| THE HEALING BIOTOPES PROJECT AND
THE EXPERIMENT "MONTE CERRO"
Project Declaration 1
ECOLOGICAL AND INTER-HUMAN STRUCTURES FOR
THE HEALING OF LIFE ON PLANET EARTH
PART I
AN INITIAL PROJECT OVERVIEW
The development of
humankind seems to be entering into a dead-end street, one
that cannot be overcome by traditional means. The work of
the UN, of NGO-groups and innumerable peace projects is
both important and indispensable. However, it cannot deceive
us from the fact that there is nearly no positively oriented
aim of global proportions in existence anymore. Under the
given circumstances, a convincing perspective for a violent-free
co-habitation of our planet’s inhabitants is no longer
visible. In order to create more favourable preconditions
centres would have to emerge in which the violent-free co-habitation
of the human being with all co-creatures can be reflected
and developed in an exemplarily manner. The
aim of the Healing Biotopes Projectis to really construct
such centres.
The projects consists of
the development of international and, as far as possible,
autonomous communitarian organisms in which the living conditions
for a violent-free future are researched and practically
applied. It is the result of many years of research work
in Germany, Switzerland and Portugal, where various groups
worked on a concept that could respond to the world-wide
globalisation of violence with new thoughts for a world-wide
globalisation of peace. During this time, close contact
has begun with groups in Colombia (Gloria Cuartas), India
(Maria Mangte, Vasamalli Kurtaz from the Toda tribe), Croatia
(Balkan Sunflowers) and, mainly, in Israel and Palestine
(Neve Shalom, Hamakom, HopeFlower School, CCRR etc.).
The new centres are defined as “Healing Biotopes”
or “Peace Villages”. The first has been in development
for some years now in the future workshop ‘Tamera’,
in Portugal. The next is planned for Israel/Palestine. What
is to be developed in these centres is a type of “Biosphere
2”, but no longer as a closed eco-system as in Arizona,
but a new living system that has the ability to connect
the living areas of human beings and nature, socio-sphere
and biosphere, in a violent-free way, and to create the
necessary inner (social, human, spiritual) preconditions
within human communities.
In the framework of this
project the experiment “Monte Cerro” is to take
place with 200 participants on the 134 hectares site of
the Healing Biotope I Tamera from 01 May, 2006 on. “Monte
Cerro” is the (preliminary) name of the experiment
and the Portuguese name of the site where it will take place.
The 200 participants of the experiment will live together,
work together, and think together for three years. The possibilities
of the co-habitation of human beings and the co-habitation
between humans and nature will be researched. Thereby, all
questions of co-habitation – social organisation,
roles of the genders, ecology, ethics etc. – will
be regarded in a new way. It is about the questions: How
do we create real life structures without fear and violence?
Under what circumstances could a human culture of solidarity
emerge? Are there possibilities for new solutions for the
central issues of love, sexuality and partnership? How does
trust emerge? How does happiness emerge? How does a new
integration of the human world into the higher orders of
life and creation emerge?
In the beginning the premises
of the Healing Biotope I Tamera had no liveable infra-structure,
neither water, nor electricity, nor accommodation (except
some ruins of unfinished buildings that could be used for
construction). The initial research group consciously chose
the most simple life conditions in order to develop new
solution models from this basic situation. Today, about
80 people live on the site in provisional accommodation
and will prepare the necessary infrastructure for the experiment.
Experts are needed in the areas of technology (water, information,
energy supply), ecology, architecture, medicine, workshop
and administration. Moreover financial funds for the preparation
are urgently needed. Therefore, a non-profit foundation
in Switzerland is planned.
The project contains the
following basic thoughts:
First: The outer (economic, military) violence executed
today against nature, peoples and the biosphere is connected
with an inner (of the soul and the mind/spirit) corrosion
and loss in the root of human life on earth. The ecological
and the psychological/spiritual destruction are two sides
of the same general problem: Only in looking at them at
the same time can they be rightly understood and solved.
Second: The human problem deriving from this destruction
is the consequence of a collective disease of civilisation
and can, thus, not be solved on the individual level alone.
The “therapy” requires the building up of new
human and ecological life systems.
Third: A peace project can only affect as much peace in
the outside as it has reached in its own human inner. Therefore,
the outer work belongs to the inner work in the sense of
self-change in all the participants.
