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Which
Road, please, leads to the Garden of Eden?
About
losing the feeling of affiliation and confidence
and about how to regain a life-securing
orientation
by
Wolfgang Fischer
(download
pdf.file)
(german
) ( spanish)
In
short: The conception of a favorable living
together for humans with nature is not a romantic dream.
Such a vision is realistic and proven native. The
wide-spread faith in boundless progress is an illusion.
Development of a culture, where sympathy and unrestricted
thought determine action, which terminates the sellout of
life, is a prerequisite to save our future.
Meander
and spirals are archaic symbols of succession of
generations. They are expression of a natural and inherent
knowledge. They refer to a perception beyond traditional
science!
Depending
on how we look at the drawing above, meander and spirals
magically merge into each other, we detect the first or the
other or both at the same time. Apart from this phenomenon
the spatial dimension of the double spiral in its
two-dimensional illustration as meander reveals a second
fundamental phenomenon: periodically arising origins
(„primal jumps"). The movement stops in the centers of
the meander in order to restart unswervingly. The simple
design reveals a life principle: the creative dynamics of
passing away and progress, the pulsation of life.
Our
ancestors probably suspected this hidden meaning, they
noticed it, how else would they relate these symbols to the
succession of generations? To us ‚civilized' humans the
double spiral or double helix only recently was
‚discovered' to be the molecular essential structure of
hereditary substance DNA by the two scientists Watson and
Crick. To science this was worth even a Nobel prize! A
direct consequence of this discovery is genetic engineering
and biotechnology with all their risks and doubtful
advantages. The controversy between disciples of
biotechnology and warning voices of conservationists refers
to the question: Are modern, scientifically educated humans
actually wiser than their ancestors? Do we actually know
more and do we really use this knowledge for the well-being
of life on our planet? Or are we about to lose our
future-securing characteristics by throwing them on the
market?
Many
people doubt actual wisdom of modern science, they doubt the
benefit of handling the respectively won realizations. They
assume detail knowledge and panels of experts of little help
and even regard them to be dangerous, where the relations to
the common good are lost. Native societies did not have our
current knowledge in detail. However they often were well up
in awareness of cosmic dependencies and laws fundamental to
life, which because of pure intention to live they naturally
payed tribute to*. The knowledge of these coherences from
generation to generation was passed on by telling myths and
fairy tales and by tradition of customs, - all being
cultural tools, which at many places became strange to us
today. Due to the confusing and increasing in detail
knowledge know-how and certainty about entanglement of being
are threatened to be lost. Alienation grows while
experiencing that vital loss, fear and isolation increase.
Manipulation of information by monopolized media companies
and strategic production of false information by official
disinformation departements of political establishment which
all are focussed on nothing but profit and political power
confuse ever increasing ranges of world public up to their
complete disorientation. Finally the possibility of any
change or alternative is fearfully doubted. Human mental
ability, creativity is paralyzed, in order to switch off any
resistance against predominant order and structures. Hardly
unnoticed life itself comes to grief. Truth is upside
down.
Which
society probably passed forward more know-how to survive to
their children, the archaic or the civilized?
If
we would count up today's progress against the costs, which
it causes, we instantly could recognize that it became
intolerably expensive. Destruction of nature inevitably
entails destruction of mankind. Highly complex forms of life
are at stake just because of completely antisocial
interests, which civilization made itself dependent on.
Death of whales and dolphins is followed by death of
humanity, if we do not return to the correct road (see
below).
Likewise
knowledge about the genetic spiral is harboured within the
meander, also we carry deep in us the notion and dream of a
lucky life which is emotionally satisfying and free of
material concerns. All our longing goes into this direction
of natural composure, although many people often try
completely different, wrong, ill-minded and even suicidal
and destructive routes to ‚fortune'.
Ethnological
research knows that societies lived peacefully approximately
5000 to 7000 years ago.
