Shreepal, a Concerned Global Citizen

Shreepal, a Concerned Global Citizen Our apparentely Glittering Civilization is hollow in substance deep within and a New Enlightened Civilization is striving to take birth 2008-06-07T10:38:49Z User 463 http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/ OrgSpace NewsLog Mankind is at the crossroads of her destiny (2)

Let us proceed by analogy. We are dealing here with things; but it is wrong term to employ in this context. The correct term is reality; we are dealing with realities. Realities when placed in space are things; and when they are placed in time, they are events. Therefore, the term ‘things’ used here should be understood in the meaning of ‘realities’ of things when placed in space and events when placed in time. Let us proceed in the domain of time with the analogy of things in space; because we know many properties of things, that is, realities when placed in the domain of space.

Does time have only one property, that is, flowing in a direction – from past to future? Could there be some other properties also? It is instinctively correct to state that the time is full-fledged dimension; there must be many other properties also. Which are those properties, we do not know; we have no means to know them. However, we can proceed a bit by applying the analogy of space. Space has three sub-dimensions and we may try to apply then in the time’s domain. When things are placed in time’s dimension, they acquire the property of flowing in a direction – from past to future, which in relativistic manner is conversely a flow of time from future to past. This direction of flow from past to future or from future to past may be taken as an equivalent to one sub-dimension of space (say, length); through this property of time, it would be possible to go to past or future of things.

Then, let us apply this property of time to an equivalent of space’ 90 degree shift; with this shift the time would flow at an angle of 90 degree deviation from its straight direction of flow from past to future or vice versa. What is the meaning of this 90 degree deviated flow of time? It means that the time would cover not merely one thing in the universe but all the things that are there in the universe. This is by an analogy of space. If we, likewise by analogy, make one more deviation of 90 degree with respect to the time’s these two flows, what would be its result on things? What would be the additional property of things placed in this third sub-dimension? One thing that is certain is that in this new sub-dimension things would have the properties that are not the part of the other two sub-dimensions, namely, when things when placed in this third sub-dimension of time would not have, firstly, the flow of time from past to future or from future to past; and, secondly, things would be out of the cover of time. What does it mean? Precisely, it means that things placed in this third sub-dimension would not undergo the change associated with time and therefore they would be without a beginning and without an end. Also, things would not be covered by time, that is, they would be in the eternal state.

And, what about another property of things placed in time that may qualify the equivalent of ‘mass’ of things when placed in space? We do not know. But when the things are placed in the time’s dimension, those properties (of time) must enable them to acquire various formations (like things placed in space acquire formations of elements, molecules, compounds etc.). How do you rate the possibility of of the idea of capability of things when placed in time to acquire with the aid of time’s peculiar properties formations equivalent to spatial elements, molecules, compounds, including living DNAs. Certainly, it is not an idea born out of fancy. We need to have means to travel in the domain of time. Once we acquire these means, we would travel in the past and in the future. We would also travel in time to see all the things in the universe happening at a given moment. This world of time, like the world of space, would be a vast one; exploration of the time’s domain would be much more interesting than the exploration of space. Let us not think that travel to some distant planet in some far away galaxy, when accomplished by our science, would be the end of our search for the ultimate. Universe is more vast in its kinds than in its space.

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]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000082.htm 2008-06-07T10:38:49Z 2008-06-07T11:02:23Z We stand at the crossroads of human destiny (1)

The universe is really vast. It is not vast only in the way that there are countless number of galaxies comprising solar formations with their planetary systems. It is vast in another manner also. The secret of this vastness lies in dimensions. In fact we in our science are only dealing mostly with space dimension. Though there are three sub-dimensions of the space, really it is only one dimension. The second dimension - time - is still little understood. What we have learned here is really very little.

How much do we know about time's dimension? And, how much do we know about space's dimension? We know that things exist in space and when they are placed in space they have the properties of length, width and height. These properties enable things to acquire (sine qua non) essentials of matter in the form of mass and the shape of (our well known) elements, their combination into molecules and then countless other formations of varied things, including life's building blocks DNAs etc.

