About the WS-20

THE WORLDSHIFT 20 (WS-20): AN INDEPENDENT COUNCIL TO COMPLEMENT THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE G-20

The members of the Worldshift Council possess accomplishments and achievements that have positively affected millions of people in every part of the world, an exemplary ethic, and an evolved planetary consciousness based on considered values, personal experience, and sound insight.

The Mission

In his Foreword to WorldShift 2012, the Club of Budapest’s handbook for conscious change, Deepak Chopra writes,

We are already living in two worlds. One world moves ahead by inertia from the past, like a massive luxury liner drifting at sea, while the other steps into the unknown, like a child entering the woods for the first time.

The mission of the WorldShift Council is to give due attention to the new world emerging today, providing essential orientation so that it may no longer be like a child entering the woods for the first time, but become an informed and determined movement toward a peaceful, just and sustainable worldwide civilization.

The WorldShift Council is to articulate the collective voice of humanity, drawing on the heritage of all peoples, cultures and religions. Its core purpose is to transcend short-term and self-serving economic and political interests in recognition of the fact that thinking and acting in exclusive reference to narrow national or multi-national agendas cannot solve the global challenges currently confronting humanity. The Council is to speak for the whole human family. It is to function as a small yet potentially crucial “butterfly” that shifts the attention of today’s people and today’s media from the increasingly intractable problems and deepening crises of our moribund world to the opportunities and vistas of a new civilization where seven billion and more human beings can live in peace, prosperity and harmony with each other and with their planetary environment.

The WorldShift Council Statements

Initially the Members of the Council will post their views. These inputs will be exchanged among the Members and, based on the conclusions that emerge, the WorldShift Council Statement will be issued and given the widest possible circulation by the Club of Budapest.

This format will apply to the June 2010 meeting of the G-20. For subsequent G-20 meetings starting with the Seoul Meeting of November 11 and 12, the Club of Budapest will explore possibilities also for face-to-face consultation among Members.