CHAPTER 1

Paradise

A long, long time ago, long before the bible waswritten people lived in harmony because there wasorder and discipline - a different order and disciplinethan it is these days.

In those times there was no religion, homelessness,unemployment, corruption and no money to steal and killfor. Community was like a big family helping each other andlife was based on needs rather than greed like it is today.

Indeed there was a king and a queen, but they were partof the community who obeyed all the rules and who workedas hard as all the rest. The king or the queen were kind ofelected based on the knowledge and intelligence they had andnobody gave them alms, offerings or sacrifices because it wasagainst the law and they didn't need it anyway because theyworked hard.

In those times Earth, water, blood and fish were holy.Earth didn't spin, there were no planets, the land was not forsale, the circle had 365 degrees, a year had 73 weeks and theweek had five days. People worked during the day; if theywanted to work at night they were permitted to as long asthe law was obeyed - not disturbing the others - so any workwas done quietly but no one did work at night because nightwas for sleeping; the clock did not exist and the morningalarm was set by the cock. You see, the circle obeyed thenature because no matter what geometrical shape you draw,you can draw a circle around it, in those times the numberof degrees of the circle was equal with the number of days ofthe trees year (a tree year is a calendar year). In those timespeople observed the nature and they came to the conclusionthat trees have leaves which came out in spring and fell inautumn; but that was the tree (nature) year not the humans'because humans cannot be compared with trees.

Humans had six ages: babies, one, children, fourteen,mature and old.

A child of one was a child who was toilet trained andcould feed and dress themselves; between one and fourteenwere the children, a person of fourteen was someone who wasone and they knew the law (in those times the law was taughtin school. This was the main subject, the law was symbolisedby the figure 4 and maths was simple for example 1+4=14);so fourteen was someone who finished school; was someonemature. Mature was someone between fourteen and old; andold was someone who was very wrinkled, could barely walk,was partially blind and had no teeth.

As no one was preoccupied to count the tree years, people(although part of nature) grew old and the older they becamethe wiser, the more they loved and the more they were loved.These days people are different and some, when getting olderthey wanted to be young again which means that they werenot fourteen yet. When someone old wants to be young againit means they have regrets and wants to turn back the timeto fulfil their ambitions, but long ago people did what theyliked, they were free, there were no restrictions and if theychose to do something at one particular time and somethingelse later no one objected. If a man of fourteen chose to bea builder and sometime later in life he wanted to become anartist he was welcomed by the artists.

Someone of fourteen was able to choose a handicraft andjoin the master as an apprentice but if later in life he decidedto become a musician he was free to do so, but usually artsand music were hobbies and people worked trades and didwhat they knew best; everything was done at a high standardbecause they loved their job.

In those times men worked outside the house and womeninside it; they had a lot to do, including cleaning, cooking,washing, taking care of the children, knitting, milking thecows, feeding the animals, weaving and sewing. When themen came home, dinner was ready because dinner was thelady' s way to say thank you for the food they had.

In those times men were praised for the food they broughthome, the houses they built and the furniture they made,the land they worked, the animals they took care of and ingeneral the work they did and women were worshiped forthe house they held, the children they brought up and thetemple they let man into, because in those days a woman'sbody was a temple. It is hard to explain that a woman's bodyis a church because these days the church has a cross above itand people gather in it to sing, while in those days a templewas a woman's body and the altar was a man's arms.

People loved each other and when you love you give, whenyou give you live and when you live you don't die.

In those times people believed in reincarnation; theybelieved that when people and animals died they returnedand this was the reason people in those times didn't kill.People in those times were vegetarians; they ate fish sparinglyand they ate eggs, cheese, milk, vegetables and fruits, eatingaccording to the season.

It is hard to explain reincarnation because many peoplebelieve that death is final and souls go up in the sky to rest,when in fact the soul returns in another body, usually thesame family, gender and species. At death the soul is preservedin the body's halo which cannot be seen but which exists andis inhaled with first breath at birth.