What about the time's dimension? We know that things exist in time and that when they are so placed in this dimension they exhibit the property of floating in a flowing current that has a direction - from past to future; things flow because they exist in past, present and future (which constantly turns into present). It is not the time that flows but the things that flow; because the things constantly change in time we have an illusion of time's flow. You are seated in a running train and have an illusion of seeing things outside the train running backward. In fact, there is no illusion here because the phenomenon is governed by relativity; we can very well say that from the relative point of train the things outside train are running backward and conversely, from the point of things outside train the train is running forward.

Likewise, from the point of the time things are flowing in a direction from future to past and conversely, from the point of the things the time is running in a direction from past to future. In space it is possible for us to sit in a running train and watch things outside train (to get verification of our statement) and also to sit alongside the outside (stationary!) things and watch the running train on the track. While it is so possible for us in space, can we carry out this experiment in the time's dimension? We are associated with the things (placed in time) and get the illusion (!) that the time is running backward; can we change our relative station to observe the relativistically contrary fact of the things running in a direction from future to past? No. But, then, there must be such a station; it cannot be otherwise. It is our limitation. This is one limitation. There are other limitations also.

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And, language is not the only way to communicate emotions and thoughts, not even symbols or gestures of mathematical significance. These belong to the domain of life that we have on earth; there could be many more ways, each of which belong to a different kind of life. We have been sending but in vain our messages coded in radio signals to some ones who might be there in outer space with the fond hope that they would understand them and respond by saying ‘hello’. The case may not be so simple.

But, then, how can one communicate across the barrio of these different kinds of life? One way may be to communicate with one’s behavior. Individual’s behavior in a network of many is detected immediately through this behavior’s impact on the alien connected to the other end of the network, whether this network is horizontal or vertical (because of evolutionary gap). This behavior is detected and suitably translated at the other end. We can take the example of cells of human body. There, the behavior of cells – their demeanor represented by their wellbeing or distress – is detected and understood not only by the nearby organs etc. of the body network but also by the evolved self of the individual concerned. This communication may be the other way round also; a disturbed ‘evolved self’ of the person concerned sends signals that go down to the cells of the body, which translate this signal as ‘something is wrong’ somewhere. Here the signal emanating from one end of the network is communicated to the other end through a common medium – behavior or conduct – that is suitably interpreted and understood by the recipient.

In this approach to search alien form of life we may employ a suitable medium that is capable of transmitting our behavior, which term includes our demeanors in the form of our proper or improper actions, loving or hateful emotions and open or secret thoughts, to the other end of the network of different kinds of life that might be there, near or far.

Is it possible that cosmic systems around us in universe are communicating with one another through their behavior over the network of interconnecting natural forces? Are they talking around us and in our very midst? How are we to understand their ‘language’, their ‘meaning’ and their ‘intentions’? It is the problem that calls for our attention, if we are to search ET life, their world and their devices (and not only much curious UFOs may turn out be one of them but the sporadic reports of supernatural feats of natural persons also may be understood) from a new approach. The problem with us is that we associate thoughts with the way we think. Love with the way we love, anger with the way we exhibit it and goodwill with the only way we know to express it. It is not the correct approach to the problem as these our ways may not be the ones that are universally understood. It is not the only way universe functions; it is very narrow minded approach. Universe is much wide and it must as of necessity contain many more ways to express life and life’s wide domain. If it is so, then there is ome more thing of which one can be certain. It is this: because we know love, hate, anger, thoughts etc. are associated with our kind of life, therefore they must also exist somehow in other kinds of life and exhibited in many more ways that are different from ours.
]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000080.htm 2008-05-21T06:36:45Z 2008-05-21T06:36:45Z Life is abundant all around but we fail to detect it

If we apply this defining feature of life to our surrounding universe, we find, surprisingly, all bodies – which are nothing but the systems of component parts – take birth, grow and finally die. Is there life in them? If yes, how evolved are these living systems? Can we communicate with them? They all are so near to us, almost in our midst. A cell in human body is a living structure; it is an independently living thing, though enabled by and thus connected to its surroundings network; it is as well a part of the whole system, which is human being. Can a cell communicate with nearby other cells? Can it communicate with its host, that is, the human being concerned who is highly evolved with the sense of a ‘self’ and whose simple component part it is? There are several kinds of pathogens, which are housed in our body (and now found that they pass on to our next generations through our own mutated DNAs); they are sometime component parts of our own life, our own DNAs. Can these pathogens communicate with the human being whose body houses them? No. Why can’t they do so? We know human cells and whole kinds of its activities but this cell does not know our evolved self. This is the problem that we face in this approach in our search of ET life that may very well exist in our midst, with all its capabilities beyond our comprehension (like fabricating devices a la UFOs, maintaining vigil over human activities on earth, intervening in human affairs by bringing their occasional destructions, which may look to us like innocent natural disasters, because in their estimation humans have gone astray in their activities of the desired course); this kind of life and their community, if existing, must be able, at least theoretically, to contrive things what we call UFOs, keep a watch over our thoughts and activities, while living in our midst and without ever being detected by us with our narrow outlook of life.

