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How do we save the world? Not-Two Is Peace.
Principles Regarding A Global Cooperative Forum
from the book Not-Two Is Peace by Adi Da
1.1 The old moral, social, and political order of humankind is now dead.
1.2 This is the moment when it will be decided what the future is going to be.
1.3 The future is either going to be catastrophic disaster,
or it is going to be the turnabout moment in human
history, in which humankind will step out of its
dark ages of “tribalism” into a new mode of human cooperative order.
1.4 This next handful of years is the period in which this
choice has to be animated, one way or the other.
1.5 All generations now alive will have to make things
right, or everything is lost.
1.6 The old civilization is about “tribalism”. The new politics
is about the civilization of “humankind-as-a-whole”,
and only this has the potential for a viable human
future. Humankind cannot survive a “tribal” world.
1.7 Starting in the nineteenth century and through the
twentieth century, all the “tribes” found themselves
face to face—and terrible wars, using the means of
industrial civilization, have been the consequence.
1.8 At the same time, there are all the other effects of
humankind’s impact on the Earth—from global
warming to migrations, urban chaos, shortage of
crucial resources, disease, and poverty.
1.9 At present, most of the energy of humankind is going
into industrial-age warrior conflicts rather than
addressing urgent global realities.
1.10 Wise leadership is essential for humanity now. The
necessity is for those who have the clarity to see what
is going on, and who know what to do about it, to
get the support of the human populations.
1.11 The kind of leadership needed begins with disciplined
individuals who are responsibly managing their
own lives, rather than merely going along with the
consumerism of conventional society.
1.12 The modern “everyman” of consumer society is a
propagandized individual, participating in illusions
and, effectively, self-destructing.
1.13 The modern “everyman” is being created by the
power system of the world, because it is in the
interests of that power system for there to be
consumer egos who are “self”-involved,
“self”-seeking, and stupefied.
1.14 Generally speaking, politicians have to stay identified
with the common mind and common illusions. But
it is too late for that. The world cannot afford leaders
who are deluded by the old patterns of culture and
of mind.
1.15 If the global chaos that is now happening is not
re-organized by the force of truth, it is going to be
done by other means—including totalitarian and dark
materialistic means.
1.16 Humankind now needs to choose its collective
survival and well-being in the real world, rather than
determining its politics based on old mythologies.
1.17 There has to be a global understanding that world
peace requires stepping beyond both religious
mythologies and secular ideologies.
1.18 The old “tribal” mythologies may touch upon Reality
and the Absolute, but they are also human inventions--
and their exclusivist and absolutist claims must now
be relinquished.
1.19 If there is not this relinquishment, there is going to be
nothing but disaster, created by the psychotic struggle
for one or the other to be the winner.
1.20 History is filled with the destruction of past cultural
monuments and temples, and the conquering of
homelands. But industrial-age “tribal” wars cannot
reclaim what has been lost. Rather, they threaten to
bring an end to everything.
1.21 The idea behind nuclear weapons is the idea of
total war. Total war is not about conflicts based on
confrontations between the armies of the warring
states. Total war is about a practice of war in which
the people are the target.
1.22 Total war is an obscenity. It is evil. Total war would
destroy the people, and it would destroy everything--
for a political advantage.
1.23 The seed, or root, of the idea of total war is the
commitment to global dominance. Total war has no
function except for a nation-state, or an alliance of
nation-states, that is interested in global dominance.
1.24 This kind of warfare has become global policy in
the course of the twentieth century, and now into
the twenty-first century.
1.25 Total war is absolutely unacceptable, and so the
current warlike posturing must stop. It is on the
verge of producing its ultimate catastrophe.
1.26 It is not that this or that nation-state should not have
nuclear weapons. Absolutely no state and nobody
should have nuclear weapons.
1.27 There needs to be an immediate intervention on
behalf of humankind to eliminate all nuclear weapons
and to establish a working process for settling issues.
1.28 At present, a culture of total war, a culture of death,
is ruling, while the people are engrossed in
consumerism.
1.29 The only power on Earth that can stop the trend
toward total war is the power of the human population
declaring it will not cooperate with this nihilistic
culture of total war and the ideologies of total
dominance.
