The Purpose of This Blog...

is to utilize the interactive potential of the Web to enhance consultation, collaboration and support for improving individual and community health as envisioned in the Bahá'í teachings. It is a daily adjunct to the monthly Healing Through Unity eNewsletter.

Healing through Unity eNewsletter and Blog are published for the purpose of sharing thoughts, comments and experiences on how the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith are being applied to physical and spiritual health. Other than the quoted Holy Writings, the material in these publications represent the thoughts and opinions and experiences of the writers and have no authority. None of the material published is intended to be a substitute for the advice of a physician.

As editor, I believe that we humans are a tribe, with each member's experiences and insights vital to the health and growth of all. In the past, tribe was defined very narrowly, by geography or by family, for instance.

Today, Bahá'u'lláh, prophet-founder of the Bahá'í Faith, tells us that the entire planet constitutes our borders, and all of humanity our tribe.

Thanks to the Internet, we have a tool which can for the first time allow direct interaction with the far-flung members of our tribe, and with this connection, the hundredfold enrichment of our lives. We can build our own supportive nuclear "family" even if our birth family might be short of like-minded folks.

Bahá'u'lláh asserts that every atom of creation is there to educate humanity in this plane of existence, and no one person can encompass all that information. Accordingly, He supplied a pattern for a social order designed to enhance individual perception and provide a nurturing environment for learning and growth. For the first time in human history, this pattern is not limited by boundaries such as language, nationality, caste, or technology.

Blogging is part of that world tribal support. More than just a personal journal, Web2 blogs, because they allow a two-(or more)way conversation, are pointing a new direction of interconnectedness that can carry humanity to what is no less than the vision of a true, grassroots democracy.

Even as the printing press presaged access for everyman to all the knowledge of that day long before the average person had learned to read, so the Web2 -- one person, one voice -- makes the technology avialable to facilitate one world...

...as soon as people are ready to become a globally connected, aware and concerned human family dedicated to solving the major and minor issues of this day and age, and to building God's Kingdom on Earth.