Know Your Rights: The International Bill of Rights

Know Your Rights

The International Bill of Rights

The International Declaration of Human Rights

 

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Should it be a surprise that very few are aware of the single major document that protects rights and freedoms of virtually all the peoples of the world? The UN Declaration of Human Rights should not be taken for granted. Along with a handful of other documents it comprises the International Bill of Rights, this document guarantees most of the rights and freedoms you enjoy today, and which you quite possibly take for granted. Can you find anything herein that you disagree with on principle?

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories." 

PREAMBLE

 

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, 

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the commonpeople, 

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, 

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, 

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, 

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, 

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, 

Now, Therefore,
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
proclaims
THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. 

Article 1.

 

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. 

Article 2.

 

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. 

Article 3.

 

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. 

Article 4.

 

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. 

Article 5.

 

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 

Article 6.

 

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. 

Article 7.

 

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. 

Article 8.

 

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. 

Article 9.

 

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. 

Article 10.

 

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. 

Article 11.

 

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. 

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. 

Article 12.

 

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. 

Article 13.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. 

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. 

Article 14.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. 

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. 

Article 15.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. 

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. 

Article 16.

 

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. 

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. 

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. 

Article 17.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. 

Article 18.

 

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. 

Article 19.

 

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. 

Article 20.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. 

Article 21.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. 

(2) Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country. 

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. 

Article 22.

 

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. 

Article 23.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. 

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. 

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. 

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. 

Article 24.

 

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. 

Article 25.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. 

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. 

Article 26.

 

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. 

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. 

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. 

Article 27.

 

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. 

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. 

Article 28.

 

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. 

Article 29.

 

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. 

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. 

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. 

Article 30.

 

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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Freedom or Fatherland Insecurity: Utopia Now or Apocalypse Tomorrow

Freedom or Fatherland Insecurity

Utopia Now or Apocalypse Tomorrow 

“I can’t see the human race getting very far, if women are busy making babies while men are busy killing people.”-         Kathleen Azzopardi, age 16 

 

Loving your country is natural, if you live in a natural landscape. All landforms and ecosystems are uniquely individual and people who truly live in them, rooted firmly in the nurturing earth, will always cherish and defend their homeland, families and traditional lifestyles.

            Until less than one generation ago most humans lived with nature, outside the modern mushrooming profusion of hive-like cities and towns. More often than not they lived happy, prosperous and fulfilling lives in mutually supportive groups of friends and families. A threat to their land was a threat to their family and their farm, their animals and crops – a threat to their existence. And the major threat to their pleasant lives was usually a city-building, dynastically minded empire-builder and his band of ignorant, willing spear carriers bent on pillage and rape.  

       Patriotism – the love of the ancestral parent-land – was used as a tool to harvest spear and cannon fodder as regularly as possible. The war machine’s appetite was always voracious and insatiable.

       These monarchic feudal empires ruled essentially unchanged through most of our histories before being partially reformed into our modern version of corporate wage-slavery after the Enlightenment. 

       Rallying around the flag was a necessity of battle, to be regularly practiced in the all-too-brief peacetime so that another generation could be marched into the maw of the beast with a minimum of complaint. The sporting, playful nature of humans was easily exploited for the purposes of war. 

       Regimented sporting codes enacting regional rivalries on a practice battlefield were encouraged by the rulers of most nations, to foster a militant and violently competitive mindset among the people and ensure that young men were encouraged and rewarded for possessing a near-suicidal lack of enlightened self-interest and individuality. Violent team sports are practice for the mindset of war, not a harmless sublimation of it.

       Nationalism, patriotism, racism and religion are the cornerstones of an age-old propaganda edifice that’s designed to stop humans of different tribes and races from thinking for themselves – and from learning to actually like and trust each other. These pernicious fantasies have very effectively impeded the unification of humanity in its race toward a millennial new age of peace, prosperity and familiarity – of fairness and compassion – until now.

        Now we have to replace these outmoded notions with much better concepts – a unified healthy planet, a noble species of sisters and brothers with awareness beyond mere materialism, educated in the undeniable facts of our truly remarkable existence and potential. Our true heritage and birthright is greater than we can currently imagine; a caterpillar can’t even see the butterfly.

