Letter from the President and Founder

Dear Planetary Citizens,

The world situation has dramatically changed since 2005, when the ZIHT Foundation was founded. Many thematic debates are now different from those of the past, if not in substance, in perspectives. Also, the global institutional and social trends have taken a different course. While maintaining its core mission and vision of “human transformation”, the ZIHT has been able to embrace the construction of a new future for the planet. Furthermore, each activity which has been implemented has provided important lessons and has developed new ideas on how ZIHT and its inner organizations and programs should act in the future. A great deal of maturation has taken place during the period. This translates onto a renewed set of activities and programs, and corresponding shifts and changes in the foundation’s institutional structures which are needed to define, select, establish and implement ZIHT actions.

Five insights from a global perspective

First, the powerful emergence of national and global citizens in public decision-making. Local non-government organizations, community based institutions, and various channels of meaningful expression of all citizens of the planet are creating the conditions for deep human transformation in the near future. Thus, ZIHT has moved more decisively to establish and to expand a number of strategic alliances. These have enabled ZIHT to multiply the potential impacts of its actions — not only in terms of quantitative impacts but also in terms of derived potential benefits. ZIHT will continue forming alliances at the community and local levels, more than ever before.

Second, the major threats of the potentially negative impacts which are surging from climate change, global warming, biodiversity depletion, pollution of the oceans… In the middle of these, there is no doubt that collective consciousness has also been rising in response to these major ecological challenges facing humanity. In response to this reality, ZIHT has multiplied its interventions (e.g., seminars, lectures, books, and interviews) in the area of ‘sustainable development’ everywhere: local, regional and planetary. This has led to add to ZIHT’s institutional structure a ‘new arm’ that will be devoted to address these and similar issues and concerns.

Third, the critical importance of expanding human collective consciousness at all levels. The large majority of human transformation related issues facing the ZIHT are also ‘collective’ or ‘social’ in nature. Individual transformation will continue to be a major mission of the Foundation; however, as ZIHT expands in its depth of understanding, and in its own transformation, a major emphasis is surging to give a special space to the challenges of ‘collective-human-transformation’. In the coming future, ZIHT will launch several programs for the expansion of human consciousness at the individual and collective levels.

Fourth, the undeniable relevance and widespread impacts of social media and the communications revolution. Traditional methods of communications are not as effective as they were in the past. ZIHT is committed to incorporate many more instruments of communications in the future, including some powerful communication machines, publishing more E-Books, expanding the “Wisdom Video Series”, etc. This will be accompanied by the necessary institutional structures to multiply ZIHT impacts around the world — a more light and agile structure.

Fifth, the immense power that unfolds from establishing and developing the right strategic alliances. We live in a planetary society, whether we recognize it or not. The health and human impacts of the widespread Corona Virus and climate change demonstrate this reality. Thus, ZIHT is fully aware of the need to act collectively — maximizing comparative advantages and complementarities — and expand its alliances; for example, with NGOs, foundations and non-profit organizations, community-run organizations, the private corporate sector, workers and fishermen, and indigenous peoples’ organizations. This has already begun, and the net benefits have been remarkable.

Two further reflections

Sixth, the fundamental importance of mainstreaming spirituality into private and public policy making. In the first stages of ZIHT the attention was paid to the role of spirituality and spiritual values in politics — this is why its President became a Presidential Candidate of Chile in 2013, and a candidate to the Senate of Chile in 2017. It was then when ZIHT put in place hundreds of proposals for human transformation in politics, economics and social affairs, all designed and disseminated country-wide. A couple of years ago, ZIHT began work within the corporate world, including exchanges with B-Enterprises in Chile, and dialogues with a selected number of corporate owners and CEOs in Chile and Colombia, partnering with other foundations in this work (e.g., PROQUALITAS Foundation, TRALKAN Foundation). The impacts on human transformation have been very significant.

Seventh, the increased demand for a convenient and appropriate ZIHT House. Because during the first stage of its existence ZIHT was purposely designed to be a very agile organization, careful with the use and allocation of its scarce resources, the Foundation has been more present in a ‘cybernetic way’. This initial strategy has paid off, as no resources were allocated to renting or occupying large physical infrastructure. In this decade to come, it is possible that ZIHT will seriously consider complementing its cyber space with a well-defined physical location, allowing it to concentrate also on new programs of education and human consciousness development at the personal and group levels.

Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves

This report has a title that reflects how all activities on human transformation are established: “Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves”, indicating that these processes of healing are mutually interdependent. We need to heal the planet and to heal humanity at the same time. This title also represents a call for action and a demonstration of the Foundation’s great commitment to continue for another decade, and beyond, enhancing the situation most people live today. The two forms of healing may be addressed separately for presentational purposes, but we are fully aware that they form ONE holistic and inseparable totality.

The “healing the planet” dimension is the vision and mission of the new arm of ZIHT; we call it “The Planet Tara Foundation (PTF)”. It will have as its main functions two principal aims: to focus on the planet and planetary actions, and to bring the power of feminine energy to bear upon human inner transformation.

ZIHT/PTF will continue to open its arms to welcome dedicated volunteers and collaborators, and will continue to award distinguished diplomas to the many people we must recognize for their work in transforming our planet for the good of humanity. Also, ZIHT will honor its volunteers by providing them with free advice and suitable instruments that will enable their own personal transformation, as it has been done in the past.

We plan to prepare the next ZIHT Report by 2025.

In service to humanity,
Alfredo Sfeir Younis
President and Founder
Dzambling Cho Tab Khen