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PROUT offers a system of practical design principles intended to bring balanced progress and vitality to human society. Its method for undertaking a solution-oriented approach has three facets: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642025583096-FIXRL4DMHBOVEZIPLXLT/lrr3VzcQ.jpeg About - Our Scope of Activity The Institute takes a balanced and holistic approach to its engagement in social transformation, with a program of activities in the following areas: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642025785126-MLQOWBWOGP5TQ2CZMNGN/prsarkar.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg About https://www.proutinstitute.org/team daily 0.75 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/d8cac361-3bb0-420b-8b5c-018f2f13be1e/Jason+Schreiner+Profile.jpg Team - Jason Schreiner President Jason Schreiner is CEO and Executive Fellow of Green Island USA, which provides contextual research, strategic analysis, and visionary insight for integrated development projects, circular infrastructure systems, and green transition initiatives. He regularly presents on P.R. Sarkar’s theories of neohumanism, PROUT, and aesthetic science, and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Philosophy of Neohumanism: Life, Love, and Liberation for All Beings, and developing a reading guide for Sarkar’s The Liberation of Intellect: Neohumanism. Jason formerly served for many years as Associate Director of the Teaching Engagement Program at the University of Oregon and has taught numerous courses for the UO Environmental Studies Program. He also brings years of experience supporting sustainable agriculture and land use to his work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642624057044-S9MSSACOSUV9CLNWTM0E/Clare.jpg Team - Clare Strawn Strategic Development & Learning Clare Strawn puts her PhD in Urban Studies and Master’s in Education to work using collaborative action research to empower communities to learn from their practices. She has decades of community development and activism from early feminism to community control of housing, solidarity with liberation movements, women’s literacy in South Africa, and educational equity regionally and internationally. “I am a bridge builder; creativity and innovation live at the edges, where different worlds meet. Spanning resources, building capacity through partnerships, and healing social divides through connection bridge the road of my diverse life and academic experiences.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642443588059-2ST6YJZZOKDF7PIUBZAL/Ravi+%281%29.jpg Team - Ronald Logan Executive Director Ronald Logan is the Executive Director of the PROUT Institute, where he is engaged in the Institute’s training programs and in implementing its local development projects. He is the principal author of PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development and is a frequent contributor to the PROUT Journal. In 1993, he co-authored the Plan for the Economic Development of Khabarovsk Krai on the Basis of PROUT, a project undertaken at the invitation of the Vice-Governor of Khabarovsk Krai in Far East Russia. He has helped draft several policy papers for the Global PROUT Policy Parliament and developed the Institute’s Community Transformations Training program. His new book, “A New Interpretation of Revolution”, is scheduled for publication in 2018. Currently he is teaching an online 6 session course called “PROUT: A New Social Philosophy for a new Era“. He is also the founder and program director of the spiritual center Dharmalaya, which has as its mission “to promote dharma holistically in personal, social and ecological spheres of life.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642027303205-Y8MFLFV800O8O5IUOWXZ/madhu.png Team - Michele Renée Program Coordinator & Community Outreach Director Michele Renée uses skill and expertise gained from over two decades of high school social studies teaching and 15 years of running programs at Dharmalaya to inform her work at the PROUT Institute. Together with Ronald Logan, Michele developed the Community Transformations Program. She is responsible for communications, social networking, and program coordination. Her inspiration comes from mentoring and learning from the young people that participate in Institute programs, and connecting the points of light while weaving the web of a new society. Her background includes a B.A. in geography and anthropology, as well as archaeology, and aerial photography work in the Caribbean and North Africa. She manages the Dharmalaya Center. https://www.proutinstitute.org/prout daily 0.75 2023-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/6288fcdc-2c91-4177-ba39-6e26e1170706/thumbnail_PROUT+FLOWER.png PROUT - What is PROUT? PROUT, or Progressive Utilization Theory, is a guiding vision for transformative social change and a powerful paradigm for sustainable socio-economic development. PROUT has the fundamental purpose of creating opportunities