not necessarily my take, just one i enjoy.

                       *The Essassani Lifestyle*

Q: I'm curious to know about the social organization of your planet. How are you all organized?

B: The idea is simply that we are a spontaneous civilization now. We have elevated, what you call, trust, to an art form - in a positive sense. The idea simply being that we no longer need, what you would call, a government as such, a political system as such, an economic system as such, because we interact directly with each other individually and in groups; more in the format now that you would call a network.

In a sense it is our perception that your government, in time, or what you call your governments upon your planet, will take on more of the aspects of what you now call networks. Where you will facilitate individuals in contacting other individuals - those that have services, those that have needs.

The idea of our Association is not so much a government, nor exactly what you might call a Federation, for that still implies to some degree a governmental structure similar to the one you know. The idea is that it is a networking body, a serving body, that puts intelligence in line and in touch with other intelligence, that matches spontaneously need for need, service for service. And that is much the way our society interacts.

We have no need for a medium of exchange, because every individual that has a service, automatically attracts every individual that needs that service. And every individual that needs that service that is attracted automatically, brings with them a service that the first individual needs.

Everything is run by what you would call synchronicity, co-incidence - because that is the way life works. Because life is a holographic matrix, wherein everything is connected to everything else, automatically.

When your attitude knows that, when you focus on that particular structure, then that's the way you experience life and you do not need what might be called a reference structure, in order to organize things. Things organize themselves, and the government becomes one that serves rather than rules, allowing the flow to take place.

At any given moment, as we have said, our population is exploring in spacecraft and interacting with other civilizations and exploring many aspects of the universe; very few of us remain on the surface of our planet at any given time. Our planet is very green, as you say, park-like, in your language. There are no large built up structures upon our world, no large cities as upon yours.

The idea for us is not necessary, since the spacecraft in which we live, many times, are the cities themselves; many of them being many miles of your counting in length, and holding what you may call, tens of thousands of individuals.

There are only approximately two hundred million, in your counting, of our permanent population anyway. Our numbers are far lower than yours. The remainder of our population are those beings that simply as you say, come and go - that are not a permanent member of our society. Sometimes individuals are popping in and out, taking for the moment our corporeal form to experience our particular civilization, and then flashing back into energy. And sometimes there are other beings from other societies, who choose to spend some time upon the surface of our planet, interacting with many different members, both of our species and of others.

This is, in general, the idea of our lifestyle. It is very spontaneous, very joyful, very ecstatic. We are always exploring, always learning, always growing, always having a good time. (AUD: laughs) Will this do?

Q: Sounds interesting. What about the non-conformist? Is there such a thing?

B: /Everyone/ is a non-conformist. (AUD: laughs) And because everyone is allowed to be the fullest individual they can be, then we have great unity.

Q: Does that agree with a one-mind concept?

B: Understand that it is a misunderstanding in your society that one mind means a blandness of individuality. The idea, just like the person you are, is that when each and every one of your consciousness parts, when each and every one of your personality parts is as strong and equal to every other part it can be, then you function as a whole being.

And so, it is like that in a society - when the individual is the strongest individual they can be, then you have unity. For everyone is equally validated for the individual they are. And therefore, paradoxically, everyone supports the totality of all the other individuals that exist, and supports the idea of each and every being, being the strongest individual they can be.

So unconditional love is the key that allows us to function as one mind, and at the same time allows us to operate as distinct and variegated individuals. Understand?

Q: So there's no disagreements among...?

B: There are always different points of view, but the different points of view do not, in your terms, impede from the general flow of our positive progress. There is never disagreement in the sense that it holds things up. There can be different points of view, different approaches - but you see, to us they're all valid. So, if three individuals have three different points of view and three different approaches - we do them /all/. (AUD: laughs)

Or, if they finally allow themselves, by trying them all - as I use your term for now, trying - to simply come to the understanding that what one individual or another individual did is perhaps not as efficient as what the third individual came up with, then in recognizing that, the other two will probably align themselves with the third one.

Again, everything is done spontaneously, in a very obvious and conscious and willing manner. There is no need for argument as you call it, because all points of view are valid and we can learn from all of them. Understand?

Q: Yes.

B: Does this assist you?

Q: Yes, it does.

B: Well, thank you very much for /your/ point of view and your sharing.

Q: Thank you.

B: Thank you!