Dear Friend of The Vasconcellos Legacy Project -
As I recently gave thanksgiving
for the many blessings in my life - including the opportunity to represent the Heart of Silicon Valley for 38 years in the
California Legislature , and as I ready for the coming holiday season of good news for all, I want to share with you now my
latest (hopefully, my most inspiring) wake-up call and challenge regarding each and all of us having the right, and the responsibility,
to invest ourselves in moving The Politics of Trust into becoming our mainstream.
I
look forward to our deepening our partnership toward this end. I wish you and yours the most wonder-full of holiday seasons!
Know that you have my continuing appreciation and affection -
John Vasconcellos
P.S. Will you right now partner with me in spreading
this good news by forwarding it to every body on every one of your own email rosters - let us begin to build momentum!
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HAVE
YOU EVER WONDERED?
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED
WHAT KIND OF
A WORLD
WE HUMAN BEINGS COULD CREATE
IF WE WERE TO FIND OUT
THAT IN FACT,
WE ARE GOOD-NATURED?
INSTEAD OF OUR BEING
BURDENED
& DONE IN BY
OUR ORIGINAL SIN
WE ARE BY NATURE
BLESSED
& CALLED INTO
OUR ORIGINAL GRACE
SUCH MAY WELL HAVE THE MOST PRECIOUS
OF ALL THE MANY DISCOVERIES
OF OUR RECENT 20TH CENTURY
THE DISCOVERY
OF THE PERSON
THE BIRTHRIGHT + THE DESTINY
OF EACH & EVERY ONE OF US HUMAN BEINGS
LED BY NOTED PIONEERS
CARL ROGERS, ABE MASLOW, ROLLO MAY, VIRGINIA SATIR
JAMES BUGENTAL, SIDNEY JOURARD,
STANLEY KELEMAN
THAT WE ARE INNATELY INCLINED
TOWARD BECOMING
LIFE-AFFIRMING
CONSTRUCTIVE
RESPONSIBLE
TRUSTWORTHY
(CARL ROGERS)
THAT WE CAN AFFORD TO PROBE
THE FURTHER REACHES OF OUR HUMAN NATURE
OUR HIERARCHY OF NEEDS, PEAK
EXPERIENCES & SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(ABRAHAM MASLOW)
THAT THE UTTERLY
FREE HUMAN BEING
WILL BE/COME
SPONTANEOUSLY RESPONSIBLE
(ROLLO MAY)
THAT WE ARE ENCOURAGED
TO SEARCH FOR OUR SELVES
(ROLLO MAY)
AND TO SEARCH FOR MEANING
(VIKTOR FRANKL)
AND TO SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY
(JAMES BUGENTAL)
WE CAN AFFORD TO BECOME
TRANSPARENT
(SIDNEY JOURARD)
WE ARE POSSESSED & DESERVING OF SELF
ESTEEM
(VIRGINIA SATIR & BOB REASONER)
FAR MORE THAN ONLY
'I
THINK THEREFORE I AM'
(RENE' DESCARTES)
WE FEEL THEREFORE WE
ARE
(FRANKLIN MURPHY)
AND TO ENABLE EACH OF US TO GROW WHOLE
'HERE
COMES EVERY BODY'
(WILL SCHUTZ)
THAT OUR BODIES
INSTEAD OF
BEING OBJECTS TO BE CONTROLLED
BECOME THE SUBJECTS OF OUR EXPERIENCING
(THOMAS HANNA)
THAT, IN FACT,
WE ARE OUR BODIES
(STANLEY KELEMAN)
THAT THE PERSON
WHO HAS LIBERATED & INTEGRATED
EACH & ALL OF HER/HIS INTELLECT + EMOTIONS + BODY
INTO HIS/HER BECOMING A WHOLE PERSON
WILL BE POSSESSED OF
A DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER
STRUCTURE
(ABRAHAM MASLOW)
HOW DEEPLY & PROFOUNDLY
OUR MOST
BASIC CHOICE OF VISIONS
REGARDING OUR SELVES
OUR HUMAN NATURE &
POTENTIAL
LEADS TO OUR LIVING & BECOMING
A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
DURING THE 1960'S WE RECOGNIZED THAT EVERY BODY
OF WHATEVER AGE, GENDER, RACE, ORIENTATION, DIS/ABILITY
IS
WORTH-WHILE
NOW WE ARE RECOGNIZING THAT EVERY BODY
OF WHATEVER AGE,
GENDER, RACE, ORIENTATION, DIS/ABILITY
IS TRUST-WORTHY
WHAT A TRULY
RADICAL & REVOLUTIONARY
VISION THAT PROVIDES EACH/ALL OF US
TRULY SUBVERSIVE & INSPIRING, HEALING &
HOPEFUL
ALTOGETHER LEADING EACH OF US
OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF CYNICISM
& DARKNESS
SHAME & GUILT & FEAR & REPRESSION
ALTOGETHER
LEADING EACH OF US
INTO THE LIGHT & HOPE OF FAITHFULNESS
LIBERATION & HEALING & INTEGRATION & LOVING
WHEREIN TRUST BECOMES
THE ORDER OF THE DAY
PARTNERSHIP & COLLABORATION OUR
WAY OF OPERATING
TRUSTING OUR SELVES
LEADING EACH OF US INTO OUR HEALTHY
SELF ESTEEM
ON INTO OUR PERSONAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
TRUSTING
EACH OTHER
LEADING ALL OF US INTO INCLUSION & DIVERSITY
NO MATTER OUR AGE, GENDER, RACE, NATIONALITY, ORIENTATION,
DIS/ABILITY
TRUSTING OURSELVES TOGETHER
LEADING ALL OF US INTO OUR PARTNERSHIPS
COLLABORATING IN EFFECTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING EFFORTS
TRUSTING OURSELVES ALTOGETHER
INSTEAD OF WAGING ENDLESS WAY
ENGAGING EACH OTHER, OUR INNATE PEACE-ABILITY
AH, YES, AFTER (BEFORE) ALL,
WE HAVE THE POWER WITHIN US
TO CREATE A VASTLY DIFFERENT WORLD
FAR MORE PEACEFUL & GENEROUS & SUSTAINING
IF/WHEN WE GROW TO REALIZE
THAT WE ARE IN FACT
BASICALLY GOOD-NATURED
FOR ONCE THE TRUTH IS RECOGNIZED,
AS TAUGHT US
BY THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT,
'THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL ARE ONE!'
WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES & TO OUR GRAND/CHILDREN
TO CREATE RIGHT NOW A WHOLE NEW POLITICS
BEFITTING WHO WE ARE
BECOMING AS HEALTHY WHOLE PERSONS
CHALLENGING CYNICISM
DEVELOPING A
SENSE OF OUR OWN INNATE TRUSTWORTHINESS
CREATING A WHOLE NEW POLITICS
SO LET US NOW MOVE TO OUTGROW OUR INHIBITIONS
TURN LOOSE OUR PASSIONS & OUR ACTIONS
AND MAKE OUR WORLD CONDUCIVE
FOR GROWING HEALTHY HUMAN BEINGS
NOW THAT WE COME TO KNOW
WE CAN CREATE
SUCH A WORLD
WE HAVE NO TIME OR ENERGY OR PERSONS TO WASTE
SO NOW WE
OWE IT TO OURSELVES
AND TO OUR GRAND/CHILDREN AS WELL
TO BRING THAT KIND OF WORLD TO LIFE FOR ALL OUR FUTURE WELL-BEING
WE HAVE NOT
ANOTHER MOMENT NOR ANOTHER CHILD
TO LOSE
JOHN VASCONCELLOS
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
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