Allow me to introduce myself I was born into the Great Depression, survived the Nazi hunt for my life and the bombs of World War II in Budapest. Grew up in mindless and murderous Soviet occupation and escaped communist Hungary across the partially dismantled Iron Curtain in 1956. My heroic Mother took the arduous journey with me to the Austrian border to see me off to the West. At our parting, I promised her to be careful not to step on a landmine.
In much of my growing up, I was hiding, running, escaping often only a step ahead of death. It took years and thousands of miles for the early images and the questions to catch up with me during a late evening walk on the Westside of Los Angeles. My eight-year-old self emerging from the bomb shelter, near the end of the War in 1945, asking: Why would grownups destroy beautiful Budapest and kill innocent people? I am devoting much of my life answering that question.
I lost my father to illness when I was four years old, but got to know him well through the book manuscript He left behind. He was devoted to the cause of a peaceful Europe during the 1930s when the continent was drifting toward Nazism and World War II.
I treasure his memory, his spirit is my guiding star. Nearly fifty years and five books after that evening walk in Los Angeles, I am getting serious about saving the world. No, I am not planing to do it alone. On this site and in my fifth book Awareness Revolution you can find your action part in building a better bridge to a peaceful and sustainable future before the window of opportunity closes forever. The idea springs out of the question of why our frontal brain can build amazingly smart things, yet we use our 'reptilian brain' to build and organize human societies that often turn to conflict and war that in the 21st century may lead to nuclear Apocalypse.
The challenge is to understand that our 'reptilian brain' is a product of the dangerous world of the evolutionary jungle where survival depended on split second reflexive decisions to fight or flee — there was no time for thinking. This evolutionary legacy is deeply embedded in our neuroendocrene system; it cannot be surgically corrected or removed. Our only option is to secure food, shelter, engagement and supportive community for people. In other words, secure universal quality of life for most or all of humanity to keep global socioeconomic stress dormant.
Awareness Revolution can help and when we use our frontal brain to build a new socioeconomic arrangement (one community at a time); building a future of universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability become surprisingly doable. The initial transfer of capital from the capitalist system to the Holigent commons may be a challenge. Billionaires, governments, and all awareness revolutionaries can solve that problem by funding the construction of the initial nature-compliant 'Holigent' community. It is to demonstrate a hybrid socioeconomic arrangement that secures quality of life for its residents. At some point nature-compliant 'Holigent' communities will be self-replicating and the process will spread across America, Europe and beyond. Conflict, war, poverty, hunger and homelessness will become history.
A Proposal for
Los Angeles to Heal Itself and Save the World
Los Angeles is a resourceful and fertile ground in which to plant the seed of a new hybrid socioeconomic organizing system that opens a hopeful possibility for building a future of social, economic, and environmental justice; quality of life; and peaceful systemic sustainability. When successful, the seeds of this societal renewal experiment will spread and
mature around the world.
Join the Awareness Revolution. Your donation will be the seed from which a new order of social, economic and environmental justice, quality and systemic sustainability will grow.
What's a Holigent Village?
It is a community built in compliance with nature's building and sustainability code; which is an organizing system that evolution perfected over billions of years creating complex living organism from simple beginning.
A Holigent Village is all pedestrian living, learning and working community with a hybrid socioeconomic arrangement that secures food, shelter, work, community and all the essentials to provide peaceful and sustainable quality of life.
Here are a few points to consider:
1. If you are an educator, introduce to your students the subject of 'Building a Better Bridge to Our Peaceful and Sustainable Future'. (Or in plain language, Saving civilization from collapse and extinction).
2. Retrofit capitalism. An essential part of rational reconstruction of society to build a functional, peacefully sustainable civilization is to expand awareness to understand that capitalism is a toxic aspect of society that compels wealth to migrate from the ‘99%’ to the ‘1%’. (See also, r > g in the book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty). That results in the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. From time to time this brings out the pitchforks, guillotines and the Bolsheviks in bloody upheavals. Transition to peaceful systemic sustainability therefore must begin with (voluntary) transfer of wealth from the capitalist system to nature-compliant Holigent commons.
3. The first million dollars will buy one home (the first Holigent house); $5 mil will buy an apartment building along the Expo line near USC in Los Angeles. These will be the seeds of the Holigent campus/community that in time will grow to become the first Holigent Village.
4. The first Holigent Village will be a living demonstration of nature-compliant all pedestrian community with hybrid socioeconomic arrangement that secures quality of life and peaceful systemic sustainability for all its residents.
5. Continued development will produce the Holigent Global Village, a permanent world exhibition of nature-compliant systemic sustainability. Students will be invited from all over the world to live and learn the art and science of Holigent cellular societal reconstruction and plant the seeds around the world that will in time develop universal quality of life, global peace and systemic sustainability; so that humanity may survive and thrive on Earth — the only warm, wet and green habitable home we have in the universe.
