World Day Of Conscience

A NASA Map Of All Paths Of Totality Until 2025

2008-06-18T18:13:00.005-04:00

This NASA map of the paths of totality of all total solar solar eclipses until 2025 provides the dates of all potential observances of World Day of Conscience between now and 2025. Click on the image to view a higher resolution version or this link to view the full resolution image on the NASA Eclipse web site.

Two New Moons To Go. . .

2008-06-03T20:44:00.002-04:00

Until the next opportunity to observe World Day of Conscience.

Unfortunately not much is likely to happen on August 1st 2008 since I have had very little practical support for my proposal and do not have the time and resources to promote it single-handedly. The only way that World Day of Conscience will ever become established as a world-wide examination of conscience is if enough people around the world decide that it is a good idea and work to promote World Day of Conscience and organize observances in the areas that they live.

Nine Months To Go. . .

2007-11-01T23:59:00.000-04:00

Until the next observance of World Day of Conscience.

The First Anniversary of the First Observance Of World Day Of Conscience

2007-03-29T13:49:00.000-04:00

Dear Fellow Human Beings,

Today marks the first anniversary of the first observance of World Day of Conscience which took place on March 29th, 2006 when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" symbolically "looked down from the heavens" upon Brazil, Africa, Turkey and Russia. The next observance of World Day of Conscience will take place on August 1st, 2008 when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will appear in the skies over China, Mongolia, Russia, and the Arctic regions including Greenland and some of Canada's Arctic islands such as Ellesmere Island, Devon Island, Somerset Island and Prince of Wales Island. It is my hope that by August 1st, 2008 World Day of Conscience will be reasonably well publicized and observed in various ways by thousands of people, if not some millions of human beings, in most parts of the world. If I am able to I will organize some observances of World Day of Conscience in the path of totality on one or more of Canada's Arctic Islands.

I made very serious personal sacrifices of both time and money in trying to promote the first observance of World Day of Conscience. I pretty much worked full time on it without pay for most of February and March last year. None of the various organizations that I invited to participate in World Day of Conscience, including various religious groups and NGOs such as Amnesty International etc. responded to my invitations. None of the major newpapers published any of the numerous letters to the editor that I sent out announcing World Day of Conscience. In fact, with only one or two exceptions, the only logistical support that I received came from members of the StumbleUpon social blogging community who helped to pass the word on to others.

If it was not for the StumbleUpon community I do not know how many people would even have known about World Day of Conscience. I was able to contact several hundred to a few thousand Stumblers directly and some of these Stumblers then passed the news on to other people. One of the Stumblers who I contacted directly turned out to be the editor of a Turkish business magazine and she saw fit to mention World Day of Conscience in an article she wrote about the upcoming March 29th 2006 total solar eclipse which was seen in Turkey. The editor of the Middle East Times published a letter to the editor that I sent to him about my proposal for World Day of Conscience so in the end I expect that tens of thousands of people if not a few hundred thousand people were at least made aware of the first World Day of Conscience.

I would like to thank all of those people, Stumblers or otherwise, who helped to spread the word about World Day of Conscience last year and I am calling upon my fellow human beings to provide some support for World Day of Conscience. Due to a variety of circumstances, including making additional serious financial sacrifices in attempting to help a Stumbler who was in need of some help last summer, I have not been able to recover from the serious financial sacrifices that I made in my efforts to promote the first observance of World Day of Conscience. I would appreciate it very much if those people who believe that World Day of Conscience is a worthwhile cause could provide some financial support that will allow me to get back on my feet and devote more effort to promoting and organization the next observance of World Day of Conscience. If you are interested in providing some support please contact me email at -

robinedgar59@yahoo.ca

If some generous people could send a donation using PayPal that would be most appreciated.

Thank you,

Robin Edgar

The Next Observance Of World Day Of Conscience Is August 1st, 2008

2007-02-03T15:46:00.000-05:00

The total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will appear in the skies of the Arctic not long before the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In light of this I am proposing that the next observance of World Day of Conscience should place some emphasis on global warming and the prevention of nuclear war.

The Tick Tock Of The Doomsday Clock. . .

2007-01-17T22:36:00.000-05:00

I have been meaning to revive the World Day of Conscience blog for some time now. A variety of circumstances and distractions kept me from posting anything new for several months but I have felt the need to start promoting and organizing the next observance of World Day of Conscience set for August 1st, 2008 for some time now. Today's news that the Doomsday Clock has been set forward by a few minutes due to the dangers posed by global warming and unresolved nuclear arms tensions had given me the push to at least get started again. I posted a comment on The Guardian newspaper's Comment Is Free blog that I will reproduce here -

RobinEdgar January 18, 2007 02:25 AM

Global warming may actually be a greater threat to humanity, to say nothing of other species, than nuclear war. A combination of global warming and nuclear war could be particularly catastrophic for life on Earth. Human conflicts brought on by climactic changes caused by global warming could provoke major wars including nuclear war. Human beings would do well to take the threat posed by global warming every bit as seriously as the threat of nuclear war.