Could it be that there is life all around us and in abundance? Are we simply one of many kinds of life existing in material form? And, are we and these other kinds of life merely parts of a mega life existing in material form all around us? If it is so, how can we detect them? How can we communicate with them? What kinds of scientific tools would be required to communicate with our neighborly life? Can we employ mathematical tools to decode their k\life code? In this endeavor our knowledge of coding computer software and genetic coding may be a great help. We have to take their fundamental principles and apply them to our surrounding world. Even we may apply them to many phenomena present on earth, which in essence may be systems in operations.

In this approach to search ET life around us we assume that in a given case a particular kind of life program coded with the aid of concerned media is being executed through instructions. These instructions would be mechanism of elements involved propelling the whole system. In the life we have on earth, there is an intake of energy that comes from food. This energy propels the whole system geared to bring the programmed outcome, namely, the above mentioned three common properties of life.

Today we know that all other systems of bodies around us in universe behave in a way that amounts to taking energy from outside surrounding source and this energy keeps the system going on at the path of its programmed birth, growth and death. Are the component parts of these systems merely like cells of human body, which are simply executing a coded program? Definitely, all systems are nothing but programs in execution dependant on very many variants, which are akin to instructions. A system in action is akin to a cell in our body. But, we take for granted; these systems made up of inert matter are not living beings like our cells. Why do we associate life with ‘exclusively’ our kind of life? Why we are so narrow minded? We have come a long way on our scientific path.

We associate life with movement (trees do not move), with basic instincts (earth and its rivers try to repair damage done to them by humans), with procreation (there is constant cycle of birth, growth and death of stars, galaxies etc. going on in the universe and the differing time scale involved here in these different systems is not material. A life may very well have a span of time ranging from micro seconds to billions of earth years), with emotions like love, anger etc. and thoughts of humans. Are emotions like love and anger and thoughts possible of generating or expressing in the human-way only? Human thoughts correspond to something else independently existing in Nature; thoughts are the human mind’s version of inter-relations of material objects that already exist independently in Nature. Human way of thinking is not the only way of expressing these independently existing inter-relations of things. There can be very many ways to express them, though we would not be able to comprehend those ways because they would belong to a different kind of life. All working systems are equivalent to complex human thoughts. Or, rather, all systems are thoughts in concrete form, in material form, in visible form. Emotions like love and anger are, likewise, expressions in human-way of something else that exist independently in Nature. There could be very many ways to express them, which would be beyond our comprehension since they would be in the domain of a different kind of life. ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000079.htm 2008-05-21T06:34:08Z 2008-05-21T06:34:08Z Life is present all around us- Let science search

Life is present all around us - Let the science
search it in its own way

What we have here on earth is abundantly present there in the universe surrounding us on all sides, except a single and unique thing that we call life. This all-inclusive totality of things that we know existing and their abundance of supply all around us – here on earth and beyond it in universe – are so complete and universal – without a single exception save life – that there seems a scientific law of abundance operating in Nature. Speaking positively, this law states that every thing in universe is supplied by Nature in abundance and – negatively speaking – that there is nothing in universe which is unique because of its singular presence.

The evidence in support of this law of abundance is overwhelmingly consistent in Nature. One may turn to any entity available in Nature to find its abundance; subatomic particles, atoms, elements, their chemical compositions all are available here on earth and beyond earth in universe in abundance.

And, there is no exception save life to this universal phenomenon; there is no single breach save life of this seemingly scientific law of abundance. Yet, life as we know happily thriving here on earth is the single breach of this law.