for people to develop and express their physical, mental and spiritual potentials, while maintaining dynamic balance among individual quality of life, collective well-being, and ecological integrity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642028081664-UKHC2JS63M3QXFJO0NXZ/PROUT+Website+Images.jpg PROUT - Neohumanist Values Neohumanism is a new form of humanism that expands humanism to be inclusive of all living beings. Neohumanism promotes reverence for all life and sees all beings as manifestations of one, integral whole, giving depth and breadth to the relationship of human beings to each other and to the world in which they live. Neohumanism is fundamentally spiritual in nature – not because it subscribes to any religious view, but because it acknowledges the inherent unity in all life and the spiritual essence at the core of all beings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642028372796-G1WMDJ9WSHZHAOYZR11Z/PROUT+Website+Images+%282%29.jpg PROUT - Selectoral-Electoral Politics Democracy, to be viable, can only occur where there is local economic control; so PROUT calls for economic democracy. PROUT emphasizes that democracy requires an electorate that is well-educated, possess socioeconomic-political consciousness, and has high ethical standards. Political leaders should be selected on the basis of their competency, universal outlook, and moral strength. In addition to executive, legislative and judicial branches, there should be a strong audit branch that insures governmental integrity. A world federation must be established which prevents military conflicts, secures the rights of minorities, protects the environment, and insures equitable distribution of resources, among other things. The foundational principles of a world constitutional framework should be: the right of all species to exist; the guarantee to all of purchasing capacity to acquire their basic necessities; and the guaranteed right to education, use of indigenous language, expression of local culture, and spiritual practice, except where these rights conflict with cardinal human values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642036167575-TER1APFTJ9RQO3RR9P8Q/PROUT+Website+Images+%286%29.jpg PROUT - Social Change PROUT provides a methodology for materializing theory into practical social reality. As the current political and economic order becomes increasingly unstable and unsustainable, interest will naturally arise in alternatives. It will become necessary to project a viable new social vision and inspire people with a new ideal. It will also be important to build practical models that demonstrate new values and new principles. Also important will be having new leaders in all areas of life that promote the universal welfare. According to local circumstances, social movements must arise to express people’s aspirations for progressive change. Social struggle should be undertaken in a manner that minimizes harm to life. As a liberated society can only arise from the liberated consciousness of individuals, spiritual growth is part and parcel of social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642028138974-6SBA66ZSWSZ9J6672Y8Y/PROUT+Website+Images+%281%29.jpg PROUT - Design Principles The fundamental design principles of PROUT guide socio-economic development in a way that maintains social equilibrium and progress, and that provides all people – individually and collectively – with ample opportunities to develop and express their potential in physical, mental, and spiritual arenas of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642035905619-QIE0UGGR1RL2WYKYAL4N/PROUT+Website+Images+%285%29.jpg PROUT - Diversified Economics Because capitalism is based on self-interest and centralizes economic power in the hands of a relative few, it cannot provide for the welfare of all, maintain ecological balance, or keep local communities vital. The PROUT economic system focuses on meeting human needs, insuring equity, and maintaining sustainability and equilibrium. PROUT’s economic system is based on decentralizing and democratizing economic power. The main form of economic enterprise is cooperatives. Economic planning is decentralized. Capital is not allowed to drain out of local economies. There is to be equitable distribution of the world’s resources. All people are to possess adequate purchasing capacity to acquire the basic necessities and amenities of life. The standard of purchasing capacity is to increase over time. And incentives are essential for the economic welfare of society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642035312835-QKAJHC9GOF7XVO7VWK46/PROUT+Website+Images+%283%29.jpg PROUT - Cultural Cooperation PROUT views culture as the sum total of human expressions and achievements. According to this perspective, there is one human culture that is expressed in a vast variety of specific ways. Diverse cultural expressions reflect the multitude of different conditions in which humans live and the extensive creative capacities that humans