tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70262987128142615402024-03-12T20:39:18.575-07:00SPIRITUAL COMMUNISMIndividuals of the world unite!
You have nothing to lose but the fictions that keep you in chains!Peter Wilberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05298715223782891800noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026298712814261540.post-6036653410477263402014-09-27T06:17:00.002-07:002014-09-30T03:58:04.144-07:00SPIRITUALITY AND COMMUNISM - TOWARDS A NEW 'GIFT ECONOMY'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>How to know
if you are ‘spiritually’ aware…</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know not
only that ‘spirituality’ is just a word for heightened <i>awareness</i> but also that ‘self-awareness’ and <i>world-</i>awareness are not separate or separable.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that what some people call ‘pure awareness’ is both absolutely distinct but
also absolutely <i>inseparable</i> from all
that we are aware <i>of</i> – not just in
ourselves but in the world.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
therefore, that ‘pure awareness’ is useless unless it becomes what it most
truly is – an unlimited source of world-awareness – of new and world-transforming
forms of economic, cultural and political awareness, philosophical and
scientific awareness, psychological and medical awareness, legal and linguistic
awareness. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know that
you cannot come to truly ‘know yourself’ unless you come to also know <i>the world</i> as it truly is – which is <i>not </i>what schools, the corporate
controlled media and professional experts of all sorts tell us. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that almost everything that is taught as ‘knowledge’ of the world is an
untruth - a myth, fiction or blatant lie. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that meditation alone cannot pay your rent or mortgage, cannot house a single
individual or feed a single starving child and cannot free you from a low-paid
or unsatisfactory job you are forced to take. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that illness and mental health problems are ultimately the result of a
fundamentally sick and insane <i>world </i>ruled
by money.<i> </i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that the most precious commodity is time, that real wealth is time wealth – and
that meditation is essentially just having <i>time</i>
– time to be aware and freedom to use your time in a way that is most creative
and fulfilling.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that capitalism is based on ‘business’ – in other words on a constant
‘busy-ness’ in pursuit of money – a busyness, addiction to speed and restless
thoughtlessness that prevents people from taking time to be more self-aware and
world-aware in a restfully or meditatively thoughtful way. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that almost no ‘spiritual’ teacher’ or ‘spiritual’ teaching in history has made
us more aware and ‘enlightened’ about the dominant social, economic and class
system in which it was fostered - or challenged that system and its ruling
powers. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You know
that Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism all ended up as ruling class
institutions– amassing great money wealth from the people in this process, supporting
wars and violence, and ignoring injustice and inequality in the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>2.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>How to know how
World-aware you are…</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that all land, water, forests and natural resources in this world are -
and must become again - the common or communal property and heritage of
humanity as a whole - and not the private property of bankers and corporations.
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that as long as the means of production – whether natural resources, land,
technologies, buildings and factories – are the private property of landlords
and corporations, the rest of us are slaves forced to work for them. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that ‘communism’, as Marx himself defined it, is NOT an authoritarian
state-run bureaucracy but a society with no need of either a state or
money. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that ‘communism’, as Marx himself defined it, is also not a form of
bureaucratic collectivism which limits individual freedoms but one in which “the
free development of<i> each</i> is the
condition for the free development of <i>all</i>”
(Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto). </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that in the capitalist system, people have no choice but ‘work to live’ -
just to ‘survive’ - instead of living to
do work of a sort they find most fulfilling. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that capitalism is therefore essentially the<i> prostitution</i> of the individual’s time to an employer who tells
them what to do. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that no one should be forced - just to earn money - to do work they do
not enjoy or does not fulfil their individual interests, potentials and
talents.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that ‘work’ should mean freely cultivating and fulfilling our natural
individual potentials, interests, talent and capacities – not having to ‘get a
job’ or ‘career’ to make money.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that the basic principle of capitalist societies is <i>not ‘</i>individual freedom’, but the opposite. That is because ‘work’ in
the capitalist system is, in most cases, the single biggest obstacle to the
free self-fulfilment of the individual’s creative potentials. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that if everyone <i>freely shared </i>their
knowledge, talents or the products of their work with other people, their
communities and society as a whole, there
would be no need for money – because each individual could then also <i>freely
receive</i> what they needed from others.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that in a money-less communist society there would be no need to ‘make money’
through either wage-slavery, self-employment, competition for jobs or markets -
or crime. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that there is absolutely no reason why one form of work should be given
more value than another: why a totally egotistic Wall Street trader or banker,
for example, should earn a thousand times more than a low-paid nurse or teacher
caring for or working for the good of others.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that all governments and ruling political parties – even if
‘democratically elected’ are controlled by the will of a global ruling elite of
private bankers who worship only one god – money.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Note: this
is not a ‘theory’ but a fact proven by studies of the global economy. These showed
that that the <u>37 million companies</u> responsible for most global revenue
is controlled by just 147 companies - themselves controlled by the top 50
global banks – and the banks at the <u>top</u> of this 50!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that this elite is the expression of a global <i>system</i> of monetary capitalism whose only function is the <i>creation of money from money alone</i> - and
its concentration in the hands of a few.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that the global banking elite is willing to <i>sacrifice</i> the lives of billions of human beings - and all other
life-species on the planet – to its god of money.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware
of how it does so: through profiting from war, privatising and plundering the
earth’s natural resources, polluting our air, soil and water and profiting from
the creation of poverty. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware that, as a result,<i> half the world's wildlife population</i> has been eliminated in the last 40 years. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware that our global monoculture of money has also led to the loss of linguistic, cultural diversity - with </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".l.$mid=11412072199297=2fc31fd17192d098958.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span class="null">100's of languages, culture - and their spiritual
traditions - vanishing from the Earth each year.</span></span> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that in our global capitalist system a <i>third of all food</i> ends up as
waste, while billions do not have enough to eat. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware that speculation and gambling on food prices by investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Barclays has forced <i>115 million people into poverty, hunger and starvation</i> since 2008. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that governments say they are in too much debt to the banks to have
enough money to fund public spending or protect the poor and sick - but that at
the same time they freely handout trillions in taxpayer money to bailout those
banks (‘Welfare for the banks. Austerity for the people.’)</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that though private bankers create money from nothing, money itself
creates nothing. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that although we can<i> buy</i> things
with money it is not money but <i>human
beings</i> who <i>create</i> those things
and give them their value. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that the entire mainstream media is owned, controlled and manipulated by
this global financial and banking elite.
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that nations, regions or communities are not dependent either on taxation
or on borrowing money from the international banks and money markets – and that
the myth that they are is a Big Lie constantly spread by the corporate media. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that money, as mere ‘exchange value’, replaces or degrades all genuine
natural moral, cultural and spiritual values. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that banking is <i>global criminal
fraud</i> and that the global banking elite is the biggest criminal syndicate in
the world.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware of the nature of this fraud – which is that the money banks ‘lend’ to didn’t
exist<i> before they lent it – </i>but
instead is <i>created from nothing</i> just
by tapping numbers into a customer’s electronic
deposit account. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that every <i>loan agreement</i> is
therefore a fraudulent contract under common law – asking the borrower to give
their own hard-earned money ‘back’ to banks which didn’t have it and who
required <i>no productive work at all to
create it</i>. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that throughout history people and whole nations have been made into
slaves by private money-lending – by ‘usury’.
</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware also that all through history many great leaders – from Julius Caesar to
JFK - rebelled against the money-lenders by freely creating and issuing their
own debt- and interest-free money. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that political and electoral ‘democracy’ is a fiction as long as
governments are there only to serve the interests of bankers and big
corporations - and that politicians depend on their money to get elected. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware
that political democracy is meaningless without economic democracy – democracy within
the corporations and institutions that most people spend their lives working in
and for. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that you are ‘born free’ – that no corporation, government or state has
some sort of God-given right to tell you what to do, demand taxes from you - or
follow any of its statutory ‘laws’. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware
that what is ‘legal’ is not what is ‘lawful’. Laws are decided by people. Legal
statutes are created by corporate controlled states and governments.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that most nations are themselves registered corporations, that these
corporations are fictional legal or judicial ‘persons’.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that under the capitalist judicial system, flesh-and-blood human beings do
not exist except as fictional legal or judicial ‘persons’. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that this is why, on all ‘official’ letters you receive, your name is
printed in CAPITAL LETTERS as they are on gravestones and as, since Greek
times, were the names of SLAVES. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that this is to indicate that it is not you but a fictional judicial
person that is being addressed.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> You are aware that as a legal person you are
yourself the private property and financial collateral of fictional corporate
persons such as ‘The Crown’ - or whatever corporation is registered under the
title of your nation. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that there is only one basic principle of common human LAW as opposed to
capitalist law – to do no harm to others and that, left to themselves, human
beings would naturally follow this law. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that the most precious commodity or ‘ware’ of all individuals is not
money but <i>time</i>, but that if
individuals are forced to <i>sell their time</i>
in order to buy what they need, then they are slaves forced to worship or
fetishise another commodity - money. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
‘a-w-a-r-e’ (English) that, in contrast to the sensory <i>qualities</i> and ‘use value’ (Marx) of all commodities (English: ‘w-a-r-e-s’)
money is rooted only in an abstract quantity of some totally invisible and
immaterial – their ‘exchange-value’ (Marx). </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that the invisible, imperceptible and immaterial nature of money as exchange-value
makes it the corrupted worldly counterpart or mirror image of ‘spirit’ – understood
as pure 'a-w-a-r-e-n-e-s-s'. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are aware, in other words, that the god of money is the antithesis of 'spirit' and 'spirituality'. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities.
Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has,
therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature
– of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s
work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he
worships it."<i> </i> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Karl Marx
</span>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that you cannot eat or live in ‘exchange value’ or money alone – you need
real tangible <i>use values</i> such as food
and houses. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware that, as use-values, these wares do <i>not </i>have
to be bought or sold with money, or even bartered – but simply shared freely by
the human beings who create them with the human beings who need them. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You are
aware, for all these reasons, that the only forms of ‘spiritual community’
through which we can become fully aware of and fulfil our ‘selves’ are those
that at the same time enrich our awareness of the world and lead to world
transformation – to true <i>communism </i>as
Marx defined it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>3.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>From
Spiritual Communities to Spiritual Communism </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spiritual ‘communities’
can begin to transform themselves into living examples of <i>communism</i> in practice – ‘spiritual communism’. </span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As Michael Tellinger suggests in
his book ‘UBUNTU’, the first step in communising any community is that each
member shall be asked to donate at least <i>three
hours</i> of time each week to doing <i>free
work</i> for the community as a whole or other members of it. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This will be work based on and
fulfilling the individual abilities, knowledge, skills and talents of community
members - whether as farmers or food producers, bricklayers or engineers,
accountants or IT specialists, therapists or specialist teachers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In return each member of the
community will be entitled to <i>freely
benefit</i> from or receive from the community as a whole (for example, in the
form of housing construction or improvement) and/or the specific abilities and
skills of other members. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If a community has only 100
people, this means that <i>300 hours of work
can go every</i><u> </u><i>week</i> into
turning a spiritual community into a money-less communist economic community
that meets both the spiritual, economic and personal needs of all its members. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Only those who cannot or do not
want to contribute this minimum three hours of time can be asked to donate
money instead – so that the community can for example, purchase land, building
materials, printing equipment etc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even if the three or more hours
of free work contributed by individuals, although suited to their abilities, is
not their most <i>ideal</i> form of work,
freely offering those three hours of work will mean that during the rest of the
time they have, they will - when communism is fully realised - be free to
pursue that ideal form of work – and also to freely contribute <i>its </i>fruits to the community. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Other transitional stages to a ‘money-free’
communism include new community, local and regional paper currencies distributed
in the form of ‘free money’ or ‘gift money’ – the only condition being that
those who receive this free money agree to accept as payment for their own
goods or services <i>as much</i> of the free money as they themselves ask for - and that
this money cannot be exchanged for existing currencies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Communist spiritual communities
of this sort should be led, as Michael Tellinger also suggests, by ‘Councils of
Elders’. As he points out, it does not matter whether these ‘elders’ be old or
young. What is important is that each community elder is gifted with important
abilities and important dimensions of knowledge and awareness - whether
exoteric or esoteric knowledge, self-awareness or world-awareness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Council of Elders will
register the abilities of its members, show them what way or by whom they are
needed, and - in consultation with all members - make plans for the future of
the community as a whole and its expansion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <i>de facto</i> leader or ‘First Elder’ of the Council is he or she who
- through uniting self-awareness with
world-awareness – first educates their community in world awareness and then
initiates or starts it on a practical path toward spiritual communism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The ‘First Elder’ will not be a
dictator but ‘first among equals’. Such a ‘first elder’ will also be a ‘true teacher’
or ‘teacher of truth’ or <i>satguru</i> – a
master of consciousness in the form of both self-awareness and world-awareness -
not a master <i>over</i> others or over
money. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A <i>satguru</i> is someone one who is constantly open to new dimensions of
learning and of truth itself – not
someone who believes that they ‘know it all’ or who thinks they ‘possess’ some
final end-state of ‘enlightenment’ which grants them power or authority over
others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Any community member will be able
to consult with any of the Elders and with their Council in person – whether to
offer specific types of work and abilities, request any form of assistance they
need, make suggestions, raise questions or disputes for discussion, question
the decisions of the Council – object to
current Elders, suggest new Elders - or ask to become an Elder themselves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In doing all these things and
following principles such as these, a spiritual community – or any group or
community of individuals - can in time become a model of spiritual communism
for other groups and communities – as well as a magnet for individuals who wish
to become community members or start their own communities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Note: for many more important and innovative
practical suggestions, do read Michael Tellinger’s book UBUNTU - an excellent and inspiring work which I
disagree with in only a few ways, in particular his claim that he is NOT
talking about a road to COMMUNISM. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>4.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Spiritual Communism as a ‘Gift Economy’ based on Awareness</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“In a free society…no one shall
work for money but for personal satisfaction and pride in their community –
money will be removed from the system. The expression ‘work’ will
rapidly fall away in the new society, and will be replaced with Labour of Love,
since all people will follow their passion or God-given talents to enrich their
own lives and the lives of others with their contribution to the community.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Michael Tellinger, <i>UBUNTU</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The communist economy of the
future will be a ‘gift economy’ – based neither on private ownership of natural
resources and the means of production nor on selling or ‘exchanging’ its products with money.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Instead the communist economy of
the future will be based on all of us freely giving to ‘g-i-f-t-i-ng’ the community with the unique
abilities, talents or ‘g-i-f-t-s’ (English) that go into our creative labour
and its products - freely receiving in return whatever we need from the
community and the g-i-f-ts of its members. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spiritual Communism, as a ‘gift
economy’ in all these senses, will put an end to <b>TINA </b>– the lie that <b>T</b>here
<b>I</b>s <b>N</b>o <b>A</b>lternative to
‘globalisation’ in the form of private financial and corporate ownership of the
planet or ‘globe. For as Marx already understood:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“From the standpoint of a higher
economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by individuals <i>will seem quite as absurd as private ownership
of one man by another</i>. Even a whole society, a nation or even all
simultaneously existing societies taken together <i>are not owners of the globe</i>.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our role as human beings then, is
not to be private owners but joint ‘wardens’ of the globe – of the earth and
its people. It is no accident of
language then that the English and German word ‘W-A-R-E’ (ware) in which the
English words ‘A-W-A-R-E’ (aware) ‘A-W-A-R-E-N-E-S-S’ and 'W-A-R-D-E-N'
('guardian') are rooted, mean not only a thing but also an action - to defend
or guard in consciousness, and that to 'B-E
A-W-A-R-E' is also to 'BE-WARE' – to be attentively ‘on guard’. The English word ‘A-W-A-R-E-N-E-S-S’
therefore in itself means to attend to things in the world and not just
ourselves. Similarly, the true German word for the English phrase ‘B-E A-W-A-R-E'
is not 'Bewusstsein' but
‘Ge-WAHR-SEIN’. This word hints at both ‘truth’ (‘WAHRheit’) and the
ability to defend and guard (‘GeWAEHRen’) all things on this globe that are <i>freely given</i> as gifts to us all. (Word
family: <i>give, gifted, to be gifted, gift
economy</i>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>5.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>In the
meantime - contributing surplus time</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Together we
can create this new state- and money-less, ‘gift economy’ in which not even
barter or trade - based on arbitrary or
speculative ‘exchange values’ - will be necessary to freely provide for the
needs and fulfil the creative potentials of each and all. Presently, of course, people still have to
make money from their work or jobs, products still have to be bought, sold,
businesses and nations still have to trade on the basis of exchange values and
money. And yet there already many
individuals on this planet who<i> freely</i>
give much more of more of their time - purely for the interests of their
community, nation, society and the world as a whole - than they receive as money.
