Wolfgang Fischer
Dear fellow
humans, dear fellow humanists
yesterday I
was told , that St. Petersburg once was meant to be
the door to Europe - after my first exchange of
ideas with members of the Coalition Oxana Bourkina,
Irina Tschernysheva, Vladimir Bogomolov, Sergej
Semenov, Konstantin Kondratjev, Dimitry Ivanov, I
have the impression St. Petersburg might become the
door to a new world, to a humanist, peaceful and
just world
I am honored
to be invited to this conference. My contribution
is intended to support its noble goal which in my
opinion is vital for global survival of
humanity.
We are here
to share ideas about how to transform the current
global social decline into a humanist social and
ecological balance of societies in
peace.
As the roots
of current degeneration of hope are most complex we
also need complex answers on how to stop man made
progress towards an apocalyptic disaster and on how
to re-route our human potentials.
The system of
capitalist patriarchate will terminate itself naturally by
burning life into money, thus generating destructive power.
The resulting necessary death toll always gets higher in the
run of history. Today it reaches a global dimension. The
suffering caused by our history of passion is being
presented to the public to be without alternative,
Christianity even glorifies it. Compassionate
conservatism" is the theme of George W. Bush and his
neo-feudal-conservative international gang of gravediggers.
Compassionately they all create suffering. Nothing they have
in common with Life.
For thousands of years
we live within a bloody and lethal revolution of the demon
against Life. We have to terminate this situation if we
really want to survive. A single new Ché Guevara will
not be enough or sufficient - what we need is a world-wide
network of really conservatives of Life", of empathic
incorruptibles whose brains and hearts beat for eco-social
justice, for peace inside of us and in the world.
We have to re-shape
our world-views according to natural reality. Violation of
nature and environment because of mental fantasies has to be
terminated for ever. Common sense and sound sympathy are the
central clues to peace - purpose and destination of human
life.
My vision I call
Secular Spirituality", meaning sustainable
mentality, authenticity, the goal of human emancipation, a
way of thinking - which is aware of everything looking
historically backwards and at the same time into the future,
a mental and spiritual flexibility, the potentiality towards
a transcendent world view, which motivates to act for the
benefit of global life. I clarify this vision in detail and
I need your help if you agree to spread the message as broad
as possible.
I am going to talk to
you about:
TRANSPARENCY &
TRANSCENDENCE, GOLDEN KEYS TO PEACE:
- my lecture is
divided in 3 parts - I will start with the
Cosmic Dimensions
and Relations as they determine the order of Nature and
Life.
In the second part I
will talk about the
Relation between
Natural Order and Cultural Order - as Culture is meant to be
the Guarantor for Creative Thought and Action.
In the third part we
will deal with the question:
What are the mental
prerequisites to maintain a Creative Culture? How to
preserve the fundaments of Life which are nothing but a Loan
free of charge provided by GAIA - the dynamical Order of
Nature
We shall find out
about the
Original Path of
Life and the historically produced Wrong Track,
we shall understand
that we always have a
Choice between
Orientation and Misdirection, between Original and
Substitutes.
It is a tiny switch
only, an idea at the decisive place that decides about
heaven or hell. To become aware of it, may change the
world.
I will begin with a
description of the Cosmic Dimension of GAIA'S Relations
because they determine the order of Nature. (By GAIA I refer
to the theory of James Lovelock)
I - Periodic
and lawful dynamics and interaction of cosmic radiation on
our precious little planet describe a floating fundamental
vibration. In its temporal and spatial expansion the energy
of this creative oscillation" (see also:
Morpho-Genetical Field, Sheldrake; Orgone Field, Reich;
Gravitation, Global Scaling) contains information of cosmic
order [0]. Spirit and character of this information
is of energetic, material and also organizing nature, which
is infinite; its source is the unfathomable, beyond
imagination: chaos, the chance for coincidence.
