POLITICAL TEXTS FOR A NON-VIOLANT EARTH
	ABOUT THE BOOK
	Translation out of: Dieter Duhm: "Politische Texte für eine gewaltfreie Erde", Verlag Meiga, Germany, 1992 – by Sten Linnander

Political Theory

1. Introduction
One cannot imagine what people do to each other and to animals. A large part of the people and animals living today are already in an apocalyptic period. Is there still anything we can do to change this? Can we still do anything to rid the earth of this immense amount of violence and fear? I discount all illusions and yet I answer: Yes, we can - if we truly want it and if we do it with a total commitment. We must do it - because otherwise we ourselves will become the victims of the catastrophy.
The following political theory will show why and how we can do it. First of all why: Because in the plan of the world a small number of consciously thinking beings is enough to change the whole. This is a result of the concepts of "information" and "field creation"), as they are developed in this theory. Then the how. By creating a nonviolent overall set of information for all areas of life, for all human beings and for all creatures.
The theory is based on scientific and spiritual insights that we can assume to be true if we take an overall view of the situation. The world is based on information, and an essential transmitter of information is the human being. We usually transmit information through the unconscious thoughts and beliefs that are inherent in our everyday behavior. In our everyday communication, in love, in science and in technology. Now we need to replace this habitual information with new information that we develop consciously, feeding it into the information body of the earth and its inhabitants.
We thereby change our own existence, for new information means new thoughts and new thoughts create a new reality. (...)
We are here faced with an enormous task, but we do not have to fulfil it entirely alone. We must create the correct information - the universe will take care of the rest. We ask all humanely thinking beings to support this work with all their force.

Twelve theses for a non-violent society

1. Home for the children
In a non-violent world children grow up in confidence and trust. The future of humanity depends on the fate of its children. A childhood marked by distrust and violence will not bring about humane beings. Provide a home to children where they can again trust their parents.

2. Love and trust
Love is the source of humane thinking and non-violent action. Love comes from trust and trust comes from truth. Create living environments where human beings have no reason for lies and fear. Create the social and ecological conditions for love. Confidence and love are the most fundamental powers in all of creation.

3. Sexuality
Sexuality is an elementary force of life and of the joy of existence. Sexuality is free. It can neither be confined by marriage pledges nor by tight moral constrictions, instead it needs truth and trust. Create the moral and social conditions for free sexuality.

4. Partnership
Partnership is the highest form of relationship between the sexes. It has its roots in a common way of thinking. In no way is partnership in opposition to free sexuality, because it is itself free of jealousy. True partnership is the most radical model for a relationship between human beings that is free of violence and fear. Create the mental basis for a partnership free of jealousy.

5. Community.
The organic environment for human beings is the community. Natural values like truth, trust, solidarity and responsible participation without philosophical nit-picking, can only be realized within communities that have developed organically. The non-violent society of human beings is a network of communitarian communities. Only in this way can the original concept of socialism be brought to reality in a humane way. Create functioning communities.

6. Freedom and autonomy of the individual
A free world comprises individuals who say what they think and share what touches them. They are not subordinate to anything but their own knowledge and consciousness. The mature community is a grassroots democracy of free individuals. It is a human collective that is not led collectively in the name of a leader or an ideology. The individual and the community are equal and complementary forces in a non-violent world .

7. Thinking
The reflecting intellect is a young and powerful fruit on the tree of evolution. Free and creative thinking dissolves all rigid ideologies. The secrets of existence are beyond all scientific or religious terminology. Individual autonomy is a direct result of a thinking that is free of fear. Overcome all creeds and dogmas of scientific and political systems. Create universities for the powers of growth inherent in free thinking.

8. Religion
Just like Eros and the intellect, spirituality is one of the elemental powers of human existence. We live in an endless radiant universe. Everything we are and everything surrounding us has roots in the universe. Spiritual love is the connectedness with the whole. Therefore we do not need a religious confession nor predetermined answers. The answer will come through the spiritual opening of the mind. Create a free religious spirit without laws and without dogmas.

9. Nature
Nature is our link with Creation. We are its offspring like a child that is born from its mother’s womb. The secret of human existence is part of the secret of nature. Whatever we do to nature we do to ourselves. The outer and inner environment are two aspects of the same world. Let us take care of Mother Nature and become aware of the processes of growth and their rhythms and interrelatedness. Cooperation with all vital energies and respect for life are the prerequisites for a non-violent and humane civilisation.

10. Animals
Stop all cruelty toward animals. Like us they are part of the living organism of the biosphere. Like us they are beings with souls, just at a different level of evolution. In a non-violent culture whales are not killed, animals are not kept for slaughter, and fur farming does not exist. Create spaces for a co-existence of human beings and animals that is free of fear. Animals do not exist for us to slaughter but to help us to learn to see.

11. Biotopes for healing
All of the thoughts above join together to form a new biotope for healing. Such a biotope contains the informational totality for a non-violent existence on Planet Earth. Create pilot models for this informational totality. Create international centers where the social, technical, ecological and spiritual structures are such that the healing powers of life - trust, Eros, Logos and symbiosis - are promoted in the best possible way.

12. Network of human beings.
Today, within all countries and cultures on earth there are people who have irrevocably understood the necessity of a positive inner and outer revolution. They all contribute certain thoughts, certain convictions, and certain aspects to the overall view of the tasks at hand. It is not machines but people who decide if a future worth living is possible. In that spirit we want to invite you to join the network for a non-violent earth.