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from: Letter to the World I

India, Hampi, Christmas 2005

Dear brother, dear sister

Dear fellow human beings all over the world

Do we not have a task, an enormous, unbelievable comon task, for which we all have come to this planet? Don't we share a calling? And does not this mission consist in materialising the fundamental one-ness of all being on earth, on our planet? The fundamental oneness out of which we all come and into which we unavoidably will go again. And does this not include to help, to let this unity shine through in this area of separation, so that it can reveal itself in this energetically perhaps most dense realm of the universe?

Until now we have not been very successful in fulfilling this task. Of course we have done well in terms of technology and science, but, when it comes to caring for each other, or to the feeling of togetherness, we are quite backward, arn’t we?

Hasn’t the time come for us to overcome egoism, the restricting personal, tribal or familiary thoughts, to overcome this thinking in concepts of nation and state, and instead to open ourselves up for an all-embracing thinking and compassion, which embraces all and every thing, which does not exclude anything or anyone and strives for a peaceful coexistence of all things and creatures?

Where are you, brothers and sisters? Don’t you want to help with this big and beautiful goal for which we eventually have come here? Help to finally regenerate our earth into a place of peace, of love and of safety for all?

Weren’t we promised to each other in this intent right from the very first, from all beginning?

Don’t you want to help?

And wouldn’t they be quite simple and practical, those steps we had to take, to initiate? Would we not need a new, quite simple view of things, like every child could develop or really would develop it, if we only let it think and do not subject it to all sorts of propaganda, of ideology?

Shouldn’t we finally find the courage, to oppose the simple solution that politicians have been offering us for centuries all over the world that is: “¾War! Let’s kill the bad ones!” with another, maybe equally naive message:

“¾For once, let's try with love!“

We human beings love simple messages, even though we long proved through experience that they are a solution to nothing at all. Shouldn’t we have the courage for a real alternative, which we oppose to the ever same misery? An alternative, that could wake up the world and polarise the spirits? Are we afraid to be laughed at if we oppose the eternal war-cry with an equally naive message?

“¾For once, let's try with love! Why not at long last with love?“

Would not a statesman of mark and with charisma who seriously represented this be able to gather the suffering massses behind him? This kind of people always thinks they should convince and gather the high finance around them. But the poor are much more numerous. Who could resist, if they stood up, gathered and compelled the minority of the rich to cooperate?

Love as a voting motto!

And than make a concrete, practical political program out of it.

What does love mean, quite concretely?

Souldn’t we definitely go about some basic things? Shouldn't we in the first place plead for the de-allocation of all military budgets of all states worldwide and apply the money to different purposes? To education, for instance, to social welfare, to the economic buildup of the third world? We have to do away with all armies everywhere, in all countries. Should we not find the courage, every single country, to go ahead for this? Unilaterally. The time of military solutions is long over. And above all, we need the money that is wasted on it urgently, in order to live.

And should we not, in order to bring the conditions for equality and justice into being, develop above all a totally new monetary system, finally a pure, fair means of exchange, a Terra, which has the same, unchangeable value everywhere. An unified currency, which cannot be speculated with, a money which doesn’t accumulate interests if it is hoarded, but instead looses its value and ages, like all passing things do? And should the time of everyone, regardless where he lives, not be worth the same? Should we not finally correct this mistake in our monetary system, this egoistic betrayal, so that a worldwide and just blossoming would become possible? Could we not, just by this step, protect the resources of our earth, support the development of alternative energies and technologies, bring war and poverty to an end, and by this vanquish all injustice between man and man, between man and woman, between region and region?

If peace and justice among human beings were merely a technical problem to be solved, we would have done so long ago quite skillfully. Why, for it is a psychological problem, with which we have to struggle, do we act so stupidly and don’t come forth?

And with fire and passion we should go for those things, and each one for himself, alone, knowing that we are building a more beautiful and happier, a new world with it.

Should we not stand for real globalisation? Away with all the frontiers! Isn’t it high time for a world government, not one based on might or power but rather a pure organisational and administrative one? Haven't the structures for this been established for a long time, for instance the United Nation and all other international structures? We'd only have to assign them the legislative competence.

Of course, as accompanying measures, other tings would have to be done, first of all a categorical reform of land ownership. The land belongs to everyone, is owned by the community, and only used in terms of private enterprise. And the rent for the land, which would be payed for this utilisation to the community, shouldn’t it belong to the mothers and children, so that the children, who actually are the children of the whole community, and their mothers, who look after them, finally would get the basic supply, which they are entitled to?

Would we not also have to do away with the right of succession, which is the background of great injustice too? If someone dies, should not everything he posesses be returned to the community, where it belongs? And of course we would surely also introduce an ecological tax, to protect our earth.