We investigate the
energetic and material characteristics of all available
(in-)formation of our habitat in their scientific chemical,
physical and philosophical dimensions. We discover their
family relations. So far, however, we ignore their
connection to the origin of life on earth, because we
consider ourselves to be outside of what happens, beyond any
responsibility. Anthropocentrically arrogant we put
ourselves at risk to get lost in never ending ramifications
of causalities. Only the consequences of this confusion will
force us to realize life as a specific manifestation of
cosmic information". As long as we manipulate
information of our habitat, we inevitably run the risk to be
caught by the effects of such wrongdoing. It seems that just
before the consequence of planetary death we will begin to
recognize us as authors of what happens. Only then we
understand ourselves in the microcosm of life as an answer
to the creative and vitalizing" call from the
macrocosmic order of universe and from then on we resonantly
and responsibly will safeguard a healthy and creative future
by open and unadulterated communication.
Body and structure of
life will appear to us as the biological manifestation of an
organizing principle, which radiates informatively from
cybernetic interaction of cosmos and which in the genetic
matter awakes to life.
We experience spirit
and consciousness as the psychological manifestation of the
same organizing principle. We recognize consciousness and
structure, body and spirit as mutually complementing
manifestations of the same generating pattern of
organization. This boundless matrix by religions is being
called Love, its source and reason is being called God.
We can imagine the
(bio)-generating organizing pattern to be a morpho- or
psychogenetic space, field or area, the creative power of
which arises out of interaction of cosmic oscillations
jointly together with all vibrations of terrestrial life.
Structure and matter
in this area appear to be of slow dynamics of long-term
periodical processes, whereas function of structure as well
as life itself can be seen as a faster and rapid dynamics of
shorter processes. Existence nowhere is static, it is
boundlessly" dynamic. Nature and life co-develop and
in spreading diversity create potentialities and
abilities.
Potentiality
towards Growing Diversity
Cosmic modulations
ensure an organizing activity in the entire universe. While
in physics the organizing activity of resonance is well
known in its fundamental quality concerning the relationship
of mass and energy, also philosophically we can realize now
life to be the manifestation of resonance phenomena.
Resonant communication organizes atoms to molecules and
further on to the DNA. From matter (mater i.e.!) originates
life. DNA evolves the body and influences further
organization of the genome by bodily feedback effects. Life
is not dependent on genetic accidents only, it regulates
itself and by evolution of sexual reproduction it creates
another steep increase of further possibilities.
Life represents
function and organization of physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual dimensions. Recognizing and understanding of this
function and organization is consciousness. Many people
hastily confound exclusively seized rational functions and
ideas with a general consciousness. They confound prejudice
and their subjectively compiled reality" with a
comprehensive objective reality. Also they believe to be
separated individuals, isolated Egos or Selves". To
the extent we consider body and spirit to be separate and
thus separate ourselves from life around us by imagination
only, we restrict our consciousness by constructing mental
barriers and virtual filters and consequently obstruct
experience of unity. Imprisoned in the illusion of being
separated from life, we start activities to search for
reconciliation and satisfaction, by ways which harm us and
others. We get involved in evaluations, ideologies and
religious beliefs, the contradictory forces of which oppose
resonance to the basic creative oscillation. They do not
only obstruct any fruitful development but even produce
unhealthy effects.
By means of wise
disciplines such as meditation or by the experience of life
crises the restricting mental walls of prison occasionally
dissolve. Like dreaming a universal consciousness can
develop out of individual consciousness. Spiritual
consciousness is characterised by understanding of
borderline experiences and dissolutions of mental barriers.
Dream- and trance-experiences are the foundations of
religious mysticism. Via newly paved cerebral paths they
lead life to a transpersonal reality, to the identity of
individual life and nature, to harmony of life with the
cosmic creative vibration, to undisturbed interconnectedness
of being.
