EARTH AWAITS THE MEXICAN PEASANT

EARTH AWAITS THE MEXICAN PEASANT WHO RETURNS HOME.
THERE AT HIS FEET LIES THE TRUE
AND SACRED WEALTH
THE RESOURCE THAT GIVINGLY RESPONDS
TO ALL HUMAN YEARNING
FOR HAPPINESS AND PLENTY.
TO ALL TRUE HUMAN YEARNING,
MANIFEST IN EARNEST ACTION
BEHOLD THE EARTH
THE ONLY TRUE NATION
THE ONLY TRUE ORDER
THE ONLY TRUE FRONTIER
THE MOIST, GENTLE EARTH.

THE MEXICANS RETURN HOME

SOME THOUGHTS
SOME INTERESTINGLY EXPANSIVE THOUGHTS
SOME THOUGHTS THAT SPILL OVER INTO
BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE
AND INTO EVERY YARD...
OR COULD...
WILL....



THE MEXICAN PEASANT
THE MAN WHO HAS NO LAND
WHO WALKS ON THE LAND
WHO SEES NOT THE BORDERS,
BUT ONLY WHAT GROWS OR DOES NOT

YES, THAT MAN
HE CAN BE THAT MAN
AND NOT KNOW IT


HE NOW RETURNS TO HIS LAND,
LEAVING BEHIND THE LAND OF PLENTY
A FAILING LAND
A LAND OF APPEARANCES,
OF FAILED ILLUSIONS,
OF DESTRUCTIVE ARTIFICE,
OF EXCESS AND ESTRANGEMENT
FROM SIMPLICITY
FROM TRUTH


GREEN PASTURES
(MORE DEAD TREES)
PAINTED OLIGARCHS IN CIRCLES
WATCHFUL EYES IN TRIANGLES

HIS NATIVE LAND
A NEW BEGINNING,
SIMPLICITY AND CLOSENESS TO THE EARTH.

POOR, POOR MAN,
POOR PEASANT MAN
RETURNED TO BE POOR
TO BE FRUGAL, TO BE DEEPER
TO BE SILENCED, TO BE EXCLUDED
IN THE UNDEVELOPING WORLD
IN THAT
ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE OF ORIGIN.
LESS PERMEATED BY ANXIETY
BY GENERALIZED OBSESSION
WITH ALL THINGS SUPERFLUOUS

HE WILL NOT MISS
THE CHICANA WITH BIG CHIP ON SHOULDER
GOVERNMENT JOB AT POST OFFICE

ANGER INSIDE
BAD ENGLISH
BAD SPANISH
ANGER INSIDE

OR BEING HELD AS SECOND CLASS INDIVIDUAL,
A POLITICAL PROBLEM
ALL THOSE GOODIES THE BLACKS USED TO HAVE
ALL TO THEMSELVES.

THE WORLD OF MAN DOMINATING MAN,
OF MAN LABELING MAN,
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT UNDER ANY FLAG,
UNDER ANY CONSTITUTION,
ON EITHER SIDE OF ANY FENCE.

IN ABSENCE OF THE SUPERFLUOUS,
IN ABSENCE OF WHAT IS ENSLAVING
IN ABSENCE OF WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL AND CONTRIVED
CREATIVITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS
ARE BROUGHT INTO THE FOREFRONT OF HUMAN MINDS.

CARELESS ASSESSMENT OF OUR CONDITIONS
CONFORM THE IDEA OF POVERTY AND NEED.

A LACK OF MONEY NEED NOT BE POVERTY,
BUT FREEDOM TO BE MORE FULLY, MORE ESSENTIALLY
AN ENTICEMENT TO BE MORE CREATIVE.


THE NATURAL WORLD IS A MIRACULOUS PLACE,
AND WE ARE PART OF THIS NATURAL ORDER.

THE COUNTRY WE MUST ALL COME TO CHERISH
IS THE LAND ITSELF,
THIS PROVIDENTIAL EARTH,
THE ONE WE ALL STAND ON.


MODERN STATES FALL SHORT OF THIS IDEAL.
MOURN THE MODERNS STATES
THEY WILL FALL
THEY WILL BE GONE
TIME ITSELF WILL BE QUESTIONED
AND ABOLISHED
AND HISTORY SEEN NAKED
PAINTED WITH UNBECOMING COLORS

AND WHOSE HISTORY ANYWAY?.

BE GONE
BE GONE
BE GONE
HISTORY OF THE LAST MINUTE
BE GONE


THE SOLUTION LIES IN THE FUTURE,
IN THE RE-EDUCATION OF SOCIETY.
THE PEASANT IN ALL OF US
THE PEASANT RETURNING
IN ALL OF US

IT WILL SOON BE ALL OF US
OR NO ONE AT ALL
ONLY DEATH
DEATH TO THE CROPS
TO THE CROPS OF A FORGOTTEN SUN
DEATH TO US
US

THE FUTURE AND THE PAST
A GREAT UNFINISHED TASK
ALL OVER THE WORLD,


IN ALL COUNTRIES
MAY THE RECOGNITION
OF UNDERLYING UNITY
BE AWAKENED

NO MORE EXCEPTIONS,
NO MORE GENOCIDES
NO MORE EXCLUSIONS

WE ARE RICH, WE ARE BOUNTIFUL
WE ARE THAT PEASANT
WE ARE THE EARTH
WE ARE EARTH.

