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Peace
Form a peace brigade for any conflict
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Peace
Why do we fight our own brothers and sisters? Can conflict be resolved at the root?
Peace means living in a way that the other person is as important as you. It means putting an end to war in ourselves.
 
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Politics
Turn a political issue into a Quest
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Politics
Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible? Can the citizen make a difference? Are you worthy of democracy? Does politics have to be adversarial? What does it mean to vote with your life?
 
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Culture
What is explosive creativity?
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Culture
Can we combat mass culture? What is the purpose of art? How can we fight nihilistic culture without becoming self-righteous?
What is the difference between outer and inner beauty? Are there objective standards for culture? What is creativity?
 
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Money
Just doing your job is lamentable
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Money
Money is the life-blood of society. But it suppresses us. It keeps us working at jobs we don’t care about. It stops us from having time to achieve our dreams. We can do better. We can use money to create a more beautiful society.
 
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Spirituality
Find the good in anything
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Spirituality
Is there something greater than we ourselves? Does truth, good and beauty exist?
Can spirituality reform the acquisitive spirit? Can it exist without dogma, authority or belief? Is anything sacred anymore?
 
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Society
Poverty, Technology, Morality
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Society
We flounder in a sea of superficiality. Our passivity binds us to the existing order. We sought happiness, but received vacuity. An insight became a policy. A position was assumed, a relationship was defined. A dream turned into a bureaucracy.
 
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Relationship
Introducing Visionary Friendship
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Relationship
Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved? Why do we end up alone? Is relationship without betrayal, misunderstanding and forgetfulness possible? Is true friendship possible? Is love in society possible?
 
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Understanding
Transform a problem before it arises
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ENTER THE QUEST FOR Understanding
Is it possible to find the truth of a perspective or person? What is false in your life? What is real? Why is understanding so rare? Does truth exist?
 
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Self
Suffering, Happiness, Death
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How can we maintain our integrity in a world where power, success and money are valued about all else?
Who are you? What do you stand for and what kind of person do you wish to become?
 
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How peaceful are you? How much peace is there in your life? And how much conflict? When you are in conflict, do you use force or love?
Are you at war with yourself? Do you sometimes act with cruelty or brutality? In what ways are you narrow, superficial, fragmented? In what ways? Are you responsible for wars? What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?’
How do you get along with your parents, siblings, partners? How do you feel waiting in a supermarket line when there is an unexp
How do you lead your life? Do you participate in violent cultural activities, use respectful language? What would it mean to lea
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Think of any issue that you have a stake in, in which you are committed to one side. What is good or true about the side that you oppose? What are their grievances? How are they suffering?
Do you vote? Why or why not?
Repeat the pledge of allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
How does this make you feel?
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How actively do you participate in culture? Are you looking for stimulation and pleasure? Do you try to understand the purpose and effect of what you see and hear? Do you seek the good, true and beautiful?
What is your culture IQ?
How much time do you spend watching television, on the Internet, on your phone, or listening to music? How much do you engage in creative work or challenging thought?
What is beautiful or ugly, moral or immoral, in your community? In public spaces? In politics and the media? Among strangers and friends?
Think of a song, film or work of art you hae enjoyed. How does it make you feel? Does it inflame your ego? Does it reinforce stereotypes? Does it make you compare yourself to others? Or did it recognize the part of you that you admire? Did it make you feel more human? Did it address what is best in you?
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“I shall never stop practicing philosophy and exhorting you and elucidating the truth for everyone that I meet. I shall go on saying…Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.
What danger does money have for you? "There are some callings where [the ambition to get rich] is a dangerous impediment; among these I would include ministers, teachers, lawyers and physicians." Abraham Heschel
What is the meaning of a product or service you have purchased? What is its true cost? "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." Henry David Thoreau
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What was the most sacred experience in your life? “Was it a moment of love? A moment of beholding the awe of nature’s beauty or being moved by a stirring song, the birth of a child or being in the presence of a wise person?”
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?
What is sacred to you? The sacred is reality, purpose, being. What is most real to you? What lies in the secret chambers of your heart, in your unconscious? Money? Family? Success? Happiness?
Look for the good. Think of the worst person you know. Do you say bad things about them? Do you treat them with contempt? Can you say one good thing about them?
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What are the principles of modern society? Science and technology? Materialism, growth, market forces? Pleasure-seeking, lust, greed?
What are the biggest problems we face? Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear war? Inequality, injustice, poverty, disease? Loneliness, addiction, meaninglessness?
What is your experience of living in bureaucratic, centralized, organized, technological, materialistic society? Do you accept the ideologies of work, entertainment, politics? Do you accept your life with it and in it?
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What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced? What was universal about that – not tied to the particular person or experience?
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?
What are you willing to do for a friend? What are willing to sacrifice? What would you never give or sacrifice?
How are you the same as others? What do you have in common with other human beings? With all of life, animals and plants? With inanimate things, like rocks and air?
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What problem are you unable to solve? What are the peripheral and core elements of the problem? Are your intentions genuine? What are your secret motives? What are you evading? Gently, patiently, humbly and courageously enter into the problem and locate its heart.
What do you know? Give an example of something obvious, undeniable, certain. Is it a fact, an idea, a feeling? How do you know it is true? What evidence do you have? Is it worth believing in?
Are you able to think? Are you able to listen to views you disagree with? Are you able to see the truths of those you oppose? Are you able to locate the heart of the issue?
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What do you care about most? Personal security Accumulate money Your own happiness Recognition, status, fame Social justice Being a decent person Bring good into the world
What do you find humorous? Do you derive pleasure from the suffering of others? Watch yourself and see if you have this feeling. It may not be obvious, but if it is there you will find that it expresses itself in the impulse to laugh when somebody falls. You want those who are high to be pulled down; you criticize and gossip thoughtlessly about others.
What is the condition of your psyche? Do you judge others by their age, gender, race, attractiveness? Are you quick to anger? Jealous and envious? Lazy and ignorant? Bigoted and self-righteous?
How do you react when someone attacks you? Do you fight back? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you seeking status, position, money, relationship?
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Life Path
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Freedom
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1. Challenge
Be willing to suffer and sacrifice
Do not seek pleasure or security first. Be willing to suffer, even to give up everything, in the service of something greater than yourself. Give until it hurts.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Online Product Sales



