We all grew on Gaia's breasts, our Mother teaches us what's best!
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The Citizens of Earth are individuals who are conscious of the Oneness of human soul. We regard the diversity of nations, races, material culture, social superstructures, intellectual progress, and technological evolution merely as manifestations of the Unity of human soul in local environment in relation to the spirit of a certain age.
Our goal is to spread the consciousness of the Oneness of human soul, aiming to implement it in every bit of planet Earth.
Before man created his civilization, his private heaven and his private earth, human soul existed in the Oneness. In the entirety. Everything was one man. Differences between people did not matter. The exclusive attachment to one’s heaven and earth led to the loss of connection with the Oneness. Suddenly, a man was no longer One; he fell on the Earth and started to carry its visage. The belonging to humankind, the humanness faded away and people started to pay attention to differences, caused between them by attachment to and detachment from one’s private heaven and earth. The attached man started to regard the detached man as a savage, and himself as a civilized man. The behaviour of people increasingly began to be dictated by property. And people started to withdraw from nature, whereby the consciousness of the Oneness of human soul began to break down.
Furthermore, the attachment to one’s own heaven and earth created boundaries and property and generated agreements about the demarcations and about the flow and exchange of goods, which in turn led to the formation of law. This gave rise to materialism or the materialistic conception of life. In nature, spirit and matter are balanced, while in the attached man matter prevails over spirit.
When matter and spirit are balanced, one does not fear loss, as one continuously adapts to circumstances by maintaining this balance. On the other hand, the attached man is afraid of loss. He has disproportionately more material things, so his spirit in not sufficient to balance them. Therefore, he is overwhelmed by the fear of losing his material possessions and therefore, he becomes even more attached to them. The matter, which is not in balance with the spirit, which is more abundant that the spirit, caused man to compare himself with other people and later to start competing with them: whose property is nicer and better, and who is happier?
But every person finds themselves in a position where he doesn’t come first. He cannot always come first, even though he once did.
When matter and spirit are balanced, time and space do not exist. They are balanced everywhere, and in every moment, they adapt to each other to create a new balance. The situation is different if they are imbalanced. In this case, an imbalanced space comes into being, waiting to get balanced again. A man who possesses the most excellent heaven and the most excellent earth is so attached to them that he cannot dismantle them. As soon as troubles occur, when everything begins to slide toward natural balance, the man tries to prevent this, beginning to think even about claiming the private heaven and earth of his neighbour, rather than to confront the decline calmly. But the neighbour is attached to his heaven and his earth as well, so they start to solve the problem with a violent confrontation and the destruction of the adversary.
However, in this way the man loses connection with the Oneness of human soul. He demonized his neighbour, he made him a degenerate animal, only to justify his taking of the other’s property and injuring or even murdering a fellow man. Thus, he set himself in the role of a monopolist, as being the only one possessing human soul, while all others are uncivilized animals, or lesser humans at the most. Materialism represents the imbalance of spirit and matter in favour of matter. The imbalance of spirit and matter in favour of spirit in turn is an illusion. Idealism and realism are two paths or views: idealism from the material towards the spiritual and realism from the spiritual towards the material. The balance between spirit and matter is a state of nothing – when nothing stands out.
Contemporary civilized man is characterized by distinctive materialism. He accumulates the matter endlessly, either to possess as much as possible or to possess the latest stuff. In his attachment to material things, he sees security, but he does not realize that excess matter offers no more security than a millstone to a swimmer. He justifies his material attachment with life necessity, whereby he systematically ignores any proposition to at least try to get rid of his extreme attachment to material things.
The attachment to material things is mental, emotional, and physical. When mental attachment prevails, one simply cannot imagine living without a certain material thing. When emotional attachment prevails, one simply does not want to live without a certain material thing. When physical attachment prevails, one simply cannot live without a certain material thing. Imagine a man who is attached to his car to the extent that he cannot imagine living without it. The prevailing mental attachment to the car is shown in that this person does not move anywhere without his car, he does not walk anywhere, he does not take a bus, he does not use any other means of transportation and strongly believes that there is no other option. The prevailing emotional attachment is shown in that this person has more emotions for his car than he does for his family members. Finally, the prevailing physical attachment is shown in that this person understands and feels his car as a part of his body; he feels it even more than he feels his own body.