WEALTH AND POVERTY ARE LIES
LIES CREATED BY PREDOMINANT MINDSETS
PERPETUATED BY THE SAME OLD OBJECTIVES
STEMMING FROM FEAR

NO FUTURE THERE
LET US ALL LEAVE THEN
LET US ALL RETURN TO THE LAND
LET US ALL BEHOLD THE LEAVES OF GRASS
THE MOIST EARTH
THE WORM IN OUR HAND


MAN RETURNS TO HIS LAND
WEALTH LIES AT HIS FEET
LOOK WITH RENEWED EYES.

MAY ENLIGHTENED IDEAS
COME TO OUR AID


ALL OF US
WHO INHABIT THIS EARTH.

OM

THE ESSENCE OF MIND
AND OF BEING
IS ENLIGHTENMENT.

WE ARE
WE ARE MIRACLES EVERY DAY

REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH

WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE ALL OVER TURN THEIR MINDS TO THOUGHTS OF UNCERTAINTY, SPECULATION ABOUT THE FUTURE, WORK, LOSS OF WORK, AFFLUENCE AND ITS ABSENCE.

AFFLUENCE COMES AN GOES. IT IS A REPRESENTATION OF ENERGY, AN EPHEMERAL SUBSTANCE. IN OUR PRESENT DAY CULTURE AFFLUENCE IS OVERRATED.

THIS CRISIS IS DUE TO PREVALENT VALUES. THE PREVAILING VALUES HOLD THE SEED FOR THE SYSTEMS COLLAPSE AND EVENTUAL DEMISE. WEALTH IS PUT IN THE SERVICE OF TRIVIALITY AND EXCESS, AND THUS LOOSES VALUE. CONSUMER SOCIETY IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EXCESS OF SUPERFLUOUS ITEMS. SUPERFLUOUS ITEMS ARE SUPERFLUOUS...NOT NEEDED, AN ILLUSION, DOOMED TO BE REJECTED, TO BECOME WHAT THEY ARE: OBSOLETE.

WEALTH, IN ANY CASE, MERELY BECOMES AN AMPLIFIER OF THE VALUES AND ATTRIBUTES OF CHARACTER PEOPLE PROFESS. IF THE IDEA HELD BY INDIVIDUALS CONCERNING WEALTH IS ERRATIC, THEN THE ENERGY SET IN MOTION BY WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS IS ALSO ERRATIC, MISPLACED.

ENLIGHTENED MINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD KNOW THIS: THE GRANOLA PEOPLE, THE PROGRESSIVES, THE HUMANISTS, THE
THOUGHTFUL ONES, THE COMPASSIONATE ONES, THOSE WHO CARRY WITHIN THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS THE CONVICTION THAT BEINGS ARE
INTRINSICALLY VALUABLE IN LIGHT OF THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND
DEPTH, AND NOT IN LIGHT OF POSSESSIONS....ALL THESE PEOPLE KNOW HOW SUPERFLUOUS MONEY CAN BE, AND HOW EASY IT IS TO WASTE IN A CULTURE BASED ON WASTE, ADDICTION AND TRIVIALITY.

IN THIS STATE OF THINGS, A POOR SINGLE MOTHER WILL WORK AT THE CORNER SUPERMARKET FOR A WHOLE DAY, THEN PURCHASE A VIDEO GAME FOR HER DAUGHTER. IN THIS VIDEO GAME THE CHILD GETS TO KILL HUNDREDS OF ALIENS IN ONE SITTING. THEN THE YOUNG GIRL WILL TURN ON THE TELEVISION AND SEE IMAGES OF MORE ALIENS BEING MURDERED BY THE ADULTS IN HER SOCIETY, IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. AFTER THESE DELICACIES, MOTHER CAN OPEN A CAN OF AWFUL COOKED PASTA WITH MEATBALLS, AND THEN BRING THE DAY TO A CLOSE WITH A CAN OF CAFFEINE FREE DIET COKE.

YET, ALL THESE ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF THAT IMPERSONAL FORCE CALLED AFFLUENCE, SO VALUED IN THE PRESENT-DAY WORLD. SO RESCUED BY GOVERMENT, SO SUSTAINED BY THE PRESIDENT, SO URGENTLY SUSTAINED IN PLACE FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE.


AFFLUENCE, THEN, COULD VERY WELL BE QUESTIONED AS A SOCIAL VALUE. WHY UPHOLD IT IF THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES: FUNCTIONALITY, SUSTAINABILITY?.