Such individuals, through their <i>free</i> contribution of ‘surplus’, unpaid labour
time, are a model of ‘spiritual communism’ – for what they do is the ethical and
economic <i>opposite</i> to the forced exploitation
of labour time and ‘surplus value’ through ‘wage-slavery’ that defines
capitalism – but that exists only to profit corporate employers and their financiers
rather than humanity and our planet as a whole. It only remains for the ethical model offered
by such individuals to be recognised as part of <i>economic</i> model for whole communities - in this way also distributing
the free contribution of unpaid creative labour among all its members, rather
than leaving it as a burden that is placed upon a few. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>6.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><b>Before or
after Apocalypse?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Whether a
new communist gift economy can prevent a total global ecological and/or
economic catastrophe – or simply offer ways for human being to ‘pick up the pieces’
afterwards and make a new start by coming together as communities in new ways –
this remains to be seen. All we need remind ourselves is that ‘apocalypse’ also
means ‘revelation’, and that humanity has been in this situation before - before
the Great Flood, echoed in the Biblical story of Noah, that overwhelmed the first human
civilisation and cities in Sumeria – and also after it, when the gods once gave to or ‘g-i-f-t-e-d’ humanity with new knowledge and skills, and new forms
of economic and social organisation. </span></span></div>
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Peter Wilberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05298715223782891800noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026298712814261540.post-37499275381209793772012-02-17T07:45:00.001-08:002014-09-24T02:29:07.556-07:00THE FICTIONS THAT KEEP US IN CHAINS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All Bank of England notes have printed on them “I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of …”. With or without words like these, all bank notes in all capitalist currencies are ‘promissory notes’ or IOU’s (from the English ‘I Owe You’). A promissory note is essentially a promise. To pay what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To pay a debt. In other words all money is created as debt - borrowed into existence - and all monetary transactions are exchanges of debt. Yet since all debt carries interest the total of all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">debt </i>cannot possibly be paid by all the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">money </i>in circulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2. </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">‘NATIONAL DEBTS’ AS A FICTION. GOVERNMENTS COULD ISSUE MONEY DIRECTLY.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">National Debts would not exist did not governments rely on taxation and on loans from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">private banks</i> and financial markets to finance their expenditure, but instead affirmed their own sovereign right to issue their own interest-free money and inject it directly into the real economy. Forfeiting this sovereign right means that the entire money supply of nations exists in the form of debt to the private banking sector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were all that debt to be repaid, there would be no ‘money’ in circulation in the economy at all, since - as explained above - money itself does not exist except <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as</i> debt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. </i>– Abraham Lincoln</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Greece and countless nations all over the world could solve their national debt problems at a stroke by following Lincoln’s advice. Yet no mention is ever made of this solution in ‘democratic’ parliaments or media, so dangerous is it to the international bankers. Outraged at the very idea of money <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> being created as debt to them with interest on it, they used all the power they could muster to bring an end to Lincoln’s vision and instead turned America into a United States Corporation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ruled by banking creditors. The biggest ‘coup’ of these creditor was the establishment in 1913 of the so-called ‘Federal Reserve Bank’ - itself nothing but a cartel of the biggest private banks which made U.S. governments dependent on borrowing from those banks for every Dollar issued. When President J.F. Kennedy was just on the verge of revoking the powers of the Federal Reserve he was assassinated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. </i>– James Madison</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. </i>– Henry Ford</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3. </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">BANK ‘LOANS’ AS A FICTION. IN FACT THEY ARE FRAUDULENT AND UNLAWFUL.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Money is created as debt by private banks. But it is created in a way that breaks all the principles of Contract Law. A simple application for a loan is actually a ‘cheque’ for a certain amount of money granted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i> a bank by the borrower. Why? Because the signature on it allows the bank to create a fictional electronic ‘deposit’ of that sum of money in the borrower’s account - just by keying in the numbers on a computer. Yet besides being purely electronic money this money is fictitious also because it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did not exist</i> until the borrower applied for the loan. Putting your signature to a loan application <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">without being told</i> this, without full disclosure of the fact you yourself have signed the money you are borrowing into existence - is a breach of ‘Full Disclosure’ – one of the basic principles of Contract Law. It is also a breach of the principle of ‘Equal Consideration’ – since the banks themselves are offering no<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘consideration’ of their own – nothing of intrinsic value - to the loan contract (for example gold or capital reserves). Finally, since all credits issued by banks are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">signed into existence</i> by the borrower, and since these loans or credits count as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assets</i> on the bank’s account (understandable – since just as ‘money is debt’ so also ‘debt is money’) the borrower has been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">defrauded</i> by a four-step ‘scam’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1. </span></span>The borrower effectively <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gives</i> an amount of money to a bank by applying to borrow it – effectively <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">signing that money into existence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2. </span></span>The bank then demands that the borrower give the bank <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the same amount of money</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">once again</i> as ‘repayment’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3. </span></span>The bank asks for even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more money</i> from the borrower in the form of interest on the loan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4. </span></span>The bank makes huge amounts money by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">selling</i> its loans to other banks and the financial markets. In fact people have a right to claim back this money made from loans to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Basically however, no one has any legal or ethical responsibility to pay back a bank loan - since the loan is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fraudulent contract</i>. It is fraudulent not only for the reasons given above but also because in reality THERE IS NO CONTRACT. A joint contract requires the signature of two parties. But where is the signature from the bank that would make the loan a mutual ‘contract’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bank can’t sign such a contract because it only exists as a fictitious legal ‘person’ – a corporation, and not a real person who can be held responsible for their side of the contract. It might be argued that a bank loan is a legal form of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unilateral </i>contract established by one party (the borrower) accepting a contractual offer from the other (the lender). This is highly questionable however given that the loan ‘offer’ is not for money that actually exists as ‘Consideration’<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> before</i> the lender accepts that offer. All that is ‘offered’ then is a so-called ‘financial service’ but one lacking in the Full Disclosure necessary to regard it as a lawful contract. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, even the idea of payable ‘interest’ on a loan is essentially a fiction. Thus if an economy consisted of ten friends of yours to whom you loaned £100.00 each with 5% interest there would be a total of £1000.00 in circulation – not enough for all your friends to pay this back <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plus</i> the interest. In other words, there is not – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in principle</i> – any possibility of paying of the Interest on the ‘sum of all ‘Principal’ loan amounts.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">‘THE LAW’ AS A FICTION. MOST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nobody is bound to follow the ‘legal’ statutes or ‘laws’ of any state. The only true ‘law’ is not Statutory Law but simple Common Law, otherwise known as ‘The Law-of-the-Land’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Common Law is simply ‘common sense’ law – meaning that you are free to do what you want unless it infringes on the life, liberty, property, freedom of movement or rights of another person. Common Law does not grant states and governments any lawful right to demand<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that you pay them any form of taxes, license fees, that you must have a license to drive or a passport to travel, that you must ‘register’ a business, car or property, birth or marriage etc.etc. In fact most Statutory laws are an unlawful infringement on your lawful rights under Common Law. Where they do so THE LAW IS UNLAWFUL. Indeed most Statutory ‘laws’, created in the form of so-called ‘legal’ statutes are infringements of LAWFUL rights under Common Law. Since they developed out of Common Law however, they stand UNDER Common Law and are not above it. If a judge asks you if you ‘understand’ however, he or she is asking you to place your Common Law rights in a position that stands under Statutory Law – and therefore to forego those Common Law rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order for the world’s first capitalist state – Britain - to make Statutory Law higher than Common Law – a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>language was based on’ The Law-of-Waters’ or ‘maritime’ law rather than The Law-of-the-LAND.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why a bank is called a ‘bank’ – which means one side of a river or ‘waterway’. That why in English one speaks of monetary ‘currencies’ – a word deriving from ‘currents’ of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is also why in England someone accused in court of an offence under Statutory Law has to stand in an area still called ‘the dock’ - the place in a harbour where ships ‘dock’. That is also why so many English words still end with the very word ‘ship’ – for example ‘ownership’, ‘citizenship’, ‘worship’, ‘your Worship’ (‘Warship’), ‘Lordship’, ‘Ladyship’ etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Law-of-Waters is also the basis of all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>words ending in ‘port’ – for example ‘transport’, ‘passport’, ‘export’, ‘import’. Such words are all to do with commercial maritime trade and law, stemming from a time when it was still true that ‘Britannia rules the waves’ and Britain was the greatest<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> maritime</i> trading empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4. </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">‘SOCIETY’ AS A FICTION. WHAT EXISTS ARE ‘SOCIETIES’ OR ‘CORPORATIONS’. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is another important reason why nobody is bound to follow the Statutes of any ‘state’, ‘nation’ or ‘parliament’. That is because they are all societies. Societies create statutes which are rules or ‘laws’ to be followed by members of that society. But societies need to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">voluntarily joined</i>. If you have NOT joined a particular society – or have resigned from that society – then you are no longer a member of that society – and no longer need to follow its rules or statutes. HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II is a corporation. What is called ‘the United Kingdom’ is not a country or nation. It is a corporate society or ‘corporation’. Its true name is THE UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION – a commercial society in the form of a Limited Company with a listed set of directors. ‘MEMBERS of PARLIAMENT’ is also the registered name of a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporation</i>. The Treasury, the Police Force – you name it – these institutions of the ‘nation’ or ‘state’ are not what their name suggests, simply national or state institutions. They are societies in the form of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">registered corporations</i>. Yet again, none of the ‘laws’ created by a corporate society applies to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> unless you have joined it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– and will no longer apply to you if you have resigned your membership. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The law can give rise to a FICTION, but a fiction cannot give rise to a law. Consequently a legal fiction called THE GOVERNMENT has no power to make LAW. It is, in point of fact, BOUND BY [COMMON] LAW - like everyone else, and including all other legal fictions. PARLIAMENT is another legal fiction entity. Statutes created by Parliament are not, therefore, the LAW. They are 'legislated rules for a society' and ONLY APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS OF THAT SOCIETY. Join a different society, and you would be bound by a different set of rules. (If this were not the case it would be impossible to become, for example, a Freemason and be bound by the rules of Freemasonry). Statutes are nothing more than the ‘Company Policy’ of THE UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION, or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION, etc. … A Society is, in essence, nothing more than a grouping of like-minded souls since it is defined as a number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act for a common goal. A society makes its own rules, and its members are duty-bound to follow them. Different societies can exist, having their own unique set of rules. One way of 'choking' the action of a court de facto is to claim membership of a society that only exists in Common Law jurisdiction.”