Hollywood Happiness Studios

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:33:46 -0700

From: Sean Mulvihill <seanamulvihill@gmail.com>
To: richard.branson@virgin.net

Hey Richard,

You don’t know me, but of course I know you.  I’m Sean Mulvihill, and I’d like to present a comprehensive plan for world peace, and it starts with you.  You could essentially be the man who sets us on the course.  I want to validate all of the great “visioneering” you have done in the past, and now I think it is time for us to collaborate.  You are one of the most vibrant personalities on earth, and, you’ve done huge things including space exploration, but honestly, I think it is time you set your sights a little higher, if you catch my drift.

If you are still reading, good.

Let’s use that charm of yours to heal the world.  Plan is as follows, and overly simplified here.  There is an attached doc to explain a bit more, but here’s the gist:

4-YEAR WORLD PEACE PLAN

SIMPLE STEPS

1.  Create a series of 600 dynamic global summits for inner / world peace with the 60 Million most educated and influential people on the planet, and elect 600 global peace leaders.

Estimated cost: $3 Billion

Estimated Time:  2 years

2.  600 Global Peace Leaders organize continuing peace education and conflict prevention in their districts, creating distinct learning programs for the various cultures and languages.

Estimated Cost: $10 Billion

Estimated Time: 1 year

3.  Worldwide Media, Entertainment, Education, and Advertising Blitz helping people connect great, lasting pleasure with having inner peace above all else.

Estimated Cost: $10 Billion annually

Estimated Time: 1 year + until it works

That is the basic plan.  See attached doc for more info.

Give me a call on my cell at 310-980-6334 any time day or night and we can talk details and how to start.

Thanks,

Sean A. Mulvihill

3.  THE PEACE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION

A. Core group facilitators

4.  SPECIAL PROJECTS

A. The world moment or “peace day”

B. The “first ten minutes” project

1.  for businesses

2.  for schools

3.  for government entities

4.  for diplomacy

C. The “deep breath”

D. How to transform businesses into peaceful organizations

E. Advanced study

 

5. CONCLUSION

A. What has been tried so far has not worked

B. Individuals make up a whole

C. Solutions exist within the problem

1.  “War is over if you want it”

1.  OVERVIEW

A.  CAUSES OF VIOLENCE ON A BASIC, INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

The causes of violence are variations on a single theme: the belief in us versus them.  This can be manifested in individuals and groups as beliefs such as “nobody likes me” or “its me against the world” or “why did they do this to me” or “I wish I had what they had” or “they will be sorry for what they did to us” or “how can you treat us like this”.  All of these examples explicitly state that there is a separation between a person or group and another person or group.

So the single cause of violence, on a basic, individual level is: the belief that others are separate from you in body, mind, and spirit.

B.  THE ONLY PERMANENT SOLUTION

The only permanent solution to violence is for the physical, mental, and spiritual connection among all people to be palpably recognized and felt at all times, by all people.

2.  IMPLEMENTATION

This permanent solution seems like a tall order: how can we reach every person and train them to be peaceful at all times?  It seems impossible.  Well the good news is:

A.  PEACE IS CONTAGIOUS

Just like its opposite, peace is contagious.  It need only be recognized once for what it is.  Once each individual recognizes peace is a choice he/she can make, the circumstances fall into place for its permanent implementation.

1.  How long does it take?

In each individual, the seeming length of time to peace may vary, but the impetus to set one’s life toward peace can be actually learned in a single moment.

2.  How can we sustain peace?

Peace as a goal cannot be achieved without maintaining its opposite, violence.  Therefore, “world peace” as a goal will only perpetuate violence.  It is simply like playing a game of basketball: in order for a team to achieve victory, they must also achieve defeat for the other team.  Another way of putting this would be to say, success is only defined by failure–success would have no meaning without failure as an opposite.  Therefore, the peace we are discussing here is beyond encapsulation as a goal or concept.  When peace occurs, the world as we know it will cease to have any meaning.

It may be more helpful to look at it like this: we already have permanent world peace available to us and it only takes us to accept it fully for one moment for us to once again know peace.