THE SAME WORKING MOTHER, ENLIGHTENED, CAN GO OUT AND PURCHASE THE NECESSARY TOOLS AND SEEDS TO PLANT A GARDEN. THE CHILD WILL WORK UNDER THE SUN, IN COMMUNION WITH AIR, SUN, WATER, THE MOIST EARTH. SHE WILL WITNESS THE GROWTH OF HER EFFORTS, AND RECEIVE THE FRUIT. THIS FRUIT WILL PROVIDE A COMMON GROWND WITH ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH, THOSE WHO HAVE VIDEO GAMES AND THOSE WHO DO NOT.

IS ENLIGHTMENT, THEN, NOT AN ASSET?
IS THE LIGHT OF IDEAS NOT A HIGHER
FORM OF AFFLUENCE?
WHAT IS AFFLUENCE?
IS IT NOT FUNCTIONALITY?
IS AFFLUENCE NOT A LIFE WELL LIVED,
THE CHOICES WE MAKE?

WE MUST ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
PUT THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IN CIRCULATION
AND BRING ABOUT CHANGE.

IF A PERSON IS ELEVATED AND IDEALISTIC, GENEROUS, INTELLIGENT, AND INTENT ON USING WEALTH IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY, THEN MONEY BECOMES A FORCE BACKING THOSE QUALITIES, BOTH IN HERSELF AS IN THOSE AROUND HER. IN THE PRESENT ORDER MONEY BUYS INFLUENCE. THE CONSCIOUS AND EDUCATED INDIVIDUAL WILL PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPMENT (NOT MERE FUNDING) BOTH FOR HERSELF AND FOR THOSE AROUND HER. AFFLUENCE CAN BE A SHARED CONCEPT, RATHER THAN A CONDITION OF DOMINATION AND POWER OVER OTHERS. IT CAN BE A SOCIAL INSTITUTION, A SOCIAL CONTRACT, A SHARED CONCEPT OF VALUE. DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY.

CLEAR CONCEPTS AND OBJECTIVES MARK INTELLIGENT MINDS, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF AFFLUENCE.

CREATIVITY IS WEALTH, LAND IS WEALTH, NATURE IS PROVIDENCE. RADIANT HEALTH AND VIGOROUS BODIES AND MINDS ARE WEALTH, IDEAS AND EDUCATION ARE WEALTH, UNITY IS WEALTH, SHARED PROGRESS IS WEALTH, CONTEMPLATION AND ENJOYMENT OF NATURE ARE WEALTH AND COMMON GOOD. COMMON GOOD IS WEALTH.

(NO, MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING.)

A CONSCIOUS INDIVIDUAL, AN ENLIGHTENED ONE, ONE WHO REMAINS FREE, WHO AVOIDS COMPROMISING HIS FREEDOM, WILL TAKE A SEASON OF LOW FUNDING AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISES PATIENCE, CONTEMPLATION, TO READ BOOKS, TO REFLECT, TO MEDITATE, TO ENJOY A PERIOD OF CLOSENESS TO WHAT IS ESSENTIAL, WALKS, FRIENDSHIPS, SHARING, BEAUTIFYING ONE'S SURROUNDINGS, AND FOR A RETURN TO SIMPLICITY, TO VALUING OTHER THINGS, SUCH AS A MORE CONSCIOUS BREATHING AND GREATER INNER PEACE. HE CAN DEPEND ON OTHERS. NO PROBLEM. THEY CAN DEPEND ON HIM AS WELL, HE IS FREE TO WORK, FREE TO THINK, FREE TO BE A FRIEND. ARE THESE NOT ASSETS? IS MAN
NOT CAPABLE OF VALUING PURE BEING? IS MAN NOT CAPABLE OF ENJOYING SIMPLY EXISTING?, SIMPLY LOVING?

THE WORLD IS OVERPOPULATED AND HUMAN SUBSISTENCE ENDANGERED. PEOPLE VENTURE INTO THE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY AND TASK OF BRINGING OTHERS INTO THE WORLD. WE START OUT IN LIFE AS DEPENDANT BEINGS, AND THEN PLUNGE INTO THE IRRATIONAL BELIEF THAT WE CAN AND SHOULD BECOME INDEPENDANT. A FUTILE IDEA. WE DEPEND ON EARTH, WE DEPEND ON EFFORT, WE DEPEND ON ITELLIGENCE, WE DEPEND ON OTHERS. IT IS ABSURD TO THINK OTHERWISE.

WE TURN OUR BACKS TO REALITY
WE TAKE LITTLE TIME TO QUESTION
WE MAKE THE WRONG CHOICES
WE ASK THE WRONG QUESTIONS.

TRUTH SETS US FREE BECAUSE IT MARKS THE CORRECT PATH FOR ACTION. TRUTH REVEALS OUR COMMITMENT, AND OUR NATURE. PRESENTLY, IT IS A POPULATION OF UNCERTAIN AND DUBIOUS INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS THAT THE SOCIAL ORDER CLAIMS TO PROTECT. A SOCIETY LIKE THIS SHOULD REMAIN CONSCIOUS OF ITS FRAIL RELATIONSHIP TO FREEDOM, AND SAFEGUARD THE ESSENTIAL NEEDS OF ITS MEMBERS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE. IF IT DOES NOT, IT FAILS AS A SOCIETY.