The second observance of World Day of Conscience will take place on August 1st, 2008 when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will symbolically "look down from the heavens" upon the Earth's Arctic regions. Global warming is having a serious effect on the Arctic regions. This second observance of World Day of Conscience takes place about a week before the 63rd anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the path of totality of the August 1, 2008 total solar eclipse follows a trajectory similar to that of a nuclear missile flying over the Arctic between America and Russia or China. For these reason I believe that it is appropriate for the second observance of World Day of Conscience to place an emphasis on the prevention of nuclear war and dealing with global warming.

More information about World Day of Conscience may be found on the World Day of Conscience blog which I will try to update soon.

See - http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com

A Breakthrough Moment?

2006-02-20T14:50:00.000-05:00

Well hopefully I had a minor breakthrough today. . .

Here is the text of an email that I just sent out in response to a communication from a woman of spirit who has a place in the religious establishment. I have deleted her name for various reasons.

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:36:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robin Edgar" Add to Address Book
Subject: Re: WDC
To: "XXXX XXXXXXXX"

Dear XXXX,

Thank you for responding to my email. I agree with what you have written below. Unfortunately my initial efforts have fallen on many deaf ears, indeed the usual passive suppression by clergy etc. who simply fail or refuse to lift a finger to help spread the news when all it would take is making photo copies and distributing them, copying and pasting my WDC chain-letter into their email lists, and agreeing to do *something* themselves on March 29th. WDC does not have the momentum that it could have, and should have. . . by now if church and indeed secular authorities of various kinds had been even minimally helpful. Having said that I will push ahead at the grassroots level and promote some disorganized religion as it were. I will continue to approach "establishment" organizations but will not waste too much time on them.

I agree that it would really be best to have a year or two to organize the first WDC, and it is partly my fault that it did not begin earlier. . . however I really did not have the "brainstorm" to go that route until late in 2005 even though I had the seeds of the idea for WDC in my mind for some years now. World Day of Conscience actually evolved out of Creation Day which always had an element of "global conscience" embedded in it. In fact one of my earliest proposals for Creation Day was that it could be a day where "people are praying for each other rather than preying upon each other". . . WDC in a nutshell I think.

creationday.homestead.com [homestead.com]

I will say however that there is reasonable momentum at the "grassroots" level and I do expect that there will at least be some modest observances of World Day of Conscience here and there in the world on March 29th. There is still time to create a small miracle if enough people decide to devote time and energy to supporting, promoting, and observing the first World Day of Conscience on March 29th. The next date for World Day of Conscience will be August 1st, 2008. It will provide over two years to organize and promote WDC globally and will be ideally situated in both time and space to place a strong emphasis on prevention of nuclear war and dealing with global warming.

hermit.org/Eclipse/2008-08-01/ [hermit.org]

Any help that you can provide to ensure that the first observance of World Day of Conscience is at least a modest success on March 29th would be most appreciated. Please spread the news to as many other people that you know are likely to be open to it and ask them to do the same.

Here is my WDC "chain-letter" -

worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com/2006/02/copy-this-page-and-post-it-world-... [blogspot.com]

Just copy and paste it and send it out to the world.

Here are the website and blog URLs.

worlddayofconscience.homestead.com [homestead.com]

worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]

Please get back to me ASAHP to let me know what you can and will do to help the first observance of World Day of Conscience be as global and successful as`possible. Oh yes I am a male Robin myself but I really do be believe that women need to be a major driving force behind World Day of Conscience and should be at least 50 percent of the voice of WDC.

Here is some inspiration for you and all other women in the world -

lyricstime.com/helen-reddy-i-am-woman-lyrics.html [lyricstime.com]

Go for it. . .

Thank-you,

Robin Edgar

XXXX XXXXXXXXXX wrote:

Dear Mr. Edgar,

Thanks for writing. It is very heartening to see someone trying to light the spark of universal conscience in a world now so confused in it.

I need to tell you, however, that I have nothing whatsoever to do with seeing that anything is published in the XXXXXXXXXXXX. I am not the editor; I am simply a columnist.

My best advice is that you send this material to the Editor in chief, XXXX XXXXXXX. I'm sure his email address is in the paper or in the online edition at XXXXXXXXXXX.org.

I also need to say that an undertaking of this scope usually needs the prior endorsement of a well-connected national or international organization to promote it.

Finally, I think that this could well take over a year to organize through major organizational channels and will take a great deal of work on your part that far exceeds sending out an email. A group like XXXXXXXXXX might be interested but I have no particular reason whatsoever to know that.

I do, however, wish you the best in this endeavor. Never has the world needed conscience more.

XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX

World Council of Churches communication

2006-02-16T18:32:00.000-05:00

Greetings from Canada,

I would appreciate it very much if my proposal for a World Day of Conscience coinciding with the March 29th, 2006 total solar eclipse is made known to the Assembly ASAHP.

See - http://worlddayofconscience.homestead.com

http://worlddayof conscience.blogspot.com

My own theology is bona fide God-believing Unitarian however all human beings are invited to participate in World Day of Conscience regardless of their religious beliefs or even lack thereof. Of course all believers are encouraged to participate in ways that are fully compatible with their own religious beliefs and practices. Please confirm receipt of this email.

Sincerely,

Robin Edgar

P.S. Here is an open letter that I sent out to various other organizations. Please feel free to copy it and distribute it to as many other people, Christian or otherwise, as you wish.

