The “Network for Religion, Media, and Civic Life” bridges academia, journalists, and policymakers with interfaith actors and communicators to increase the public understanding of religion and its impacts in many domains:
Here’s my “top ten” memories from the Year of the Metal Rat:
10. #TheWorldTeacherIsHere – Accepted Fellow and Alumnus
(Self-Mastery, Community-Building, Productive Disagreement)
THE WORLD-TEACHER PROJECT is an educational and diplomatic mission allied with a vast coalition working through the Internet with maximum creativity and flexibility for environmental stewardship and reforms aimed at justice and peace (“Network for Religion, Media, and Civic Life”). The Project Manager fosters connections and strategic partnerships, facilitates and moderates conversation, and coordinates action toward common goals. The main task of the Manager is to build relationships: network, listen, influence with strong intelligence, and serve with a spirit of generosity and compassion.
PROJECT MANAGER: Patrick Horn is an alumni fellow of the USC CCRC Institute for Digital Civic Culture and elected by nomination to the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) Board of Governors. He received diplomatic certification from KAICIID, and security clearance and consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council through the United Religions Initiative (a non-governmental organization). He was recruited in graduate school by the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence to investigate the intersection of religious doctrine, economies, and global security, with an emphasis on narrative for social mobilisation, conflict resolution, and peace-building. He was a real estate broker, language arts teacher, and musician before a car crash in Los Angeles. Patrick is a public scholar [“World-Teacher”] at the American Academy of Religion and in 2020, he was a guest lecturer at Bradley University.
9. Religion Communicators Council – Board of Governors
Membership Committee Chairman
The purpose of the Religion Communicators Council according to the members’ adopted bylaws is to provide an environment for the exchange of ideas and the discussion of mutual concerns among professionals, to encourage others to become professionals and recognize achievements and encourage excellence, and to build among members an understanding and appreciation of diverse faith groups and to support the understanding and acceptance of religious faith and faith communities.
The mission of the Religion Communications Council Inc according to the articles of incorporation is to advance the total life of the Church in the US and beyond by encouraging young people to select religious publicity and promotion as a Life Work and Christian vocation, developing fellowship and prestige for professionals working for the Church and its related agencies, and to present a united front speaking with one voice on vital issues involving religious publicity and promotion.
The Religion Communicators Congress was scheduled for St. Patrick’s Day 2020 in Washington D.C. but convened virtually due to pandemic travel restrictions. The Board of Governors prioritized organizing the Pacific Coast Interfaith Communicators as a new chapter.
8. World Interfaith Harmony Week
The New Alliance of Virtue is a global coalition that emerged through the Marrakesh Declaration (USIP analysis), the Washington Declaration, the Potomac Declaration and Plan of Action, the Declaration of the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace International, and the Vatican document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together. [See also, Laudato Si and Tutti Fratelli]
In 2020, the interfaith movement featured a series of events including:
- Faith For Earth
- Faith Action on Sustainable Development Goals
- Interfaith G20 Recommendations • The G20 Interfaith Forum – North America Regional Consultation was co-hosted by Georgetown University’s Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and the World Faiths Development Dialogue; and co-organized by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the National Committee for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- We, The World: Climate Action for Peace
- URI North America and the Interfaith Center at Miami University: Eco-Spirituality
- Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development: Climate Realities, Climate Change – Envisioning Our Future
7. Himalaya Supervisory Organization
In 2020, critical infrastructure in the U.S. was successfully hacked in a “Doomsday” cyberattack, including commercial supply chains, government systems, voting software, and classified military networks – the NSA toolset was stolen, and nuclear arsenal compromised. A former Israeli space security chief admits to secret contact with extraterrestrials, but humanity is not yet ready to join the Galactic Federation.
6. Fire Drill Friday in Los Angeles
The Fire Drill Fridays movement organized by Greenpeace and led by Jane Fonda uses celebrity platforms to empower environmental activists to lobby for progressive climate change legislation.
5. Global Pandemic
There has been no independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. 22% of Americans believe it is a genetically-engineered bioweapon, 28% don’t know, and 50% disagree (presumably, accepting the zoonotic transfer hypothesis). During a Commonwealth Club meeting with Dr. Fauci, I asked why there is enormous pressure to coverup the origins of the virus in dual-purpose gain-of-function experiments. Some say the “surprise germ warfare attack” is part of the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategy to corrupt and conquer the United States.
4. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
My conversation with the Speaker and the San Francisco Interfaith Council is off-the-record. During a Commonwealth Club meeting, I advised that the U.S. has no strategic national grain reserve. Noteworthy legislation this year includes designating the Chinese Communist Party as a Transnational Criminal Organization and a policy statement on the reincarnation or successor of the Dalai Lama. The Senate investigated Biden family financial crimes and verified conflicts-of-interest with national security. Media and tech companies suppressed a controversial dossier which is not disinformation.
I also advocated for passing a clean One Trillion Trees Act, which is stalled in negotiations with support of 33 Republicans and 3 Democrats.
3. World Economic Forum: One Trillion Trees Initiative
• FAQ
• One Trillion Trees Interagency Council
• HR 5859 – 116th Congress: Trillion Trees Act
• United Nations Environment Program – “What would it really take to plant a trillion trees?”
• WEF Uplink (Salesforce/Deloitte): Trillion Trees Challenge – Sustainable Development Summit 2020
• Terramatch (World Resources Institute): “Growing a Trillion Trees the Right Way“
• UNEP: Interfaith Rainforest Initiative – Faith for Forests Declaration
• Artists United for Amazonia
I participated in the 2020 Global Town Hall. [See: The Great Reset, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, the Davos Agenda, and the Economy of Francesco]
2. California Climate Change Catastrophe
I’ve been isolated from the pandemic and widespread social chaos in a forest hermitage at Marie’s Farm in Pescadero, CA. One night in August, I was awakened by a lightning storm that set fire to the ridge a mile away. Most of the community evacuated as the blaze spread to over 85,000 acres. I was a communications volunteer for the Coastside Emergency Operations. The thick smoke turned the skies dark as night for three days, and an orange hue for weeks. Firefighters contained the fire within a month, and the drought and environmental stress continued in a dry winter.
1. Summer Solstice Solar Eclipse: White Bison — “Faith”
This is a time of many troubles, but this can also be a good time. The birth of a white buffalo is a sign of encouragement, and also a warning. The first white buffalo in nineteen generations was born in fulfillment of Lakota prophecy in my hometown in 1994. The sacred buffalo are not albinos, but change color from white to yellow to red to brown. A tenth white buffalo born this year at the summer solstice solar eclipse is definitely an omen! Humanity must unite globally as one spiritual family, and be good to each other. There is a teaching that the four colors represent the four elements of creation, the four seasons, the four stages of life, the four ages of mankind, the four races of humanity and their four special gifts to each other. In 1995, an elder foretold disaster, famine, and disease, but he also said that peace, love, and harmony will return on the twenty-first day of the twenty-first year of the twenty-first century – January 21, 2021. Do not be afraid.
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