       Nation states do not actually exist. Nations are merely notions, ideas that exist in no landscape but that of the habituated human mind. In such a notional state so-called patriots and soldiers are rewarded with an utterly undeserved credibility and trust, just as sportsmen and women are treated as great leaders and worthy sages for the duration of their prosaic lives.

        Nationalism is nothing more than an excuse to believe in an illusory us and them. There’s no honour, nobility or valour involved – loving your imaginary nation is the result of a hypnotic command that uses inflated, self-important racism to excuse murder, theft and extortion. Nationalism always creates a supposedly credible enemy for little girls and boys to demonise and to fantasise slaying in excruciating detail – and our innocent thoughts make the world.

       If all nations did what they claim as a sovereign right and simply defended their own territory and homeland, no war could ever occur. But defense is not what having a military force is for in our post-modern world.

        Patriotism is merely a pat excuse to riot and cause mayhem in the name of the paterfamilias and padrone, the father, fatherland and fuehrer – usually an old, lonely, blind, hidebound, vengeful psychotic with antisocial tendencies; the monomaniac leading the blind. 

        These are standard primate traits; not hard-wired behaviour but default settings that are easily tripped by fearful ignorance. Height makes might makes right and the rest is window-dressing and uniforms covering up an essentially mindless, reptilian territorialism that has no ethic but the satisfaction of its own reflexive, insatiable desires.

        All our mass beliefs, education and political systems are based on religiously followed lies and self-deceptions, designed to make people fracture themselves into a false hierarchy of castes and classes, winners and losers, victims and victors. 

       Our warriors are blind killer apes, our priests are lunatics baying at the moon and our leaders are old terrified self-aggrandising assholes shitting on everyone else from the top of the tree, marking territory.

       You know it’s true. We’re all one people, with shared emotions, dreams, hopes and aspirations, fractured into a fearful, clamorous Babel of broken mirrors by the lies and errors of those who preceded us. There’s no point respecting leaders of the past or present, no point listening to their vaporous self-serving mockery of intelligent discourse - or in showering them with spirit money or campaign contributions. 

        The vast majority of all our ancestors were mainly blind, reflexive automatons doing nothing more than their equally robotic predecessors. Today’s leaders and followers are just the same old dinosaurs tarted up in less ornate finery, sucking the cream off our collective mother’s milk at our expense. They’re lying  front-men for the industrialist robber barons, weapon makers and corporate gangsters that despise and fear the rest of Humanity - and who would rather be rid of the majority of us.

        Our veneration may be better reserved for the truly deserving visionaries who improve the lot of all humanity at the expense of no-one – those who question and consider, create and experiment; those who examine themselves, nature - and their own nature. Of course, it’s much harder to recall the name of a single one of these individuals than to remember the name of a myriad of sportspeople, generals or delusional religious figures. 

       Religious dogmas – ‘faiths’ - are nothing more than regional lies told by the blind, the misled and the control freaks of a bygone era. The truth will set you free from the desire for faith. Certainty is much more satisfying and is found in the simplest things by those who really want to root their belief systems in knowledge of the nature of reality – not the nursery rhymes of paedophiles. 

       Seek the truth in geometry, the substrates and matrices of our existence – the subject leads to other planes of awareness that reveal unexpected pathways through the multifaceted maze between here and tomorrow.

       The true shakers and movers of history are largely invisible to us, shoved aside by the makers and shovers who ensure their names occupy every billboard - and that’s actually a good thing, because the victor goes to spoilage and corruption at the focus of the undying attention lavished upon them by a servile, adulating, sub-adult population of hypnotised slaves and servants. The hero is always nailed to the cross of mass expectation and prejudice, gaining power and glory at the expense of freedom and inspiration – or tripping and falling over feet of clay.

       This catalogue of woefully repeated ancestral errors only works within unenlightened cultures whose parents allow their children to be ‘taught’ in systems designed as religious programming or job training for automatons. We need to expose our children to fresh concepts in places and mindsets that are carefully crafted for the edification and education of young minds with unexplored potential in a world where anything is possible – not institutions that subject them to being subject to subjects.

      Today’s schools and universities are the bastard offspring of arrogant industry and self-serving charity, bricks in the wall that separate us into haves and have-nots. They divide the best sponge-like young minds into separate streams and dead-end specialisations, blocking the development of a well-rounded intellect and life, rechanneling it into a careering, unsteerable vehicle that temporarily serves the purposes of industry.