Experience of the
supporting transpersonal reality of life in dream, trance or
meditation has soothing and satisfying effects on emotion as
well as on intellect and liberates logic to the
coincidental, unpredictable and new: Psyche develops a
healing spirit, which by personal finding of rightful
orientation also leads to a social stabilization of
humankind within nature.
II - The second
part of this lecture deals with the relation between Natural
Order and Cultural Order - Culture should be perceived and
lived as a Guarantor for Creative Thought and
Action
If culture is meant to
be conservative and creative it has to foster conscious
understanding, perception and feeling of natural laws and
has to train society to respect them.
Development goal of
learning by joy and pain, by success and error is the
development of individual maturity which voluntarily and
because of understanding limits the wide range of initially
random objectives of intention to those which are creative
only. Effects of life have to support the community of life.
All over the globe human potentials should serve for life.
Within the realm of
plants this is assured, without deviation, directly by the
genome via reflex-alike reactions of the individual plant in
relation to plant community. Within the animal kingdom we
find additional help by the instinct. Instinct already is
dependent on learning a behaviour, and is dependent on
continuity and compatibility not only of genes, the engines
of physical development and reproduction, but also of
traditions, the guarantors and expressions of spiritual
reproduction, of mental and cultural passing on of life and
its laws. Amazingly individual ontogenesis of life rapidly
repeats entire phylogenesis from the very beginning of life
till present, human ontogenesis in the motherly womb is no
exception. After being born individual mental development is
completely dependent on a cultural environment which might
either be open-minded and mentally productive, curious and
loving, encouraging findings beyond current understanding
and for the benefit of the respective social body in toto.
Or, in a contrasting cultural environment individual mental
development might be dogmatically limited and
narrow-mindedly focussed on certain interests to intimidate
and violently protect a given situation for the sake of
elites only.
Because of our freedom
of intentions, the freedom to think and act whatever we
want, we are dependent on authentic tradition of the law of
life which is known since times immemorial. Disturbances of
this tradition which normally is maintained by culture, or
even obsessive orientations towards any other direction run
the risk of complex threats - dangers which we are being
confronted with. The reasons we want to discuss
here.
How did the threats of
industrially induced changes and deterioration of climate,
food, social relations arise? How, apart from maintaining
common good with the result of a fruitful future, could the
symptoms of aberration develop like greed for profit, thirst
for power and all-over relationships which appear to be
nothing but autistic (MCS, Mental Confusion Syndrome
[1])? How could violence against life develop a
dimension which threatens future? In contrast to human
society, nature does not calculate murder for the sake of
secondary interests like wealth or power. Cynicism is a
human invention too. Behind an alleged cruelty of nature is
hidden an order for the well-being of the global whole.
Entire nature would be condemned to death, if the
participants would not follow the inherent and fundamental
laws which feed natural balances.
Culture looses its
Creative quality by The Patriarchal Counter-Strategy of
Replacement
To reach a satisfying
answer for all just mentioned questions we can rely on
results and findings of scientific research of patriarchy
and matriarchy which transcend conventional categories of
religion, philosophy, biology, ethnology, economy, politics
an other sciences" and therefore have a deeper"
focus. To avoid any misunderstanding from the very beginning
we have to understand, that initially matriarchy or
patriarchy have nothing in common with domination, neither
by men nor by women. The stem arché links to in
the beginning" or stemming from" (from Greek archaios
>originally, initially<). The term matriarchy
therefore refers to in the beginning the mother", life
stems from the mother, from the uterus. At this point it is
quite helpful to stop, to remember basics of lessons in
biology and to realize how close the female is to the
asexual original cell and what a tiny but all the same
necessary part the evolutionary newly split off male
represents. Female and male germ cell are on a scale of
200,000 to 1! Going back to our etymological line of thought
we likewise can link the term patriarchy to the assertion
in the beginning the father", life stems from the
father, as to say from a male uterus. Beyond smiling this
idea in connection with the related world view asks for a
more serious reaction.