Cave-men
designs and other references from those old ages do not give
any notion for violent or destructive behavior of their
creators. This early phase of mankind was shaped by
matriarchal cultures. In such cultures an absence of ruling
and suppressive systems guaranteed social forms of
organization, which cooperated both with nature as well as
with the requirements of a social existence, which maintains
and promotes society. Know-how always was the result of
collected experience of life and without exception was
passed on from one generation to the next by narrations and
customs, which again imparted live-safe-guarding
experiences. A different possibility did not exist before
development of writing or other transfer-technologies of
information. Openly down handed know-how always had to prove
true by experience and constantly could be enriched by
experience, it remained authentic. Absence of dogmatic
paralysis and open handling promote a broad creativity,
which let even earliest cultures find to high-complex forms
of organization. Their testimonies of extremely
differentiated knowledge about cosmological relations appear
to us today almost unbelievable, just imagine the
prehistoric stone-monuments in circles or spirals which are
found all over the world, the pyramids in Africa and Central
America, the pre-Inca as well as Inca construction of towns
in South America - all witnesses of accurate astronomical
knowledge (1). Less spectacular, but not less unbelievable
and important was the knowledge about healing places,
healing energies, healing plants, the knowledge about causal
connections of the cycles of nature, of seasons, of sowing
and harvesting - overall conditions, which guaranteed the
chances for survival of the early societies!
Abundance
in food and necessary utensils was the result of solidarily
living together, certainly not always and everywhere without
problems. But handling these apparently was free of violence
and constructive in mutual support, just because of simple
certainty, to be savely embedded in nature of cosmic order
(2). Pluralistic notions of gods are expressions of
tolerance and refer to an awareness about multilayered and
differentiated dependences of life on given laws.
Which
factors might have destroyed this underlying feeling of
security which serves as fertile soil for affectionate
caring for one another and for nature?
What
terminated the unconditional solicitude and envyless
existence of early peoples? And which circumstances
increased readiness for boundless violence? By which
circumstances could the beginning of egoism and abuse of
foundations of future generations as expression of
increasing irresponsibility have been introduced?
Defective
satisfaction of vital interests of life (of newborn
children) leads to the phenomena scarcity, war, craze and
greed in later on societies.
To
follow James DeMeo's 'Saharasia thesis' (3), the transition
from peaceful matriarchal cultures to martial patriarchal
cultures was released by drastic climatic changes. These
changes in climate at the cradle of mankind forced peoples
at that time to relocation and changed behaviors, which also
concerned the handling of their newborn children. Crucial
events which are momentous because humans still lack the
safe instinct of our animal ancestors. The price for free
human intention is a provisional disorientation, which can
be repaired alone by development of cultures which promote
life. Since cultural development, related to a global
dimension, did not succeed yet in continuing those
life-supporting traditions of archaic as well as still
existing indigenous peoples life is endangered world-wide
today. The loss of an appropriate for our species support
and training of our descendants - be it because of
circumstances such as described by DeMeo or because of other
drastic changes - culminates today, after thousands of
years, among others in a mad world power, which terrorizes
the rest of the world by outdated fundamentalism, by staged
threats and outbreaks of violence. Mental power of humans to
think in alternatives and to consider peacefully all
possibilities seems to be lost. Machine-alike functioning of
many people already replaces their creative thinking and
sensitive action.
Like
a calf which could not grow up together with the dam, later
on fails in its duties as mother herself and only
insufficiently cares for her new born, also with humans a
defective serving and satisfaction of vital demands of
newborn life can obviously lead to incorrect developments of
the later character of adults. Replacement of being calmly
carried close to the body of parents by being put aside out
of different habits, obviously has drastic consequences,
where this happens in association with further deficits in
training and educational curricula of young people (4). The
placating feeling of affiliation is not promoted and being
replaced by feelings of separation, of isolation and of
being lost. Comprehensible consequences of these feelings
are fear and an obsessive search (craze) for satisfaction -
driving forces with more egoistically than socially aligned
goals. Driving forces, which obstruct a necessary and
life-promoting balance. Driving forces, which endanger peace
of the individual by being overestimated and made absolute.
