Or- The Upadarian Dream of Freedom, Justice, and Prosperity For All
The concept and vision we refer to as “Upadaria” comes from a series of future “historical fiction” stories presented as written in 2147 that depict the emergence of a new civilization founded on Judeo-Christian ideals which rose as Western Civilization’s decline plunged the world into massive and catastrophic upheaval. This fictional future history became the basis of envisioning new ideas and methods to build freedom in our own lives, relationships, and communities through unilateral action aimed at the restoration and modern adaptation of ancient institutions such as family, extended multi-family households, and nationhood as a spiritual, as opposed to political, construct.
“UPADARIA”, pronounced “you-pah-daria”, is a vision of freedom founded upon a basis of virtue according to historic Christian moral orthodoxy (albeit on a strictly voluntary basis), liberty according to the most generous interpretation of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and independence through individual and mutual material, social, cultural, and economic independency and self-reliance.
Our NEW dream of freedom for all may be revealed and explained through fictional future history, written in 2147, but it is a practical dream for a new reality we can create together, starting in our own minds and hearts, extending to our relationships and families, right now.
Freedom in our society has been reduced, simplified, and watered down to a weak, pale form of individual self-indulgence mostly limited to the ancient world’s “bread and circuses”, or subsistence and entertainment/carnal pleasure. Being on the dole and mostly being encouraged to indulge your more animalistic and shallow carnal desires isn’t freedom, it does not engender dignity, and it positively threatens to destroy your agency and fulfillment as a human created in the image of God.
While you may no doubt feel a craving for freedom, for some way to actualize who you feel you truly are or wish to be, and to not be subjected to the will of others, what you may not realize is what the key missing ingredient in your liberation is. It is something you likely do not suspect and have never before heard before. But it is something that, once actualized in your life and relationships, is practically guaranteed to transfigure your life and circumstances in a most powerful way.
What we are speaking of here is the most powerful means for actualizing human agency known throughout history and for this reason it is something that, in ever tightening circles, the ruling class have assaulted with mich vigor!
The heart of what we propose is essential to true freedom, and not the shallow “bread and circuses freedom” sold by the ruling class to keep us in bondage to them, is best described in technical terms as “organic cohesiveness” and in more traditional terms is the essential spiritual quality that permeates nationhood, tribe, clan, community, extended family, immediate family, and marriage as defined by millenia of moral orthodoxy.
While we begin with and propose a specific form of spiritual nationhood, hence “Upadaria”, the concepts of nationhood as applied down to the individual level can be used by anyone: you don’t need to buy into our particular proposed form of nationhood in order to use these ideas. However, in our presentation of nationhood as a concept, we choose to frame our proposal through the lens of our future fictional history and through our vision and plan for giving birth to a new spiritual nation.
In our new dream of freedom the focus on individual actualization of our scroll of destiny and purpose, of God’s best for our lives, is through a combination of individual spiritual sovereignty and through the warm and supportive embrace of familial type relationships that scale up to the level of entire spiritual nations of people whose God is the Lord. Our dream is strictly voluntary, based on freewill participation, therefore whoever may be critical of our approach or convictions is free to choose another way, we do not desire the use of coercive laws and diktat from the state to advance our spiritual revolution within. We only desire and demand respect for our spiritual sovereignty and for our social, cultural, and economic autonomy as free and independent human beings endowed by our God with certain and self-evident inalienable rights.
We recognize and assert that without the warm embrace of voluntary familial connections we become atomized, isolated individuals who are easy prey to any larger scale powers and interests who wish to harness our labor and make us their servants. Our breakthrough discovery is this: that nationhood as a spiritual construct was ordained by God to nurture familial connections that provide the organic cohesiveness whereby people can essentially choose not only for themselves and their own actions but for the very type of sociocultural reality and norms they wish to be self-governed by.
