The Global Energy Parliament held its sixth annual session of Parliament on June 12-13, 2015 at the Fundacion Giner de los Rios in Madrid, Spain. The topic of the 2015 session was ‘The Art and Science of Governance’.
Distinguished international experts from many fields of society and sectors including Education, Science & Technology, Health, Environment, Law, Sustainable Development, Culture and others participated.
The session was inaugurated by His Excellency the Ambassador of India to Spain, Mr. Vikram Misri.
Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose, Speaker of the Parliament, opened the parliamentary session. His Holiness Swami Isa, Founder of the GEP, addressed the House about the philosophical approach that the GEP should take on governance in the context of energy and science.
The main points of the Founder’s Address were:
Dr. Folker Meissner, Chairman of GEP Germany and Chairman the German Academy of Energy and Information Medicine in the capacity of the Deputy Speaker gave the Motion of Thanks.
The Good Governance Bill introduced by GEP India, supported by proposals by Lady Carla Davis, Dr. Christophe Dumas, José María Márquez Jurado, Vibhu Garg, and other Members, focused on training decision-makers with the right awareness about the complex system of energy in which they and their populations are a part, in order to make informed decisions resulting in the wellbeing of all and not some.
The Open Government Initiative Bill introduced by political scientist Dr Fernando Vallespin Ona which was supported by submissions from Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Julien Gueguen-Carroll and Dr. Dirk Seeling focused on the issues of how to guarantee a closer connection between the government (or leadership) and the citizenry (or followers) in order to develop transparency, accountability, participation, accessibility, and public integrity.
Other important Submissions covered governance connected with Environment, Law, Health, Culture, Gender, International Security, and Sustainable Development.
Environment
Lady Carla Davis, GEP Minister for Environment (Author, Nutritionist): Government leaders need to clean up our environment, promote good nutrition, glorify peace and harmony, respect different cultures, and inspire others to be their best. After all, everyone inhabits the same Mother Earth environment.
Culture
Dr. Guillermo Rodriguez Martin, Director of Casa de la India- Arts and culture to be an integral part of governance and democracy indeed part of our brain. To promote and encourage arts and culture as an integral part of society is to place it within the heart of education in a broad sense (also as part of innovation and science). Culture has both tangible and intangible value – it is both matter and an aesthetic way of thinking with makes up our ethos and universal living tradition.
Yoga
José María Márquez Jurado (Gopala), Director of the Shivananda Yoga Centre, Madrid - gave his life experience on Sivananda yoga and his wok in the judiciary and his enthusiasm for the I particle to do good and bring about the change.
Science and Technology
Dr. Christophe Dumas, GEP Minister for Science & Technology from France - urged for meditation to be taught to all leaders, and for development of new technologies that can create mental clarity by changing black matter domination to white matter domination.
Medicine
Dr. Folker Meissner and Dr. Uwe Reuter, Medical Director of Im Leben Clinic in Germany both presented proposals to make happiness as the index of treatment and promoting a global system of alternative medicine and the culture of the art of healing based on the science of human energy.
Public Health
Vibhu Garg, former technical officer at the WHO, discussed the work of the United Nations and the role of the GEP in educating leadership to implement and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The implementation of sustainable development goals to ensure the basics for all will depend on a global partnership for sustainable development with the active engagement of governments, as well as civil society, the private sector, and the United Nations system. A robust mechanism of implementation review will be essential for the success of the SDGs. The General Assembly, The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) system and the High Level Political Forum will play a key role in this regard, and the GEP should work with them.
Law
Julien Gueguen Carroll, Advocate & Founder, G-C Avocats, France proposed that governance should start with the self through the I-Theory and total education.
Suresh Unnikrishnan, Advocate & Founder, Krish Morgan Law, UK, promotes legal transparency for society and avoid culture as a weapon for governance used by extremist ideologies.
Business
Dr. Dirk Seeling, Founder, Personal-Point, Germany said that companies should have decision making and enabling systems to more efficiently integrate opinions of employees.
The session concluded with the passing of Resolutions (see below) and a Cultural Programme by the Sohini Moksha Dance Troupe of Madrid.
Members passed the Good Governance Act, the Open Government Initiative Act, and 24 resolutions.