All human beings are invited to respond to the spectacular cosmic symbolism of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" by observing World Day of Conscience on Wednesday March 29, 2006 and on all future days when this symbolic "Eye of God" metaphorically "looks down from the heavens" above our planet Earth. World Day of Conscience seeks to promote the healthy exercise of human conscience at all levels, from the deeply personal and intimate right through to "global conscience." World Day of Conscience should be observed in ways that call attention to, and seek redress for, any and all forms of injustices and abuses that occur in the world. Special attention should be given to those matters of conscience in the domains of human rights, civil liberties, and social justice, as well as serious environmental and ecological concerns.

All the individuals and groups who choose to observe World Day of Conscience are free to determine the most appropriate ways for them to do so. Religious and spiritual observances are certainly encouraged however non-religious manners of observing World Day of Conscience are also very appropriate. Suggestions for various ways of observing World Day of Conscience are welcomed, as are diverse forms of support for World Day of Conscience. At present the most urgent need for co-operation and support is simply to spread the news about World Day of Conscience as rapidly and as widely as possible to human beings in all parts of the world. Ultimately World Day of Conscience aspires to encourage the regular and healthy exercise of human consciences and to promote the global warming of human hearts world-wide.

The World Day of Conscience web site is at -

http://worlddayofconscience.homestead.com

I may be contacted directly at - robinedgar59@yahoo.ca

Sincerely,

Robin Edgar

A Letter To Nowhere?

2006-02-12T15:37:00.000-05:00

The following letter to the editor was sent to a variety of major English language newspapers in Canada, the USA and elsewhere. Versions of this letter were also sent to a variety of religious organizations. The response has been deafening silence. Not only has no one published the letter but no one has even bothered to contact me by email. In fact my web site statistics for the World Day of Conscience web site would indicate that the newspapers and other organizations that this letter or versions thereof were sent to did not even bother to look at the web site. . .

Robin Edgar
XXXX rue St. Hubert
Montreal, Quebec
Canada XXX XXX
Tel.: (514) XXX-XXXX

February 7, 2006

Dear Editors,

All human beings are invited to respond to the spectacular cosmic symbolism of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" by observing World Day of Conscience on Wednesday March 29, 2006 and on all future days when this symbolic "Eye of God" metaphorically "looks down from the heavens" above our planet Earth. World Day of Conscience seeks to promote the healthy exercise of human conscience at all levels, from the deeply personal and intimate right through to "global conscience." World Day of Conscience should be observed in ways that call attention to, and seek redress for, any and all forms of injustices and abuses that occur in the world. Special attention should be given to those matters of conscience in the domains of human rights, civil liberties, and social justice, as well as serious environmental and ecological concerns.

All the individuals and groups who choose to observe World Day of Conscience are free to determine the most appropriate ways for them to do so. Religious and spiritual observances are certainly encouraged however non-religious manners of observing World Day of Conscience are also very appropriate. Suggestions for various ways of observing World Day of Conscience are welcomed, as are diverse forms of support for World Day of Conscience. At present the most urgent need for co-operation and support is simply to spread the news about World Day of Conscience as rapidly and as widely as possible to human beings in all parts of the world. Ultimately World Day of Conscience aspires to encourage the regular and healthy exercise of human consciences and to promote the global warming of human hearts world-wide.

The World Day of Conscience web site is at -

http://worlddayofconscience.homestead.com

I may be contacted directly at - robinedgar59@yahoo.ca

Sincerely,

Robin Edgar

P.S. For further information about the symbolic "Eye of God" and indeed other cosmic symbolism that is perceivable in total solar eclipses, and did in fact have a profound influence on the religious beliefs and practices of ancient humanity please refer to the following web sites -

http://eyeofgod.homestead.com

http://eyeofhorussymbol.homestead.com

http://eclipsephoenix.homestead.com

Copy This Page. . . And Post It World-Wide. . .

2006-02-02T22:22:00.000-05:00

The following text fits on one page if you use appropriate text size and formatting. Please feel free to copy it and email it or otherwise distribute it to as many other people of conscience as possible -

WORLD DAY OF CONSCIENCE

The first observance of World Day of Conscience will take place on Wednesday March 29, 2006 when the symbolic "Eye of God" that is regularly manifested in total solar eclipses metaphorically "looks down from the heavens" upon our beautiful but troubled planet. The total solar eclipse symbolic "Eye of God" will appear in Earth's skies as a bona fide "sign in the heavens" above the east coast of South America (Brazil), Central and North Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Libya and Egypt), EurAsia and Asia (Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia).

Robin Edgar is proposing that human beings in all parts of the World might respond to the spectacular cosmic symbolism of this total solar eclipse "Eye of God" by observing World Day of Conscience on Wednesday March 29, 2006 and on all future dates when the total solar eclipse symbolic "Eye of God" appears in the skies above our planet Earth. World Day of Conscience aspires to promote the healthy and beneficial exercising of human conscience from the personal and intimate through to what has been called "global conscience" by some enlightened human beings. World Day of Conscience should be observed in a manner that calls attention to and seeks redress for any and all forms of injustices and abuses that occur in the world. Special attention should be given to those matters of conscience in the domain of human rights, civil liberties, and social justice, as well as the need to address warfare and serious environmental and ecological concerns.