This project focuses on running an online business that makes shopping easier for customers by handling product sourcing and delivery. Customers place their orders online, and I source the requested items from local shops. For clients who are nearby, I deliver directly, while for those farther away, I arrange for items to be shipped. The aim is to save people time and provide a convenient and reliable service.

To make this happen smoothly, I need financial capital that will allow me to purchase products in advance and on time. This prevents delays and helps maintain customer satisfaction. I also hope to establish a small physical center where clients can find me more easily. This will help build trust, increase visibility, and attract a larger customer base.


3. Establish Your Dream
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Learn
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When there is love the problem is simple. Otherwise, the problem is complex.
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2. Visionary Society Public Event
Think for yourself (Understand)



Find the heart and soul of any issue. Each person must set their own learning path. Let’s begin again, as a newborn babe.


3. Establish Your Dream
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Help
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1. Challenge


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Age





3. Establish Your Dream
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Create
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Put the fair and good into your mind.
See through the illusion of outer beauty. Support culture that lifts and inspires, informs and transforms. Put the fair and good into your mind. Find out what is explosive creativity.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Culture: Beautiful Books



Is a glorious culture possible? The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is. 


3. Establish Your Dream
Bring this Quest to reality in your own life and in society. Create a Project -- a life-long endeavor, or as simple as asking friends to support you. Click below on 'What do YOU want to see in the world?'




Money
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1. Challenge
Select a just vocation. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature.
What kind of work do you do? – Dysfunctional work, such as military, advertising. – Work that limits choice, such as banking. – Areas of obscene profit, such as education and healthcare. – Work that compensates for dysfunction, such as police, therapy. – Creative functions, such as design, writing, art. – Service providers, such as teachers, health care. – Vital functions, such as food.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Just doing your job is criminal



Money is magic. It’s a lucky charm, a talisman, a nomadic object. What can we do with it? Achieve personal happiness? Or can we go all the way?


3. Establish Your Dream
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Spirit
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Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality.
Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality. Decide to become capable of spirituality, freedom, love, good.
Begin with humility. Assume that you are ignorant, that every one of your assumptions are incorrect. That everything constructed by society is false. Begin by admitting that you are bewitched, seduced by whatever you are most fond of. Fight the idea that the greatest thing in life is to satisfy your interests or needs.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Spiritual Community

Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern life?

Are you okay with living your life as it is given to you? Or will you dive into the sea of the real? Go ahead, lift your head above the languid sea. Tell yourself: I am going to live. Greet the day with promise. Smile in the face of mortality.

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Religiosity for the modern age


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Love
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1. Challenge
Look for the higher nature in anyone, the grandeur of any living being.
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day champion a limited form of love. Don't cut yourself short. There is an even better kind of relationship.

Let’s find the core of the existing holidays: nurturing each other, helping each other, learning about each other. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!


3. Establish Your Dream
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Politics
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Look for the good in the other side.
“At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ from other people, but in what we agree with them; and the moment we find we can agree as to anything that should be done, kind or good, (and who but fools couldn’t?) then do it; push at it together.” John Ruskin


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Turn a political issue into a Quest

Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible?

Every time a political issue is presented to us we can look for a deeper way, one not based on superiority or coercion. Turn a political issue into a Quest.

Does politics have to be adversarial? Are you worthy of democracy? What would it mean to develop exquisite sensitivity to the human condition of the community?

Do not vote for a second-rate way of life, even if it is the lesser of two evils. We have more power than we realize, if we build up in ourselves, during the course of our life, the courage of heart and soul. Of refusing to close our heart. Of defending ourself against despondency and bitterness. Of the tenderness and fearlessness that is needed to approach our foes. This is voting as it was meant to be.

It doesn’t matter which side is right. It doesn’t even matter if we find a solution. Instead, our goal must be to look courageously, with humility and goodwill. That is already transformative action. Visionary voting means developing our latent and suppressed capacity for perceiving and acting at the deepest possible level. It means engaging people to respond at precisely the level at which deficiency is being generated.

Turn a political issue into a Quest
Every time a political issue is presented to us we can look for a deeper way, one not based on superiority or coercion. Take it as an opportunity to transform the field on which opposing parties meet, so that they no longer meet in opposition. Reconstruct any hopeless political issue and make it Visionary. Select a political issue, and we will work together to turn it into Quest.


3. Establish Your Dream
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