The History of the Future

The History of the Future book parallels the material of the lecture/seminar program and The History of the Future documentary.

It presents an overview of the Einstein/Fuller universe and then applies this information to the major belief systems we now use to run the planet. The errors of these beliefs are quickly revealed and the opportunities of the new reality paradigm are made clear.

The book continues outlining the next era of the human race, The Solar Age. The experience of life in this new epoch is as different from our present experience as ours is from the Stone Age.

It concludes with the coverage of Fuller’s Global Grid Initiative. This win-win, doable project is offered as a concrete step the planet can take to move the conversation from the ideological level into real time and space.

INTRODUCTION

In the middle of the 1970s, I taught high school in Louisville, Kentucky. The social studies department decided to offer a course based on Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock. Since I was the only one of two in my department who had even read the book and was the only one willing to teach the course, I got the job. The class was a big hit with the students and opened the door to a whole new life for me.

Over the next few years, I was introduced more and more to the dangers facing our planet and the exciting solutions to meet them. So I left the classroom and decided to create ways to broaden and deepen this body of knowledge, with all of its opportunities, among the general population of the world.

Running parallel with these events was my introduction to music. I had helped to form a musical group that achieved some local recognition. By the effect the group had on audiences, I concluded that music was the medium to reach large numbers of people in a meaningful way.

Leaving my teaching career, I moved to Nashville to launch my musical one. Although my stay there did not produce the breakthroughs I wanted, it did give me freedom to write songs and to expand my research. From Toffler’s work I was quickly led to the works of Albert Einstein and R. Buckminster Fuller.

Before Einstein, the world operated on the basis of a pool of traditions that made up our picture of reality. Fuller’s work revealed that the truths of these traditions are outdated in light of the information explosion sparked by Einstein. Like other centuries before us, the twentieth century has become a time of transition from one way of thinking to another. The purpose of this book is to assist the reader in understanding the nature of this transition and to make clear the importance of the individual’s role in its successful outcome.

Fuller spent over 50 years of his life developing a technology based upon Einstein’s science. He concluded that if we used the principles of the real universe in the design of our technology, we can create a wealthy, global society that lives in peace with the environment rather than at the present expense of it.

After moving back to Louisville, I created a second avenue to popularize this information. Stardate One: Creating the Global Nation is a lecture/workshop using dialogue and slides. The program covers the the Einstein/Fuller reality shift and its impact on four major traditions: physics, biology, economics, and politics. I use these four to serve as the foundations of what we call reality.

After years of performing my music and presenting the lecture around the United States and in Russia, I took the advice of many people to put it all in a book: a book written in simple language to show it is now time to create one nation from the "countries" of Earth.

Today, all countries are faced with dangers that exceed our national level of thinking. What we are up against, especially in regard to the environment, threatens us as living beings on the planet. Continued loyalty to these old ideas of reality have created problems that truly can end all life on Earth.

If we are facing global threats, then it only makes common sense to create a global means to deal with them. What is needed, according to Einstein, Fuller, and a host of others, is the creation of a constitutional world government, a global nation.

Some say the United Nations is already here to deal with global questions. However, the United Nations is not able to do that adequately. In 1783, the new American nation created a system of government just like the United Nations to meet its problems. The central flaw to this kind of government is that it has no power to govern. Each member state keeps its individual freedom from the system. Each state decides whether or not it will obey the decisions of the Congress. The government does not have the power to rule by law.

The same situation exists with the United Nations. Each country has the power to obey or ignore what the United Nations decides. With the United Nations, as with the 1783 American form of government, each member is more powerful than the central government, unless the government acts with unified power.

In 1787, the American nation decided it had to have a government with unified power if the nation was to survive. The separate states, like the countries of Europe, were beginning to have disagreements that threatened to break out into open warfare. The founders of the 1783 American system remet in Philadelphia to come up with another system of government.

They quickly concluded that their only hope of solving national problems was to create a national government to rule the "country" by law. They wrote the Constitution to give the new national government legal authority to meet the problems of the whole nation. Its opening lines say it all:

"We, the people, in order to create a more perfect Union... "

Today the situation is the same, except now the problems are global. Like the young American nation of 1787, we, as citizens of the world, are beset by problems involving us all but we have no true government to deal with them. What is needed now is the creation of a real world government to meet real world problems.

Throughout the text of this book the word country is in quotation marks. As you will see, the bottom-line message of this book is that there are no "countries". When you view our planet from a distance, there are no little dotted lines on the surface with a country on one side and a foreign "country" on the other. There is only our little planet in the vastness of space. We do not live in countries ; rather, the concept lives on in us as outdated traditions.

During the period when all of these "countries" were created, someone came up with the word patriotism to describe loyalty to your nation over loyalty to your state. It is based on the Latin word for a "country", and it soon captured the hearts and minds of the new national citizens. Underpinned with flags and emotional songs, patriots endured any hardship, including death, for their country.

I wondered what would be a word for loyalty to the planet. Not finding one in the dictionary, I took the Greek root of the word "earth" , eraze, and coined the word eracism (AIR’-uh-cism). The idea of planetary loyalty is beginning to flower all over the globe, and millions of people are enduring all kinds of hardships, including death, for the welfare of our true nation, the Earth.

The central question of this book is: What is the role that we, as individuals, are playing? Are we part of the problem or part of the solution? We have only a short period of time to decide whether we will move to a future of unparalleled peace and prosperity or to extinction.

--- Michael Kessler (Louisville, KY)