We have sufficiently advanced science and technology at our command today, which is able to detect life – in the form we know it – in its primitive evolutionary stage as well as the highly developed one that might be present at some far away place in universe. With the advent of radio communication, we have been frantically searching Extra-Terrestrial life for the last half century with the fond hope that after all life on earth should be not so unique in its presence. But all in vain. We have put all suppositions against us in this goose chase; we have assumed life is a rare happening in universe because it needs extremely delicate balance of environment to create and support this phenomenon. Since we know life is there on earth, we assume that a similar life elsewhere on other places in universe would need a similar set of circumstances; so we are searching in the wide universe life’s so-called tell-tale signs – the right range of gravity (size of planets), temperature (distance from star), chemical compositions of atmosphere, presence of carbon, water etc. etc. We have already assumed – much against the universal law of abundance – that in our search we are looking foe a needle in a proverbial hey stack. Yet, we have not been able to find life any where else in this extremely vast universe, which we now comparatively know with sufficient details.

It is very interesting to deduce logical conclusions – and which conclusions are quite depressing in their impact on life, which in effect practically means us humans – from the negative results of our scientific search for ET life. Today, we are sure that there is no life around us to the distance of at least a few thousands of light years. This much is definitely known to us. If we apply this distance of non-availability of life as a rough estimate to the entire universe that is known to us today, then the conclusion would be that life might be available, if at all, in extremely short supply perhaps at a few score of places in the entire universe, known and unknown both. This means we – and that includes all our inferior cousins on the evolutionary ladder as well – are, if not alone, lonely in this otherwise abundantly rich universe. This is a depressing thought to the extreme. Our common sense rebels against such thoughts; it could not be so in our otherwise abundant universe.

It all looks illogical. Is there some thing amiss on our approach to the problem of ET life and its search? Law of abundance tells us that we should be terribly wrong some where in our approach. Our instinctive common sense – which does not always rely on reason – also prods us to think that in the face of such universal abundance of every thing, it cannot be the case; that it is not possible that in this otherwise abundant universe life is without supply or in exceptionally short supply; that there is something seriously wrong in our approach to the problem and in the direction of our efforts. Could it be possible that life – at least theoretically similar to the one we know on earth – is present all around us and in abundance? If it is so, could we develop scientific tools to communicate with this ET life in our midst?

There is really need to think this way; there is need to change our approach; there is need to change the direction of our efforts in the search of ET life. We are in real need to adopt a new approach to the old problem of ET life and their supposed UFOs. Why should we confine our search to detect in far away places in universe (planets, satellites) things like carbon, oxygen, suitable elements and their compounds like water, and all else that are definitely necessary to sustain life here on earth? This is wrong approach to the problem. These requisites – which are supporting life on earth and hence are considered telltale signs of life elsewhere – are not the fundamental requirements of a life that may have spectrum broader than earth-life. Such a broader life would include earth-life as one of its many forms. This broad life would require four elements: firstly, a fundamental principle for its operation; secondly, its necessary components; thirdly, its various models or different possible combinations of these component parts; and lastly, an isolated and self-contained body fluid or ‘an integrated medium’, which could ‘house’ these three elements. Such a life would be material (and not spiritual) and have many kinds totally different from one another, though operating on the same fundamental principle.

We know only one model of life, that is, earth bound living beings’ families. Life is a system organization; it cannot be studied as an isolated event. In human body there are many systems and subsystems of life operating in tandem with one another. Living beings, their internal organ, cells and genes have their own life. Complete body as a single unit also has its own life. All these subsystems combined into a grand system have a particular model of life. This is not the only one model of life that is possible. There may be many more possible models of life. We may draw many more models parallel to our earthly life. Genes, in the form of DNAs, have a complete chemical code of life. This code is nothing but a particular ‘order’ of the two pairs of AT and GC in the DNA helix. The fundamental mechanism of storing the life program, or coding, is not the particular chemicals of DNA but the ‘order’ of these pairs. If you change the order of these pairs from one kind to another, you have a different code of life and then this new code would create a new form of our earthly life. Can this way, the chemical way, be the only one possible way of creating order or coding instructions for a life program? No, it cannot be so. What is crucial is the order and not the medium of this order. In computer software we code instructions of a program, which is not life program, by two electric quantities. There we have two entities and we create a definite order of them, which carries instructions of a program. This program could even be (to begin with) of a (simple) life; if we make an open-ended computer software that performs certain dedicated tasks (like self-preservation, self-duplication, domination of its surroundings etc.), then learns from its mistakes committed in countering unforeseen odds present in the operating environment and thereafter self corrects these mistakes by making necessary amendments in the initially given software, what we would have will be a simple program of life. We can draw a parallel of a new kind of life where the medium of creating this order is other than chemicals. We should look to find in our universe possibility of similar coding or ‘order’ with the aid of different kinds of media, which are available in universe in plenty.