       It’s the old methodology of divide and conquer applied to the brightest minds and the truest, most innocent alliance of truth-seekers, lost in the fossilising shadow-maze of the ivory tower.Rigid specialisation is the opposite of adaptation and synthesis; it’s the worst survival mechanism in a changing paradigm.

       Specialisation creates hierarchy and hierarchies are designed to impede change and maintain the status quo of stasis.If you think someone is an inferior or superior when you communicate with them you end up learning nothing; the worth of the information is already compartmentalised, pre-judged and prejudiced - not explored for its intrinsic value and qualities.If you assume the person you’re communicating with is a free, coequal and consciously living being there’s a much better likelihood of fruitful synergy. Friendly interest arouses friendly interest and free thought and communication creates unexpected hybridisation and catalysis. 
 

 

We don’t need hierarchies any more. We’re all one people, similar in our diversity and united in our sense of unique difference. We’ve outgrown our blind larval past and unless we change our ways now most of us are going to starve to death and die in the wars that will erupt when the food and other prime resources jam up in the inevitable human-created bottlenecks looming in our near future.

             Would you prefer it wasn’t you that’s passing their precious time rearranging deckchairs while the coal-fired ship’s master keeps yelling ‘Full steam ahead’? Would you prefer it was someone else? Do you see the bald, blind imperative illogic of ‘us’ and ‘them’, when we’re all on the same Titanic vessel in an uncharitable sea?We don’t have to take that path; there’s a steering wheel and the future sea has no fixed roads, only currents and tides, icebergs and landfalls. 

We can develop a new system, a truly new world order based on freedom and chaotic creativity, a new, truer democracy that votes for issues, not faces – one that votes early and often, not for parties or clans but for the betterment of all and a fair distribution of resources and trade in a chaotic state of increasing abundance. The skills to make a new Humanity are well-known and available to us all now – if we seek them.

       With clean, free energy and fuels at our disposal and a real commitment to sustainable abundance the entire world can live at the standard of living of middle-class Americans without trashing or utterly transforming the ecosystem. The technology is all waiting for us, sat on and bought out and hidden for decades by the fearful old fossil-fuel dinosaurs. We don’t need them – and that’s what they fear the most.

       Utopia is easily achievable. All we have to do is transform and educate ourselves. We can stabilise and enrich the environment and our cultures into a dynamically productive and creative utopia and transform our lives. We can discover the meaning and challenge of leisure time – another term for freedom. We’ll even find new things to dream and complain about.

       We can make it happen. All the tools are at our disposal, fully developed and waiting for us to pick up and use. All it takes is a willing and educated population, a free media, unilateral disarmament and a totally transparent and continually examined computerised voting system – all on a global scale and in your local neighbourhood.
       It takes a representative world governance – not a government - of all the diverse human tribes, united under the expansive umbrella of the already existing International Bill of Rights – a document that already protects our rights and freedoms and is responsible for most of the great advances of the last half century (that everyone’s taken for granted as unexpected benisons of their own credit-taking individual governments).

     All it takes to live in paradise on Earth is for you to examine your self and your mind, suspend your belief and disbelief, and listen to your unknown neighbour.
     All it takes is for you to consider the possibilities – and look inside your heart. Is a freely shared world of free, caring beings what you want? Are you ready to change jobs, to vote with your time and work in a field that transforms the world for the better instead of one that’s polluting and destroying it - or feeding or servicing those who are?

     Are you ready to discard homeland insecurity with the other rotten fear-filled rags of the past and emerge naked and innocent into a strange, new and fundamentally unknowable dawn?

      The question is the same whether you’re a princess or a pauper. What’s the answer? Can you come up with a better alternative than radical transmutation – given where we’re at right now? Or do you prefer the known ‘alternative’ of the same old feudal nightmare leading to the ragged hole?

       You won’t need to remember where it was that you read this diatribe, one day in the future when it all makes sense – for better or worse. This author doesn’t particularly want to be noticed or remembered; eye for one intend to be alive and happy in a world inhabited by a prosperous, improving Humanity! How about you?Do you dare to dream of paradise now? 

-         R. Ayana 

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Do We Agree? New World Ordure or Evolution

Do We Agree?

New World Ordure or Evolution 

The planet is girdled by our great established and emergent nations whose identities and actions are defined by their childhood beliefs, just as an individual personality is molded by internalised ancient patterns while they are shaped by the outer world.

