A turn of phrase popped into my head some weeks ago: "Pledge Of Emergence"

I think of this as a twist on the traditional USA patriotic Pledge of Allegiance. It seems to me a resonant and meaningful play on words, detourning the orthodox individual declaration of nationalist ideals and sentiments that they used to make us stand and say every day in the classroom when I was a kid (this was in the 1960s, I don't think they still make the kids say this in school). I think I speak for many of us when I say with a militant disgust that I do NOT pledge any sort of allegiance to a sham democratic republic that maintains pretenses of 'liberty and justice for all' while waging war and imperialist exploitation around the globe and enforcing corporate economic and political privilege at home.

What we might all do instead, is to make a pledge of emergence, in the sense of a spiritual emergence... and using the metaphor that my tribe friend John has used of the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis. I have been thinking about how to compose such a pledge but I can't really get started. Perhaps some of my fellow dreamers & conspirators here on this tribe would like to help me out.

The traditional pledge of allegiance reads: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pled...Allegiance I'm not sure if we should use the phrasing of the original as a template or starting point for the pledge of emergence, or not... and if so, how?

I'm tossing this idea out to you all as a public brainstorming in the interest of spreading a new 'Pledge of Emergence' around as a new countercultural meme, something to inspire those of us committed to the eradication of outmoded nationalistic divisions in favor of an emergent unitary transformational paradigm for humankind.

Please share your thoughts and feelings, and help, if you will, to write the new Pledge of Emergence.