Keep on Signing the International Spiritual Manifesto. It will Change our Future

By WaterSongline 2013

Hip Hip Hooray. We have all together made possible a first success to do with our international waterways after the UN Wings of Water Conference: The final version of the “Wake Up Call for Water Cooperation” that was drafted at the major UN international “Wings for Water” Multistakeholder Dialogue on Water conference. The paper calls for a “fundamental change in mindset” on how our waters are treated. Thanks to the spiritual input of the religious/spiritual leaders and the international support that has been solicited, this passage has been significantly improved. So big thanks to all who supported through sharing and signing the inter-religious input document for how our waters should be treated.

So what next? Well let’s first break down what this all really means. In March Spiritual Leaders, Heads of the UN, Heads of States, and concerned citizens all gathered at the UN Wings of Water Conference at the Hague Peace Palace. Why? To be part of the international dialogue on water that is taking place on the international stage. These talks are part of the UN’s next set of Development Goals after 2015 called the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Our Water is one of the major goals on the international agenda. Coming to an international consensus on how our waters etc. should be treated is quite a long drawn out process which involves lots of international talks. However, it is one where you do have a say.

So after the UN Wings of Water Conference organized, with great effort by the Jacob Soetendorp Institute, the major achievement was that the outcome paper: The Wake UP Call took into consideration the input of spiritual leaders, and concerned individual’s who called for us to change our global mindset on water. They went one step further and called for our Mother Waters as sacred gifts to humanity and not as a commodity.

So even though the UN Wake-Up Call Consultation paper (which Omileye, one of our co-founders, was on the International Review Team for) is a huge achievement because it takes into consideration this call for a fundamental change in mind. It is still only the first step, what is most important is that this shift in mindset and paradigm on water will be included into the new international target on water that is currently being formulated in a broad international dialogue led by the United Nations.

This is where we come in – Water Lovers of the World. Please continue to sign the International Inter-religious spiritual manifesto (which WaterSongline co-founders and the International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers helped to have an input into) on water and spread it in your networks so that this new international “sustainable development goal on water” will be based on the insight that water is a sacred gift and not a commercial commodity. One suggested activity is that you share this statement with the religious and spiritual communities you are in touch with and engage them in a dialogue on the sanctity of water, and then ask them to also focus on a water issue that is relevant in your community, such as water privatization, the environmental dangers of fracking, the Tar Sands in Canada, the Keystone XL Pipeline or large water development projects such as the planned Belo Monte Mega-Dam in the Amazon that has a devastating impact on local indigenous communities. May this statement be an empowerment to everyone who is working on a paradigm shift on water!

Sign and Share International Manifesto. Read Water Debates that are Helping to Shape our Water Future

Sign the International Spiritual Manifesto

Share the International Spiritual Manifesto With Friends etc

More information visit Jacob Soetendorp Institute

Visit Broker Consultation Water Debate which formed part of the UN Debate on Water. Click Here

Visit Omileye Achikeobi-Lewis Un Water Debate Contribution: Ubuntu-Water Shows the Way

Visit Grandmother Pauline Tagiore Un Water Debate Contribution: Water from an Indigenous Perspective

 Visit Micheal Slaby’s and Rabbi Soetendorp’s UN Water Debate Contribution: Aiming High

Initial Endorsers of the International Inter-religious Spiritual Manifesto: A Fundamental Shift in Mindset – Water, from a Commercial Commodity to a Sacred Gift

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, President and Founder, Jacob Soetendorp Institute for Human Values

Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, Chief Imam of India, President, All India Imam Organization

Dinesh Suna, Coordinator, Ecumenical Water Network, World Council of Churches

Dr. Onno Ruding, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

Dr. Husna Ahmad OBE, Group CEO, Faith Regen Foundation

Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Founder, Ganga Action Parivar

Sadhvi Adityananda Saraswati, Coordinator, Ganga Action Parivar

Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati, Founder/President, Divine Shakti Foundation

Patrick Nickisch, United Religions Initiative Representative to the United Nations, Geneva

Pauline Tangiora, Maori Elder

Yeye Omileye Achikeobi-Lewis & Chief Derrick Lewis, Humanity4Water and Co-Founders, WaterSongLine

Mona Ann Polacca, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Support Spiritual Leaders around the World in their Call to Treat Our Waters as Sacred

The UN will soon make decisions about how our waterways are treated. The Spiritual Leaders and representatives of organizations from around the world who were present at the UN Wings of Water Conference organized by the Soetendorp Institute are now asking us to sign a petition adding our support for the spiritual intervention statement to the Wake-up Call Consultation paper: A Fundamental Shift in Mindset – Water, from a Commercial Commodity to a Sacred Gift. This may be one of our last chances for a long time to really have a say as to what should happen to our global waters. In the spiritual intervention document leading spiritual and cultural leaders from all over the world are calling for our Mother Waters to be treated as sacred and not as a renewable commodity. For us all to treat water with respect. These sentiments and others in the spiritual intervention document they would like incorporated into the UN Wake Up Call Document for water.