Such an approach to the problem would indicate that a life is essentially a program of which instructions are coded. Looking at the problem from this approach, it is apparent that all forms of life must have a similar program but the instructions to execute this program may be coded by utilizing altogether different materials. We cannot limit this coding by the use of only chemical compounds that are familiarly used by DNAs of earth-life. However, there cannot be many differing programs for different kinds included in such a broad form of life present in universe. And, the mode of instructions executing the program of life would depend on the kind of materials used in the code; therefore, there must exist very many modes for coding these instructions (this supposition in favor of multiple modes is in accord with the law of abundance because there are many kinds of materials in abundant supply in Nature). In essence, these instructions must remain the same in different kinds of life to a mathematical precision but still their modes should be so different that they may look a totally different things altogether, that is, beyond any recognition of similarity. In some cases, a mode of these instructions may even look a phenomenon of inert world and we may not be able to recognize any sign of life in its operation, which in reality it might be there. In one case, this code may be structured by using chemical compounds, as we said is the case with DNA of earth life; in another case, it could equally be structured by using atoms, or even subatomic particles, as medium of code, which are in abundant supply like chemical compounds. And, it all could very well be ‘housed’ in a well contoured isolated and integrated energy field of a particular shape. In still another case, this code could be structured by using assemblies of stars and planets in the like manner; the list of materials which could be used as medium of instructions in a code of life may turn out to be really long; and the only requirement there for materials to be used as medium is their abundant supply in universe.

In this approach a program would determine the behaviour and the fate of the given kind of life. And, there we can definitely recognize the signature tune of life and define it in the broadest scope. This approach implies that any and every kind of life must be programmed in such a way that when its coded instructions are executed, its outcome should be an exhibition of common properties of life. What are these common properties of life? These could be enumerated thus: firstly, there must be a process of change that looks like birth, growth and death; secondly, there should occur an intake of energy from an outside source (this outside is only a relative term), which propels this process of change, that looks like food consuming and thirdly, there should happen a multiplication of the given system as additional beneficial outcome of the change-process, which may look like the procreation of the living being. These are the only common properties of life that should define it. Then, there is another very important question of its evolution. Because life is a process that looks like a struggle against deterministic regime of inert world around it, in its fighting strategy change is brought in the working mechanism of these three common properties that is termed by us ‘evolution’. This evolution, this change over a period of time, would make these three common properties of life no more so simple as to recognize them instantly by applying our standards of earthly life; evolution would bring great innovations in them making them greatly complex, which could turn out beyond our comprehension in wildest dream. ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000078.htm 2008-05-21T06:30:18Z 2008-05-21T06:30:18Z How to hasten NCZs ?

How to hasten the debute of NCZs on earth? It can be done by contributing our might to advance the cause on three fronts:

1) spreading the knowledge, particularly in various branches of fundamental science, extensively and intemsively. This can be done by establishing universities,colleges, institutes in different countries dedicated to the cause of knowledge and running on the model of NCZs ideals. These must be funded by awakened and enlightened ordinary peoples as against governments and corporates.

It can be done. It can be done. We would attract the best of human resources available on earth and would soon unearth the secrets of Nature, much more in potency and extent than produced by the shackeled science funded by corporate-houses' R and D departments and shaped by market forces.

Development of knowledge (or science) has always been critically dependant on human-resources than on capital. We can appeal to the good sense of enlightened scientists to join our NCZs universities and institutes. Of course, equipments and tools of modern science need money but that can be pooled from world-wide ordinary peoples resources, to begin with.

And, all individuals running the corporate giants are not opponents of a new civilization; there are always good people there too, who have no alternative but to be yoked to the nitty-grity of our current ill civilization; they may also come forward to help our initiative on knowledge front.