The analysis of
patriarchy reveals that it changed the tradition of laws of
life known since times immemorial with the intention to
abolish matriarchy violently. Natural being became being
dominated. Natural matriarchal order within the original
cosmic order of life became an order of domination, of
subordination of life to secondary goals. The starting point
of patriarchal degeneration" and of the attack of
patriarchy against natural order goes back 5,000 years and
is being related to migrations which had been forced by
geological catastrophes or climate changes and which
resulted in alterations of habits in matriarchal societies
[2]. We understand that stressful apocalyptic
periods might lead to neglect life-maintaining traditions,
customs and relations such as to carry new-borns generally
close to the body, and that over generations they even might
be forgotten. New rites, social manners and cultures replace
the old ones - not all of them, fortunately, otherwise there
would no longer be life.
Forgetting and
interruption of essential rites of matriarchal culture due
to those exceptional situations prepared people to open
their minds for orientations different from the First
Guiding Spirit and replace it and which independently from
long-term effects are implemented and maintained by force.
Proven recipes of life regarding agriculture and soil
management, health and sexuality, essential basics of life
for daily use, habits and inter-relational customs,
save-guarding exercises of meditation, trance,
concentration, connecting to the essential, the inner- and
simultaneously outer-most, unifying rites which have been
part of the ever living matriarchal liturgy since times
immemorial and which are still being practiced all over the
world, extensively have been forced into the back- and
underground by a patriarchal outline of life and world view.
Matriarchal liturgies enabled holistic experience of
transcendent truth in harmony with natural law. Complying
with the necessities of natural community they ensure
satisfaction of all needs; until today they serve life
deeply satisfying and pacifying - although they are not at
all honoured any more by the ruling systems.
The new ideas are
rooted in metaphysics and demand from people to believe
dogmatically in matters which are beyond physical law and
natural possibility. Even today fundamentalist religion asks
from people to believe in things which are beyond physical
reality and therefore perverted. The decisive and most
effective alteration of the world view was the one which
gave name to patriarchy": people were made to believe
that life really would stem as a matter of fact from the
male principle and no longer from the female as it had been
natural knowledge since times immemorial. The result of this
perversion into the contrary is a fundamental disregard of
nature. Obsessed by the idea, to replace nature by a
technically constructed system of higher order, nature and
life from now on only serve as commodities, as objects and
elements which have to be altered, improved, defeated,
replaced, consumed and which have to serve any nonsense of
an imagined better world".
Metaphysics and the
liturgies of patriarchy which are rooted in it served and
still serve as a replacement for the safe-guarding and
unifying transcendental truth of nature, the
interconnectedness of being, the spiritual heart of
matriarchy, the source and loving vitality which we long
for, on which we depend inevitably and naturally, on which
we live. Without exception we stem from this truth which
henceforth patriarchy strives to deny, to demonize, to
persecute, to destroy and to replace it by its technology.
According to this misleading tradition Pharaoh Echnaton
already more than 3,000 years ago made himself painted as a
pregnant" man, an illusion which bears the idea of a
male god.
The hoax to replace
natural transcendental truth of mysticism by an imagined
metaphysics beyond natural law and truth [2a] - so
to speak by delusion - fatally results in exaggerated
motivation and artificial dependencies which are typical for
the patriarchal system and which are used and maintained by
it. Greed for profit and craving for power are being fuelled
by lack of deep satisfaction which is immanent to
patriarchal conditions. Frustration and emotional deficits
become the ever lasting drives for diverse addictions and
result in the omnipresent and ever growing violence, the
trademark" and identity of patriarchy. Looting war
lords become heroes of history, cold-blooded extermination
of native populations turns to be the basement for mission
and civilization, merciless slavery, resolute degradation of
women and ruthless exploitation of natural resources become
the engine of industrialization and progress". The
bludgeon of biblical Cain mutates into the iron fist of
humanitarian" strategists of mmafiacs - of media,
military, administrative financial, fundamentalist,
industrial and academic complexes. Cynicism which shows up
in the attempt to cover the traces of destruction of
physical as well as of cultural fundaments of life by a
superstructure of believe in supposed progress of history
and technology is to fail - although many people still would
tend to protest here because they became accustomed to the
omnipresent violence, threats and dangers of supposed
progress by hundreds of years [3].
