Carta do Presidente e Fundador

Dear Planetary Citizens,

A situação mundial mudou drasticamente desde 2005, quando a Fundação ZIHT foi fundada. Muitos debates temáticos agora são diferentes daqueles do passado, senão na essência, nas perspectivas. Além disso, as tendências institucionais e sociais globais tomaram um rumo diferente. Ao manter sua missão e visão centrais de “transformação humana”, o ZIHT conseguiu abraçar a construção de um novo futuro para o planeta. Além disso, cada atividade implementada forneceu lições importantes e desenvolveu novas ideias sobre como o ZIHT e suas organizações e programas internos devem agir no futuro. Um grande amadurecimento ocorreu durante o período. Isso se traduz em um conjunto renovado de atividades e programas, e nas correspondentes mudanças e transformações nas estruturas institucionais da fundação que são necessárias para definir, selecionar, estabelecer e implementar as ações do ZIHT.

Cinco perspectivas de uma visão global

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.

Duas reflexões adicionais

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

Este relatório tem um título que reflete como todas as atividades sobre a transformação humana estão estabelecidas: “Curar o Planeta, Curar a Nós Mesmos”, indicando que esses processos de cura são mutuamente interdependentes. Precisamos curar o planeta e curar a humanidade ao mesmo tempo. Este título também representa um chamado à ação e uma demonstração do grande compromisso da Fundação em continuar por mais uma década, e além, melhorando a situação em que a maioria das pessoas vive hoje. As duas formas de cura podem ser abordadas separadamente para fins de apresentação, mas estamos plenamente cientes de que elas formam UMA totalidade holística e inseparável.

A dimensão de “curar o planeta” é a visão e a missão do novo braço do ZIHT; nós a chamamos de “The Planet Tara Foundation (PTF)”. Ela terá como principais funções dois objetivos principais: focar no planeta e nas ações planetárias, e trazer o poder da energia feminina para influenciar a transformação interior humana.

O ZIHT/PTF continuará a abrir seus braços para acolher voluntários e colaboradores dedicados, e continuará a conceder diplomas de destaque às muitas pessoas que devemos reconhecer por seu trabalho na transformação de nosso planeta para o bem da humanidade. Além disso, o ZIHT honrará seus voluntários fornecendo-lhes aconselhamento gratuito e instrumentos adequados que permitirão sua própria transformação pessoal, como tem sido feito no passado.

Planejamos preparar o próximo Relatório do ZIHT até 2025.

A serviço da humanidade,
Alfredo Sfeir Younis
Presidente e Fundador
Dzambling Cho Tab Khen