Click Here to join world spiritual leaders to save our waters and humanity. To Support the Spiritual Intervention Click Here. &  Click Here to Download Document and Share Document. You can also contact omileye@yeyeosun.com for more information or Click here to contact the Jacob Soetendorp Institute

More Information

• On March 20 – March 23 the Rabbi Soetendorp and Michael Slaby of the Soetendorp Institute helped to organize the UN Wings of Water conference.

• On March 20 – Rabbi Soetendorp and Michael Slaby organized the Living Water Event, which was part of the Wings of Water Conference. It brought together religious leaders, political leaders, youth and other civil society organizations to discuss on issues around the theme – “Living water: towards a water secure world”.

• On 21 March, there was a “multi-stakeholders’ dialogue on water in the post 2015 development agenda”. The outcome document of this dialogue was named the “wake-up call”, envisaging a world in the year 2050, fully water secured and having universal access to water and sanitation in a sustainable world. A spiritual intervention was made by religious leaders and representatives of faith based organizations (including the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Yeye Omileye Achikeobi-lewis and Chief Derrick Lewis – founders of YeyeOsun Institute– Home of Humanity4Water, and two of Visioners of WaterSongline) who helped to form and support a spiritual intervention statement document: A Fundamental Shift in Mindset – Water, from a Commercial Commodity to a Sacred Gift to be included in the “wake-up call” document emerging out of the multi stakeholders’ dialogue on water cooperation.

• On 22 March, the international World Water Day celebration. It was at this meeting The Wake-up Call document from the multi stakeholders’ meeting was handed over to the high level panel of UN Heads, and Heads of States who are meeting in Bali this week (25-27 March 2013). The high level panel in Bali will focus on “Partnership and cooperation for development, with a focus on strategies for implementation and opportunities to shape a global consensus on the new development agenda (post 2015)”. The issues related to water will also be discussed in this meeting and the outcome document will take into account the “wake-up call” emerged from the multi-stakeholders’ meeting in The Hague. Which then will be submitted to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. In September 2013 the UN will meet in New York to review the Millennium Development Goals and create the details of the post 2015 development agenda, they will take into account the outcome document from their Bali meeting on water and sanitation handed over to the UN secretary general.

• Grandmother Floredemayo, Grandmother Pauline Tagiore and Yeye Omileye were all part of also contributing to the UN Debate on Water through their articles. Pauline Tagiore’s article was entitled: Click Here to Read: Water from an Indigenous Perspective and Omileye’s was called: Click Here to read: Ubuntu – Water Shows the Way. Omileye was also on the Reference Group for the UN Wake-Up Call Consultation Draft paper.

Endorsers and creators of spiritual intervention statement document: A Fundamental Shift in Mindset – Water, from a Commercial Commodity to a Sacred Gift include

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, President and Founder, Jacob Soetendorp Institute for Human Values

Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, Chief Imam of India, President, All India Imam Organization

Dinesh Suna, Coordinator, Ecumenical Water Network,World Council of Churches

Dr. Onno Ruding, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

Dr. Husna Ahmad OBE, Group CEO, Faith Regen Foundation

Pujya Swami Chitanand Saraswati, Founder, Ganga Action Parivar

Sadhvi Adityananda Saraswati, Coordinator, Ganga Action Parivar

Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati, Founder/President, Divine Shakti Foundation

Patrick Nickisch, United Religions Initiative Representative to the United Nations, Geneva

Pauline Tangiora, Maori Elder

Yeye Omileye Achikeobi-Lewis & Chief Derrick Lewis,Humanity4Water and Co-Founders WaterSongLine

Mona Ann Polacca, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmother

Picture credits and Copyright:  White Lion Protection Trust.

This is a case of the last being first. The White Lion  Prophecy interview WaterSongline did with Linda Tucker author of “Mystery of the White Lions” and Founder of the White Lion Protection Trust in South Africa was actually the  last interview of our December 2012 prophecy round table discussions. However, it is the one that we have not posted  until now – the actual total beginning of the New Dawn which begin completely at the Spring Equinox. The White Lion Prophecy interview is about the First Times and why the White Lions represent the  protectors of the waters-wisdom and compassion of these times.

Watch this space. We will soon be posting right here, the Live Streamed WaterSongline, December 20th 2012 Round Table Discussion with author Linda Tucker on the the prophecies of the White Lions of South Africa