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This is a long vision, with several parts, so it gets an issue all by itself.
- Flemming
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** Gwen Kraft <guinever@interpac.net>, Hawaii. **
A Vision of our Future
(working draft as revised 1/2/96)
It is 2075 and the earth is such like a garden that the beings and creatures
living upon her are increasingly awed and fed by the warmth of her divinity.
In sensorily-perceived waves of bliss all creatures gratefully receive her
bounties: not only physical and material bundance, but also intelligence,
bliss, peace, joy, and myriad other qualities of earth's rapturous love in
which they are daily bathed. These sensations emmanate not only from the
earth, but also from all other living things; and the effect is so
enrapturing that were it not for our increased capacities in physiology and
mental and emotional bodies, we would be consummed by the intensity.
Indeed, blissfully consummed we are in spirit!
General Overview:
There are experimental communities of all varieties upon the earth.
Transportation is easily accessible, global and inexpensive. People have no
need of passports and use thumbprints to electronically register and
designate their whereabouts for easy contact by friends and loved ones.
However, this procedure is not mandatory and someone wishing to retreat or
withdraw may bypass the process by choice. We are self-accountable and
self-responsible.
Fuel and energy needs are provided by sunlight and starlight, -- quarklight?
-- received and transmitted by crystals coiled in gold, silver, copper and
platinum. Tessla coils, electromagnetic generators, semiconductors, nuclear
fussion and related technologies have advanced to developments and uses that
we could not yet dream of as this vision was first written. Appliances and
communications are entirely wireless. Most routine chores and activities
are automated or robotized, leaving individuals free to develop creative
talents and interests. Health, education, creative employment and housing
are provided for all.
People, especially adolescents and young adults, travel frequently around
the world, living in communal populations, working/creating according to
ability and interest, in return for board, room and apprenticeship or
desired growth experience. There are earth gardens, sea gardens, river and
lake aquacultures, and forests to be tended. There are healing arts to be
learned from master practioners: herbalists, bodyworkers (ranging from
masseurs to acupuncturists and adjusters of chi energy, and all varieties in
between), aromatherapists, sound and color therapists, and experts in guided
imagery and psycholinguistic programming techniques; there are meditation
masters, shamans, vision-quest base camps, wilderness journeyers and the
like. There are practical artisans and engineers of all varieties; there
those who construct and maintain dwellings and serviceable structures,
community planners, guides, counselors, and so on who receive incoming
visitors and orient them to the community and connect them with their chosen
employment or task.
All community participants find some means of service while in the
community. When receiving benefits from a community, a person is in
agreement to serve in some way. No one is restricted from leaving a
community for a personal journey or seclusion or retreat; and there upon the
individiual takes personal responsibility for one's own well-being. These
things are accomplished without bureaucratic approvals of sabbaticals, etc.
Our time and activities are planned according to our individual decisions.
Young and old alike travel the world in this manner, learning from one
another and appreciating the various climes and cultures. This fosters
greater identification with all peoples and increases our humanhood (once
called brotherhood.) Furthermore, this offers continual renewal to
communities as people take time (from weeks to many years) for varied
purposes and return to society refreshed with insights, talents, visions,
revelations, and the like. Through this process the hero and heroine
archetypes, the shaman, yogi, and wise man, and the wise woman continue to
inform society, renewing our civilization in continuous, beauteous
transformation. Such individuals are honored and welcomed.
The level of responsibility chosen by a community member brings increased
amenities. For example, someone who has chosen a more permanent position in
a community and assumed larger duties toward overseeing the care of its
members and facilitating the cultural interchange described above, may have
access to larger resources to sustain the community. This includes larger
and more luxurious housing. There is no concern about such differences, as
luxury and abundance is available to all according to the wish each has to
be responsible to the material goods one has chosen to possess. In other
words, if one wants to journey indefinitely, less possessions are desired or
needed. If one wants housing and land and possesions, there is no
obstruction to that desire; and one takes the responsibility for its care
and upkeep and, our of this abundance, offers service to the community in
some fashion.