</i> Mary Elizabeth Croft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">REGISTERED ‘NAMES’ AS A FICTION. THEY REPRESENT A FICTITIOUS LEGAL ‘PERSONS’.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unfortunately for most of us however, our parents applied to join our national corporations by registering our birth. Registering a birth in the U.K. turns the NAME - as it is spelled partly or wholly in CAPITAL LETTERS - into a fictitious legal entity or ‘person’, and making this ‘person’ a member of THE UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION. Registration transfers ownership of something. A Birth Certificate treats the baby as the cargo of a ship that has just ‘berthed’ – ownership of which is thereby transferred to THE UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION. That is why if you go into a Courtroom, even as a mature adult, you are known as a ‘Ward of Court’ – a ‘ward’ meaning a helpless or imbecilic child that has to be represented (literally ‘re-presented’ in Court) by a legal ‘warden’ in the form of a solicitor, barrister or ‘attorney’. Since these are all members of The Law Society the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> laws they need to respect are not Common or ‘common sense’ law but the laws of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that society</i>. Thankfully, when one of your parents signed your Birth Certificate they weren’t told <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this truth</i> – another breach of the principle of Full Disclosure that is part of Contract Law. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But be aware that when you receive any official<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>document in which your name is CAPITALISED and begins with MR or MS it is not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> as a real person that is being addressed, but the fictive legal ‘person’ created and represented by that NAME.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Registration” comes from Latin “rex, regis” etc. meaning regal. So think about what occurs to whatever you ‘register’ – you hand legal title over to the Crown. When you <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">register </span>anything with the public, it releases legal title to the government corporation and leaves you with only equitable title – the right to use, not own, and for that use you will pay a ‘use’ tax which is every tax, be it income, sin, sales, property, etc. as opposed to lawful taxes – excise and impost. So that it doesn’t <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">appear </span>that the government now owns the property which you have registered they put it in a name which so much resembles your own that you won’t suspect it, however, the NAME is owned by the government. If you choose rather to <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">record </span>your legal title to your property with the public, you maintain your status as Title Owner. This is one of the most important things you can ever learn for the sake of your commercial affairs. The best example of the effects of registration is the birth certificate. A bankrupt entity – city, state/province, country – cannot operate in commerce. So how do they manage? Since USA/CA have been bankrupt for decades, having no substance such as gold and silver to back it, the only asset it has are men and women and our labour. We are the collateral for the interest on the loan of the World Bank. Each of us is registered, via the application for a birth certificate. The Treasury issues a bond on the birth certificate and the bond is sold at a securities exchange and bought by the FRB/BoC, which then uses it as collateral to issue bank notes. The bond is held in trust for the Feds at the Depository Trust Corporation. We are the surety on said bonds .. The USG/CAG, in order to provide necessary goods and services, created a commercial bond (promissory note), by pledging the property, labour, life and body of its citizens, as payment for the debt (bankruptcy). This commercial bond made chattel (property) out of us all. We became nothing more than ‘human resources’ and collateral for the debt. This was without our knowledge and/or our consent, via the filing (‘registration’) of our birth certificates.” </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mary Elizabeth Croft</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The process of appropriating the common wealth of the people began in England during the Fire of London, when an Act of Parliament (still in force) was passed declaring all the people <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dead</i> and transferring their property to the Crown – unless they showed up in the flesh and claimed this property back. Thus it came to be that capital letters are used on birth certificates – as they are on gravestones – thus effectively turning the registration of a birth into a certificate of legal ‘death’ which makes the child into property of the Crown <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(regis</i>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5. </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">LEGAL ‘ORDERS’ AS A FICTION. NO ONE CAN ORDER YOU TO DO ANYTHING!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Statutory Law is based on Commerce and Commercial Law (now called the UCC or Uniform Commercial Code). This is important, because it means that when any state bureaucrat ‘orders’ you to do something what they are really doing is presenting you with a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">commercial</i> order for a service or item. There is no difference in Law between ‘ordering’ someone to show a license and ‘ordering’ an item from a menu or sales catalogue. Like a seller therefore, you yourself can therefore decline to accept the order or else <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">place a</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">charge</i> on any Court or policeman for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">order</i> they give you. You can also argue that all Statutory laws under which they assume they can arrest and order you to do something require your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assent </i>to be valid, and ask for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proof</i> of this assent. Last but not least, you can ask a policeman to recall their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oath</i> – which is an oath to uphold Common Law. Therefore if they or anyone else such as a bailiff take any property of yours without your permission, use any form of force on your body or infringe your liberty in any way (for example by seizing you bodily, restricting your freedom of movement or holding you in custody) they are themselves in breach of the very Law they have sworn on oath to uphold – The Law-of-the-Land. Any seizure of property, imprisonment or enforced compensation can only be enforced through a breach of this law - Common Law – a breach which must first be established by any real person with a Common Law grievance against you taking evidence that is more than hearsay or suspicion to a Common Law jury. A Corporation of any sort, being a fictional legal entity or ‘person’ rather than a real flesh and blood person, cannot however make any claims or pursue any ‘orders’ against you under Common Law, just as it cannot enter into lawful contracts with you - which require the signature of real persons as joint parties to the contract.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6. </span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘EMPLOYMENT’ AS A FICTION. EMPLOYMENT IS WAGE-SLAVERY</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved.” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The hurdy gurdy grinder's monkey exists for the sake of the organ grinder… Workers are [there] to fulfill companies' needs rather than vice versa.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why is employment a fiction? First of all, the very word ‘employment’ is a misnomer. Billions of workers, all over the globe are paid to do work which does <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> ‘employ’ their unique individual capacities or creative potentials as human beings. Secondly, ‘employment’ is not the same as work – understood as free, creative and productive activity. It is the extraction of corporate profit from workers - workers who are forced to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sell</i> their labour time and labour to corporations (perhaps <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prostitute</i> would be a better word)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>simply because they do not themselves own the land, building, technical and industrial equipment and other forms of ‘capital’ that make up the ‘means of production’ – for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>is the property of the few, the capitalist class – obtained by exploiting other workers. Besides not owning the means of production however, the employed worker does not even own the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">products </i>of their very own labour<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- physical or intellectual - which automatically become the property of their employers - the capitalist class. Then again workers must actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pay</i> to become indentured slaves to those corporations – not just through taxes, but even through having to directly pay back the cost of their education or training (not to mention having to allow corporations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or pension funds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to speculate with their contributions on the financial markets). <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Students are being asked to pay for the privilege of becoming serfs.” </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">John Kozy.</span><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i>Finally, since a large proportion of jobs are now temporary or part-time, employment no longer means having a guaranteed or ‘safe’ income, or even one that pays a living wage – and given the fact that even the best and most experienced or capable workers can at any time lose their jobs if their companies cannot meet their debts - we already live in a ‘post-employment’ economy, one in which individuals must compete with hundreds or even thousands of others just to become exploitable and expendable serfs.<i> </i>The absurd <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">irony </i>of so-called ‘employment’ in capitalist economies was sarcastically laid bare by Eimar O’Duffy in his book<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asses in Clover</i>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“Suppose a party of people were wrecked on a desert island, what do you think would be the first thing they’d do? Obviously they would look around for a man with money to employ them in gathering fruit. If there were no capitalist among them, or if he didn’t see his way to make a profit out of the business, they would all remain unemployed and starve to death, no matter how fertile the island might be … If therefore we want to have plenty of employment, we must give every possible incentive to entrepreneurs – encouraging them to get as much of our money from us as they can, so that they can spend it on employing us to make more for them.”</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is all this employment really needed for? To sustain what is called economic ‘growth’ – a necessity for ever-increasing interest on corporate and national debt to be paid off – ‘growth’ attained at the expense of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">diminishing</i> natural resources and their capacity for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">re-growing</i> themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Wikipedia entry for ‘democracy’ states correctly that the word ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">democracy’ “comes from the Greek word </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EL" style="mso-ansi-language: EL;">δημοκρατία</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">dēmokratía</span>) ‘rule of the people’, which was coined from δῆμος (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">dēmos</span>) "people" and κράτος (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">kratos</span>) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens.” </span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">What is often forgotten however is that the only ‘citizens’ eligible to speak and vote in the assembly, which set the laws of the city state <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“were all-male, born from parents who were born in Athens, and excluded women, slaves, foreigners (μέτοικοι /metoikoi) and males under 20 years old.” </i>As a result, of the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 inhabitants of Athens there were only between 30,000 to 60,000 ‘citizens’. So even though Greek ‘democracy’ did indeed offer a model for modern liberal parliamentary ‘democracy’, it did so also in a highly questionable way – being, like Roman ‘democracy’, a form of purely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>political democracy based on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">economic slavery</i> and ultimately influenced most by those with wealth. We see the ‘great’ heritage of ‘democracy’ still today – in which, no matter how many more people are counted as ‘citizens’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘democracies’ are still countries ruled by the few and by the wealthiest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">So whilst the root meaning of the Greek word ‘democracy’ is indeed ‘people power’, w</span>hat sort of ‘democracy’ is it in which millions of dollars of campaign funding from bankers and big corporations are required simply to seek to stand for election as a U.S. President, State Governor or even as Mayor? It is electoral ‘Democracy’ for the ‘elect’ few<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as in Athens and Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly what sort of ‘democracy’ is it in which the organisations that wield most power on governments and that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">also effect most people’s lives most immediately and directly</i> – namely the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporations</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that employ them </i>– are entirely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">undemocratic </i>if not totally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">autocratic</i> in nature? Only a tiny number of corporate board members have the power to elect a CEO or managing director. Today’s wage-slaves – workers and middle management – certainly have no say and no vote whatsoever. Modern <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">political democracy</i> is therefore true to its roots -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being based on a total lack of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">economic democracy.