Where to begin?
We envision experimental start-up plans for two projects:
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a)The Los Angeles Project along the Expo Line near USC.
We will begin working on this project the day after funds arrive.
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b)The Budapest Project, in one of the southern district of the city.
We encourage Hungarian activists to organize, building a better bridge to the future
of Europe. Apply for funding from EU; emphasizing the critical need for societal
reconstruction to save the continent from discord, war and disintegration.
This website and the book Holigent Awareness Revolution can be your guide.
Building a Better Bridge
to our peaceful and sustainable future continues as
Awareness Revolution
in the classrooms
Q #1 Why would grownups destroy a beautiful city and kill innocent people?
At the end of World War II, my mother, sister, and I climbed out of the deep bunker under the old fort of Buda and I saw Budapest bombed to rubble. My eight-year-old self asked: Why would grownups destroy a beautiful city and kill
innocent people? I devoted much of my life searching to answers that and many other questions.
A #1 is the same as A #2
Q #2 How is it that humans can build amazingly functional gadgets such as smartphones, yet our societies are unwise and dysfunctional to the extreme — making wars, killing one another, damaging the environment and depleting Earth’s life-support capacity?
A #2 My best answer is that we build smart gadgets with our frontal brain, but organize our societies with input from our primitive ‘reptilian brain’ — leftover from the evolutionary jungle.
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Q #3 Why is a fog of gloom and doom hanging over the world?
A #3 One reason: Along with evolution, rising complexity of life is moving on the one-way boulevard of time from past toward the future. Wrong-way human civilization with narrowing awareness and closing of minds is the unaware driver heading the opposite direction. A likely collision would result in a wreckage of civilization.
Let's get to work to avoid that collision — begin the turnaround by introducing Holigent Awareness Revolution into high school and college curriculum — so that young people can graduate not only with the knowledge of how to become 'successful' consumers, but also with the qualification to build a better bridge to our future of peaceful systemic sustainability.
Life must be examined because “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates); to be examined with a new mindset because “A problem cannot be solved with the same mindset that created it” (Albert Einstein); and acted on because “If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon” (Sir David Attenborough).
If we don't take action in this 21st century 'the collapse of civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world' will arrive sooner than we could comfortably contemplate.
There is an urgent need to introduce an updated curriculum into the classrooms that will teach young people the science and skills of building a better bridge to our future of peaceful systemic sustainability. We need brave and creative educators to break some old rules and bring in new ones — particularly in times of limited resources. The future of civilization is in your hands.
The Awareness Revolution curriculum will teach young people to become solutioneers in reconstruction of societies, a community at a time, to be compliant with nature’s building and sustainability code so that humanity could continue on a new track toward a future of universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability.
Beyond the classrooms individuals will put to practice and continue to apply and refine the skill and wisdom learned in transferring decision making from our reptilian brain to our frontal brain. Let me illustrate the reason with the following.
Our reptilian bran houses our stress response mechanism that works today as it did for our caveman ancestors — at high stress it turns on aggression and fear and turns off reason (rational thought process). While our frontal brain helps us build amazingly functional appliances; our reptilian brain tells us to be aggressive and fear our fellow humans, prepare for war and spend excessive amounts on military. For example, in 2023 the United States spent 916 billion dollars on the military; China spent 296 billion; Russia spent 109 billion and the list goes on. In that year the world spent a total of 2.44 trillion in US dollars on military.
Let’s do a mental experiment and some simple math to see what the world could do with that amount of money every year if it was not spent on the military? Assuming that each nature compliant Holigent Village providing secure quality of life would cost about $500 mil to build; $2.44 trillion could build roughly 5,000 such villages; housing 1,000 people per village; the total would house 5 million people every year. In addition to securing quality of life in peaceful systemic sustainability the process would project hope and help reduce global collective socioeconomic stress; moving the world toward a future of universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability.
Our stress response is built into our neuroendocrine system, a part of our primitive ‘reptilian brain’, and functions today as it did for our caveman ancestors. It cannot be surgically corrected or removed. Our remaining option is to secure universal quality of life to reduce societal stress and keep it dormant.
Our task, in essence, is to reassign the building and organizing of human societies exclusively to our frontal brain, without input or interference from our reptilian brain. This will not be simple, but it is doable. That is why we need an Awareness Revolution that will enable us to build a better bridge to a future of universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability.
When we accomplish that; conflict, war, destruction, injustice, suffering, hunger, and homelessness will be history. Humanity will survive and thrive on our warm, wet, and green Earth — the only habitable home we have in the universe.