Education:
A marvelous children's picture book printed in the 1990s called, "It Takes a
Whole Village to Raise a Child" foresaw the responsibility that all adults
would have toward children in the New Civilization. No one can wash one's
hands of the duty to respond nurturingly, and correctively as needed, to a
youngster with whom one has contact. Everyone has the duty to consider the
influcence of one's thoughts, deeds, and chosen occupation upon the world's
children. Whether one is a publisher, an entertainer, an engineer, a space
scientist, an educator, an artisan or craftsman, a developer of electronic
media, or any other role one has assumed, this obligation cannot be shunned.
The loving nurturance of children is a societal obligation. The insights
and practices presented in the book, "The Celestine Prophecy" serve as
guidelines in this process. The magic and joy of childhood is fostered in
every manner possible to ensure that qualities of joy, creativity,
playfulness, openness, curiosity, natural intuition, native intelligence,
and the like are not lost, but rather expand and thrive into adulthood.
Since the year 2010 schools beyond grades kindergarten to grade five have
been dissolved. Boys and girls are educated separately, leading to
increased confidence in the abilities of both sexes, and greater mutual
respect between them. Children are taught to read, write, and given
fundamentals in arithmetic and in information access and retrieval. They
are led in non-sectarian meditation (for the development of intuition),
singing, community participation, gardening, pet care, and instructed in
personal hygiene and daily exercise.
As part of an ten or eleven-year-old's personal hygiene instruction, the
details of reproduction and pregnancy prevention are given. At the age of
conceptual thought development students participate in discussions of
aesthetics, values, critical thinking and reasoning, and also in mediation
skills for conflict resolution. The youth are instructed in practical
matters and logistics of interaction and survival in the global community,
including the use of electronic funds which they will begin receiving at the
age of 12, (as described in the next section). At age 12 children are
considered accountable and are initiated into the adolescent stage of
blossoming. In beautiful ceremonies varying by cultural symbols and
meanings, the archetypal energies of the hero and heroine are invited into
the young person's realm in a more personal way than through the fairytales
and myths that they have encountered in their training thus far. Following
a formal ceremony the young person spends some time (usually 30 days) upon
a personal journey or vision quest to allow this transition into the world
of adult accountability to have impact upon the individual. The newly
initiated then spends three or four years in various positions of community
service, and at age 15 or 16 begins a series of journeys to numerous world
communities as above described, or remains in his or her community of origin
to begin an apprenticeship with one or more masters of choice. Further
education, which is seen as a life-long process is an individual plan
devised by the person with the assistance of counselors as desired, and
always initiated by the individual.
Money:
Since the year 2010 all persons aged 12 and above are yearly granted
electronic funds of $100,000 for use in any manner one chooses. These
funds are deposited into the world network of electronic banking and the
individual accesses them as needed. There is no restriction as to how they
are used. Financial counselors are available for all, and used frequently
by those aged 12 through 14 as they enter their first years with access to
these funds. Money is finally understood and used in its rightful way....it
reaffirms our belief in abundance for all and its availabilty to all,
promoting cooperation, participation and sharing. The thought of "not
enough to go around" is forever vanquished and hence also the need to hoard
and act from greed. Electronic money is the easiest and most delightful way
to play this out, while also providing a means to prioritize our goals and
measure the value we place upon them. The amount of $100,000 is totally
arbitrary and could easily be 100 million or 100 billion. ( Taxes? Long ago
an artifact.) The days of accumulation of wealth and possessions, of power
over others is gone. The energies of people are focused on creative
expression, research, innovation, and the nurturance and soul-advancement of
fellow beings and creatures.
Spiritual Life and Human Relationships:
Above all, spirituality is seen as an individual experience, an inner
relationship. All beings are beheld as soveriegn individuals, expressions
of God and Goddess. There are innumerable gatherings and groupings of
individuals for their personal spiritual expression, brought together by
similar desires in their approach to the divine or by cultural preferences.
There is complete freedom in one's choice to express or participate in
spiritual ceremonies or activities. Most find the expression a natural
desire because such is the nature of all surrounding creation.
