When was the last time you heard a news report about an organization whose sole purpose was to spread love and unity on a global scale?

Lets call the organization, for lack of an established term, an amorist organization the opposite of a terrorist organization. Do any of these exist?

If you heard about an amorist organization on the news tonight, would your interest rise? Is it possible that a glimmer of hope would spring up inside you, knowing that people around the world are creating positive change in this spirit? Would you smile after learning that these amorist cells have been meeting and organizing in living rooms and spiritual centers for the past several years, quietly and without fanfare? Would you consider joining them?

Let's imagine one for a moment. Let's pretend that we're watching a news report about an organization that is positively transforming peoples lives worldwide. But what would such an organization look like? How would they spread the message?

Maybe the organization would call itself "a civil rights movement for the soul." Maybe the purpose would be to communicate and implement the belief that we are all one, one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being, so that the behavior of humanity could shift to reflect this understanding. Maybe people from all walks of life would come together in countries all over the world. That's nice to imagine isn't it? a movement toward unity that spans from Asia and Australia to India and China, and from Africa and the Middle East to Europe and the Americas people of all walks of life coming together under this banner. That might make John Lennon smile.

But in the face of the dauntingly complex dynamics of the world today, how can ordinary people imagine that they have the power to make a difference? What can any of us possibly propose as a way of resolving the host of economic, political, military and social problems?

Here's one answer that has incredible power: Shift what you believe and the world shifts with you.

It was once said this way: I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, Go, throw yourself into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours everything is possible for him who believes.

It has also been said this way: All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain? We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

And this way: Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Or this: You will not enter paradise until you have faith.

While religions have formed around the people who said these things, wouldn't it be nice to have an organization that is not tied to any religion, that is not about creating a new one? Perhaps a much more effective goal would be to create a space for a New Spirituality to emerge, a spirituality that would enhance and enlarge the worlds religions; update them, refresh them, rendering all of their current sacred teachings even more relevant to our present day and time; a spirituality that would recognize all we share while celebrating our differences.

This shift embraces a very intriguing idea, that the root cause of global conflict and suffering is the same as the root cause of individual conflict and suffering: It comes from our cultural values and most sacred beliefs in other words, our spirituality: what we believe about ourselves, about life and about our relationship to the divine. From this viewpoint, political, economic and military problems are merely by-products of a spiritual problem.

Therefore, if we believe that we are inherently bad, born that way, we will experience ourselves in that way in all aspects of our lives. If we believe that we are not connected to each other and separate from our Creator, we will experience ourselves in that way. If we see our Creator as a punisher, as a being that gets angry and greets misbehavior with endless physical and mental torture, we will live in fear of divine retribution.

An amorist organization might ask people to open their minds to the possibility that our current theologies may be limited in what they understand.

It wouldn't ask anyone to condemn or abandon their religions, nor suggest that religions dont have the best of intentions. Rather, it would ask people to examine their belief systems, to courageously explore new understandings about God and life, and if those new understandings align with their personal inner truth and knowing, enlarge their belief systems to include them.

It is possible. It is possible that tomorrow night, your local newscaster could report this: "Growing numbers of people are indeed expanding their belief systems to include larger possibilities and larger realities than they might have been willing to consider before. And they are doing this because they recognize that when we change what we believe, we will change how we behave."

If you would like to see this imaginary news report come to reality, if you can imagine joining the vanguard of a worldwide spiritual movement that will put amorism instead of terrorism on the front pages of newspapers, then consider making this shift.