All the above-mentioned types of attachment to material goods go way back. Instead of bringing happiness, material things become a burden. Attachment makes people fear defeat, pain, and loss. And when the course of events makes them experience something like that, it is precisely the extreme attachment to material goods that causes them more difficulty dealing with falls and losses and have a hard time explaining to themselves that these falls and defeats are part of the natural flow of events. By way of attachment to material goods people have created their own flow of events, which they have adapted to their own material desires.
Through his attachment to his earth and his heaven and since property began to dictate behaviour and thus values, man also created the cult of his physical body. Attachment caused property to become the ideal to which he devoted all his spirit to begin with and then used it to give form to his matter to make it the image of the property itself. This was mostly reflected in his physical body. In this way, man began to worship a chiselled muscular body, certain parts of body, his mind, or his artefacts, only to enhance his attachment. Man invented his own rules about what is beautiful and what is not, what is good and what is not, what is desired and what is not. No more does he allow the natural flow of events to determine and shape life. Man wants a life according to his template, which he is constantly adapting to increase his attachments rather than resolving them. And once his life begins to withdraw from the template he is used to, he feels lost. Even more, he cannot and does not want to adapt and abandon his attachment; instead, he forces it upon everyone and invents reasons to perpetuate it.
Naturally, such man is not at peace, nor is he happy. But he found his way. He began to lie to himself that he was happy, to show off proofs of his happiness, his useless material goods. He invented delighting in prestige as a proof of his calmness or peace. But he raised his soul above the Oneness of human soul, as if he were the only person in the world to possess it. He broke down the Oneness of human soul in himself to make it the Uniqueness of his own soul. He is not the only one, he has a neighbour, who did precisely the same, only in a slightly different manner because of his own attachment to his heaven and his earth. They both have a third neighbour, who did the same thing, again in his own manner.
It is not difficult to understand what material attachment brings about. It is not about the essential need for food and water. It is about the food we could give to the other, but we eat it ourselves, even though our body quickly eliminates it as excess. It is not about water we urgently need ourselves; it is about the water we could give to someone suffering from thirst.
Material attachment because of imbalance between spirit and matter in favour of the latter made people numb and lacking compassion. When a material thing gets broken or when one is deprived of it, it is worse and evokes more sadness than when a person gets hurt. Here lies a contradiction of the materialistic world. A material thing becomes more important than its owner. And because of his attachment the owner becomes its captive.
How many proprietors are there whose amazing material goods become more important than they themselves are? The proprietor possesses more than enough and even more than that, but he does not own the spirit for all the matter he possesses. He cannot hide this matter from thieves, usurers, corrupted officials, from no one. They’re all after him just like vampires, each in their own way. On top of that, such a proprietor does not want to acknowledge the actual situation.
Therefore, when it comes to societies with explicit imbalance between matter and spirit in favour of the former, despite all the abundance of material goods we can hardly talk about real inner freedom, which is only provided by maintaining balance between spirit and matter. Materialistic society maintains the imperative of wealth as a contrast to freedom. In a materialistic society one can only be free if they are wealthy. The contradiction lies in the fact that the materialistic society in its core is a result of maintaining the imbalance between matter and spirit and it puts pressure on the spirit to make it perish as if it had never existed at all.
In spiritual sense, defeat is merely the loss of unnecessary matter and adaptation to a new situation. The materialistic world does not want a new situation, it does not want to lose anything, and very often it does not want to significantly adapt its form. In the unchanged matter, which is nothing else but the death of the spirit, it sees its eternity. In spiritual sense, even the worst defeat is just an episode. For the materialistic world, on the other hand, defeat is not an option, therefore it generates the most extreme incentives. On Earth we are familiar with wars, frauds, murders, massacres slavery etc. Such incentives arise precisely because of our attachment to matter and our inability to adapt.
In this sense, the weapons are a mere connivance for the materialistic world to not adapt and to maintain its attachment like a parasite. It is the materialistic world that bets on the weapons – biological weapons to murder whole races, chemical weapons to destroy whole landscapes, and atomic weapons to kill all life. It is the materialistic world that needs the crudest of means, stun guns, handguns, automatic weapons, unlimited powers, and exemption from the law.
The materialistic world boasts about material and technological progress. However, the problem is that this progress is not accompanied and supplemented by corresponding spirit. The result is similar as if a monkey was given the trigger of a rocket launcher. The monkey will not be aware of what it is doing. Today’s wars, which are triggered by the material world, are no different. The material world makes sure the monkey is sufficiently incited, disoriented and manipulated to pull the trigger. It also makes sure that the rocket launcher does not show it originates from the materialistic world, and that it is not within reach of the rocket launcher so that only the matter it does not possess is damaged.
