1. Honoring the “giants” in every family and community whose life work helped subsequent generations to receive a true heritage: health, good will, and understanding.

2. Helping people reconnect with their long-lost cousins across the oceans by helping ordinary people make use of the latest genetic and computer technology.

3. Building stronger local community interaction by serving as the umbrella organization that unites all heritage-conscious organizations.

4. Promoting intergenerational interactions and good will.

5. Helping people to deconstruct their personal heritage narrative and rebuild it in a way that treasures the uniqueness of the patchwork quilt they are.

6. Giving members the empirical tools, through actual personalized family history, to critically analyze what has and hasn’t worked in order to help each of them creatively live a proactive life as a fellow shepherd of Being.

A Revolutionary Paradigm Shift

Our mission is Universal because it is so Personal

The mission of Giants of the Earth Heritage Center is universal because it is personal. Our approach to promoting multigenerational stewardship is through improving personal understanding, because, to paraphrase Socrates, only the examined life is worth living. We don’t intend to cajole or crush people with advertising and psychological rhetoric to persuade them to support what we tell them the majority of their fellow countrymen think. In fact, we will tell them flatly that history strongly suggests that the majority of people do not think about the things that matter most for the survival and success of humanity.

In an age when each person is concerned first and foremost with what everyone else “believes”, we first ask whether or not consulting someone who hasn’t thought about something really is all that useful or conducive to good multigenerational stewardship. Consider our national debt. Our debt is massive because of too much believing and too little thinking on the part of our leaders. To think requires the personal self-assurance to retreat into ones own mind and synthetically create an understanding that will help us better care for those things we care about. This understanding we create from the union of empirical and a priori truths. To think about the good of future generations requires us to care about them–and this care comes only out of a sense of identity with them–an identity that is destroyed by hedonistic generationalism, and the egotistic metaphysical myths that buttress monogenerational thinking.

Without thinking, a human is not fully human. Because we cannot directly ask future generations whether or not our behaviors will be beneficial or not for them, we rely on each person to cultivate wisdom within themselves by looking to the past to understand the variables involved in history. We rely on them to understand how it is that certain men and women had the love, the self confidence, the vision, and the strength to sacrifice their immediate desire to conform with their fellow citizens, for the long term good of their communities.

Only by re-empowering the sages that arise in each community can we counterbalance the prevailing existential myopia. Any person can nurture their inner sage and in so doing receive their true heritage as homo sapiens, or wise hominids. Thomas Jefferson referred to those who received this heritage as as “the natural aristocracy” who should and must lead a democratic Republic if it is to survive.

“If a nation expects to remain ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”-Thomas Jefferson

To the extent that each one of us has actualized our inner sage we will be in a better condition to predict the outcomes of various behaviors and to recognize the few others within our communities who have done likewise. Further, we will be able to stand up against the wolves that come in sheep’s clothing to our people.

Drawing inspiration from sages who have gone before, we hope that new leaders might arise within every local community around the world who will both have autochthonous love for their communities and an understanding of the variables that matter for good stewardship. This combination is necessary for mature stewardship of a community, which in turn is necessary if that community wishes to remain free.

Read how our true heritage is one of thoughtful questions.