by Dieter Duhm
It is often serious strokes of fate that provide this kick, reshaping life from its foundation. In addition to our personal misfortunes, global strokes of fate affect us all. If we are awake enough, they can rid us of our blockages and guide us to a new task in life. Alongside all existential tremors, there is an obvious truth: self-healing powers are always activated when a feeling of well-being arises in the patient. It can be that a single word of acknowledgement that a sick person receives from their beloved sets their soul’s self-healing powers so strongly into motion that all illness vanishes. Healing occurs in the moment we enter information into an ailing organism that is able to activate its self-healing powers.
These thoughts are at the core of individual and global healing work. They are basic thoughts of the project for a new Earth as they convey an image for the upcoming revolution. The revolution ahead of us will no longer play out primarily on the political stage, but on an energetic, ethical, and noetic one. It will no longer consist primarily of a change in political power, but in creating new social systems for the activation of the immanent healing powers of all its participants. It will no longer work through violence, but by creating new communication systems on the basis of trust. Once they are globally linked, they will overcome the existing economic and political power systems.
WORKS CITED
1. Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963). Back to reading
2. Arcady Petrov, Save Yourself. Part I of Trilogy Creation of the Universe (Hamburg: Jelezky, 2011). Back to reading
3. Sepp Holzer and Bernd Mueller, “Water Is Life - The Water Retention Landscape of Tamera,” YouTube (September 14, 2011), last accessed July 26, 2015. Back to reading
Chapter 18: Healing by Activating the Original Matrix
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Every being is integrated within the universal order of the Sacred Matrix according to its own original matrix. When we stimulate a sick organism in such a way that it comes into resonance with the frequency of the Sacred Matrix, all its cells arrange themselves in a healing manner in accordance with its entelechy, i.e. its original matrix. In the order of the world there is also an original matrix for human community. This is depicted symbolically in the stone circle of Almendres, near Évora in Portugal. We have often visited this monument to study under the guidance of Sabine Lichtenfels. We encountered a primordial social system that even today carries a message for the future. We call it the prehistoric utopia (see Chapter 24). Sabine Lichtenfels has described the prehistoric utopia in detail in her book Traumsteine [Dream Stones]. In a meditation at the stone circle she received the following information:
It is important for you to rediscover the information that is laid out in the code of creation and is necessary for creating a more complete world. Over thousands of years it has been forgotten and distorted. This has had horrible consequences for life on Earth and for the Earth itself. You will find gathered here all the necessary information for building a tribe. It is similarly effective in creating a genetic code for a nonviolent culture. 1
When we establish a Healing Biotope we activate the original matrix of community in accordance with the universal concept of human coexistence and of coexistence with the beings of nature. When a new planetary community develops, one that follows the principles of the great order of life, a tremendous field of power for a new connection between human society and the healing powers of the universe arises on Earth.
The Entelechy Program
The soul of the world carries a dream, which is imprinted in all beings as an image of its entelechy. The short poem of Josef von Eichendorff attests to this:
Sleeps a song in things abounding
That keeps dreaming to be heard:
Earth's tunes will start resounding
If you find the magic word.2
The Sacred Matrix is anchored in the nuclei of our cells as the basic entelechy pattern of our life. Every living being follows its entelechy program. In it lies the genetic template for its development and goal. This “entelechy drive” has great strength. The entelechy is what makes the fragile seedling capable of breaking through the thick layer of asphalt. Whatever resistance it faces, it will continue growing with all its strength. The entelechy program always prevails. Those in power needed to work hard to break their subjects’ entelechy drive. What remains is an insatiable yearning for a life that is not possible under these conditions: a longing for sex, love, and home. The longing will endure until the human being recognizes his dream and brings it to fruition.
We are, within certain bounds, free to stray from the path to our entelechy, but if we wander too far we perish. Today humanity is at a dangerous edge. It has lost sight of its entelechy and needs to find it again. Every individual is challenged to find his own entelechy again and to follow his “inner voice” more than the inclinations of his social milieu. The entelechy program of the individual leads him to his assigned position within the cosmic plan, or as the leprosy doctor Ruth Pfau said, “the place where God wants me to be.”3 We are all, no matter what detours we take, on the way to the right place. It is an ethical, social, and spiritual path that I refer to here. When we are on this path, living in accordance with our entelechy, we become aware of the joy and “rightness” of our actions. The program is always activated when people adopt a disposition of helping or love to one another or toward the beings of nature. All beings react positively to assistance and friendliness, even if they do not show it. Following the entelechy program is often not conscious; one does it instinctively. Our mind, spirit, and body mostly “know” what needs to be done.
