There is
NO PLANet B

A Pandemic of Irrationality
is Sweeping across Our World

The Essence of Civilized, Rational Life
is at risk of being demolished and destroyed


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Time for (r)Evolution

Our Civilization is At Risk

We Al l Must Work Together
or
We will all live under Extremists
and then live under T-Rex

WE CAN DO IT. We can come together and overcome the threats at our doorstep.

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SOUL = Survival and Sustainability of Organized Human Life

SOUL is concentrated human action determined to build the logical foundations and underpinnings and processes for Change in order to Sustain Organized Human Life. SOUL is effort, is work, is energy, is spirit, is living beings committed to Life. This brings together all of the sciences, and the humanities - all the disciplines of mind, study, culture, work, business.

SOUL is not just "a project" or programme of "ideas". It is certainly not only a collection or series of lectures, talks, books, articles. However, its work includes all of that and much more. It also encompasses proactive socioeconomic initiatives and dramatic new actions never undertaken by masses of millions of humans at one time and with one purpose, one goal. SOUL is taking an entirely New Approach to Changing the World, not only "for the better", but for Survival of Civilization. That is in part why we use the motto and symbol of (r)Evolution

We as a Human Species, as a Planetary Culture and Civilization, have Run Out Of Time.

Facing our own Extinction as well as that of thousands of other living species on this Earth, facing the Doom-Consequences of paying no attention to our current Climate Dynamics and Extremes and the consequences from these radical and non lineaar changes (e.g., for emergence of new zoonotic diseases that can rapidly initiate high-mortality pandemics) and also to our current Imminence of Species Suicide, through Nuclear War and general collapse of our Infrastructures, we have an Imperative upon all our heads and shoulders. We Must Act Now, as a People, of all nations, ages, races, demographics and personalities. We Can Survive and Sustain. Here is one more powerful path and powers we can use.


Right now, in our 21st century of generally accepted calendar-reckoning, some 2500 years after the flowering of philosophy, democracy, and a wealth of intellectual and social development in not only ancient Greece, India, China, Africa, the Americas and elsewhere, but around the planet in many other communities and societies, we are facing Demolition and something far, far worse than any previous "Dark Ages" in historical memory or record. We are facing the possibility of real Extinction - if not of the entire human species then certainly of what we even loosely can call "civilization". Organized Human Life is completely at risk, on the edge, on the precipice, Today.

SOUL is dedicated totally to one singular purpose - the Survival and Sustainability of Organized Human Life - which at severe risk now, in the face of what are simultaneously the two greatest threats that humanity has ever faced in all of history.

There are two unmistakable, severe, and first-time-in-history threats which will eradicate human civilization as we know it and have known it for millennia. These can be addressed and solved through unified, collective, intelligent, and committed cooperation. But if we do not act now, today, then one or both of these will be our Nemesis.

Both of these will never be properly address, nor will there be sufficient realistic solutions, unless first we solve and put a Hard Stop, a cure no matter how hard it will be, to the Rampant Pandemic of Irrationality that is sweeping across our world, infecting our media, the whole public internet, our schools (!) and every aspect of social life.

This is the Disease, the Virus, the Infection and Inflammation, of Meme-Driven Irrationality. It has no fixed definition, no firm identiy, no definite lief-system or practices. It goes by many names. The "Woke". The "Cancel Culture". The "Far Right". The world of Extreme Thinking based upon labels, slogans, and psychological memes that are more from the mid-brain than the cerebrm when it comes to anything pertaining to "thought processes". The Destruction of Societal and Individual Integrity and Cohesion, the Abolition of Critical Thinking, and the Debasement of Normal Human Life. Ultimately, no matter what is the color or tone of the Extremist Message, it comes down to one basic class of psychosocial behavior that can be summed-up by one word, one acronym, one symbol:

The HATES
Hatred. Abuse. Trafficking. Enslavement. Subjugation.

Add in the following words with their expansive connotations:
Aggravation. Bullying. Coercion. Disinformation. Domination. Fear-mongering. "Kontrol".

And here are those two "swords of Damocles" hanging over all our heads, the manifestations both natural and human-induced, which we must deal with rationally, intellgently, adaptively, or else we fail and we may very well become an exctinct species, along with many other species of animals and plants that will go down with us, with us "homo non sapiens":

Climate Dynamics and Extremes
Climate changes, global warming, and extreme, non-linear weather and consequences within the planetary environment

Nuclear War
Proliferation of nuclear weapons and the imminent risk of global nuclear war that will be unavoidably and permanently destructive of human civilization


SOUL is thus very all-inclusive but very focused and specific with some innovative and powerful SOCIOECONOMIC programs that are now available to people worldwide and because of the global growth in communication, media, and technologies over the past two decades especially.

SOUL broadly encompasses and includes anything we as humans can imagine doing and wanting to do that will support our continuance, our survival, our growth as a civilization, as an organized species of humans, as nations and tribes, as communities and families. SOUL is literally for every Human on Earth, as well as for other species of living creatures. As such, it is intended, necessarily, to be adaptive to the mentalities, orientations, economies, personal situations, and opportunities for action, of every Human on Earth.

