Our Trip- Written by Joel
Why Move to Community?
Daniel Quinn (author of the book Ishmael) working on Future Positive
A letter to Ted Turner about a film for a positive future
An E-mail letter to Blacklight Power
Freedom of Speech to End?
Federal Reserve Fears Y2K
What are we afraid of ?
Dear Friends,
With all else happening I asked our
son Joel (12) to write the report of our
visit to communities. We're now serious
about moving to a rural community well
before a computer systems collapse coming
at yr. 2,000. The more we talk with
computer experts, the more dangerous it
looks. Government and media may be hiding
the danger to avoid a panic before they're
totally in control. More on that later.
Joel's report was much longer, so Judy
edited it to fit. However, this homepage
version should have it all.
My Trip
by Joel Rosenblum
On October 16, my parents, a friend
named Apollo, and I left on a car trip,
for the purpose of visiting different
intentional communities in America. I'm
not used to riding long distances in cars,
because my father is a pilot. I guess you
could say I'm somewhat spoiled.
It took us around 12 hours to reach
the first intentional commune, near Bed-
ford, Indiana. It is called 'Padanaram',
meaning 'God's Valley'. The land they own
is 1,800 acres large, and over 200 people
live together on it. It has been going for
over 30 years. Unlike a city, they all
choose to live there, to be with one
another. The community grows natural, all
organic, foods to be eaten. However they
still buy a lot of food from outside of
the commune; in that respect they are not
completely self-sufficient.
People we met there liked to talk
about things such as guns, government, and
the community. They were not in favor of
the American government, and they were
open about that fact. People had lots of
guns, and encouraged hunting in the
community. In my experiences with the
kids, I found that their upbringing was
very unrestricted. They cursed all the
time, and they had the values of their
parents. Women there weren't considered
equal to men, and there was one respected
leader/founder of the community. Therefore
it was not egalitarian. There was a
certain negative attitude all of the
children shared about outsiders of the
community. I didn't like it, me being an
outsider and all.
I was grateful to finally leave that
place and get back on the road. It took us
13 hours to reach East Wind, and by then
it was very dark outside, so we couldn't
get a good impression of the community at
first glance. Luckily we had Apollo with
us! Apollo is a member of the East Wind
Community, so he knew just where to take
us. We went to the kitchen and ate
leftovers from a past dinner; it was
terrific tasting food, and it was vegan
too! After eating, we went to the building
they named "Liliput", and that is where we
had been told to sleep.
When I woke up in the morning, I got
out of bed and took a look at the
community for the first time in daylight.
It was beautiful, and a nice change of
scenery for a boy living in the inner
city. We found our way to the
kitchen/dining hall once again, for the
breakfast meal. All of the meals there are
eaten communally so there has to be enough
food for everyone who comes to eat.
Altogether, East Wind has 75 people,
and around 1,000 acres of land. They are
all equal, and they welcome outsiders to
visit, and stay if they like. Living there
would be completely free, because the
community has its own businesses, and you
wouldn't have to work outside of East
Wind. They sell all sorts of nut butters,
as well as hammocks and sandals.
The people there look like hippies,
with piercings and dredlocks. They're
very friendly, and easy to get along with.
A large garden sits outside, close to the
kitchen. They use it to grow many things,
so as to be more self-sufficient, and less
dependent on outside foods, which would be
a good idea for when our society collaps-
es. We could eat from the garden and from
the stash of nut butters, and live
indefinitely. As for those in the urban
areas... they may not be so fortunate.
Overall, I got a good feeling about
the place. Bikes were all over there, and
you could just ride them at any time. So I
took the opportunity, and it was great to
be able to bike to where I needed to go,
which saves a lot of time in the country
where things are very spread out. It was
one of the first communes my mother could
see herself living in, and my dad couldn't
see any problems, although he is less
picky about where he lives; as long as
it's not in a city.
Each person has 40 hours to work in a
week, but no one watches over you to see
that your schedule is complete; they use
the honor system. If you slack off then it
is you who suffer because it is your com-
munity, unlike the feeling you get from
slacking off at a regular job. We plan a
3-week visitors stay there in January or
February to see if we could fit in there.
If so, then we hope to move to East Wind.
When we left there early in the
morning, we brought a bunch of yummy food
with us. It took around 8 hours to get to
Dunmire Hollow, in Tennessee which was our
next destination. All the communities we
visited after East Wind were on the way
back to Philadelphia. Dunmire is a land
trust with separate houses and no income
sharing, very different from East Wind.
