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PaGaian with Socialist characteristics.

Posted on November 11, 2020 by malpagaia

This story describes how International Socialism and a program of World Socialist Revolution as defined and advocated by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), is not only compatible with my spiritual practice, but actually compliments it. I hope that my story can be of some value to other – especially younger, political students who might be struggling to relate the cultivation of their political consciousness with a spiritual consciousness. 

Subsequent to becoming relatively privileged Australian pensioners enjoying what my partner and I now regard to be a modest yet comfortable standard of living, I am pleased to say that I have at last been able to concentrate more on cultivating my political consciousness. Consequently, I am now well and truly convinced that Socialism should be our next logical, global socio-economic form of governance and productivity. Moreover, that there is indeed only one viable form of Socialism – that which is informed by the scientific analysis of Karl Marx and the political leadership of Leon Trotsky. Socialism according to the teachings of Marx and Trotsky takes the form of a revolutionary International Socialism, a global form of governance and productivity that has yet to be made fully manifest and put to the test by us humans. The reason for this having become my preferred political perspective, is that it fully met my most essential search criteria, namely that of having to be compatible with my well cultivated world view, a very down to earth spiritual practice and last but not least, my personal values. 

While I was much inspired by my partner and some of her highly recommended hard copy reading, eventually it was my online search that enabled me to find a political program and party advocating and preparing for a World Socialist Revolution – the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and its associated international branches of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP). Together the ICFI/SEP program and party informs and prepares what it refers to as the ‘international working class’ for a world socialist revolution. This it does very effectively via the pages of its own daily online publication – the World Socialist Website WSWS.org. 

When defining the political and intellectual foundations and motivations of the World Socialist Website – 1998, point three places an emphasis on –

“the revival of a genuine socialist political culture within the working class as an essential intellectual and, one might add, “spiritual” premise of a new international revolutionary movement.” 

It is this ‘spiritual premise’ that was and still is of particular interest to me. My world view, spiritual practice and personal values inform and convince me that for a world socialist revolution to succeed, it must have both political and spiritual components. I believe it is safe to assume that our human ancestors became spiritual creatures long before we became political creatures and it might well be argued that had we not become spiritual, it is most unlikely that we would have moved on to become political. Be that as it may, another reason for my conviction in this regard is that during the  launching of the ICFI in 1938, my nowadays primary political mentor Leon Trotsky made it clear that –

“We are not a party like other parties. … Our aim is the full material and spiritual liberation of the toilers and exploited through the socialist revolution. Nobody will prepare it and nobody will guide it but ourselves.”

And, as my nowadays primary spiritual mentor Thomas Berry put it in his 1996 essay entitled ‘An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality’ –

“In reality, every being has the right to be, the right to habitat, and the right to fulfil its role in the great community of existence.”

It was in fact my own personal spiritual journey and liberation that eventually inspired me to search for and find a compatible political story cum party. Subsequently, my partner Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. and I are both registered, paid up members of the Sydney NSW Australia branch of the SEP. Glenys also happens to be the author of ‘PaGaian Cosmology‘ (2005), a book based on her doctoral thesis, that expresses an earth based spiritual practice that celebrates earth’s seasonal moments and our human relatedness to them, using female metaphor. Glenys begins the  Preface of her book with an explanation of the term ‘PaGaian’ –

“It expresses a reclaiming of the term Pagan as meaning a person who dwells in country, yet with Gaian spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that country. Gaia is a name for humanity’s habitat, an ancient yet new name which I understand to include whole Earth and Cosmos – there is no seam separating Earth from her context. And Pagan religious tradition offers a spiritual practice of celebrating Earth-Sun creativity manifest in this habitat. The cosmology described in this book makes a start on bringing all of this together..” 

