Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day in Visionary Society

Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day

Let's create a new and better Valentine's Day. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!

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Geoffrey Adam

Anchorage, Alaska

I never completely accepted the ideal of romantic love. Isn't there something even better? I always wondered, is it possible to have love in the world? To wake up and greet even strangers with "Good morning, Dear beloved"?

This Project created by Geoffrey Adam on September 18, 2024

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Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day champion a limited form of love (based on a unique person). Alternative Valentine’s Day explores the meaning of relationship, raises the possibility of true friendship and culminates in the Visionary friendship pledge.

Let’s find the core of the existing holidays: nurturing each other, helping each other, learning about each other. Don’t stop short by thinking only about those with whom you are closest to.

New Valentine’s Day presents the Visionary Friendship pledge, which is relationship without idolatry. Give your heart to humanity!
Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
Be faithful to all relationships. Never give up on anyone.
Support anyone who is sensitive to life.
Learn to see all children as your own.
Spending more than fifty percent of your time or energy on a personal relationship is a crime against humanity.
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Explore: Review a few Insights on Relationship.
Take a look at the Visionary Friendship Pledge.
What is Visionary Relationship? (essay, 10 minutes)

Meeting

Prepare for an alternative to Valentine's Day and Mother's and Father’s Day.
Take the Visionary Society Journey:
– Explore
– Reflect (Guided meditation on your own role and biases)
– Challenge (Review the Visionary Friendship Pledge)
– Action (

Action

Gather in a public space to share the story of Visionary Relationship and what we can do about it:
● Introduce Visionary Projects. Help someone in need with a vision for a more beautiful world.
● Introduce the Pledge for Visionary Friendship.
● Friendshape your friendships. Faithfulness to every relationship, but especially to sensitive souls. Have you had a broken relationship due to jealousy, betrayal, divorce?

Meetings on Related Topics

– Evening Celebration of the Good, to read aloud beautiful works about relationship in an informal setting.
– Explore Visionary Relationship with others.
– Meetings on Love, Compassion and Forgiveness.

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Want to Guide this event? A stipend for volunteers is available. Application.

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Quests are a way to grasp any topic, from Mystery to Perspectives to Reflect to Action

Visionary Holidays: A great insight matters little until we bring it into the world

A Visionary Society Holiday is a primary quest, presenting the most important and challenging insights into life itself, and an alternative to tedious national celebrations.

Action is the final and necessary step in Quest. What kind of action? It doesn’t matter much, as long as it is offered publicly and in a way that breaks through pleasantries, addresses the root issue, and creates a climate of affection and reflection. How can we expect change if people are not shown that it is possible? This is our only real task. After that, they will participate as much or as little as they like.

Unsure of what kind of action to take? The main thing is to bring to topic to the public. To reach the public with the Visionary Society Journey (Mystery, Explore, Reflect, Challenge and Action).

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