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Learning Journey
Peace
Form a peace brigade for any conflict
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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.
Peace means living in a way that the other person is as important as you. It means putting an end to war in ourselves.
Explore
What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?
Reflect
What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Politics
Turn a political issue into a Quest
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Culture
What is explosive creativity?
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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?
What is the difference between outer and inner beauty? Are there objective standards for culture? What is creativity?
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Money
Just doing your job is lamentable
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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.
Explore
"Aren't you ashamed that you give your attention to getting as much money as possible?"
Reflect
"Aren't you ashamed that you give your attention to getting as much money as possible?"
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Spirituality
Find the good in anything
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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?
Can spirituality reform the acquisitive spirit? Can it exist without dogma, authority or belief? Is anything sacred anymore?
Explore
What was the most sacred experience in your life?
Reflect
What was the most sacred experience in your life?
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Society
Poverty, Technology, Morality
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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.
Explore
What are the principles of modern society?
Reflect
What are the principles of modern society?
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Relationship
Introducing Visionary Friendship
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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?
Explore
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced?
Reflect
What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced?
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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Understanding
Transform a problem before it arises
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: 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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Education
A Visionary Society Quest
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Self
Suffering, Happiness, Death
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Self
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?
Who are you? What do you stand for and what kind of person do you wish to become?
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A Visionary Society Quest
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"Public school is indoctrination and servitude"
"The continuing cry for 'basic skills' practice is a smoke screen behind which schools preempt the time of children for twelve years… By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors, and disgraces, I teach kids to surrender their will to the predestinated chain of command."
"Schools provide a ‘luxury-knowledge package’"
“Our education generally tries to train people to knowledge as a possession, by and large commensurate with the amount of property or social prestige they are likely to have in later life. The minimum they receive is the amount they will need in order to function properly in their work. In addition they are each given a ‘luxury-knowledge package’ to enhance their feeling of worth, with the size of each such package being in accord with the...
"Mass enslavement of elementarily educated minds"
"Public education is the elaborate and ingenious machinery for the mass-enslavement of elementarily educated minds, which was invented in the nineteenth century for the sake of private commercial profit under a regime of laisser faire."
"Resource in Education view"
Resource: DOCUMENT
"Resource in Education view"
Resource: DOCUMENT
"Resource in Education view"
Resource: TEXT
"Schools provide a ‘luxury-knowledge package’"
“Our education generally tries to train people to knowledge as a possession, by and large commensurate with the amount of property or social prestige they are likely to have in later life. The minimum they receive is the amount they will need in order to function properly in their work." See Resource by Erich Fromm
"Education is a weapon"
“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin. "The elaborate and ingenious machinery for the mass-enslavement of elementarily educated minds, which was invented in the nineteenth century for the sake of private commercial profit under a regime of laisser faire." Arnold Toynbee
"Resource in Education view"
Resource: TEXT
"Industrial education produces specialists"
“The thing made by education now is not a fully developed human being; it is a specialist, a careerist, a graduate. In industrial education, the thing ‘finally’ made is of no concern to the makers....In this controversy we are seeing the breakdown of the public school system, as an inevitable consequence of the breakdown of local communities.” Wendell Berry
"Resource in Education view"
Resource: DOCUMENT
"Voluntary participation in society through networks which provide access"
"The alternative to social control through the schools is the voluntary participation in society through networks which provide access to all its resources for learning....Such new institutions should be channels to which the learner would have access without credentials or pedigree—public spaces in which peers and elders outside his immediate horizon now become available...."
Life Path
How do you want to lead your life? Turn circles green to become a Visionary Citizen
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.
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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1. Challenge
When there is love the problem is simple. Otherwise, the problem is complex.
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.” Thich Nhat Hanh.
Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.” Thich Nhat Hanh.
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.
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
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?'
Create
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1. Challenge
Put the fair and good into your mind.
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?
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?
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.
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.
"This ingenious instrument of material exchange, money, has turned into the only means or the principal means of human communication…Money is the present-day name for the world of the human ego. Money dictates how we deal with everything – material, intellectual, and emotional things." Jacob Needleman
“There is not wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, and joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.” John Ruskin
“There is not wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, and joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.” John Ruskin
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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?
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
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?'
Spirit
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1. Challenge
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.
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.
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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.
Join us in Visionary Spiritual Community
Religiosity for the modern age
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.
Join us in Visionary Spiritual Community
Religiosity for the modern age
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?'
Love
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Look for the higher nature in anyone, the grandeur of any living being.
Look for the higher nature in anyone, the grandeur of any living being.
Do not mislead or take advantage of others for your own benefit.
Never give up on anyone.
Find one or two profound qualities in every person you meet.
Learn to see those who are invisible. For example, older people or those in poverty.
Focus on how you agree with others, not on how you differ.
Instead of fighting those causing harm, try help them.
Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
Do not mislead or take advantage of others for your own benefit.
Never give up on anyone.
Find one or two profound qualities in every person you meet.
Learn to see those who are invisible. For example, older people or those in poverty.
Focus on how you agree with others, not on how you differ.
Instead of fighting those causing harm, try help them.
Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
2. Visionary Society Public Event
Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day
Let's create a new and better Valentine's Day. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!
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. Alternative Valentine’s Day raises the possibility of true friendship, provides tools to deepen our relationship.
– Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
– Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
– Be faithful to all relationships and never give up on anyone.
– Support anyone who is sensitive to life.
– Learn to see all children as your own.
– Spending more than fifty percent of your time or energy on a personal relationship is a crime against humanity.
New Valentine’s Day presents the Visionary Friendship pledge, which is relationship without idolatry. Friendshape your friendships. Give your heart to humanity!
Let's create a new and better Valentine's Day. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!
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. Alternative Valentine’s Day raises the possibility of true friendship, provides tools to deepen our relationship.
– Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
– Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
– Be faithful to all relationships and never give up on anyone.
– Support anyone who is sensitive to life.
– Learn to see all children as your own.
– Spending more than fifty percent of your time or energy on a personal relationship is a crime against humanity.
New Valentine’s Day presents the Visionary Friendship pledge, which is relationship without idolatry. Friendshape your friendships. Give your heart to humanity!
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?'
Politics
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1. Challenge
Look for the good in the other side.
Do you vote? Why or why not?
2. Visionary Society Public Event
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.
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
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?'
Help Someone
The best way to find your own happiness.
"Hairdressing/Braiding Services"
"Shop and Market Stall (Duka na Genge)"
"Tailoring Business"
"Egg-Coated Peanuts"
"Henna Artistry & Groundnut Vending"
"Women’s Clothing & Tailoring"
"Spiritual Community"
"Just doing your job is criminal"
"Sewing and Selling Batik"
"Sewing and Selling Batik"
VISIONARY SOCIETY PROGRAMS
