On May 4, 2007, at 7:47 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
Assuming anyone is interested in sharing cool ideas
for an aspect of life -- be it social, religious,
health-related, education-related...whatever -- you'd
want to see in your personal utopia, I'd love to keep
the thread as positive as possible.
It would be interesting to see the integration of mind-body machines
to be used as training wheels for the development of samadhi and
kleshavarana (removal of obscurations) at a very early age, say
before the anterior fontanelle closes. As the child develops speech
and communication skills they would receive individualized meditation
instruction so they can continue to develop higher states of
awareness and advanced moral development sans any training wheels.
Specialized meditative techniques would be mastered to tame and
pacify destructive emotions as development progressed up to and
through adolescence.
All techniques and methods would be completely non-sectarian although
individuals would of course have the option to integrate these
methods with whatever beliefs they held or chose to hold.
Destructive meditative techniques would be banned or not receive
certification as they are antithetical to society.
This training would be considered a natural part of education.
Interestingly, I just returned from pilgrimage to a Utopian society
outside of Ephrata, PA, the so-called "Ephrata Cloister", the home of
the alchemico-theurgic Rosicrucian pietist commune of Conrad Beissel.
One of the things that has always impressed me with Ephrata, is how
this early commune, then the Conestoga wilderness (now the
Pennsylvania "Dutch" country), was self-sufficient. Their own farms,
largely vegetarian foods, several mills for food, flax and clothing
manufacture, etc. etc. It attracted a creme de la creme of European
intellectuals. Of course they were largely celibate and eventually
died out.