If we do not want to
lock out an authentic view on the conditions we have to face
reality. As an appropriate and logical consequence to
freedom of intentions nature has provided for an extensive
responsibility which in its safe-guarding dimension still is
alien to patriarchal way of understanding. It is the tragedy
of the maturing psyche under patriarchal conditions, that it
is ready to defend a standard, the quality of which it has
not yet learned to question. The pending step of maturing
towards consciously accepting and adopting responsibility is
the decisive step towards autonomy. Any way of living we are
held responsible for, be it individually or socially - also
in the dimension of history. This is the true meaning of
karma. The lawful regularity of natural counter-balance to
the effects of interference with the order of life and
nature is based on the fact, that any alteration of this
order results in reciprocal proportional and complementary
reactions. Due to this law and regularity there is a common
thought between quantum-physics, psycho-neurology and
philosophy concerning the topic freedom". Freedom
contains the natural destination to contribute to the
freedom of all partners. Any disturbance of this destination
results in lawful counter-balancing. At any time we at least
have two options to learn from history: On the one hand we
can consider the real relations and needs by means of the
remaining matriarchal virtues like genuineness, frankness
and inclination towards the social, or on the other hand, we
may wait for diseases, catastrophes and other
social-ecological regulations which are meant to reduce or
even eliminate us in case we do not learn our lesson from
history in time. We are free to decide.
Urgently necessary
in order to regain real creative power therefore is a
decision based on freedom of options - it is part of human
autonomy to decide between peace and war.
If we really want to
overcome violence and other effects of current world order
we just need to become receptive again for the ancient and
safe-guarding traditions of personal experienced and
socially proven realities and knowledge of basic needs by
letting go unreal metaphysics like for example believing in
boundless economic growth and stop fuelling destructive
growth with the energy of our lives. A new consciousness is
going to be the ancient ever living consciousness of wisdom
which in natural maintenance and jointly use differs from
the metaphysically shaped consciousness of market and
consumerism in modern age and which is responsible for
artificial death, artificial wealth (money) und the
destruction of environment.
Revival of archaic
matriarchal traditions of the First Guiding Spirit, which,
although having been nearly exterminated, even under
patriarchal conditions of nihilism, modern technology and
ambience still enables human life, is the chance at present
and for all future. We have to hurry up and take the chance
because seducing profit expectations concerning genetic and
nuclear engineering and nano-technology a.o. will finally
cost our life, if we tolerate to let them alter the elements
of life irrevocably.
Patriarchal
philistinism and culture of war cannot be changed, it only
can be terminated. Patriarchal world view is an illusion, a
delusion which might cost the life on earth. This delusion
comes like a conspiracy, it appears to be a planned project
because there are people linked to it who since ages
dogmatically try to solidify it by religion and science. If,
however, people promote this delusion against global good
and their better judgement for the sake of exclusive
interests, then we face nothing but a conspiracy of death,
the replacement project for life. As long as people do not
take notice of the inner-most setting of the course between
life and its replacement the patriarchal project just keeps
on running. Still, it is doomed to failure, ending up in
murder and suicide, no future. There are enough specific
symptoms and we experience how war on terror", by the
US-administration supposed to continue for years and
directed against any threats to US supremacy, in association
with the world economic order threatens humanity already by
destruction of nature, by consumption of resources, by
ignoring basic rights and dignity of the peoples in the
global south" and onwards to the centre by cutting
back civil rights and by cuts of social standards and
international law as well. Patriarchal way of thinking does
not know any alternative to the infernal trip of the
«Golden Horde» (the neocons) into the hereafter
(Carl Amery, [4]).