Human relationships and couplings are infused with spirituality and are
private concerns inasmuch as their existence brings fruits of strength and
beauty to the world. No one is asked to endorse a particular spiritual
path or lifestyle or relationship style; and no one has others' preferences
forced upon their consciousness in an attempt to gain community consensus.
Relationships are private matters. Attempts to make public displays of
preferences are met with reminders that as sovereign beings such need for
approval, i.e. asking for permission or gaining personal power through the
need for ouside approval is unnecessary. Respect is given to all, and
dignity in action and behavior is expected of all.
As mentioned previously, the insights of "The Celestine Prophecy" serve as
guidelines for relationships in the New Civilization.
Problematic Issues:
Councils made up of members of each community, and rotating on a regular
basis, reflect, brainstorm, and more-or-less "think-tank" ideas in creative
thought sessions. Problem-solving is handled in a like manner. Small and
routine matters are decided by council members. Community input is
obtained through electronic network and is sought in large issues. In
stalemate, no decision is made until further information can be gathered --
such as guidance from periods of retreat and meditation, networking for
input from global consortiums (such as this NCN). Mediation is a process
often used to resolve interpersonal problems. All society members have had
training in mediation skills. In unusual circumstances, a special council
of elder members from sister communities may be invited to meet to address
difficult matters.
Dealing with the "Rascals" of Society:
Those with anti-social tendencies are known to have developed their
disharmonies primarily from chemicial imbalance or the lack of bonding with
a caretaker in early years. The closeness of communities permits the
recognition of these problems early on and steps are taken immediately to
provide medical treatment and/or parental guidance and assistance. For
example, mid-wives function also as community "aunties" and have close
contacts with growing youngsters, identifying problems in early stages.
Educators (who work 2 days a week in preparation, 2 days a week in
instructional settings and 1 day a week in meetings with other teachers and
in consultations with parents), observe and address problematic behaviors
promptly. As previously described, all adults have responsible roles in
child-rearing.
Adult offenders are removed to large working camps in nature where medical
evaluations are provided, and contact with the healing forces of nature,
care of animals, and the performance of routine duties provide the best
means of healing mental, emotional and spiritual diseases.
Parenting Instruction is given regularly in communities; and couples
planning to have children agree upon admittance to a community to
participate in this instruction, both receiving, and giving instruction in
later sessions.
Women deal with reproductive matters privately, being trained in the use of
herbs, and learning from and consulting one another. Their intimate
relationship with the sovereign divinity within them is respected fully.
Free Speech and Censorship:
Expression in all forms of human creativity and in human speech is
encouraged to be as wide-ranging and encompassing as one's imagination can
soar. And it is to be coupled with an aim to aesthetic expression.
Censorship will not be placed upon expressions that cause no physical,
mental, emotional or spiritual harm. This matter is one of the major
ongoing considerations of community councils worldwide. There is agreement
that monitoring of materials for uninitiated children (under age 12) is
acceptable. (Again it is stressed that the nurturing of children is a
community responsibility held reverently.) However, it is the primary
premise of Free Expression Policies throughout the world that censorship is
to be rejected in adult arts, entertainment, communications and
publications. More positively stated, Free Expression is to be the rule; and
it's corallary is that Aesthetic Expression is to be its standard. It was
long ago recognized that free expression, particularly free speech, was
sought to allow all viewpoints and equal hearing in social concerns. And,
it was equally recognized that all matters, pros and cons, theses,
antitheses and syntheses, can be expressed aesthetically and with respect
and dignity to and for all individuals. Therefore, expression that does not
aim toward aesthetic expression bringing edification to all is not seen as
liberating or intellectually freeing. Such expression is discouraged.
This matter is still evolving in human thought. However, it has progressed
to the point where, with the permeation of divine spirit in our lives, there
is less inclination for artistic expression to be fraught with unresolved
emotions which tend to bring disharmony. As human evolution has progressed
toward more light so has human expression more light revealed.
Guinevere
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Thanks for that, Guinevere. And everybody else, your visions are very
welcome. Please send them to ffunch@newciv.org.
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