Affects and Effects
The annual universal application of a decentralized worldwide communication campaign lasting seven days is as symbolic as it is remedial.
Remedially, the Janus Project works because it is unique in many ways.
It is the only world program designed to actively reach out to the entire human race. It is the only world program that can engage all individuals.
It provides all individuals the freedom to constructively express themselves and act toward a better world.
It involves, but is not dependent upon, the participation of Heads of Government.
It co-opts and shares the work of the world's best experts, opinion leaders and specialist interest groups in their approach to common challenges throughout the world.
It recognizes the unifying and liberating nature of music and performance by using the particular creative talents of acknowledged music artists and performers to satisfy audiences in specific national and regional broadcasts of the N.E.W.S. World Summit.
It is an indirect demonstration for secure and peaceful coexistence by focusing on success stories and real solutions to the common challenges we all face.
It is inevitable. The communication industry's technological capabilities enable it. Mankind's widespread desire for peace and national security is its warrant.
Symbolically, the Janus Project's universal broadcast of the N.E.W.S. World Summit from multiple city entertainment venues and capital cities fits within the core tenets of the world's major cultural groups.
Hindu
- The concept of a "World Self" is core to the Hindu faith, and in direct parallel with the outcomes of the N.E.W.S. World Summit.
Asian Faiths: Buddhism Confucianism Taoism
- Buddha realized his true nature meditating under a Bodhi tree continuously for seven days. The N.E.W.S. World Summit's seven-day event and periodic cycle mirrors the Buddhists enlightenment process.
- As the N.E.W.S. World Summit is also a conservative and highly disciplined event that respects authority, applies social justices, and pays homage to the worldly, it is conducted with respect to Confucianism.
- The way in which the N.E.W.S. World Summit is a natural human event to continue and evolve throughout time, it is consistent with the Way of the Tao.
Judaeo-Christian
- To Jews, the N.E.W.S. World Summit is a universal project that upholds international 'rule of law' in parallel with Judaism's central doctrine that people are bound collectively by a single law of international application.
- By empowering individuals in taking control of their collective destinies, the N.E.W.S. World Summit represents a way how "the meek shall inherit the earth" - the promise delivered by Jesus of Nazareth.
Islam
- Islam means 'surrender' or 'submission'. From this perspective, the world's participation in the N.E.W.S. World Summit may be viewed as a global Islamic metaphor. Moslems may also view the event as a global Hajj - circling seven times around the Kaaba at Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Mohammad, with the daily rotation of the Earth during the course of the event.
The Janus Project is an indirect approach to the search for peace and security. It is non-institutional in nature, decentralized, and approaches the challenges we face at once and universally. It is the antithesis of the world's existing international management systems, but complementary to them. This represents a significant intellectual transformation.
