Picture this.  For all your life, you've been bound by the shackles of an establishment which does not understand you, does not care for you, and is not interested in you- or, for that matter, in anything or anyone else but itself, and its revenue.  You are nothing but a statistic, a number, a blot on a landscape.  You are surrounded by people with an appreciation for only the trivial, the insignificant the 'today'.   'Tomorrow', more specifically, the impact of today's actions upon tomorrow, is seldom discussed.

Meanwhile, across the world, people and creatures are tortured and exploited, the natural environment robbed of all its riches. You're seeing things no-one else seems to be seeing.  It's all in your head.  The situation you, just by existence, have found yourself in renders you a small crumb left on a dinner plate.  You probably don't have to picture this, because, for you, for most people, it's real.  It's life. But does it need to be?

Now picture something else.  An environment that encourages self-expression, strives for freedom, and in which everything possible is done in an attempt to achieve peace.  An environment where the question is not 'why?', but 'why not?' and not, 'if?' but 'how?' and 'when?'  An environment where you are not only listened to and treated like the person you are, but where you want to listen.  An environment where paths, like minds, are open, and you are given the free will to travel them as, when and how you wish.  Where you are judged upon who you are, and who you may become, not who you were.  Picture the freedom to make your own mistakes, shape your own life, and help other people to improve theirs. 

Mix the 'today' of thoughts, love, drugs, life, with the concern for the 'tomorrow'- the world as your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so on, will see it.  Experience a movement which gave people their sexual and moral freedom, and changed the outlook of so many. A movement which evolves continuously, will stop at no generation, and will continue to embrace new ideas and gather new wisdom in aid of the creation of a better world, and better lives for its people and its creatures.   Discover a movement which, far from being naive and inconsequential, will equip you
with the skills to question what you see....from straightforward forms of authority to large-scale capitalist enterprises, that are often naive, but sadly never inconsequential.

This movement, whilst making no task seem any easier than it is, and having no illusions about the magnitude of tasks, presses for change and believes that, at some point, somehow, on whatever scale, change is always possible.  Despite spending all of its existence under the influence of painful stereotypes by outsiders, the movement defies stereotypes, seeing what is there instead of what others would have expected.

Above all, picture a movement which defends nature against all forms of human arrogance, valuing the world and its resources above the money-making dreams and schemes of careless individuals. This movement is no figure of the imagination, nor is it the relic of a instant past.  It is here.  

In an ideal world, this movement would not *be* a movement, but an entire civilization - But don't wait. Step forward, grab your seat on the Magic Bus and get ready for the trip of a lifetime!

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