2) Helping the democratic self-governance of people worlwide by

A)supporting movements for establishing democracy, and

B) campaigning for the use of information technology for electing truely and constantly people's representatives, so that the distorting influence of money-power is eliminated in the matter of democratic self-governance. This element of our tasks needs urgency.

We must openly ask the question: why the electorate be not allowed to express their choices by means of the technology that is already available there and is surely fool-proof against an extreneous and impermissible influence of money in the matter of their choice of a representative?

It is a simple demand. It is logical demand. It is acutely needed today. It cannot be opposed on any ground. Let there be a movement for this demand in the democratic countries. Our current Information Technology is capable of meeting the challenge of faithfully expressing the true will or choice of electorates. It seems simple but once adopted will make a devastating effect on our ill-civilization.

3) uniting under one global movement seemingly dissimilar voices that oppose the current model of our reigning civilization. They seem to be disimilar because they individually address different issues, which are the problems produced by ill-mechanism of our current civilization. ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000077.htm 2008-05-21T06:27:02Z 2008-05-21T06:27:02Z Let us adopt a new Index of Development

It is the duty of international community of enlightened citizens to insist upon their respective national governments and the relevant international organizations to discard the old index of partial development, like Gross National Product, Per Capita Income, Rate of Growth of National Economy etc. etc., and to refine, define and adopt the Integral Index of Human Wellbeing. Judged by this new index many political communities that are regarded as highly developed ones would go down on the scale as merely developing ones because of the ill health of their citizens' emotional and mental beings and assault by their activities on Nature and conversely, and surprizingly, many others now regarded as under-developed or undeveloped would go up the scale. We would find their citizens are more happy and satisfied in their human existence and that they do not injure Nature (that includes Earth and its environment) in the least, unlike the today's developed ones. ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000076.htm 2008-05-21T06:21:12Z 2008-05-21T06:21:12Z Standard of development in New Civilization

Integrated human wellbeing of citizens and not their material affluence alone is the standard of progress and development, which only may be acceptable to New Civilization we are talking of all along in these pages. Material affluence of individuals or their nation is a crude and primitive standard of progress. All economics geared to accomplish this feat in individuals' or nations' life is hollow in its ideal and superficial in its achievement. The prime fruit of new civilization shall be the integrated well being of its citizens. This wellbeing is a concrete and objective thing, which can be measured. Affluence of a nation or of an individual is well studied subject of our old civilization and it is measured by its economics. What is an integrated human wellbeing? Can it be measured? Yes, it can also be measured by an objective test.

INDEX OF INTEGRATED HUMAN WELLBEING:
This index is a measure of human beings' individual and collective well being in relation to his self and to his surroundings. This index is the measure of health of 1) human 2) his own created circumstances in which he places himself; and 3) Nature. These three may be termed as 1) human self wellbeing 2) his material wellbeing; and 3) Earth's wellbeing.

Human wellbeing has three elements: 1) his physical well being 2) his emotional wellbeing; and 3) his mental wellbeing. All these three elements of human wellbeing are the subject matter of medical science and are well defined today by it. It is not the physical wellbeing alone, which is the disease-free state of human body, that consumes the entire spectrum of human wellbeing. One has to be emotionally healthy also, which is distinct from though connected to the physical wellbeing of humans, to be really adjudged as having made progress or development. And then, it is not these two elements alone that are necessary for an integrated wellbeing. We have to secure to our citizens the mental wellbeing also before we can claim our society has made a progress.
Material wellbeing has three elements, viz. 1) Production - gross national wealth indicator of the given society 2) Distribution - indicator of this wealth's distribution among its citizens; and 3) citizens' wealth consumption indicator.
Nature's wellbeing also has three elements; 1) Negative impact of human beings' activities on Nature 2) Sustainable or neutral impact of these activities on Nature' and 3) Positive impact of them on Nature, that is, these activities not only conserve Nature's health and state but they further suppliment or augument them. Nature's well being has direct bearing on human wellbeing and is a very important element of integrated human wellbeing or his true progress, which our egoistic society is vainly claimimg to have made. New civilization Zones, as and when established even in an scattered fashion here and there on Earth, would be the only place to secure this true progress to their citizens. Our present civilization, which is given to produce imbalanced material affluence and accompanying social conflicts in the society, give birth to disturbed emotional and mental state of its citizens as the concomitant byproduct of this material affluence and injure the health of Nature (Earth's environment) can never provide this true progress to its citizens.
]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000075.htm 2008-05-21T06:18:27Z 2008-05-21T06:18:27Z A call to create New Civilization Zones !