</i> Along with this lack of economic democracy goes almost total corporate control of all sources of information in the form of press and broadcast media. Thus even to speak of a ‘free press’ or ‘neutral’ TV channels in today’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘liberal democracies’ is nothing but a bad joke. ‘Freedom’ means not offending your corporate owner, advertisers or sponsors. ‘Neutrality’ means reducing political reporting and debate to the most superficial and banal level possible – and shaped by a constant flow of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disinformation</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pumped out by the media. What counts as reporting, news and debate is determined as much by what is not reported, does not make the news - and is not questioned or debated - as by what is. And if what could be but is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> reported as ‘news’ or supplied as information <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vastly exceeds</i> what is reported – thus potentially offering a no less vast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">choice</i> of news items to air or print - why<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is it that almost all news channels and newspapers nevertheless offer the same if not near identical fare of lead ‘stories’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Power over media, political parties and ‘elected’ politicians alike by wholly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">undemocratic</i> corporations and their lobbyists make ‘democracy’ a total <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fiction.</i> When for example, was the last time the people were ever given the right to vote whether or not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">go to war</i> for example – and that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">without</i> being ‘primed’ to vote ‘yes’ by corporate, political and military disinformation? And in what ‘democratic’ country can employees elect, select, hire or fire those who (mis-)manage the enterprises and corporations that employ them – let alone or exert <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a majority vote</i> over boardroom decisions that may ruin their lives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For political democracy to be possible at all it must be based on economic democracy and on direct democracy – not on voting for political ‘representatives’ whose principal loyalty is not to the people who voted for them but to their corporate backers, to monarchs or to the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> fictions</i> of ‘democratic’ constitutions and ‘representative’ parliaments or assemblies – all of which are in turn ultimately ruled by powerful groups of creditors, ‘the 1%’ who hold the purse strings. Democracy is ‘Debtocracy’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>“The integrated core [of education] concerns itself with the universal experiences that are</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>common to all people, with those shared activities without which human relationships are diminished and the quality of life reduced.” </i>– Ernest L. Boyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">‘Education’ today, whether in the form of public or private schools, colleges and universities, has gradually become nothing more than a set of graded institutions competing in a national and international marketplace to ‘produce’ the best corporate servants - whether in the form of low, middle or upper level wage-slaves or an elite class of politicians. At the same time they provide a necessary day-time depository or parking place for the children of working families i.e. existing wage-slaves and corporate servants. In this process the distinction between teaching what the Greeks called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">techne </i>(technical skills) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">episteme</i> (knowledge) has dissolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result is what Ivan Illich called institutional counter-productivity – with many schools no longer able to guarantee even the most elementary skills (spelling or mental arithmetic for example) necessary for ‘further education’ and eventual ‘employment’ as a corporate servant. For such necessary skills include not only accurate literacy and numeracy (something which not even many teachers possess) but also the capacity for independent questioning, critical thinking and articulate communication in speech and writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The situation has reached such a point of absurdity that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one single technical</i> skill supersedes all other forms of knowledge and learning – the skill of answering anticipated examination questions without needing to possess any true understanding of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either the question or the answer</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus in the realm of English literature, students are mechanically prepared to answer anticipated questions on one single scene of one single play of Shakespeare – yet without any requirement to have either <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fully read</i> that play – yet alone deeply understood its meaning in a feeling way. The result is that in America more than two thirds of the human products of the educational production line can only read prose writing (even in the form of a newspaper article) at a low or sub-average level. And just as 50% of Americans live below the poverty line, so have 50% of the population <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never read a single book</i>. Indeed in American colleges, students can obtain ‘credits’ for their degrees from a vast menu of courses on such subjects as ‘The History of American Football’ - yet without knowing anything of the history of their own country, let alone that of the world and other cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In philosophy, a single naïve question oftentimes suffices for the whole system to collapse.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Science teaching – now promoted more than ever before - has become a form of pure indoctrination which by-passes all critical thinking through a vast web of circular definitions which rule out what appear as ‘naïve’ and yet basic philosophical questions. Thus ‘electricity’ is defined in terms of its relation to ‘magnetism’ and ‘energy’ in terms of its relation to ‘matter’ – and vice versa. No one even thinks of asking questions such as ‘What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> ‘matter’ or ‘energy’?’ or ‘What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> an ‘electron’ or ‘photon’? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– for the answers to such <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>basic questions are all already foreclosed<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>by circular definition, i.e. by defining such unquestioned scientific terms only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in terms</i> of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other such terms</i> and only within the framework of the unquestioned terminological jargons they constitute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It used to be thought that students in ex-Communist countries such as Russia were ‘indoctrinated’ by their educational institutions. In fact it was only in these countries that all students (and not just those in elite schools) achieved a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real education</i> i.e. one including not only technical skills but broad areas of knowledge – including world history, philosophy and logic, not to mention foreign cultures and languages – all of which were compulsory ‘subjects’ and not mere ‘options’ for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marginal few. Today, the ever-increasing competitive pressures arising from the drive towards the commercialisation and privatisation of education has resulted in ‘curricula’ which turn ‘education’ as such into a fiction – and its institutions into veritable factories of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ignorance.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For nothing that is taught needs any longer to have any innate interest or value to the student, any innate cultural or spiritual value, any relation to the actual life world and life experience of the student – let alone educate them in the history and nature of the larger world and culture they will enter as adults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Education removes student from the real world around them in order indoctrinate them in the fictitious knowledge and fictitious values that rule that world – only in order to then re-insert them in that world as corporate slaves. It is indoctrination because it teaches no-one to think, question or ‘examine’. The Greeks understood that an ‘unexamined life’ is life not worth living. Today ‘education’ replaces the questioning examination of life<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>with ‘exam’ questions and the fictitious certificates or qualifications of ‘learning’ obtained through them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Educational ‘credits’ are just that – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">loan certificates</i> which trap their owners not just in monetary debt in the form of loans taken to attend universities or private schools - but also and more perversely trap them in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lifelong indebtedness</i> to their own resulting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lack</i> of true, deep and broad ‘education’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.” </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nicolas Gomez-Davila<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People who are angered, sickened and impaired by their industrial labour and leisure can escape only into a life under medical supervision and are thereby seduced or disqualified from political struggle for a healthier world.” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A professional and physician-based health-care system that has grown beyond critical bounds is sickening for three reasons: it must produce clinical damage that outweighs its potential benefits; it cannot but enhance even as it obscures the political conditions that render society unhealthy; and it tends to expropriate the power of the individual to heal himself and shape his or her environment.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Before sickness came to be perceived primarily as an organic or behavioral abnormality, he who got sick could still find in the eyes of the doctor a reflection of his own anguish and some recognition of the uniqueness of his suffering. Now, what he meets is the gaze of a biological accountant engaged in input/output calculations. His sickness is taken from him and turned into the raw material for an institutional enterprise ….” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Medicine today is essentially money-driven, a huge source of profit for the pharmaceutical and hi-tech health industry - which rake in more profits than all the Fortune 500 corporations combined. </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is conventionally regarded as ‘science-based’ or ‘evidence-based’ medicine is actually <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">nothing of the sort -</span> given the corners cut by Big Pharma in testing new drugs, in informing the public on their true and often minimal efficacy, in warning them of their side-effects and often serious dangers - not to mention the massive sums of money spent <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">not</span> on costly ’R&D’ but purely on marketing the latest drugs and treatments to doctors and surgeons. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The ‘science’ on which today’s medicine is based is one that completely separates the life of the human body and brain from the life of the individual as a whole – from current or recent life experiences, from their life history and from their larger social and economic life world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It researches the ‘causes’ and ‘cures’ of ‘illness’ as if they had absolutely no meaning in the larger context of this life world – not least the stresses of economic life and of living in what can only be regarded as a fundamentally sick and innately sickness-generating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>society. The fact that individuals may have good reasons for feeling deeply ill-at-ease in such a society is ignored – until and unless<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this felt dis-ease expresses itself in symptoms of some medically classified and diagnosable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘disease’. Even then, however, the aim of medicine is to identify the cause of disease solely in biological terms – ignoring the fact that the root meaning of the term biology’ is the ‘speech’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">logos</i>) of the ‘life’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bios</i>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet instead of seeing the human body as a living <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">language</i> of the human being – and illness as a form of mute but meaningful bodily <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">speech</i> - or even protest – the body is reduced to a biological machine and illness to mere defects in a biological machine and its genetic components. ‘Health’ as such is effectively reduced by the institutions of state to the individual’s capacity for economic functioning and ‘employment’ in a system of wage-slavery – rather than the capacity for creative fulfilment of their own non-monetary values and potentials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet loss of income, housing or life opportunities of the sort that lead to disheartenment or loss of heart on the part of individuals count for nothing in medical science – until and unless this loss of heart manifests as diagnosable symptoms of ‘heart disease’. These are then, like all other forms of disease, cold-heartedly treated as if they had nothing to do with the patient’s actual life whatsoever. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Last but not least, ‘scientific’ medicine fails - even in its own narrow terms. Thus there is hardly a drug on the market that does not carry the danger of worsening the very symptoms it was prescribed for. Nor can medical ‘science’ provide any evidence that expensive cancer research and treatments carried on over decades have in any way extended the life-expectancy of patients<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- whereas such treatments invariably damage their quality of life. In fact medical treatment itself has been long acknowledged by the medical profession as being one the top three causes of death – if not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the </i>leading cause, ahead of cancer and heart disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That this fact is ignored is because Illness is Big Business - a profitable commodity produced by patients and exploited for profit whether they live or die. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the heart of medicine and its ‘science’ then, are countless fundamental <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fictions</i> - of which I will list only seven (1) that health is innately ‘good’ and ‘illness’ is innately bad (2) that health is merely the proper ‘functioning’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the body rather than the capacity to lead a fulfilled life (3) that illness is an abnormality rather than a natural part of life -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not least in a sick society (4) that ‘death’ itself must be fought to the end - being seen as the end of life (5) that medicine saves or prolongs life, whereas it often kills or reduces quality of life (6) that the human body is a gene-reproducing machine rather than the living speech (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bio-logos</i>) of the human being (7) that ‘illnesses’ have ‘causes’ but no<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life meaning - and are therefore to be ‘fought’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and ‘conquered’ through science and technology rather than understood as an expression of the patient’s life as whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The idea of one basis for Science and another for Life is from the very outset a lie.”- </span></i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Karl Marx</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Stupidity appropriates with a diabolical ease whatever science invents.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Replacing the concrete sensory perception of an object with its abstract intellectual construction gains the world for man, but loses his soul.”</i><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nicolas Gomez-Davila</span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What we call ‘science’ today is nothing but a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new religion</i> with its<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> own</i> pantheon of fictional entities such as ‘quanta’ of energy. It even searches for what it calls the ‘God particle’. What makes science nothing but pure fiction is the way it takes its own purely mental constructs and mathematical equations as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more real</i> than the very phenomena they are supposed to ‘explain’. Mental and mathematical fictions are used to explain actual facts. Science denies the simple truth that all the phenomena we actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">experience</i> as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reality are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> abstract mathematical quantities such as ‘frequencies’ or abstract <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mental constructs such as ‘quanta’ of energy. Instead they are sensuous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">qualities</i> or ‘qualia’ such as our conscious experience of light and darkness, colour and sound, lightness and heaviness, hardness and softness etc. Science in other words, seeks and yet wholly fails to explain Common Sense – our immediate sensory experience of the world. Yet Common Sense tells us that common human experiences do not need ‘explanations’. We do not need scientists or scientific ‘knowledge’ to ‘prove’ what we directly experience and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> as ‘love’, pleasure, pain, mental activity etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor can they ‘explain’ any of our feelings or subjective experiences by showing through brain imaging how they appear to activate different parts of the brain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The new religion of science has also created a new mythological creation story in which a so-called ‘Big Bang’ replaces the ‘Big Being’ known as God. This new myth is riddled with contradictions and yet preached as ‘God’s Truth’ by a new breed of ‘celebrity physicists’ sermonising with the aid of mesmerising images of the cosmic galaxies on TV ‘info-tainment’ documentaries. Is there not an obvious logical contradiction in claiming, as Big Bang preachers do, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">time itself</i> began at a specific and dateable point <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">time</i>?! Yet perhaps the greatest fiction of science is the way it conceals a fundamental truth – namely that to ‘explain’ any phenomenon at all requires that we first of all be conscious of it. Even the very ideas and concepts that scientist come up with - along with all the measurements they take and the images they create with their hi-tech instruments - would not be possible without <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i> of those concepts, images, instruments and measurements. The problem is that it is impossible to explain consciousness <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as such</i> by anything that already assumes a consciousness of it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– including conscious observations of the structure and activity of the human brain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just as Judaeo-Christian religions sees consciousness merely as the private property of beings – including a supreme ‘God-being’ – so does science sees it as the mere property of insentient things or processes. The truth is however that consciousness cannot - in principle - be reduced to the product or property of any thing or being – even a supreme being. For again, whatever we use to explain consciousness already assumes a consciousness or awareness of it. Put simply, there is and can be nothing beyond, before or outside ‘consciousness’, just as there can be nothing ‘before’ time or ‘outside’ space. All individual things, beings and all bodies in space and time can be nothing but ‘souls’ i.e.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>individualised portions, expressions and embodiments of a universal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i>. That universal, all-embracing consciousness can be called ‘the Divine’ or ‘God’. The notion of God that science rejects is a totally simplistic notion of some supreme being that has or possesses consciousness and creates the world like a potter creates a pot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality the only conceivable God is a God that does not ‘have’ but IS consciousness - not a consciousness that is yours or mine, the product of our brains or our private property as beings, but a consciousness that is universal and ‘divine’ – being the all-embracing and all-pervading source and essence of all things and all beings. The truth is that consciousness is everything – all pervasive and all-embracing, and that everything in turn, whether an atom, molecule, rock, cell or body of any sort <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> a consciousness or ‘soul’ in its own right - being one sensuous shape and portion of that universal consciousness which IS ‘God’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If, as Shakespeare suggested: ‘We are such stuff as dream are made on” i.e. consciousness - and if, in other words, consciousness is the very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">medium</i> in which we dwell and of which we and all things are formed - then it follows that no matter in what ways a portion of consciousness - a ‘soul’ – may shift its shape or form or alter its patterns or qualities, and no matter in what way it may fragment into parts and/or mix and merge with other consciousnesses - it cannot ‘die’ in the sense of ceasing to be. Instead the life of the individual as a soul - as a unique, ever-changing and living <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i> - survives eternally - just as it also remains forever both distinct and inseparable from that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">universal consciousness</i> of which it is an individualised portion and from which it is formed. Each soul or consciousness therefore also remains <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">united </i>with every other soul or ‘living consciousness’ through the very medium of that universal consciousness from which they all arise. Each soul also continues to dwell and grow within the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">infinite dimensions </i>of that universal consciousness - even if it ceases to manifest and dwell in its limited physical dimensions and limited physical and human form - or in a way that is physically manifest to those whose consciousness is still attached to that physical form. The fiction of death is closely connected with the fiction of the body and the fiction of matter – the belief that bodies are made up of so-called ‘material’ atoms and molecules - rather than of patterns of atomic and molecular <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i>, of inorganic and organic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i>, of mineral, vegetable and animal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">consciousness</i> - and of not only human but also <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pre- and trans-human</i> consciousness. Consciousnesses or ‘souls’ do not ‘have’ bodies and nor are they a by-product of them. Instead consciousness or souls are what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">body</i> – whether they do so in human and physical form and or in trans-human and trans-physical forms and dimensions. We are indeed eternal spiritual beings (souls) on a temporary human journey or ‘sojourn’ - and not just human beings on a finite spiritual journey, one destined to end <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either</i> in death <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i> in some a fixed and final state of ‘enlightenment’. Death is a birth into infinite dimensions and infinite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>worlds of consciousness or ‘soul worlds’, from which the soul <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">may or may not</i> return and re-body itself in physical form - and in those physical <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">planes</i> of consciousness we perceive as ‘planets’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12. </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">YOU</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> ARE <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NOT</i> A FICTION. YOU ARE A FREE, LIVING AND ETERNAL SOUL. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is the fundamental<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> truth</i> that all the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fictions</i> described and explained above are designed to stop you from recognising<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>Once we recognise that we live in a world entirely shaped <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by</i> these fictions we can stop <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believing</i> in them (which we are constantly indoctrinated to do) and instead come to recognise this truth. Then we will no longer have to submit to and worship the Gods of Money, Law, Science, Religion and many others – including <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fictional ‘Employment’, fictional ‘Costs’ and the fictional Media – the media which promote all these fictions. Instead <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freedom from</i> these fictions will bring us knowledge of truth, and truth in turn will empower us to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exercise</i> our innate freedom as beings - as embodied souls or ‘consciousnesses’. There is freedom ‘from’ and freedom ‘to’. Freedom from fiction releases our freedom to do what as individual souls we are most inclined to do, have the best capacity to do and therefore derive the most fulfilment and satisfaction from doing. Instead of ‘working for a living’ our lives themselves can become creative works - giving expression to the unique qualities and capacities of the soul or consciousness that we each are. We will then free ourselves from perhaps the most insidious fiction of all. This is the fiction, already mentioned, that freely chosen and fulfilling human activity or ‘work’ is the same thing as ‘employment’. It is the fiction that if our time and power to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do and create</i> (our labour time and labour power) is not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sold</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to a corporation</i> and put to use in the way <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it orders us to</i> then we are not ‘doing anything’ at all or are not ‘working’. In reality the very opposite is the case – most people ‘employed’ by corporations are essentially unemployed – since what they do is not the free employment of what they are best capable of doing - not an expression of their true potentials or power <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i>. For as well as ‘power to’ there is also power ‘over’. ‘Employment’ is for the most part the exercise by corporations of power <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over </i>our power <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i>. Its purpose is not the free fulfilment of the individual’s innate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">potentials</i> - their ‘power to’ - but simply profit for the corporations and banks. Such ‘employment’ – in reality nothing but ‘wage-slavery’ - is legally enforced through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unlawful</i> statutes by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fraudulent</i> ‘debt-slavery’ i.e. slavery to the need for ‘money’ to buy what we need. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We work for a living to pay for the ‘cost of living’. Even the houses or flats we are forced to buy or rent to live in have long since been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paid for</i> by the labour that first went into building them. And since when did life and living have a cost? Energy and life itself is a gift from the Sun and the Earth. Food is a gift of the land – which by nature is Common Land and not the property of emperors, monarchs, feudal lords or modern farming corporations. So since when did the raw materials of all we produce – the sun, the earth, the land and sea, human labour power – and even the very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ideas</i> that arose spontaneously in the mind of those inventors who revolutionised technologies of production – have a price on them? Do we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have to ‘pay back’ the sun for energy, our bodies for being able to engage in activity - or pay back the creative power of consciousness for ideas? In reality all that we purchase with our money was granted to us free of charge. Its ‘cost’ only arises from the fact that freely granted energy and fuel, land natural resources, technologies and means of production became the ‘private property’ of a few. Why then, do we have to ‘pay’ those who have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appropriated</i> for themselves what is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freely given to us all</i> to make use of – as if we were still agricultural serfs obliged to pay their feudal ‘lords’ with a portion of our labour or harvest? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporate debt and interest</i> which constitute up to 50% of the price of all products. So why, apart from paying off this debt and interest to the banks, do any products need to be paid for at all - instead of just being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">distributed to others </i>according to their needs? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>A MANIFESTO OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNISM </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but the <u>fictions</u> that keep you in chains!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">W</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">hat is common to all the commonly held fictions we need to free ourselves from - and at the same time holds the very key to freeing ourselves from them can be called ‘The Common’ - for the word ‘common’ is also the root of the word ‘communism’. And yet as Marx himself pointed out: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Communism is for us not a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">state of affairs</span> which is to be established, an <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ideal</span> to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">real</span> movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.” </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">As individuals and nations find it ever more impossible to keep up with their growing debt, the global banking debtocracy, oligarchy and kleptocracy can only preserve its own fictional wealth by creating yet more money <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as</i> debt, by increasing interest on it, or by hoarding it and withholding it from the economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet for money as interest-bearing debt to be paid off – or to simply retain its value for the banksters - requires further exploitation and impoverishment of the people - which in turn reduces consumer demand for products and stalls the constant economic ‘growth’ on which capitalism depends – just in order to pay off the compounding interest to the banks on domestic, corporate and national debt. The only alternative is for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new wars</i> to be started - just to boost growth through demand for ever more costly and sophisticated hi-tech weaponry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">What Marx called “the premises now in existence” for a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> movement” - ‘Communisation’ - are the ever more extreme measures now being used to pay off fictional debts to the banks. These include job, wage, pension and benefit cuts of such severity, that (even in supposedly ‘developed’ European countries and American States) threaten not just the livelihoods of the people but their very ability to obtain <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by means of money</i> what they need to live and survive - whether it be food and other provisions, energy supplies, housing or even that most basic life necessity – water. Thus it is that one million children in America are now homeless, and like countless families live off food handouts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ultimately then, it is not ‘Communism’ as an idealised and therefore fictional ‘state of affairs’ but only a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> movement” of ‘Communisation’ that can allow people to survive. Communisation is the re-assertion of ‘The Common’ - of common law against state laws and taxes, the re-assertion of Common Sense of the common human bonds and spiritual values that make up families and communities against soul-less corporate and political structures. Communisation also means the direct <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">re-appropriation</i> of all ‘common wealth’ - whether land, water, energy supplies, food supplies, housing and means of production – by and for the people. Since this cannot be done with debt-money it can only be done directly, through the creation of communal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trusts</i> which hold all property in common, and allow local, municipal, regional and national communities to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>issue their own interest-free money in the form of new ‘scrip’ currencies which by-pass the private banks . This debt and interest-free money would take the form of ‘tokens’ or ‘vouchers’ – material or electronic. These were once issued by English monarchs in the form of ‘tally sticks’ when they could no longer repay their debts to the bankers. So it is no surprise that the bankers symbolically buried these sticks under the building that houses the Bank of England. Communisation is a real process that has already begun by the common people in the heartland of capitalism – the U.K. Its aim is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">community of free communities</i> – each based on respect for both the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">divine rights</i> and absolute <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sovereignty </i>of all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">individuals</i> who associate within them – in other words the total <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sovereignty of the people</i> and not of monarchs, popes or modern states and parliaments. (see<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.freetheplanet.net/"><span lang="EN" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN;">www.freetheplanet.net</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><u> ).</u></span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The idea of the so-called ‘Freeman’ movement - namely that societies are ‘in essence, nothing more than a grouping of like-minded individual and sovereign <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">souls</i>…’ and that ‘revolution’ is about nothing more than reminding ourselves of this truth – is both ‘socialist’ and ‘revolutionary’ in a profoundly spiritual sense. For rather than fixating on the political it is simply about re-cognising and coming back to who we really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i> as individuals, recognising our innate freedom as souls, and creating a society built on ‘societies’ that are indeed nothing more than a ‘free association’ of ‘like-minded souls’. We are speaking of what I have previously termed ‘Socialism with Soul’ (see <a href="http://www.thenewsocialism.org/"><span style="color: blue;">www.thenewsocialism.org</span></a> ). What is important however, is that the possibility of understanding and realising ‘socialism’ in this new sense does <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>arise from an attempt to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unite</i> the realms of the spiritual and political - but rather from recognising, opening up and widening even further a decisive cleft between them – a space of true freedom from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fiction</i> of ‘society’ that capitalism has created – a fictitious society that individuals continue to believe in, buy into and in this way also sustain and recreate – yet at the expense of their own spiritual, social, economic and political freedom as individual souls. This fictitious society is built not just on fictitious entities such as legal persons and corporations, not just on fictitious laws and on fictitious money, but also on fictitious freedoms, fictitious education, fictitious medicine, fictitious sciences, fictitious media, fictitious information and fictitious political debates and ‘democracies’. All these fictions in turn however, rest on fictitious languages, fictitious concepts and fictitious beliefs – beliefs however, that have become so deeply embedded in human consciousness that the most fundamental dimension of our nature as human beings – our spiritual essence as free and eternal individual souls - has almost completely fallen into oblivion. This spiritual ‘essence’ of the human being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cannot</i> be united with the fictitious society and fictitious ‘politics’ of today but must be ever more firmly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">distinguished and separated</i> from it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To simply oppose the fictive politics of today’s fictitious capitalist ‘society’ with a multitude of alternative social and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>political ‘-isms’ is to attempt to play capitalism at its own game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It not only gives more credibility to its fictions than they deserve. It also reinforces the utterly soul-less and inhumane social and global reality that has and continues to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">built on those very fictions</i>. This is a reality in which human beings can be compared to animals in a zoo - animals who have lost the freedom - or even forgotten what it was like - to live in an environment natural to them and in accord with their essential nature. Worse still, the monstrous suffering and distortions of human consciousness and behaviour that result from this zoo-like imprisonment and consequent loss of their essential nature have become taken as ‘normal’ – indeed are even seen ‘scientifically’ as defining ‘human nature’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bringing this fiction and all the fictions associated with it to an end is indeed a spiritual aim with a profoundly political dimension. Yet it is also an aim that cannot – in principle - be achieved by socialist political revolution and ideologies alone. No political ideology can anymore undermine ‘the fictitious society’ and its fictions. Only individuals who re-cognise themselves as essentially free and eternal souls - and relate together freely as such – can re-create what we call ‘society’. Only such individuals can replace the fictitious society of today with a new and true socialism - a ‘socialism with soul’. Such a socialism is no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mere</i> political ideology or ‘-ism’. For it can only arise <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from</i> and within the soul itself – and through a fully embodied and fiction-free relation and association of ‘like-minded’ souls with one another. For what defines fictitious ‘corporate’ entities such as parliaments and legal ‘persons’ - like the pure abstraction that is money or ‘exchange value’ - is precisely its wholly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disembodied</i> nature. The fictitious society works by dissociating individuals from their own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bodies</i> – which are turned into mere instruments or objects. In doing so, it dissociates them also from their own intuitive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bodily knowing</i> and from their own embodied <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">souls </i>– replacing them with fictitious bodies of knowledge in which the soul no longer has any place or home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The universal homelessness which Heidegger constantly spoke of is a homelessness of the soul that knows no geo-political or national boundaries. Nor can it be overcome by seeking to once again house the soul in traditional communities or in the traditional architecture – physical and doctrinal - of churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. Instead the soul must learn to feel and find itself at home again in the human body and in learning to feel another human being as ‘some body’ – that is to say, as an embodied soul and not just a ‘talking head’ or labouring body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thus for Communisation to proceed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prostitution and slavery</i> must be forbidden under Common Law. This does not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mean only banning the sale of bodies for soul-less sex, but also banning wage-slavery and wage-prostitution - the sale of the individual’s soul in the form of their bodily and mental labour power and labour time, thus finally freeing individuals to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">choose</i> the creative and productive activities they engage in, both alone and in common. Revolution through Communisation also requires leadership however – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thought leadership </i>based on a<i> thought revolution</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A work such as this that seeks to expose lies and fictions is a ‘manifesto’ in the literal sense – seeking to ‘manifest’ or make evident the truth concealed by these fictions. Such a work also lays claim to ‘truth’ or ‘knowledge’. As a result however, it also immediately faces several problems. One problem is: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who really wants to know? </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For it is not simply the case that there are those who know truth on the one hand, and those who don’t know on the other. There are also those who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">truly want to know</i> – who ‘seek’ truth and knowledge – and those who simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t want to know.