Nov 26, 2016

A Message of Solidarity from Tamera Peace Research Center to Standing Rock

By Martin Winiecki / terranovavoice.tamera.org
A Message of Solidarity from Tamera Peace Research Center to Standing Rock

In the name of humaneness, we express our gratitude to the courageous water and land protectors at Standing Rock. This camp of Sioux and many other First Nation people, accompanied by activists from across all camps is a true light of hope in a world that has lost any prospect for the future. They are not fighting against anyone; they are defending the sacred. They are protecting what needs to be protected for us to live. We call out to say thank you for your perseverance in spite of the brutal attacks; thank you for taking such a clear stand for life in this worldwide struggle between the powers of life and those of capital. Thank you as well to the spirits of the buffaloes and eagles for their visible support and presence. Through Tamera and the global Healing Biotopes Project, we seek to support this stance by all means.

Standing Rock marks a global turning point. It epitomizes the inevitable approaching end of a global culture that has violated the balance of life to a point that further survival may soon no longer be possible on this planet. In their ancient prophecies, the Hopi and Lakota people forewarned that if the dark snake crosses the river it will be the end of the world. Trying to stop the dark snake of the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri, some hundreds of fierce activists currently confront a billion-dollar industry backed by governments, corporations, banks and our own consumption habits. How can the protectors possibly prevail? If we want their struggle – and those in countless other hotspots – to succeed in the long run, we will need to step out of this entire culture bound to suppressing others, burning fossil fuels and destroying nature.

We need a new pattern for human life on Earth. The old pattern of life was based on exploitation; the new one will be based on cooperation. We can end the old era to the extent that we can see and activate the possibility of a new one. By creating decentralized models of life, humanity can regain the autonomy that was stolen by the imperialistic world. By following the logic of nature, all beings on this planet will gain free access to the clean energy, vital water and healthy food they need. And by establishing communities of trust, the open wound of humanity will heal.

To catalyze the birth of a new era, we propose building a network of special peace research centers around the world. We call them “Healing Biotopes” or “World Future Sites” – international communities of a few hundred people who research and concretely establish the basic features of a nonviolent culture in coherent, replicable models. In Portugal, such a model has been in development for over twenty years. In Terra Nova, Tamera's co-founder Dieter Duhm writes, “The dream of a new world is not only a subjective wish, but also an authentic matrix for a different life, anchored in the structures of reality; it is an objective necessity and a possibility. The concrete utopia is a latent reality within the universe, just as the butterfly is a reality latent within the caterpillar.”

Beyond our tormented world, there is another reality – the world of life from which we all originate. Beyond all alienations, all traumata and hostilities, there is an original unity we share with all that lives. All beings are united in sacred alliance. Together we form the great family of the biosphere. We all are organs in the same body of life. We must no longer tolerate any cruelty on this planet.

In our essence we all are indigenous to this planet. The new planetary culture will reawaken the primordial knowledge that was inherent to original cultures, the knowledge of how to be in right relation, in community. The system change can happen surprisingly quickly when a planetary community discovers and aligns itself with the universal ground in which all beings are one with each other. Here lies a power greater than any violence – the life force bringing about growth, regeneration and healing.

Let us come together as a planetary community in solidarity with all those defending the sacred; let us found a new civilization in alliance with all beings.

 

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