Thought and sensitive perception, head and belly lose their
life-securing equilibrium. By searching for support those
driving forces flower up, which lead to erroneous trends of
murder and homicide, of capitalism as well as of celebrated
egoism of a civilization which is characterized by violence.
Driving forces which confuse creativity and destruction
because of illusional misjudging of alleged reality and
which in vain try to replace nature by technology:
artificial uterus is to create life (5), far out space
stations or alien stars are to serve as replacement for a
destroyed habitat earth. Such kind of driving forces lead to
atrophy of a life-supporting social drive in favour of
life-denying impulses in direction towards just
compensation. Control of social interests is no longer
aligned to the common good, but finally only to a
maintainance of illusions which lead astray. Truth is upside
down.
The
profound fatal of these driving forces which grow on the
soil of deficits in satisfaction is that they tend to
solidify themselves, consequently are being perceived to be
‚normal' and only can be overcome therapeutically
against inner resistances. We all know from own experience
how difficult it is to give up habits even if their harmful
effects are conscious. And we also know how easily we tend
to aggressively defend outdated positions even against
better knowledge just because of an alleged pride. Related
to society such kind of resistance shows up as defense or
craze in equal terms. Confronting violent force replaces
mediating search for reconciliation. Actually growing into
immeasurable figures military expenditure leave social
necessities allegedly appear to be far too
expensive.**
Cultural
possibilities for regaining a healthy future threaten to be
lost.
Alienation
of people from their own best interests as being perfected
in industrial society lead to a loss of autonomy in favour
of a parasitic and determining élite of a
military-industrial complex, which to a global extent
threatens our possibilities to survive. The ‚invisibly
regulating hand' of the demon of greed and insatiable hunger
for power which is liberated by ‚neoliberalism',
‚new world order' and ‚war against terrorism' is
unmasked to be just the opposite of what unsrupulous
disciples of that demon promise. Chances for succeeding
generations threaten to be sold out already today. Political
sets of rules and regulation which all are corrupted
dependent on capital interests like World Trade
Organization, World Health Organization, World Bank,
International Monetary Fund etc., interfere completely
undemocratically and aggressively with national competencies
by means of weaponry alike instruments (GATS, TRIPS, SAP ***
etc.) and clearly pursue goals, which harm the common good:
gen-technologically alterated food just for the sake of
superficially shining appearance and durability at cost of
unknown risks as well as decreased nutritional value.
Furthermore those manipulated plants do no longer carry
germable seed, farmers are forced to buy seeds from
industry. Industrialized agriculture destroys a
self-maintaining use of nature (subsistence-farming). Noise
and scrap everywhere - from deep sea up to space are further
sources of interference with not yet foreseeable
consequences. A broad increase of chronic diseases secures
existence of pharmaceutical industry. Chemical poisoning,
radioactive and elekromagnetic contamination as well as
mental confusion are to be accepted as natural and
indispensable. Market-focused patenting of life and know-how
unmasks an economy of robber barons, who try to stabilize
the fatally unilateral direction of creation by destruction
thus continuing the road of global death caused by humans.
Whereas
an animal knows, when it is full or which herb cures its
spoiled stomach, many humans lost any normal measure and
hardly still have a notion of our abilities and the gifts of
nature.
Industrialized
life - in contrast to general expectation to create liberty
and time by facilitation of work - produces rushing, ill,
impoverished, confused slaves who are condemned to
consumption. Autonomous self-supporters in societies fit to
survive have been transformed to ‚aliens' which are
dependent on machines and increasing energy consumption and
which are caught by an illusion of boundless liberty, at the
same time are no longer ready to respect vitally necessary
limits. Not only physically they are out of joint - enormous
obesity on the one side, destructive anorexia on the other
side -, also mentally they jumped the tracks. Some are
overactively and inconsiderately destructive, others are
depressive, desireless and apathetic, without prospect for
improvement of their situation. With advantaged rich and
powerful people increasingly spreads monotonous boredom and
resources-wasting pastime. People, however, who guarantee
the performance of industrial complexes, threaten to fail in
the everyday rush and narrowing vortex of demands and loads.