The population was around eight. After a
brief visit, we left, headed for Virginia.
High Flowing is a new community in
Floyd County, VA. Only about 3 people live
there. We got there in the dark, just as
it seems we do when we get to all the
communes. We came to the communal trailer,
and we had some supper, and talked with
Starroot, who lives there. She is very
knowledgable about the Mayan calendar.
In the morning we went on the World
Wide Web, and checked out our Mayan
birthdates. It happened to be my mother's
galactic birthday that day! We printed out
all the charts we got from the Mayan
calendar interpretation of us. Then we
left and went to Abundant Dawn/Tekia
Community (both part of the same
community, but Tekia is income-sharing,
and Abundant Dawn is not). It was only
about 10 minutes away so we made it much
before dark, finally!
We just walked around the place for a
while, trying to find out where we were
supposed to go. We found someone's house
on the land, but we kept going, in search
of more people. Apollo and I went down a
large, steep hill. After a while we found
a structure, missing a few walls, inside
of which was a man making hammocks. He
told us that he was one of the 2 members
of Tekia, and that to produce income for
Tekia, he and a woman made hammocks and
sold them. They produced around 500 a
year, because that is what they had in
their contract.
After a great potluck supper, we
stayed the night and left in the morning.
We got into the car, and surprisingly made
it up that steep hill we had come down. We
were on our way now to Twin Oaks Community
in Virginia. When we arrived there, only
to stay for lunch, we surprised our friend
Linda, who was visiting there and deciding
whether to move there or not.
She said she loved the community, and
she was free to do her thing there, as
long as she put in her quota of work hours
(only 39 hours, because she was
55-years-old). I thought the place looked
similar to East Wind, with a bit of
Padanaram in it. The place seemed great,
except that they had a schedule for
everything, they were very organized, and
each person had a chart to fill out for
the hours of their day. For me that was
much too restrictive, and it didn't feel
as free as East Wind. The commune is about
30-years-old, and had been created after
the ideas of psychologist B.F. Skinner,
who wrote the book Walden II.
Our next destination was The Family, a
Christian community in Washington D.C.,
with a household of about 40 people. We
learned about their practices, and some of
their jargon as well. My dad was curious
to know what their policy was with
teenagers having sex. We knew that even
though the community was very Christian it
was all right for men and women to have
multiple lovers, because they were all
married to God. They told him that
16-year-olds are allowed to have sex with
teenagers aged 16 to 19-years, and the
older you got the less restrictions there
were with age limits.
There were no limits of course after
the age of twenty (only that nobody under
16 is slept with). They called it, "Going
for the Gold" and that was making love and
getting pregnant, because they loved and
cherished all of their babies, and there
was no problem with having too many
babies. They said that if the kids used a
condom, they called it "Going for the
Silver", meaning that they didn't intend
to have a baby, but in God's eyes they are
still a winner.
The Family has their own music bands,
and a studio in the basement. They gave us
one of their CDs which their own band,
"Dropped Out", produced. They have
dormitories and separate rooms upstairs
for all of the people that sleep there, so
there wasn't much to see up there. On the
first floor they had a nursery room and a
small guest space, or nap place for the
young children. When we left in the car,
we were headed to Philadelphia, and we
were done our 12-day-tour of communities.
Apollo and I practiced a small amount of
Spanish (but I forgot most of it the next
day). Then a few hours later we were home
and I started writing this story.
Though Joel's story, even in its
abridged form is pretty accurate, I'd like
to add a few things. Our donated '85 Buick
did very well the entire trip, no repair
costs. However, on the one day Judy said
was the worst day astrologically it blew
not one, but two tires ! I can't believe
distant planets caused that, but maybe the
belief of millions does create tendencies
which can produce such effects. Judy says
the astrology around 2000 is extreme.
THE FAMILY seems less dogmatic and
more democratic than I'd expected. I hope
other groups will connect more with them.
WHY MOVE TO COMMUNITY ?
I've longed to return to communal
living ever since I came here, hoping to
create that lifestyle here, and then, as a
group move elsewhere. That never worked.
But now, Judy and I are more united than
ever in our determination to move to a
large community as soon as we can. We see
the danger ahead and how hard it will be
to survive as a family, city or rural.
Some friends are considering a move to
other lands where things are still done by
hand and the problems will be less.
