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Birth
of the Light Millennium - Manifesto
A
Thousand Years More...
Bircan
ÜNVER
To
an Extra Terrestrial
In
his poem called "Age Thirty-five", poet
Cahit Sitki has come to rest in my heart
like a statue in my way of looking age,
life and time. I have interpreted "Age
Thirty-five" as a starting point through
the future from the point we have reached
up to now. We are passing through serious
changes in the means of life, place, space
and time. The river of life flowed in
New York instead of Istanbul. I had two
perfect son and I have innumerable projects
which I cannot control the borders.
On
top of us always hanging a "when" question.
What is our aim and what is the point
to be reached? When will we start the
projects accumulating in our brains?
I
cannot stand this century most of the
time and find the solution of thinking
that I belong to a further century. I
prefer the concept of "there is no specific
time", as Russian Film Director Tarkovsky.
Then we can start the Manifest of "YEAR
THREE THOUSAND CLUB" by protesting the
time scale of the earth.
Which
one of knows exactly our limits and our
time, where was it started and where will
it end? Let us assume that we have a thousand
year of life span. Then we dont
have to rush. There are lots of problems
throughout the world and no country or
society could solve it completely.
Neither
the Politicians nor the systems have the
eager and the power to solve these fundamental
problems. So lets ignore the natural life
span and continue our projects like we
could live a thousand years. From now
on I request a life, which lasts a thousand
years. I never expect this kind of offer
from someone. Many of my friends, including
my eighteen year old son, asked me why
I wanted to live for a thousand years,
and told me that they wouldnt want
to live that long. A couple of years ago
an actor friend of mine was even outraged
with the idea, and had said, "What do
you find in life, why do you want to live
for a thousand years? Seventy years is
more than enough!" He extended his anger
through a mutual friend and did not call
me again.
Yesterday
upon hearing my desire my brother-in-law
relieved me by saying, "Why are you in
a hurry, youve got sixty million
years to go"
ONE THOUSAND YEARS is
not an improbable wish, then! Lets
analyze the THOUSAND YEARS first. First
of all, I want to keep in touch with the
things and people I love for a thousand
years. I certainly respect those who find
this scary, tiresome, or unworthy
I am planning to found the YEAR THREE
THOUSAND CLUB with those who like the
idea. In fact, this is a proposal of an
alternative clan, in an age in which youth
choose suicide at age eighteen
We
can make this happen. We can publish a
magazine called YEAR THREE THOUSAND on
the Internet, and express our expectations
from and predictions about life. A new
magazine that elaborates on future relationship
between man and woman, mother and child,
father and child, employer and employee,
landlord and tenant, and all other aspects
of life
Relationship between planet
Earth and other planets. What kind of
language will be used when aliens and
earth inhabitants marry each other. For
instance, at that point English can be
a language spoken in a tiny village
We can treat the Internet as a virtual
planet and we can create planet
YEAR THREE THOUSAND on it. Our point of
meeting is the Internet.
So
I invite all friends to daydream. Without
seeking assistance from any substance
or alcohol
One way or another, all
societies undergo the process of brainwashing
or becoming more insensitive. Lets switch
to a different lane, a lane that we choose
for ourselves, and reshape everything
from scratch in this new phase
There
is no doubt that the outcome will be much
more efficient than those we achieve when
we sleep while awake.
This
text can be regarded as an attempt to
push the limits of bizarre thinking
Excuse me
Now
I am forty
The
reason why I question the concept of age
is Cahit Sitki Taranci. I wrote an article
about this matter five years ago and dedicated
that work to him. This article, however,
is dedicated to a creature called extra
terrestrial, of which we know the existence
but could not identify the secrets. I
sense that these extra terrestrials will
bring real biological and spiritual transformation
on earth
This expectation has a
practical aspect, too. That they have
a life span of 500 years
I will
turn to this issue.
Last
summer in Istanbul, my escalating anger,
vicious cycles in life, in the system,
and the world in general, led the way
of imaginary and reasonable escape
As the darkness intrudes the day, the
cultures including ours- have started
to accept this phenomenon without any
questioning at all. Then the fact that
one cannot change this fact by herself,
and the anger attached to this realization
At the same time, the desire to see and
live in the year three thousand
.
Still
hesitating to join this club, which has
the ideal of living in year three thousand?
Wouldnt you want to have the opportunity
to compare the world in year three thousand
and the world in today? A CALL TO DREAM
THE FUTURE INSTEAD OF THE PAST
The
past is a collection of redundancy. To
see that future is not the summation of
recurring past. In the year three thousand,
atom bombs, nuclear weapons, guns, assaults,
and other tools used for killing human
beings will be regarded in the same way
we see the prehistoric tools now
The Earth joining other planets, and macrocosmism/universalism
replaces globalization. Protesting our
unimportant roles in todays world
where political power/money dominates
everything is not a passive reaction.
Being on that stage, but differentiating
your actions from other people on the
stage
We will not leave the stage!
If
we are the extension of all human existence
on earth, we should not worry because
we will somehow exist in the extension
in year three thousand as well. There
is a difference, though
Extra terrestrials
will be members of our families
Other planets will be like other countries
that we visit by space ships
Visiting
our relatives in space or moving to another
planet will be much easier than moving
to another country in todays world
We will experience significant biological
and spiritual transformations. Life span
wont be a problem any more; five
hundred or one thousand years. However,
it is difficult to predict the transformation
in genes, the format of changes in our
spirits and our brains, and implied changes
in behavioral patterns. We aim to dream
and produce predictions about these issues.
