“Network of Networks”

Networking for Global Peace

Leadership Network’s description of its organizational purpose, NEXT newsletter, Dec. 1997, p. 3.[3]

Another older Discernment Ministries conference audio has been posted online (see previous post). This is a talk by Sarah H. Leslie from a 2007 conference. This talk was titled “Global PEACE Plan 1 Networking” and it covered a key transition period in the evangelical church world where everything was shifting over to networking structures and emerging new theologies.

As in our previous post, the following exhibits will provide the listener with documentation for the topics discussed in this presentation.

This presentation began with a book
review of Marilyn Ferguson’s landmark book that launched the New Age
Movement, titled The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (J.P. Tarcher, 1980). Quoted sections are read from this book and then commented upon. Note the prominent 666 logo on her book cover. We’ve often written about Marilyn Ferguson and her impact on the church. See, for example HERE, HERE,  HERE, and especially HERE.

In the year 2007 a number of article series were posted on Herescope on the topic of the networking church structures and doctrines. The first was an 8-part series titled “The Networking Church” which talked about how these networking ideas were incorporated into the doctrines of the New Apostolic Reformation:

• Networking For Transformation
• Restoration Through Transformation
• Networking for an Army
• The Return of the Warrior-Prophets
• Militant Apostles
• Apostolic Spheres of Authority
• Post-Apostolic
• The Synergy River

Another related Herescope series was titled “Networking P.E.A.C.E.” Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Thomas S. Kuhn was cited regarding the philosophy of the paradigm shift in his book titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It provided a foundational ideology for the New Age Movement. A cursory overview of Kuhn can be read at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn and Herescope wrote about him HERE.

Several times Dr. Dennis Cuddy and his excellent research into the New Age and mental health was cited. Key quotes came from Dr. Cuddy’s book Education Mental Health & Social Control. This is available at Amazon.com. Dr. Cuddy is a regular columnist for NewsWithViews; see his articles HERE.

The disturbing documentation about Theosophist Willis Harman, and his influence over evangelical leaders in the late 1970s at two consultations on the future sponsored by the Billy Graham Association, is summarized in the following Herescope posts:

• Quantum Eschatology
• Emergent Mind Change

The Discernment Research Group first broke the story about Harman in September 2005 in a series of posts that ran into October 2005. One can look through the posts to read more details about these consultations.

• https://herescope.net/2005_09_01_archive.html 
• https://herescope.net/2005_10_01_archive.html

There was a key overview article “What Is Transformation?” posted on Beris Kjos’s website. See also the chart “New Age Terms in the Church” which is very helpful in understanding the vocabulary that is now part of church doctrine.  There is a helpful list of Discernment Research Group articles on her site: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/discernment/

For information on the collaborative New Age health model, now used by Rick Warren in his “Daniel Plan,” see the following articles:

• Rick Warren and the Aquarian Conspiracy Part 5
• Changing Science, Changing Mind  Part 4
• The “WOO” Factor  Part 3
• Reiki “Power” and Rick Warren’s Health Plan Part 2
• Rick Warren’s New Age Health Gurus Part 1
• The Mental Health Church
• 3-Legged “Health” Care: The Agenda of Rick Warren’s “Daniel Plan”

Ervin Laszlo’s 1974 book A Strategy for the Future (George Braziller, Inc., 1974) was cited, mentioning a few key diagrams. Here are two exhibits from his book illustrating the networking cellular and global governance. 

Exhibit 1, page 126, Laszlo’s local neighborhood cells in a “world system”

Exhibit 2, p. 150, Laszlo’s plan for global governance structure

Many of the themes and topics on Herescope the past ten years have fleshed in the documentation of this talk in 2007. For example, read “Earth: The Old Story, The New Story” and view the charts HERE.

We have also written about the significance of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was cited frequently by Ferguson for propounding the doctrine of the evolution of human consciousness. Just a few of these articles include:

• Emerging Towards Convergence 
• A Quantum Cosmic Christ
• The Great Confluence
• Evolution, Quantum Physics & New Age/New Spirituality

As more of these talks are published online, we will inform Herescope readers.

Endnotes:
1. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (J.P. Tarcher, 1980), page 217. 
2. David Van Biema, “Rick Warren Goes Global,” TIME Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1809833,00.html, May. 27, 2008. Cited in the Herescope post: https://herescope.net/2009/01/new-global-civility.html. 
3. For yet another example of this same phrase “network of networks,” see the Apprising Ministries 2/23/10 post “THE EMERGING CHURCH AND PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AFTER GOOGLE,” quoting Tony Jones from the Foreword (pages ix and x) to Philip Clayton’s book Transforming Christian Theology. The Emergent Church, like purpose-driven and Acts 29, was also spawned by Leadership Network.

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