i he has given seminars and workshops worldwide for emma say for the institute for individual and world peace and for other organizations dedicated to improving people's lives this program is entitled life liberty and the pursuit of peace right after john morton speaks we'll tell you how you can obtain more information about john morton and m s i i was actually reading earlier today since it is independence day in our nation this nation the declaration of independence and i'm reminded that later in the course of doing that there was a realization that there was a bill of rights t they wanted to make part of that declaration and somehow i've been left out so that was actually the first ten amendments to the constitution had to do with bringing in the bill of rights and one of those rights is the right for peaceful assembly and that that is considered on alien i'm all  right our creator brought to us and so when it's interfered with in some way those are peace words you know say i didn't say fighting words i said peace challenged to do our gatherings and when the mere and that has been a wonderful process toward peace and i really don't know how this will all work out in terms of how the work of the institute will continue and how will relating exactly to when to mirror or anywhere else that we're involved clearly right now it's not about a place in particular but really obviously we make this work available out in the world and by doing this work we find out how it works we find out how it works with individuals we do know that it really begins with each person that we're all in charge of our own peace and and that is a very important beginning and without that beginning without any one of us discovering and realizing the peace that resides within we don't really have much of a chance of realizing it in the world but even though there are lots of challenges to world peace it's really wonderful know that there is a place in the world that has a clear dedication to peace and that's what when tamir represents and that's what our institute represents i wrote down some words from the declaration of independence because i thought this would be maybe a way for us to tune in to this particular gathering the institute for an individual world peace one that happens on july fourth so i'm going to pull out my words that i wrote down and i did this just before coming here today in the very first part of the declaration and i'll remind you of about the history of that such that i know it is that there were a group of individuals and that time a group of men who were already in their own way prominent leaders from all over thirteen of the british colonies that were here in this part of the world you know at that time it was not called the united states it was a colony of the british empire and so they had determined that certain unalien e rights were not being respected and that the government that was governing these colonies was not respecting the rights of people and that there was in their determination a tyranny so there was some words about that as an opening and then there was a declaration as follows we hold these truths self evident that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness one of the things that we've determined about the processes that lead to peace is that if if we can make those processes involve what is happiness and what makes us happy that that is a process that leads to peace so certainly the pursuit of happiness is a process that leads to peace and liberty is the freedom i have to tell you that independence in some way has to do with freedom and liberty is a process of freedom in this day is about freedom and life i would just say that's who we are now we are those who are alive at this time and in this place and that we are preparing a place for those who come after  us i would hope every one of those has and conscious responsibility that we accept and engage to prepare this world to be a better place and among what that would involve is greater peace in the world so that we have to as part of that responsibility do something about greater peace in the very last part of the declaration it says as follows and for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence or divine providence we mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor and if you've ever seen a copy of the declaration of independence then you know it's it's dated july fourth and seven hundred seventy six and then there are these are a series of signatures and so when i was looking at the copy of the declaration of independence doing that online today in underneath it they had a listing of all this the signers from the various thirteen colonies and i got down to pennsylvania and right after ben franklin is john now i knew this already you know that i and it was very interesting seeing an actual copy of the declaration of independence like a life size replica of it and looking at it closely and looking at the names and seeing which ones i recognize and then seeing right after ben franklin right below it john morton and you know i have obviously wondered about that and what kind of coincidences that would right now i'm considering it's a very on purpose coincidence that in my life i just find that i have an interest in a willingness to pledge to you and to myself my life my fortune and my sacred honor and to bring that to bear as a dedication and commitment now i'm reminded and i hope you realize that at that time to do something like this was to signing a death sentence because to put it before the king and they said some pretty kind unflattering things about the king of england last week i was flipping channels and i came across a program that was about torture and