In late 2004/early 2005 I wrote a manifesto with the help of Brianna Toth. Consciously avoiding the temptation to identify or impose concrete ideologies, we titled it 'the Manifestion'.
"The Manifestation" seems like a relevant starting point.
THE MANIFESTATION
Dear Contributors,
This is created with an unknown, yet specific audience in mind - an audience of all the potential futurs, our pasts and the presence. Whilst it in no terms seeks to locate an elite, it is important to remember that this could be for anyone. We can learn to trust our instincts. And with this new-found ability we shall soon have no doubt that anything can be for us.
It is seductive to bask in the illnesses and general negativity of an age. To feel crippled by those who claim control may often appear to be predestined. However, this is merely a self-defeating falsehood.
What should not be forgotten is that optimism allows for positive, energetic transformation and should not be feared. There seems to be a tendency to apologise for being marked by a strong, fearless and bold belief in humanity and it’s capabilities. Our true challenge is to create and engage with our own hopeful mythologies. Although it is potentially dangerous to extoll ideologies, it is surely valuable to be idealistic.
It is our responsibility, as those who sense these timely needs so acutely, to illuminate the immediate possibilities and options that have always stood before us. There is no need therefore to yearn after a bygone golden age or lust for an unattainable utopic futur. We can romanticise and thus empower what we are now.
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(Fast Forward to an Avant-Garde Spirituality)
In shared and unending splendour.
Matthew Stone
