1995 by Dieter Duhm
We are just founding the first Healing Biotope. In fact every community
of the future is a Healing Biotope, otherwise it could not function and
survive within the global network of life. It is a community of human
beings, animals, and plants that support and supplement each other by
communicating. This gives them a high potential for development and
survival. In the following theses I want to list some appearances of
functioning communities of the future. They are deeply rooted in a very
precise vision of a fundamentally other way of living and communicating
with each other. By living together I always mean the coexistence between
human beings, the coexistence between humans and nature and her beings, the
coexistence between humans and the universe and its beings. On all three
levels - the social, the ecological and the spiritual - a definite
transformation is on its way that makes us able to survive because it
re-introduces us in the larger context of all.
1. Only tribes will survive
Maybe this quote by the American native Vine Deloria is a bit too heavy,
but it contains a central truth: the powers of the individual in most cases
won't guarantee a meaningful survival. We need communitarian and spiritual
powers. We need the energetic connection with the community, with the
biosphere and the universe.
2. The communitarian self
Functioning communities will help to bring about a kind of communitarian
self, containing all powers of the individual selfs. The communitarian self
is a higher development on the path of evolution. It is much stronger and
much more intelligent than the individual self and with its spiritual
energy it can overcome situations of hunger, cold or pain which would be to
difficult for the individual self. The communitarian self is working when
there are no unnecessary collisions between the individual selfs anymore
and when every individual self woke up to become a responsible participant
of the whole.
3. Individualization
The superior power of the communitarian self cannot form if the
participants of a community are brought into a uniform line. Members of
communities of the future fundamentally need to overcome their tendency to
collectivism and opportunism in order to be a self responsible part in the
idea of future communities. The authentic power of the community needs the
authentic, individual autonomy of its participants. Therefor future
communities care for and support all inner processes which empower the
individual. This is a very important principle of love, too. Man and woman,
woman and man, woman and woman, man and man can only look at each other in
a loving way permanently if they meet each other as responsible
individuals, and not as segments of a party, a church or an ideology. They
need to be able to perceive and love each other every moment of their way
together, free of collective coercion by any group. Eros lives of this
freedom. This creates a kind of intimacy that is accountable.
4. Transparency
It is the underlying quality that makes a community working. Transparency
in group formation, in love relationships, in power issues and decision
making processes. Without transparency there is no trust, no open
communication and no communitarian self. The community of the future
developed public sharings to make the group life transparent to all
members. The members themselves developed a great joy in not having to
pretend anymore.
5. Truth
Truth is necessary for transparency. Truth is the opposite of our way of
being today, because we have been forced to lie from early childhood. Now
it is up to us to either continue with this habit or to join efforts for a
new basis of living together. Untruth stops the development of love and the
formation of communities, it blocks transparency and obstructs the
communication with the beings of nature.
Whether a person is ready for community or not depends on his/her ability
and readiness for truth. This can only be accomplished once we overcame the
reasons for lies. Communities of the future will develop a way of living
and loving that doesn't pretend. Can we imagine: a free, transparent
communication among human beings without lies? Lovers that don't need to
hide from each other due to false promises of eternal faithfulness?
Children that aren't told lies by their parents? And human beings that
don't even lie to animals anymore? Under those circumstances it will no
longer be easy to cheat a fish with a bait at the hook. The concept of
truth leads us to the deepest level on which life in the new communities is
based. Where truth develops, trust develops. Where trust develops, healing
between all beings develops.
Truth is so closely linked with the concepts of transparency, ecology,
non-violence, and free love, that they form a mental unity. Future
communities will survive thanks to their ability for communication, which
in turn stands in direct relation to its level of truth. Where truth fully
took roots, new possibilities for communication in spiritual and telepathic
form will develop. All beings in the biosphere are in this type of
communication anyway.
6. Non violence
Only if we enter a non-violent presence towards all fellow beings, we will
be able to discover life more deeply. Wherever we use violence wrong
systems of communication and information will develop. The violence we use
will always come back to us in the form of fear. This is the bottleneck of
all universal communication, a bottleneck in human development and in the
biosphere. In new cultural systems violence definitely should not give an
evolutionary advantage, because violence always goes along with fear and
lies and a tightening in the whole life system. If we never had used
violence against animals, plants and all beings of nature including
ourselves, we would know more about them. The reasons for violence are
rooted in the human being itself, in the cultural coercion to constantly
lie, in unlived energy potentials, in a wrong concept of love, sexuality
and faithfulness. Therefore non-violence is no moral demand, but it is the
key for a fundamentally new cultural formation.
7. Free love
Free love means »love free of fear and pretense«. The universal
communication of future communities shows in a fearless contact between all
beings of creation. Within such a system it would not make sense anymore to
block the powers of love by any sort of prohibitions. Especially between
the sexes free love stands for the central principle of opening and truth,
be it mental, psychic, sexual or all at once. Free love will become obvious
as soon as lies, fear, and humiliation have been taken out of love. Future
communities without free love would be contradicting themselves.
8. Biotope and fellow beings
All beings are different forms of life or different »states or
aggregation« of the one universal spirit. That is why all beings live
in constant spiritual communication. We will learn to communicate with
plants and animals the same way as with our friends, because they are
animated by the same spiritual energy as we are. Parts of them are like
embryos or children of creation and want to evolve according to an
entelechy that leads all beings to the same goal. We as human beings have
the possibility to understand all this and help our fellow beings in their
development. They in turn will help us as all of creation is reciprocal.
Healing herbs will come where they are needed, if we learn to communicate
on their level. Animals will come or go, if we learn to communicate on
their level. The Bishnoi in India, the Aborigines in Australia, some
American Indian tribes and some tribes in Africa give us hints of what it
means to communicate with fellow beings on their level. Naturally future
communities will re-find and apply such contents of archaic consciousness
on a new level.
9. Self sufficiency
The prevailing forms of global western civilization are based on colonial
systems of conquest and on imperialism. Innately they are impressed by
violence, lies, and fear, and so they don't have the ability for
communication needed for their survival. Communities of the future
therefore need a high level of self sufficiency in all areas of life to
become independent of existing distributory and supply systems.
Self sufficiency is necessary in the areas of water, nutrition, energy,
and medicine.
In context with the demand for self sufficiency we come across an
interesting question: how large do future communities need to be to realize
self sufficiency? The answer can only be found from experience, but we
will see that they cannot be too small. If we try to realize self
sufficiency in small communities (below 100 people) it will probably throw
us back into the stone age. But communities of the future need to contain a
high level of cultural, technological, spiritual, and biological variety to
reach the complexity needed for a global cultural formation.
10. Global cultural formation
When future communities are in resonance with the living body of the earth,
they will have global impact. This is no pious hope but scientific law,
because the living body of the earth is one unique organism together with
the biosphere. If this organism gets a new information through the
non-violent culture of a Healing Biotope, it will be effective in all of
its organs. If the biosystem of the coming communities is compatible with
the biosystem of the biosphere and of creation, a relatively small impulse
in number will be enough to change the whole thing. The first Healing
Biotope is a global cultural crystal that will soon call into being similar
crystal formations globally. Within the next three decades we count on
similar foundations in the USA, in South America, Africa, and Australia.
The cultural formation of the new epoch will follow a network of such
planetary centers.
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