PROPAGANDA IS NOT FREEDOM
ONLY FREEDOM IS FREEDOM.

IN TIMES OF CRISIS A SUPERFICIAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL WILL SEE ONLY POVERTY AND HIS FEAR OF IT. FIXATION ON LOSS AND SCARCITY WILL OBLITERATE ALL OTHER POSSIBILITIES, SUCH AS USING MIND CREATIVELY, PURSUING AN EXPANSION OF VALUES, FINDING ALTERNATIVES, DEVELOPING ACCEPTANCE, AND GENERALLY SPENDING THE RECESSION SEASON PROFITABLY.

IF AN INDIVIDUAL IS SHALLOW, THEN HIS SPENDING IS SHALLOW AND
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INFLUENCES OTHERS WHO ARE SHALLOW. THIS CHAIN OF INFLUENCE MAKES THE MATRIX OF SHALLOW MATERIALISM STRONGER. CAPITALIST SOCIETY MAKES A COMMITMENT TO A PROFIT-CENTERED MATRIX AND THEN CHANTS THE GLORIES OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. WHAT ARE FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN A STATE OF ENSLAVEMENT?


THE "LUXURIES" OFFERED TO THE CONSUMER, HOWEVER ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE THESE MAY BE, ARE AN EXCESS. TO WEAR CLOTHES AND TO APPEAR BEAUTIFUL MAY BE IN ESSENCE A HARMLESS AND PLEASANT OBJECTIVE, BUT TO WEAR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AT A TIME ON ONE'S BODY AND PATRONIZE ESTABLISHMENTS DEDICATED TO THE IDEA OF LUXURY AND BEAUTY (AS ACCESSORIES OF SUCCESS AND WEALTH), WHILE MILLIONS AROUND US SUFFER IN LACK OF EVEN THE MOST ESSENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOURISHMENT OF BODY OR MIND, THEN LUXURY IS ALMOST PURE CRUELTY.

MONEY EASILY AMPLIFIES CRUELTY, IT RAISES THE VOLUME AND THE BRIGHTNESS OF EGOTISM AND SEPARATISM TO HIGH HEAVEN, LIKE NOTHING ELSE.

BUT MONEY
CAN BE MADE TO SERVE PURPOSES
CONTRARY TO CRUELTY.

AFFLUENCE CAN BE MADE INTO A POSITIVE FORCE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO LIVE WITH RESPONSIBILITY. ONLY THOUGHT AND RASON CAN BETTER DIRECT OUR ENERGY, DIRECT THEM EFFECTIVELY TOWARDS THE GOALS OF SATISFACTION, ACHIEVEMENT, PEACE, PROGRESS AND HAPPINESS. COMPASSION AND GENEROSITY ARE INDISPENSABLE.

A GREEN CULTURAL REVOLUTION IS A BRIGHT IDEA FOR THE FUTURE ON MANY ACCOUNTS.

IT REQUIRES A VERITABLE ENLIGHTENMENT, ON A VASTER SCALE THAN ANY PREVIOUS CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS IN RECORDED HISTORY (RENAISSANCE, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, CLASS CENTERED REVOLUTIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ERA, CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT OF THE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S).

THE NEW REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT MUST BE GLOBAL AND ENCOMPASS ALL SPECIES AND THEIR INTERCONNECTION. IT WILL REPRESENT A REAL CHALLENGE TO A NEW WORLD CULTURE. THE NEW CULTURE WILL BE ONE OF RESPONSIBILITY AT INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LEVELS, OR IT WILL NOT BE.

SHARING OF POWER AND AFFLUENCE ARE REQUISITES FOR THE NEW CULTURE TO EMERGE, IN VERY MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE EMERGING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BLOCKS AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR POORER MEMBERS (I.E. PORTUGAL, SPAIN, IRELAND IN RECENT EUROPEAN MERGING)

RESOURCEFULNESS IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE REQUIRED CULTURAL CHANGE. MANY ARE THE THINGS REQUIRED FOR THE ENLIGHTENED SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE UTOPIA WITHOUT WHICH WE ARE LOST. THAT UTOPIA MUST RISE, OR WE ARE LEFT WITH NOTHING TO ASPIRE FOR.

WE MUST FOR THE MOMENT PURSUE CHANGE, NEW MODELS, NEW RESPONSABILITY.