I. What is a New Civilization Zone?

NCZ is a goal-oriented community. This goal is the conscious evolution of human beings. The tool of this conscious evolution is knowledge – knowledge in the form of science and technology . This tool – knowledge - helps the human evolution at their collective and individual livings. At the collective living, it is done by subordinating the desire-dominated man-made institutions to the dispassionate discipline of knowledge. There, it helps in planning efficient self-governance in every sphere of human activity. Such planning ensures the saving of human-energy from wastful social conflicts. This saved energy when ploughed back to the common benefits of the society, provides people leisure-hours, high standard of life and peaceful life. These three things enable human beings to turn towards spirit. This collective turning towards spirit helps the evolution gain acceleration. In this way, the community is helped by knowledge in providing more freedom to its members,enabling them to become more efficient in the matter of their democratic self-governance and thereby making them available collectively a cultural ambience that is condusive to turn towards spirit. At the individual living, a person is helped by knowledge – or science – in understanding brain, mind, paranormal phenomena etc. and realize the existence of mysterious spirit, its world and laws.

New Civilization Zones are visualized democratic local communities of sponteneous growth, spreading slowly all over the world. From their very birth, these communities are seen motivated by the spirit of rebellion against the organized immoral force of multinational business corporations operating in tandem with nation-states, which adversely affect individuals’ spiritual well-being and communities’ social harmony. These communities are seen pursuing in different countries vastly different localized objectives of their initiative but still they are seen globally a single force united in certain common and well defined basic principles.

One of the most important halmarks of these communities is that they do not require for their birth and growth an outside initiative by an external force. They do not need the support of some conspiratorial organizational planning at national or international level.

In their birth they are seen sponteneous though geographically scattered in different places but thereafter they must grow further in their location, number and power.

Also, it is seen as a slow social process taking place over decades, which may run into centuries to overpower the present civilization. This process is seen fuelled by today’s deep discontent of human spirit and her disapproval of inafficient and wasteful institutions of our civilization. This rejection on the part of mankind seems the sheer historical necessity of our times in the evolutionary march of mankind.

The smallest New Civilization Zone may consist a single individual but to survive it must grow further into a communitity. This Zone is seen as an embroyo of a sovereign habitation of human beings governed by its own laws and far superior in institutions to the old world’s economics and culture. They must grow out of their miniscule size of a few individuals to a status of democratically controlling governments of villages, cities and eventually entire nations.The key to their defense against the strangulation by the old world lies in their superiority of number and capability.

II. The basic principles of New Civilization Zones:

1. NCZ, a community empowered by knowledge:
The community puts the highest premium on knowledge and assigns a grading to different branches of knowledge according to their relative importance to human life. The top slot goes to the human spirit. In these zones individuals are guaranteed the peace of one’s inner life against encroachments by uncalled for economic and political intrusion. In these zones, persons leading their peaceful inner spiritual life are regarded a valuable social asset, as being the fountain of social morality and good of fellow human beings and in return of this valuable contribution by them they are guaranteed means of sustainance without any further demand by molesting them with economic and political pressures. The second grade of knowledge in importance is Science. Out of the best available stuff of community, which has no inclination to pursue spirit’s demand, would be deployed to study science and uncover the mysteries of Nature. Next to the first slot, the highest respect of the community goes to scientists. The fruits of their labor are not available for sale, inside NCZs or outside to the old world. The contribution in the form of edge-technology made by the scientists is exclusively community’s asset, which would be a closely guarded community’s secret (and would be an important element in defending the community against coersion by the outside – old – world). In return for this valuable social contribution, these people would be guaranteed the best of the available means of life’s sustainance. The third slot in importance goes to commercial activities. These activities may be planned by the scientists so as to suserve the best interests (mind the grading here) of people and would include elements of planned production, distribution and consumption. The rest of the community that is not able to come up to the first three gradings would be a valuable human resource to be deployed that may be needed by the community in pursuit of its first three goals.