punishment of all kinds throughout history and it was even graphic graphic in detail and graphic and how they portrayed it so that there were visual aspects to it and very detailed description and i you know i was the first thought to get off this you don't want to watch this and then you know of course part of it was fascinating is that you know like they did what and how did they do this and and then something started happening to me as i watched it and it and it really was transcendental in what i began experiencing because there was something that was very holy and about whatever it is that was at the effect of this these extreme forms of punishment and torture and i realized that you know something very extreme was being represented by this extreme negativity extreme and violence extreme and hatred and yet what also showed up as i considered what this was about was something very sacred and beautiful and in the reasons for the punishment and torture where they ran ran the gamut people who were guilty of crimes of various sorts and then one of the crimes that was talked about as actually calling for the greatest form the most severe form of punishment and torture in britain at the time when there was high treason against the king and then the most severe kind of punishment was drawing and quartering so you know i've i looked at today you know what people were basically pledging and so when they said they pledged their life i think they really considered that they were and certainly their fortunes that hey if you do this against the king then the king way is your life is now over and all that you own in the likelihood is even your family you've now done this to your family as well they had that kind of means to bring this about and the question i'm bringing up here is what is our pledge to peace certainly as an institute but also what is an institute if it isn't the people that are involved at the level of how it was founded and created and at the level of how it functions and how it expresses itself in the world what is our pledge to peace and would we consider pledging to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor for the purpose of peace to have greater peace or do we consider it's not really worth it and doesn't hold the value well when i look into the world that is revealing itself day to day i see a lot of problems and some of those problems become and appear to me more severe that we're in a world where peace has been called for more clearly more powerfully than ever before and what is my evidence will my evidence is that we seemingly are more at the option of doing the greatest destruction than ever before and that when i practically speaking look at what's going on in the world i see that the option to have what we call anti peace well we'll just call it anti peace that which is against peace has never been more powerful in my way of best me simply because the means the materials that are available to to do harm and that which is against our health wealth and happiness in our pursuit of happiness but that has never been more extreme than right now but what i look at too is that there is always a consciousness in our midst that can overcome the greatest darkness and the greatest negativity so that's what i look to is that we have a choice and the choice is to invoke that peace invoke the option that is with us i don't have the way at the moment i don't know what to tell you to do exactly i can tell you that since we do have this institute that was  d by john roger and dedicated to individual world peace that we are about the business of the processes that lead to peace individually and in the world and we have elected ourself to that purpose i don't know to what extent we will be involved i can see a much greater extent is here for us to take a greater position in the world with with what we're doing at the institute and and i figure if someone anyone any entity any organization can find the keys to individual world peace well obviously i would want to support and participate in bringing that about so that those keys and those processes are engaged in the world and i do have a very selfish motive and it really isn't with me but it is with the caring that i have toward my children and our children i find that children really get to me i don't always act like it but they do and i would tell you that that there's a part of me that's always watching the children and making sure that they're taking care of their watched over and they're protected and a part of me that that does feel responsible for any one of the children who is not being cared for that i would step in and i have stepped in so i i know that i have the consciousness that back said they would personally put my body on the line and stop the against this and get in the way of the against  towards not just the children but all of us as the children as older children and i consider that we're all here to do something for our children's children's children  and i know you know that goes on and to take a place with that i'm open to knowing what that is that would fulfill the pledge to each other to give our fortunes if that's what's required to give our lives and to give our sacred honor toward that so i've said it to you publicly and put my word on the line you know that that's what's up in my life and i look at what i'm doing in this world i know that i'm doing the processes that lead to god and that's something that's very personal and i know for many of you you share that dedication that you're doing the processes that lead to god that that's what your life is truly all about let us consider that on the way to god what we are told about what are the processes that lead to go and among those