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Portland, Maine

September 2017

The American Dream and Indigenous Values at Unity of Greater Portland

Unity of Greater Portland inaugurates their Interfaith Intercultural Celebration Season with
a series of films, multi-media talks and forums with authors, filmmakers and futurists
Connie Baxter Marlow and Andrew Cameron Bailey September 22-24.

James Phinney Baxter, six-time mayor of Portland and his son Percival, Governor of Maine
1921-1924 embodied indigenous values in their public and personal lives, claims Mayor
Baxters great, great granddaughter Connie Baxter Marlow.

They both championed the Earth, the water, the women and the animals. They gave away
their fortunes to the people of Maine in the form of Baxter State Park containing Katahdin
the sacred mountain of the Wabanaki, Mackworth Island and Baxter Woods. Mayor Baxter
created the Portland city park system with the belief that all people have the right to enjoy
nature simply and effortlessly. These are indigenous values. states Marlow.

The weekends events are contained under the header Become the Promise America made
to the World. The American Dream. Whats Missing?

Marlow and Bailey will screen the film SEEDS OF FREEDOM: A Vision for America on
Friday night. Film Synopsis: Eminent philanthropist/historian James Phinney Baxter (1831-
1921) believed that America must embody the high ideals of New Englands original settlers if it
is to become a global exemplar of liberty, equality and justice. In 1921 he left a bequest
instructing Boston to build a Pantheon to perpetuate the founding ideals and principles. Baxters
great-great-granddaughter Connie Baxter Marlow adds a missing piece the role of the
American Indian in the evolution of democracy and the American mind and spirit.

The film premiered at the Boston Public Library in November 2016 to kick off the James
Phinney Baxter Lecture Series. The Boston Public Library became the recipient of the
James Phinney Baxter Percival Baxter Fund. In 1921 Mayor Baxter left $50,000 to the City
of Boston with the instructions to build a Pantheon to honor the principles and ideals of the
early settlers of New England in order to ensure that the United States realize its promise
of Liberty, Justice and Equality for all. The trust was broken in the 1990s, the Pantheon was
never built, and the money was recently committed to the Boston Public Library. The
SEEDS OF FREEDOM film will be followed by a multi-media presentation and discussion
Thoreau, the Pope and the Indian: A Shared Vision, first presented by Marlow at the
Thoreau Society in 2016.

Marlow has spent 30 years in close association with visionary Native American elders
throughout the United States and Mexico and came to understand their cosmology, the
basis of their way of life. She saw that its universal principles align with humanitys highest
aspirations and recognized these attributes in her ancestors.

Marlow and Bailey bring a missing piece to Baxters vision: The Indigenous voice. They are
pro-actively seeking means of opening hearts and minds to the melding of Indigenous and
non-Indigenous worldviews for a new future through their films, books, forums and inter-
cultural networking.

The American Dream embodies universal principles of Liberty, Justice, Equality and
Abundance for all, Marlow and Bailey ask Why aren't we living that dream? America's
promise to the world.

The origin story of the United States is shrouded in mis-conception, mis-understanding, shame
and blame. We are bringing new perspective that brings into view the two syntheses that
occurred between the European Colonists and the American Indian that gave birth to the
American mind and spirit, and are calling for a third synthesis now. Until we bring the role of the
Native American into their proper place in the evolution of America we will be mired in an
inability to realize the principles. declares Marlow, who was not aware there were Indians in
Maine when she grew up here in the 50s.

The weekends events propose that we are out of alignment with universal principles because of
the limitations of the prevailing worldview that have separated us from each other, from our own
hearts and therefore from our ability to realize the founding ideals of The United States.

Quantum science has opened a whole new world with its discovery of entanglement, states
Bailey, which demonstrates the interconnectedness of all things, and the observer effect
which demonstrates that we create what we put our attention on. This gives us enormous
personal power to effect change.

Connie and Andrew believe the only way out is up, to a higher level of consciousness through a
deeper understanding of the conscious, loving, abundant nature of the universe and humanity's
place in it. They propose an indigenous cosmology/quantum science synthesis in their
book "THE TRUST FREQUENCY: Ten Assumptions for a New Paradigm."

On Sunday the title of their message at the 10:00 service will be The Baxter Legacy: Alignment
with Indigenous Values followed by a multi-media presentation and discussion: Civil
Disobedience, Spiritual Activism and Higher Law: A Vision of the Individuals Role in Creating
a Just World.

For more information: Connie Baxter Marlow 928 451-2044 flyweagles@aol.com

Unity of Greater Portland. 207 8931233. www.UnityGreaterPortland.org
Watch the 30-minute film SEEDS OF FREEDOM online HERE