Whenever possible
cultural creative people address these destructive
relations. As far they can, they terminate to fuel
patriarchal structures and institutions with their energy of
life but look for and vitalize new matriarchal ways of
organizing.
«Many alternative
movements in the whole world are already in this process,
for historical reasons most of them in the global south and
most of them guided by women. This is the case because the
south and women have and had to bear the responsibility and
most of the negative consequences of patriarchy and
especially capitalist patriarchy. This is why they are on
the front of the new movements. Additionally, for women it
is still much easier to remember matriarchal society,
culture and gift-giving, because the matriarchal rests have
mostly been maintained by them. The way into a
post-patriarchal society, therefore, is much more logical
and visible for women than for men. The thinking, acting and
feeling of women, especially of poor women in the south,
often shows a high level of dissidence with western
globalization and culture. They are decided to defend life
on the "two fronts" of the conflict: against the war system
of capitalist patriarchy and in favour of a new society
(Bennholdt-Thomsen et. al 2001, Werlhof 1985, 1991, 1996. At
the University of Innsbruck a new international research
project is planned, the title of which is "On the way to a
new civilization?" In this research project current
alternative movements worldwide will be
compared).
Movements that are
either active on only one of the "two fronts" we are facing
today, or that do not address to each of the most important
aspects and dimensions of life under patriarchal attack, are
stepping into crisis, sooner or later. This is still the
case with many movements in the north and of those
traditionally guided by man.
It seems as if a
larger and deeper movement in the north will only be
possible when the illusions to move upward within the system
have been lost and the daily conditions of life have
worsened further. But in the meantime extremists of the far
right and "religious" fundamentalists everywhere are
preparing their field of action, too.» (Quotation:
Claudia von Werlhof, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Struggle
for a Deep' Alternative, unpublished
[5])
III - The third
and final part is intended to serve as kind of recipe to
maintain culture by orientation towards reality - and by
jointly fostering and celebrating the global orientation
towards interconnectedness of being, the fundaments of life
and their relations, which are given to all of us as a loan
by GAIA free of charge
- Our ideas might be
keys to hell or - to paradise
Let us have a closer
look at illusions and their destructive suggestive
potential:
Illusions associated
with political-religious" fundamentalisms are the very
opponents which block the gates to paradise. Alternative
movements have to face these opponents if they want to
prevail. A prerequisite therefore is to understand and
accept the opponents. This again is a challenge for
everybody, the crunch has come": We are to face our
personal beliefs, what do we really want? We have to reverse
the hoax of patriarchy, this dirty trick and obvious
mistake. We have to reveal the mystery of faith in the
metaphysical guidelines of patriarchy" to be nothing but a
trap! We have to switch our brains from belief in progress,
from the delusions of feasibility and other illusions back
to the First Guiding Spirit towards interdependent
development, responsible and considerate behaviour and to
visions of universal fortune. Experience and studies of the
Hungarian neurologist Franz Andreas Völgyesi from the
schooling of Iwan Petrowitsch Pawlow will give specific
hints how mental switches might be handled
[6].
May I quote from your
compatriot Pawlow:
«Considering the
large and comprehensive area and the rich, internal content
of words it is only natural that by help of suggestion the
possibility exists with hypnotized people to cause any of
those reactions which potentially exist in connection with
their entire outside and interior world».
Völgyesi writes:
«Spoken or written word contains suggestive power and
constitutes a conditioned stimulus just like all other
conditioned stimuli (warmth, cold, light, gravitation). What
is more: its effect is particularly diverse. In terms of
quality as well as quantity the potential of language to
influence people far exceeds that of any other conditioned
stimulus. This is because words are connected with any and
all stimuli (both inner and outer) which have ever been able
to enter the various stations of the cerebral cortex in the
course of a life-time. Words are able to signalise and
represent any other active stimulus without exception; and
from this it follows that words can evoke any reactions of
the organism which any other stimulus could ever produce.