Why Socialism, or to be more precise, why International Socialism? Clearly the year 2020 with its Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed Capitalism as being a fundamentally flawed socio-economic system. Capitalism is a profit driven socio-economic system that has long since increased its emphasis on the accumulation of privately owned property and wealth, to the detriment of it being able to provide even the most basic social and cultural needs of a vast majority of the human population. Moreover, the science of physics informs us that every single atom throughout the entire universe is moving in the direction of ‘maximising manifestation’ (Vladimir Vernadsky ‘The Biosphere’ 1921), in other words, every atom including all those that we humans are made of, constantly move in the direction of making progress, toward an improved more advanced condition. Just as our progress from pre human to the earliest nomadic forms of human existence such as hunter gatherer, through to the socio-economic forms of feudalism and capitalism, so too at the species level we humans must now move beyond a dysfunctional capitalism toward a more sophisticated, science based socio-economic form of governance and productivity. My sincere hope is that as part of our ongoing human development, International Socialism will eventually be made manifest throughout the entire planet in the form of regional  Federations of united socialist states.  

Why PaGaian? Because it is a daily practice and a seasonal celebration of our relatedness to self, to other and to all that is. PaGaian Cosmology celebrates the interaction between us humans and our planetary – Gaian, environment, it is a personal, cosmic and seamless relationship cum celebration, poetically expressed, particularly during Earth Gaia’s seasonal moments, the annual cycle of eight solstice, equinox and quarter point moments, moments in space time that can be trusted, even worshipped. Hence the splicing of the words Pagan and Gaian to form PaGaian, it connects and celebrates the dialectical wisdom of our ancestors – the stories of old, with a contemporary scientific understanding of our place in space time – stories that are new and still unfolding. 

Until now, I have deliberately avoided using the word religion because many people find it difficult to distinguish between religion and spirituality. As I suggested above, spiritual consciousness not only preceded and paved the way for the development of political consciousness, I believe it also preceded and paved the way for religion and religious practice. An easy way to distinguish between religion and spirituality is to relate religion to belonging and answers and spirituality to being and questioning. I hope that this story demonstrates that not only can we cultivate our political and spiritual consciousness simultaneously, but more importantly, it is most unwise to be cultivating one without the other.  

Beltane 2020, – Southern Hemisphere.  

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Socialism from my PaGaian perspective.

Posted on September 4, 2014 by malpagaia

Several decades before I did any serious thinking about politics, I had already well and truly made up my mind about religion in general and my chosen spiritual practice in particular. Prior to meeting each other, my beloved GlenYs Livingstone and I were greatly influenced by the late  Thomas Berry – a self-described ‘geologian’, and his ‘Twelve principles of a functional cosmology’. Principle number two is particularly relevant to how and why I now regard politics in general and socialism in particular from my PaGaian perspective.

“The universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time. The unity of the planet Earth is especially clear; each being of the planet is profoundly implicated in the existence and functioning of every other being of the planet”.

Evening Thoughts, Thomas Berry (SF: Sierra Club Books, 2006)

Thanks to the so-called IT – information technology, revolution and our ability to know what is happening throughout the planet more or less as and when it happens, the influence of major international financial institutions and their subordinate political leaders on the quality of life for all of humanity has increased proportionately. While this rapidly developing technological advantage is benefitting a very small minority – probably less than 0.01%, of the planet’s total population, the vast majority of humanity is experiencing a rapidly diminishing quality of life. It is this increasingly oppressive socio-economic burden often being violently imposed on ordinary working families that eventually had me searching for a political story that might be compatible with Berry’s unifying second principle in general and my spiritual practice – PaGaian Cosmology, in particular.

Here I should let the author of PaGaian Cosmology, my beloved GlenYs Livingstone PhD, explain why she chose the name ‘PaGaian’ –

“The term “PaGaian”… expresses a reclaiming of the term “Pagan” as meaning a person who dwells in “country”, yet with “Gaian” spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that “country”. “Gaia” is a name for humanity’s Habitat, an ancient yet new name, which I understand to include whole Earth and Cosmos – there is no seam separating Earth from Her context. And Pagan religious tradition offers a spiritual practice of celebrating Earth-Sun Creativity manifest in this Habitat.”

Preface | PaGaian Cosmology.webloc

As indicated in the above quotes, PaGaian Cosmology could well be described as a philosophical and or ecological spiritual practice. Moreover, it is a practice based on a sense of place that is at the same time personal, cosmic and indigenous – or native, to planet Earth. PaGaian Cosmology is by design and intention an organic – as distinct from theocratic, spiritual practice. Given the rapidly deteriorating economic and social circumstances being experienced by most of my fellow human beings this was a very important distinction for me to keep in mind when considering what if any political story might be compatible with my world view and spiritual practice.