Such uncontrolled and jealousy-driven outbursts of sheer lunacy will come to an end. Humankind will surpass it in a big way! It is not about a conflict between two lions for their living space in a savannah. The materialistic world does not crave space, it craves matter. While the triumphant lion will only chase away the loser and let him find another space, the materialistic world is not satisfied with victory alone; it wants to rob the loser of his spirit or life itself. It is only satisfied when the loser is dead. It keeps on shooting the corpse until it kills the last spark of life.
There’s a Slovenian proverb, saying: “May the neighbour’s cow die!” In the materialistic world this saying would be: “May everyone’s cow die and may all their fodder rot on top of that!” Anything to prevent the materialist to release his attachment, albeit slightly. Regardless of his power, he is infantile and retarded in his core and in his attitude. And time is telling him increasingly that he will have to grow up and evolve.
The materialistic world, which unhesitatingly seizes the arms as soon as something goes wrong, is defeated within. But the world of illusionists with its attachment to illusions, which are in fact unfounded ideals, gives it the appearance of a triumph. Communism failed, didn’t it? And didn’t many of the highest-ranking communists became the keenest capitalists, even though they possessed everything from the illusionary communist world: they were untouchable, they held leadership positions and had free disposal of public (then social) means?
Extreme materialism, on the other hand, triggers extreme illusiveness. Thus, it is not surprising that the birth of the great capitalism with its mass production approximately coincides with the birth of communism. Both communism and capitalism are originally related especially to the so-called West, both are originally a product of German and British society, two of the most representative societies of today’s capitalist West.
Why does extreme materialism pose a problem for people? Most of all, materialism propagates society with individually expressed animal instinct for survival. Doing this, people contradict themselves, when external factors of immediate danger to life are lacking, while mind and programmed emotions artificially perpetuate it as a kind of real, but artificially induced state – such is the case of Cold War. In the long term, such perpetuation of endangerment leads to the loss of ideals and nihilism. The expectations to achieve quite ordinary life goals decrease. In this way, the material society maintains its matter in the original form and size, but in the long term it derogates human evolution.
This is evident primarily in the lost childhoods of the materialistic world. Children are void, they don’t have ideas, they are too institutionalized and have a limited knowledge of life. Even children from underprivileged areas, who are deprived of many goods, well-being, health, and safety, often have spiritually richer childhoods than those in materialistic societies. That is because the materialistic world thinks and feels instead of people, and due to automatization and robotization it often even works instead of them; therefore, many people severely lack the will to live. What then is the meaning of man in the material world? In such a world, nobody needs either emotions or mind, and one is often unwelcome and redundant, useful merely as a working animal, being fed and bred as one.
For its main devotees, the materialistic world is supposed to allow enjoyment and leisure; everything should be done by others. But if we do not sustain our bodies with physical and mental labour, it becomes stunted, it rots and dies off. On the other hand, extreme idealists offer models according to which society should function and in fact they equate their goal with the goal of the materialistic world, which is to achieve perpetuity.
In the universe, the only perpetual thing is the changing from one form to another. The same is true for the Oneness of human soul. Everything is in motion and in flow. Everything is born, lives and dies. And then after death the spirit again takes over the abandoned matter, plays with it and endows it with a new life. However, in a civilized man the problem of attachment to matter arose, because even after death he does not wish to surrender it to a new life cycle, since he has reduced his spirit due to his attachment to that matter. And in this way certain life scenarios or collective behaviours repeat themselves.
What is it that reduces the attachment to matter? More spirit. How do we feel that? We feel it as love. The spirit itself is not love; we feel love as a force that brings matter and spirit into balance. But the path towards love, which is the path towards balance, is most unusual. In a materialistic person who has more concerns and duties than he can handle, the path of love is the path of loss of money and wealth. The path of loss of the redundant matter is like losing weight; it can be even more drastic, like starving or cutting of the rotten flesh, depending on the individual. However, it does not help much if the individual, after being treated, returns to his old ways. The balancing makes no sense if we don’t eliminate the reasons for imbalance.
It is also love when an extreme idealist is trying out a certain ideal very obstinately, and then he hits the wall. This is called the blessing of a negative experience. Experience is a teacher, who is only successful if the pupil is willing to learn.