RECYCLING
PERMACULTURE
RECYCLING OF PLASTICS
USED CLOTHES
LESS CHEMICALS
ORGANIC PRODUCE
CLEANER AIR, LAND AND WATER
A CRITICAL EDUCATION
LOWER-IMPACT SOLUTIONS TO HUMAN NEEDS
BETTER POLITICS
BETTER POLITICAL EDUCATION
EDUCATION IN NECESSARY ACTIVISM
ACTIVISM
BETTER NORMS FOR CONSTRUCTION
BETTER INTERACION WITH SPACE
BETTER INTEGRATION OF NATURAL FLORA
CONSERVATION OF SPECIES
USE OF NATIVE SPECIES IN PUBLIC GARDENS
BETTER ENERGY POLICIES AND SOLUTIONS,
FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
SOLAR ENERGY ON A MASSIVE SCALE
WIND AND WATER GENERATED ENERGY
GEOTHERMIC ENERGY
EDUCATION
MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT
GLOBAL UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
PHASING OUT OF NATIONAL BORDERS
WORLD UNITY
EQUALITY OF ALL RACES AND CREEDS
MEANINGFUL SOCIETY

THE NEW EDUCATION: GREEN
FREE, REVOLUTIONARY
& PROFOUNDLY SPIRITUAL.


THE MOMENT HAS COME TO EDUCATE GENERATIONS AWARE OF THE IMMENSE RICHNESS OF THE EARTHS SPECIES, THE RIGHT OF ALL SPECIES TO PROSPER AND EXIST, AND THE NECESSITY FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS TO BE RE-EDUCATED FOR PROGRESS, CONSCIOUSNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY.

A RADICALLY DIFFERENT, NON-UTILITARIAN EDUCATION IS IN ORDER IF WE ARE TO BECOME A TRULY PROSPEROUS SPECIES, A LIVING AND GROWING SPECIES, ONE WORTHY OF ITS ORIGIN AND RESIDENCE IN A COSMIC MATRIX FILLED WITH EXUBERANT MYSTERY, DEPTH AND BEAUTY.

THE INTEGRITY OF THE EARTH CAN REGENERATE ON ITS OWN TO A LARGE EXTENT IF LEFT ALONE TO HEAL. HUMAN NEED FOR SUSTENANCE NEED NOT BE MISTAKEN FOR THE HUMAN GREED, PROFITEERING AND DOMINATION CHARACTERISTIC OF PREVIOUS STAGES IN OUR EVOLUTION.

CHILDREN CAN BE EDUCATED TO TILL THE EARTH, TO PLANT GARDENS, TO SELECT BIO-DIVERSE SEEDS, TO CONSUME WHAT THEY GROW, TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURAL PROCESSES OF GROWTH, THE SEASONS, AND THE INTERRELATION OF ALL LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS.

OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE ARE THE GREAT NURTURERS OF WISDOM.
CHILDREN CAN BE LED TO EXPERIENCE THE EVER-TRANSFORMING, LIFE SUSTAINING ESSENCE OF THE NATURAL WORLD, AS WELL AS ITS FRAILTY AND VULNERABILITY. AND THROUGH THIS RE-EDUCATION WE CAN ALSO LEARN TO BE TRUE, TO BE THANKFUL, TO BE LIFE GIVING, AND TO ACCEPT LIFE'S PROCESSES IN A MORE COMPASSIONATE, UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER.

WE CAN NOW TURN TO THE DISCIPLINE AND RICHNESS OF PERMACULTURE, THE TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE, THE ALCHEMY OF SUN, SHADOW, MOISTURE, EARTH, ITS MINERALS... AND THE SUBTLE LIFE-GIVING VITALITY THERE TO BE FOUND.

LAY THIS SCIENCE IN THE SMALL HANDSOF CHILDREN, LET THEM LEARN IT AS PART OF BEING ON THIS PLANET, PART OF LIVING. LET GARDEN AND MOIST EARTH NURTURE THE FRESH MINDS OF A NEW GENERATION. LET US TAKE THE SHOVEL OURSELVES AS TRANSITIONAL ADULTS. LET US PRACTICE WHAT OUR BELIEFS ARE, TEACH THEM WITH OUR ADULT EXAMPLE.

NOTHING WILL GROW IF IT IS NOT TENDED TO LOVINGLY, CONSTANTLY, TRULY. NOTHING SO OBTAINED CAN LACK VALUE, FOR ALL SUCH YIELD WILL BE EXPERIENCED AS THE FRUIT OF ACTION, THE REWARD OF HOPE AND CARE, AND THE ESSENCE OF RESPONSABILITY AND CONSEQUENCE.
IF OUR PRODUCE AND SUSTENANCE BECOME ESSENTIAL, AND OUR ACTIONS HAVE THIS QUALITY AND NATURE, THEN WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH.


THESE ARE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS THAT CAN ENRICH HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY, BUILD CHARACTER, BUILD DEPTH OF MIND AND ENRICH RELATIONSHIPS. AKNOWLEDGING THE COMMON GROUND OF OUR OWN NATURE'S, AS PART OF THE LIFE SUSTAINING EARTH, CAN ONLY DEEPEN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL AS OURSELVES, AND LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR GREATER SERENITY, APPEASEMENT, TRUST, ACCEPTANCE.

THESE ASPECTS OF A NEW TRANSITIONAL EDUCATION CAN LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL CHANGE, FOR A UNIFIED LIVING WORLD, FOR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEAUTY OF WHAT IS ESSENTIAL, AND A REJECTION OF WHAT IS NOT.