Within the last decade the GFC – Global Financial Crash, of 2008, the subsequent austerity measures imposed on working families, the numerous occupy movements, imperialist invasions and a plethora of insurrections, I came to regard politics in general and our Australian Westminster system of governance in particular as being totally incapable of improving the economic and social circumstances of most and therefore probably any of humanity. My lack of confidence in politics in general and in Australian political parties in particular did bother me from time to time. I could probably have lived indefinitely with my political indifference but I chose not to. I eventually decided to look deeper into the story of politics after one of many whinges to my partner and subsequently being encouraged by her to read some of Barbara Mor’s work on the subject – Mor is a modern-day feminist scholar who’s political story I found to be very thought-provoking and inspiring, particularly this paragraph –

“In this world, at this point, no political revolution is sustainable if it is not also a spiritual revolution – a complete ontological birth of new beings out of old. Equally, no spiritual activity deserves respect if it is not at the same time a politically responsible, i.e; responsive, activity… The only meaningful political direction left now is synonymous with the only meaningful spiritual direction left now: towards the conscious re-fusion of the spirit and the flesh… This time it will be a global consciousness of our global oneness, and it will realize itself on a very sophisticated technological stage; with perhaps a total merger of psychic and electronic activity.”

 ‘The Great Cosmic Mother’ – Barbara Mor 1987).

So my search for a political story began by taking the hint from Mor that the merging of a political and spiritual revolution could take place on ‘a very sophisticated technological stage’… It wasn’t long before the World Wide Web and the likes of Google and Wikipedia led me to what I regarded as a plausible political story, a story that was also compatible with my world view and spiritual practice. It was at WSWS.org – the ‘World Socialist Web Site’ where I came across two key words ie; ‘internationalism’ and ‘equality’. If a political story was going to be both compatible with my spiritual practice and plausible in the context of changing the economic and social circumstances for most if not all of humanity, it had to at least meet these two essential criteria.

WSWS.org led me deeper into the political thinking and leadership of those who I now regard as our foremost political thinkers and leaders namely, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg. It is their individual political rigour that impresses me most, but underpinning their scholarly approach to politics is a very evident sense of caring for their fellow beings. What I found within the WSWS.org political story as it relates to Leon Trotsky in particular is well expressed by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of WSWS.org –

“A study of Trotsky’s writings is essential not only for an understanding of the politics of the twentieth century, but also for the purpose of orienting oneself politically in the very complex world of the twenty-first century… Trotsky provided a timeless demonstration of the power of ideas and ideals that correspond to and articulate the progressive strivings of humanity.”

(‘In Defence of Leon Trotsky’ – David North, Mehring Books 2013 p7)

The political rigour and discipline of Marx and Trotsky et al; appears to be an ongoing tradition among the journalists working for WSWS.org. For me, their political story telling is among the bravest, most honest and caring that I have ever read. Take the story of Yuri Primakov for example, he is the 87-year-old son of Markovitch Primakov a hero of the 1917 October Revolution, Yuri among other grandchildren of the revolution was recently interviewed by a WSWS.org journalist –

“They didn’t care about money and they truly believed in communism. They were convinced that they had to fight for the betterment of humankind, not just for the improvement of their own material position. If you compare that to the elites today, who don’t give a damn about the people and are interested only in the market rates of their companies on the stock exchange, then you can see what degradation has taken place.”

 Were it not for this underlying sense of caring for the well-being of humanity and their strong commitment toward replacing the current profit driven systems of governance with an international socialism to meet the needs of most if not all humanity, I would find the often brutal honesty of WSWS.org political reporting to be depressing. Thankfully I don’t, on the contrary, nowadays the ICFI/SEP/WSWS.org is my chosen source of political information.

