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What is A Spiritual Cultural Creative?

If you've come to this page, you probably are one!

As author and futurist, Jean Houston said, 
"THIS is the time and WE are the people!"

Surrounded as we seem to be by people who are still caught up in the appearance of material world, it’s easy to feel outnumbered here by people who don’t believe as we do. But the Power and Intelligence that says “yes” to prayer is omnipotent – that means NOTHING can stand against it. One person, whose belief is absolute, stands in perfect alignment with that Power and Intelligence – and that person is an ABSOLUTE MAJORITY! Jesus proved it, the Buddha proved it, and Moses and Mohammed proved it, all the great avatars and masters of the ages proved it. They changed the world. But right now, you and I do not have that faith. The question isn’t “how much do you believe?” The question is “How much can you believe?” Our faith that we can help our world isn’t strong enough to believe that we can be an Absolute Majority of One.

The world is limited by the best thinking of the collective consciousness of humanity, and that's the very thing that's created all our problems. But that’s changing and we are the ones changing it. Out of that change will come the next evolution of humanity.

Who are "We"? We're the Cultural Creatives - Cultural Creatives are described by Sociologists this way:

• Are familiar with a variety of religions and seek to identify with principles that are universal amongst religions. Our intention is to search for universal, practical spiritual principles that have intrinsic value, and do not depend on ecclesiastical authority. When we do embrace a spiritual tradition, it is most often in Eastern, New Thought and New Age religions.
• Tend to love animals and nature and are deeply concerned about the destruction of the environment and species extinction and want to see more action to address these problems and do so in our own lives.
• Care about other people and bringing out their unique gifts.
• Tend to volunteer for one or more good causes.
• Support equality for all genders and races and are concerned about violence and the abuse of women and children around the world.
• Want to be involved in creating a new and better way of life in our country.
• Tend to dislike all the overemphasis in modern culture on success and “making it”, on getting more and spending more, on wealth and luxury goods.
• Not that we mind money, we love to manifest it and spend it on travel, on personal growth, on education and on finding ways to live more in alignment with nature.
• Tend to believe in alternative forms of medicine and natural products of all kinds.
• Not all political liberals, some are quite conservative.
• Not all activists; in fact, most of us focus on changing ourselves, not the world.
• More women then men.

You may have believed that you were alone or that our way of understanding and seeing the world was limited to a small group. You'd be wrong. This is what the world believes about Cultural Creatives.

The world sees us as a distinct cultural group in the western world with a name and books written about us. We are the “Cultural Creatives.” Cultural Creatives are creating whole new social connections and ways of doing things, creating their own culture and might be creating a new world. Think it’s possible? How much can you believe?  

In the 1990 census, Cultural Creatives were too few to count. We were given this name after the 2000 census identified us as the fastest growing group in the U.S. and interest in us resulted in studies in Canada and Western Europe. So how many of us are there? About 25% of the U.S. population. In other words, there are an estimated 75 million of us, most of us hiding our light because we think we’re alone. In Canada, there’s another 15 million. In Western Europe, there’s 80 – 90 million more.

The World Parliament of Religions meets every five years. Like the Olympics, it meets in a different city each time. At the 2001 Chicago meeting, Cultural Creatives were represented when New Thought sent delegates for the first time. In 2005, the New Thought delegation proposed a program for one of the smaller, breakout sessions in Barcelona, Spain, not taken seriously by the other world religions, we were told there were just too many other proposals. In Dec. 2009, the Parliament met in Melbourne, Australia. This time, New Thought and Curlural Creatives took the world stage presenting twice. One of its representatives was Dr. Frank zumMallen as one of the 8 speakers representing New Thought and Cultural Creative spirituality.