Fourth: Inner healing requires a healing in the area of
love, for there lies the greatest injuries (see the enclosure
of the comprehensive project declaration).
Fifth: The necessary healing work requires a comprehensive
co-operation between the human being and all creatures of
nature, and a new embedding of the human society into the
higher orders of life and Creation.
Therefore, new social organisms
have to be established where these guidelines for a violent-free
future are taken into consideration and applied in practice.
This is not a private project but a project of humankind.
The Experiment Monte Cerro is a further step on the path
of realisation.
Part II
THE GLOBAL IDEA
The project represents
a global aspect in two regards:
First:
Through the economy of globalisation humanity has been torn
from it’s anchor. Such anchors are or were: The land
one lived on and off, life in the tribe or the big family,
organic community organisms, far-reaching autonomous economy,
embedding into nature and creation, home in the protection
of a superior whole. This natural anchoring is reflected
in an inner value system of truth, trust, holding together,
mutual support, hospitality, helping the neighbour, and
taking care of the natural environment. This natural value
system has been torn apart by a historical process of de-rooting.
Through the totality of the capitalist “colonisation“
(Edward Goldsmith) and its manner of economy billions of
people lose their inner and outer anchor, their basic human
values, their home, their trust and their meaning in life.
The ecological and military destruction on the outside,
that is inevitably connected with capitalist colonisation,
corresponds to an immeasurable misery in the inside. The
epidemic-like increase of criminality, drug addiction, alcoholism,
violence, depression and psychosomatic diseases also belong
to this. From this context the wars of our time, carried
out with an epidemic rage of killing and destruction, also
explain themselves. It is obvious that humanity has to find
new forms of life to be able to end the epoch of terror.
This global view automatically results in the absolute necessity
to build new community organisms in which the inhabitants
can rediscover their natural values and resources on a new
level. In the Healing Biotopes such community organisms
are to be built as models. Thereby, no old systems shall
be copied, but new ones shall be developed.
Second: The
“new world order” aimed at by globalisation
with the cash-less traffic of goods and electronic identity
badges, with so-called “free-trade zones” and
the extermination of all domestic subsistence economies
etc. an increasing part of the earth’s population
(indigenous, poor, unemployed, landless, sick, oppositions,
freedom fighters, truth seekers, autonomous thinkers and
unpopular inventors) is excluded from the supply of goods.
Moreover, the general purchasing power will decline due
to unemployment leading to part of the production becoming
senseless while unemployment, in turn, increases again.
In this way, a special kind of global vacuum emerges as
the part of the earth’s population that drops out
of the economic system will need a new possibility of living.
Here also, the Healing Biotopes could present a possibility
for solutions. What is to be built are new community organisms
independent of banks, multinationals or states with a mostly
autonomous supply in all vital areas. It is, in a certain
way, a “return” to local economy systems that
are based on community but in connection with new technologies
and social structures, including a new relation between
the genders (see appendix).
How can local groups
arrive to a global effect? How can the conditions of a structural
peace which are created at a few places have an effect on
the whole earth?
The answer results from the specifics of holistic (all-encompassing)
systems. Together with all life on earth, humankind builds
a holistic system. The whole works in every detail –
and vice versa: what ever happens in a part has an effect
on the whole. This effect can be minimal but increases with
the significance that the local change has for the whole.
In the case of a high significance, a process develops in
the whole that can be described by the terms of “resonance”,
“iteration” and “morpho-genetic field
building”. This is the decisive process for the globalisation
of peace (I described it in more detail in my book “The
Sacred Matrix”). When a piece of information that
is sufficiently complex, sufficiently important and sufficiently
compatible with the whole is entered into an organism this
information has an effect in all cells. When a piece of
information is entered into the informational body of the
earth, that is important for a violent-free co-habitation
of all creatures, the mental/spiritual layer of the earth
(noosphere) enters into a “stimulated state”;
the entered information works latently in all creatures.
If the information is entered by means of existing Healing
Biotopes a global field of probability for the emergence
of similar life forms emerges on many places of the earth.
What is decisive for the success of
such peace projects is not how big and strong they are (compared
to the existing apparatuses of violence), but how comprehensive
and complex they are, how many elements of life they combine
and unite in themselves in a positive way. In the field
buildings of evolution it is not the “law of the strongest”,
but the “success of the more comprehensive”.