Hardly we are able to reconnect to the vitally necessary
informations of creative inheritance, of notion of peace
which all sleep deep inside of each of us.
Dynamics
of progress and passing by, of living and dying, the
composed play of all elements of life threaten to be missed
as we are being intoxicated by technology. Pervasive
progress and obligation to growth, which apparently
determine without alternative the direction of further power
exponentiation, threaten to blow up the spiral of life. If
in archaic tradition we understand the spiral to be a
possible routing for the run of history which swings by
following the cosmic pulse, alternating inward and outward,
then we recognize that we can avoid a threatening collision
or obligational correction only by a different orientation.
The
outer continual spiral represents habitat: the limits of the
Garden of Eden. The counter arc which begins in the center
(origin, ‚primal jump') symbolizes the history of
peaceful cultures. The black lines mark the martial part of
history with abrupt corrections. Due to still unsatisfactory
perception the natural obligation to necessary corrections
of the trend or mainstream routing is felt to be
catastrophic or fateful, although it is finally caused by
ourselves. The following arc leading outward after the
marking refers to the possibility of collision avoidance by
joining up with nature and its basic regularity.
Routing
to global peace
The
simple drawing shows that it will be crucial to manage our
adaptation to natural needs. Let us widen the monopolistic
and allegedly being without alternative character of western
civilisation which is shaped by rigid and centralistic
developments and let us create a culture which is
life-loving and moved by variety, tolerance and fantasy! Let
us pick up the thread of traditions which promote the public
spirit! Let us strive for understanding, for know-how with
sensitive perception! Let us promote our ability to internal
perception**** and let us terminate the attempt to shape
people by forceful influencing and determination. Let us
facilitate (self-)experience and let us stop patronizing!
Let us create space for education and experience of our
talents, so that each individual can contribute to the
common good and find their place in society!
Understanding
of the necessity for an affectionate care of our relations
both among ourselves as well as with nature presupposes a
learning- and development process, which can unite the
movements critical to globalization by mutual stabilization
thus producing synergy. Idealism and enthusiasm are the
charismatic forces of their mission. They facilitate
bridging between different trends within cultures and also
between different cultures. Ideas of all people are needed,
who feel the pulse of nature, in order to cure the wounds,
which people did to biosphere on their patriarchal odyssey
(6).
Vision
of a peaceful coexistence of human society and nature is fed
by the principle of love (7) which is securing future and
conducive to life. It is the focus of reference for our
orientation. Each newborn life will be able to orientate
exactly towards this vision, since already in the womb it
experiences a basic security of caring solicitude. Due to
permanently increasing understanding this vision never
solidifies into rock hard dogma. Composure and confidence
are the sources for new origins (‚primal jumps'), new
ideas and possibilities in a diversity, which enriches our
lifes.
Feel
local, think global and act on all levels for the benefit of
common good!
Vision
and mission are abstract, immaterial terms, whereas their
goals are aligned to concrete action. On the lowest level,
the level of individual life, there lives the feeling and
perception of joy and pain. Here life suffers or revels in
delight. Joy wants to encourage, pain refers to failure and
wants to induce behavioural changes. Change does need
orientation if we want to avoid to be aimless, that is why
we demand a thinking according to global necessities.
Individual perception with respect to the global whole,
well-being, health, perfection gives rise to an objective of
action, all the same on which level we are, be it the
personal, familiar, local, regional, national, continental
or global dimension.
The
difference between the actual condition of world society and
the desired condition of social as well as ecological
justice is to be minimized exclusively from the bottom, from
below, from where we feel and live. Fortune and happiness of
the global-whole depends on the well-being of the basis.
That is why confrontation with the goals of corporate
globalization is vital. Flowering communities are based on
their orientation towards public welfare and common good.