To live according to our entelechy is to live under the guidance of our own “knowing.” It is as if we are connected with a cosmic “all-knowingness” like a car is connected to the omniscience of the GPS navigator. The GPS knows the destination and the way to reach it; it also recognizes the detours and what needs to be done when one has made a mistake. It is an astonishing analogy for the experience of divine guidance. Jacques Lusseyran described very precisely how this works in daily life. He was blind, unable to see with his physical eyes, but always saw what had to be done on something like an inner screen. When he was on the right track light appeared; when he was off track, it darkened. This applied both to his physiological and psychological orientation. He could always orient toward the light and find the way; in other words, he was always under guidance. Lusseyran’s experience coheres with what I refer to in this book as the Alpha frequency. When he was angry, malevolent, or fearful, his screen became dark and he lost orientation; he bumped into a table, stumbled, and walked into the tree. It is worthwhile reading his book, And There Was Light, for it provides answers to a number of questions about life and healing.4 It is one of the very rare books that give such a direct impression of what is possible when one remains open to what the universe offers.
Given that all beings are connected in the universal frequency, all are therefore in communication with one another. The entelechy of life guides all beings toward contact and communication, trust and love, not toward fear and separation. However, in today’s societies, the latter is more often the case, for life in these aberrant, globalized systems is incompatible with the path laid out by our entelechy. The human being of our time does not move like a free being, but rather like an amoeba hit with a drop of acetone. As this drop came down again and again, generation after generation, it needed to retract its tentacles, and could therefore no longer follow its entelechy program, which originally geared it toward encounter and contact.
If one day the entire human community manages to connect with its entelechy, which we have also referred to as its collective original matrix, or the prehistoric utopia (see Glossary), then the entire human race will undeniably be on the way to healing, for then it will automatically be one with the sacred whole. From this conviction, a daring thought arose at the time of our project’s founding: Would it not be possible to introduce – through an entry i
n the spiritual internet – a planetary process to liberate all of humanity from its old programs of war and to connect it with the vision of its entelechy?
WORKS CITED
1. Lichtenfels, Sabine. Traumsteine Reise in Das Zeitalter Der Sinnlichen Erfüllung. (Kreuzlingen: Hugendubel, 2000). Back to reading
2. Joseph Von Eichendorff, Werke in sechs Bänden - Band 1 (Frankfurt: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1987). Back to reading
3. Ruth Pfau, Verrückter Kann Man Gar Nicht Leben: Ärztin, Nonne, Powerfrau (Freiburg: Verlag Herder GmbH, 2013). Back to reading
4. Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963). Back to reading
Chapter 19: The Healing of Love
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In its true sense, learning to live in the right way means learning love. True love does not make claims of possession or any conditions. To my knowledge, the only thing that really heals people is unconditional love. Love is what gives life its meaning.1
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In the heart of humanity’s soul lies the immense power of erotic love. Healing love has been at the core of the project’s research for nearly forty years, for it is indispensable to global peace work. This is relevant for all forms of love relationships, however throughout my research in this area, I have focused on the love between the genders. In this sense, I ask all of my LGBTQ friends for their understanding as I emphasize the love between man and woman in this chapter.
We invest so much focus on the love between the genders because the man-woman relationship contains particular archetypal energies of polarity. These are fundamental powers of creation. We knew that global suffering can only come to an end when we install a different system of living on Earth from the base up. What is the “base” of human culture? The masculine and the feminine are the two halves of humanity. Their relation is the basis of human culture. It is not just that the masculine and the feminine form the two halves of humanity, but also two poles within the human being. I refer here to the absolute, organic cohesiveness of the genders. This can be experienced in love when suddenly – in the moment of greatest polarity – one recognizes oneself in the other. Tat tvam asi.
The happiness or misery of humanity depends on its two halves meeting in the right way. For so long as this does not happen, we will continue to see social catastrophes. The animal kingdom also suffers from the pain of humanity – the daily massacre of animals in slaughterhouses or laboratories can only occur so long as human beings keep their hearts closed. For thousands of years man and woman searched for and always missed each other. The world lives in heartache. Healing the collective pain in love is an essential challenge of our times. When the latent war between the genders comes to its end, there will be no more war on Earth.
There is a wonderful Inuit tale relayed by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in her book Women Who Run with the Wolves, which illustrates this well. The story, entitled “The Skeleton Woman,” describes the situation that arises when a man sees the heart of a woman after thousands of years of ossifying neglect. The man is a fisherman; the woman is reduced to a bare skeleton. She represents the original nature of woman, which became emaciated, for man gave no resonance to her primal power. As the fisherman sleeps, a tear runs from the corner of his eye. The woman swallows his tear like someone dying of thirst. She knows that, with wordless comprehension, the fisherman has recognized woman’s original nature, that his is a tear of boundless empathy and unspeakable regret, the tear of insight. Estés explains, “Now something else will develop and be reborn within him, something he can give her: a vast and oceanic heart.”2 Now the woman’s soul receives the nourishment she has long yearned for. Now the wondrous healing begins, the transformation of the skeleton into a blossoming woman. Here lies the key. Here lies the point that determines whether there will be war or peace on Earth. Herein lies the opportunity for the world of man to transcend the fossilizing structures of ideology, didacticism, and legislation. Herein lies the opportunity for the masculine to find a new direction, opening to the feminine source, opening for the original nature, for healing and peace for all creatures. The man resulting from this evolutionary decision is not a “softy,” but one capable of love, one who is no longer tied to his mother’s apron strings.
