by Dieter Duhm
6. Sabine Lichtenfels, Sabine, Temple of Love a Journey into the Age of Sensual Fulfillment (Belzig: Verlag Meiga, 2011). Back to reading
7 Sabine Lichtenfels, Traumsteine. Reise in Das Zeitalter Der Sinnlichen Erfüllung (Kreuzlingen: Hugendubel, 2000). Back to reading
8. Wolf-Dieter Storl, Streifzüge Am Rande Midgards (Burgrain: Koha-Verlag GmbH, 2006). Back to reading
Chapter 25: The Sacred Alliance of Life
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Evolution works toward convergence – toward the one. In the global consciousness of the new time the reintegration of all life into the “sacred alliance” takes place. If we understand that all beings are organs within the body of the great family of life, the next steps unfold naturally. This belongs to the new gospel. The family of life is healthy when its organs are healthy. The organs are healthy when they connect within the universal frequency of life. It is the energy of trust. The prophecy of Isaiah is, in principle, true! It says…
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
As the waters cover the sea.1
This astonishing vision from the seventh century BCE is affirmed by our experiences of animals’ joy in their contact with people in Tamera. As mentioned above, we have a number of photographs that capture our hearts – lions embracing their guard on his return to them, a python that allows its head to be brushed by a baby, among others. In this original matrix, no violence exists.
Human beings are the eyes of evolution; we can perceive the interconnections and correlations within the biosphere and how its parts have become separate from one another. As we see this we also know how the parts can come together again. This is key to all that we do. When someone asks what the beating heart of Terra Nova is, we can answer that it is the sacred alliance of all living beings. When we speak of the new planetary community, we mean the sacred alliance of all beings, including humankind. As soon as peace arises where there has so far been fear we will recognize the service that those animals which we had expelled from our lives render to us – the snakes, rats, toads, and so-called garden “pests.” We will weep when we recognize how we have behaved toward these animals and when we sense how they have always sought contact with us. We believed them to be vermin and still they approached us because they require our cooperation in the great plan of creation.
At present there are probably not many people on Earth who retain this primordial connection with life and its beings yet there are lots who can return to this state, for we all carry the image of the sacred alliance in our “meta-consciousness.” At our current state of development, meta-consciousness is not in our awareness but is can become so, for it is built into our genetic structure. Meta-consciousness contains universal knowledge (Akashic Records – see Glossary), which is reflected holographically within the human being. Thus it follows that if a group of people establishes a new social order in accordance with the Sacred Alliance, they activate the image of an existence that is latent in everyone. The image can then be received everywhere and can therefore be manifested everywhere.
A sick child can become well when his small dog lies at his side. Every contact where closed hearts can open again is healing. When we tune into this we find ourselves in realms seldom spoken of because we are embarrassed by the feelings that arise. I ask all readers to open your hearts and to voice your feelings in clear, direct, and sober language. Finding authentic language for our feelings gives us access to truth. Wilhelm Reich has found an interesting definition for truth. “Truth is full, immediate contact between the Living that perceives and Life that is perceived.”2
As every creature within the sacred alliance is an organ of the whole, all help to keep the whole intact and running. When there is a disturbance in one organ, all others need to engage in overcoming the disturbance. There are indications that certain co-creatures, whales and dolphins for example, have assumed the task to assist humanity it its survival mission.3 From our observations in Tamera, we recognize a similarly supportive function in rats. The closer we look, the more fellow beings reveal themselves as helpers. Bees, for example, play a major part in agriculture; we would struggle to survive without them. In light of how highly complex and finely attuned the biospheric system is, it becomes urgently necessary to radically rethink our relation to animals.
There are many ways to reciprocate our fellow being’s generosity in the spirit of loving and trustful cooperation. When, in the wake of an enlightenment experience, the Indian emperor Ashoka (around 200 BCE) turned away from warfare, he built thousands of water holes and hospitals for animals all over India. Creating animal sanctuaries for sick and injured animals contributes to building the morphogenetic field of the sacred alliance. As mentioned above, Eike Braunroth’s peace gardens4 offer incredible and more current examples of collaboration with so-called pests in the garden. In Tamera an amicable agreement with wild boars has developed; the boars generally adhere to the boundaries we set so we have no need to fence in our gardens.
Tamera’s Metaphysical Hectare is a wild garden in which we research into the perception of and cooperation with all visible and invisible beings through practical experiments. Along with the visible beings, there obviously also exist the invisible beings, the “devas” for example, who seek and support the cooperation with human beings on another level of consciousness. We have recognized that there is no limit to the community of life, neither above nor below. Above, high spiritual beings operate on ascending levels. Below, microscopically small beings operate on descending levels. The “school of life” which is arising in Tamera has had the marvelous idea of integrating the bacteria of the biogas plant into their community concept. While at the moment this is still a bit humorous it could soon become a serious matter of course.