Most of these beliefs arise from utopian and apocalyptic ancestral memories stored in meme banks of codified writings, existing alongside the innate cryptic rending of recollections transmitted in our ‘genes’. Some are entirely fanciful and fraudulent, though even these carry kernels of wisdom and truth amid their dross, to tempt people into swallowing the poisonous theological trappings they come wrapped in.

Nation states attempt to achieve a stasis where all is controllable by the hidden and overt puppet-masters that pull the strings from the crown of the family trees in all local areas, tribes and countries. They allow only those evolutionary forces that resemble their own will and personality to emerge - revolutionary abrupt change is anathema to them, even change for the better.   

These shadowy manipulators are ancestral filters designed to impede transformation of the human species.Under this dominant, ancient feudal paradigm, changes are always superficial; the clothes, music and styles shift around the clotheshorse of conventional consciousness and we mistake the shifting, hypnotic kaleidoscope for progress. The distraction stops real evolution and transmutation from occurring as it distracts us from the fundamental realities and mysteries of our own unique, never-to-be-repeated lives and our own unrecognised extraordinary talents that are usually suffocated aborning in childhood. 

What Did Our Grandparents Know?

 The new emerging democratic notion of the Third Millennium is a paradigm shift from the hierarchical so-called ‘representational’ democracy that has swept the globe in the last half century. Very few nations have actually embraced the notion for more than a single human generation and we forget how fast and in many cases superficial the changes have been. 

            Now our intermingling genes and memes make our old hidebound self-identities redundant and dangerously prehensile, crippling our awareness and potential in this time of revolutionary transformation. Chaos is unfolding around us with its own emergent implicate order calling the tune to which we must all dance, and learn the new steps quickly.

            Fortunately, much of our way forward has been largely mapped out for us and exists in a readily available form. There is so much that the people of Earth already agree on, if we care to take a look. Most of the potential sources of conflict between individuals and states can be easily sidestepped if we’re aware of what we’ve already come to decide through a long historical process of painfully learned and remembered lessons.

            Whomever they can or can’t vote for, almost all peoples on Earth are protected by an overarching Universal Bill of Rights that their governments have signed and ratified, documents that have defined much of world political and social change for decades - but hardly anyone has noticed. It’s very easy to blame the last few ignorant generations for the fix we find ourselves in, socially, politically and environmentally. It’s hard to see that most of the inroads in women’s rights, equal pay, fair working conditions, the right to legal representation, universal education, the right to vote freely – I could go on, and it would read like a shopping list for a trip to utopia - has arisen from this worldwide agreement undertaken by our parents and grandparents on our behalf. Can we do better?

See for yourself – the International Bill of Rights. Do you see anything you disagree with?[*]

It’s been in the interests of local partying governments to let us think the vast raft of social changes enacted in law over the last half century have come from their own largesse - not from enforceable international treaty obligations – so we think the dynastic self-serving power-mongers we vote for are nice people or in some way in control, able to protect us from change.  It’s us – warm-blooded individuals and societies acting in our own enlightened self-interest - that have made these truly progressive changes possible and people like us that have fought and worked to make these changes actually happen. 

Our ancestors have done the best they could, learning as they went along – the same as us. Leadership is a sham; all great, honest leaders are followers of the true public will, spokepeople for the tribe who act for the betterment of all. The rest are control freaks who pay attention to polls, politics and the public only to stay in power – the ones we all know too well. It’s time to learn something new and create something better, more fruitful and fairer. There’s never been a better time and the window of opportunity is closing, along with our easiest options.  

Control is another illusion that’s fast growing transparent as we all begin to wise up a little more. The smiling, fashionably fascist faces on our screens can’t hide the empty-bellied, gap-toothed reality facing not only our grandchildren but ourselves, in our own lifetimes.You know it’s true. We’re all on the Titanic and no sky fairy, god or spaceman is going to come and save us – except perhaps via inspiration and information. It’s up to us. 

All of us who realise what’s happening must act now, together in playfully intent groups and separately in our own lives, to use only the best within us and in our cultures and discard or recycle the rest into something pleasant and useful. There’s not much room for passengers or officers on this iceberg-bound collossus, and there aren’t enough lifeboats. What we need is more crew now if we’re to change course in time - more people who change their own lives and actively regenerate as much of the planet as they can while stopping the worst of the ongoing industrial destruction – anything is still possible if we stop watching the screen and do what we know we’re capable of. We don’t need money to do what’s needed; all you need to invest is all you really are; time and energy.  