2. NCZ, a community of more freedom:
The zones are able to provide more economic freedom to individuals by eliminating the immoral element of cornering profits by those who plan and control economic engine in the old world. This is done by planning the three basic elements of economy: production; distribution; and consumption. The consumption element is guided by informed incentive; distribution element is controlled by community; and production element is planned to meet consumption- needs by scientific combination of human and natural resources for optimum output (no watage of human-energy in the form of unemployment etc. finds place in these NCZs). In NCZs production is a creative enjoyment. These communities are also able to provide more political freedom by employing the information-technology in constantly expressing the will of people in the matter of self-governance. These zones would be transparently self-governed by the available technology and zealously guard themselves against manipulation by money-power (which power would be under social scan and control). Also, these zones would transcend archaic monoliths of religions into the modern day systematic inquiry into things spiritual and thereby provide more cultural freedom.

3. NCZ, a community of less needs:
While the dissemination of information of whatsoever nature would be the backbone of these communities, advertisements to psychologically lure people to unnecessary needs would face non-cooperation and buycot by the community. Such activities would be starved of public's response and rendered meaningless.

4. NCZ, a community ensuring its defense by expanding into and absorption of the old world:
This growth and expansion are the sine qua non for the suvival of these zones against the hostile old world. There is a plain truth expressed in these columns, which is long and consistently recognized by leaders of mankind in different ages. It is the force of this truth that would surely find resonance within secret chambers of hearts of billions of ordinary people through out the world and get amplified over a period of time in the form of a compelling global demand by them for an alternative civilization. NCZs are nothing but this alternative civilization.

5. NCZ, a community owing alligiance to an alternative world and civilization:
By their very definition, NCZs are rival to today’s sovereign nation states. They aspire to absorb and eliminate the modern day nation states (which establish their hegamony by deceitful, immoral and brute force of violence and money, and supress a justified human spirit’s aspiration for real freedom). These zones rely on the power of people as against that of state. They promote decentralized lacalism as against centrlized multinationalism. They assert the rights of individual over community, of community over nation and of nation over the globe that is united to usurp individual’s freedom. These Zones make their own political constitutions and laws to govern them as islands amid the ocean of this old world. They print their own local money to give them financial security and stability. They recruit their own police to enforce their laws.
]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v463/__show_article/_a000463-000067.htm 2007-02-19T13:30:44Z 2007-03-29T15:10:43Z Hey rebel ! get free of the cobweb !!

You work for a living. You work and work hard. It is good. But the bad thing is that you work not in the interest of your own self but of others. You are working in a small organization – an organization always given to earn money and make profits – that is in mortal competition with other bigger such organizations. Or, you are working for a bigger one, which is in life and death competition with the still bigger ones. In their scheme of things your life – a supremely precious thing to you – finds no place at all. Even if they seem to care for you, they care for you because they care for their own profits more. You really work hard – almost all the time available to live your life – just only to be able to pay your bills, which are the necessities of your life, and to sustain your life in the needed working condition. You are a slave. If you do not relish this cobweb, in which you are entrapped, you are a rebel. Hey rebel ! get free your life out of this cobweb. But how?

You live in a democratic country. You are fed on the intoxicating dose of a supposed great nation. You elect your own government that rules you. You are made to believe you rule yourself. You are called upon to make sacrifice for your nation. It is good thing. But the bad thing is that you do not elect your government. The truth is that you are made to elect a government. The trick of the trade is money. The money manipulates democracy – lobbying, media and all the dirty money games. Money elects a government and the government provides protection to money. In their scheme of things, you as a person do not count anywhere. If they seem to care your life, worries and rebellious thoughts, it is because they care more for their money. It is a cobweb of modern democracy. If you have got wind of this snare, you are a rebel. Hey rebel, get free of this cobweb, which is indeed very strong. But how?

You have this your life. It is precious like no other thing. You do not live your life, you spend it and spend it serving the selfish interests of others. If you spend your life attending to and caring for your inner inclinations and urge, it is good. But if you do not live your life for your own sake but spend the same catering to the selfish interests of other people, it is bad. If you feel your precious life is being wasted in this manner, you are a rebel. Hey rebel, get you free of this cobweb. But how?
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