Support the Global Wisdom System

Immediate Need for Images: Photos and Artwork

I need 715 Creative Commons images to start with, and I've chosen one third of them to date. If I've used your images, please check the image credits at the bottom of the page. Let me know if you want them changed. Please make sure that the yellow clickable URL at the end of the photo credits is the best one for you.

I have chosen two kinds of Creative Commons images--those with few restrictions and those that are not to be used commercially. I'm planning a nonprofit organization to manage this curriculum, which is noncommercial. However, if your Creative Commons license restricts commercial use, please verify that you're comfortable with my intended use.

I can offer you no money, but after I've launched this curriculum, I will give you a six-month's free subscription for every image you supply.

You can help me finish this project by suggesting images to replace the default image. If you have a unique idea for an image, write to me before taking time to create it to make sure there are no other images planned for it. more »
I want to be sure that you are happy about my use of your photos or artwork. If your Creative Commons license restricts commercial use, I will remove your picture from the project if you do not contact me.

Here's my policy for honoring the contributions of photographer's and artists.
       Complete Attributions: At the bottom of every page, I have devoted an entire line to crediting you for your contribution, including a clickable link that is highlighted in yellow. You may request any wording or any URL that you wish.
       A six-month's subscription for every image that you provide me. In other words, if I've used four of your images, I'll give you a two year subscription.
       A life-time subscription if I use ten or more of your images.
       Subscription agreements are permanent, even if I later decide not to use your picture. In other words, if I give you a two-year subscription for four pictures, and I later replace two of them before the launch, you will not lose your two-year subscription. Once I've offered it to you, it's yours.
       You may give away your subscription. I'm using pictures from around the world, and furthermore, you may not personally be interested in this curriculum. If you're not comfortable using this site in English, or if you're not interested, you may give your subscription as a gift to someone else.
       These free subscriptions may not be offered forever. While you cannot lose a subscription I've given you, the future policies will be decided by the Global Wisdom System organization that I'm planning to create. In other words, if you want to offer images to me, do so before I've chosen the first 715 pictures that I need to illustrate every exercise, meditation, or navigation page in the system.
       I may offer you other benefits. For example, I may offer you the ability to use the curriculum before it's finished, if you are interested. If other programs become available before the system is publically available, I may offer them to you first.

How to Offer Additional Images to the Global Wisdom System

Please do not spend time creating an image for this curriculum without checking with me first. However, you may send me URLs to images that you already have without proposing them first.

It's very difficult to pair pictures with exercise titles or section titles, because usually, the picture actually adds new nuances and meanings to the words. If you suggest a picture to me that I don't accept, it may be that the picture doesn't fit the actual exercise or meditation.

The best way to find a title that fits one of your pictures is to click links from the pages where your picture is already present. If your pictures do a good job of portraying personal relationships, you'll probably find other appropriate exercises for your pictures linked to your current pictures.

Even the cheapest ways of purchasing images are beyond my budget, and I will be creating a nonprofit organization to help manage the curriculum. My plans for developing this organization as quickly as possible will require care in budgeting for the foreseeable future.

The lowest cost ways of purchasing images are beyond my budget, and I will be creating a nonprofit organization to help manage the curriculum. My plans for developing this organization as quickly as possible will require care in budgeting for the foreseeable future.

Some of my plans for this curriculum and organization are:
       We will need funds to continue programming this application so that it personalizes every aspect of the curriculum and the supporting blog system, web conferencing systems, coding for smart phones, and other new technologies as they come online.
       I will need travel funds for helping local Global Wisdom Groups to organize, to creating partnerships with teachers, hypnotists, gurus, psychologists, and other organizations of many kinds.
       We need funds for translating the curriculum into other languages, for creating international cooperation in developing the curriculum further,

The High Priority of Shared Values

Dear Potential Partners,

I never conceived of the Global Wisdom System as a business--because such a conception would never have sustained my interest over thirty-five years of making no money from it. I view the creative vision that came to me in 1976 as a download from my higher self. I recognize this view is merely the story I tell myself, but nonetheless, only a story such as this could motivate me to devote up to 1000 hours per year for decades.

The vision I carry is not a vision of a curriculum or method of teaching. Rather, it is a vision of a transformed society--one in which every person is more interested in self-knowledge than in profit, where a community's worth is measured by how successfully it supports personal growth and authenticity, where telepathy, meditation, active listening, and trance are routinely taught to children in grade school, and where there is an easy, practical, and effective collaboration between all wisdom organizations on earth.

The Global Wisdom System organization is designed to express these values through its management techniques, its structure, its patterns of daily service, its relationship with its members, and its methods of evolving the curriculum by drawing on the gifts of every participant.

The most important shared value, in fact, is the value of drawing on the wisdom of every member, of every spiritual leader from every spiritual path who will join with us, of honoring all paths, and yet, at the same time, maintaining a tradition of depth, inner silence, and personal transformation. more »

After devoting my life to this project, I'm not planning to simply give it away with no strings attached. Among other things, I intend to work for the organization as a salaried employee, which will be part of the contract when I turn over the reins to it. Furthermore, I will release the reins to the Global Wisdom System organization in a managed manner as I become confident that the organization will continue to express the values that I built this project to express.

I fully realize that I am incapable of imposing values on a bunch of disparate individuals or the organization that they form. What I can do is contract with that organization to maintain a variety of practices and patterns that express those values, only relinquishing those requirements when the organization has developed a life of its own and a momentum of its own.

For example, I will want an agreement with the organization that they will incorporate methods of management that promote consensus, personal power, and inner guidance, as well as methods of communication that promote telepathy, compassion, and personal responsibility.

However, once the Global Wisdom System has become a spiritual community with its own sense of direction, I'm perfectly willing to have the organization replace the methods that I bring to it with better methods and practices. I want the GWS organization to build on my strengths without being limited by my shortcomings.

In short, the Global Wisdom System organization will be designed to walk its own talk, to be the change we wish to see, and to evolve quickly to promoting higher and higher levels of cultural evolution.

Thou Art God and Goddess,
Cougar Brenneman

How to Support the Evolution of Global Wisdom

Immediate Need for Images: Photos and Artwork

The High Priority of Shared Values

The High Priority of Spiritual Teamwork

The Importance of Timely Funding

Current Programming Needs

Future Organizational Needs

Current Organizational Needs

Future Needs for Production Support

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