We hope by moving to a large income
sharing community to have security and
a way to care for hundreds who may come
when things get really bad. Right now,
because gov't and media people (fearing
panic and personal loss) hide the truth
about the problem, most folks are unaware
and may be caught by surprise. See later
for other ways we're trying to help.
FuturePositive Foundation
The following is from Daniel Quinn's
ISHMAEL UPDATE Newsletter for 1997:
[NOTE FROM ART FOR NEW READERS: Some
who read this might not know my connection
with Daniel and the book, ISHMAEL which
won Ted Turner's first prize as the best
novel leading to a positive future in a
contest entered by about 2,500 authors
around 1991. Ted was moved to create this
contest after I asked him to make films on
a positive future for the planet. We've
been in contact with Dan ever since and he
wrote the preface to our own disk-novel,
OH BEAUTIFUL UPON THE EARTH.] Here's from
Dan's recent newsletter:
"Daniel has really been cutting back on
traveling and speaking, but we were
persuaded to spend a weekend in July, 1997
in Minneapolis with this group of human
resources specialists and organizational
consultants. They've been meeting four
times a year for the past 20 years for
purposes of personal and professional
growth and support. Quite often, they
choose a book as a focus for their weekend
discussions and for this session ISHMAEL
and THE STORY OF B [both by Daniel Quinn]
were the choice. We didn't know what to
expect, but what we got from the weekend
was far beyond anything we could have
expected. Here's what Daniel wrote his
agent after we got home:
"It's a truism of boxing that the blow
that knocks you out is the one you don't
see, and it sometimes happens that a boxer
who receives such a blow will actually
keep swinging for a few seconds before
going down. That's the way it was with me
in connection with this meeting. I got
home from it not having seen the blow and
went on with my life for a whole week
before suddenly going down from it just
two days ago. In a nutshell what the men
and women of the Woodlands Group showed me
(I now see) is that, like Ishmael, I've
been holed up in a hidden room, shielding
the world from my awful presence. I've
been afraid that if I stepped out from
behind the glass wall, everyone would take
to their heels screaming like a panicked
crowd in an old horror sci-fi movie. And
this is why I've stubbornly declined to
write the book that everyone right from
the beginning has been asking me to write
- pleading with me to write - which is a
book telling them HOW. In ISHMAEL and THE
STORY OF B, I've told them WHAT, but what
they really want to know is HOW. I can
now realize (at last) that I CAN write
that book"
"So, Daniel is now at work on FUTURE
POSITIVE: HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
SAVE THE WORLD, and below is some work for
the rest of us.
"FuturePositive Foundation for a New
Worldview
Getting Organized - At last !
"In the next couple of months we're
going to start something that readers have
been demanding for years, an organization.
"The second half of its name pretty
well summarizes its purpose: to promulgate
a new worldview - specifically the
worldview articulated in the works of
Daniel Quinn, of course. Among other
things the foundation, centered in
Houston, will sponsor
AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE providing a
forum for discussion, a source of
information and learning, and an
opportunity for participants to connect
with others of like mind. (This is already
in place): http://www.futurepositive.org
AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER where Daniel
intends to make himself available for an
hour or two on an almost daily basis for
those who want to study with him. The
center will offer a reading room where
members can use computers, books,
videotapes, and audiotapes.
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE planned
for the spring of 1999 to provide the
basis and to originate the network for
ongoing regional and local conferences and
further national and international
conferences.
DEVELOPMENT of products, materials, or
other resources that will provide teachers
with supplementary curriculum assistance.
Production and publication of newsletters,
brochures, tapes, books, CD ROMs,
teacher's guides, discussion guides, and
other materials.
VOLUNTEER PROJECTS that will enable
members to participate in the foundation's
initiatives.
Perhaps most importantly, FuturePosi-
tive will offer something that readers
have been asking for from the beginning:
the opportunity to participate in further-
ing the new world vision that attracted
them to Daniel's work in the first place.
WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED !"
THE ISHMAEL UPDATE
PO BOX 163686
AUSTIN, TX 78716-3686
[I've been trying to phone Dan, but
without luck. I'll await his e-mail. -Art]
BACK TO TED TURNER
Today, more than ten years after I had
lunch with Ted Turner and gave him my
letter about films on a positive future,
the need is greater than ever, but also
the possibilities, so I called CNN and was
told to write:
Dear Mr. Turner,
We had lunch together at Windstar,
Snowmass, CO in May of 1986 where we
talked of producing films on a positive
future for the planet. Later you created
the Turner Tomorrow Award leading to
publication of Daniel Quinn's ISHMAEL, but
not yet to films depicting earth's
positive future.