As indicated above, my world view and spiritual practice draws on a contemporary philosophical understanding of our place in the cosmos, as well as our newly emerging scientific understanding of how ‘each being of the planet is profoundly implicated in the existence and functioning of every other being of the planet’. As such I am now also confident that PaGaian Cosmology is a spiritual practice that does what Trotsky recommended we do in that it takes ‘the best possible tools of the latest technology’ –

 “Spiritual culture is just as contradictory as material culture. And just as from the arsenals and warehouses of material culture we put into circulation not the bow and arrow, not stone tools or bronze age tools, but we take the best possible tools of the latest technology, – we must approach spiritual culture in just the same way”.

(‘Socialism & Culture’ – LeonTrotsky 1927)

 Trotsky’s conception of Marxism as the ‘science of perspective’ also gives me confidence in arguing that my world view and spiritual practice is compatible with a classical Marxist international revolutionary Socialism –

As philosophy finds its material weapon in the proletariat, so the proletariat finds its spiritual weapon in philosophy… It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world. It is the immediate task of philosophy, which is in the service of history, to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked. Thus, the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.

(Karl Marx 1844)

This is how Marx perceives and reveals to us a careful and most valuable understanding of spirituality, philosophy, history and politics. This is the kind of scientific rigour that has enabled me to build on and make progress from Thomas Berry’s Unifying principle, then to GlenYs Livingstone’s PaGaian Cosmology and eventually to Leon Trotsky’s concept of an international revolutionary socialism.

 

As with our spiritual vision, so too with our ecological and social visions, they are planetary by nature and PaGaian by name.

(Livingstone & Seaborne 2014)

Southern Spring 2014.

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Taffy naming himself as – PaGaian Trotskyist.

Posted on December 5, 2013 by malpagaia

The name PaGaian.

“The universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time. The unity of the planet Earth is especially clear; each being of the planet is profoundly implicated in the existence and functioning of every other being of the planet.”

Evening Thoughts – Thomas Berry, Sierra Club Books 2006.

Thomas Berry’s principles for a functional cosmology underpin the story behind the name PaGaian, which is best described by its author Glenys Livingstone PhD.

“… it expresses a reclaiming of the term “Pagan” as meaning a person who dwells in “country”, yet with “Gaian” spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that “country”. “Gaia” is a name for humanity’s Habitat, an ancient yet new name, which I understand to include whole Earth and Cosmos – there is no seam separating Earth from Her context. And Pagan religious tradition offers a spiritual practice of celebrating Earth-Sun Creativity manifest in this Habitat.”

http://web.archive.org/web/20121027094059/http://pagaian.org/book/preface

I was born and raised in ‘old’ South Wales (1944), close enough to spend some of my youth watching the ebb and flow of the river Taff, hence it is appropriate that most people here in New South Wales Australia, know me as Taffy. My given family names are Robert James Seaborne and my self chosen online name is malpagaia. The name malpagaia is a combining of the native Australian pitjanjatjara word ‘malpa’ – translated into English as meaning friend or helper, deliberately spliced with the name Gaia it expresses my desire to be Her friend and helper.  

My choice of a pitjantjatjara word also expresses my deep appreciation for what I learned and experienced about the importance of relationship from the people who speak that language. It was a great privilege to be able to live and work among traditional owners of country in central Australia, the Anangu for eight years (1990-98). With the benefit of hindsight I enjoy reflecting on my time and experience with Anangu as a pilgrimage that was preparing me for my approaching spiritual liberation. My spiritual liberation began during the year 2000 when I met my beloved Glenys Livingstone who was soon to gain her PhD and become the author of ‘PaGaian Cosmology – Re-Inventing Earth-Based Goddess Religion’. Glenys introduced me to her spiritual practice of celebrating Earth Gaia’s significant seasonal moments as they occur in our southern hemisphere. PaGaian is the name of our spiritual practice.

The name Trotskyist.

The only meaningful political direction left now is synonymous with the only meaningful spiritual direction left now: towards the conscious re-fusion of the spirit and the flesh… This time it will be a global consciousness of our global oneness, and it will realize itself on a very sophisticated technological stage; with perhaps a total merger of psychic and electronic activity.”

