{"id":9586,"date":"2026-03-19T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:16:58","slug":"citizenship-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/archives\/9586","title":{"rendered":"CITIZENSHIP TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>I hope you might\u00a0value this &#8216;open global table&#8217; reflection\u00a0on CITIZENSHIP<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nCITIZENSHIP, THE SPECTRUM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>OF BELONGING AND RESPONSIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ranging from the Internet to the widest planetary commitments,<br \/>\nrecognising both self and to whom we feel accountable.<br \/>\nPersonal local citizenship is our neighbourhood belonging,<br \/>\nthence municipal participation and cultural identity.<br \/>\nThis, the citizenship of being known and being needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0Thence national citizenship with rights, protections,<br \/>\nduties and shared narratives;<br \/>\nproviding structured security as a basic layer of belonging.<br \/>\nOpening us to regional and transnational citizenship,<br \/>\nto Commonwealth and professional or thematic networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So to the maturity and reality of Interdependent<br \/>\neconomies, ecosystems and ideas beyond borders.<br \/>\nThence, maturity in Citizenship as planetary responsibility,<br \/>\nwhere human rights, shared stewardship<br \/>\nand integral solidarity contain our rich differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is no legal category, but a moral, spiritual and scientific one,<br \/>\nmanifesting common good, planetary and ecological citizenship,<br \/>\nas the cosmic horizon, even beyond Big Bang,<br \/>\nincludes humanity\u2019s incarnation as one Earth community,<br \/>\nas matter manifests spirit in a stronger light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Accumulating technology in Artificial Intelligence,<br \/>\nfrees us to understand our inter-being with all life,<br \/>\nconfirming our ecological ethic in spiritual kinship.<br \/>\nCitizenship becomes a nested set of circles,<br \/>\nhonouring the local in the embrace of the planetary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The \u2018Ground of All Being\u2019 now defines eternity as<br \/>\ncontemporary matter exists in endless energy.<br \/>\nJesus our inspiring model of the human form<br \/>\nhumbly, non-violently, brings universal life down to the scale<br \/>\nto be lived in our maturity by each one of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">GARFOSS \u00a010-03-26 after an \u2018open global table\u2019 seminar with Kim Bergamasco,<br \/>\nIndependent Education Consultant, Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom. Shottermill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you might\u00a0value this &#8216;open global table&#8217; reflection\u00a0on CITIZENSHIP CITIZENSHIP, THE SPECTRUM OF BELONGING AND RESPONSIBILITY Ranging from the Internet to the widest planetary commitments, recognising both self and to whom we feel accountable. Personal local citizenship is our &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/archives\/9586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agenda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9589,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccmj.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}