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If we don't take action the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
Sir David Attenborough
at the 2018 UN Climate Conference
Before we could take action we need to ask and answer the following questions:
Build a Better Bridge
to our peaceful and sustainable future
(BBB Sundays)
Building a Better Bridge to our future (BBB Sundays) Instructive Demonstration by students in Budapest, Hungary
During the 1930s high global socioeconomic stress led to
fascism and World War II?
Today, global collective STRESS
is feverishly high and rising.
Holigent Yoga will heal and save the world from
repeating history.
Quality of Life Elevator
for all of us
Holigent Yoga
to Heal Ourselves and Save the World
The Mission: Tens of thousands of people take arduous journeys every year to get into Europe or the USA seeking a better life. The Holigent Mission is to take Quality of Life to the people where ever they live. This process can begin by individuals taking the Quality of Life Elevator up and up.
Ground Floor
8 billion people on Earth with 1.5 billion cars practicing a civilization of — globally conflicted, techno-industrial, extractive capitalist-consumerist, military-industrial complex — is not sustainable!
How can we build complex gadgets such as cellphones, yet we do dumb things like make war and kill each-other?
We build smartphones with our frontal brain and make war, killing and destruction with our 'reptilian brain' — leftover from the evolutionary jungle. Our reptilian brain houses our stress arousal mechanism embedded in our neuroendocrine system therefore cannot be surgically altered or removed. Our only option is to elevate quality of life that will reduce stress and keep it dormant. This is an existential challenge for humans, because today high stress turns on aggression and fear and turns off reason (rational thought process) just as it did for our caveman ancestors.
We demonstrated the consequences of this in the 20th century as high socioeconomic stress generated by the Great Depression led to fascism and World War II. Anger will make us use the weapons that fear made us build and diminished reasoning will not exempt nuclear weapons. Our option now is to get on the quality of life elevator and elevate.
2nd Floor
Holigent Yoga
Quality of life begins as brain and body chemistry, therefore it is primarily a personal responsibility — leaving it up to politicians can become a regrettable mistake. Creating quality of life and a peacefully sustainable world is beyond politicians skillsets.
Feverish global stress is the result of extractive capitalist-consumerist overload of eight billion humans on Earth. We are in a race against time to avoid collapse and extinctions. Most institutions in this race are still at the starting gate. But there is hope! Yoga is way ahead. 300 million people are practicing yoga around the world improving their physical and mental wellbeing while reducing stress and elevating quality of life one individual at a time. This is what the world needs now!
Our world is made of billions of people. You and I can heal the world one individual at a time; if we don't do it, no one will. You can start with yourself. Then share the "medicine" with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers and strangers.
The medicine is Holigent Yoga (HY).
3rd Floor
Holigent Awareness Revolution
The book of the above title can be your guide for Building a Better Bridge to our future of universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability.
4th Floor
Organize Instructive Demonstrations
Invite friends and neighbors to gather in public places to spread Awareness Revolution. Invite Billionaires, Politicians, Mayors, Governors. Ask US Congress to establish the Department of Homeless Reconstruction to fund Holigent societal transformation.
The book, Holigent Awareness Revolution can serve as a guidebook. Invite journalists and the media to click on the QR code and pick up the Holigent story.
A Holigent Urban Village model
5th Floor
Holigent Transformation:
Build live/learn/work pedestrian communities — Holigent Villages with hybrid socioeconomic arrangements of Quality of Life in peaceful systemic sustainability.
6th Floor
Holigent Global Village:
Develop Holigent Villages further to construct Holigent Global Villages — building a future of universal quality of life; global peace; and systemic sustainability — a civilization in which humanity will survive and thrive on Earth — the only warm, wet and green habitable home we have in the known universe.
Holigent development will evolve from Holigent House, Holigent Campus, Village, Urban Village to Holigent Global Village.
We need to remember that protests, expecting politicians to fix the problems, does not work, because building a future of peaceful sustainability is beyond the skillsets of politicians.
If we want a better future, you and I have to build it.
Building a peaceful and sustainable world step by step
Note: This writing is in “Hunglish” (Hungarian-English ;-). Correcting grammatical errors is low on my list of priorities in our conflicted and endangered world. The window of opportunity to save the civilized habitability of our planet is closing faster than we could comfortably contemplate. There is no time to perfect grammar and design; it’s the message that matters.
Remember to nurture your 4 'Happiness Hormones':
Dear Billionaire,
Save Yourself and Save the World
A survival strategy for all of us
Our bridge to the future is falling down.
You may have plans to save yourself in your remote hideaway when collapse arrives. However, desperate hungry crowds and, ultimately, nuclear radiation clouds will find you. In the unlikely event that you could go so far as to escape to Mars, you would find an unpleasant dead rock in cold empty space.