Now, on a practical level, the method for reducing violence in oneself is explained in detail in The Power of Now or the teachings of Jesus or Buddha, or countless other texts, so how will this program implement the use of these methods successfully on a large scale?

Peace is an inner recognition and must be learned on an individual basis, therefore we will organize to educate individuals by forming:

3.  THE PEACE EDUCATION ORGANIZATION

The organization will administer creative means of reducing internal violence to individuals and groups.  It will be comprised partially of doctors, healers, psychologists, mystics, monks and any other sufficiently ego-less members who volunteer to serve on a rotating basis.  The remaining members will be administrators, business people, and other representative groups on a rotating basis.

A. CORE GROUP OF FACILLITATORS

Imagine a different kind of office building.  You walk into a comfortable and clean, bright and tidy, spacious home with a dozen people seated around a large circular room.  A topic is floating around the room, not being vigorously discussed, but rather quietly meditated upon.  When the decision has been made by all silently, they place their pie pieces into a central pie.  When all the pieces are collected, that’s day’s facilitator says what he / she feels will be the decision for the group.  If any disagree, they remove their pie piece(s).  And the group falls back into silence.  When the removed piece or pieces are returned, the facilitator either speaks a new decision, or offers the decision to one of the prior dissenters.  Decisions are made in this way until all twelve agree.

4.  SPECIAL PROJECTS

All projects will be conducted on a voluntary basis for the involved institutions.

A.  THE WORLD MOMENT OR “PEACE DAY”

This is “critical mass” type of event.  New Year’s Eve at midnight is the closest thing we have to this already.  The point of this event would be change the focus of the New Year’s Ball drop from the hope of future happiness to the recognition of present peace.

B.  THE “FIRST TEN MINUTES” PROJECT

This project is meant to structure every working day of various institutions around peace.  For example: to change the primary goal of a business from “making profits” to “cultivating peace.”  Of course making profit would remain an important goal, just not the primary goal. The first ten minutes of each work or school day would use various means to focus on this goal.

1. Businesses

2.  Schools

3.  Government entities

4.  for diplomacy

C.  THE “DEEP BREATH”

In the same public and private institutions as noted in section 4B (1-4), the “deep breath” would be taught as an emergency maneuver in times of conflict.  Basically the “fire alarm” gets pulled and a ten minute “deep breath” would be called to re-focus the group on the primary goal of life: peace.  Alternatively there could be scheduled deep breaths throughout each day.

D.  HOW TO TRANSFORM BUSINESSES INTO PEACEFUL ORGANIZATIONS

Business has a strong hold on the psyche of the world…even its religious institutions and service organizations.  A special committee will delve into this topic.

E.  ADVANCED STUDY

An accelerated learning program for those who feel a strong call to peace.  Their curriculum will be managed by the managing group of twelve directors.

5.  CONCLUSION

A.  WHAT HAS BEEN TRIED SO FAR HAS NOT WORKED

This is obvious.

B.  INDIVIDUALS MAKE UP A WHOLE

The problem of conflict is all of ours.  Until we disidentify from our separate identities and take on our whole, complete one, conflict remains.  However, the truth is, conflict can disappear forever in a single moment.  Our singular goal in life is slowly evolving into the desire to bring about that moment.

C.  THE SOLUTION EXISTS WITHIN THE PROBLEM

When you go a few nights without a full night’s sleep, you soon recognize how much you appreciate and love a full night’s sleep.  Wherever you are, you can’t wait to go home and get to bed.  When you finally get yourself to bed at a decent hour, and wake up refreshed the next morning, you think, “My goodness I love sleep”.  You have a new appreciation and feeling of respect for what you went without.  And the next time you are given the choice to sleep or not…you remember that.  The same goes for peace.  We have been without it for so long that we’re beginning to want it more and more.  So once we taste it again, we not as quick to go without it…

1.  As John Lennon sang, “War is over…if you want it.”

SEAN A. MULVIHILL    SEANAMULVIHILL@GMAIL.COM      310.980.6334