Public Relations Committee
(last updated 2016 November 23, previously on November 15)
Purpose of the Public Relations Committee:
Suitable traits for committee members might include:
Traits to avoid:
At its best, ITC involves a regulated communication bridge between two respectful, caring teams… one on Earth and the other in the spirit worlds. Life-changing and world-changing information can stream into our world through such an ITC bridge.
Public Relations Committee
So, those two countervailing forces are at the heart of a Public Relations committee of an ITC group:
Most of the public information about the ITC group would be posted on or accessible through the public portion of the website. The website should be the stable, reliable source of ITC information in general and of the ITC group in particular. If the public wishes to know about ITC, then, they can access the group’s public website.
Any other method of sharing our information with the public deserves discretion. Media often seek out colorful or controversial personalities to represent a group or a concept, a situation we should avoid. Public presentations and seminars and interviews need to be handled carefully and tastefully, and that’s where the public relations committee comes in.
ITC group members who wish to make public presentations about ITC should first get approval from the committee and follow established guidelines.
The main responsibility of the public relations committee is to help sustain resonance in the group by limiting and carefully regulating public ITC-related interaction by members, and by the group as a whole, upon issues that are critical to the coherence of the contact field.
Discourage members from arguing with nonmembers about our group mission or about the nature of the afterlife. Our mission and afterlife model or cosmology are explained clearly on the website, and outsiders’ opinions of our mission or cosmology cannot be a concern of ours… just as other people’s opinions of us personally should not be our concern. Any negative opinions of our group held by outsiders are on their shoulders, and the negativity should remain on their shoulders, not on ours. As ITC group members, we are comfortable with the acceptance of our group values.
(posted 2016 November 13)
Purpose of the Public Relations Committee:
- Sustain resonance in the group by regulating ITC group members’ interaction with the public, and with media in particular, on matters of importance to ITC and the group.
- Keep track of suitable conferences and organizations and other venues through which ITC information could be shared safely and effectively.
- Establish guidelines for publicity.
Suitable traits for committee members might include:
- Discretion (doing and saying things that do not offend, being careful with private information, and deciding wisely what to do in a particular situation).
- An understanding of public opinion, science, religion, and the media on subjects relating to afterlife, spirit, and the paranormal, especially an understanding of skeptics’ point of view.
Traits to avoid:
- Presumption that the public will accept and embrace our work.
- Eagerness to share ITC information indiscriminately.
- Flamboyancy, pretentiousness, and pomposity.
At its best, ITC involves a regulated communication bridge between two respectful, caring teams… one on Earth and the other in the spirit worlds. Life-changing and world-changing information can stream into our world through such an ITC bridge.
- On one hand, ITC will someday change the world in a most amazing and wonderful way, and the world needs to know about those possibilities.
- On the other hand, humanity can’t accept world-changing information until most people are receptive to those changes. Inconvenient truths are bitter medicine to those invested in political, commercial, religious, and scientific ideas that go against such truths (such truths as we’re discovering through ITC research)… and can stir up fear, bitterness, and conflict. Cases in point:
- the Inquisition 800 years ago and, more recently...
- the conflict between climate scientists and climate-change deniers… and
- the vitriol between skeptics and meta-thinkers (those who seek answers beyond the established norms of material-world thinking).
Public Relations Committee
So, those two countervailing forces are at the heart of a Public Relations committee of an ITC group:
- Being committed to enlighten the world about the principles of ITC and the afterlife, but
- Taking a careful approach that won’t destabilize the contact field by offending people’s deeply held beliefs, whether they be scientific or religious or otherwise.
Most of the public information about the ITC group would be posted on or accessible through the public portion of the website. The website should be the stable, reliable source of ITC information in general and of the ITC group in particular. If the public wishes to know about ITC, then, they can access the group’s public website.
Any other method of sharing our information with the public deserves discretion. Media often seek out colorful or controversial personalities to represent a group or a concept, a situation we should avoid. Public presentations and seminars and interviews need to be handled carefully and tastefully, and that’s where the public relations committee comes in.
ITC group members who wish to make public presentations about ITC should first get approval from the committee and follow established guidelines.
The main responsibility of the public relations committee is to help sustain resonance in the group by limiting and carefully regulating public ITC-related interaction by members, and by the group as a whole, upon issues that are critical to the coherence of the contact field.
Discourage members from arguing with nonmembers about our group mission or about the nature of the afterlife. Our mission and afterlife model or cosmology are explained clearly on the website, and outsiders’ opinions of our mission or cosmology cannot be a concern of ours… just as other people’s opinions of us personally should not be our concern. Any negative opinions of our group held by outsiders are on their shoulders, and the negativity should remain on their shoulders, not on ours. As ITC group members, we are comfortable with the acceptance of our group values.
(posted 2016 November 13)