It is love that makes one think in the right direction, but one needs to be willing to do that and understand the hopelessness of his practice, discard it, and open himself for a new one.
In the materialistic world, however, where one way or another everything has lost its original meaning, love is usually a consumer good, limited to its material traits. Through pressure, overturning the original meanings, lies, and subtle violence the materialist world then additionally causes the word love to mean everything but its original essence. The word love in the materialistic world is conditioned: I only love you when you give; when you don’t, I hate you. Furthermore, the word love in the materialistic world is imposed: something that is fundamentally repulsive, must be accepted; and something that is natural, must be made artificial or stupid or embellished.
Love in the materialistic world is also overrated when something unworthy is given exaggerated value.Love in the materialistic world is illusory. We crave it because we don’t have it. Therefore, it is like a hallucination of a person suffering from thirst in the desert. We seek it in naked bodies, alcohol, drugs, obsessions such as video and computer games and numbers on our bank accounts. We seek it in all the places where we have lost it and where we will not find it, everywhere outside ourselves.
In the materialistic world it is easier to find love in its opposition. The very beginning of the materialistic world, which is the beginning of man’s attachment to his heaven and his earth, quickly gave rise to the opposite of love, which we call animosity. A man became jealous of another, because the other had his little garden of Eden, his heaven and his earth that were more pleasing to the eye and more appealing to the heart. He started to wonder what it would be like if he were to possess his neighbour’s little garden.
Therefore, people need to build monumental structures that reach the skies and beyond and weigh as much as a country and are built by masses of builders; to rape the Earth with water diversions to bear more.A person who has succumbed to jealousy can no longer find peace. He has become a refugee in his own life, in everything he does. He is like a man who cannot find his home.
Jealousy is like darkness, observing plants and animals from afar, how they get lively in the light of the sun. The darkness would also want to be lively, but it denies itself, because it would have to go into the light; therefore, it denies its need for liveliness. But self-denial gives birth to hatred, which is self-hatred, but it is inevitably projected onto others. Jealousy is the force that tears the Oneness of human soul the most and gives it reasons to do so. Jealousy is like darkness that never shows its real face.
In the materialistic world it is much easier to talk about darkness than about light, it is easier to talk about jealousy than about love, because darkness and jealously are much more tangible and present. Jealousy is like darkness that lets light shine on it for a while, and then when the light gets too bright, darkness stabs its back. Jealousy is like dead silence that lets other mouth to speak on its behalf, but when the speaking becomes too personal and increasingly draws attention to it, it will poison that mouth. Jealousy believes in magic formulas, which are nothing more but shortcuts, and usually delusive. Until these magic formulas bring it victories, everything is fine, and it ridicules the whole world.
Jealousy is like a super kind daddy, donating material things and spoiling everyone, but once he is exposed, he immediately devastates the whole realm and leaves it. Jealousy is like the saintliest of women, the embodiment of nobility and beauty, but when one wants to touch what lies beneath her makeup, one suddenly finds oneself on a hazardous waste site.
The attitude of the Citizens of Earth toward religion is that they support everyone in their original faith. Nowadays religion is mainly an adornment, useful in politics, economy and for personal benefits, but it is drifting far away from its original message. All original forms of religions evoked, practised, and used the consciousness of the Oneness of human soul. Particularly under the influence of the materialistic world, however, the original spirit of religion vanished, and in addition to that, religions split up because they fell prey to “false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15).
The consciousness of the Oneness of human soul does not help if the believer does not understand the essence of his teacher’s story. He is like a man carrying a burden without any goal or knowledge why he is carrying it and what purpose his religion serves. For him it is very often not even a secondary option to implement his religion as close to that of his teacher. The materialistic world contributes to this, creating conditions for thwarting the original meaning of religion, rather than implementing it in the spirit of its original teacher.
The Citizens of Earth encourage everyone to carry out and finish anything they have took upon themselves and begun. Thus, we also encourage religious people to take their faith seriously and improve it within themselves, rather than wasting this part of their life before they even fully recognize and employ it.
The problem of religions is almost the same everywhere: the abuse of deep trust of believers by religious institutions. This is best shown in wars and war industry as well as in means and people used in both world wars, when the most intimate feelings of whole nations were abused for the most horrid goals, whereby religious institutions offered no help to people neither did they protect their religious ideals. Another area that is strongly characterized by the loss of faith are human relations, both personal and in business. Everything is simply being solved through force and money, which in fact means sweeping problems under the carpet or the masking them with tons of adornment.