These outer changes alone would of course not be of much use in the long run. We all know that. It would rather take a new inner alignment, an awaking in every single person for community, for our belonging together, for the responsibility to each other. So to put this into a fact, should we not totally reform our entire school system? And all of it of course all over the world. Self-knowledge! Shouldn’t training in self-knowledge be the first topic to learn in every educational programme everywhere?

What’s the use of technical knowledge in heads which do not understand themselves?

Should we not take deep insight into our self-addicted, self-centred thoughts and feelings, awake to the fact of being conditioned to think in nationalistic and tribal political terms, see our cultural imprint to be ambitious, competitive and envious? And should we not overcome these unesthetic things in the light of self-knowledge?

And have we not received the best aids as presents to help us, which we however demonise and forbid as yet? Should we not finally support the use of as valuable means as the psycholytical substances, those gifts of the gods? Support them both in psychotherapy and in ritual, spiritual and community-building utilisations? Should we not make them accessible to all human beings, so that they be helped for their awakening?

Should we not finally also accept “¾the teaching“, which again and again and from time to time is imparted to us by great teachers (the most recent ones being Don Juan Matus and Jiddu Krishnamurti) and integrate it within us? Should we not listen to them and allow us to be taught by them?

Should we not finally question the taboo on incest, which as basic evil lies behind all our misery, understand its effects in our life, and finally negate it?[1]

Should we not encourage each other for all these things and let us be driven by them? Should not everyone of us stand up for it with a passionate and loving heart, a heart, which has been purified in the process of self-knowledge? Should we not finally embark upon all this, gather for this, at least the more mature ones among us?

Dear brother, dear sister, where are you? Don't you want to help in that great, wonderful and only meanigful task, which we are faced with?

Dear brother, dear sister, I’m aware that most probably you will not listen to me, that you maybe never will see, or read this letter, and if you do, you will not accept it, will not take it seriously, will not take it to heart. The message “¾Love each other! Serve each other!“, although it already reached us two thousand years ago and widely spread since, never really became popular among us.

Nevertheless I’m writing to you, simply because it is right to do it. Simply because it is right to try to reach you. Even if it seems hopeless, it is better to do what has to be done.

Samuel Widmer Nicolet

[1] Allow me to call your attention to the numerous books of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Carlos Castaneda und Samuel Widmer Nicolet for a more precise understanding

Letter to the World II

We do not want any socialworkers alms, we want justice!

Dear fellow human beings

A second letter to the world wants to follow the first, to specify the concerns of the silent and suffering majority of the human community. The great thing about finding oneself in the position of the disadvantaged and powerless is that at least one does not have to hold back in making demands. Of course, in that is already accepted that most likely they will never be met.

The demands of the large NGO’s (non-governmental organisations) are not enough. Fighting for a tax on speculative investment capital (Attac), for the immediate and complete cancellation of debt for third world countries (Jubilé 2000), a reassessment of the “terms of trade”  (Third World Network), against malnutrition and hunger (Action Contre la Faime (ACF)), against the exploitation of workers (Jobs with Justice) for the rights of those imprisoned (Amnesty International), for the rights of children or women or whatever, to us all these causes appear absolutely necessary and honourable, but definitely too partial.

We want the everything, completely. We want justice and equality for all. And we want it now.

Specifically, as first and most pressing measure, why should a global Foundation not be able to raise the 80 billion dollars annually for the next ten years, which according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP, 2004) are needed to ensure every human being on earth has access to sufficient food, clean drinking water (including sanitary infrastructure), basic schooling, and healthcare (including gynaecological tratment for women)? If we recognise and respect the fact that we manage to raise 1000 billion dollars worldwide and annually for military expenses, most of which at the moment is spent on the world war against terror, which in fact mainly is a war against the poor and hungry, then it should be conceivable and possible that the well-meaning forces on earth will be able to raise less than ten percent of that amount for a minimum in justice and care.

Specifically, a Foundation, which acts, thinks, and has compassion on a global scale, should try to channel and combine all positive powers, all powers of opposition and resistence, the power of existing organisations and associations in the private and public sphere, in order to complete this minimum deed of solidarity.

In addition to this, and besides a total cancellation of debt of all human beings and countries, not just in the third world, and besides all other previously mentioned adjustments, we demand first and with immediate effect a refom of land ownership (the land is public property, but is used under private law). We also demand above all a new monetary system (a money, a “Terra” , which has the same value everywhere, cannot be used speculatively, and does not pay any interest if it is hoarded). Should a Foundation, which really is to be taken seriously, which truly represents the interests of the whole human community, not include all these in its activities?