World Day of Conscience may be observed in many diverse ways. It is up to those individual people and groups, religious or otherwise, who choose to observe World Day of Conscience to decide what are the most appropriate ways for them to observe this day devoted to promoting individual conscience and collective "global conscience". Religious and spiritual observances of World Day of Conscience are certainly encouraged however non-religious ways of observing World Day of Conscience are also entirely appropriate.

Suggestions for various ways to observe World Day of Conscience are most welcome, as are diverse forms of co-operation with and support for helping World Day of Conscience raise consciousness to the need for conscience and to promote global warming of human hearts world-wide. At present the most urgent need for co-operation and support is simply to spread the news about World Day of Conscience as rapidly and as widely as possible to as many human beings as possible in all parts of the world.

Visit the WDC web site - http://worlddayofconscience.homestead.com

Visit the WDC blog - http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com

Suggestions and brainstorming for World Day of Conscience are welcome here -

http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com/2006/01/world-day-of-conscience-brainstorming.html

Contact Robin Edgar by email at - robinedgar59@yahoo.ca

Feel free to copy and forward this proposal to as many other human beings as you wish. Let it become a positive chain-letter that helps to raise consciousness to individual and collective global conscience and promotes global warming of human hearts world-wide.

Songs with a Global Conscience

2006-01-29T23:31:00.000-05:00

I found this Songs with a Global Conscience web site tonight and it does a good job of providing a number of songs that would be very appropriate for observances of World Day of Conscience.

Requesting suggestions for holding observances of World Day of Conscience in and for Iraq

2006-01-20T22:51:00.000-05:00

From some email correspondence with a member of the Assyrian cultural community that has been posted in a few Assyrian online forums -

I would appreciate any ideas that you and other good Assyrians might have about how World Day of Conscience could respond to the war in Iraq and ideally, indeed hopefully, help to bring peace to Iraq sooner rather than later. . . Do you think that it would be possible to hold well publicized observances of World Day of Conscience in Iraq without suicide bombers showing up to cause death destruction and mayhem?

I certainly would like to see some observances of World Day of Conscience, indeed World Week of Conscience, to be held in Iraq if at all possible, and I do believe that it is possible, ideally in ways that obtain concrete results in terms of speeding the end of the war in Iraq and bringing genuine peace to Iraq and the Middle East more generally. I invite your own and other Assyrians, especially Iraqi Assyrians, brainstorming and inspired suggestions about ways in which World Day of Conscience could help promote peace in Iraq.

Ideally (but regrettably not very realistically) World Week of Conscience would be a week of complete cease-fire and non-violence in Iraq. A week during which both insurgents and soldiers had a well earned holiday as it were, and diplomats, politicians, religious leaders and the people of Iraq in general sincerely sought ways to bring genuinely just negotiated peace to Iraq. . . Ideally that week of peace in Iraq would continue indefinitely. I, and no doubt many if not most Iraqis, would somewhat grudgingly settle for a full 24 hour day free from any serious violence in Iraq on March 29th, 2006 when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" symbolically looks down from the heavens upon our troubled world. Even that would be a small miracle but hopefully we could acheive an even bigger one.

Needless to say I have serious concerns about the possibility of genuine "evil-doers" deliberately targeting observances of World Day of Conscience in Iraq, to say nothing of elsewhere in our troubled world. This issue needs to be seriously considered and responsibly dealt with if World Day of Conscience is to be observed in Iraq, and/or other troubled parts of the world without turning into something of a tragedy in its own right. I am not seeking any World Day of Conscience martyrs but I do worry that there is a real possibility that there may indeed be some if hard-hearted and conscienceless "evil-doers" target World Day of Conscience observances for misguided terrorist attacks. The last thing that I want to see is people observing World Day of Conscience being blown to bits by a suicide bomber or suffering from any other serious violence.

In fact I would very much like to see World Day of Conscience supporters come up with and publicize an appeal to suicide bombers, and all other terrorists, to cease and desist from their violent activities now and forever. I invite your own and other good people's suggestions about how one could formulate such an appeal in a way that it might actually successfully dissuade at least some suicide bombers and other terrorists from seriously devaluing their own lives and those of the many other human beings who are their targeted victims, most of whom are usually quite innocent.

Please feel free to circulate this communication in Assyrian, Iraqi, and other appropriate internet forums, along with your suggestions. It would be interesting to see just what may come out of such online discussion and brainstorming. I would like to put what I wrote here on the World Day of Conscience blog but will hold off doing so until I have your assent to do so.

Sincerely,

Robin Edgar

SPAM Wonderful SPAM! for raising consciousness to World Day of Conscience World-Wide. . .

2006-01-19T13:21:00.000-05:00

I sent out some more spontaneous email invitations to observe World Day of Conscience yesterday. I will continue to do so as much as my precious time allows. I encourage anyone reading this post to cut and paste the pertinent parts of the sample email copied below, and to send their own invitations to World Day of Conscience to whoever in the world they would like to see observe the first observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006 and any and all future observances of World Day of Conscience and World Week of Conscience.

Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:04:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robin Edgar"
Subject: Call the Whole World to Global Conscience on. . .
To: CallTheWorldToConscience(at)whatmail.com

the first observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29, 2006 and on the occasion of all future total solar eclipses when the symbolic "Eye of God" metaphorically "looks down from the heavens" on our beautiful but troubled planet Earth. . .

http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com/

See also - http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com/2006/01/world-day-of-conscience-brainstorming.html

Prophetic musicians of conscience are especially needed to the first and future observances of World Day of Conscience. . .

On Wednesday March 29th, 2006 the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will once again appear in the skies above our planet Earth. This symbolic "Eye of God" will "look down from the heavens" above the east coast of South America (Brazil), Central and North Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Libya and Egypt), EurAsia and Asia (Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia).

I am proposing that human beings in all parts of the World may respond to the spectacular cosmic symbolism of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" by observing a World Day of Conscience on Wednesday March 29, 2006 and on all future dates when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" appears in the skies above our planet Earth. World Day of Conscience should be observed in a manner that calls attention to and seeks redress for any and all forms of injustices and abuses that occur in the world. Special attention should be given to those matters of conscience in the domain of human rights, civil liberties and social justice, as well as serious environmental and ecological concerns. World Day of Conscience may be observed in diverse manners.

It is up to those individual people and groups who choose to observe World Day of Conscience to decide what are the most appropriate ways for them to observe this day. Religious and spiritual observances are certainly encouraged however non-religious manners of observing World Day of Conscience are also appropriate.

Suggestions for various ways to observe World Day of Conscience are welcomed, as are diverse forms of co-operation with and support for World Day of Conscience. At present the most urgent need for co-operation and support is simply to spread the news about World Day of Conscience as rapidly and as widely as possible to human beings in all parts of the world.

Feel free to forward this email to as many other human beings as you wish. Let it be a postive chain letter that helps to raise consciousness to global conscience and promotes global warming of human hearts world-wide.

Best Regards,

Robin Edgar

A World Day of Conscience "Web Sight"

2006-01-18T19:58:00.000-05:00

I am currently constructing a very basic web site to help spread the word about World Day of Conscience. The main World Day of Conscience web site will link back to pertinent sections of the World Day of Conscience blog and will provide new pages of information that may not be found on the blog. The web site will be easier to navigate than the scroll-like manner in which a blog works.

Quotable Quotes About Conscience. Feel Free To Make Good Use These Conscience Quotations

2006-01-18T09:44:00.000-05:00

A composite photograph of the 1999 total solar eclipse by Wendy Carlos and friends

Conscience is the inner voice
which warns us that someone may be looking. . .

H.L. Mencken

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Joseph Cook

You may read more enlightening and inspiring quotations about conscience on this page of the World Day of Conscience web site.

Ten Seven Day Weeks Left Until The First Observance Of World Day of Conscience. . . Scout's Honour aka Honest To God. . .

2006-01-17T17:50:00.000-05:00

See above... ;-)

Believe it or not the above color illustration of the 1905 total eclipse of the sun, which quite clearly illustrates the total solar eclipse's genuinely striking similarity in appearance to an "Eye in the Sky" aka "Eye of God", and which was published in a supplement to "Kowledge & Scientific News" in October of 1905, was based on an original drawing of the 1905 total solar eclipse that was done by Major Baden-Powell at Palma. A few years later Major Robert Baden Powell went on to found the Boy Scouts Movement, and not long afterwards, the Girl Scouts aka Girl Guides movement.

Needless to say, all of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the whole wide World Scout Movement, along with all of their friends and relatives, are cordially invited to observe World Day of Conscience in their own special way on March 29th, 2006 and on any and all future observances of World Day of Conscience when the total solar eclipse symbolic "Eye of God" that Chief Scout of the World, Lord Baden-Powell, drew a rather eye-opening picture of in 1905, metaphorically looks down from the heavens on our planet Earth.

What Would MLK Do To Observe World Day Of Conscience If Only He Could?

2006-01-16T09:44:00.000-05:00

This hopefully far from last post to the World Day of Conscience blog will, God willing, evolve over time. . .

As pretty much everyone in the Western world, and many if not most of the people in the rest of the world know, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said and did many things that would be highly appropriate to say and do during any and all observances of World Day of Conscience. Needless to say the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cannot actually say or do so anything in the flesh on the first or future observances of World Day of Conscience because he was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee, in the Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free. . . on April 4th, 1968. Never-the-less I expect that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be there in spirit when human beings of conscience create a "network of mutuality" and observe World Day of Conscience in genuine Unity and Diversity on March 29th, 2006 and on any and all future occassions when the symbolic total solar eclipse "Eye of God" metaphorically looks down from the heavens on our beautiful blue planet that suffers from no shortage of ugliness. . .

Here are some well known, and indeed some not so well known. .. MLK quotes that provide some hints as to what Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., aka MLK, might say and do if he could observe World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006 and on any future observances of World Day of Coscience. -

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 1964

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Quotes from Strength To Love -

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated. . .

Will a World Day of Conscience for Sudan be observed in the land of Egypt on March 29th?