Otherwise no new development would have
been able to impose itself for they all begun “small
and inconspicuous” (Teilhard de Chardin).
In this context we can formulate the central research question
of the Healing Biotopes as follows: Which social, ecological,
economic, spiritual preconditions should be realised in
a way that – on the basis of the current state of
our evolution – the general information necessary
for planetary healing work can emerge?
The main problem does not
lie in the question of whether the centres can be globally
effective but whether we are able to really create them.
As they are a part of the whole the burden of the whole
also depends on them. They can only be successful if they
reach that “universal ground” they share with
the whole. That universal ground is the invulnerable basis
of all human beings, their common source and dowry, their
divine core. It shows itself in the capacity for truth,
for love and for the acceptance of the higher orders of
life. Communities begin to be globally effective once they
have found in the tapestry of humankind the very dimension
in which all inhabitants of the earth are connected with
one another. On this basis, fragments of life that had been
separate for so long converge and unite: man and woman,
human and human, sexuality and mind/spirit, Eros and Agape,
human and nature, human and God. Here, the indispensable
spiritual dimension of future healing work becomes apparent.
Healing is the return from being banned, it is the negation
of the original pain that consisted in the separation.
PART III
THE EXPERIMENT MONTE CERRO
We begin with a thinking
experiment. Imagine the world spirit comes to a group of
200 people and gives them the following task: “You
shall find out under which circumstances the earth could
be healed. Therefore you have your mind/spirit, your body,
your abilities of communication and the gathered knowledge
of humankind at your disposal. At first, you must find out
how you yourselves can live together in a violent-free,
healing manner among each other and with the creatures of
nature. Start all over again, and use all your intelligence,
all your knowledge and abilities, your congregated power,
intuition and vision building in order to find a common
way. The suffering of the world, including your own, was
caused by human beings, thus it can also be healed by human
beings if the way for this is found. I will give you three
years for this research project. Until then the essential
tracks of the healing process should be found. Open your
minds/spirits for my presence for I will help you when you
need help. I wish you much courage and joy of discovery
in your work.”
In fact, we are planning to put this story into practice.
Many people who feel the apocalyptic pressure of our times
are now ready to co-operate with full power in a project
of this size. We will not begin with a “tabula rasa“
as the experiment has been in preparation for more than
25 years. Thereby a group of experienced work group leaders
has emerged: Sabine Lichtenfels (co-founder of the general
project), Rainer Ehrenpreis, Paul Gisler, Barbara Kovats,
Roland Luder, Gabriele Brüggemann, Oskar Eckmann and
others. They will continue to co-carry the project and publish
a second project declaration for the detailed individual
work areas.
Moreover, Tamera has been running a peace school for 4 years
where, mainly, young people are prepared for their tasks
and professions in the coming peace work. The education
comprises of theoretical lessons, training in crafts, journeys
of historical relevance and sometimes work in crisis areas.
(These activities have been described in detail in the latest
issue of the project magazine “IGF-Magazine”)
To be able to accommodate
200 people for three years (also during the wet season),
a solid infrastructure is necessary: accommodation, sanitary
appliances, gathering places, energy supply, water supply,
etc. Moreover, the model character of the experiment requires
a mostly autonomous supply of food, drinking water and energy.
Since the future Healing Biotopes must free themselves from
the collaboration of supply and economic systems, the control
of an optimal self-supply is not only an ecological, but
also an ethical request. We must know again where the food
we take in comes from. Gradually, this also goes for the
other areas of consumption. The experiment of “Monte
Cerro” has 134 hectares of poor soil at its disposal
to be turned into a fertile biotope. Through the experiences
with perma-culture (Holzer, Fukuoka etc.), with communication
with plants (Findhorn, Dorothy McLean), with peace gardens
(Eike Braunroth), with aqua culture and water healing (Schauberger
and others), with solar technology (Kleinwächter and
others), with energy work and geomantics (Pogacnik and others)
new ecological concepts could emerge that have a significance
that surpasses the local premises. Soil and vegetation of
the whole region urgently needs a comprehensive biological
and geomantic healing. We are looking for inspired experts
who are able to develop adequate technical concepts for
gardening, soil sanitation and landscape design. It would
be good if they could already begin their work before the
start of the experiment.
A New Relation to
Nature and all Co-Creatures.
For the conduct with nature the principle
by Albert Schweitzer is applied: deference of life and respect
towards all co-creatures. This also comprises of a living
system that fits itself to nature and also gives room to
the animals when they search for contact with human beings.
This not only goes for what is already accepted as domestic
animals, but also for animals like mice, rats, dormice,
birds or toads. They have an important place in creation.
To the aims of the Healing Biotopes belongs a different
conduct with the living beings of nature in general and
also a violent-free attitude towards the so-called vermin.
They are all part of the big family we call life. The nature
beings (Devas) follow a mental/spiritual orientation that
is destined for a co-operation with the human being. Human
beings and animals build a planetary community. In the Sacred
Matrix of creation they are not destined for war but for
co-evolution and co-operation. We not only work for our
own survival, we also work for a model of a violent-free,
sustainable ecology in harmony with the laws of life of
the biosphere.
Basic Research: Structures
of reality.
Parallel to the practical projects there
will be a department for basic research in the (planned)
university: energy research (possibilities to use the “free”,
cosmic energy etc.), matter research (what is matter actually?),
water research, flow research (Alfred Wakeman, Theodor Schwenk
and Victor Schauberger), oscillation and resonance research.
Life research. Functional and structural logic of living
matter. Another principle of power. The effectiveness of
field forces. The phenomena of “synchronicity”
of mental/spiritual and material events. The principle of
spiritual attraction. Non-material energy and information
cycles. Harmonic research. The effect of tones on the processes
of life. Significance of the egg-shape etc. Basic research
aims for technological and ecological renewals, but it will
increasingly connect with the consciousness research as
ultimately it is mental/spiritual forces that direct the
material world. The basis of the structures of reality is
a mental/spiritual matrix. Therefore, healing work that
aims for the change of our material environment is always
also work on the mental/spiritual matrix. (Belonging, not
least, to this are mental/spiritual areas of research like
“prayer research”, meditation, ethics, vision
work etc.).
Arts
The cultural life of the projects comprises
of all forms of artistic work: painting, music, dancing,
theatre, stone placing and sculptures for landscape healing,
landscape design and various other forms. It is, among other
things, about the rediscovery of design principles that
are applied by Creation itself, such as unintentional action
with a high accuracy and success rate, effortless concentration
and a playful dealing with difficulties (Wu-Wei and Mo-chi-chu
in Taoism). Arts, in this sense, is the application of autonomous
creation processes in conscious forming; in this way it
approaches the original context of arts and cult. Through
communitarian actions and rituals with humour, joy and creative
energies are produced. Artistic action as documented, for
example, in our arts booklet “Die Wäscheleine”
(The Washing Line) belongs to the healing process of the
coming culture. The establishment of an arts hall as art
gallery and theatre space, of an open air atelier and a
special building (“futuroscope”) for the performance
of futurist theatre pieces are all planned.
Further Working Areas.
(For the shaping of the human infra-structure
and the development of the different work areas a further
project declaration will be issued. Hereafter only the most
important areas are named for which further co-workers and
specialists are needed.)
Workshop, crafts and technology – building up of the
youth place – youth school – growing up of children
– guest area – horse project – handy crafts
– shop – healing – political and human
network – media agency and editor – computer
– congresses and events – kitchen, nutrition
etc. administration – economy - ecology ….
All this, in the long
run, can only be successful on the basis of a stable community
that functions in the human area. With this statement we
have reached the subject of community, one of the core issues
of the project that cannot be outlined in a few sentences.
We cannot put into practise the best goals if we are not
able to found functioning communities with the ability to
survive. The ecological humanism needs a new social structure.
With regard to the human co-habitation, surprising experiences
have been gathered throughout the history of the project
that have caused us to think more deeply about community
building and inter-human solidarity. I therefore mention
them in the annex. For communities of our time to function
we need, among other things, a new concept for the co-habitation
of the genders and a new vision of love. I also want to
look at this in detail in the annex.
Some Questions of the Experiment
200 people are supposed to learn how
one can harmoniously live and work together. As well as
this, they will co-operate in the historical and humankind
subjects of our time and find a way of healing. It is a
small model society where the basic questions have to be
re-asked without relying on pre-fabricated answers:
- How much leadership does a community of this size need?
- How can an efficient co-ordination of the various working
areas be guaranteed?
- What is the healthy relation of individual free space
and the need of the community?
- Through which life and work forms are the highest potentials
awakened in the individuals?
- What is it that makes a human being enduringly happy?
- How can conflicts be solved?
- How can the difficulties in the relation between the genders
be dissolved?
- How can the co-creatures in nature be involved in peace
work?
- What does the co-habitation with animals who nest in our
houses and gardens without being called because they search
the closeness of the human being (birds, mice, rats, toads,
snakes, also the so-called “vermin”) look like?
- How is it possible to communicate with nature beings (Devas)?
- What do education programmes that make sense for young
people look like?
- How can a healthy development of the children be enabled?
- What is healthy nutrition?
- How can the spring water and drinking water be vitalised?
- How can the communitarian consumption be limited to collaboration-free
products without sinking to the state of cave people?
- How to build up recycling systems with a maximum use of
waste. (“Nature doesn’t know waste.”)
- How is it possible to work for a long time in a concentrated
way without getting tired?
- What does spiritual life practise which derives form personal
experience consist of?
- How can an enlivened network be organised?
- How can a common vibration of calmness and joy be created
in regard to the abundance of tasks?
We do not suppose that all these questions will find ready
answers, for we find ourselves in a universe in process.
We believe, however, that if we do a good job the directions
for convincing solutions will crystallise. It is about finding
a new way for the co-habitation in the human biotope. A
way where the human order can reconnect itself with the
orders of Life and Creation.
The Spiritual Anchor
All earthly life is weaved into cosmic
life, there is no basic separation between this world and
the next world, between earthly and cosmic, material and
the mental/spiritual world. The tasks to be completed could
not be solved if divine help would not come to us from the
world-whole. On the one hand it is the (entelechial) forces
of self-healing, inherent in all areas of life, which must
simply be stimulated in the right way to reach their goal.
On the other hand it is spontaneously working “field
forces” that always become effective when new developments
are in resonance with the whole. A basic aim of our project
is coming into a durable co-operation with the “Sacred
Matrix”. It is the power of creation that, as the
basic pattern of the “implicit order” (David
Bohm), is the basis of all things and all life forms and
regulates their relations.
The spiritual focus of the project is not directed towards
the next life but towards the physical, sensual world on
earth. The participants will therefore rediscover the female
sources that were suppressed for thousands of years, and
integrate them into their future work. (Therefore the high
significance of the subjects love, sexuality, new roles
of the genders – see annex.)
A special “Ashram” has been in development for
2 years now and is a place where the co-operation with the
forces of Creation can be learned. All project participants
have the possibility to practise their spiritual exercises
or retreats in this space. The building up of functioning
future communities will no longer be possible without the
building up of solid spiritual foundations. A new culture
emerges from the reconnection with the divine laws of Life
and Universe. There are certainly many paths to this goal
but there is maybe only one key to open the gateway: the
rediscovered TRUST.
Pre-Conditions for
Participation
We are often asked what pre-conditions
the people must fulfil to be able to participate in the
experiment. The inner willingness to co-operate and agreement
with the human qualities that we consider to be the “ethical
basis”: truth – mutual support – assuming
responsibility for the community are paramount. These are
no minor qualities, they do not depend on an academic degree
or a professional position but only on the state of consciousness
of the individual.
We have to apply the measures that the world needs for its
healing also to ourselves. Participants must, therefore,
be ready for a high degree of self-change and overcoming
old habits.
Monte Cerro directs itself mainly to young people between
18 and 40 who are willing to assume those tasks and professions
that are necessary for the building up of Healing Biotopes.
Older people are also warmly welcome if they are able to
adjust to new life circumstances.
Participants know that crises and conflicts are unavoidable
in such a novel experiment. They are committed to using
the upcoming difficulties for their learning path and –
if possible by all means – to stay for the entire
three years. It is therefore important that they inform
themselves thoroughly about the sense and the purpose of
this experiment beforehand.
People with leadership abilities and team spirit, experts
in the areas of ecology, technology (energy, water, information),
architecture, administration, medicine, are particularly
wanted.
Only those people who have already familiarised themselves
with the situation in Tamera, can participate in the experiment.
For this purpose a series of events and seminars will take
place in 2004 and 2005 (see event calendar). There, all
participants will receive a more detailed introduction into
the basic ideas and goals of the experiment Monte Cerro.
For those who want a longer period of contemplation on site
there is the possibility to stay longer as a co-working
guest. Those who then decide to participate will be asked
to transfer a one off payment (which is not yet determined)
to the experiment account. Thereby, a minimal start up capital
is secured with which the work of the experiment can begin.
For participation we kindly ask for a personal application
to be sent in writing before December 31, 2005.
Phase-Plan of the Project
The three-year experiment is part of a three phase development:
Phase One: spring 2004 until spring 2006: preparation of
the infrastructure.
Phase Two: spring 2006 until spring 2009: carrying out the
experiment “Monte Cerro”.
Phase Three: give start-up help for the foundation of Peace
Villages in the crisis areas of the earth e.g. Israel/Palestine.
We hope that by then we will receive wider support by committed
public institutions or departments.
In order to finance the three phases we are thinking about
setting up a foundation in Switzerland. We thereby depend
on the support of experts. We need a financial and public
relations committee in public. The investments will be non-profit
based, and will contribute to the creation of sustainable
structures for the future and to enable a better life perspective
for the next generations.
In the name of our children
in the service of warmth for all creatures.
Part IV
ANNEX REGARDING THE ISSUE OF LOVE, SEXUALITY AND COMMUNITY
1) Community as a Research Issue
It will only be possible
to carry out the tasks listed above on the basis of a well
functioning community. Since the sixties, too many community
projects have failed due to unsolved human conflicts to
be able to remain naive in this area. If we want to put
into practise a sustainable ecological humanism we must
find a humane, social, sexual humanism which redeems the
participants from the burdens and pains of the past. The
difficulties, that are in the way of a world-wide healing
process, not only lie in the outside world but also in ourselves.
Above all the conflict fields about money, power, love and
sex inner barriers are built that cannot be overcome by
mere peace appeals. In our daily life together frequently
it is factors that seem very simple like an unfulfilled
need for contact, striving for dominance, competition for
love and sex, jealousy, unconscious negative projections,
fear of being judged etc., that have destroyed group life
from inside in hundreds of projects since the sixties. Since
these factors are not only individual defects but, mainly,
the consequences of a collective cultural disease, they
can also not be sustainably dissolved on an individual level.
We all carry the original pain of a great hurt inside us.
We all have, as Claude Anshin Thomas says, our “Vietnam
inside us”, we have all been victims and predators
and received many wounds in the course of our karmic life
journeys. Healing work, in the sense that we mean it, means
healing these wounds in oneself and others. This is the
order and this is also the promise that was given to us
with the divine parable: you shall and can heal the old
wounds. The sign posts for this are: truth – mutual
support – responsibility for the community and service
for life. And moreover: help others so you will be helped,
too.
Here, we come to a deeper
definition of “sustainability”, the necessary
ecological changes require human changes and can only happen
lastingly if we go to the roots and develop new basic patterns
for culture and society. The building up of trust among
people, the enabling of inter-human transparency as not
only an individual but mainly a societal, cultural and political
theme. This is a basic thought of the Healing Biotopes project.
We must develop communities in which lies, deceit and betrayal
have no more evolutionary advantage. We need new societal
structures that make a durable co-habitation in truth, love
and trust possible at all. It is a difficult historical
heritage that besieges our individual existences up to the
most intimate spaces. This issue must be solved in a way
that the entelechial healing forces can fully free themselves
and act.
The research of the Healing Biotopes Projectdeals with the
development of future communities that are able to offer
their participants new experiences of healing and development,
deriving from a new experience of trust. Such communities
inevitably go through a series of inner experiments with
which they move their present borders and develop new terrain.
It is about border pushing and the enabling of different
inner focus points for one’s own life. It is a research
adventure of great significance, maybe the biggest adventure
of our time. Lynn Margulis, the renowned biologist says:
“If we want
to survive the ecological and social crisis we have
caused we would probably be forced to give ourselves into
completely new dramatic community enterprises.“
One might wonder, and ask,
whether so much work and time for intense research work
is necessary in order to establish functioning communities
and develop new life forms in the sense of stable sustainability.
The answer is unambiguously: yes, it is necessary. So far
the alternative models of simple life never worked for a
long time because they were not able to meet the immanent
forces of destruction of modern times. The problems to be
solved at the end of a patriarchal-capitalist-imperialist
epoch can no longer be solved on the level of an ancient
Christian or Buddhist agricultural communism (even if this
could be a temporary help for many participants). The themes
of our time are so much networked and linked with each other
that they cannot be solved individually. A truly violent-free
ecology cannot be developed without a new relation to our
own inner nature; nature on the outside and nature in the
inside are two sides of the same theme and are moved by
the same life energies. As long as we suppress our own nature
and deny it we will hardly have a loving relation with our
co-creatures of the outer nature. Similar goes for technology
and medicine: The due change of paradigm requires an increasing
co-operation with those inner forces that have so far been
mostly suppressed and fought against. It is these psychic
forces that work in all living matter. Teilhard de Chardin
described them as the “inside” of the things
and thereby opened a new view of the material world. Cosmic,
supra-conscious, subconscious or suppressed forces, so far
attributed to the separated areas of deep psychology, religion,
magic and arts, must gradually be integrated into a conscious
way of living in order to dissolve the latent schizophrenia
of our contemporary culture. It is about a new founding
of our self-understanding as human beings.
The safest guarantee for the success of the work are the
field building forces that begin to work in every community
as soon as agreement arises among the participants regarding
new experiences and border crossing. It is then no longer
only one’s own force, but mainly the field force that
makes new experiences possible for the participants. Then,
we must no longer do everything ourselves. We do what we
can and the rest, “let God do”. (This field-idea
is a key thought. I have described it in detail in the book
“The Sacred Matrix”. The whole evolution is
based on the field law.)
Some psychological criteria
of modern high-tech-work should be transferred to the level
of inter-human, spiritual and ecological research work in
a way that an efficient and finally prevailing peace power
can emerge: criteria like spiritual/mental energy, will-power,
continuity and looking forward to the results with joy.
Also the belief in the success, the readiness for almost
any border moving, the it-is-possible declaration of what
seemed to be impossible so far. It is experiment and research
that is to be done here not the clinging to old beliefs.
In the stormy transformation processes of our times the
becoming universe casts continuously new futures onto the
horizon of our vision circle. Research work in the inter-human
and the communitarian area always also means to keep up
with this development without becoming hectic. The appropriate
calmness lies in the right speed. The proper attitude lies
in the will that prepares us for a long and difficult distance.
It becomes clear that also the question of our mental and
physical conditions is asked.
One can guess with what dimension of themes a group of 200
people will deal if it wants to accept the task that is
consigned to it in the above parable by the world-spirit.
But does not the basic rule also apply here: The greater
the tasks, the greater the power that comes to us?
2. The Big Theme of Sexuality,
Love and Partnership
Give us mercy and
redeem us.
Us too, we were searching for love –
For the coming together of man and woman
(Words that a dreamer received at night
from his deceased father.)
The love between man and
woman is one of the most beautiful things possible to experience
on our earth. Nobody who is in this state of love can imagine
that it will ever be over. All the same almost all love
relations fail. Human society lives in a collective heartache.
The area where we could experience the most beautiful is,
for most, an area of deep disappointment, deep suffering,
deep anger and often ultimate resignation.
The issue of love is a global issue. “There can not
be peace in the world as long as there is war in love.”
What is meant is the daily “little war” between
the genders – with its bad consequences for the children.
It is children who will later go into war as soldiers and
devastate the earth. These children were proliferated by
parents who were mostly unable to live a very convincing
model for love. From generation to generation the earth
finds itself in a situation of unfulfilled love that leads
from generation to generation to ever worsening pain and
devastation. The inner context between unfulfilled love
on the one hand and disease or merciless brutality on the
other can today be seen in every orphanage and in every
biography of violent youngsters. We find it in the life
story of all dictators (see the works of Alice Miller),
and we also find it in psychosomatic diseases if we know
how to correctly interpret the symptoms. “All you
need is love.” Humankind needs fulfilment in love
in order to resurrect.
What kind of love is meant?
Every love. Sensual love, soul love, religious love, loving
your neighbour, loving animals, partner love. The focus
lies in the reconnection of the two halves of the human
being: man and woman. At the core of human co-habitation
is the co-habitation between the genders. Their attraction
or repulsion, their sexual signals and their cabling, their
hope and disappointments go like a secret nerve system through
the whole of human society, through every office, every
department store, every reunion, every group. The two halves
of the human being long for each other, fail to meet each
other, fight each other and search for each other until
they find each other. They must find each other not only
in twos but world-wide, only then can the deepest of all
wounds heal. The happiness or misery of the children –
and thus of all people – for we were all once children
- depends above all on their harmonious connection. In the
healing of the love of the genders lies probably the most
revolutionary step of current healing work – after
thousands of years of suppression and denial during the
patriarchal epoch. A new, humane culture has its roots in
a new relation between the genders.
We are, therefore, facing the central question of research:
How can the (open or latent) war of the genders be ended
efficiently and replaced by a durable and reliable solidarity?
How can the happiness of two people in love be lastingly
protected and maintained without them having to protect
it by too tight fences? Is there a realistic model of love
where the wishes for partnership are compatible with the
wishes for sexual adventure and where the longing for faithfulness
and intimacy is not connected with the fear of loss and
clinging to the other? Is there a form of living together
where the sexual affection of one human being to another
no longer provokes fear, anger and revenge in a third? In
what kind of inter-human culture, in what structure of trust,
in what form of inter-human truth and acceptance would such
a love have to be embedded? On which higher order level
are partnership love and free sexuality agreeable with one
another? Under what social, sexual, ethic, and spiritual
conditions is fulfilled love lastingly possible? Is there
a relation between religion and Eros that enhances and unites
both sides?
We give no ideological answers to these questions but we
are looking for new spaces of experience, for truth and
insight. The new epoch needs a new image of love and new
role models for man and woman. This issue is one core issue
of the planetary transformation process to go through. It
can only be solved in connection with all other subjects.
The solution does not begin with a confession for monogamy,
polygamy or celibacy but with an inner truth that is supported
by the truth of others. It is a probability field from which
healing comes. The inner truth that comes from the source
can manifest itself as well in temporary celibacy as in
the physical pleasure of polygamy, depending on the state
of development that is being passed through by the individual.
On the path of truth-finding probably all varieties will
be passed through, until here – in the most difficult
and most secret area – it comes to a common understanding
and enlightenment. From then on a burden will fall from
the heart of humanity.
3. Healing Processes
in the Community by Means of Establishment of Trust
“Happiness is the being at home in something greater.”
The fulfilment of life also depends on what answer I can
give to the question: for whom or what do you do this. If
the answer is convincingly directed towards something greater
than one’s own person a fulfilled life could be in
sight. Personal problems need a higher order level to be
solved. Such a higher order level is community. Community
means living on a communitarian instead of a private basis.
Maybe this is one of the most radical changes of paradigm:
the mental and moral change from a private to a communitarian
conduct of life. Only in this way can the protection and
defence mechanisms that the human beings of our times had
to acquaint with in their isolated existence be lastingly
dismantled. The Healing Biotopes Project suffered some massive
strokes of fate in its 25 years of history. How could the
community survive them? Because it had developed a stable
energy field for human holding together. The participants
were already sufficiently familiar with the rules of a communitarian
conduct of life to not fall into individual resignation.
Community means really getting to know other people and
seeing who they really are. We gradually get into that human
world that lies beyond our films and facades. Here real
encounters from centre to centre work, from truth to truth
from which genuine trust emerges. Trust is the most original
and most efficient of all healing forces. The very first
task of a community is therefore the creation of trust among
the participants. Can you guess what that means? Does one
know how many wedges were driven between humans during the
patriarchal epoch: between man and woman, between parents
and children, between young and old, between peoples and
cultures. The task to re-establish the lost original trust
is equivalent with the task to activate completely new information
chains in the genetic code of humanity. Old patterns of
conduct must be left and replaced by new ones. It is a learning
process without comparison. But isn’t Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
right when she says that all learning processes in life
in the end result in learning love? And shouldn’t
we be able to do that? Let us increase our distance to this
question. Humanity has built stations in space, invented
self-guiding missiles, deciphered the genetic code and shot
cancer cells with nano-cannons – should it not be
able to solve its inner problems with the same effort and
the same persistence?
Dr. Dieter Duhm
January 2004
Healing Biotop 1 Tamera
Monte Cerro,
P – 7630 Colos,
Portugal
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Literature List
(available in English in manuscript form):
Dieter Duhm, The Sacred Matrix
- from the Matrix of Violence to the Matrix of Life, 2003
Dieter Duhm, Eros Unredeemed, 1991
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