Welcome to the Planetary Citizens

Every choice we make reverberates across the planet. Planetary Citizens began with that simple truth: when cultures, ideas, and skills mingle, new pathways to resilience appear. We champion people and planet over profit, collaborating inside today’s systems while nurturing the seeds of better ones—until harmony feels like it “just happened” because enough of us moved in concert. My journey to compile and share this started in 1975, around the same time Donald Keys was promoting the original Planetary Citizens organization. 

The book Planetary Citizens: Awakening the Heart of Humanity captures this momentum and is already sparking its own ripples with stellar reviews on Amazon. Add yours—whether by funding a project, sharing our story, or lending expertise. Together, purpose-driven people can turn conversation into the thriving world we know is possible. When I speak of ‘purpose-driven’ it is of coherence with our designed purpose prior to being here now. It is said many are called, few choose. I chose and endured the longsuffering to introduce the potential of a true new world order, a ‘new normal’ that works for people and planet.

With love, respect and unyielding commitment,

Zen Benefiel, MA, MBA, Co-Founder

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The Planetary Citizens’ story began in the 1970s, founded by Donald Keys and was a pioneering organization committed to promoting global consciousness, peace, and sustainability. Alongside Keys, other notable members such as Norman Cousins, Aurelio Peccei, and Gordon Feller played significant roles in shaping the group’s direction.

Through educational initiatives, advocacy, and collaboration with other organizations, the group sought to inspire a sense of global citizenship and encourage active participation in creating a more harmonious and sustainable world. We carry on the work begun a half-century ago, with greater probability of achievement today.

The concept of being a Planetary Citizen involves understanding humanity’s emotional, environmental, and epistemological predicament by taking action to address it, individually and collectively. We live half inside and half outside, misunderstanding the internal because we are bereft of experiencing it fully in order to address the external world impacted by our unconscious and/or maligned behavior. Solutions are emerging! Planetary Citizens story deserves to be heard. Explore the recursive function within. Our founder’s first passion fulfills that role.

Planetary Citizens is seeking team members for this project and invites donations to support the network of conscious co-creators. This is a self-initiating activity that unites personal and professional skillsets, passion and purpose. Many have felt the progression of a much anticipated evolutionary leap for humanity. Most recently, there’s even a movement for happiness. We put this list of communities together over the last couple of decades, some flourishing, some may be inactive.

Planetary Citizens envisions a vibrant tapestry of movements, each with unique solutions and perspectives. The global community is committed to fostering harmony and sustainability in every aspect of life. The website encourages visitors to explore, engage, and collaborate with individuals and organizations working towards a better world. The founder’s recent book, ” Planetary Citizens: Awakening the Heart of Humanity,” serves as a primer for collaborative growth and harmony among people and planet. We envision a burgeoning community that gathers to serve humanity in ways never imagined possible until recently. We explore the nature of the recursive function built into our natural design just being discovered by science today.

In recent years, new groups have emerged online, providing education, inspiration, and organizational structure. Developments like the Global Regeneration CoLab, Global Ecovillage Network,  Planet Home ,  Global Regeneration Corps, and the Regenerative Development Group and Re-Build.co are examples of collaborative efforts towards regenerative communities working towards sustainable and equitable systems that bring people, places, and things in to greater harmony.

Organizations such as Conscious Enterprise Network (business leaders), Multiverse (AI for leadership) and the Octopus Movement (non-linear thinkers) are addressing diversity, including neuro-diversity, in new ways to support free thinking in psychologically safe and intellectually humble events and environments; Ghandian Global Harmony Association strives to eliminate nuclear weaponry while the Live and Let Live Global Peace Movement seeks to remove aggression from the Law. 

We invite you to consider why you are here now, exploring your path.

Our team, as it assembles, will research and curate a growing list of participating world servers to share as a sustained activity, a network of networks. 

The current global situation demands a shift from old ways to a new world order (see interview below) focused on people and planet over profit. Regenerative design and whole systems thinking are key to creating resilient systems that integrate societal needs with nature’s integrity and natural order.

Planetary Citizens advocates for a crowd-sourced planetary management system that replaces failing systems with holistic and regenerative alternatives with interconnected platforms. We believe there is a natural order of design, including human, that is a driving factor in this profound activity.

We cannot think our way through a system built on vibration, we must sense our way through, restoring natural senses previously diminished by educational and societal ignorance. We invite your participation!

Planetary Citizens envisions an empowered, egalitarian, purely democratic, and caring community at all levels, managing essential infrastructure for regenerative culture, sustainable living, and future technology development. The community aims to present collaborative solutions for dysfunctional systems, empowering the growth toward harmony among people and planet.

This activity examples the notion of the One being in Many (human recursive function) and, as servant leaders, we lead the way as examples of collaboration and navigating holistic growth of our global village, preparing for entrance into our rightful place in universe affairs. Some notions are discussed in a conversation the founder had with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove for New Thinking Allowed in 2018 about a different kind of new world order. It isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a evolutionary leap.

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