The Great Cosmic Mother – Barbara Mor, Harper & Row 1987

Barbara Mor’s understanding and emphasis on the need for political and spiritual direction that are ‘synonymous’, with each other is what led me to finding the name and political story of Leonard Trotsky, who in 1938 when celebrating the founding of the Fourth International said –

“We are not a party like other parties… Our aim is the full material and spiritual liberation of the toilers and exploited…”

It was Trotsky’s emphasis on ‘material and spiritual liberation’ at the international – or better still Gaian, scale that attracted my attention.

 (Here I should explain why I frequently use the word ‘story’, it is because I highly value the fact that we humans are a story telling species. All that we sense, think, imagine, and do, influences and in turn is influenced by the stories going on between our ears. This is a fact, what is not necessarily so factual is how we receive our stories and then, what we do with them; whatever your story, I strongly advise you don’t let them lie to you.)

A brief spiritual story.

My spiritual story is couched in female metaphor because beginning with my mother Dilys, it is the significant women in my life that enable me to experience my present spiritual well-being. My mother Dilys frequently reminded me that I was born lucky. Moreover, she meant it, consequently I have always believed it to be so. My first wife Carol inadvertently taught me how dangerous and futile it was to flirt with Jehovah and Christianity. My ex partner Marian rescued me from a life of ordinariness and inspired our highly valued life changing eight year pilgrimage to the desert country of central Australia. All of which paved the way for me to meet my beloved Glenys who took me by the hand and introduced me to the divine feminine, the Goddess. At the tender age of fifty-five I arrived at a profound and down to Mother Earth PaGaian ‘spiritual liberation’. My new spiritual journey has since enabled me to find and experience a more meaningful form of ‘material liberation’ and eventually a political story that I could relate to and value.

A brief political story.

My primary and tertiary education took place in Penarth South Wales and following a five-year apprenticeship on the Treforest Industrial Estate I became a qualified toolmaker. It was almost inevitable that I would vote for the political party that appeared to best serve working families; after emigrating to Australia in 1967, I voted Labor for several decades.

During recent decades the main stream political parties here in Australia have been moving further to the political right and hence it became more and more difficult for me to find any common ground between them, my spiritual practice and personal values. Finding a political candidate who could best reflected my world view and personal values was proving to be almost impossible.

Glenys drew my attention to one of her many feminist books entitled ‘The Great Cosmic Mother’ and it was the following part of the author Barbra Mor’s story that restored my interest in politics –

“A truly human politics must study the entire history of the world’s religions and spiritual beliefs. It must try to return to or move toward spiritual systems that are harmonious with all our visions of creative communal life… Because this is what is missing under both of the competing “world powers”: a creative communal life. Both systems – Western capitalism and Soviet communism – are based on the denial of communal celebration… p16

And so, we can make no separation between “spirituality” and “politics.” We are this world, we cannot leave it. We can only work to transform it as we transform ourselves, in acts of evolution and revolution… On earth, mind and spirit are definitively embodied. The notion that “mind” and “spirit” can be abstracted from the body is a patriarchal lie; and a continuance of this lie is the notion that we can indulge in a “spirituality” that is “above politics” – that somehow floats above the agony of this present earth like a little blissed-out cloud.”  p417

The Great Cosmic Mother – Barbara Mor, Harper & Row 1987.

Inspired by B. Mor’s story, in 2010 I was attracted to reading the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org) mainly because it was about an international political story with an emphasis on social equality. The discovery of a political party that was not confined to the borders of a particular nation state and that placed an emphasis on human equality was for me a political revelation. I have since become a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) making a modest monthly donation to the Sydney branch and the WSWS. I visit WSWS daily, it is now my preferred source of information about world affairs and albeit to a lesser extent, cultural information. I am particularly keen to become more aware of the ongoing ‘class’ struggle – the ongoing ‘revolution’ and how we might yet achieve a planetary – Gaian, social equality that is sustainable and appropriate for future generations.

From my PaGaian perspective the political story being told by the Fourth International and more recently via the SEP is the only political story to come anywhere near Thomas Berry’s unifying principle – quoted above, which if enacted, is capable of achieving the ‘full material and spiritual liberation’… of not only ‘the toilers and exploited’ but of humanity as a whole. I also like to think that L. Trotsky would have admired the Anangu traditional owners of central Australia, who for millennia prior to being colonised by Europeans cultivated their Lore – tjukurpa, that among other things deliberately avoided the rise of an internal ‘ruling class’ type group who might take control and have power over the larger group.Another way of thinking about this is that because of their relationship with country and kin and the organic way in which such indigenous Lore evolved, no such vocabulary nor story was able to exist between their ears.