The Socioeconomic Program is introduced here on this website as SOUL Power and through different Talks, Lectures and Papers.

An excellent introduction to the Singular Most Important Question of our present time, “Will Organized Human Life Survive, particularly in the near future?”, is in this excellent lecture by Professor Noam Chomsky, given at St. Olaf’s College on the 4th of May, 2018. I do not state unequivocally or uniformly to agree "100%" with everything expressed by Prof. Chomsky, or anyone else - or even myself in reference to any past writings, lectures, or other works. However, there is much to be considered in what Prof. Chomsky and others have to say. Yes, everythging frpom everyone must be considered objectively, ration-ally, logic-ally. But a "closed-mind", a mind with doors and windows locked shut to different and new ideas and viewpoints - such is a dangerous and soon very destructive mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwTQsvhq3ew

The full text of Professor Chomsky’s lecture is here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50370.htm

SOUL POWER is one particular path forward that SOUL is pursuing, based and influenced very strongly upon Prof. Chomsky’s answers, and those of many other wise and eminent experts, leaders and scholars including economists, psychologists, physicists, and humanists. Listen to that particular lecture by Noam Chomsky and to many others. Learn about “How can we Do something to avert the highly probably Negative Answer to this Singular Question?” [1]

SOUL Power is not about tearing down, it is not about trying to beat down and defeat anyone, any corporation, any regime, any industry. It is about CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION that - for instance - can turn a multi-billion-dollar corporation producing nuclear weapons or fossil fuels and products dependent upon the old-tech, the killing-tech, into corporations that are even more profitable through changing into producers of Life-serving, Life-feeding, Life-sustaining products for everyone on Earth - and also, gradually, as we properly develop Space - not as another Theater of War but as a Limitless Domain of Life.

It's All about using our Minds to Adapt and to change in ways that are Optimal for the Whole, and that means all of us, because we Are intrerdependent and part of one unity of Life, on this one Blue Planet - and that will continue even when we are finally expanding our life, our culture, our civilization, to otrher worlds and beyond our present Sol-centric ecosystem.

Read about it further here in terms of what SOUL is doing:

The Socioeconomic Power of SOUL (as being designed, built and refined today by people worldwide)


Other SOUL activities are being designed, planned, and implemented. These include public lectures and talks, some of which will include the showing of pertinent films - movies and documentaries.

SOUL is All About Making CHANGE - but this is not just "Change" in a political sense - it is CHANGE that we Must Have In Order to Live - to Continue, to Survive, period. Some "change" you can do without, or you can "live with it" or you can enjoy it as a luxury or as a long-sought right and benefit. SOUL is about Critical CHANGE in how we operate all our societies, all our nation-states, all our corporations and investment funds, all our schools and universities, all our senses and beliefs about I-me-mine and what is yours and his and hers - worldwide, globally.

SOUL is BIG CHANGE. SERIOUS CHANGE. Without it We will surely Exterminate Ourselves, which is exactly the course we have been on for some time, and extremely so, rabidly so, since 1945.

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SOUL Fund

The SOUL Fund is an Emergency Fund designed to support SOUL activities. The work of SOUL, and the support thereof through the SOUL Fund, all takes logical precedence over everything else that CF = Community Funding is engaged in doing. The SOUL Fund is designed to support Doing What It Takes for Humankind to reverse the present situation where the very survival of Organized Human Life is in Serious Doubt at the Present Time.

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Notes

[1] ---
The SOUL work as described here and elsewhere is a set of activities initiated and advocated by a few individuals including Dr. Martin Dudziak, founder/co-founder of several components within the TETRAD Family comprised of TETRAD Institute of Complex System Dynamics, the company, Intelligence Renaissance industries, Mirnova Foundation, and our close partners. The SOUL work derives its founding principles from many throughout history, a tremendously long and eminent list, going back to many in relatively ancient times (including Plato and Aristotle), and many in relatively modern times (including David Hume, Adam Smith), and most definitely the works and persons of many individuals in our contemporary times.

Note, please, that none of the individuals who are quoted or shown in video presentations or other media on this SOUL website are responsible or co-responsible for anything connected with the SOUL initiative, the SOUL Fund, or anything else - unless explicitrly stated and acknowledge by those persons.

We hope and request that nany persons will sometime share with us more of their knowledge, strength, and wisdom. We are all in the “same boat” because we are all humans living (thus far) on one single planet, Earth, and we are all at Total Risk from the Threats that We, Humans, face either from the natural cause of things in our world, or from things we humans have created and do perpetuate. We humans Do have the power to change this situation and to help sustain the Survival of Organized Human Life.


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The SOUL Initiative and its Programs and Projects are independent and separate from TETRAD Institute of Complex System Dynamics ("TETRAD"), indepedent and separate from Intelligence Renaissance Industries ("IRI"), and independent and separate from Mirnova Foundation.

The SOUL website and various technical functions and informational technology serving the SOUL Initiative is managed through the PSD (PSED) Program and also through the Coadunatio Program, and specifically the MIRNOVA Project therein, all of which are components of TETRAD Institute.

Various functions and services are provided gratis and pro bono by TETRAD, IRI and Mirnova Foundation.

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