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<p>A manifesto for citizens of Earth:</p>
<p>We were born from organic living beings as organic living beings within an organic living being</p>
<p>We came from the stars and from the womb, from dust and blood</p>
<p>We are breathing and eating and living and dying</p>
<p>We can forge meaning in any way we choose and we have the right to do so</p>
<p>Our true purpose is to be alive on Earth</p>
<p>Our purpose is to breathe through each moment as humans</p>
<p>Our purpose is not to escape</p>
<p>Our purpose is not to reject</p>
<p>Our purpose of ascension is not to turn away</p>
<p>Our purpose of ascension is to embrace</p>
<p>Ascension is to commit to being human</p>
<p>Our purpose is to be here</p>
<p>Our purpose is to commit to working through things</p>
<p>Our purpose is to let go of what is not eternal</p>
<p>Our purpose is Not to reject our bodies</p>
<p>Our purpose is Not to cling to our bodies</p>
<p>Our purpose is to be in our bodies.</p>
<p>Our purpose is to be more and more in our bodies.</p>
<p>Rejecting and clinging to our bodies both make it harder to be more and more in them.</p>
<p>Our purpose is to hold on</p>
<p>Our purpose is to let go</p>
<p>We are entitled to the air</p>
<p>To the water and vegetables and to friendship</p>
<p>We already own the land and the clothing and the borders and contracts</p>
<p>We already captain every ship and rule every throne and patrol every river and wall</p>
<p>We already parent the children and nurse the sick and bury the dead who fought for the other side</p>
<p>We already live and we already die and our whole purpose is just</p>
<p>To be alive one more time. And one more time. And one more.</p>
<p>Break my bread and feed half to the starving child.</p>
<p>She is already here in my belly vast and bright.</p>
<p>Drink my blood and pour it into the earth.</p>
<p>Your garden is already growing in my body.</p>
<p>Burn my hair and streak my face with soot and paint the names of evil on my bosom</p>
<p>The darkness already howls through my pores.</p>
<p>Give me a fence and I will break it down and feed it to the burning oceans</p>
<p>My mind is already polluted with the mess of our drills and factories and hubris.</p>
<p>Give me a ruler and I will measure my foot and transcribe it onto the constellations.</p>
<p>Give me an axe and I will bury it with a note in alien tongue.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me to plan when I already live in every moment and every heart.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me to stop suffering when this is my birthright.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me that to believe in God is childish when this is my birthright.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me I don’t understand when making mistakes is my birthright.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me that a doctor will heal my sickness when Illness is my birthright.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me when not to cry when the saltwater oceans already flow on my face.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me not to sing.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me that your money is king.</p>
<p>Don’t tell me that the hungry child has not earned your bread.</p>
<p>Don’t tell the school children that they are free citizens.</p>
<p>Don’t tell anyone they are slaves.</p>
<p>We are entitled to contradiction.</p>
<p>We own ourselves.</p>
<p>We own our problems and our solutions.</p>
<p>We own the food that you throw away and the medicine that you auction off to the richest bidder.</p>
<p>We are related to the homeless and we are responsible for the deaths from bombings and torches.</p>
<p>We are free to set fire to your institutions.</p>
<p>We know ourselves and what we need.</p>
<p>We personally know God in our own hearts.</p>
<p>Your priest means nothing to us anymore.</p>
<p>We are our own Gods. We are our own priests.</p>
<p>Bow down to the masses.</p>
<p>Hand us your guns so we may choose who to kill and what peace means.</p>
<p>Hand us your models of human behavior so we can prove you wrong.</p>
<p>Go ahead.</p>
<p>Predict what we’ll do next.</p>
<p>You might want to run for cover.</p>
<p>Seek shelter in the only truth we can ever truly pass along in this world:</p>
<p>Our purpose is to be alive, we are entitled to our bodies and to our home.</p>
<p>We are Spirit enlivening Earth with wisdom, heart, and power.</p>
<p>We have nothing to lose and everything to gain,</p>
<p>When we view our bodies as vehicles and</p>
<p>When we recognize the true meaning of life is just</p>
<p>To be alive.</p>
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