I know you had some problems with that
contest, and I'm very sorry about that. I
don't suggest a repeat. Instead, continu-
ing my own positive future search, I've
found a team who are producing fine posi-
tive future films that could inspire
millions to work for the better world we
all want.
We also found a scientist/inventor,
Dr. Randell Mills who has discovered a
source of safe energy which is clean and
abundant making it possible to provide
electric power to every village in the
world so that the benefits of electronic
education (as well as electric light and
water systems) could be everywhere, ending
poverty without violent revolutions. I
have available four taped interviews with
Dr. Mills and I'll enclose a copy of his
bio. www.blacklightpower.com is his site
on the worldwide web. The future is great!
Films showing our planet having a
really positive future are far more urgent
today that in 1986, because with the year
2,000 we are likely to experience severe
disruptions due to failures of major
computer systems. For decades, computer
scientists have warned that the two digit
system for specifying the year will not
work after Dec. 31, 1999 because computers
can't handle a year "00". Though many are
working to correct this, there are many
millions of program lines and, as with
ecological problems, efforts have been
"too little, too late". Unlike other prob-
lems this one has an absolute and immov-
able deadline. Some scientists admit we're
heading for a major collapse of banking,
government, transportation, communication
and utilities in all advanced countries,
and millions of lives could be lost.
Visualizing a positive future may help
motivate people to cooperate and share
when the going gets rough, saving many
lives. Mr. Jacque Fresco in Venus, FL is
producing, at low cost, excellent positive
future films. With your interest he could
expand the work rapidly for CNN. I'd like
to suggest you call him at (941) 465-0321
and find out how he can help. ... -Art R.
I included two color photos and a B&W
showing Ted reading my letter in 1986,
Randy Mills & myself recently, and folk
dancing with this caption:
"Folk dancing at the community of The A-
bode of The Message, a site which has been
a cooperative community since it was built
by the Shakers in 1776. People have lived
in cooperative systems for 99% of their
time on earth and various forms of cooper-
ative communities are growing today."
I also included a bio of Dr. Mills and
financial info. on Blacklight Power Co.
I'll FAX some more information on the Fed.
Res. Bank's fears of the Millennium Bug.
I shared the letter with Jacque Fresco
who liked it. He has funding for 3 new 20
minute segments for school use, but needed
18 months to produce just one. We need
Fresco's positive vision seen worldwide
before 2000 so he needs the funding and
promotion Turner and CNN could offer.
LATE NOTE 12/2/97:
Called Turner's office today and Blaine said he has my letter
and a copy has gone to Turner Original Productions for their
review. She suggested I call them on Friday, 12/5 to see how they
are getting on with that.
NEW ENERGY PUBLICITY
I called Blacklight Power to let Randy
know what's happening. Caroline suggested
e-mail so I did that. Here's most of it:
Dear Caroline,
Actually I'd like to know what is
happening at Blacklight, especially any
progress towards the demo. (of sorts)
Randy mentioned preparing for December,
but first I'd like to fill you in on
what's been happening with regards to
publicity.
You recall there was a controversy
with Moses Henry who was very friendly and
then suddenly stopped communicating for no
apparent reason. Moses had promised a
worldwide broadcast in October. It turns
out that he was exceeding his authority.
He is only one producer for Radio for
Peace, very idealistic and enthusiastic at
times, but does not make the decisions.
Now I'm working with Richard Schneider of
Portland, OR who is the actual founder and
director of Radio for Peace and who has
known me for many years.
But Richard is also a principal of the
Institute for Global Education and togeth-
er with his wife runs a school in India
where they hope to train the future lead-
ers of that nation. Richard is very inter-
ested in the work of Dr. Mills and very
friendly and sent me a copy of the inter-
view Moses did with Dr. Mills. He also has
the tape of my interviews. However, he got
it just as he was leaving for India, and
I'm not sure if he heard it already or
not. He expects to be back in a few days.
He told me there was no way the material
could be scheduled for broadcast before
January, which I feel more comfortable
with myself. I want this done really well,
and this gives us time to do it properly.