GO OUT TO YOUR GARDENS AND CREATE PLOTS FOR GROWING VEGETABLES. THE NEW EDUCATION BEGINS THERE. THERE WHERE WE STAND, THERE WHERE OUR SUSTENANCE FINDS ITS ROOT.
MAKE COMPOST, RECYCLE WATER, USE LESS, CREATE MORE....BECOME SELF RELIANT, AND OBSERVE CAREFULLY THE REFLECTIONS AND THE DYNAMICS THAT WILL ENSUE NATURALLY AND BRING ABOUT A TRUE TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE AND LIFE ON EARTH, FOR BOTH THE INSTANT AND THE EON.

SUPPLANT DOMINATION, TRIVIALITY AND VIOLENCE-FILLED GAMES WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND CONTACT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. EMBRACE
THE PLANTS, THE SEASONS, THE MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY OF ALL FORMS OF NATURE WITHOUT EXCEPTION.

ONLY THUS WILL THE NATURAL WORLD GRADUALLY PROVIDE THE MOST ADVANCED MODELS FOR THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY OF MAN. A TECHNOLOGY TO FRAME, RATHER THAN DEGRADE OUR SUBLIME AND ELEVATED CONDITION AS INTEGRAL MANIFESTATIONS OF A PRIMORDIAL GENIUS.

BEHOLD A COMING NEW ENLIGHTENMENT. BEHOLD A REVOLUTION.
BRING ABOUT THE REVOLUTION WITH YOUR ACTIONS.

BUY USED CLOTHES.
TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET
OPT FOR EDUCATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.
TEACH ALL YOU KNOW, ALL YOU CAN.
VALUE KNOWLEDGE, VALUE WISDOM,
SEEK ITS EXPRESSION IN ALL THINGS.
SUPPORT ONLY PEACEFUL AND NON VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT.
PLAY UPLIFTING MUSIC
LEARN MUSIC, POETRY, ARTS AND DANCE.
PROMOTE BEAUTY, BALANCE, PRECISION, DISCIPLINE.

STICK TO WHAT IS ESSENTIAL.

LESS IS MORE
VALUE YOUR BEAUTY, NOT YOUR DRESS.

INVEST TIME, EFFORT, MONEY

ON THINGS THAT MATTER
LOVE THOSE AROUND YOU
LOVE THE EARTH
PROTECT THOSE AROUND YOU
THINK OF ALL SPECIES AS EQUAL
ABANDON DESTRUCTION
ABANDON WASTE
LIVE CONSCIOUSLY
LIVE RESPONSIVELY

MAKE A GREENHOUSE
MULCH YOUR GARDENS
INSTALL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
EXPLORE NATURAL PESTICIDES
BE FREER FROM CONSUMERISM
BE FREER FROM AN OBSOLETE AND DESTRUCTIVE CULTURE
EXCERCISE YOUR POWER OF SELF-DETERMINATION
TRUST YOU INTELLIGENCE..
IT WILL SURPRISE YOU
ENRICH YOU
NEVER LET YOU DOWN
BE YOUR BETTER SELF
SEEK YOUR BETTER SELF
COMMIT TO YOUR BETTER SELF
AND THAT OF OTHERS
BE HAPPY,
BE FREE.

THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT
A MANIFESTO

THE NEW REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING NOW, AND IT IS ONE WITHOUT BORDERS, ONGOING. VAST AND PROFOUNDLY LIFE-AFFIRMING. IT WILL EXTEND TO ALL SPECIES, RACES AND CULTURES, EMERGING AS A NEW INTEGRATED WORLD CULTURE.

SINCE WE CLEARLY UNDERESTIMATE THE TRANSCENDENT NATURE AND DEPTH OF OUR INTELLIGENCE, WE DO NOT GENERALLY SEE THIS. BUT I AFFIRM THIS REVOLUTION AND AIM AT MAKING IT VISIBLE IN MY LIFE AND THOUGHT. I BEHOLD IT, AND POINT MY FINGER AT IT TO ELUCIDATE TO OTHERS ITS ATTRIBUTES AND ITS LUMINOUS CONTOURS.

REVOLTS DUE TO PASSING ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL CONVULSIONS WILL FOR A TIME CONTINUE TO MANIFEST, BE TRIVIALIZED BY THE MEDIATIC MACHINERY AND SUPERFICIAL PRESUMPTIONS OF COLLECTIVE THOUGHT, AND ULTIMATELY BECOME A FLEETING CONTRIBUTOR OF GROWTH THROUGH THE PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL WAY OF LIFE BASED ON PROFIT.

WE ARE IN ESSENCE MUCH MORE THAN THE PRESENT-DAY HISTORICAL PROCESS, AND PART OF A MUCH GREATER ORDER THAN WE GIVE CREDIT.

FREE COMMUNICATION WILL FOR SOME TIME CONTINUE TO COME UNDER ATTACK. HUMAN COMMUNICATION IS FOR THE MOST PART NOT TRULY FREE, SINCE OUR MINDS ARE NOT FREE. FREEDOM IS A MODERN DAY MYTH AND LITTLE MORE. THE MIND'S FREEDOM COMES WITH THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, AND THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT IN CURRENT CIRCULATION.