While
local dimensions by nature are native and vitally necessary,
all the structures of above levels are completely arbitrary
and may be modified by human spirit. Life takes place
exclusively at the bottom, on the ground, from here derive
the needs, here vital demands have to be satisfied, here
problems have to be solved, here we celebrate, give birth
and die. It has been like this at all times and these
fundamental conditions never change. That is why for social
structuring local and regional forms of organization which
are interconnected world-wide in open horizontal relations
serve better than centralistic or monopolized forms of
organization, which dominate downward by force.
Having
all this in mind we clearly reallize chances and tasks of
each individual world citizen to replace by personal
dedication and in world-wide solidarity the ill-minded
centralistic and monopolizing structures which only
safeguard material enriching for an elitist minority at cost
of intact nature and pauperization as well as enslavement
for ever more people. Let us utilize our various talents
against the threats of partiality and denial of
alternatives! Let us organize independently from the
defaults of dominant structures and ideologies to establish
an increasing autonomous and participatory society by clear
demands! To name spontaneously but a few: Let us refuse war
and let us solve disputes by peaceful means of world-wide
valid juridical systems and mediation! Let us combine clear
refusal to nuclear technology with the demand for a broad
utilisation of renewable energy! Let us discharge from
erroneous believe in boundless economic growth and let us
promote development of recycling economic systems (8)! Let
us deprive capitalism of power by a clear confession to
values and conditions which are beneficial for life beyond
profit! Money is quite meaningful as exchange value. By
compound interest growing capital without personal working
engagement is harmful for the public interest due to
boundless exponential growth. Mountains of debt always face
fortunes of exactly the same amount. Money is to be limited
to exchange value in service of social necessities and may
no longer forcefully determine our thought and action, our
every day life. By means of for example local decisions of
civic action groups we stop the sellout of public goods such
as education, health and culture, and in addition, of water
supply, transportation and of all other fundamental
necessities of life to so-called ‚Global Players'.
Where already sold out, we feed back responsibility and
competence for general wellfare to local levels. Don't let
us lose heart, let us mobilize all of our own forces against
doubts, fear and discouragement! Let us deny their
competence to politicians, before these gamble away life!
The
split tongue of the Biblical snake exactly like the pair of
scales of Justitia refers to the double character, to the
two sides of everything, in whose finding of balance lies
the key to paradise. Our existence completely depends on
life-promoting characteristics of cycling and delicately
mobile processes of equilibrium finding on our planet. Let
us create world-wide such conditions which help us to
maintain self-confidently, responsibly and sensitively
vitally necessary foundations for our future.
„Truth
of history, of future and nature are on our side as well as
all good spirits!", Quotation, Claudia von Werlhof (5a)
Footnotes:
*
Natural consideration, a healthy respect for natural limits,
linking back to fundamental law is the womb of all
religion.
** while political élites around the globe without
hesitating are ready to spend billions of tax money on the
military, on subsidies for risky industrial projects as well
as for the support of the system itself, individuals are
left to themselves. Insufficient or not al all existing
social and health insurance are accompanied by exploitation
of their physical and intellectual abilities.
*** GATS, general Agreement on trade in services - TRIPS,
Trade Related Aspects OF Intellectual Property Rights - SAP,
Structural Adjustment Procedures - CBL, Crossborder Leasing
etc.
**** indigenous peoples maintain internal perception.
Introduced by drums, dancing, plant drugs, increased
respiration and others, embedded into a cultural
affectionate mood, trance experience arrange a know-how
beyond cold-hearted intellect, they combine new knowledge
with the reliable and experienced, they protect vital
relations, they secure a healthy way of further development.
They offer time-bridging, cross-border information to life.
Meditatively experienced, they connect past, present and
future, all creatures with one another and the source of all
existence beyond conception. Praying of many ‚modern
believers' often only is just a pale copy of an alive,
empowering and orientating archaic and nevertheless still
present day spirituality and mysticism, which leads to
realization of reality. Realization of reality is the
foundation of moral action, is the human prerequisite for a
flowering future.
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see
also: http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/human
Emanzipation
Humanum,
version 6. 2004, translation from german to english by the
author. Criticism, suggestions as to form and content,
dialogue, translation into other languages are all
desired
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