Money is poor consolation for disastrous human relations. We are witnessing flourishing of lawsuits where people demand millions to compensate for their sterile childhoods and vain youth, but they lack a deeper effort to figure things out and fundamentally change their relations. The foundation, of course, is religion.
A materialist has his religion, too. As long as this religion delivers, he is fervently devoted to it: he believes in stock exchange speculation, illegal practices, risky business ignoring ethics and law; he believes in sowing the seeds of war and creating conflict, he believes in hypocrisy and insidiousness as tried and effective methods. When he is in a deadlock, such materialist needs to face his religion and experience it from the other side. However, materialism in nothing but the opposite of true faith as well, it is a systematic scoffing of faith. All original forms of religion evoke the Oneness of human soul.
For man, the most natural attitude toward the environment is to be one with it as well as with everything existing in it. If man is one with the environment, he feels the breaking of a grass blade as breaking of his own bone. That is natural. Under his heaven and on his earth, it doesn’t hurt him when radioactive liquid manure, mixed with caustic chemicals, is being poured onto the fields, into the streams, forests, and seas. He could feel it, but instead he makes himself numb to feel nothing and gets drunk to the point of unconsciousness. He fills his body with drugs and ruins his organs, so that they can no longer tell him that something unwanted is taking place.
The environment that is being created by people themselves is merely a projection of the moment in which people got stuck, in which they have lost their energy, have gotten attached to the matter, and now they are trying to save themselves, even though they are proclaiming unbelievable and unique progress. The poisoning of nature originates in people’s attitude towards themselves. They poison and fill themselves with all kinds of remedies and they do the same with nature. The reason they do that is merely to escape from themselves.
In many ways people are experimenting with planet Earth. They want to know what it would be like if ozone really disappeared. They know they would most probably die. Therefore, they first build a suitable living space that would allow them to survive, and then they would still want to try what it’s really like, but not on themselves, of course. They’d rather try it on their neighbour or their neighbour’s neighbour or on someone from very far away.
They want to know what it would be like if cities with millions of people really drowned in waste. Of course, they’d prefer to see this happen to their neighbours while they’d run into a safe shelter.
All this only shows attachment to the matter that is so strong that they cannot adapt to changes in nature, therefore they violate it to survive.
In many ways, the maladies of our materialistic age are the result of our diet, i.e., eating poor food. Immense quantities of food are imported from all over the world. Bananas from Africa, oranges from the Mediterranean, coffee from South America, tomatoes from Asia etc. However, homegrown, local food is the most appropriate for us. The reason for this is simple. A physical body adapts best to local environment if it incorporates substances, minerals, and proteins from its local environment Plants and animals that thrive in a certain environment allow for the highest survival rate in that environment. The first step in adapting life and thus one’s own physical body in a specific environment is local food.
Local producers are aware of the consequences of food production. They grow food with such awareness, and they know that not everything is good enough for other people’s mouths. Producers growing food in faraway countries do not possess such awareness, or at least not to such extent.
Another important aspect of food production is the exposure of fields to pests, mould, weeds, and other natural factors. In mass production people simply solve this problem by throwing tons of poisons on their fields. Because they know what they put into the soil, they prefer not to eat the food grown there. Technologically, food industry with the opportunity to feed people always is still a miracle of the materialistic world.
Again, this is a problem of materialistic attachment to one’s own success that generated jealousy. Man does not even allow another to try a different way and destroys another’s local food production with his technology. Technological food production is largely mechanized, automated, supported by a wide range of fertilizers, poisons, and other chemicals. All this comes at a price. On the other hand, locally produced food from the third world does not reach for records, doesn’t use spectacular machinery and magic chemicals; instead, people mostly work with their bare hands. Their local produce is tastier and more nutritious, but it cannot be massive.
And so, the war between Cain and Abel flares up again. The Lord accepts a better fruit from Abel’s calloused hands, while he doesn’t even want to see the fruit produced by Cain’s machinery. Cain’s countenance falls, he gets angry with his brother and sends a contubernium of lawyers to propose the most ideal solution to the conflict which would benefit all.
A man who does not care what he eats, does not care what kind of emotions he entertains within and what he gives away, either. Rotten food arouses rotten emotions, empty and poor-quality food does not arouse generosity, food that is too spicy arouses exaggeration, weeds arouse envy. Poisoned food poisons hearts. But the greatest problem with this is that people today just do not care.
