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New Covenant: Preamble
The
time has come for a simpler voice and a new time. The voice is here.
It is the voice of the people world-wide following the Thirteen Moon Calendar
Change Peace Plan. The new time is here. It is the time of the Thirteen
Moon Calendar. In replacing the twelve-month Gregorian Calendar of the
old time, the new time of the thirteen moons has come. The new calendar
is the basis and the opportunity for a new human covenant.
The
new covenant is the Covenant of Biospheric Rights. Why?
Because the biosphere is the all-inclusive planetary life-support system
of which we humans constitute an integral living member. The biosphere
is the larger unifying field of life on Earth which transcends all nation
states, and alliances of nation states, inclusive of the United Nations.
Therefore, the new Covenant of Biospheric Rights replaces the legitimacy
formerly held by the nation states.
Because it is not in accord with any of the actual cycles of nature or our own biology, following the old Gregorian Calendar has severed humanity from its biospheric membership. Without full membership in the biosphere, humanity will continue to encase itself in an artificial world of exploding technology, over-population, environmental degradation, social chaos, and war.
Without taking immediate action by calling a halt to the old time and all of the social institutions enmeshed in the calendar of the old time, humanity would never otherwise call a halt to its current course. The twofold purpose of the Biospheric Covenant of the thirteen moons is to call an immediate halt to the the course of civilization as it is now constituted, and to provide immediate relief and guidelines for restructuring the human social order according to the new time.
The rights of humans in the biosphere are essentially no different than the rights held by all other species of life within the biosphere: free air, free water, free land, free time, free life, free will autonomy. The present institutions of civilization abrogate virtually all of these rights by an insistence on the supremacy of various secondary fictions: nation states, taxes, the monetary system, and the materialist way of life. Every credibility given to any of these secondary fictions diminishes our own capacity for self-empowerment.
Once it is understood that virtually every human institution in existence is embedded in the irregular Gregorian Calendar, by adopting the regular Thirteen Moon Calendar, it will be easy to divest ourselves of our outworn ways. Like it or not, humans have grown habituated to customs which are contrary to the natural order of things, yet because they are embedded in the Gregorian Calendar, are considered indispensable. Taxes, government, and war are the most pernicious of these 'bad' habits. It is always easier to root out a bad habit when there is a clear goal and a new path to follow.