The week had five days and they were named with numbers;day one was market day when everyone went to market withproducts: food, wine, clothes, paintings, rugs, pans and pots,toys etc. The products were free, everything was free; buildinghouses was free, furniture was free and food and clotheswere free. On the market day everyone was given as much asthey needed for a week. For big items you had to go to thecarpenter's house to collect the goods, but furniture was givenwhen a house was ready and people didn't throw things away,as they were made to keep for ages. Day two was working daywhen everybody did what they learned: some were farmers,some were builders, some were teachers, some were artistsand some were blacksmiths. Day three was law day whenpeople used to go to court if there were any disputes betweenneighbours or if someone had a problem they didn't knowhow to solve it. The court was held outside in the marketplaces and everyone could attend if they wished to. There werea number of judges not just one; judges were normal peoplewho worked at something else during the week but whocame to court on day three to reconcile the disputes, not topunish as there were not thieves in those days. Day four it wasworking day and day five was rest day when people did whatthey liked. Usually there were parties in the market placeswhere people brought food and drink. There was music anddance and everyone was welcome; as the king was part of thecommunity he was the first to come to welcome people. Theking was not one of the judges although he was consideredas the most intelligent and knowledgeable but in cases wherethere was a dispute which could not be settled by the judgesthe king was called to give his advice.

In those times people didn't speak as much as they dothese days because the speech was considered a great giftwhich was not to be wasted. People used short sentenceswhich meant a lot, rather than a multitude of words with nomeaning; this was the reason the vocabulary was rather shortcomparative to these days when a multitude of dictionaries areneeded to define words invented to complicate the multitudeof laws created. (I wonder why TV, Second World War andmonths and days of the year are capitalised and earth, water,life, sun, moon and blood are not; it might be that they aremore important in written English).

People knew different things because there was noscience, and when someone was sick they cut a small vein tolet some blood come out because they believed that the bloodwas poisoned by some kind of food they had eaten or if theyhad flu they drank schnapps and rested in bed. There wereno cancers, dementia, allergies or irritable bowel syndrome,because there were no chemicals added to food or to grass orplants.

The air was fresh, the food was clean, the water was pureand people were healthy.

People did not eat meats because animals were seen asholy, people prayed to animals to grow big to give them milkand eggs, wool and help with traction. They prayed to treesto grow big and give them fresh air and timber for housesand furniture. There were no books like story books and noleaflets filling up the dustbins; all events were advertised inthe market places and there was no waste. It is true that therewere no taps, fridges, TVs, computers and mobile phones butpeople were healthy and happy and anyway there would havebeen no time to watch TV because people were very busyand they preferred to gather and have some food and drinktogether and chat.

Children went to school when they were one where theywere taught nature, geography, the basics of maths, the basicsof reading and writing and how to play; there was no homework or books to read. There were no logarithms, equations,integrals and radicals like these days, which anyway don't helpwith anything; they are just a waste of time. Maths back thenwas different; there was counting, but sums were different:1+1=11 and 1x1=M, and 2x2=, 3x3=8 and 4x4=H mathswas based on reflections.

Children were very spoiled; they were the eyes of theirparents. Parents waited a long time to have children and whenthey did, they were the light of their eyes. However childrenwere different then; they didn't want things just so they hadthe same like all the rest and when they went to market andsaw another toy they had another one if they needed it. Theyused to play together in the streets without fear of paedophiles– no one would have thought or dared to touch a child inan inappropriate way. They shared their toys and when theyplayed, they were supervised by a few teachers just to makesure there were no accidents. Parents spoke nicely with thechildren, no shouting or beating but smacking from timeto time when they were too naughty, which didn't happenvery often because they were taught from the very beginningto obey and respect their parents, grandparents and all theadults. Children were respected by everyone and everyoneexpected respect in return; but children were children andthey wanted to play more and didn't want to come home toeat dinner or sleep. They learned what the sunset was and thatthey were expected home before it, so they knew when theyhad to come home. If they didn't, there was a smack or twoto remind them, because sometimes there was no sun to beseen and they forgot to come home.

In those days streets were long and kids wandered fartheraway from home so that the teachers supervising them had toraise their voices to make themselves heard that it was timeto go home before the sunset.

There were no watches, but people watched the sun'smovement and in those times the sun moved around Earth,not the other way around. (The sun eventually becamestatic and the Earth started to spin much later in the timeof Egyptian glory, when pharaohs forced people to see themas gods; because they were bedizened in gold they comparedthemselves with the sun shining liking their servants to movearound them).

