic global planning takes on a very, very different approach to the development of sustainable societies and their social institutions. // By now you have developed the insights that the spiritual development of a planet eventually engages all forms of positive and constructive social development. The form of governance is no exception. All aspects of living and all that which supports its growth and development on the continuum of social evolution are directly related to the spiritual maturation of a global population.
The recent compliment by one subscriber of the post having to do with Strategic Global Planning sparked my interest — partly because I have been diligently working on a 38 year project involving the development of the next step of democracy for the 21st century. The project at hand was to abbreviate the original document (about 45k words) into a much more tractable edition entitled, Virtual Democracy – Sustainable Democracy. The following is the capsule statement from the cover page:
“(CAPSULE: The following describes a virtual, reality-based, 24-7 personal democracy, accessible via computer, Blackberry, or other Internet connected device, allowing personal input relevant to local, city, county, state, national issues and international issues with links to unbiased topic-related educational materials, to citizen-jurisdiction data bases, and linked to personally chosen social, political, and special interest data bases. // See “www.my-democracy.us” p.2. // Think in terms of Google-like, Wikipedia-like, FaceBook, and Twitter-like functions related to personal, 24-7 democratic practices that are supported by profit-making centers, as advertising, sales of reports, etc.)“
This is free to you in PDF format with request via my email address d2.raphael@comcast.net, SUBJECT: PDF Virtual Democracy.
It would seem to me that this process could provide a significant income stream of some browser entity, without compromising its integrity. But, perhaps, I am naive.
For a spiritual Planetary Manager, there is no disconnect between the development of an evolved, more egalitarian form of democracy and the spiritual upliftment of the planet’s population. The connection is the improved ability of individuals to satisfy their innate need of self-determination and the control of an ever larger environment that affects their life and living. The point is that unhappy, unfulfilled, disgruntled and politically angry people have a greater difficulty aspiring to spiritual growth than people who are happy, fulfilled, and satisfied. The ability to engage the self-determination of their lives has a direct effect upon growth at all levels of personal development.
The timing seems right for this development: many countries seem to be rudderless in many regards; technology has developed to the point where individuals could connect to an interactive website to share their opinions and comments concerning public issues, known and unknown; and have their opinions collected, demographically qualified, and combined with those of millions of other subscribers into know blocs of public opinion; and linked to issue-education materials; and pumped to their respective city, county, district, state, national, and international public offices. Waiting to share your opinion on election day is just sooooo 18th century! 
… and antiquarian. I’d like to see 21st century technology applied to move our public into a participatory democracy, and then immediately into an interactive democracy.
While this process will surely have an effect upon political sentiments, in itself it is not a political entity or take any political positions on issues. (See p. 19-21.)
Enjoy the read. Forward it to those who might be interested in the process. //Daniel Raphael
