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Since you've made the choice to try to read this novella, it's advisable to do so only if you:
- Are seriously interested in understanding cooperative communities
- Desire to see if you have the intellectual and financial qualifications for membership in this cooperative community
- Can approach the novella in the necessary frame of mind and attitude explained below
If you find you aren't able to meet these prerequisites, it's best if you discontinue trying to read the novella.
"No inventions or peerless presentations of any form of human conceptions are as important as personal demonstration of the harmonious living which comes of higher consciousness." 2
The novella has been written for those specially selected readers who are genuinely interested in the possibility of actually participating in a cooperative commonwealth community enterprise. Reflect mindfully at this point whether you have the requisite interest indicated that would allow you to continue.
Only if you're convinced that a new form of political-economic-social system must be produced to replace the soul-destroying machinations of fascist capitalism we now suffer under will you have a chance of understanding this novella.
Do Not Proceed Unless You Possess A Genuine Interest in Cooperative Community
"The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Nature of the Novella Since this novella has been created through the process of imaginative creativity--apprehending Forms, selecting intentions, developing patterns, actualizing Forms and intentions in terrestrial reality, and experiencing the manifested entity--it is essential that you read this background essay before proceeding. The entire novella will only make sense and become understandable to persons who are willing to study these underlying concepts and practices concerning creativity.
The novella constitutes a form or design of a community intended for the "real world," not merely the world of fiction. It is the purpose of the author to bring this community to full realization as soon as possible. 3 The design or pattern has been constructed in fictional form because this allows for presentation of concepts beyond present actualization and provides a goal for realization.
The ultimate purpose of the novella is to contribute to human evolution: development of functioning individuals and the coordination of such individuals into a productive, harmonious unity. In an era when most humans are devolving and retrogressing due to capitalist egomania, programmed ignorance, and political-economic genocide, this novella represents a carefully conceived initiative in conscious evolutionary forward momentum.
"It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried." Francis Bacon
Prerequisite Capabilities I've constructed the novella so that serious readers can vicariously experience the planning, formation, and maintenance of an actual community. As you read the novella, you should enter into a form of psychic engagement with the story's characters and events, leading to actual mental involvement with the persons and situations as if you were a part of the narrative.
Do not, in other words, experience the novella as you might an ordinary novel, essay, or article: that is, in a manner in which you stand apart from the story being narrated, the characters' personal feelings and actions, and hold yourself aloof from the entire phenomenon. If you find you're incapable of personally involving yourself in the story, I'd suggest you not try to read the novella.
If you participate in the novella appropriately, completing the screening and training exercises, and believe that you are intellectually and financially qualified for participation in the cooperative commonwealth community enterprise, follow the guidelines provided and make the appropriate contact with the author through the email address provided.
"Say to yourselves: the little group of us here have waked up a little sooner than the rest of them, can see the danger a little clearer, are passionately convinced of the thing to be done. Then we're the ones to do it. It's only the conviction that we are the ones to do it that is going to accomplish it."
Betty White and Stewart Edward White, With Folded Wings
Notes: To Chapter One
1 Betty White and Stewart Edward White, Across the Unknown