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet as Jesus is quoted as saying in the Gospel of Thomas – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Seek and ye shall find. Find and ye shall be disturbed’.</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t want to know</i> therefore prefer rather to stay in their ‘comfort zone’ and simply accept and adapt to fictions. In doing so however, they also let these fictions rule their lives. True knowledge on the other hand, though it may be disturbing, is also a source of empowerment – of true freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yet if people have adapted their lives to lies, recognising those lies challenges the way they have led their lives and the identity they have built around them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If you want to make someone angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make someone furious, tell him the truth.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and thirdly it is accepted as self-evident.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Arthur Schopenhauer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic”</i> – Dresden James. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If the truth is that ugly – which it is – then we do have to be careful about the way we tell that truth. But to say somehow that telling the truth should be avoided because people may respond badly to the truth seems bizarre to me.”</i> Chuck Skoro, Deacon, St. Paul’s Catholic Church</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”</i> – George Orwell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Simply thinking and telling the truth is a revolutionary act, because it cannot but bring about a revolution - not just in people’s thinking but in their lives. It is a ‘revolution’ because it literally turns over and upside down (‘revolving’) the fictions they have been taught and taken as truth hitherto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A second problem however, is that of ‘arguing’ or ‘validating’ the claims to truth and knowledge of those who make it their task to expose what they say are lies and fictions. One obstacle in the face of this is peer pressure and the desire to conform – or at least to stray only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">within</i> the confines of larger lies and deeper fictions. For in the face of this pressure <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“… the logic behind an argument doesn’t count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion.”</i> – Livergood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A third problem is language – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">words as such</i>. Thus no sooner is a loaded word such as ‘communism’ used than people react to it according to whether they believe it to be something good or bad. Before they do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this </i>however, they do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">something even more important</i> – they assume we all already ‘know’ what the word itself means or denotes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the case of the word ‘communism’ for example, they take it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as given</i> that the word refers to some old-fashioned ‘Marxist’ ideology. This is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>associated in turn with totalitarian states controlled by ruthless<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>communist ‘parties’ – for example those parties which ruled the erstwhile ‘communist’ states in Russia and the USSR - and still rule states such as Cuba, North Korea and China. Yet does the fact that China is still ruled by a party that calls itself ‘Communist’ tell us anything about the meaning of the word ‘communism’ – not least given that the Chinese economy has essentially become a form of highly authoritarian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">state capitalism</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The question of how we understand words is not limited to loaded words such as ‘communism’ however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question goes much deeper. What is at stake is the assumption that we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">already know</i> what any words or terms we use mean i.e. the assumption that what they refer to or denote is some well-established and already known ‘thing’ or ‘things’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This assumption has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">huge implications</i> for the very way we understand such basic words as ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’ themselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For it is the basis of a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">second </i>basic but unquestioned assumption. This is the assumption that knowledge and truth are a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">property</i> of verbal ‘assertions’, ‘statements’ or ‘propositions’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about </i>reality - for example the assertion that ‘God exists’ or that ‘God does not exist’. The assumption is that ‘truth’ is then simply a matter of deciding which of these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assertions </i>is ‘true’ – which of them does or does not ‘represent’ what we call ‘reality’, and which of them can therefore count as true representations or ‘knowledge’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The reader may have noticed by now that I have begun to ‘bracket’ a lot of words I use in my assertions in inverted commas. There is a good reason for this. For assertions make use of individual words or terms whose meaning is most often unquestioned. Thus endless debates might take place around the question of whether or not ‘God exists’ - yet without any of the participants ever even thinking of questioning the way in which the very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">word</i> ‘God’ is, has been or could be understood –instead simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assuming </i>that the word refers to some singular and supreme <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being</i> of some sort. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This typically Judaeo-Christian understanding of the word ‘God’ implies however that ‘God’ is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one being</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">among others</i> which in turn would imply that the ‘God’ referred to is a finite entity, and one whose existence would not exclude the existence of other ‘gods’ – both of which are conclusions that would unsettle true ‘believers’ in the existence or ‘being’ of one single omnipotent and omnipresent ‘God’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refer to this issue in the section of this work entitled ‘SCIENCE AS FICTION’. For scientists, too, whether atheist or not, use words whose meaning is simply taken as given – as referring to some ‘thing’ that has always existed – and that even if the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">word itself</i> was first created as a concept by scientists themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The result is a situation in which most taken-for-granted scientific terms such as ‘energy’, ‘matter’, ‘time’, ‘space’, ‘light’, ‘electricity’, ‘magnetism’ etc. end up effectively being defined in terms of each other. So just as religious assertions about ‘God’ do not begin with the more fundamental question of all – “What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> ‘God’?” – so do countless scientific assertions fail to the question the meaning of their most basic terms. No one asks what ‘light’ essentially is – whether an ‘objectively’ measurable and purely quantitative frequency of ‘electro-magnetic energy’ - or a sensuous and essentially <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">qualitative </i>dimension of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">subjective</i> experience – one we even experience in our dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The revolutionary nature of this work therefore lies first and foremost in the way it seeks to explain and demonstrate a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">revolution</i> in the way we think and a revolutionary understanding of ‘thinking’ itself – a revolution first initiated by the 20<sup>th</sup> century philosopher Martin Heidegger. The revolution consists in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no longer</i> regarding ‘truth’ as something belonging to or represented in the form of assertions or beliefs,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no longer</i> using thought merely to question the truth of particular assertion or beliefs – but instead questioning the very words and terms <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">used </i>in formulating those assertions or beliefs. That is why I first of all bracket in inverted commas such words as ‘money’, ‘debt’, ‘democracy’, ‘science’, ‘education’, ‘employment’ etc. - in this way reminding us that the meaning and use of so many of the common words whose meaning we take for granted is something <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">questionable</i> in itself - and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not just</i> statements that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">make use</i> of that word or beliefs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about</i> it. That is also why, although I offer ‘A Manifesto of Spiritual Communism’, I also apply this new method of thinking to each of the three main words used in this phrase – which also need ‘bracketing’ – not just in writing but in thought. For only in this way can we distinguish them from any ‘thing’ we might simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assume </i>they refer too, and instead let the words speak for themselves through their root meanings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Communism’</b> – not an ideology but that which has to do with the ‘common’ or ‘communal’ – as in the terms commoner, common law, common sense, common land,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and ‘commonwealth’ – the common ‘weal’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘will’ or wish of a ‘community’ as determined though the ‘communication’ of its individual members, and their mutual ‘company’, ‘companionship’ and ‘communion’ – and not by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fiction</i> of parliamentary ‘democracy’ known in the U.K. as ‘The House of Commons’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What might in general be called ‘The Common’ includes of course all commonly held beliefs - many of which are fictions. The Common’ therefore, also embraces all those commonly practiced modes of ‘communication’ in which all parties tacitly agree to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unquestioningly assume</i> what is<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>meant by the very words used in that communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this assumption, the assumption that we already ‘know’ what is meant by a commonly used word<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- or even a highly specialist ‘term’ – that is itself the biggest and most important fiction of all and the biggest obstacle to the pursuit of truth – leading instead to a parroting of assumed ‘knowledge’. Such <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fictitious knowledge</i> can only be overcome through a new and revolutionary mode of ‘thinking’. This is a thinking which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does not</i> even assume<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>that we already ‘know’ what ‘thinking’ itself is, that does not assume that we are all naturally endowed with the capacity to ‘think’ – and that above all does not assume either that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">commonly used words and language</i> are a mere ‘tool’ enabling us to ‘express’ or ‘represent’ our thoughts or beliefs – and are therefore not themselves in need of any deeper questioning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Martin Heidegger was the first thinker to recognise that in order to overcome <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>these assumptions and to engage in a new and revolutionary way of thinking means first and foremost establishing a more aware and questioning relationship to words and language <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as such</i> – one which frees us from the fiction that ‘truth’ is a mere ‘property’ of verbal assertions or beliefs and the fictitious ‘knowledge’ arising from this fiction. For “there is a wordless knowledge within the word” (Seth) and there are also many things we ‘know’ to be real and true in more basic and deeper ways – through that wordless awareness, through direct sensuous experiencing and through inner bodily knowing or ‘gut feeling’ – all of which constitute the true foundations of ‘common sense’. Such inner knowing went under the name of the Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gnosis</i> – referring as it did to a type of knowing based on an intimate inner relation to the known <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the sort implied when we speak of ‘knowing someone’ intimately - through an intimate relation <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i> them. This is also why new and deeper forms of knowing go together with new modes of relating to others and why all revolutions are essentially ‘relational revolutions’.‘Spiritual Communism’ then, is also the recognition that the true locus of revolutionary change lies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">neither</i> in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>the individual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nor </i>in groups or communities, but,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as Martin Buber recognised, in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">third realm</i> – that of the immediate relations of individuals to one another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">within</i> any given community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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