WORKS CITED
1. Isaiah 11:6-9, Holy Bible (New American Standard Bible). Back to reading
2. Wilhelm Reich, The Murder of Christ: The Emotional Plague of Mankind (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1953). Back to reading
3. Jim Nollman, The Man Who Talks to Whales: the Art of Interspecies Communication (Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, 2002). Back to reading
4. Eike Braunroth, Heute Schon Eine Schnecke Geküsst? Kooperation Mit Der Natur (Frankeneck: Wega, 2002). Back to reading
Chapter 26: Charter of Fundamental Rights for All Living Beings
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At the heart of a charter for a planetary order of peace is the new alliance of the human being with all co-creatures, the right of all beings to live, and the sacredness of life. The following list gives more detail to the objective ethics listed in Chapter 21; it applies to all stations of the Terra Nova movement:
1. All beings – humans, animals, and plants – have their special meaning and their special function within the structure of creation. All have the right to thrive, free from fear, according to the truth of their nature. From this it follows that:
2. All beings have the right to free movement, which they require for their development, their joy, and their physical and mental health. They must not be shackled or caged.
3. The bodies of all beings have grown special parts for coming in contact with the world: limbs, genitals, wings, horns, talons, tails, fins and so on. They must not be mutilated for this hinders their engagement with the world.
4. All beings originate from a world of protection and trust. All have the
right to develop in this trust throughout their entire lives. All have the right to the fundamental health and freedom resulting from trust.
5. All beings have the right to nutrition in natural and healthy life conditions.
6. All non-human beings are part of the great family of life, as are we. They are therefore our friends and partners in evolution.
Chapter 27: The Worldwide Network − Global Campus and Terra Nova School
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The Global Campus is a worldwide educational platform for building models of self-sufficiency, which make it possible to step out of the system of violence. Sabine Lichtenfels, in cooperation with Benjamin von Mendelssohn, developed this idea of a world university during international pilgrimages between 2005 and 2010. Since then international camps take place in different crisis areas where the material, social, mental, and spiritual foundations of Terra Nova are conveyed. The base station of the Global Campus is located in the Tamera peace research center in Portugal. Those involved are projects and people who have decided to collaborate on a global level. They see the need for new peace models and are committed to realizing them. At the core of this work is also a new alliance of humans with all co-creatures, as well as the development of decentralized, self-sufficient systems. For peace to be achieved on the outside, it is crucial that it arises on the inside among human beings. The project orients itself, both in theory and practice, along the following guidelines:
* Realigning the human world within the universal order of life.
* Establishing functioning communities.
* Ending the war between the genders and all sexual humiliation.
* Truth in love; no betrayal in partnerships.
* No revenge; grace instead of retaliation.
* Adhering to the objective ethics.
* Non-violent cooperation with all co-creatures.
* Healing water through the development of “Water Retention Landscapes.”
* Developing Permaculture and self-sufficient food supplies.
* Withdrawal from the oil industry and the development of autonomous energy systems.
These criteria apply to the collaboration of the projects within the Global Campus and serve as guidelines for universities and ways of living within the forthcoming world society. These will bring in a new planetary order for the coexistence of all beings according to the laws of the Sacred Matrix. In autumn 2013, the Global Campus held workshops in five different countries: Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, Israel-Palestine, and Portugal. Forty people from Tamera traveled to these places to encounter the reality in which our global partners live, to assist them in creating ecological and technological facilities, and to exchange knowledge of how communities function.
Another organ in the worldwide network is the Terra Nova School. It consists of groups that study the basic thoughts of this work and spread this new information. They celebrate Global Grace Day annually on November 9th to make the perspective of Terra Nova publicly visible around the world. All who understand and love the thoughts of Terra Nova are invited to support these groups or to initiate a new group themselves. May the network of this school’s stations span around the globe in the new era, as did the network of banks and corporations in the old!
Chapter 28: The Secret of Water
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Whoever knows the secret of water possesses the power.1
~ Viktor Schauberger
Global healing work requires healthy water. We need another way of managing water if humanity is to survive. All specialists know that we will enter into planetary catastrophe within a few years if the conventional ways of managing water continue. The first condition for survival consists in restoring the original water cycles. In a natural water cycle rainwater is absorbed into the ground and resurfaces through springs. Thus purified – it is the best quality drinking water – it makes its way into streams, creeks, and rivers, all the way to the sea. However when forests are felled, aquifers drained, and water dammed in oversized reservoirs, the original cycles become distorted. Water becomes ever scarcer and soon potable water is no longer available.
