by Danny Schwartz

Created on: August 01, 2010

  Rationale

        Through all of its history, the human race had a vision about the future. The toltakemin Indians of Mexico call this vision "The dream of the planet". The dream of the planet is made up from all the different dreams of people from all around the world.

This dream is really our reality. Through our dreams we make our reality. If our dreams are about power and greed such will be our reality.

Today our dream of the planet resembles more of a nightmare. Almost everywhere, today's reality is harsh. Wars, bloodshed, hunger, disease, unrest. The reality on the individual level is also unpleasant. People all around are looking for meaning, for support, for community ties. The individual today feels that the world is an unloving and unwelcoming place.

In order to change this, people need a new and common dream around which they can build a better reality, one that will be more hospitable for the individual to live in.

This dream needs to be one that will appeal to people all around the world and it need to be something that is available for all. It needs to be something that anybody can achieve for himself because we live in an age where everybody wants to fulfill him or herself.

After thousands of years during which the dream of mankind was directed outward- toward exploring new frontiers and unknown lands and eventually also toward outer space- man eventually came to a point where his abilities fell short of his ambitions. It will take hundreds of years until the human race will start colonizing the planets. Today, the dream of an outward expansion no longer satisfies the people's need for a common dream or vision. This is the reason why during the last decades peoples from all around the world started more and more to look for answers in the opposite direction-not outward but inward. Today's new frontiers are not some far out frontiers to be conquered but rather they are the frontiers or barriers that lay within people and between peoples and nations that has to be broken in order for a new dream to emerge. This dream is the dream of the universal man and my project is aimed at advancing this idea and dream.

As I see it, the idea of universal man is the only thing that can stop the wild and ruthless competition between nations and cultures that is responsible for the sorry state of affairs in the world today. We already understand that we are one global village and that we need to cooperate and learn

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