XLII 12th December 2005
Construction of our orangerie, a large greenhouse, is done to enable the farm to consider some sophisticated products which can spring from our soil, perhaps orchids or other rare flowers. There is a living culture of flowers in Poland and people like spending money on them which may create an income as well as pleasure. There is no future in doing anything for money; it is only worthwhile when done as an exciting project. It may also be possible to cultivate specimens of interesting plants. The space is good, being 8m wide and 40m long giving 320m2 which is divided by a central path, with entrances and ventilation on either end and water taps available at the side. The roof, covered at present with a translucent high quality plastic, is supported on curving tubes rising from a dwarf wall to the height of four meters, against the outer side of farm buildings on the east. This provides extensive roof open to the sun, which may have been better if it faced due south, but it nevertheless catches sunlight well. Since the entrances are limited we hired a horse with a single blade plough to prepare the ground; it had an element of nostalgia loved by everyone, but was modern in terms of productivity of work in a limited space. We have other projects in mind which one is sure a successful farm will be able to finance.
Leszczyn has grown like a Brubeck sound of ʻTake Fiveʼ from: “an easily to lose the way, in quintuple rhythm, from the rigidity of 5/4 pulse, creating intricate, and often counter-patterns”, from a simple programme of two crops of wheat and barley, on three year rotation and two consecutive sowings, with its own sax, piano, bass and percussions; with move, pace, tempo, motive power, progression, regression, convergence, plunge, motion round, and rotation, with fluctuation, stir, bustle, unrest, periodicity, rolling in its own kinetics and rhythm; from planting of wheat, on 66 % of the fields, towards a four year rotation programme, with four crops and laying fallow with a cover-crop. It is now a unity of: team, plant, grain and chemistry, working with Nature and with Common Agricultural Policy.
If the spiritual vigour of each individual member is the main aim of Idsanism then there are many exercises for enhancing personal values. One such may consists of viewing the Wholeness of ʻmeaningʼ in terms of the four human Motive Forces: Emotional, Physical, Intellectual and Spiritual representing total experience. They correspond to four human needs - the need to enjoy life, the need of practical competence, the need to articulate our ideas and the need to discover ourselves and assert our individuality; each giving an account to the soul, with every experience being a voice or a fragment of our nature. The Wholeness as a subject is chosen for evaluation by a person for himself or in a group together, and is then appraised in terms of the four aspects, to deepen and advance spiritual awareness. The four aspects are unified by the wholeness but non-coherent between each other, in a sense that an emotional centre of a man or of a story or of a happening is quite different in its physical, intellectual or spiritual one. Each exists in its tense space where we are committed to divergent views on different planes, neither being fully coherent together, nor mutually exclusive, but reflecting our need to live our lives within incompatible perspectives which are only comprehended with the help of our spirit. The human aim of the evolution.
As examples:
| Wholeness | Emotional | Physical | Intellectual | Spiritual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | spring | summer | autumn | winter |
| Family | daughter | mother | father | son |
| Direction | left | down | right | up |
| Compass | south | west | north | east |
| Force | Electro-mag. | Nuclear | Weak | Gravity |
| Response | hope | charity | ken | faith |
| Colour | red | yellow | blue | purple |
| Europe | Russia | England | France | Germany |
| World | Africa | America | Europe | Asia |
| Action | love | war | research | social sense |
| Need of | reproduction | Nourish | curiosity | life |
| Dimension | height | length | breadth | time |
| Daemon | love | necessity | chance | hope |
| Age-years | 1-11 | 12-22 | 23-33 | 34-44 |
| Age-kind | childhood | youth | intelligence | maturity |
| Figure | triangle | square | pentagon | circle |
| Solids | tetrahedron | cube | dodeca | sphere |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Mode | passion | power | reason | will |
| Religion | Hinduism | Islam | Buddhism | Christianity |
| Aim | vision | purpose | values | goals |
| Elements | fire | earth | water | air |
| Hinduism | Siva | Sakka | Vishnu | Brahma |
| Christianity | Jesus | Virgin | Spiri | t God |
| Goodness | M-L King | Mo Theresa | Schweitzer | Ghandi |
| Philosophy | Nietzsche | Aristotle | Kant | Plato |
| Cereal | barley | rye | rape-seed | wheat |
| Tree | birch | pine | fir | oak |
| 18.00 hour | 06.00 | 09.00 | 12.00 | 15.00 |
If an Idsanist were to stop five times a day, perhaps for no more than two minutes, to arrest an aspect in his mind, or ponder a meaning of a motive-force by comparing different aspects it may advance his spiritual vigour. Thus if at 06.00 he related to the emotional aspect of nature, at 09.00 to physical, at 12.00 to intellectual and at 15.00 to spiritual, he could at 18.00 make an assertion of all aspects within his own personality. Alternately he could assess wholeness like ʻseasonʼ with Spring representing the emotional aspect of nature, Summer - physical, Autumn - intellectual and Winter - spiritual. The choices are as much with individuals and with all of us together.
Such awareness explored under a motive-forces, visualized in affinities which can enhance more of poetic and spiritual values: Nuclear force linked with a pine, including perhaps mother, summer, earth or identity of Islam. How is passion linked to fire to South, to vision or to Jesus? Other motive-forces: the emotional side of oneʼs soul, or thinking together of intellectual force finding relation between Kant, chance, curiosity or colour blue, or in spiritual view, circle, hope, will, or Germany and Plato give subject matter to explore realities and mysteries of life.
The subjects selected or their positions under forces are individual, personal and arguable choices, but they are within a formula to explore ideas and awareness in a natural organic and meaningful way. These moments of identification with a force, or with wholeness are a tool helping to mature the self. It may accompany a total relaxation of all muscles, and surrender for a moment to Nature with gentle, controlled breathing as others do in meditation, to identify fully with the objective of the hour: maybe with the Muslims, or with mother earth and her riches of the soil, or with a perfect cube. Socrates was accused by his enemies of having affirmed, heretically, that the moon was a stone. He denied the accusation: all men, he said, know that the moon is a god, and he agreed with all men, and so may we.
It may be a continuation of a Darwinian evolution of the spirit, from creation and bursting at every level towards perfection, with an organic development of human spirit from original struggle to the true necessity of nature of man in cooperation. A Hundredʼs Skein weekly meeting will try to develop active practices, as other movements have done, to express physically the meanings they endow. They may grow gradually, both on the basis of the activities undertaken in furthering the aims of the movement and because of the daily spiritual experience of each individual.