If total war and total chaos have started, we at least want to use this state of affairs and the many victims, which the resulting epochal changes will demand, for a radical treatment and total renewal.

We do not want alms, we want justice!

As the hunger does not only arise through the problems with globalisation, but is mainly born through the ongoing human disposition to war and violence, probably all these measures will ultimately not change to much. Thus finally the individuum can only chose to adopt the stance of the smiling sage towards all misery. The smiling sage recognises, that nothing is to be done; he accepts everything, just as it is, and recognises its congruence. Still, he does what he can do and does not ask why. That is why he can demand, without demanding, and see the misery without being unhappy.

Samuel Widmer Nicolet

Letter to the World III

1. May 2006

(Labour Day)

We are calling for a revolution!

Dear Brothers, dear Sisters

We are calling for a revolution. For the renewal of the r-evolution. For the continuation of the revolution. First and foremost for an inner revolution of course, for a revolution of love, but then also for a revolution in the external world, for a peaceful revolution of resistance to everything that is an obstacle to love.

Aren't we entitled to rid ourselves of governments, that do not work for the basic human interests and rights? Does not every democratic constitution contain the primary right to to dispose of a government which deviates from these goals? Do they not contain the right to withdraw the government's legitimacy and to instate a new government, which will finally act for the benefit of all human beings?

And isn't it in the interst of the population, i.e. the totality of human beings, that military structures of any kind disappear from the face of this planet, and that funds which are currently used for the military be instead used for our blooming? Shouldn't these funds be used to finally tackle the most crude problems we face, such as starvation, the lack of clean drinking water, the education of all children, and basic health care for all humans? And isn't it in the interest of the population, that a new, fair monetary system would help renew our communal life? Shouldn't we get rid of any governments or private organisations which do not focus all their powers towards these aims?

We are calling for a revolution. For a peaceful revolution. For the joint resistance to everything, that is not helpful and useful to us as human community. We are calling for a passive boycott!

In doing so, we do not contradict our society and its order, but on the contrary, doesn't today's structure of society actually contradict everything that is just and fair?

Could an effective, common, ideally global boycott take the form of a refusal to pay any taxes? A refusal to pay, as long as taxes are wasted for senseless things such as military or wars or for servicing debt (i.e. serving capital)? At least, we could transfer the percentage that is used for these senseless things, for example 50%, into an account for the third world and give only the receipts to the tax authorities.

Is not every community, every commune, every state, the whole world, are we not all suffocating in debt, which strife and the servicing of capital are costing us? Aren't we bankrupt, although we have everything, land and life, our capacity for happiness, our capacity for work, and all the many things, which we produce?

Imagine, if one day the community would rise up, simply cast off its debts, simply write off its debts! Imagine, if it simply said: "We are free! We have our life, our land, our earth! We have our work and our capacity for happiness. We have all the many, many things, which we produce. We have everything we need. We are blooming. We are rich.”

Imagine! Who could do something about that? Who could fight against it? Who would fight against it? Simply get out the calculator, caluculate!

How simple everything becomes, when one looks with the eyes of a child.[1]

We are calling for a revolution of love. For a peaceful revolution, for a common resistance, for a passiv boycott.

Aren't we entilted, even obliged, to free ourselves from governments which do not care about the wellbeing of the people? To free ourselves from public or private forces, which curtail human rights, which suppress and oppress them? And aren't governments, which corruptly take care of their own, governments, which do not work for justice relating to the financial system, for justice about the riches of the the earth, for justice in the distribution of land and goods, aren't they governments which do not act in the best interest of the people?[2]

We are calling for a global, peaceful resistance!

Why should we pay taxes to finance wars which are started by the rich and powerful to further their own interests?

There is a fatal, fatalistic wrong belief, which we all fell for. Namely, that we cannot do anything. But that is not true. Individuals are more powerful than all other powers, as soon as they unite, join each other in common action. That is the power of love, the power of the new story, which we are all waiting for.

What we need is an inner revolution, an awakening of love, of compassion, of the spirit of community in every one. Again and again, that comes first. Only self-knowledge will bring this awakening. But this awakening ultimately leads to common action, which will change the world, it leads to a complete, external revolution, a rearranging of our whole live.

We have almost no glimpse of the wonder, of the wonder of love, which is possible for us humans, and which we could and will effect on our planet. We are waiting for it to bloom.

Samuel Widmer Nicolet

[1] From the new and socialy critical novel Celias Garden by Paul Nicolet alias Samuel Widmer, which will be published in the autumn of 2006.

[2] More to the monetary system you can find in the diary of Samuel und Danièle Widmer Nicolet, Today a Daughter Was Born to Us, basic editions, 2005

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