we were told to love one another and that that's how we will know that we're doing what i called for is that we do love one another and where do we draw that line loving one another and who are our neighbors if we're going to love our neighbors who are they today we know we're in touch we're in touch if nothing else because the level of communication exists now is instantaneous truly you know somebody can be anywhere in the world and there was a moment of peace that i did in kandahar afghanistan and just tell you the story in case you haven't heard it so i went there  in january and in january that was a place that wasn't all that inviting to people but i went there for the purpose to help and i had this satellite phone that was actually given to me by one of the local cell phone companies and they were testing it as a prototype and they said well we've never tested this in pakistan or afghanistan so actually if you're going there we'll we'll give it to you to use unlimited see if it works we don't know if it's works and here's what we know about how to work it and so they gave me a satellite phone for seven days while i was in pakistan and  after i ride initially in afghanistan i never got it to work and i kept trying this and try and that and i turned on and recharge it right over and over and i got to and we had a moment where it was so surrealistic because i had just driven on this road full of potholes and burnt out vehicles  tanks and i saw the city of kandahar with all the evidence of the rubble from the bombing etc just come from all of that and they took us to a little house of sorts where the courtyard and i was sitting in this courtyard having one of the most peaceful moments of my life it's very quiet beautiful sunny day and i just had some lunch with a group of the locals and i thought maybe i'll try that satellite phone one more time and i got on the phone right away john roger answered and it was about one o'clock in the morning in los angeles and i think it was about noon or something like that where i was and we did a moment of peace and  repeated the words the john roger was speaking to me and if if you said i was doing it from moon or mars it would have been the same to me and the likelihood and the feeling of doing that  but what it did to me also was the sensation of talking to john roger in his bedroom where he lives and i was in the middle of  place of destruction desolation disturbance i just had this moment where it all came together and unified in a really powerful way that i realized that these people are our brothers and sisters and they truly call out for our help and i mean that personally that i didn't meet up with anybody who expressed animosity toward me the whole time so you could consider well i was too stupid or ignorant to realize it or that maybe i just plain didn't meet up with it when i did meet up with a lot of warm people a lot of people that were very humble very appreciative that anybody was there to help and help on very simple levels like i'm  hungry i could use a blanket or some clothing so a lot of children without shoes but then i realized hey when i was i when i was a kid i didn't like to wear shoes and by the way the children i saw i did not see a misery i felt some children on the way to conduct our several who were squatting on the roadside with their hands out cup and as we drive by i kept wondering will where we go in there if we're going to go help people when we stopping there somebody that's clearly putting out a message that i'm getting one some help and it was kind of explain to me well we're going to help these people that we're supposed to help and they're kind of always there and they went always and they go oh yeah it's just part of the tradition that people are at the roadside begging and people put their children out and it's just kind of an occupation like what children do to help out around the house while they're in afghanistan an ordinary type of thing all means for the poor and so it just became part of the landscape that we were taking in but i also saw a lot of children playing and enjoying themselves i had a lot of fun with my polaroid camera probably gave out well over one hundred photos individual ones that i was able to take particularly i love doing that with the children and i knew i'm quite certain that in many cases i was giving them the first real image of themselves that they'd seen and sometimes with the families with the parents and the grandparents and the to give them a photo so they could actually see themselves i didn't go to a lot of places where even mirrors were around so i just have to imagine well maybe would look at themselves in the mirror or never had a photograph or a drawing so they don't even know what they look like and imagine so many handing them something that says here's what you look like after all these years so that was a lot of fun and i had a great time now i could have allowed myself to be disturbed by what i saw and what was evident in the land and i was well aware that there was a lot of help needed people vast mean like well with so much disturbance i mean not just from this last year but from all these years of fighting in war and where do you begin and i said you know where i would begin is i'd rebuild that highway that i rode on from pakistan in the it was about a fifty mile ride that took about three hours because it was really difficult terrain very rough and i just realized well if it takes this long to get  anywhere that that would help us just create a supply line so that the help from the world could come in and i do encourage you by the way to support relief efforts because i saw a lot of evidence of relief efforts related to the united nations but