1.30 In the present day, declarations of independent
nation-states based on ethnic and religious traditions
are creating huge problems. Previous larger
confederacies are breaking down.
1.31 This trend is all about “tribalization”, setting up
absolute pockets of power—based on the mythologies
of the past, the traditions of the past, the separateness
of geographical zones, the separateness of
particular classes or races of people.
1.32 This disastrous fragmentation of humanity has to stop.
What is needed is exactly the opposite of that.
1.33 The absolutization of “tribal” minds is the happening
of the human race in this moment, and this is exactly what
must be transcended. That requires a new kind of political orientation.
1.34 Right leadership, disposed toward global cooperation—based on a
comprehension of the inherent and always
prior unity of humankind and the total Earth-system— is now needed.
1.35 What needs to be supported everywhere is cooperative, participatory
existence for the entire human population
globally—and the establishment of a Global Cooperative Forum
to express and implement that reality.
1.36 A Global Cooperative Forum representing humankind as a whole
would operate based on the principle of “prior unity”—meaning an
acknowledgement of the fundamental unity of humanity and of all existence.
1.37 The human family would be represented at a Global Cooperative Forum
by morally-enlightened leaders capable of moving the world population
into a separatism-transcending view, and, thus, into modes of cooperation.
1.38 On the basis of the working-presumption of prior unity, such a
Global Cooperative Forum would deal with all the urgent issues that
humankind has in common.
1.39 There are, at the present time, nation-states, but nation-states
would need to allow and cooperate with the Global Cooperative Forum
that represents humankind as a whole. That is the only politics that is
viable for humankind now.
1.40 The nation-state configuration of the world is a leftover of the “tribal” past,
in which larger regions of humanity were separated from the others and, generally,
just kept their distance from one another.
1.41 Representatives of the nation-states getting together as the means
of creating global order is not working. The “multiple-flags” model for
global discourse represents the old “tribal” orientation, which now needs to
be abandoned and replaced by a global cooperative.
1.42 Within a global cooperative there would be certain multiplicities of difference.
Those differences should be largely cultural—simply part of the texture of humankind--
and there should no longer be any effort to establish certain human groups as separate absolutes.
1.43 The principle of the Global Cooperative Forum is that the prior unity of
everybody-all-at-once must become the basis of global politics.
1.44 The purpose of the Global Cooperative Forum is to ensure
that the totality of humankind, or everybodyall-at-once, is
participating in a global political reality, and demonstrating the self-organizing means for
making it right and keeping it right.
1.45 Presently, the powers of the separate nation-state are being used to
control populations all over the world.
1.46 The power of industry and money has actually become senior to the power of governments, and
is now controlling the entire world.
1.47 The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge
of destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once—meaning not merely mob power,
but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues.
1.48 The efforts of separate nation-states and vested interests to
control the people are not going to work forever. Sooner or later,
the global population is going to demand a cooperative, benign situation.
1.49 That is why there needs to be a Global Cooperative Forum, in which all of humankind participates
through right representation.
1.50 Such a Global Cooperative Forum would not be subordinate to a “tribalization” program imposed by nation-states, but would inform all of the existing political entities benignly and cooperatively.
1.51 Humankind has got to get down to its own business and choose itself—and the Global Cooperative Forum is the means to do that.
1.52 Humankind needs to be relieved of the burden of its past, and step beyond its past, like a butterfly out of
a cocoon, or like a snake shedding its skin.
1.53 The self-ordering system of humankind must be free to put itself in order. Humankind will self-organize itself
if it is free to do so, and it must no longer be prohibited from so doing by the separatist factionalisms of the
“tribal” mind.
1.54 “Not-two” is peace. “Not-two” is prior unity. Conversely, “two” is separateness, prior dis-unity, “difference”,
otherness, competitiveness, opposition, confrontation, chaos, and war.
1.55 In the “room” of humankind as a whole, the “room” of everybody-all-at-once, there is no “two”—there are
no “flags”, no religions, and there is no “self”-imagery that may be exclusively asserted. Rather, humankind
must simply represent itself, and get together to create a new global domain for human existence.
This is the great project.
From the book "Not-Two Is Peace" by Adi Da
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