There are plenty of others in the same position and real change emerges when we get together, creating the new reality together, come what may. Here’s no need to destroy anything or even attempt to reform much of the old, antiquated social plumbing from within. If you have a vast distributed network of friends working and playing together the old destructive systems and notions will wither on the vine – when we stop nourishing them with our blood, sweat, tears and time.We’ve all heard the prophecies of doom and can see the warning signs - that it’s time to step out of familiar, unsafe, humdrum existences that only feed the destruction and slip into full, sensuous, natural life. All we have to do is take the chance and follow the dreams that lead to hope – the rest follows. 

Non-Local Notions 

Humans live well and have the happiest lives in socially cohesive groups of no more than two to five dozen. Our nomadic ancestors rarely had the need or will to develop social groups of more than a dozen, except on regular festive occasions. Our true friends are rarely counted on more than the fingers of one hand – time and temporal constraints make having more than two handfuls of real friends very unlikely, no matter how many friendly people we know or love.           


To change course and survive our monolithic march toward catastrophe, we have to open our eyes to the blind habits of feudalism’s inherently unfair vestiges - that still rule and direct so many of our thoughts, our time and lives - and imagine how it could all be better. A new vision is easy to attain; it merely requires disillusionment - losing our attachment to illusions that beset us in the names of god and country, caste and class, racism and patriotism - and religion’s false and contradictory dogmas that are the actual genesis of most unnecessary guilt, discontent and wars. To blindly continue to follow anyone who represents these archaic concepts is to sacrifice your future and freedom, imagining safety is possible under the sheltering roof of gangsters and mass murderers. That’s what most static heads of state and proselytisers of fabulous regional lies all too easily become when options narrow. 

 Your soul is bigger than that – it understands the Golden Rule and knows that nothing more is needed than compassion and clarity. Some truths are always self-evident.We need to create nothing less than paradise on earth and must settle for nothing less. Paradise can’t be paradise unless it’s paradise for all who live here. We can all be more sensitive, responsive and creative beings, whatever the lives we’ve lived until this moment. There is no ‘original sin’ except the foisting of such a concept down the throats of innocent babes and ‘human nature’ is nothing more or less than those particular patterns within all of nature itself that we have chosen to learn and to copy. 

There are a myriad of choices and possibilities available to us in the subtle rainbow of nature’s pallet and we can take our pick. It’s almost all we do as a monkey see, monkey do species – ape our contemporaries. All our inventive technology is just a stumbling crawl toward understanding nature’s tricks and she still has far more to teach us about ourselves and the multiverse. And we have lots to learn from each other, too.We all have to be smart, wise, compassionate, gentle and sensitive little primates if we’re going to get to the next level or even get to stay on this one. You have to be everything you can, not just some perfunctory living job description with a redundant speciality. You have to do everything you know you’re good at and capable of to transform yourself enough to save your own life and world. That’s all it takes, but you get to relax – it’s part of the cure. 

The only real questions for you to consider as you sit there right now reading this little diatribe from the days of future past is – when?  andwhy not now?Life is happening now. 

There are kindred spirits all around. You’ll find them if you look for them and you really need each other, so link up. The road to the future’s paved with redundant religions and yesterday’s prophecies and destiny’s horizon only appears fixed because it always moves with you. Anything is possible. What do you actually need?In the vast little costume drama of human existence in the cosmos, let’s take on our self-appointed leading role and act out the part of the prime mates of Gaia, wise and happy custodians of this blue-green multifaceted gem who know how to really have a ball now that we’re all grown up. If you can’t remember the lines, don’t worry – there aren’t any. Besides, there aren’t any other options but a creative paradise or the same old crap – only worse. Which do you prefer? 

“There’s only one god who’s going to save you and you’re standing on it.”

-Trevor Budd

“Life’s what you make it.”

“Do as ye would be done by.”

- Your Grandparents and Mine 

"Nature is nurture"

-         R. Ayana- 

     

  “Maintain a sense of immanence.”

-         My Faerie Godmother 

PS – Last one out turn off the lights, please. 

- R.A.

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