I
believe that nature has an extraordinary
power, but I dont understand why
this extraordinary power facilitates the
darkness and permits its success... History
and politics looks like a contingency
of conspiracies and intrigues. Why millions
of peoples in he world worship most violent
leaders in every age? Is darkness the
common energy of humans?
Is
it a coincidence that movies, television,
computer games, and various other forms
of entertainment promote the violence
while organized violence in high and middle
schools take off at the same time? While
local wars are promoted on one side, there
are democratic countries in which "one
can kill another freely" by purchasing
one of two hundred million guns traded
without any restrictions. Unfortunately,
"freedom to kill" is the common backbone
of all systems
If
we live for a thousand years, we can initiate
the efforts to stop the prevailing darkness.
We can have enough time to work on and
to see the outcomes of our efforts
And
lets say this every second, in every
occasion as if it is an ordinary wish.
You know it is believed that if something
were said forty times it would come true,
depending on the belief that thus brings
the unconscious to the conscious and as
a result, the possibility of making this
wish, this thought true might increase.
One
of these sayings was on a night last summer
when we were together with our dear friends,
Emre and Emire Konuk. That night I said,
"I want to live for a thousand years"
because Im worried that time will
not be enough for the projects I want
to do. Mr. Emre told me that the lifetime
of an Extra Terrestrial is 500 years.
Since then I am looking for an Extra Terrestrial.
I
can accept even 500 years as a start.
Then we started to develop a theory. As
a result of an affair with an Extra Terrestrial,
like the plants, we might be inoculated
and
so
that both our lifetime would be 500 years
and we would become half human half alien.
Just like the mermaids in the fairytales
Or like turning into a prince of a tortoise
And one day those weird creatures that
are said to visit the universe, would
turn into extraordinary talented, clever
and beautiful prices and princesses.
And
then, with this love and half-alien children,
we and alien price-princesses could start
the world-space marriage just like in
the theory of creation by Eve and Adam.
We
could carry the whole universe to a different
period in the shape that there will no
going back and no repetition.
These
thoughts are not more surrealist than
Salvador Salis paintings, yet. It
is for sure that the ones we can not prove
are more real than those we can. Also
a very serious biologic and spiritual
transformation is a must and inevitable.
Otherwise the human tragedy that goes
on for thirty thousand years would have
completed its evolution. There is only
one basic condition to be solved and that
is; fulfilling basic needs should be idealized
by all the systems in the universe, a
global solution should be produced and
applied. Because of not establishing this,
humanity could not follow the principles
of Classic Greek ideal Human
or Niethsches Superior Human
commonly . And Marxs socialism theory
fade away in the existing frame. The hope
is in: the core of globalization - in
the life that would be established on
love basis of human-aliens
It
seems Stephen Hawkings bio-human
theory and the assumption that big love
affair with aliens and the children of
this big love would change the humanity
meets on a common point. According to
Hawkings theory humanity will go
through a very serious biologic-physical,
mental-spiritual transformation. Maybe
there will not be jealousy, revenge and
hate feelings anymore... And this might
mean that we will throw the burden of
whole past and history out of our backs
and cells. This will save our feet and
mind from the past and let us make big
steps through emptiness of space.
According
to a thought, the difference of love concept
between an alien and human is: human has
expectations when she loves but alien
loves without any expectations till the
end. So humanity has to have love affair
with aliens just even because of this
reason. So that they learn to love without
expectations and till the end.
Wouldnt
you like to join Three Thousand
Year celebrations? Dont you
wonder how universe will be or relations
will be with other planets and creatures
then? Even if you dont there is
a practical profit of thinking this way.
If you look at the things that you can
not bare from this dimension, our power
to bare it will expand our horizons and
this help us to increase that possibilities
or you live in a dream world that maybe
the escape or exit way from daily life
burdens...
In
his documentary called Stephan Hawkings
Universe", physicist Seth Shostak says
"Todays unthinkable is tomorrows
tradition". Every thought of human
have a response in the universe, those
thoughts that are considered as surreal
or very absurd today, will come to daylight
with scientific formulas and explanations
sooner or later. So following these thoughts,
I believe that Egypt Civilization will
reborn in three thousand because they
have dreamed and planned about this so
waxed their dead for this. Year three
thousand will be the year in which Egypt
Civilization and Antic Greek will reborn
and at the same time universe will combine
and unite with other planets.
WELCOME TO YEAR THREE THOUSAND
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WELCOME TO THE LIGHT MILLENNIUM...
Translated
by Isitan Ozgur Gun
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Note:
While I was writing above personel
essay on my 40th birthday during the
first week of May 1999 (New York),
the very first idea about the Third
Millennium project was born. Then
the magazine title has been changed
to the Light Millennium since its
Introductory issue August 1999. Thus,
I have defined this essay as an Manifesto
of the LIGHT MILLENNIUM magazine (later
the organization's). The original
Turkish version of this essay with
the title, "Bin
Yil Daha..."
published in the Turkish version /ISIK
BINYILI in January 2000.
B.U. October 2000. |
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Yil Daha...
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