Here is my proposal for Los Angeles, where I live. You can do something similar most anywhere in the world. Let’s team up: your money and my nearly fifty years of experience in buying, renovating, renting, and managing residential apartment buildings. In Los Angeles the area I have in mind for this proposed project is along the Expo rail line near USC.
Here’s the plan: We set up a nonprofit corporation. The nonprofit will buy a number of homes that will form the Holigent Campus where students can live, learn, and work, paying about half the commercial rent.
As additional properties are purchased, the campus grows and becomes a Holigent Village — a car-free community in which all things are within walking distance for all the residents.
The village continues to grow and becomes a Holigent Urban Village — a pedestrian community with a hybrid socioeconomic arrangement and a social contract that secures food, shelter, employment, community, and all essentials for quality of life.
Further enlargement will produce a Holigent Global Village. We will invite people from all over the world to live and learn the science and skills of Holigent societal organization and joyful way of life. On their return home they will plant the seeds and nurture Holigent development and societal transformation to quality of life in peaceful sustainability.
The survival strategy of the Holigent Proposal is building a friendly world around you that will avert the “collapse of civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world” and so prevent the violence that would accompany such an event.
Instead of suffering the destruction of our world, you will build a new nature-compliant civilization that will nurture universal quality of life, global peace, and systemic sustainability to preserve planet Earth — the only warm, wet, and green home we have in the universe.
AWARENESS REVOLUTION
A Nicholas Frank
In 1945 at the end of World War II, Mother, Sister and I emerged from the deep bunker under the old fort of Buda and I saw Budapest bombed to rubble. My eight-year-old self asked: Why would grownups destroy a beautiful city and kill innocent people?
Children will continue to ask that question in the future unless we stop making wars and build a peaceful world. That will take an awareness revolution and extraordinary action.
The awareness revolution will begin when we follow the instruction of Socrates and examine life, because “The unexamined life is not worth living”; and do it with a new mindset as Albert Einstein suggested, because “ A problem cannot be solved with the same mindset that created it.” Then listen to Sir David Attenborough and take action, because “If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
The collapse will very likely come in the form of a nuclear apocalypse. The following illustrates the complexity of that predictable certainty.
Why is it that humans can make smartphones,
yet be so unwise as to make war and kill one another?
The answer: We make smartphones with help from our frontal brain but organize societies with input from our primitive ‘reptilian’ brain — leftover from the evolutionary jungle. Our ‘reptilian’ brain contains our neuroendocrine stress arousal mechanism that works today as it did for our caveman ancestors: Stress turns on aggression and fear and diminishes reasoned thought process. We can put this into a formula that illustrate the inverse relation of stress s and reason r. As stress rises, reason diminish.
s > r
When reasoning ability is diminished large masses of people will follow a charismatic leader who makes a big promise and tells the followers what to think and what to do. Example: In the Great Depression of 1930s Europe elevated socioeconomic stress allowed the rise of a charismatic leader. When the fascist leader could not deliver the promise of “Deutschland über alles” (Germany above all) he gave the angry followers a big fight, World War II.
History will predictably repeat itself when socioeconomic stress rises to a flashpoint. In this nuclear armed world we need to make extraordinary effort to avert war. This will be achieved when we find ways to reduce collective socioeconomic stress and keep it dormant.
Awareness Revolution will be a start to broaden our perspective to understand the wider reality that will tell us, among other things, that it is outside the skillsets of politicians to build a secure and livable future, because the simple tool of left/right political “monkey wrench” can’t fix troubled societies for about the same reason the plumber’s pipe wrench aka ‘monkey wrench’ can’t fix a broken computer. It will be the work of active and self-organized neighborhoods to build a peaceful and sustainable world one community at a time. It all begins at Block Parties that will be amusing and purposeful ways to build communities.
FESTIVAL OF JOY
Organize weekly baby strolls in your neighborhood and invite all
to join the project of building a permanent "Village of Joy" aka
a Holigent Village — an experimental project of societal reconstruction one community at a time; building a peaceful and sustainable future for
all the babies of the world.
Block Parties
In the spirit of
One for all and all for one
doing the essential most
with the least of resources
with love and laughter
without conflict and
without waste
Obtain city permits to close traffic for a chosen block of your neighborhood. Set up tables and umbrellas for various activities such as Babies play and parents make friends; doggies sniff and learn new tricks while their masters socialize; set up booths for bartering (clothing, toys, tools and other items); booth for story telling; and assign space for many more activities.
The community may be formalized as a tax-exempt 501c3 nonprofit organization. The primary purpose of the community is conflict resolution, improve quality of life, help families in need, and promote the idea and practices of building a peaceful and sustainable world one community at a time.
