Rudolph Steiner Looking for Unity in a New Earth Charter

RUDOLPH STEINER LOOKING FOR UNITY IN A NEW EARTH CHARTER

Rudolph Steiner,

Spoke of freedom,

Educating the whole child,

Leading with our strengths,

Formulating community,

Educating for unity,

Yet in this day and age,

We never get passed the first stage,

Of self interest.

 

Teaching peace,

Is not understood,

It is not supported or modelled,

As it is the shape changer,

That changes your shape,

For when your thoughts question for truth,

Awareness expands,

Cooperation understands,

Self reflection needs no mirror,

As you return to your true self,

And this is true sovereignty,

This mirrors national security,

As you are responsible,

For all of it.

 

Schools educate for numeracy and literacy,

They highlight values,

As society devalues parenting,

Lamenting the confusion of our times,

For roles are displaced by sitcom fantasy,

Career progress replaces family intimacy,

The only question is ingress or egress?

As many come and go,

But seldom stay in perpetuity.

Marriage is no longer the Cinderella carriage of security,

Commitment is no longer the foundation of integrity,

As people rush around all day,

Seeking the gold,

Life is a gold rush,

Going hither and tither,

As the same old routines are the pattern makers,

That deepen many a black hole,

For all is not well as sickness arises from dis-ease.

Many peddle without direction,

Only conscious of the fear to sink or swim,

Treading water or out on a limb,

Holding on by a thread to keep ahead,

Heads above water,

Keeping the wolves from the door,

As they are highly indebted,

Shackled to life supports,

As they have lost the Art of living,

Many live to die,

Others are dying (ego) to live again.

So when does the arrhythmia occur?

When do we have a system interrupt?

When do we notice so much is corrupt?

That the word is not kept?

Dishonesty masks the truth,

That duty of care is no longer empathy,

Being our brothers and sisters keepers,

Is not an Occupational Health and Safety chant,

As sustainability remains business-as-usual,

CO2 goes off the charts,

Inclement weather breaks all records,

Earthquakes of our own making,

Shake and drift apart,

As the continental drift of loved ones,

Find new lives overseas,

Busy-ness is the norm in the storm,

As they no longer see family as the first priority,

Despite the enlighten-ment of life education.

 

At what point do we stop and deeply listen?

When does sensitivity return as awareness of another’s genuine need?

When do we have time for each other?

This is the time for space.

When do we forgive all the hurts of the past?

This is a renewable future.

When does arrogance leave the room?

And love return as humility?

This is the renaissance of resonance.

When do we stop the pain of abuse?

As not a statement of who we really are,

But a denial of what we do,

As inner pain is wanting outlets,

Yet what right does any person have to inflict pain on another?

And call it anger,

Jealousy,

Power,

Lust

Or stress,

For this is the temper of our times.

 
Why not caress the sorrow and look for solutions,

For when you take that step,

It stops the mental pollution of illusion,

As the clouds clear all the way to the horizon,

For this is to see further than self interest,

Clarity sees FEAR as False Evidence Appearing Real,

For that is what drives all negativity.

Charity reaches for sanity,

This is the beginning of peace,

When we believe in love over fear,

Honesty suddenly appears like the innocence of the child,

An open book for all to read,

Weeding out all falsehood, myth and self service,

As manhood comes of age expressing service above self,

And womanhood reveals her age asserts her right to life,

For both grow in the maturity of mutual love and respect,

As a garden resplendent filled with colour-full varieties as diversity in unity,

Branching out from the Tree of Life blossoming the greatest potential beauty,

As the true knowledge that traverses all seasons,

Is the rainbow that discovers – what goes around comes around at last,

For what we do to another returns to the Self.

 

As the bad seed genetically modifies behaviour,

But know we can plant good seeds after bad!

Good thoughts after dark!

Good deeds as the new life raft!

That carries us from sleeping to awakening,

For this is how we plant the new Garden of Eden,

And float the boat of REAL HOPE,

By being the Change We Wish to See in the World,

And cursing it not,

Envisaging the future in a new way,

Where we can live simply,

So others can simply live.

For always we can start from first principles,

Always the good teacher becomes the pupil,

And that is how we see (inner) to look (outer),

As we re-write our World book,

That is a new chapter,

In a new volume, a new series indeed a new Magna Carta of liberties,

As a living library evolving,

Retitled the ‘New Earth Charter of Civil Liberties’,

As the new earth charts a new direction and trajectory for we must change,

Rebirthing the bounty as inner abundance,

Of Our True Nature.

We are planting a roundtree that cycles health and wellbeing,

As spiral knowledge growing in conscious awareness and understanding of human-kind,

Is a kind human,

Reaching beyond the empty spaces

just-in-time.