If we can step safely inside our human selves for a moment, we can clearly see that our systems of commerce, propaganda, and industry are eating our world and our future. They are consuming us, and our children, inside and out, and charging increasingly deadly prices for this privilege.

We can know together, without reference to gods or religions or laws that we want all of the children to survive and prosper — and that, even without reference to science or ways of knowing, the Earth is far too fragile to support our continued and expanding dramas of erasure, omnicide, and industrio-conversion. So too, our bodies, minds and peoples.

We can know together that all of us are children, here and now, needing each other’s celebration, support and care. Personally, as communities, cities, and nations. As a biosphere alive with the current moment of countless ancient lineages of sentient endeavor.

We can know that the ecological nurseries and indigenous peoples of the world require our immediate support to survive, and we require theirs, for their lineages are our heritages.

We can remember that there is no ‘separate’ race of people on Earth. Earth is a single child, comprised of many children. Which one should we decide to attack, to erase, to constrict in their natural desires for co-emergent elaboration? If there is only one hand, are we sure we’re ready to decide which fingers we should cut off as punishment for some real or imagined slight? Are we not more imaginative, ‘advanced’ and heartful than to still be answering some of our most essential needs and questions with war, as well as industrialized biospheric and human atrocity?

We can know that all peoples are indigenous peoples. Erasing them, erases us. We are indigenous peoples. I am indigenous. We are indigenous to Earth.

All of us know there are answers beyond war. All of us, even in our daily lives, require that those around us do not make war, else we fail first to thrive, and then to survive. In our households, war is death. In our families, war is death. When we pay for the privilege of war, we pay to erase ourselves, our children and our futures. We also erase the living world. We erase our hearts. And we erase our memories of what we’ve struggled so dearly to achieve and become. We erase what we’ve supposedly been ‘working’ for.

We as a global people are mature and heartful enough to ask the right questions, and pursue heroic answers to such questions, together. The war of materialism has already owned nearly all of our internal and biospheric terrains. Where is the place for our humanity, our persons, our minds and human hearts? Where is the place of rest, communion, and celebration? What, precisely, are our industrial cultures celebrating?

We can see we must cease the persecution, labeling and expensive 'games of punishment' which are crippling Americans at home, and destroying our planet abroad. Our prisons are a crime against ourselves.

We are old enough to clearly understand now, that our nationalized insistence upon strategies of biodegradation, and its attendant cultural erasures — dressed up as absurd heroism by corporate wealth-sieves —is eating not only our world, but our own children. In fact, such systems attack children first. And we are all children.

We can see that what is spent on war, is spent burning our world, peoples, and futures — and we can see that our planet is far too delicate to survive such events in their modern scales. So are our human hearts, bodies, and minds.

We have lived amongst our machines, industry and our science long enough to see where they are leading us, and it is not to anything any of us can survive, thrive within, or would willingly inhabit. We can together remember our human and biospheric heritages, and lineages, and form the small rings of human heroes who can and will accomplish the return of our birthrights, and our human and personal sovereignty from oppressive and rapacious ways of knowing, corporations, and societies.

We can clearly see, without regard to labels, that the threats of commercially motivated genetic engineering coupled with the intentional and permanent erasure of complex biospheric resources will continue and rapidly expand in consequence, and that this consequence can only be catastrophic, and perhaps apocalyptic. We can rise together to speak and act with great directness against this self-imposed holocaust, if we can but admit the true and obvious deadliness of the sources and participants in this problem.

We can clearly see that the potential for a sudden shift in one of five or six domains could utterly destabilize not only our nations, but our entire biosphere. We must address this first and foremost and we must address it immediately, as a global community, because it can and should unite our nations.

We can remember moments of great unity in human history, when threats of grave and universal significance were quelled by community and heroism which knew no boundary of category, race, nation or species. We can, all of us, clearly see that our world is now in a position that will require we remember first the powers of human unity, so that all of our nations may survive.

Our ‘advanced’ civilizations are far more delicate than their complexity implies, and some of the elemental momentums in our ways of being are depriving not only ourselves of our ability to thrive and explore our potential, they are depriving whole universes of peoples of this. There is more hole in our story, than ‘story’, in too many places. We can observe that systems of mimicry, constantly shouting themselves our human champions, are stealing our lives and futures — as well as the futures of our living world. We can remember our essential humanity in the face of such challenges, and find, in simple human unity, the keys to the heroism which will answer our species’ most ancient desires for liberty, justice, equality, and sustainable progress. And we can see that war in all ways opposes these clearly heartful, essential, and human necessities.

As a nation we recently witnessed the fact that a very small number of determined individuals, acting as a recombinant cell-team, can change the course of American history by using our own technologies and industry against us. But what we may have failed to notice, in our rush into propaganda and reaction, is this: a small ring, or cell of committed people can change the world overnight.

For the sake of mutual rescue, rather than mutual terror.

7 ‘regular people’, committed to the goal of rescue, in celebration of each other and the goal of mutual uplift, can accomplish anything. 7 rings of 7 such people could effectively, heartfully, and humanly accomplish almost any goal. We can save our world, and we can unify the world’s peoples without some dogmatic cage or idea-set that reduces our diverse and rightful uniqueness. In fact, we must.

And our rings must include children. And our hearts, and actions must value them.

And our rings must include the elderly, the prisoners, the sick. They must include. Everyone.

Our species is having a Unity crisis, and it’s echoed in our own nation and people. We must remember the powers of our hearts, as children, not as angry gods. When we begin talking about the use of nuclear weapons we are talking about a crime against the biosphere, and the erasure of our own minds, and children. When we allow commercial interests to modify the ambient biology of root food sources, we are asking for a holocaust. We can remember that in isolation, we are easy prey for tyrannous systems of rapacious constriction and indenture.

And we can insure our children hear our voices, right now in our action and our unity beyond labels and 'ways of knowing' — because our children are always watching what the adults are doing, and listening to what they are saying...

Can we now join hands, beyond all boundaries, and remember our heartful and heroic mission here — a mission more glorious and majestic than anything yet hinted at in our species' histories or fictions...

can we now accept the mantle of our human sentience with humility, grace, and the mission of rescue...

We can.

We are human, alive, and connected with our planet, and our future.

We are sane enough to see how small our world is, and how delicate.

We are brilliant enough to see the incredible domains of unimagined treasures that await our real and active unification in hope of mutual uplift, unity and biospheric survival.

We are wise enough to see beyond categories, and labels, into the domain of our most genuine humanity.

We are heartful enough to actively unify, person to person, without need for labels, churches or movements, in search of mutual rescue, and uplift. We can get rid of the machines between us in our lives, minds and hearts. We can do this in search of the active embodiment of our brightest dreams, and the most preciously held lineages of effort in which such dreams arose and from which they seek to thrive.

We are simple enough to remember that our powers in small rings human of unity, can overcome obstacles which appear so vast as to deny all hope of resolution. And they can accomplish this with great rapidity.

And we are must begin to remember we have heart, and strength, and the power to accomplish the dreams which will but an end to human and biospheric atrocity. For ourselves, and our children.

And, contrary to what most of us can believe, we can do it now – because the tools and toys we’ve hoped for from ‘gods, science, philosophies, or aliens’ are in the hands of the children.

And the children are us.

Let’s join those hands together, and remake the rings of simple heroes...

for we are the 'little rings of heroes' who can, and will rescue our world.

And it's a world in need of rescue.

Our time to awaken together has come.