The new dream of freedom is a form of intentional nationhood anyone can opt into anywhere around the world but which connects people on the basis of freewill participation alone for mutual profit and support from the smallest to the largest scale. This is a very unique proposition, it just doesn’t fit into most people’s expectations or experiences, which for some is simply beyond their comprehension, having been indoctrinated to limit their realm of possibilities to such a narrow horizon. The desire and habit to equate nationhood to such shallow things as politics, citizenship in a country, race, or ancestry is so ingrained that, until the numbers of innovators grow to a larger scale, most people won’t even explore alternatives.
Nationhood is a meta-scale shared SPIRITUAL identity defined by things like ideals, principles, practices, and mandates rooted in common beliefs, values, and convictions. This is very hard to convey with mere words, it is often felt inwardly by those who finally break through the illusions set by the ruling class and who see the whole through the eyes of their spirit.
Whether it is the universal nationhood of all Believers or a diversity manifestation of Kingdom Nationhood such as Upadaria, nationhood, once seen and felt from the spirit, changes everything in relation to the external reality and begins a process of designing and building a new personal reality that cannot be stamped out by the ruling class.
The traditional, in modern terms (because there are far deeper and more ancient traditions), approach to freedom uses trite, predictable language and is overly reliant on politics and the state to advance itself. When we see nationhood as spiritual, voluntary, shared identity based on pure ideals, instead of race or politics, we can both be welcoming to many others and yet also be more selective in who we choose to identify with on the basis of love and affection as opposed to prejudice and “otherfication.”
Being for your nationhood as a way of life and shared identity is NOT about being AGAINST others and their identity and way of life. Peaceful coexistence built on mutual respect for human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing is possible when we understand and practice this more ancient form of spiritual nationhood.
What is the Upadarian nationhood based on?
At its heart, the Upadarian nationality is a form of spiritual nationhood that flows from and builds upon the foundation of the Kingdom of God which is among us, within us, and coming to future fulfillment through God’s power alone. But, beyond this, there are specific convictions that, while not essential to our core identity as followers of Yeshua, who is the Christ and Son of God, are essential to our shared identity as a spiritual nation whose God is the Lord.
The key aspect of this spiritual nation is our shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates which we make explicit through 17 Protocols which every peer of our nation individually and in free association with others strives to actualize, albeit solely through the power, leading, and provision of God and purely on the basis of freewill participation. We are not building an organization or a hiearchy, we are not creating some class of gurus, lords, or “anointed leaders” who dictate life to other people. Nationhood is something you adopt and then willingly share with others on an equal basis, it isn’t a top-down system of control by the few over the many.
There have been over the years those who have either suspected in this vision some absurd attempt to create a church or closed-minded, insular “cult” and some who, while seemingly welcoming of the vision, so accustomed to top-down control that they desired to impose our vision! In both cases these people are victims of indoctrination by a top-down system of control perpetuated by an immoral ruling class which is emulated even within churches and other types of communities and associations.
Someone who understands and seeks to make Upadaria manifest isn’t prone to submit to any cultish or top-down control by any human being! Those who understand and use our 17 Protocols as God leads and provides do not need or desire a human master to dictate anything to them. Those who follow these 17 Protocols may join organizations and structures based on the Upadarian nationality, but they don’t have to in order to become Upadarian nationals.
Sadly, many of those who would invoke groundless accusations and epithets against spiritual nationhood, whether of Upadaria or anything else, are themselves infected with a cultish top-down mentality which has been in control of their entire existence. They project this to others while denying that they are victims of such abuse at the hands of a corrupt ruling class. The early Christians, who were and remain the eternal prototype for spiritual nationhood, faced similar problems from deluded victims of the cultish Roman imperium.
Invoking nationhood outside the expectations of political citizenship and race or ancestry to find ways to remove your thinking and your lifestyle from under the control of a corrupt ruling class will no doubt cause some to recoil a bit at this seemingly novel approach. But it is essential that we understand nationhood from the perspective of a set of ideals and principles that have their origins in spiritual truth and a spiritual identity.
Our dream of freedom and prosperity for all may have a seemingly unorthodox genesis, the use of nationhood as the organic glue that can connect many people solely on the basis of freewill participation, but the aim is for each person to walk in total freedom and obtain prosperity.
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