Another problem with food is the extreme consumption of very spicy food and imbalanced diet. The authentic taste of foods also contains the taste of the soil in which the food has grown. Through food we connect with the earth itself.
The meat we eat is no longer acquired in a natural way. Long time ago, the killing of an animal was dictated by hunger. Man had to descend to the level of animals, to become an animal that has eaten an animal. It was a struggle for survival. At that time, people still had conscience, they were grateful to animals that gave life to preserve theirs. The essential thing is that humans were able to maintain balance between spirit and matter. Nowadays there is no gratitude, therefore the diet of meat and meat produce lacks balance. Especially in the materialistic world, too much meat is consumed. But the surplus of meat protein does not make us feel stronger and safer; the opposite is true. Together with meat we ingest animals’ mortal fear. We eat more meat than we need and since we want to keep it, we do not excrete it; instead, we build it into our bodies together with fear. Together with fat, protein, and muscle we also accumulate animals’ mortal fear.
Simultaneously a part of the materialistic world, being addicted to meat and acting as a reservoir for all sorts of superfluous food, is struggling within, because other people do not have the food to survive. On one hand, there is a world struggling with obesity and wasting food, on the other hand there are people suffering from hunger.
Forests are the lungs of the planet in a physical sense, providing oxygen. The materialistic world is able to come up with a solution to artificially produce oxygen in labs, therefore all forests on the planet can be cut down and forgotten.
Today’s people in the materialistic world have turned against forests. On one hand, many objects are made of excellent wood. It is used on a magnificent scale: several doors in every home, furniture, floors, walls, roofs; it is used in almost every industrial plant. Then there are wooden doors in administrative buildings, kindergartens, and schools. In various institutions, healthcare centres, municipality buildings, police stations, barracks, banks, there are wooden doors everywhere. How many trees did we have to cut down to have them? And then there is wood for windows, tables, chairs, and railings, as well as wood for heating and paper. How much wood do 500 million people need for all this consumption?
Things are changing due to the technological development and in many places wood is being replaced by synthetic materials while digitalization is slowly superseding the use of paper. But on the other hand, there is a forest of trees, being destroyed by humans. Tall trees grow for years and decades, some of them are centuries old. Four-hundred years old trees have survived 16 to 20 generations. Such trees are symbols of adaptation and survival in nature. Trees suffer from many things. Oscillations of water levels they need to absorb through their roots to survive, availability of minerals that are their building blocks, the changing light and temperatures, parasitic plants, and animals, breaking of their neighbouring trees, felling and many more. Trees cannot defend themselves, as they have no arms to help themselves, but they survive anyway. They can only rely on their inner strength.
Destroying forests because of their arrogant desires, people are on a losing streak. Longevity is one of the essential traits of forests, and together with forests, people are losing a living memory of their ancestors. They are losing faith in their inner strength because they are destroying the very thing that is founded in the inner strength. Defying time, trees and forests symbolize a real, constructive entrepreneurial approach. Nowadays people mostly rely on immediate, often treasonous profits and the biggest companies are breaking faster than the most putrid of trees in the forest.
Attachment in the materialistic world is not limited to matter. Even humans are increasingly being viewed as matter, objects, things, property, puppets. Therefore, a human being “adheres” physically to another human being, a friend “adheres” to their friend, a family member to another family member, a partner to their partner. Consequently, man suffers from significant oscillations in relations of other people towards him: at first, he is the greatest hero in the world, then, often shortly after that, he is a great coward. First, he is extremely popular, then he is most hated, first, he is the most handsome, shortly after that he is the ugliest. Children are a special issue. Being viewed as material objects, they are often surrounded by society and parents who love them more than anyone in the world. They would do anything for them, but very often the problem is that children do not need what they are being given by their parents and by society.
By making a child a material object of worship or an idol, they often rob him of his childhood and youth. They also transfer their frustration onto him. The more they attach their children to themselves, the more they hinder their path to independence. Parents and society should empower children for life, not impart to them unhealthy hypersensitivity which cripples them in every way. Very often parents and society are not aware of the mistakes they make. Even when they begin to be aware of them, they try to find excuses not to face those mistakes.
