The Fourth Way-Update-July 1, 2022
An Indigenous Strategy to Build Sustainable, Peaceful, and Harmonious Prosperity in the Americas and Beyond
PREFACE
The Fourth Way is a movement of the Human Family to address the unfolding crisis of the 21st century, a crisis of multiple dimensions that has slowly revealed itself over the last 24 years since publishing the first draft of the Fourth Way. This crisis's size and scope are unprecedented in that it is global and multifaceted, involving the prospect of economic, political, social, and ecological chaos and collapse. The result of this crisis is the birthing of a fundamental organic change on a level few members of our Human Family now contemplate.
We, the inhabitants of Mother Earth, now face a moment of choice. Will we emerge from this deepening crisis into a new golden age of human understanding, or will we continue to witness more significant social conflict, increasing human suffering, the loss of ecological health, and democratic society?
Until we believe that we can build a New World Civilization, based on the Oneness of the Human Family and all Living Beings, free of inequality, injustice, and abuse of any form, and act together in unprecedented, unified action, with "One Heart and One Mind, in Many Bodies," as Crazy Horse called it, our suffering will continue to deepen!
This Global Transformation of consciousness will prove to be the most significant global challenge experienced by the Human Family since the dawn of recorded Human History. This transformation will change the foundations of modern economics, the nation-state, our social structures, current agricultural and eating practices, religious cooperation and respect, and contemporary politics.
Stated simply, among other equally crucial dimensions, like the environment, we have reached the end of a long cycle of credit and debt expansion increasingly characterized by destructive asset bubbles, income stagnation, and the enormous concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the corporate-led global financial elite. The debt is now due! Current income will not pay!
In addition to unpayable debt, we face a massive volume of derivatives on that debt that would come due if and when the debt defaults. Since the debt is unpayable, we face the prospect of a global crisis that will unravel the traditional financial and political order worldwide.
If you add the impact of the global Covid-19 epidemic and the deepening conflict between Russia, Ukraine, and their supporters, the potential for severe global economic challenges is now happening. The struggle of a large part of our Human Family for economic survival, political participation and power, and even for the right to have a degree of personal privacy and autonomy will characterize the following years.
Modern communications, computing power, and crowd suppression techniques have radically increased the capacity to track and record all human interactions, whether via telephone, cell phone, e-mail, car, train, bus, or plane, and brutally suppress all dissent. These changes have all happened in the last seven years.
Equally, if utilized in a collaborative, principle-centered, purposeful manner, these digital communications technologies can be invaluable tools for forging a whole new social, political, economic, spiritual, and cultural relationship between all members of our Human Family!
In this regard, Mother Earth's first Digital Nation is now being born. The Union of the Condor, Quetzal, and Eagle directly connects all the digital networks connecting more than 80 million Indigenous Peoples across the Americas. This does not include the growing number of Allies and relatives with Indigenous connections to the Americas spiritually awakening to their Indigenous roots.
Our Collective Vision and Action further unfolding during 99 Days of Peace through Unity, is Unifying Our Human Family, Ending War, and beginning Peace on Earth by 2030.
