Susan knew that while living among
the Nameless, her intellect would be respected. The women were equal in number
among the administrators, and welcome in their counsel. This aspect had
frustrated many egos, who had attempted to dwell among the Nameless. In the
other world, the males dominated the females in intellect, while the females
dominate the males in emotion. Among the Nameless, God’s true dispensation was
seen, that male and females are equal in power, which had many heavy
consequences in social and work arrangements. The egoic men didn’t think of
the women as venerable; but the Nameless men needed to begin with this
presumption.
The commune arrangement saved a lot
of labor, for instance in cooking, where just by multiplying ingredients, one
cook could provide for fifty rather than for four as it is among the families.
But, among the Nameless, the males were just as eager for such roles as the
females, even priding themselves that they could chop vegetables faster, or
carry heavy loads around the kitchen, by their stronger bodies as bestowed by
the Creator. The administrators sought to keep a balance between females and
males in most roles, except where the stronger body was a definite advantage,
for instance in shoveling or other manual tasks. The Nameless women were
unexpectedly potent in any role, something that was not expected from human
history. It also took an unusual male to accommodate such a female, one who was
not body-identified, and could recognize feminine power.
Susan was herself an administrator,
having worked in farming while in her twenties, then as an elementary school
teacher in her thirties and forties. She knew she had an awesome responsibility
on her shoulders, but she also remembered what it was like for her, in her own
teenaged years. In those years, she longed for wise direction, for someone who
had long experience of life to tell her what society truly needed, and to see to
it that from the labors of others, she could focus all her energies on the
assigned task and expect full support for her body as the house of spirit, her
mind and capabilities.
The role of administrator is terrific
and crucial, but the lifestyle of the Nameless helps to ensure there is no
corruption. Susan doesn’t expect anything more from her society, than she
would receive in any other role. Her joys are in rich interactions with the
noble persons around her; that is where her real treasure lies! Like all her
other roles, she accepts the role of administrator, handed to her by older
administrators, when she reaches the age of fifty, not before that time. She’s
expected to use her accumulated wisdom and experience to help direct the
activities of the whole society, which means assigning jobs to the young, and
reassigning jobs should there be shifts in the needs. The role means keeping
abreast of the trends in the real world, where there is famine or other trouble,
and where shortages of manufactured goods may develop. She had a lot of power
over the lives of others, saying “You go there and do that,” but she bears
the role humbly, always transforming herself into the very person she’d
direct, by authentic Golden Rule Thinking. She knows if she says a thing to a
younger person, it is a rational statement she also would have accepted at that
age. This is the deep integrity of the Nameless, across the generations.
The markets of the Nameless are
totally unexpected, according to human history. The people are frugal in their
demands upon the society, and the administrators are generous in response to
rational requests. Most people will spend many months thinking about some item
that might enhance their life, wondering if it is unfair to the others or too
excessive in its demand upon the resources. When they finally present the
request, it is very timidly, that they had exceptional needs, or have a reason
to try to elevate the general standard. The administrators deal with requests
like that, which are never frivolous, but which sometimes must be denied as they
work from their long experience.
If you go to a market of the
Nameless, the goods are all set out on tables, or else the store is maintained
as a dispensary. If you are a storekeeper, your only concern is to lay out the
goods in a pleasing fashion that is accessible to the people, to track inventory
and let the manufacturers know if something is getting low in supply. The people
never take more than they need, since they regard possessions as like burdens,
not treasures. If there is an open-air market, the vendors lay out their goods
and then find themselves other amusement for the day, such as playing Ultimate
Frisbee or attending performances of music or drama. When they come back to
their tables at the end of the day, only some things have been taken, where the
frugal people decided they really needed something.
Things change when the people live
free from selfish demands. Suddenly they are alive in spirit, no longer taking
their value in possessions. There is actually a trouble in getting them to
accept things that the administrators decided would be in their best interests,
so frugal are they. A case in point would be cell phones. If the administrators
decided each person could have a cell phone, only one in ten might take one. The
rest see clearly that the cell phone interrupts a profound inner awareness, and
the building of mental models for many other personalities. It looks like a
burden to them, so even if the administrators plead they should each have one,
they won’t agree, and eventually the administrators will admit the cell phone
is only useful in a few unique circumstances.
There is this basic truth, that if
you want more than what the others can have, it is a form of cruel oppression
against them. It would seem the egos begin with this proposition, which is most
hateful and hostile against true society between loving spirits. The egos begin
by wanting more than the others can have, for failure of ability to apprehend
these others are more than objects to them, as they strive for domination. The
egoic society is thus most antisocial before angels, but angelic society is also
antisocial before egos. The egos cannot form bonds of love beyond the family,
based on the noble attributes of the person irrespective of birth. For angels
this is the most natural thing.
