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I just sent this out to half the Western world, and then some. Give it a look.
Hello,
The following is an exercise in art and the manifestation of dreams. It is not political in nature, although it does comprise in part a response to the events of November 3 (this email has also been sent to the US President, wouldn't want to leave anybody out).
Please take a moment, whether now or in the coming days, to participate in this global art project. The health of this project also depends on the number of people you forward it to and give a chance to participate (this is NOT a chain mail, however!) – it has already been sent to at least four continents and the more truly global it gets, the better.
First, take a moment a write out YOUR perfect world. What YOU believe would be the perfect planet, not just for you but for the race as you see it. You are not constrained to entertain the idea of "REALITY" or "POSSIBILITY" at any point during this exercise. Nor does this have to bear any relationship to the world as it currently stands – the ONLY rules are that you may not use the words "I," "me," "my" or in any other way refer to your "SELF" in this section, EXCEPT that you must phrase each of your desired changes to this big blue orb with the prefix "I WILL." This can be as complex as you want. For instance, your response could be as short as:
"I WILL a perfect world in which everybody has access to food, water, shelter, medical care and education."
or as complex as:
"I WILL a world in which each human being takes full responsibility for their own life, dreams, thoughts and happiness; one in which renewable energy is a reality; one in which non-militaristic and clean space travel are a reality; one in which mass population control through propaganda and media are no longer necessary; one in which the potential of the human organism is no longer crippled by external control systems but has been fully tapped and mediated by a new 'shamanic' social class; one in which the irreality and impermanence of everything are taken for granted; one in which dogma no longer exists; one in which murder is no longer a routine occurrence of daily life; and one in which cars are no longer a mass mode of transportation."
Or even more so. The specifics, beyond the phrasing, are totally up to you. These, of course, are just my answers, which I use as an example, and I will immediately be apparent as the lefty pinko I am, but they have NO importance whatsoever to the experiment itself, which is to have YOU compose your own list.
As you compose your list (and make sure that you only write what you know to be true solutions, at least from where you stand right here and right now), really take the time to WILL these things to happen, whatever that means to you. Will them without fear or desire, or worrying too much about whether they could ever be real, and then compose a second list.
This is where REALITY as you currently perceive it with your five senses enters the picture – simply write a list of of how you, and you alone, can begin doing something, no matter how minor, to begin making each of your WILLED changes to your world (and be assured that they have already begun) into a reality. How you can begin enacting this better future in the PRESENT, in the theater of your own life. (You can, of course, say "I" now.)
For instance, mine might read:
"I WILL take responsibility for my own dreams, thoughts and happiness; publicize and discuss developments in renewable energy research and non-militaristic/clean space travel through the channels I have open to me; stop watching television; promote the truly 'shamanic' people I know through the channels open to me; take the time from time to time to remind myself of irreality and impermanence; stop dogmatically just believing that 'everybody has the power to change the world' (and instead try to test it out with this experiment); stop 'fudging' on eating meat; and refuse to own a car."
Make sure that they are things that you can actually DO, and then over the next coming days, weeks, months and years, DO them. Well, you don't have to, really, but I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to live in your perfect world – but hey, different strokes for different folks right?
Many of you will have already asked and answered these questions for yourselves; we congratulate you and request that you share them with the world. For the rest, we envy you since the first crystallization of will tends to be the most fun! It is not enough to simply think about these things, you have to write them out and then commit to doing them. If you've got a list that's too much to commit to, you can always just edit it down until it's doable, even if you've only got one thing.
After composing these two paragraphs, please send them to:
generationhex -at- gmail.com
Your email will not be compiled or shared with anybody for ANY purpose WHATSOEVER.
Your response will then be included on a website which combines each and every response from all over the world into a single growing, living tapestry of slowly reifying dream – and what's even better, we might even begin to see how all of our perfect worlds fit together.
(I am also gratefully accepting alms from anybody who would be so kind as to donate the space and a domain name to host this on, though it will be done one way or the other.)
If you do not wish for your name and/or email to be included along with your response, PLEASE SPECIFY this and I will kindly respect your wishes. (Anybody who wishes to embellish, artistically or otherwise, their entry, is certainly welcome to do so.)
Please forward this message to everybody that you can, regardless of age, or political or personal opinion or orientation. The process becomes more democratic the bigger it gets.
Yours,
Jason Louv
http://www.icomefromouttaspacebaby.com
generationhex -at- gmail.com |
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