2006-01-14T10:09:00.000-05:00

When in late December of 2005 I decided to go ahead with proposing that all days when the symbolic total solar eclipse "Eye of God" metaphorically looks down from the heavens upon our troubled world should become an observance of a World Day of Conscience I Googled the term "World Day of Conscience" to see if anyone had already come up with the idea of a World Day of Conscience before yours truly and had used that term to describe it. Nothing came up. Quite disappointing really. . .

I removed the word "World" and simply searched for "Day of Conscience" to see what if anything came up. Two main search results appeared. One was a National Day of Conscience to End Sweatshops and the other was a Day of Conscience to draw attention to the ongoing troubles in Sudan. Indeed there was, quite wisely , a Weekend of Conscience to Save Darfur, quite ingeniously set to coincide with United Nations Human Rights Day on December 10th, promoted by an organization called Save Darfur. According to a post on the Ripple of Hope blog the Sudan Day of Conscience idea dates back as far as August 2004 and probably somewhat earlier. An inter-faith "Day of Conscience" for Sudan quite evidently was observed in San Francisco, California and elsewhere. Google tells me that the National Council of Churches joined with the "Save Darfur" Coalition to observe August 25, 2004 as "Sudan: Day of Conscience." Needless to say I invite the National Council of Churches and similar religious organizations to join with me, and hopefully many other like-minded human beings, to promote, support, and observe World Day of Conscience on March 29, 2006 when the symbolic "Eye of God" looks down from the heavens upon our planet Earth. Indeed the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will symbolically scan northern Africa not all that far from the Sudan, and will metaphorically "look down" on the westernmost extremity of the land of Egypt where the All-Seeing Eye of Google tells me, and indeed what Paul Martin and others call the "global conscience" of our troubled world, that 10 Sudanese "migrants" aka refugees were recently killed and 23 Egyptian police officers were wounded, during clashes that erupted when Egyptian police officers attempted to clear their camp in a city park in Cairo.

I had hoped to visit Egypt to observe and photograph the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" for my own cultural and religious purposes prior to deciding to go ahead and propose World Day of Conscience, and I had made some efforts towards doing just that. I am having second and even third thoughts about going to Egypt myself for various reasons, including the fact that I believe that it is far more important to do what I can to see to it that World Day of Conscience is observed as widely and successfully as possible on March 29th. Perhaps I may be able to kill two birds with one stone as it were. . . but I definitely would like to see World Day of Conscience observed in Egypt with observations of both the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" aka "Eye of Horus" and World Day of Conscience taking place within the shadow of the moon aka the path of totality.

Needless to say an important part of any observations of World Day of Conscience on March 29, 2005 should be to draw attention to, and propose viable solutions for, the current "situation" in Sudan, the ongoing war in Iraq, and other troubled areas of our blue planet where violence, war, terrorism and indeed genocide are still occurring, sometimes on a daily basis.

More later. . . I am a human being and can only do so much. I need to eat and sleep like everyone else and right now I am both tired and hungry, albeit not nearly as tired and hungry as many other people in the world who I sincerely hope World Day of Conscience will inspire the people of the world to provide food and rest for. . .

I am pleased to be able to sign off for now by reporting that the term "World Day of Conscience" is already showing up in major world wide web search engines like the All-Seeing Eye of Google MSN Search, and Yahoo! ;-)

The Ghost has well and truly entered the Machine. . .

All Canadian politicians, indeed all the politicians in the whole wide world, are cordially invited to observe World Day of Conscience

2006-01-13T19:32:00.000-05:00

A couple of days ago I quite spontaneously sent out a quite humorous, but also perfectly sincere, invitation to current Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and all the members of the federal Liberal Party of Canada, to participate in World Day of Conscience. I did this by judiciously using the Liberal Party of Canada's online contact web page.

Here is how it all came about. . . I had wanted to contact a friend of mine to invite him and his spiritual ecologist activist friends to do some brainstorming for World Day of Conscience. I spoke to him on the phone and got his email address and then I Googled his name to verify his email address. He is a member of the Green Party of Canada and it just so happened that the number one result in Google for a search on his name was the Green Party of Canada's official web page. At the time there was a message saying that the Green Party was a political party that was neither left nor right in ideology but mainly interested in promoting good ideas.

Since I happen to believe that World Day of Conscience is a really good idea whose time has come, if not long overdue. . . I spontaneously used the Green Party of Canada's online contact web page to send them an invitation to participate in the observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006. Having done that I decided to invite the federal Liberals too. I had intended to contact the other political parties in a similar manner but I had other things to take care of and have not yet specifically invited their participation. Of course since everyone in the whole wide world is invited to observe World Day of Conscience, all Canadian politicians and all politicians all around the world are already invited anyway. . . To date I have not received any response from either the Liberal Party of Canada or the Green Party of Canada even though I specifically asked for a confirmation of receipt in my communications. I am sure that they are all very busy right now and responding to invitations to observe World Day of Conscience is not their highest priority at the moment. . .

I figure that today is as good a day as any to make these two initial semi-formal invitations to Canadian politicians to participate in World Day of Conscience public on the World Day of Conscience blog. ;-) Some Canadian federal politicians are definitely going to need some *luck* on January 23, 2006. . .