Jesus said that the pure of heart
would see God, but this is not necessarily the same group as the meek who will
inherit the Earth. If the pure in heart gather, it will be a long time, at least
centuries, until the powerful women are established where they ought to be, as
equal to the men in intellect but with a feminine perspective. This one thing is
extraordinarily oppressed among the egos, an arrangement agreed upon by egoic
females, who find their own type of domination against the males, in emotion
rather than intellect.
Susan had also lived among the egos,
and could attest that the angelic males around her, had shocked her with an
opening into responsibility she could never express before. In what had been a
difficult and harrowing lifetime, she had remolded her mind to express the
intellect, while in childhood she needed to act subservient to males, if she
expected to survive. She knew that she was no match for the young girls coming
up among the Nameless, who developed their intellects from birth in the presence
of males who acknowledged their equality by power. She’d do the best she could
do, but the next generation, and the next, would be more powerful, leading the
Nameless in better directions.
It had always seemed funny to Susan,
that to fulfill logic they needed to ignore some of the revelations of Jesus.
Jesus said not to store up provisions for the morrow, but in a logical society
it was absolutely required to store provisions in case of drought or other
causes of famine. How the Lord could appear as the enemy to logic and truth, was
one of the mysteries that many people were discussing in the seminars. Jesus
spoke to the nuclear family crowd, who needed to pray to God for an assistance
that they would never bestow on one another. The communitarian lifestyle is a
radically different picture. Here the people love one another and want one
another to have full sustenance of the body. They don’t take up private
stores, they take up public stores, for the sake of one another’s joy. So if
Susan declares the society needs more silos stacked with dried soybeans, it
isn’t something she is taking for herself, which was Jesus’ main issue
against the sinners.
The one thing that had always amazed
Susan since the Nameless had begun to gather, was the total harmony. If she had
any idea that she knew was rational, she had only to whisper it, to find many
others attentive and caring. They respected her emotional and intellectual
presence, and could respond to very subtle signs as they delighted in their
spiritual knowledge of the situation, which is to say knowledge of what is
occurring in the deepest regions. The Nameless had become the opposite of the
other world in many ways. They had stopped making demands on the society and
resources, looking for ways to help and fun they could have with one another
that didn’t harm the planet. It is a big deal when a soul can look beyond the
family for rich relationships. Then you don’t need to have so many children,
then you don’t try to create a mini-society, when God has already put so many
souls into human bodies, a glorious event worthy of appreciation.
Like all the others, she was limited
in what she could accomplish. She studied day and night to try to understand the
needs of her society, and struggled within her capacities to make wise
decisions, knowing that in her own next life she’d also face administrators
choosing the work roles, and wanting to give those very decisions she would
herself agree were fair and logical ones, if the positions were switched. One of
her functions, was to try to adjudicate if some people said they were unfairly
burdened. It can happen, in the best of efforts, that the most unpleasant jobs
are handed off to a few without noticing it. A useful example is shoveling
manure on a farm. Susan laughed, considering that egos put in the role of
administrator would not hesitate to assign such a job to people they dislike.
But she knew that the unpleasant jobs should be shared, and if she is a wise
administrator she will notice the disparity before the workers complain. Someone
should shovel manure for two hours, then another can take over. Or someone
should do it for two years, then move on to another role. Or among truckers, no
one should follow that role for a lifetime, unless they are truly inclined.
With wry amusement she considered that driving was
considered a luxury among egos, but an unpleasant task among the Nameless. You
just sit, and how interesting can that be? Among the Nameless they needed to
provide extra perks, that the trucker could rest for a week after a trip across
the country, going fishing or otherwise enjoying the local pastimes, or else
everyone would agree the work was too burdensome for full joy of the spirit. But
among egos, they’d give up the ecstasy of moving the body, because their souls
were too weak to appreciate the marvelous situation God had bestowed in these
bodies of intelligence! Trucking is necessary, but the quality of life is poor
unless you can balance it with rest, exploration, and other benefits of travel.
Humans were incomprehensible, to Susan! If offered the same perks, human
truckers would drive night and day just to spend the vacant time in debauchery,
where the wise administrators had expected the driver would want to take his
time getting across the country, running or bicycling for ecstatic thrills at
various stops along the route, and never failing to meditate each morning.