I feel the need to have all my
interviews transcribed and then I'd be
able to study what Dr. Mills said, reduce
repetition (normal in 4 interviews), and
also see where some further clarification
might be required. I might have to study
Randy's book or learn a bit more physics
to explain some of the things he mentioned
in a way that is scientifically accurate
and also understandable to lay people.
That takes time. I may also need to get
some help from Randy if I can't understand
some things.
As it happens, Dr. Eugene Mallove of
Infinite Energy Magazine also learned of
the interviews, heard them and was very
enthusiastic about publishing them. He is
having them transcribed for me which is a
great help. Of course, I'm well aware of
some differences between Randy and the
"Cold Fusion" advocates, which Randy
mentioned in the interviews. That will not
be omitted or treated in an unfriendly
way. Scientists do have disagreements by
which the truth comes out. Dr. Mallove
plans publication in a January issue, and
I hope by then to have everything as clear
as possible. Otherwise I'd try to delay it
until I do. There will be no personal
attacks in the article, just a search for
truth. I'm expecting to have the
transcription in about 10 days. ...
How close are we to some kind of
demonstration ... of the process ?
[I then wrote of the coming computer
crash and the possible chaos that could
result, especially if most people did not
have the positive view of the future they
would have if they knew about the new
energy. I explained how urgent it is to
get the news out to the millions in a
convincing way before things got really
bad, and told him we hope to move to a
large rural community and prepare space
for others in the next months.
So, I'm very concerned to know what
progress Randy is making with Blacklight
Power so that before things get too diffi-
cult, everyone will be aware of a really
positive future, offering the elimination
of severe poverty, new educational and
travel opportunities, and whatever else
abundant, clean energy can provide.] ...
Sincerely, Art R.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO END ?
Yes, I fear the danger is very real
that our freedom of speech is ending.
As it's legal to take an electronic
bullhorn and blast your message on the
corner regardless of who might disapprove,
it should also be fine to put any legal
message on the peoples' air waves, the FM
radio band - if you don't interfere with
other stations. That was the ruling of a
judge in California who refused to give
the FCC an injunction to close down Free
Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed 20 watt FM
station there. She said she: "Could not
grant the injunction that was requested as
it might be a freedom of speech issue".
And since then, with high quality low
cost FM radio stations becoming quite
cheap (Under $1,000), three or four hund-
red such stations have sprung up
nationwide. This week, a station in West
Philadelphia that was offering news the
corporate media might refuse to air, was
given a "Cease and Desist Order" by the
FCC, and has temporarily stopped broad-
casting while studying the situation.
Luckily the operators were prepared,
and have three top lawyers ready to take
the case without charge.
While the Berkeley case set an
important precedent, this one, in the city
of the Liberty Bell, the Constitution and
Bill of Rights may be the critical case
where the peoples' right to the airwaves
will be decided for years to come.
Should the courts allow that only big
corporations can have radio stations, as
the FCC proposes (by requiring licenses
costing at least $50,000 as a minimal
requirement even for a low power station
that interferes with no one), then the
rights of the people may be forever lost,
and media dictatorship finally installed.
This may be the historic legal case of
our time. Though lawyers may work gratis,
there will be many other organizing
expenses if the case is to be won for all
of us, and those involved will need all
the help they can get.
In fact, the freedom to operate local
stations in our cities might save millions
of lives by helping organize local groups
that can prepare their area for whatever
may happen if large computer systems crash
at the end of 1999. Only a small fraction
of people will have computer communication
before that time, but all can have an FM
radio to hear of local meetings in their
immediate neighborhood.
So our right to low power FM is a life
and death matter for city Americans, not
just an issue of freedom or political
idealism. Do help us take a stand here and
now. E-mail or call Art or
Judy at Aquarian with your suggestions.
(215) 849-1259 or 849-3237. If long dis-
tance let us call you right back for under
9 cents/min. (Feel free to ask, or get the
24 hr. 9 cent long distance rate for
yourself from our phone cooperative, and a
special lifetime deal till Dec. 31, 1998.)
FEDERAL RESERVE FEARS Y2K
This is an amazing statement, coming from
the top of the Western financial world:
By Reuters: 11/17/97 (Excerpted -Art.)
MIAMI--The Fed's central bankers fear
regional economic issues may distract
European and Asian banks from dealing with
a "millennium time bomb" threatening the
world banking system, a Federal Reserve
official said yesterday.
"It's number one on my agenda every
day," William Ryback, associate director
for banking supervision at the Fed, said
at a Latin American bankers conference.
"We at the Fed are terribly worried."
Ryback said he was not satisfied with
software developed so far to adjust
computer systems before 2000, a year most
of the world's computers cannot recognize
reliably since dates in computer programs
have been typically rendered with only two
digits for each year.
The glitch may cost the world's
institutions tens of billions of dollars
to correct. Many fear that computers, in
an era of electronic commerce may fail on
January 1, 2000. South Africa expects to
pay $4.4 billion to fix its computers, the
government said recently.
Ryback told reporters that European
bankers were working hard on adapting
their information equipment for the arri-
val of a common European currency and had
not fully focused on the millennium bug.
Asian bankers, he said, were facing
economic turmoil and were unlikely to
devote much time to a computer problem,
regardless of its importance. "We have
been told that the Europeans are preoccu-
pied with Ecu conversion," he said.
.... Banks which fail to satisfy the Fed
will be told to suspend operations and
face financial penalties, he said. ...
A key task for the Fed, he said, is to
insulate the U.S. banking system from "a
contagion effect," if [foreign] banks do
not fix their millennium bugs.
Ryback said ... the Fed was working up
contingency plans in case [that happens.]
.... the Fed might bar transactions
between U.S. institutions and banks
outside the U.S....
*******************
NUCLEAR TODAY, a newsletter for nuclear
plants recently published a warning of how
Y2K would affect them. To quote briefly:
"Y2K affects virtually every facility,
engineering, business and information
systems. It has the potential to cause
loss of control room annunciators, plant
trips, inadvertent safety injections, ....
missed preventive maintenance or surveil-
ance testing, and common mode failures to
mention a few (catastrophes" -Art).
In effect, this means all nuclear
plants may close by 1/1/2000 or risk
meltdowns. They are just now considering
it. Can live nukes test new programs ?
**************
The following adaptation of Mandela's
inaugural speech is by Apollo of East
Wind, who spent a month with us, sharing
our visit to communities.
WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF?
"Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our
light, not our darkness, that frightens
us. We ask ourselves, `Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, loving and
fabulous?' " Am I an EastWinder or am I
breathing from the west winds?
"Actually, who are you not to be? You are
a child of the universe." Therefore we are
all brothers and sisters that should love
one another in any way we feel appropriate
(as long as we do it responsibly). Go for
the Gold!
"Your playing small does not serve the
world. There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking/minimizing so that other people
won't feel insecure/uncomfortable around
you." It is their own baggage that makes
them feel comfy or not, not you.
"We were born to make manifest the glory
of the Kosmos that is within us. It is not
just in some of us. It's in everyone. And
as we let our own light shine, we
consciously give other people permission
to do the same. As we are liberated from
our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others from theirs."
If you heal yourself, love yourself, en-
lighten and liberate yourself, you'll pro-
ject and see that in others, hence heal-
ing, loving, enlightening and liberating
others as well as bringing that in them.
Don't refuse the dance of life; focus and
tune into the chorus of the creation and
let your intuition take over.
The time of the transition has come,
whether you call it the imminent economic,
political and social crash, the market/
stock exchange fall, the millennium bug,
the polar shift, Armaggedon, the second
coming of Christ, the alignment of the
planets, sun and moon, the end of the
Mayan and pyramidal calendar, the shift
from Gregorian to real time.
It does not matter what you name it, it is
here and it is here to transform us into
what we have forgotten and soon will
remember again.
Those living cooperatively and communally
will increase their chances of survival in
the "going back to the earth and simply
aware lifestyle".
Those will be the centers that, located on
ley lines, will become universities of
hope of a new era, the third millennium/
cinammon skin civilization.
>From there we will build a new world from
scratch. A moneyless society based on
taking only what we need for the present
and giving and sharing instead of taking
greedily, accumulating for what? I ask.
We need receiving and giving, serving,
loving and accepting one another by
focusing on the beautiful qualities that
we all have.
The sooner we make this transition, the
less painful it will be. The sooner we un-
derstand and apply it, the smoother it
will go. It doesn't have to be destruc-
tion and chaos. It is up to us to make our
own reality a beautiful, loving one.
W-A-K-E U-P and do something about it
before it's too late. Save yourself pain,
sorrow and desperation. Heal yourself
now! With the infinite, eternal and omnis-
cient loving and healing energy of our
creator that flowed through me, Apollo.
Peace and love,
Joel, Art & Judy Rosenblum