A brief story of place and time.

During 1966 I made the decision to emigrate to Australia. It was a somewhat belated decision as I was well advanced toward emigrating to Boston Massachusetts and who knows what kind of future working for General Electrics. Instead a ‘born lucky Robert’ immediately after watching a movie about ‘a weird mob’ down under, in what appeared to be a relatively ‘lucky country’, I decided there and then, it was the place to be. So here I am having continued to be a lucky boy in a lucky country, who instead of aspiring to climb the ladder of success in an American factory ends up spending a couple of decades overseeing the forests of Victoria and managing Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Now I find myself working alongside my beloved Glenys as we maintain a place here in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales mainly for the purpose of ritually celebrating Earth Gaia’s seasonal moments as they unfold in this great Southern land of Her’s.

So, what is happening here and now (2013) in this so called ‘lucky country’ Australia, with its indigenous and more recent migrant population, all of whom deserve better, much better. I believe this to be true for the people of all nation states at this time.

The following is a quote of parts 5, 15 and 16 of the last of seven resolutions passed unanimously at the first national congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) held from April 6 to 9, 2012 in Sydney (see: “Australian SEP holds first national congress”).See resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

“5. Vast changes in world economy over the past four decades, culminating in the breakdown of the capitalist order that began with the financial crisis of 2008, have led to the collapse of the old national-based organisations and parties that dominated the workers’ movement for decades. Today all the so-called “workers’ parties”—including the Australian Labor Party—which have played such a key role in propping up the capitalist order, have been utterly discredited in the eyes of millions. A political vacuum has opened up. The change in the objective situation has created the conditions for a profound shift in political consciousness.

15. This Congress declares that the cornerstone of the SEP’s program is to forge the international unity of the working class. The Congress denounces all forms of nationalism, racism and chauvinism, dredged up by the bourgeoisie and its political and media establishment to divert the social tensions generated by the crisis of capitalism against the most vulnerable layers of society, including refugees, immigrants and the country’s indigenous population.

16. In all the struggles of the working class, the SEP will encourage the development of new organisations, entirely independent of and opposed to the trade unions and the official political establishment, including workplace rank-and-file committees to defend jobs, wages and working conditions, and action committees to defend social rights such as education, health, housing and a safe environment. Such organisations will fight for the extension of all these struggles to encompass every section of the working class—employed and unemployed, young and old, skilled and unskilled, Australian-born and immigrant—into a common movement, across industries, workplaces and localities, that reaches out to workers internationally.”

What does it say when not even such a symbolic head of the ‘ruling class’ as Queen Elizabeth herself is aware of what is happening to her subjects?

“about the 2008 financial crisis… Her Majesty had asked: “Did nobody see this coming?” Perhaps she could also have asked three more questions: Does nobody see the suffering and socioeconomic injustices of oligopolistic-finance capitalism? Does no one see that the problems are structural and systemic? And is there no alternative to a system that generates continuous “quadruple crises” – the socioeconomic, political, environmental and personal/psychological?

Monthly Review Vol 65 Nov 2013 : p39

For me this validates that we do indeed live in an age of universal deceit, when just telling the truth can be regarded by the ‘ruling class’ as an act of terrorism eg; the whistleblowing of J. Assange and E. Snowden. For us ‘working class’ their true story telling is more like a revolutionary act.

While my usual conscious awareness and reflection is predicated on my spiritual practice, I do consider myself very fortunate ‘lucky Robert’ to have received what I regard as pragmatic spiritual and political stories that are sufficiently synonymous, I also understand that this is not and probably never will be so for the vast majority of my fellow ‘working class’. Hence there may only ever be one PaGaian Trotskyist, I hope not.

As with our spiritual vision, so too with our ecological and social vision, they are planetary by nature and PaGaian by name.

Taffy Seaborne & GlenYs Livingstone – Summer 2013.

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