develop as we adapt to ever-changing circumstances. PROUT encourages a rich variety of cultural expressions and supports cultural variation and autonomy in terms of language, traditions, arts, dress, diet, etc.. Yet PROUT also promotes a proper balance of cultural expression that remains consistent with cardinal human values, respects all living beings, and facilitates coordinated cooperation or mutual respect, civility, and cordiality among different individuals, communities, groups, and regions. When properly balanced and diverse in form, vibrant cultural expression can facilitate collective human fulfillment and be indicative of a dynamic, evolving process of human development toward higher levels of planetary unity – a unity in diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642035450750-4QYQ68KIT373RFF6LCXD/PROUT+Website+Images+%284%29.jpg PROUT - Ecological Balance PROUT’s ecological philosophy seeks a balanced relationship between society and the natural world. Humans are not inferior or superior to other living beings; they are a part of the larger community of life and live in an interdependent web of living beings. If human society is to be healthy, and endure, it must function in harmony with the web of life within which it exists. If it becomes destructive to the web, it becomes self-destructive. So human society must be guided by values that keep it in harmony with the natural world. Earth’s ecology has been so damaged by human exploitation that restoration of balance is now imperative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1634306443194-U5R9NEEP63TVBWFH6WYV/millionmanmarch.jpeg PROUT - Historical Dynamics History is a process of dynamic forces that motivate social movement. In the PROUTist view, the process of history is an expression of a people’s collective psychology; it flows out of their ideas, values, and sentiments. Many factors shape collective psychology, one of the most important being social class. Societies are dominated by elites in ways that are self-serving and oppressive to the lower classes. PROUT rejects the belief that social classes will wither, as class identity is deeply rooted in people’s social experience. The answer to class tyranny is not the utopia of a classless society, but the emergence of individuals dedicated to neohumanism, who rise above class allegiance and are motivated by a spirit of service. Because of their concern for universal welfare, such individuals will facilitate change not for the benefit of oppressive elites, but for the benefit of all. If such dedicated individuals establish themselves in positions of social, moral and spiritual influence, they can inspire and guide social action to end class oppression and create opportunities for the society to reestablish its progressive bearing. https://www.proutinstitute.org/prsarkar daily 0.75 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636485253837-IG7AEICEEK4EJC7EKAPJ/prsarkar.jpeg P.R. Sarkar - Introduction PROUT was first put forward by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921 – 1990), a philosopher, social reformer, and spiritual teacher dedicated to the task of planetary transformation. Through his actions and teachings he inspired many people to develop and use their potential and to take active responsibility for humanity’s welfare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/a15667f4-de16-4c6d-b976-1209941f8329/human+services.png P.R. Sarkar - Human Services Sarkar was remarkable for his wide range of contributions to humanity. In the realm of human services, he established a global disaster relief agency and inspired diverse community service projects, including rural development schemes, medical clinics, group homes, and food distribution programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636477080481-1L7IT2L5GSE6VIXPJEXG/PROUT+Website+Images.png P.R. Sarkar - Environmentalism To help preserve the genetic diversity of Earth’s plant life, he established a network of botanical gardens. Through his initiative, an animal sanctuary for endangered species was set up in West Bengal. And he condemned the destruction of wildlife habitats and the cruel treatment of animals used for human food and service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/a667612a-98eb-41a8-853e-2efd4e432e76/feminism.png P.R. Sarkar - Feminism Sarkar was committed to uplifting women. He spoke out against dogmas, social customs, and injustices that oppress women; and he inspired women to work together to increase their economic, intellectual, social, and spiritual power. He also affirmed the significance of women’s contributions to human history, including the matriarchal origins of civilization and women’s important role in the development of spirituality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642076613993-HRCI7NOPKUKY5NVPDVYU/prabhat-samgiita1+%282%29.