International Relations
If we are willing to go to the root of things, the history of international relations is one characterised by a quest for power, superiority, and for ownership of land.
The power sought is for national survival, often through power over means, and exercised by force. More recently humanity has started to learn to share power, though the older tendencies of domination and self-interest still remain strong.
The quest for national supremacy has played out in tensions, conflicts, and wars.
And our nations’ relationship to land has been one of ownership, resource extraction, and conquest.
If we’re willing to look closely, these patterns don’t just characterise the history of our nations, but extend much further back through the rise and fall of tribes, kingdoms, and empires over the course of history.
In Singularity we perceive that nothing less than addressing these tendencies at the root level is going to be sufficient for genuine change.
We perceive that the way humanity across our nations has related to power comes from a fundamental disconnection the source of true power - the divine Life principle that resides in the core of all beings and the Earth.
This principle of divine Life was known to the ancients, and was celebrated in their mystery cults and initiation systems, from Ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece to Central and South America, Europe, Vedic India and China.
But over the last couple of millennia, it became lost, something represented in the mystery traditions by the lost phallus of Osiris, or the castration of the god Uranus, or in the lost word of Masonry.
The quest for superiority among nations is anchored in an ethnocentric allegiance to one’s own tribe or particular group, whether that be racial, social, or religious, often to preserve one’s own safety, comfort, and privilege.
Today, as the complex web of global crises builds, and the reality of our interdependence and interconnection becomes inescapably obvious, this ethnocentrism must give way to a recognition of the one humanity. Albeit one humanity with an incredible diversity of expressions.
This is a truth that has been brought to us in the message of great teachers, such as Christ and Buddha. Though those seeds are only now starting to sprout in the fires of our global crisis.
And we perceive that the drive among our nations for ownership of land in an extraction-based, degenerative paradigm comes from disconnection with the Earth as an abundant source of support, sustenance, and natural wealth, which does not need to be controlled but rather stewarded and honoured.
Again, this is a truth that was held in the ancient traditions of the goddess and the Great Mother.
Singularity stands for a radical and fundamentally necessary shift in humanity’s relationship with power, each other, and with land.
Our party and movement is dedicated to sourcing power not in positions of formal authority or in the domination of others, but in each leader’s surrender to the divine Life at the core of the Earth and all beings, and in opening to its will, love, and intelligence to move through our systems of governance.
We take our stand in humanity as one, which then expresses through the diversity of our different nations, cultures, and communities.
And rather than seeing land as something to be owned, controlled, and fought over, we stand for a relationship to the earth that begins with gratitude for the abundant food, natural wealth, and resources given to us, and in a commitment to steward them in service of the planet as a single living system.
We see the crises we collectively face today as a global initiation that is compassionately forcing humanity to take the needed steps to learn how to live in harmony with each other and the earth.
In order to cross the burning ground of this incredibly challenging time, we believe that nothing less than these radical reorientations will bring lasting solutions to the perpetual conflicts in the field of international relations.
This is our work.