Title: The New Age Pro-Creative Culture When we strip down the heavy husk of the current western cult with strong references to rights, ownership and mono-currency we conclude the industrial, technological and information age. The New Age has began in the contextual streams of habituation. The New Age is a fresh empowerment, agreement and understanding. The New Age will define itself as the process making itself, a culture. past present future passive consent agreement responsibility The process is an untangling of cultural dogma and confusion. The process is an evolution of understandings at various scales. The process is continually re-grounded in personal participation. The New Age will fundamentally empower every choice like no prior era. This upheaval will cast a shadow as dark as the light of its freedom. Into this darkness will hoot the untended spirits and demons we face. Despite the difficulty of fearing an endless burden of responsibility it is just like the process of maturing from childhood to adulthood. Historically, the birth pangs of humanity are considered worthwhile. What will it look like? How can we dispel our fears? Is there an easy path that will prevent calamity? Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. The very nature of super-egotistical change involves real challenge. The agreements we make will always have inner and outer influences. The process of revealing harmonious understandings will evolve too. Fortunately, we benefit from the records of experimental human endeavor. Throughout recorded history many great cultures developed human ideals. All of the polarities and possibilities have already been well researched. Within their context, previous cultures have summarized and redefined. From within well defined contextualization, innovation has always sprung. Our New Age is upon us, the contexts are our summaries and definitions. What's unique for us, in our time in history, relates to recent changes. We have come to a time when information and technology proliferate. We see globalizing infrastructure colliding with sustainable ecology. Knowing historical variations of cultural norm presents questions for us. This is occurring at a pace undigestible personally and in larger society. We are challenged to realize our place in the unfolding of human history. Historically, people were able to avoid a primary responsibility. The perception and intention in each choice to alter wider culture. Conformity stood as the basis for all the other cultural values. The deviant could blame ill behavior on the devil and evil. Our New Age began when democracy became every choice making culture. Only our present age would enable us to perceive and intend a real world democracy at the smallest scale layering upward toward global humanity. When the largest organizational structures are suspended in living choice. When the smallest scale of creating culture is sustained in living choice. We will replace our references to rights, ownership and mono-currency and choose nesting currencies of interest, understanding and agreement. If previous cultures would not have posed these suggestions for us... If a cult of drifting western materialism hadn't started burning us... We might not have come to our current situation of choice. We might not have come to an Age of Pro-Creative Culture. What a pipe dream! yehoshanah 15/7/2004