not always related to the nice united nations a lot of them were independent a lot of charities and religious groups were over there and many of them were over there already prior to nine eleven and they were continuing to do this work and they were deterred if anything they were encouraged to do it and so sometimes we wonder well gee when i donate to this group or this cause or food or clothing was it really ever get over there and for whatever it's worth i saw the evidence that yes it does get over there it does make a difference  that there are genuinely people who want to do something about those situations and i also experienced that from the person there that it is a message you know this organization called care i remember growing up as a kid you know that send a care package over here over there well that really truly is a message of care so that when we do these things even a small gesture can mean a whole lot you know if somebody has one pair of shoes another pair of shoes cost two dollars and fifty  then our value you know we think oh well what's the difference i mean what difference could two dollars in to do since may well somebody has one parish here shoes is just worn out well that's another pair of shoes so if you think in those terms that i was so impressed by how little i could do so much and what really impact me about that was well if we just did a little more that we could do that you know if we gave fifty dollars what would it take to give one hundred but that hundred dollars could do a lot if it doubled the effort that goes on you say well it's too vast and there's just too much disturbance and trouble in our world to possibly handle it you know you know that's the attitude that never goes anywhere the attitude that makes a difference is well i'll do what i can and that's really part of what i have to say today is let's just do what we can about a world that has greater peace  one of the doctors that i was involved with it was a character that if you read any of the articles that i wrote i wrote and some in some ways they weren't really articles like oh i have this commitment to write some articles while i'm over here they're really i got to write about this i got to tell somebody about this is really amazing what i'm seeing and experiencing so in one of the articles i talked about a doctor i met in karate who by the way the first night in his interest to share something wonderful from his land and his city in pakistan took me into a very popular restaurant with westerners you know that the way that cuisine was served was something that they found westerners liked and appreciated and later as i was reading the news i  found out in the fine detail that that was the same restaurant where daniel pearl the wall street journal journalist was going when he disappeared i thought well that's really interesting that i was there like a night or two i started doing the figure is like well i was even there the night of that maybe a couple nights before and i felt what was that a close call or and i looked back and i said i absolutely had no experience of danger while i was going through there i kind of walked in with it because so many people came to me before i left concern and wow i wish i couldn't think of going  you're going and how can you do that and aren't you worried and afraid and and you know really you know that part of it is look if i'm going to start not trusting what's in my heart now that i'm muslim just give it up with this  heart to do and i'm trusting that my heart knows and you know i don't know what's going to happen that's the honest answer i just know that i'm going to go  when we went you know it was just and chanting evening if anything the thing i was dealing mostly with was jetlag you know that's what i was most aware of is that i don't think i had a case of that that extreme more in my life than it was about thirteen hours dick time difference from los angeles because i was actually closer if i had went the opposite direction but the way the flights work at it were better to go the longer route through london and do it that way by three flights that's not important dr freddie one to get across like he called himself dr freddie because he done his medical education in england and they had a very difficult time and i'll try to get his name as correctly as i can it's an shyla and he just found that it was going to be easier to go by some other name and then when he was over there was when were popular and because he liked freddy in the dreamers they just decided to con freddy and it stuck all these years he was dr freddy for him it was just really important to take us around and let us see so for an entire week and other doctors in other locations we were constantly being escorted and and treated in the way that is the custom of that part of the world where guests are on par with royalty and so actually the guest is  entitled to the very best that's in the home so when i stayed in his home later i was actually given nice his bedroom and he explained to me that he would have given me their bedroom his wife and his bedroom except that really this was a nicer bedroom that they added on to later and so that their guests could stay in the nicest bedroom and that's kind of the way that this man was with me was treating us as their as a guest and a host and part of all that was to look and see and take it in so that i became charged as a witness and they really wanted us to eyewitness to what we saw and to tell the story go tell the story so that's part of the reason that i wanted to write about it immediately is that to let you and others be witness to what's what's there and what's in the world what's there are people like us that's what