There is not a single bodily function, nor any ever so much
hidden reaction of our organism - and be it a hormonal or
psycho-energetic process - which could escape the influence
of verbal information.»
From this
understanding which is extensively being made use of by
advertising industry and other manipulators of human
intentions" (like todays Public Awareness Management)
compellingly results to raise the question: Which
suggestions do support life and which serve very different
interests? The general question arises about compatibility
of information with natural conditions and guidelines for
health of an organism, individually as well as socially. The
extent to which mental information is compatible with the
creative potential of nature will determine its
physiological effect on the basis of education and cultural
conditioning; if it is incompatible, the effect will be
pathological, (i.e. will cause sickness). Hence the decisive
switch" has shown up: If we have faith in illusions -
no matter of which kind and origin -, we are being led
astray even by good" motivation - and the result
inevitably will be the real loss of reality", which
fatally is going to be counter-balanced by a substitute. The
psycho-analyst C.G. Jung spoke about make" when
considering fate" to say: we sow the wind and reap the
whirlwind [7]. Patriarchal temptation to expel
paradise from the heads of mankind lawfully results in
devastation of earth, in hell. Demonizing, persecution and
termination of the First Guiding Spirit" dismiss the
entire creative power of the people affected from service to
life and subordinate it to the service to any interests of
patriarchy.
Or as US philosopher
John McMurtry says: «What goes against the grain of
conditioning is experienced as not credible, or as a hostile
act.»
That is why we need
to give up and let go many habitual dear" ideas
because they are unable to cope with Life, that is why we
need a re-confirmation and preservation of the First
Guiding Spirit" - that is why we need a REFORMATION of our
mental states, of our world views, - what we need is a new
religious reformation, a new phase of enlightenment! We need
a radical re-version of a perverted parasitic society and
mankind!"
The two fronts"
of our quarrel, the one against the war-system of patriarchy
and the other for a new society have a common source of
inspiration, they have common ground. This is most important
to acknowledge, to consider and to be aware of in order to
avoid frictional losses in the struggle of the diverse
alternative movements. People who subjectively consider
themselves to be alternatives", however, meet the
objective standard only when they have reached the above
mentioned common ground. Only then they scoop from a common
source of inspiration. Only if they make their own limiting
shaping by religious or political traditions transparent and
only if they really transcend them they are able to dedicate
freedom of intentions consciously to goals which are really
chosen by themselves and not by others. The normative power
of reality unfortunately still is not fuelled sufficiently
by factual conditions, otherwise we already would have
changed those conditions since long, but is determined by
limitation and restriction of thought and perception given
by the respective mental superstructure.
The system-immanent
mistake correction postulated by Karl Popper only works if
the ruling" system generally allows such corrections
from inside [8]. We are to feel the effects of our
mistakes and errors all the time, but we do not take them
seriously enough. Frequently we do not perceive them at all
if the detectors of perception are manipulated by further
interests. This shows why patriarchy despite of all its self
made and obvious disadvantages was able to prevail against
natural advantages of matriarchy. The media - books,
newspapers, radio and television are our sensitive organs to
the global world. As long as our tele-perception, our
perception from far away is not served by authentic
information we can wait for ages for collective reactions of
behaviour which approach global threats by appropriate
means. Although the increasing threats are openly seen, we
stare at them in a transfixed way or react mindlessly in
blatant stupidity not at all or not appropriately. This
shows why globalisation deteriorates conditions for life as
well as the perspective for the future while most people
keep on daydreaming and do not stop this degenerating
development by growing and continuous protests of increasing
numbers of dissidents. Although the majority of global
threats is self-made, they are being transmitted to be
natural", fatal", god's punishment" - or
plainly without alternative.