“Water decreases” – this is a special topic on which Viktor Schauberger’s research focused. He asserted that the amount of water on Earth is not constant and that the behavior of mankind is a determining factor. Water arises naturally in many places if it is not obstructed by human activity. Schauberger also claimed that water can be “produced” in any quantity, anywhere on Earth. We thereby encounter a theme of water research, so new and overwhelming that a separate book should be dedicated to it. Not surprisingly, Schauberger’s advanced water concept caught the attention of those in political power – of course Hitler’s engineers and later the Americans realized how explosive an issue water is. As a result, Schauberger was kidnapped several times to work in secret government units.
About the cultural meaning of water Schauberger writes,
Everything originated from water. Therefore water is the universal resource of every culture or the foundation of every physical, mental, and spiritual development. Unveiling the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation with its excesses, to which belong war, hatred, envy, intolerance and discord of every kind. The exhaustive investigation of water therefore truly signifies the end of all monopolies, the end of all domination and the beginning of a socialism arising from the development of individualism in its most perfect form.2
Water is a carrier of global information. The anthroposophist flow researcher Theodor Schwenk3 says that the outer surfaces of many small currents that arise in whirling and flowing water, contain the information of the world. If we augment such findings with the research of those such as Viktor Schauberger, Masaru Emoto4, and Sepp Holzer5 we gain a completely new understanding of the being of water and about the meaning of water for life on Earth. Water distributes the information of life all over the globe, including the new information of Terra Nova. We have entered the Age of Aquarius but one need not believe in astrology in order to sense that we are approaching a future in which water will play a fundamental role.
WORKS CITED
1. Olof Alexandersson, Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy (Wellow: Gateway, 1979). Back to reading
2. Viktor Schauberger and Jörg Schauberger, Das Wesen Des Wassers (Baden: AT-Verl., 2006). Back to reading
3. Theodor Schwenk and Wolfram Schwenk, Water: The Element of Life: Essays (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic, 1989). Back to reading
4. Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water (New York: Atria, 2005). Back to reading
5. Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller, “Water Is Life - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera,” YouTube (September 14, 2011), last accessed August 15, 2015. Back to reading
Chapter 29: Religion − The Existence of the Divine World
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Three million people gathered when Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. That evening, many did not want to leave and so took their sleeping bags to Copacabana Beach where they spent the night. Two million young people slept on the beach to stay within the spirit of his message. The aerial photography shows a line of sleeping bags stretching all the way to the horizon. I ask readers to take a moment to reflect on what happened here. Behind the worldwide unrest lies the longing of young people for deeper answers to their life questions. What would happen if a global peace movement actually had an answer to humanity’s religious question? The question of religion is certainly not a private matter; it is a global one.
We come from a higher world, of which we (as yet) know very little. Therein lies the anchor and mystery of all life, all growth and all love. In order to orient ourselves with greater certainty, to take meaningful actions and make realistic plans, we need to connect with this meta-world. We need to get to know the logic of its workings, its laws and how things connect within it. Schauberger said that power is held by those who know the secret of water
.1 We could claim likewise that those who know the religious secret of love have the “power.” This is a gentle power which defines the new era. The religious secret of love is at the root of all things.
This is precisely why state and church have done everything possible to keep people from real divine sources – those who are connected with these sources are not easily governable. The subjugation of people to the status of minion required depriving them of their sexual and religious sources. Jesus’ message was falsified and suppressed by the Catholic priesthood in the same way the cult of Isis was by the old (male) priesthood of Egypt. We are coming from an epoch marked by battle against the divine world. Whoever came too close to God, like Master Eckhart for example, were eliminated. (Master Eckhart died early enough; otherwise he would have been burnt as heretic.)
The human being is a manifestation of God, whoever or whatever this might be. We are the manifestation of a universe we carry within. The physiological universe of our cells and ganglia is coupled with the soul’s universe of our thoughts, dreams, memories, ambitions, and abilities. The society of the future will be based on new knowledge of humankind and its inner connection to the cosmic entity which we refer to as God. We are only at the beginning – in the embryonic stages of our own development.
Due to a malign historic development, the human being was dislodged from his sources. Today we are confronted with the reality that there is hardly anyone still authentically connected with his or her religious wellspring. The human being of our time no longer aligned with the great power circuit of life and therefore uses substitute circuits that drive him increasingly off track. Both the religious and the sexual power circuits need to been newly installed so our future plans come back into the flow of the higher reality. Human society needs a new operating system.
We live in a “multiverse” in which there are many parallel worlds. The Brazilian medium Francisco Xavier claims that on some days more non-incarnated than incarnated people walk the streets of Rio de Janeiro.2 I receive this kind of information with a mixture of humor and curiosity. What really happens after death? Which families, communities, networks, colonies, and cities exist in the beyond? When we dream at night, where is it that our spirit travels to? Our world is going through a fierce transformation and it could be that a tremendous door will soon open to the inquiring mind. As I see it, our situation is captured in this wonderful piece by Útmutató a Léleknek…