MEDIA CULTURE MUST BE CAST ASIDE FOR GREATER MENTAL AND CULTURAL FREEDOM AT INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE LEVELS. ONLY FROM A MORE GENUINE AND SELF-RELIANT, LESS MANIPULATED AND PASSIVE PSYCHE, CAN COME A GRADUAL ENLIGHTENMENT AS TO OUR TRUE NATURES. LET US SPEAK TO EACH OTHER, LET US MANIFEST OUR VALUES, LET US MAKEOUR CHOISES AND AFFIRM THEM SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. LET US TAKE BACK OUR MINDS, OUR MOUTHS, EARS AND EYES. LET US DROP BIG BROTHER AND THE PUTREFIED MATRIX OF A SOCIETY ENMESHED IN TRIVIALITY.

INFORMATION IS STORED WORLDWIDE AND VALUED AS A TOOL FOR DOMINATION. THE WAY OF LIFE CURRENTLY COLLAPSING THRIVES ON CREATING THE OPPOSITE CULTURE TO THAT OF TRUE FREEDOM. KNOWLEDGE SHOULD LEAD TO FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS. TODAY VALUED ONLY AS TOOL FOR SELFISH PROFIT, IT WILL IN TIME BECOME A TOOL FOR FREEDOM..

ONE MAN'S PROFIT IS ANOTHER MAN'S LOSS. THAT WOULD BE FINE IF THE WORLD WERE ONLY A MATTER OF MINDLESS HUMAN FLESH EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING LIKE AEMEBAES. BUT MAN'S BLINDING GREED HAS ALSO BECOME THE ENVIRONMENT'S LOSS FOR MUCH TOO LONG AND TO MUCH TOO DANGEROUS AN EXTENT. IT CONSTITUTES A MASSIVE AND SPECIES-THREATNING LOSS, AN AFFRONT TO OUR ESSENCE AS PART OF A GRAND LIVING ORDER, AN AFFRONT TO LIFE. LIFE IS SOMETHING MUCH GREATER THAN US ALONE, MORE DIVERSE AND VALUABLE THAN JUST OUR PRESENCE AS A SPECIES.

AN ANTRHOPOCENTRIC CULTURE GIVES WAY TO DOMINATIONAND MUST BE OVERCOME. ITS COGNITIVE FORCEPS PERPETUATE THE CONTROL OF THE FEW OVER THE MANY. IT CAN ONLY UNDERGO AN INCREASING MELTDOWN UNDER CONDITIONS OF HUMAN GROWTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SINCE ITS PERPETUATION THREATENS OUR SURVIVAL. OUR ENVIRONMENT WILL REMIND US INCREASINGLY OF OUR VIOLATIONS.
WE ARE NOT ALONE, AND WE ARE NOT IN CHARGE.

ONCE THIS HAPPENS, NEW PLATEAUS OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VISION WILL COME INTO VIEW, AND EMERGE AS NEW SOCIAL MODELS. THESE NEW MODELS WILL BE EGALITARIAN, FRATERNAL AND HOLISTIC, OR WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE. THE LONG OVERDUE IDEALS OF PREVIOUS REVOLUTIONS WILL HAVE TO FIND A PLACE ON THIS EARTH, OR BE SILENCEDBY OUR DEMISE AS A SPECIES.

SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CULTURE WILL BECOME ONE UNIFIED CULTURE. THE MONKEY DOES HAVE A TREE AFTER ALL, AND IT GROWS FROM THE SOIL. IF THE SOCIAL BEING DOES NOT CONTEMPLATE THIS, THEN THE MONKEY WILL HAVE TO EAT MONKEYS AND CLIMB AND HANG FROM OTHER MONKEYS.

DUE TO A WORLD CRISIS OF CAPITAL THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED, PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL EXPERIENCE WIDESPREAD NEED FOR NEW WAYS OF LIFE, MEANS OF EMANCIPATION FROM THE ESTABLISHED MODELS, AND WAYS OF EMANCIPATION FROM CONTROL IN ORDER TO DO IT. THOSE FORCES PERCEIVED AS UNWANTED MECHANISMS OF MASS CONTROL WILL INEVITABLY ENTER PHASES OF WIDESPREAD QUESTIONING. CREDIT AND CASH-BASED ECONOMY ARE AMONG THE MOST ARTIFICIAL AND ABSTRACT MECHANISMS, AND WILL PROBABLY GO FAST. EATING AND SHARINGARE ANOTHER MATTER.