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Art Sarkar recognized the importance of artistic creativity and established an association for the expression of the arts, giving it the mission to create “art for service and blessedness”. He composed 5018 songs, known as Prabhat Samgiita (Songs of the New Dawn), which express uplifting sentiments in lyrics that appeal to common people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/dd3dbf63-13d3-4e57-8ee0-431c5dc6b771/pi+website+education.jpeg P.R. Sarkar - Education A philosophy of education developed by Sarkar, which emphasizes humanist values and nurturing the human spirit, is being used in hundreds of schools around the world. Among his last projects was laying the groundwork for Bhagavad Dharma University, an institution of higher learning that will include research into spiritual practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642076658104-NL7I1RUDEKWSG4MFID4P/615pHaCAV4L._SX450_.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Language Sarkar spoke over 200 languages. His discourses on language are used as texts in universities in India. He extended the expressive range of Indian languages by adding thousands of Sanskrit-derived words to their vocabularies. He wrote grammar texts for English and Hindi. His book series, A Collection of Words, expounds on words as a vehicle for exploring a wide panorama of human knowledge and experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636484625806-S06VC4WN2FQSUFBCKQSQ/prsarkar.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Medicine In the field of medicine, he authored a book of medical remedies that combines herbal, yogic, and naturopathic treatments for common diseases, and that presents yogic preventive health practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636559613471-TOVDALA5GP6V07JMG998/prsarkar1.jpeg P.R. Sarkar - Spirituality Sarkar was a spiritual master and formulated a spiritual path grounded in perennial meditation practices and that reintegrates practices of the yogic tradition. He trained nearly two thousand meditation teachers who have taken these powerful practices to people throughout the world, offering them at no cost to all who have interest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636559706192-8D2VJ7VIBDM9BXVSK7QN/baba3.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Philosophy Sarkar’s extensive works on philosophy resolve the contradictions between science and mysticism, idealism and materialism, action and detachment, monism and dualism, relative and absolute views on ethics, development and sustainability, and personal and political approaches to liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1636559781363-1E7Y483RHT86P7HUYLN7/PROUT+FLOWER.png P.R. Sarkar - PROUT Sarkar’s socioeconomic philosophy, PROUT, has inspired community economic development and regional populist political movements. PROUT is being seen by many who are socially aware as providing a comprehensive and viable post-capitalist vision that balances sustainability with material development and that re-localizes economic power while promoting global authority. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642076741876-NGRZOJUYD59B5X0R5S56/PRSarkar_GentlemanPhoto_3.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Commitment to Values During his lifetime, Sarkar faced much opposition, as his criticisms of religious, cultural, and political dogmas threatened powerful groups in his native India. He was in jail from 1972-78, held without bail on politically motivated charges for which he was eventually acquitted. While in prison he was target of an assassination attempt, which led to his undertaking a fast lasting over five years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642076769579-9MQ0Z347NYAJ9Z6PE51S/FB_IMG_1532139995966-204x300.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Personal Life Sarkar’s lived a life of simplicity and conducted all his affairs in a manner consistent with his beliefs. Despite his notoriety, he avoided contact with the media or the curious public. Sarkar had a single-minded mission: to promote human liberation in its fullest expression and to advance the welfare of humanity and other living beings. His untiring commitment this noble ideal attracted many high-minded followers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61671d8682486e71ec7fed7e/1642076825182-K1JBWNC1YLW0LXHFL1JB/0baba_timeline2.jpg P.R. Sarkar - Holistic Approach Sarkar recognized that humanity is at a momentous juncture, poised between intensifying crises on the one hand and a planetary renaissance on the other. He urged people to be active, to struggle against the forces that are fragmenting, oppressing, and exploiting humanity; and that are violating the natural world. He called on all good-hearted people to end humanity’s degradation and develop its higher potential. Sarkar was holistic in his approach. As a spiritualist he taught that human fulfillment ultimately comes from experience of the Divine. But he combined the orientation of the mystic with a firm commitment to social development. 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