The unfathomable violence that is perpetrated against humans and animals all over the world is enacted by closed hearts. It is also the will of the banks, secret societies, and multinationals, but their plans can only be implemented by a society that suffers collectively from a closed heart. So long as the two poles of humanity do not meet in the right way, there will be a calamity in our souls that cannot be soothed by wealth and comfort. It is this calamity of unrequited love that, despite all moral or religious appeals, repeatedly produces depravity. Incredible things take place behind the scenes in the bourgeois world. Domestic abuse, marital rape, murder from jealousy, and child abuse are rampant. In what state is the soul of an adult who resorts to intercourse with children in order to satisfy their sexual urges? Moral outrage does not help here; help is only to be found in the development of a new sexual culture that restores the joy which humankind lost in a world hostile to love.
There is such bliss when two lovers embrace for the first time. Yet what of it remains after ten years? A fulfilled sexual life, like a fulfilled religious life, is a cornerstone of human happiness. In the first embrace a love becomes visible, a deep joy that sparkles in our depths until it is realized. The two turn into an inseparable “couple” and want to remain so forever. Nothing is more sacred to them than the vow of eternal faithfulness that they make to each other and only to each other. And therein begins the trouble. They do not yet know how to endure the happiness they experience. That which they admire through the projection of sacredness on to each other, this image of the beloved at their very best, requires a great deal of inner work to become the substance of a reliable partnership. They need a very rare kind of knowledge for this. While we have physics, the science of the material world, we do not have the science of love. The society to come needs a Love School where people learn how they can transform their initial bliss into a permanent loving power and into sustainable partnership. A love couple that does not have this knowledge will, sooner or later, fail; love too easily degenerates into fear of loss, mistrust, jealousy, and hatred. This is the tragedy behind today’s society; it is the same pain passed endlessly from generation to generation.
The core of the healing work of Terra Nova is the creation of a new relationship based on trust and solidarity. In order to be able to reveal themselves to one another, lovers need profound trust, which could barely surface during the patriarchal era. We can liberate the world from war if we are able to end the war in love. We can liberate the Earth from violence if we are able to end violence in sexuality – without suppressing our own wild nature! The passion can stay. Combined with trust, passion does not lead to violence but to spirited tenderness. It is beautifully set out in the scheme of life. Sensual love is the most reliable foundation against violence. Could a boy that has just loved a girl torture a rabbit?
There is something in life that we all love infinitely. If humanity succeeds in giving continuity to this “something,” we will have accessed an historic path of happiness. The wisdom of the East has created a beautiful aphorism, “The Tao is the way that cannot be abandoned. The way that can be abandoned is not the Tao.”3 What if we replaced the word “Tao” with this ever most deep, knowing love? And this is also always meant physically; knowing love goes through the body and through the flesh because “the word became flesh, and dwelt among us.”4 It is downright fantastic how many truths we find in the old books of wisdom, if we look beyond the distortions. The climax is found in the story of The Fall when Adam ate the apple from the tree of knowledge and then discovered sexual pleasure, “and Adam knew his wife.”5 In Hebrew they have the same word for knowledge and intercourse. They knew it!
The healing of love seldom happens
through face-to-face conversations between partners because they are far too involved in their problem. To become capable of love we must learn not to become wrapped up in ourselves, but to participate in the world or the community we live in. Participation is a secret of love. This brings us into the field of ethics. Participation connotes care, assistance, friendliness, and releasing the bolts with which we have locked our hearts. To become capable of love, we must develop a system of life in which real trust between people can arise and flourish. This is the crucial point time and again. The new centers are “greenhouses of trust.”
In order to free our community from sexual falsehoods, we in Tamera have explored the concept of “free sexuality” (see Chapter 20). Yet free love and free sexuality can only be humane among people that trust one another. It is trust that opens the heart and the body, dissolves the body armor, and heals the soul. We work on environmental and technological issues, healing water, Permaculture, and green energy, but the most important work is the creation of trust among people.
Partnership as an Ideal
Free sexuality does not contradict partnership. Partnership is an ideal expression of love, the path to which is not barred by the principles or practice of free sexuality. The ideological condemnation of marriage is as absurd as the ideological condemnation of free sexuality. Marriage remains a sacrament in the new society but will be based on completely different prerequisites than in former times. Free sexuality offered an antithesis to bourgeois marriage; now we need a synthesis of the two. This is not a question of personal preference but of gaining deeper insight into the essence of erotic love, which leads us to a new understanding, a new image in which free sexuality and partnership are deeply connected. When two people come together on the path of truth and trust, when they no longer react from expectation of loss with the anticipation of separation when the other has a sexual adventure, they can make a bond for life. All those who feel the ardent longing for partnership in their hearts can help to bring this new image to fulfillment. They are working on behalf of the countless others that also know this longing.