I hereby once again cordially, openly, and publicly invite current Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and all members of the Liberal Party of Canada to help raise world consciousness to what Paul Martin and other human beings quite justifiably call "global conscience" by liberally supporting and participating in observations of World Day of Conscience in Canada and around the world on March 29th, 2006. I really would deeply appreciate it if Paul Martin would be so kind as to invite his friend Bono and U2 to help rock the conscience of the world, in the company of many other prophetic musicians, during the first observation of World Day of Conscience and future ones.

Jim Harris and all the members of the Green Party of Canada are cordially invited to help turn Canada and the whole wide world green with Global Conscience, Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Participatory Democracy, Non-Violence, Sustainability and Respect for Diversity on March 29th, 2006 when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" metaphorically looks from the down on our blue, and indeed green and other fine colors, planet.

Heureusement not so Ol' Blue Eyes Gilles Duceppe et le Bloc Quebecois sont cordialement invités à observer le premier Jour de la Conscience Mondiale par consciencieusement penser et parler d'amour et la justice. Deux fois plus fort que les maudites de bons anglos comme moi. . . ;-)

Jumpin' Jack Layton is hereby officially invited to hit the road and strum a few appropriate prophetic songs on his guitar during the observance of World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006 in the hope of getting results for people all around this world of ours. All New Democratic Party goers are invited to drum up a storm of left-wing conscience.

Stephen Harper and all Canadian Conservatives are cordially invited to stand up for conscience, accountability, opportunity, security, family, community and unity as well as some real change of heart. . . Canadian Conservatives can most certainly help the first observation of World Day of Conscience fly right in the True North Strong And Free by bringing some well-balanced right-wing conscience to the inaugural observance on March 29th, 2006.

My own personal political and ideological bias will be quite evident from the content of the communications reproduced below. I call upon all Canadian voters to vote with their consciences, vote strategically, and get out and vote on January 23, 2006.

Democracy is like your conscience.

If you don't use it you just may well lose it. . .

To the Screener -

Please do not censor or suppress this communication and take steps to ensure that my expression here is freely expressed to Prime Minister Paul Martin ASAP.

I am using my well-developed sense of Canuck humor here but please believe me when I say that I am very serious about what I am relating below.

Thank you,

Robin Edgar

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Dear fellow small 'L' liberals.

Greetings from somewhere in Soviet Canuckistan aka the True North Strong and Free. ;-)

Will someone please see to it that Paul Martin sees hard copy of this ASAP. . .

http://worlddayofconscience.blogspot.com

BTW I did not rip him off, this idea has been gestating in my mind for a few years now and I was quite blissfully unaware of his use of the term "global conscience" when I put my initial proposal of World Day of Conscience on the internet on December 30th, 2005. I guess it just shows how out of touch I am with the real world but I was doing some heavy duty brain-storming in December and was not paying too much attention to political news. ;-)

Here is a good idea for Paul Martin and the Liberal Party of Canada, or at least the individual members of the Liberal Party of Canada, to seriously consider participating in, supporting and spreading around a bit. . .

Believe it or not I even considered calling 'World Day of Conscience' 'Global Day of Conscience' but decided that World Day of Conscience was better all round and translates better into French.

i.e. Jour de la Conscience Mondiale

Do you think that Paul Martin might give me a cabinet position if I join the Liberal Party? ;-)

I really would like Bono and U2 to participate in World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006 and subsequent occasions so I am asking Paul Martin to please call his friend Bono and run this by him sooner rather than later. . . Time is of the essence, as is acting on your conscience both locally and globally.

Paul Martin is hereby personally invited to observe the first World Day of Conscience with me and others on March 29th, 2006. Where there is a will there is a way. With any luck, and a bit of will we will be in Western Egypt with Bono and a whole lot of other prophetic musicians in attendance to observe World Day of Conscience under the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" and indeed the "Eye of Horus". With a bit more luck Horus and the proverbial Phoenix will put in an appearance too.

This communiqu-eh is quite spontaneous and I will be following it up with rather more formal communications in the coming days and weeks. I would appreciate it if I received an email confirmation of receipt of this communication from the Liberal Party and even a wink and a nod from Prime Minister Paul Martin if possible.

Good luck in the election. It looks like you just might need some right now but as I said where there is a will there is a way. . . Keep this in mind.

Best Regards

Robin Edgar

P.S. My virtual credentials -

http://revelationisnotsealed.homestead.com

http://creationday.homestead.com

http://eyeofgod.homestead.com

http://eyeofhorussymbol.homestead.com

http://eclipsephoenix.homestead.com

The World Day of Conscience Brainstorming Area and Suggestion Box. . .

2006-01-11T08:34:00.000-05:00

Needless to say every day should be World Day of Conscience and human beings really should excercise their conscience in both breadth and depth rather more regularly than they generally do. Regularly excercising one's conscience makes for a healthy conscience. . . I will be proposing various ideas that will promote excercising our consciences more vigorously every single day of our lives and to try to do so almost constantly.

I have many ideas about how to observe World Day of Conscience on March 29th, 2006 and on the day of all future total solar eclipses when the symbolic "Eye of God" metaphorically "looks down from the heavens" on our little blue planet. I also have many ideas about how human beings can make this world of ours a better place for all of our fellow human beings, our fellow creatures and "Mother Earth" herself. This thread will be devoted to brainstorming and suggestions for World Day of Conscience observances and for ideas for making the world a better place for human beings to live in. This thread will continually evolve and will lead to the creation of other threads that go into more depth in terms of various suggestions that come from me or from others. Please add your suggestions for World Day of Conscience observances and initiatives in the comments below.

