The Lightning Path In a Nutshell

We believe that health is a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.^[1]The constitution of the World Health Organization provides the basic statement, but we add spiritual health to the definition. “Constitution of the World Health Organization,” 1946. https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution.

We believe that humans are typically born physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually healthy and that they only need proper care and support in order to develop into their full human and creative potential.

We believe that properly caring for and supporting involves creating environments capable of meeting all Seven Essential Needs^[2]“It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs.” Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2022. https://www.academia.edu/61410417/.

We believe the current globalized Regime of Accumulation, also known as The System, is designed to enrich a few while exploiting and impoverishing the many.

We believe that the beneficiaries of this system create and enable a system of Toxic Socialization that intentionally damages the the body and mind through neglect of our Seven Essential Needs.

We believe the goal of toxic socialization is to create individuals who are easier to manipulate and control.

We believe that the current economic system depends, for its motive force, on addiction to money.

We believe that this addiction is out of control.^[3]How Money Is Destroying the World.” The Conversation, 2018. https://theconversation.com/how-money-is-destroying-the-world-96517.

We believe that this out-of-control addiction, coupled with the incredible power of modern administrative, economic, and productive systems, has enabled unprecedented exploitation of humans and unparalleled destruction of the natural world.

We believe that the planet and its people are nearing the brink of complete and total collapse.

We believe that in order to save humanity and this planet from the debacle that would ensue, the current system needs to be immediately replaced with new and ancestral scientific, economic, and spiritual paradigms that are more advanced that extant paradigms.