In the materialistic world economy is the primary topic and everything revolves around it. Economy is not disputable, if it serves our natural needs. It becomes a problem when it starts to serve its own purpose. When people already have too much of everything, they just cannot cease to come up with ideas what else they would like to have. In this sense we can talk about addiction to wealth which is next to insane. In predatory economy which is characteristic for large economic systems in the materialistic world, people become exceedingly addicted to these economic systems, they turn into slaves of products and become trapped in an endless circle of economy for economy’s sake. It has become obvious or even natural for people to behave unethically and criminally. When the interests of a large economic system are at stake, a different approach is even understood as a weakness. Furthermore, they are attached to the success-winning methods to the extent where they cannot even notice the shaky ground beneath their feet and the abyss lying ahead. Moreover, they intentionally don’t want to notice them to avoid decreasing their profits.
Economy is the domain where human arrogant lunacy is the most evident. In the materialistic world, the economy on the institutional level is another name for war. In case of excessive attachment to large economic systems, the social system is not important, be it capitalism, socialism, feudalism, or slave society. It is a never-ending story where wealth is monopolized by a handful of lunatics who turn economy into war: legal war, street war, tribal war, local war, civil war, and world war and then all over again from the start.
In the materialistic world, peace is wrongly equated with stupor. When one speaks about peace, they often mean a frozen state of stupor. And stupor generates restlessness. Stupor is often designated as artificial peace. Stupor doesn’t mean peace, very often it is just an excuse to reduce natural vivacity. On the other hand, people crush stupor with disorderly attitude behaviour. In such world, people are often torn between two unnatural extremes: stupor and disorderly attitude. When stupefied, people want liveliness, but the only way they know to achieve it is to surrender to disorderly attitude: by doing this however, they do not eliminate the reasons of stupor.
When there’s disorderly attitude, they want peace, which in fact they consider stupor. Real peace is unrelated to the outside world, it is an inner state. Peace is the balance of spirit and matter, and the essence of this balance is the ability to adapt to external changes. When one maintains their inner peace, it doesn’t matter whether there is stupor or disorderly attitude outside.
Therefore, it is not surprising that wars, clashes, and conflicts do not occur for the sake of inner peace, but because of external establishing of either stupor or disorderly attitude. Nor is it surprising that many conflicts go on for decades or even centuries. In such conflicts there is no inner balance, rather there is stupor or disorderly attitude according to external materialistic interest. In such environment, claims and talks about peace are void. They show that people are incapable of achieving and maintaining their inner peace or even unwilling to do so. Effective reaching for peace doesn’t bother about a thing, even if there’s a world war going on around the corner.
When people talk about how they crave peace, they are not interested in establishing it from within, therefore they expect it from others or try to persuade others to establish a certain state to make them happy. Almost invariably blabbering about peace is indicative of people who act in the opposite direction. Peace is the capacity of inner rather than external strength. Tyrants and people who are obsessed with material things don’t possess it and they seek it. But when they should manifest peace themselves, they fail because they don’t want to give up their attachment to material goods.
For the Citizens of Earth there is only one state on this planet. This state takes care of its space, soil, atmosphere, waters, animals, and plants according to its interests and capacities. Physical borders between spaces which we call states are the result of agreements of a man with another man about the administration of these spaces. Each space may have its own ways, methods, and systems of administration and ward of this space and everything that enters it. Therefore, there is only one state in the fundamental function of the world everywhere. Narcissist competitions between physical spaces which call themselves states is the result of human alienation from the Oneness of human soul.
The consciousness of the existence of only one state on the entire planet Earth is called Pangaia by the Citizens of Earth. Pangaia is a state without borders, united in the Oneness of human soul. We also use other selected names so that we can approach all people of this planet. Other names for the consciousness of one state on planet Earth have the same power. The name Pangaia was chosen because it symbolizes a united planet, just like the archaic supercontinent Pangea. A Greek name was chosen because of our origin and our commitment to help to upkeep the spirit of mythological foundations of our united Europe, whose name is derived from Greek mythology as well.
The Citizens of Earth do not command any particular actions. The Citizens of Earth merely propagate the consciousness of the Oneness of human soul, of the real conditions of matter and spirit, and of the attachment of people to matter.
The Citizens of Earth do not advocate any extensive and collective solution that would be imposed on all people to save the planet in terms of any social or system ideology. If current political, economic, and demographic system is what we “do” best, this doesn’t mean that we cannot look for other options for our common existence on the planet. The Citizens of Earth promote the awareness of causes and consequences of human attachment to matter.
Discover the Citizen of Earth (Pangaia) inside yourself and let them become aware of their own attachment and of the attachment of other people.