“Seed People”

I feel we are at the

       threshold of a new age,

and that we need now,

      more than anything else,

a new approach

       to human relationships

          and to social organization.

We need a planetary approach,

       we need a synthetic approach.

We need something in which

       the individual learns

          his own function in the world

because if you are to have

      a global world

the individual has to be

      so well established

         in his or her own identity

that he or she can afford to

      co-operate with other people

         all over the world,

independent of

      their culture,

         their race,

            their traditions

                and so on.

It is very important, therefore

      that one should learn

         how to establish oneself in

            one’s own identity.

We need a new type

       of human being.

We need something which is

       based no longer, so much,

          on conflict,

but on a

      full acceptance of the

         total human being

            body, mind, soul, feeling

               everything.

An esthetic approach

       versus

an ethical approach,

so that you can see

       the relationship

in which everything

       stands inside of the whole,

so you can look at the whole

       and become identified with the

“wholeness”

       of that whole,

rather than with any particular part.

Now this is,of course,

       a very difficult situation.

We are certainly

       in a difficult time

and what is ahead of us today,

       I do not know.

I am rather pessimistic

       as far as the immediate future is concerned,

considering the way

       the world and our nation

is moving at the present time.

But you must realize that

       crises are sometimes

necessary to accomplish

       what is to be accomplished.

The only problem, however,

       is this:

something must be ready before

       the great crisis comes

— when the new cycle begins —

       for it will have to begin

on the foundation of those

       seeds which have been sown

before the crisis.

If you have a winter

       followed by a spring, but

there was no harvest

       in the fall

no seed will germinate

       during the spring,

and you will have to start

       at the very beginning

into the most primitive time of manifestation.

That’s why I have stressed,

       so much all my life the idea I call

          the “seed man” and “seed woman”

the “seed person,” the individual

       who is willing and able

to gather within himself or herself,

       as it were,

the past of humanity

       and particularly of our western world,

but also of other cultures

because what we want

       to emerge from the future,

          after whatever crisis will come

             is a global world.

We therefore need

       men and women of great vision,

individuals who are not specialists,

       men and women who

have the vision and courage

       to wait,

and to, in some way

through their lives,

          through their example, and

             through whatever they leave

                after their deaths,

to become

       the seeds

          of the future world.

That’s of course,

       the great choice

          we have all to make,

             and we all can make it.

We can follow

       the mass vibration

          and decay, like

             all the leaves

                of the world

in the fall

       (however beautiful

          the golden leaves may be),

             they will have to decay

and become manure

       for the future

          of civilization,

but it is only

       the “seed men and women” that really count,

       and it is those

you should look for,

if you yourself do not

       feel yet to the point of being ready to become

a “seed person,”

       because it is that only which is 

the insurance for the future rebirth of humanity.

I think today

       it is of no use

to try to look

       to the immediate future,

because it looks very dark;

       but it is to look

to prepare —

       for the possibility that

a new world may arise,

       if not tomorrow,

the day after tomorrow.

I think it is the only thing

       which gives value to

all our sacrifice,

       all our courage, decisions and choices

today:

       it is to become seeds

for the development of the future world.

So I hope

       every one of you,

each one in your own life,

       in your way can —

some day soon, very soon,

       (if you have not done it already),

make the choice, and become

       “seed men” and “seed women.”

I thank you.

       Dane Rudhyar