Since long we should
have realized that we are deprived of our potentials for
self-healing and our abilities to solve problems from two
sides: on the one hand systematic miss- and
wrong-information from global outskirts and insufficient
world-views inside of our heads lead us astray and blind our
spirit on the other. This explains why even within the
alternative movements some wings who still are dogmatic and
infected by patrism rather tend to be taken apart and
brought up against each other than being bound to ensure
their chances for success by creating synergies. Let us
bring to public mind the adulteration of our senses by
politically and religiously falsified information. Let us
boycott religious and secular information-services which
push forward miss- or false-information on behalf of
secondary interests to produce all those reactions and
perceptions within global public which are designed for
powerful and financially rich clients by strategists who are
nothing but hostile to life. Let us create synergies by
cleaning up and re-organizing our mental foundations! Let us
foster attempts to a new spirituality, which does not get
lost in exclusive esotericism but influences public
politics. Let us foster fresh attempts of a new
religiousness: not to satisfy mental or clerical elites by
seduction of masses but to safeguard peace on earth. Exactly
into the same direction aim the attempts of Rabbi Michael
Lerner or of Starhawk and other kindred spirits [9].
Task of a secular spirituality is the reformation of our
mental foundations. It is to facilitate transparency and to
encourage people to transcend limits within their heads
which only have been brought up for the tempting purposes of
secondary interests. Comprehensively understood secular
spirituality and religiousness in resonance with holistic
and authentic perception of reality create a healthy common
sense and help to change and adjust those mindsets which
still keep us from reacting rightfully to the local effects
of globally organized injustice and misery. Especially
addressed are people with decisive functional positions in
society: politicians, clergy, lawyers, economists,
journalists, the military and the police. Perception of
urgency and overwhelming dimension of the global state of
distress confronts everybody without any exception
automatically with the moral imperative to naturally break
any laws and customs which are hostile to life. The courage
of convictions which are based on love for life (biophelia,
Erich Fromm [10]) motivates to set a new course and
definitely leave behind patriarchal and insane cravings
(necrophelia, Erich Fromm). Global economy no longer will be
based on the stupid and destructive destination of
profit that counts in numbers". A destination which
inevitably results in coercion to consume and to ruin
ecological foundations and resources. We, the cultural
creative peoples of the world will make global economy to
secure necessary needs of life, to maintain its basic
foundations and to facilitate an overall communication and
exchange for the common benefit of global life. The profit
out of such an approach will be doublefold: firstly there
will be meaningful labour for everybody, and secondly we
will gain real satisfaction of individual and local needs
which in return will automatically result in emotional
balance of people which is the foundation for global
peace.
A clear sight on
the relations of reality discloses for everybody low cost
solutions like:
- Natural diversity is
maintained and even growing, if we do not artificially
produce scarcity and want
- Liberal and
supportive economic life develops, if we neither implement
protective duties", nor create protectorates"
and, if we generally respect the
polluter-pays-principle.
- Solidarity works by
itself, if we do not fuel xenophobia, racism, egoism and
other crimes against common good
- Peace is, if we do
not make war
- Common sense
develops, as soon as we respect the common principles of
life.
- Experience of love
by spreading of sympathy results in global banning of misery
and desperation, if we only let it happen
Visions of GAIA in all
her glory, warmth, love, caring and safety result in a
profound perception of deep peace and security and dissolve
the well known fears which had been abused by patriarchy.
From emotional resonance" with the creative
oscillation we described at the beginning, grow strength and
authority. Fearless mental setting of the course towards the
First Orientation and Original Sense of Life terminates
«madness of normality» (Arno Gruen [11]).
Responsible thought, acting and behaviour spread into the
world and join for the liturgy of human religion, for the
service for the common good. The First Guiding Spirit
settles in the common sense. It heals from the madness of
patriarchal aberration and immunizes against its seductions.
It leads to global height of humanity, free - bound only to
natural needs of life.
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