THROUGH THE RISE OF NEW IDEAS FOR PRACTICAL DAY TO DAY LIVING, (SELF-RELIANCE, COOPERATIVE ECONOMY, NON PROFIT COOPERATION, PERMACULTURE AS A NEW GRASS-ROOTS DYNAMIC..) PROFIT-CENTERED MODELS WILL FALL OUT OF FAVOUR AND BECOME OBSOLETE. A MUCH MORE PALPABLE ATMOSPHERE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY AND ETHICAL STATURE WILL ENSUE. DEMOCRACY PER SE WILL BE INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZED AS A SMOKE SCREEN FOR CONTROL OF THE FEW OVER THE MANY, AS MECHANISMS TO PERPETUATE INGRAINED OBSOLETE VALUES, FAR FROM IDEAL, FAR FROM PROMOTING GENUINE FREEDOM, GENUINE HAPPINESS, AND FAR FROM GROWTH-PROMOTING....AS THE STATE OF THINGS TODAY AMPLY DEMONSTRATES.

MODERN DAY CULTURE AND ITS PROFIT-BASED MODEL AND IMPETUS IS AND HAS BEEN THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY NO LESS GENOCIDAL THAN THE MOST DEMONIC AND EXPANSIVE ORDER HITLER COULD HAVE ENVISIONED,
AND IT HAS BEEN THE ENVIRONMENT IT HAS AFFECTED MOST VIOLENTLY, AS WELL AS THOUSANDS OF FELLOW SPECIES.

WHEN THIS IS RECOGNIZED BY THE MAYORITY OF PEOPLE, NEW SYSTEMS OF ECONOMY WILL ARISE EVERYWHERE. COOPERATIVE NETWORKS WILL CONSOLIDATE AND MERGE, AIMED AT PROVIDING FOR ALL HUMAN NEEDS WITHIN DIVERSE, NON CENTRALIZED, NON-PROFIT, NON-REGULATED, NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MODELS.

THE ADVENT OF A NEW CULTURAL PARADIGM WILL COME WITH THE EXPANSION OF NEW ENLIGHTENED IDEAS, PUT INTO PRACTICE BY MORE AND MORE PEOPLE, RESULTING IN AN EMERGING NEW CULTURE. IT WILL CHANGE ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION, INCLUDING LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND PERCEPTION. SELF- REGULATION AND TRUE ENLIGHTENED CONSENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITHIN MORE ETHICAL SYSTEMS OF LIFE WILL BECOME THE NORM, NOT REGULATIONS, NOT LAWS, NOT MASS DICTATES.

LAWS AND LAWYERS ARE A NECESSITY BROUGHT ABOUT BY ABUSE. CONSCIOUS ABUSE CAN BE ABOLISHED BY TRUE EQUALITY AND HAPPINESS.

ARTS AND IDEAS WILL CEASE TO BE INDIVIDUALISTIC , AND WILL BECOME PRIMARILY NEW FORMS OF INTELLIGENTLY CONSTRUCTED CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROPOSALS FOR A UNIFIED EMERGING CULTURE OF RETURN TO THE EARTH'S REGENERATIVE PROCESSES, RETURN TO MAN'S RIGHT TO FREEDOM, OVERTHROW OF CONSUMERISM, AND ABANDONMENT'S OF THE IMPOSED MECHANISMS OF A SINGLE MONOLITHIC PROFIT-BASED CULTURE ON AN EVER INCREASING SCALE.

ARTS AND IDEAS WILL BECOME REVOLUTIONARY AND ENLIGHTENED, AND WILL EMERGE AS INTEGRATED PARTS OF A WHOLE, AND OVERCOME THE MODEL OF THE ISOLATED ARTIFACT, AND THE STATUS AS LUXURY ITEM WILL GO WITH IT. ART WILL PROVIDE HARMONY TO THE MATERIAL DIMENSIONS OF NEW WAYS OF EXISTENCE WHEREVER NEEDED AND FOR THE GOOD OF COMMUNITIES, NOT INDIVIDUALS.

THE NEW REVOLUTION WILL BRING THE ADVENT OF SOLAR, GEOTHERMIC, EOLIC AND MANY OTHER EXISTING FORMS OF ENERGY, INCLUDING CULTURE ITSELF IN ALL ITS MANIFESTATIONS. THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF ALL THINGS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY MANIFEST AND VITALLY FELT.

THE AS YET UNFORESEEN REVERSAL OF GLOBAL WARMING IS A POSSIBILITY.

THE CONCEPT OF POWER WILL BE SUPPLANTED BY THE CONCEPT OF FUNCTIONALITY.

MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN SACRED AND VALUABLE BEFORE WILL NOT REMAIN STANDING IN FUTURE TIMES.

THE ARTISTIC AND IDEOLOGICAL PRECEDENTS FOR THE NEW CULTURE WILL BE REINTERPRETED AND SEEN IN A NEW LIGHT.

EXCEPTING THE HIGHEST AND MOST SUBLIME MONUMENTS TO BEAUTY AND TRUTH, ALL ELSE WILL PERISH.

THE RULE OF A SO CALLED MAJORITY OVER THE REST WILL BECOME OBSOLETE.

NEW WORLD ORDERS AND SIMILAR CONCEPTS PRESENTLY IN USE TO PERPETUATE PROFIT-BASED CULTURAL AND POLITICAL VALUES WILL ULTIMATELY BECOME OBSOLETE.

BE HAPPY, BE FREE
BEHOLD THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT.