TAMERA MANIFESTO for a global peace culture

This text is being sent to representatives of various human rights organizations, environmental and animal protection organizations, peace projects and future-oriented communities, as well as to dedicated individuals who have committed themselves to work for global peace. With this text we ask for support and cooperation for the development of a global concept for ending the worldwide massacre of human beings and animals. The fight against the global mutilation of life, the fight for the liberation of peoples and minorities, the work for the healing of human beings, and the work for healing nature must be coordinated with one another in a meaningful way. This text contains some thoughts for the development of a global force for peace and a corresponding perspective for a humane future. We ask you to pass this text on to dedicated friends.

TAMERA is a 350 acre (140 hectares) property in southern Portugal (Alentejo), where work has been going on for several years for the healing of humans and the earth, using unconventional methods. The most important institutions are the "healing biotope", the "youth school for global learning" and the upcoming "Institute for Global Peacework" (IGF – German acronym for “Intitut für Globale Friedensarbeit)). The work follows the guidelines and goals presented in this manifesto. About 100 volunteer workers are raising the buildings and the infrastructure needed for this project. The aim of Tamera is the development of a healing biotope, where several hundred people can live together with all fellow beings using the principle of non-violent cooperation to create a base for global peace work.

30 years ago Dr. Dieter Duhm, a psychoanalyst and art historian, was the author of the book "Angst im Kapitalismus (Fear in Capitalist Societies)" which became a well known and respected book among Germany´s political left. Since then he has worked with several community projects on a concept for peace embracing individual and political, sexual and spiritual, present and historic aspects. In 1995, together with Sabine Lichtenfels and others who have long been active in the peace movement, he founded the TAMERA project in Portugal where he leads art and healing activities.

1. SEVEN BASIC SENTENCES

1. Today we are at the threshold of the most significant revolution since the Neolithic era. It is the transition from the patriarchal era into a new form of human civilization.

2. The global structures of violence and fear, of male domination and war between the sexes, of racism and genocide, of exploitation of the Third World and of nature are historically set and therefore they can be historically altered, as well.

3. Even the personal problems that make millions of people seek the advice of therapists are historically set and therefore, in addition to individual treatment, they need an answer on the level of society and politics.

4. The crisis of the environment and of the human psyche are but two aspects of the same illness. They can only be understood and solved when seen as one.

5. The suppression of women and the war against them for thousands of years and the historic suppression of sexuality have led to a far-reaching destruction of the love between the sexes. A new, non-violent culture is rooted in a new relationship between the sexes.

6. The matriarchal and spiritual sources of human cultural development where lost due to the imperialistic expansion of male dominance through state, religion and church. We need to rediscover these sources on a new level in order to enable a non-violent and global formation of civilization.

7. Mere criticism of the existing system is no longer sufficient. What we need are concrete places on earth where new ways of living are developed and experimented with. Such places we call "healing biotopes".

2. THERE IS ONLY ONE BEING

There is only one existence. All beings take part in the laws and forces of this one existence. All are in relationship with each other, and together they create the network of life.

The earth is a unified organism. All beings on earth together form a unified living body with a common underlying set of information (the genetic code), a common consciousness and a common will to live.

When the network of life is destroyed through violence and fear, the entire life body falls ill. The illness of nature and the inner illness of human beings are two sides of the same overall illness that has been caused by violence and fear.

To a large degree modern human civilizations are based on the destruction of life (food, clothing, cosmetics, medicine, exploitation of natural resources, etc.). The victims are plants, animals, children, religious and ethnic minorities, peoples of the Third World, and we ourselves.

The violence that we inflict on others comes back to us in the form of illness, fear, and inner weakening. The global civilization of our time (late capitalism) is a system of ill people, and it is connected with global violence. This type of illness cannot be healed through individual therapy.

The foundations of our current form of life can no longer be ethically justified. Either directly or indirectly they turn us into co-perpetrators of a global catastrophe and, by continuing in this direction, we ourselves will become its victims.

The problem can no longer be solved through moral appeals or through partial solutions. We need a new concept of human culture and society, a new concept of life and a new concept of our existence on earth.

3. CHARTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHTS FOR ALL CREATURES

All beings - humans, animals, plants, tribes and peoples - have their special purpose and their special function in the development of Creation. In the plan of Creation they all have a right to their specific way of life and to their status of existence. They all have the right to grow and develop without fear.

All beings have a right to a healthy and free use of their bodies, their joy of life, their curiosity, their love relationships, their communities, their natural biotopes and their special connection to Creation as a whole.

All beings come (as embryos and children) from a world of security and trust. They all have the lifelong right to grow and develop in this trust. They all have a right to a fundamental kind of inner health and freedom that comes from trust.

All beings that have skins and furs have a right to warmth and to those life conditions through which they receive warmth.

All beings have a right to food and to the life conditions through which they get food.

All beings have a right to the freedom of movement that they need for their development, for their joy, and for their bodily, emotional, mental and spiritual health. They must not be restrained or closely confined.

All beings have special organs that they use to discover life and to make contact with the world (limbs, genitalia, wings, horns, tails, claws, fins, etc.) They must not be stopped from these activities through deliberate damage to these organs.

All beings live together in a great cosmic brother- and sisterhood. The differences between human beings and animals are not basic; they are only differences of degree. All beings therefore have the same civil rights on earth.

4. THE GLOBAL CHAIN OF VIOLENCE AND FEAR

Today we are experiencing the worldwide legacy of a bloody era of history. We can only endure what people do to each other, to their children, and to animals by rigorously turning away our eyes. Large areas on earth have already been given up by the international aid organizations and the reason we do not hear anything in the news from many regions is that nothing more can be done. The only reason that we can still sleep peacefully is that we are not (yet) among the victims and that we cannot even imagine what reality lies behind such expressions as "holocaust", "genocide", "civil war", "arms trade", "secret police", "death squads", "torture", "female genital mutilation", etc. Today all these things are a part of the everyday life of millions of people. The monstrous human rights violations in a country such as China are subordinated to financial considerations. The consequences of the international arms trade are measured by stock market quotations and by the size of bank accounts, not in terms of the indescribable human suffering that it is causing. What is happening here hits us mercilessly when we consider that the children who are being burned and mutilated could be our own. Ever since male imperialism raised itself against Creation, against life, and against the female principle at the end of the Neolithic era, a network of violence has spread out over the earth.

Ever since the patriarchal revolution, the importance of power has lain in the execution of violence. All large political, economic and ideological systems have since been systems of violence. Violence creates fear. It is through fear that people can be dominated. Fear is necessary to uphold the current systems of violence. Fear is the obstruction of our ability to love and engage in contact. Fear is the barrier to contact between human being and animal; fear is the central ecological bottleneck of our time. Fear and violence are twins; each always creates the other. Fear leads to a blockage and congestion of elementary life energies, leading to latent violence in every fearful organism. Even the excessive pogroms of the German fascism also followed this cruel principle of energy discharge. One must understand this process deeply in order to overcome it. When organisms that have been saturated with fear are unleashed through slogans of power and images of enemies the results are eruptions of collective violence, as we can currently see all over the world. We can only solve the problem if it becomes possible to break the global chain of fear and violence at a critical place.
It is not enough to appeal for peace or to present moral arguments, for fear and violence have become physiological processes that are deeply embedded in the structure of modern societies. Healing work and peace work is therefore not only individual work, it is always also political work. Today, to work for peace on earth means to create the life conditions, the economic structures, the methods of production, the social environments, the sexual environments, the ecological environments and the mental and spiritual structures, that can create structural peace and structural healing.
The key word for structural peace is trust. Fear and violence can only be overcome structurally by recreating the basic trust with which we all once began our lives. One of the most important tasks of modern peace work is therefore the creation of model environments of trust, in which this basic trust between all beings can arise again.
To work for peace then also means to dedicate oneself with fearless pacifist militancy to the protection of life, no matter where one is. Life decisions of this kind require a high degree of revolutionary strength. This strength arises when we begin to understand what we have done to our fellow creatures through our habit of remaining silent.

5. STOP THE MASSACRE OF ANIMALS

A special aspect of global violence is violence against animals. In terms of cruelty and frequency, the everyday atrocities that are carried out all over the world are beyond any possible description. What does a dog experience when it is being dissected alive (vivisection) in the medical department of a university? On what methods of raising and killing animals are our gastronomy, our cosmetic industry, our pharmaceutical industry, and our clothing industry based? What information of fear and cruelty is sent out thousands of times a day into the ether from an animal laboratory, a slaughter-house or a fur-farm? What journey of suffering does an animal have to go through before it ends up as a Hamburger or BigMac at McDonald's or as a hot dog? There can be no peace on earth, so long as we, actively or passively, as perpetrators or co-perpetrators, allow the mass murder of animals.
Animals are beings just like us, only at another level of development. They are endowed with a soul, they are loving, playful, curious, contact-seeking beings who need our support in order to return to a meaningful development here on this planet. They are often like children. They belong to the life body of the earth and - each in its own way and with its own special abilities - play a role in the universal process of discovery through which life on earth gains its richness, its depth and its completeness. They help us to understand life, to see new possibilities and new directions, and they help us to learn new forms of communication. Some of them, especially whales and dolphins, have created, under water, a cosmic existence and an intelligence which in many ways are superior to those of our modern culture. We need to learn from them, instead of killing them. Human beings and animals are a part of the same life body of the biosphere, they need and complement each other like the organs of a body. They are designed not only for co-existence, but for active communication with each other. Where this communication is possible again, we notice what the original peaceful cultures on earth have always known: animals, just like us, are one aspect of of the one consciousness and of existence, and it is only together that we can realize the beauty of life on earth.

6. THE POWER OF A CONCRETE UTOPIA

If we want to overcome war we need a concrete vision for peace. If we want to overcome the powerful global field of violence we need a concrete vision for a powerful global field of peace. During the student revolution in the sixties we experienced how easily people are united to fight against something while at the same time it is difficult for them to live together. We were able to solve the problem of a police barricade, but we were unable to solve the problem of dishwashing in our communal households, the problem of hierarchy in our groups and especially the problem of sexuality. Apart from the slogans for a life free from domination we had no positive vision and no concrete utopia for a new lifestyle. Most liberation struggles were fights against existing injustice and were not a fight for the realization of a clearly seen and realistic vision for peace and justice.

The task of TAMERA is the profound development of a concrete utopia for a new type of human civilization and society and for a new relation of our life with Nature’s beings and the powers of Creation. Such a concrete utopia encompasses a relatively precise image and a complex informational totality for a practical culture of peace. The difference between utopia and illusion is that a utopia is compatible with the inner blueprint and the possibilities of reality, i.e. of the universe. All beings carry a concrete utopia inside (a so-called "entelechy" and a sought-for inner gestalt) that guides their development. The power of the concrete utopia is immense. It turns a seed into a full-size tree, a caterpillar into a butterfly and an embryo into a grown-up. Individuals do not have this power on their own, but through the link with the whole. A concrete utopia is the matrix or blueprint through which the power of the whole flows into the individual and brings it into being. If the caterpillar wanted to become a butterfly on its own, it would have an impossible task. The concrete utopia is the power in life that leads all beings beyond their present limitations.

The action of the concrete utopia follows a principle of power which is far superior to all mechanistic principles. A tiny weed germ is able to push through a layer of asphalt which is five centimeters thick. Again it is not its own power that empowers it but the link to the whole, immanent in its inner blueprint. This shows that the power struggle between the weed germ and the layer of asphalt is decided on a completely different level. In a comparable manner the forces for peace could succeed against the external superiority of the powers of destruction.
If we are able to find a suitable concrete utopia for us and our cultural development there is no doubt that a fundamental turn towards a future without violence is possible. This would give us the matrix or blueprint through which the power of Creation could aid our work. It is the only power stronger than war. This is the primary idea of TAMERA: to develop the concrete utopia that we, in the current entelechic development of history, are now ready for. We want to use the power of a utopia of peace to influence the decision struggles of our time.
The inner "dream" of humanity is the still unresolved, but real vision of a global, solidaric, correlated community of peoples, linked together in mutual caring and love for all life on earth. What precisely does this dream mean for nutrition and production, for living together of the sexes, for the political organization of new communities, for global communication, for collaboration between the beings of nature and the powers of Creation? What does this dream mean for our coexistence with wild animals, with domestic animals, with snails in the garden? What precisely does it mean in relation to our daily life, our way of eating, working, loving and praying? What kind of concentration of power and what kind of spirituality in our daily lives do we need to enable us to see and implement the concrete utopia immanent in us and in history? With these questions we are right on the threshold of the archimedic point, where so many things are decided. There are no reasons left to get stuck in the constraints of outmoded ways of life.

7. PLACES OF HEALING ON EARTH

The earth is surrounded by and criss-crossed by a network of geomantic lines (lines of power). Our ancestors built their sacred sites and went on their pilgrimages along these lines. Still today we find many relics of the old times, although they have often been altered during later eras. The Christian church, especially, used the ancient "pagan" places of power for their own purposes. An impressive example of this is the cathedral of Chartres, whose immense Gothic structures rise over four layers of historical sites that all served ritualistic purposes. Wherever powerful energy lines come together or cross there are natural healing points on earth. They can be compared to the acupuncture points in the meridian system of our bodies. Historically, powerful sacred centers of humanity were built on the strongest energy nodes. Here, long before our calendar began, the old stone circles were erected (many of them older than Stonehenge) as were the old oracle sites and temples, such as the ones on Malta. Here we also find the old initiation sites for those who were chosen to take on sacred duties. The priestesses who were the caretakers of these centers had the special task of ensuring worldwide communication between these centers and thereby maintaining and caring for the global healing field. Today, on all continents, we find the remains of these sacred centers of a primal global religion, for example in Peru, Portugal, Ireland, Eritrea, Malta, India, Tibet, Australia and Polynesia. These places have not yet "died out"; their information and their spiritual life force is still active. Within the framework of global healing work it would be very meaningful to reactivate them and to reestablish their mental-spiritual connection with each other. The reestablishment of a healthy geomantic network over the entire earth is one of the healing tasks of the new era.

The second aspect of a global healing network deals with the cultures of freedom that still remain on earth. Despite their extermination during the patriarchal era, especially during Christian and colonial times, some of them still exist in a relatively original form, for example some groups of Aborigines in Australia, some groups of native Tibetians, Eskimos, Native Americans, Indians, and Africans, some peoples of the Andes, etc. Here ancient knowledge about a healthy earth and about the eternal connections within Creation is still alive, which we must reclaim on a new level in order to reconnect us with the power and the sacredness of Creation. Today, it is an absolute must that these peace tribes be protected from further destruction.

The modern spirit of the coming third millennium must reconnect timeless spiritual sources of ancient times , without thereby regressing to old cultural forms. For hundreds of thousands of years humanity lived from these sources, before it was separated from them by the patriarchal revolution. The knowledge of these sources is stored in our cells; thus it is still in existence and can be reawakened today. The peace tribes that are still alive today are not tourist attractions; they are the last carriers of a previously existing knowledge of peace on earth. It is necessary to engage with them in order to connect the old "peace field" with the new one. They need our help and we need theirs.

8. THE GENDER ISSUE

There can be no peace on earth so long as there is war in love. The five thousand year history of the patriarchal era is a history of a war between the sexes, and the war has not yet ended. The five thousand year long battle against the female world is the most cruel chapter in human history to date. Noone has yet recovered from that. We will not be able to develop fundamental peace concepts for the earth and human beings as long as we do not understand this fighting and its crazy results in society and within ourselves. It is a primary task for all future projects to activate all energy to liberate the relation between the sexes from the taboos, prejudice and cruelty of a mad era. A new non-violent and loving culture is rooted substantially in a new loving and non-violent relation between the two sexes. This is a point we cannot neglect in the new concepts for ecology, spirituality and healing, if we want to come to a realistic result. There is no healthy ecology without healthy sexuality.

We all come into being through a sexual connection between man and woman. Sexuality is the biological source of our life, it is truly "issue #1", since we all exist in the body. A disruption of sexuality is a disruption of the entire organism. Almost all illnesses in Western society are at least partly caused by a disruption of the sexual energy balance, and most emotional and psychosomatic illnesses of our time are rooted in unresolved problems in the area of love between the sexes. Many more people die each year from unresolved love conflicts than from car accidents, and these too often have the same background. So long as the sexes do not find fulfillment in love, they must compensate this lack through tourism, consumerism, status, power, and war, and these are the foundations of our current (capitalist) industrial society.

The prerequisite for a violence-free future is the global ending of the war between the sexes, the liberation of man from his secret sexual anxieties and feelings of inadequacy, the reconnection of woman with her original power sources and her central tasks in the human community, and finally the liberation of both from their delusion that jealousy is part of love. Man and woman are the two polar halves of the one Human Being. They must now come together in such a way that they "fit", so that they might find the permanent fulfillment that is an inherent part of the emotional and bodily love between the sexes. Here we can no longer avoid confronting certain carefully thought-out concepts about free love. Love and sexuality are universal life powers; in a universal society of peace they can no longer be bound to one single person nor can they be surrounded by private fences. Free love and committed partnership do not exclude each other in a universal culture of peace; instead they are mutually dependent and complement each other. The old patterns of sexual "faithfulness" and jealousy are based on distrust between the sexes. The deepest freedom, which lies at the heart of all freedom, is the freedom of love between the sexes. This is the source of a new ethic and a new order, in which human beings no longer need to deny their own selves and hide from others. This freedom leads to a genuine, powerful, and nonviolent joy of life. Herein lies one ot the central meanings of the concrete utopia that we now must bring to life.
Communities of the future and projects for a new way of life can only function in the long term if they know and understand the principle of free love, if they know that it is not in opposition to an ethic of faithfulness and responsibility, and if they know that one is allowed to follow it. For this new force to develop we need an encompassing environment of freedom and community. Any form of ideology or group pressure is counterproductive when it comes to such deep changes in our inner pivot points. This is true for our erotic, as well as for our mental and spiritual, sources.

9. GLOBAL FIELD CREATION THROUGH SELECTIVE WORK

We can no longer meet worldwide violence through counter-violence; the era of violent revolutions is over. First of all they are pointless in the face of the real balance of power; secondly, they never achieve the humane goal, for violence - including counter-violence - always produces fear and new violence. This is a psychological principle, which up to now has not been disproved by any revolution. For global peace work we therefore need a basically different concept. One central point in this new concept is that of global field creation through selective intervention, in short: the principle of fields.
In order to relieve the body of an illness one does not need to treat all its organs and cells individually. It suffices to introduce new information that acts as an impetus in the direction of healing, such as a medicine or a few acupuncture needles that are introduced at the right places. If the energy lines and energy centers of the body are impacted through this intervention, then the body takes care of the rest of the work by itself. This principle can be applied to the earth as an organism: It suffices to input a concentrated impulse of peace at chosen "acupuncture points" or energy centers, in order to stimulate the earth as a whole. (Although I speak here of a theoretical principle, concrete peace work in emergency areas of the world is absolutely necessary. This work is a substantial part of the Pece School “Mirja”, founded in Tamera - see section 11).
The reason for this way of functioning lies in the fact that the earth and its biosphere constitute a unified organism, a unified life body and a unified body of information. This can be seen for example in the genetic code, whose basic mathematical structure is the same for all living beings - for plants, animals and humans. All beings therefore follow the same basic information of life. The mathematical similarity found in parallel universal formulas such as the genetic code and the old Chinese I Ching attest to the similarity in the informational structure of both the molecular and mental-spiritual areas. Teilhard de Chardin called this informational body of the biosphere the "noosphere". If we introduce new information, compatible with the overall system, into the noosphere, the effect is the same as the effect of a medication introduced into the total system of our body. All beings are a part of the noosphere, and therefore -- at least latently -- this information that is introduced affects them all. It is through this information that a new "field" is born.
Every individual action can create a new field, if it is based on new information. When Reinhold Messner climbed Mount Everest without oxygen he created new field-generating information. From then on it was also possible for others to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. There are many similar examples in the areas of sports and technology. The principle of "morphogenetic field creation" is present everywhere in evolution, for it is a direct consequence of the holographic functional logic of the global body of life, in which all beings are interconnected. If one succeeds in creating encompassing new information for the creation of a culture without fear and violence in a few new cultural centers on earth, then this information will not only affect these special places, but it will affect the entire noosphere of the earth. The result will be that, within a short period of time, other such models emerge at other places on earth.

We have been prepared for these kinds of possibilities not only through the study of medicine and biological systems, but also through the models used in chaos research. Small changes, introduced at minute points on earth, can lead to enormous overall effects due to the mathematical principle of self-amplification. The combination of such resonance and multiplication effects allows us to develop a political theory with a new logical structure. The system works "of itself" if its mechanism is given a new impulse in the right way.
Therefore, one of the most urgent tasks of global peace work is the development of such power points for concrete peace information. The more encompassing the new information is, the more areas of life are encompassed by it, the more complex it is, and the more deeply it addresses the basic connections of our mental-spiritual and biological existence, the more it becomes universally applicable and the more powerful is its global field effect. Here we can understand the beautiful words by Victor Hugo: "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

10. THE CREATION OF HEALING BIOTOPES

We call the future power centers "healing biotopes". A healing biotope is a life community of people, animals and plants, whose life forces complement each other and no longer block each other through violence or fear. The underlying healing paradigm is a result of the unity of all living beings.
There are no isolated structures. All beings live in relationship to others. All existence is communal. Healing is therefore not an isolated process, but a process that occurs in relationship to other beings. The healing of human beings occurs in their relationship to their fellow human beings, but also in their relationship to animals, plants, nature and Creation. The deepest biological and mental-spiritual healing power is trust. The hologram of fear must be replaced by the hologram of trust, all the way down to cellular processes. When this turning point has been reached, then the new set of information that is needed for the creation of a new force field emerges in all relationships. This process goes very far. Some examples based on experience: where there is trust, the fear of snakes disappears. Where there is trust, the courage emerges to jump into water from great heights. Where there is trust, the fear of abandonment disappears and so does jealousy. Also, no thoughts of hatred and violence arise. Trust is the energy of peace: trust between children and adults, between men and women, between different communities and people, between the human world and the world of animals. And between the human being and the Universe.
The creation of trust within a community requires great effort, for we are programmed more toward distrust in the crucial situations that deal with sex, love, power or money. We need a very deep and well-founded concept of human community in order to dissolve our traumatic conflicts and create trust. Trust is essentially a question of truth. How much truth can two lovers take, how much truth can a community take, and how does it deal with truth? Those who no longer need to pretend or disguise themselves in front of others no longer need to fear that they will not be loved. And whoever no longer has this fear, can develop true humanness.

Building stable communities involves working on one's own character structures. For the forces of peace to be able to have an external effect, they must be firmly anchored within those who work for peace. Our personal defects are no longer our private issues; they are reflections of global defects, and the more we can heal within ourselves, the more we can heal in the outside world.

An interesting element of the healing biotope is the Sanctuary. In earlier cultures the sanctuary was a place where nobody could be punished. Criminals who managed to reach this place could not be hunted down and could start a new life there. For the healing of our own thoughts it is important that we connect back to this tradition and that we fully understand the concept of forgiveness. Each of us has experienced hatred against certain people. Are we able and willing to forgive? Is our knowledge of peace and our desire for peace already strong enough for that? This is an issue that we have to deal with if we truly want to break the chain of fear and violence. We are led uncompromisingly to those inner areas where the power and the sovereignty of our work for peace can prove themselves.

In their structure and way of life, healing biotopes are connected to a new planetary way of thinking. Energy supply, the use of water, diet, consumption, and recycling are oriented toward long term global healing. The way of life is fairly simple, but energetic. The focus and the power centers in life change, for one is integrated into the universal whole. The ego principle gives way to a universal consciousness and a universal flow of energy. Reservoirs of power are thereby tapped, opening up new possibilities in the areas of healing, technology, and global field creation.

Healing biotopes are living seeds of the future and they work according to the “morphogenetic creation of fields”. When the first model has been created the probability for the creation of the next ones increases sharply. The time is ripe for the founding of such healing biotopes on all continents. The more healing biotopes are created - and we can expect this to happen within the next two decades - the more intense will be the global field effect. The coming global earth community will emerge from a network of healing biotopes, communities, and peoples, who have entered into a state of trust and cooperation with all fellow creatures.

11. THE TAMERA PROJECT

Tamera is a 350 acre (140 hectares) property in Portugal, where for several years a growing group of peace workers has been working to create the life conditions needed to develop a healing biotope. The work is based on the thoughts and goals described above.
At Tamera a school for peace (Mirja School) is being created, in which the theoretical and practical foundations for global peace work are taught. This includes the healing of one’s own person. We can’t create a force for peace in the external world unless such a force exists within us. We need a concrete vision for peace, including our own peace, in order to be able to face war effectively. We need to recognize and overcome the worldwide chain of violence and fear in ourselves, if we plan to develop realistic concepts for their global dissolution. These permanent linkages between inner and outer occurrences and structures constitute a basic issue of holistic peace work. Consequently the school teaches subjects related to our inner life such as the following: the art of overcoming fear – sexuality and healing – the logic of love – building communities and leading groups – cosmology and the study of religion – evolution and early history – the power of concrete utopia. All participants of the school go through a two-year physical and mental training through which they can free themselves from their personal areas of challenge. The goal of the training is for the participants to take on a professional task at Tamera, in another future-oriented community, or in international peace work.
The school for peace serves to train people who have committed themselves to their work and to their future profession in the service of healing and global peace work. Effective peace workers need a commitment and a professional energy that remains stable, even when for example their love life might be temporarily "on the rocks". But they also need a professional task and purpose which enable them to solve their personal conflicts and to deepen their love life. Professional and "private" life, revolution and love, and political work and personal emancipation must come together if we want to create the power and the way of life that is necessary for the creation of peace on earth. This is an underlying premise for all training courses at the school for peace at Tamera. A non-violent culture requires new professions and new training courses in order to make long-term productive work possible.
For younger people who want to get acquainted with this work, there is the "youth school for global learning". For many young people the thought of entering into the existing professional world has become meaningless. They need a different life perspective and the possibility to prepare themselves for their new professions in the framework of a global peace culture. For this reason journeys will be undertaken from Tamera during which young people will participate in peace work in other countries and thereby gain a "cosmopolitan" perception of the situation on earth. Qualified work leaders and jobs are available for technical and manual work training at Tamera. One aim of the youth school is also to develop a new contact with nature and a real situation of trust between man and animals. A horse farm with riding school helps to serve this purpose.

12. INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL PEACEWORK

The production and distribution of this manifesto happens on the occasion of founding the Institute for Global Peacework at Tamera. The infrastructure has now been developed far enough to ensure the work of the Institute on a bigger scale. The task of the Institute is to speed up global networking and to realize the goals of healing biotopes in as many places on earth as possible. Once again I would like to list the goals in key words:

The Institute cooperates with all individuals and institutions who are interested in realizing the above mentioned goals. The construction of an international meeting place is planned in addition to the existing guest house and camping place, to host our visitors.
The construction of the main building of the Institute is scheduled for the year 2000. Because we are no longer able to finance construction work from our own pockets we are very thankful for financial support.

Contributors in the European Community can send donations directly to our bank account:
”Netzwerk für eine humane Erde e.V.” (”Network for a Humane Earth”)
Bank: Sparkasse Stolzenau
Bank code: 256 515 81
Account - No.: 366633 (You will get a receipt automatically)

Other contributors can send international money orders payable to ”Network for a Humane Earth” to the contact address below.

Dieter Duhm
March 1999