Here are some of my ideas that until now have not been committed to virtual paper. . .

As I have suggested above, a single World Day of Conscience that takes place every time a total solar eclipse occurs above our planet is not really enough. World Day of Conscience should really be celebrated twenty four hours a day and eight days a week as it were. . . Yes I do intend to suggest that genuine love and conscience are highly complimentary, if not overlapping considerably. With this in mind I think that World Day of Conscience should be surrounded, or perhaps I should say embraced, by a World Week of Conscience. I am thus proposing that the three days leading up to the day of the total solar eclipse when World Day of Conscience is to be observed should be days on which various events, observances, and last minute proposals and initiatives take place. The three days following the observance of World Day of Conscience should be devoted other events and observances with an emphasis on evaluating the hopefully very concrete initial results of World Day of Conscience observances. The first World Week of Conscience would begin on Sunday March 26, 2006 and come to a conclusion on Saturday April 2, 2006.

I believe that modern musicians who write and sing songs about matters of conscience are contemporary prophets whether they realize it or not. Ditto for all those prophetic musicians who are no longer with us in the flesh but are very much with us in the spirit. There are many popular songs that would be highly appropriate songs to be performed during concerts that would observe World Day of Conscience. I will be starting a new thread for suggestions for songs that could and should be sung during World Week of Conscience and performers who could and perhaps even should ;-) perform them.

Instrumental compositions are also quite appropriate if their title or other aspects have something to do with excercising conscience, love, and human rights and freedom etc. I thus believe that Beethoven's 9th symphony would be highly appropriate as might many other classical compositions. Yes I do realize that Beethoven's 9th symphony does actually include some rather prophetic singing during the choral movement but you get my drift. . . Gustav Holst's 'The Planets' in it's entirety, or pertinent movements thereof, would be quite appropriate as far as I am concerned. Likewise modern electronic trance music could be perfectly appropriate for observing World Day of Conscience as well. A few World Day of Conscience raves might be both entertaining and educational.

It pretty much goes without saying that all the musicians in the world are invited to perform concerts to raise funds for all kinds of good causes during World Week of Conscience but it would be great to have a really big one in the tradition of Live Aid, Live Eight etc. on World Day of Conscience with some stages set up in the path of totality itself I would however ask request that any concerts in the path of totality be scheduled in such a way that at least an hour of silence embraces totality itself. In fact it would be great to see some rock bands or other musical groups that have broken up over personal differences, or other reasons, get together again for World Week of Conscience and hopefully at least a bit longer. . .

I would like to see The Police act as world-wide peace officers on World Day of Conscience. A spirited performance of Invisible Sun would be most appropriate. . . as would Truth Hits Everybody, Message In A Bottle and Driven To Tears, and Walking In Your Footsteps. . .

Nena, and a whole lot of other bands including the inimitable Björk, are invited to perform '99 Red Balloons' 99 times or more. . . during World Week of Conscience. I will be buying 99 heart-shaped red balloons in the near future and be putting them to good use. . .

That's it for now but I will be adding quite a bit more to this thread when I can and I welcome all kinds of suggestions from other human beings in the comments section below.

World Day Of Conscience March 29, 2006

2005-12-30T21:12:00.000-05:00

A proposal for a World Day of Conscience to be observed on March 29, 2006 and on the occasion of all future appearances of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God".

Three lunations from today, on Wednesday March 29th, 2006 the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" will once again appear in the skies above our planet Earth. This symbolic "Eye of God" will "look down from the heavens" above the east coast of South America (Brazil), Central and North Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria,Chad, Libya and Egypt), EurAsia and Asia (Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia).

Robin Edgar is proposing that human beings in all parts of the World may respond to the spectacular cosmic symbolism of the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" by observing a World Day of Conscience on Wednesday March 29, 2006 and on all future dates when the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" appears in the skies above our planet Earth.

World Day of Conscience should be observed in a manner that calls attention to and seeks redress for any and all forms of injustices and abuses that occur in the world. Special attention should be given to those matters of conscience in the domain of human rights, civil liberties and social justice, as well as serious environmental and ecological concerns.

World Day of Conscience may be observed in diverse manners. It is up to those individual people and groups who choose to observe World Day of Conscience to decide what are the most appropriate ways for them to observe this day.

Religious and spiritual observances are certainly encouraged however non-religious manners of observing World Day of Conscience may also be appropriate.

Suggestions for various ways to observe World Day of Conscience are welcomed, as are diverse forms of co-operation with and support for World Day of Conscience. At present the most urgent need for co-operation and support is simply to spread the news about World Day of Conscience as rapidly and as widely as possible to human beings in all parts of the world.

Total solar eclipses following that of March 29, 2006 will occur on August 1, 2008; July 22, 2009; July 11, 2010; November 21, 2012; March 20, 2015; March 9, 2016; and August 21, 2017. A map that shows the paths of totality of these and other future total solar eclipses may be viewed at the NASA eclipse web site.