i know when i and i've been to a lot of places around the world so i've been to all kinds of cultures and met all kinds of people many different languages in many different ways and i i still find that there is a commonality to this human species that we are that we we do have more than anything things in common so that if our children are h we all cry that bothers us and we also laugh when things are humorous and funny and i laughed a lot while i was in pakistan and afghanistan these people had a wonderful sense of humor and dr freddie still sends me jokes and you know i think i told you he was like a cross between gandhi and henny youngman i try to put those two personalities together didn't close because he was a magnificent man doing a great service and he just had this incredible sense of humor that express itself through a bunch of one liners and i mean he could do nonstop he had he had a joke for just like every occasion so that was a real wonderful way to get an education about a place that is in tremendous need of peace in the world in tremendous need of peace so wherever you are celebrate the peace that is present and i'm going to do the best i can possibly do peace and i would certainly love to have your assistance and support so in your own way if you would make a contribution to listen to the words and realize the words have meaning and direction and so let's get past the words and get to what the piece is that it is a reality that is present for our selves for one another and it's always present in this world and that we are about to make a greater lord god we come before you again we come bringing to as we always do our own troubles our own disturbances so we ask that you receive this as you always do with your loving that is complete and all encompassing and we ask that you bring in the spirit of peace the transcends all the disturbances and all the against its that is in this world we call upon your emissaries of peace particularly those who come from the spirit and come close to this world and touch into this world beings and as those who supported us inside who guide our consciousness toward greater good whatever can be done so we let go we release we forgive whatever against us whatever causes of violence we might carry and harbor we this be done in the name of jesus christ who we can know in our heart is the spirit of the lord and that presence of peace that is toward all and is the salvation of this world this too is done we are  partaking we are proclaiming as light bearers as peacemakers that you have gathered us here again and the holy sacred place that is this world where we find yourself we ask that you place this gift of love liftman of peace everlasting in the world but it covers everything that is taking place right now so all are visited by this spirit of peace though we know there are those who have close themself to the love to the divine purpose that is in their heart and in their so we ask through your grace and through your mercy that this disturbance whatever has closed them from the knowing of the divine can be lifted and so they are restored in their true nature and we do ask you to intercede wherever men and women and children are gathered what can be stopped what can be changed so there is greater peace that it is done and we do pledge and bring before you our commitment you use this personally in individually and collectively that we can cooperate for your cause and you use this institute for individual and world peace for the purpose for which it was a stablished and that you call forward those who can align with this purpose so that we are united in greater peace we stand for peace we live in peace and forever we hold peace to be small part of the abundance of material john morton has shared with us over the years if you would like a free book journey of a soul called this number one eight hundred eight nine nine two six six five you can send e mail to service desk at m s i dot au argy or write to that which is post office box five one three nine three five los angeles california zip code nine zero zero five one what we are here to do as they feel that memory can take a collective memory of death and destruction murder mayhem warring and all the and rather than return father mother god we ask now again in your presence to bless this land have prepared a beautiful place for us where we feast and celebrate we gather as those who do love one another as you have we give thanks to have a place to gather in peace give thanks for the shelter that we have we put aside the clamoring and confusion of the world to be those who come in peace we give thanks for a beautiful place such as this and we gather in your beloved spirit joy that all who come here are blessed in this peace and joy and we ask our lord to bring this blessing forward in each one of us where we are tuned to our own inner purpose or where we are placed in your creation so we are all in touch with this moment harmonizing allowing any disturbance or negativ you could exhaust yourself really easily attempting to capture all the concepts in the information and sort it all out and organize it and disseminated inside of your consciousness and then you have an experience of getting very tired doing what we're doing here and that really isn't our purpose our purpose is to come and experience what's here and while we're here we're always taking out opportunity here what's been decaying over hundreds and thousands of years can be brought into an energy of restoration not that it's going to return in two or three original form here can be brought back to life he's calling in his light in his heart and he's busting everyone please bless the temple and find the blessing in the temple