Children were the most precious because they were seenas great grandparents reincarnated and parents wanted to givethem back what they received from them when they werechildren. Families were big because people lived a long lifeand after all, the community was a big family not necessarilyrelated by blood but by the life they led together. Whetherfamilies were big or small it didn't matter because everyonewas treated in the same way, with respect and love. Old peoplewere not alone, even if they didn't have a family close to them,there was always someone to look after them. It would havebeen a big shame if an old person had been alone and nobodycould have imagined an old people's home; old people werethe most respected as they were seen as the future childrenand they were taken care of in the most loving way.

Children and old people were the most spoiled, they hadeverything they needed without exception and at the highestquality. Nobody was in a hurry; everyone had time to sparewhen it was about them. Children went to bed before thesun went to sleep and the parents had time to care for theelderly.

You see, from fourteen until they were old, people workedhard and when they were old they had time to relax beforedeath. It was a time of remembering and the telling storieschildren were always curious about. They spent a lot of timelistening to them and this was what the elderly liked most,someone to listen to them. They like the same these days, justthat today there is no time to listen to an old man because themortgage and all the bills have to be paid and they are placedin old people's homes where the staff have no time or interestin stories. The staff are there to clean, feed and make the bedsand they see elderly as a disease. These days, children pray fortheir parents to die to inherit the wealth they made.

In those days, children didn't know what to do to maketheir parents more comfortable and prayed for them to livelonger because they loved them and learned from them andthe longer they lived the wiser the children became. Parentsand children were hungry for all the stories the elderly toldthem because they learned from them and they wanted toteach their children the same things.

You see, when you see death as a final part of life yourun around like mad to achieve all sorts of goods with novalue except for the house you live in; everything else has novalue at all, so you ran all that time for nothing. When yousee death as rebirth everything has a value because you comeback and all the work you have done it comes back to you forfree. Knowledge is the most valuable because you are taughtagain what you already knew but you forgot in the short timeyou spent in death. When you believe you return in the samefamily, you like everything to be clean and pure; you wanteverything to be at the high standard and quality you left itbecause you spent all your time working at the same highstandard and quality to achieve goods which were preservedby taking care of them.

These days people want a new mobile phone and a newcar every year, not to mention the clothes which have tobe worn only once and all the uselessness of all the gadgetsthey buy. The leader is money and when the leader is money,knowledge and intrinsic value, integrity and dignity haveno value because knowledge and intelligence is the amountof money you have in the bank. As long as your fingers arewell manicured, you wear Christian Louboutin heels anddrive a class F Mercedes Benz you are a very intelligent andknowledgeable person.

School started at one when the child could dress and feedthemselves. They were ready to go to school where they playedand they learned through play; later, when they were ready,they learned subjects but the first thing they learned was thesun movement because they had to learn the time to comehome. Schools were held in market places twice a week on daytwo and four when people were working. At the beginningof the school parents or grandparents or great grandparents,would take the children to school and bring them back untilthe child grew older and learned the way home; at that pointthey didn't want to be taken and brought back from schoolbecause on the way home they would stop in the street to playeven more. Schools were attended by all children the olderones teaching the younger ones. They played together andwhen it was time to learn different subjects the teacher spokewith all of them, repeating the same things thousands oftimes; the younger ones sometimes fell asleep while listeningto what the teacher had to say.

Schools were playgrounds and children loved going toschool; they were taught to use everything in moderation andto play carefully to not injure themselves or others.

Nature was one of the main subjects, observing trees andplants growing, animals, the sun movement and the Earthand water. Trees were very important because people knewthat each animal needed one tree to be able to live and peopleneeded two. Therefore trees were planted in a way that allowedeveryone to have fresh air and to be cut as well. The best treeclimbers were the children so when they reached the maturityto climb trees, they had fun by pruning and cleaning them ofdry and dead branches. Children were the ones to climb treesto pick the fruits at harvest time.

Plants were people's food and as the food of plants waslight and water, younger children had fun watering them,weeding and harvesting - everything was done in moderationso don't imagine that young children were working the land;they were taught to water plants because they were as thirstyas the children and if they didn't water them there would beno dinner. So they did a bit of watering, a bit of weeding anda bit of harvesting; it was fun for them to observe how theplants grew and the way they reached the tables (these dayschildren believe that food grows in supermarkets and theydon't eat apples from the tree in their garden because theybelieve they are poisonous, so the apples from the gardenreach the bin. They believe that potatoes grow on trees andgenerally they have no idea how to take care because they arenot taught.)