resurgence January—February 1979 Vol. 9 No. 6. Issue 72 Pentre Ifan, Felindre Farchog, Crymych, Dyfed, Wales. Phone: (0239) 820317

Resurgence is a voice o f new civilisation, it is a journal of new politics, concerned with small nations, small communities, decentralisation and ethnic cultures. It is a philosophical, ecological and spiritual forum.

ECCE Dictator Benevolens 2 John Moat Green Politics 6 Green Man Person Planet Connection 7 Theodore Roszak What a miner can do 10 John Seymour Schumacher Lectures 12~30

Ivan lllich R. D. Laing Amory Lovins Books 31~37

Leopold Kohr Joy Hendry Geoffrey Ostergaard Michael Henderson Gerard Morgan-Grenville Nicholas Saunders Michael Brett-Crowther Paul Carlisle John Lane Roger Helyar David Satterthwaite John Papworth Mark Pawson

Book Extract:

38~39

'One Straw Revolution' by Masanobu Fukuoka

E r ra tum Resurgence Issue 71, Page 31, in the second paragraph of the first column. The figure 30,000 should have read 300,000: This additional money could have been used by the government to purchase approximately 300,000 four-panel solar hot water systems at £750 each.

5CHUnACHEK LECTUKEE) (Chairman's introduction, A FTER THE SUDDEN death of Dr. E. F. Schumacher last year, Resurgence with which Dr. Schumacher worked as an associate editor, decided to launch the Schumacher Society. One of the prime concerns o f Resurgence magazine has been to promote the principle of ‘small is beautiful’, but, o f course, not just ‘small is beautiful’ as small can be ugly too. We are promoting what is beautiful as well as small. Small must be ecological, spiritual, fulfilling and harmonious. Then and only then can small command our attention.

and alternative sources o f energy. But none o f us seem to be able to see the total man and beyond — beyond his personality. It is not good enough just to offer him a few words o f praise. We must open ourselves to see the three-dimensional reality. Therefore it is an apt tribute to Fritz Schumacher that here we have three speakers who individually and together represent that three-dimensional totality — the holistic vision. Here we have Dr. R. D. Laing, who on the surface may appear to be concerned with the internal reality, but that is only on the surface. His ideas and experiences of reality are in total harmony with the external realities o f our planet.

We will do better if we do not stop at the generalities of the goodness in small and take the concept in concrete terms and see how practically small is workable and possible in health, in education, in agriculture, in commerce and industry. Here is the challenge which Dr. Schumacher has left for us to meet. It is our task to work out concrete and dynamic proposals fo r our social, political and economic organizations so that w.e can create a revolution not only in consciousness, which is o f course fundamental, but in structures as well.

One danger we face in this world of specialization is that we tend to take only one aspect or one dimension o f reality and think of it as total reality. Like those blind men who met a certain animal and each o f whom touched a different part of its body — legs, ears, trunk, tail and so on. When they gathered together to describe the animal, they all had totally different ideas o f what the animal looked like. The one who had touched the leg thought it was like a pillar. The one who touched the tail thought o f it as a thin hanging rope. The one who had touched the trunk thought o f it as a fat crusty worm. In this way all o f them kept arguing and quarreling with each other without knowing the whole animal — the total elephant.

In the same way the concerns o f Amory Lovins for soft energy and lllich ’s concerns for deschooling, medical nemesis and conviviality appear to be in the sphere o f the external world. But that is only an appearance. In truth they touch the core o f personal, social and cosmic existence. Therefore I can think o f no better way to pay tribute to Dr. Schumacher than have these three most original and radical thinkers to speak their minds. Not only their minds, but their hearts too. As they unite the inner and outer realities they also unite the intellect with the emotions and that is why our three speakers stand out from the dry world o f pure academics. There is no life in pure academic and intellectual gymnastics. I am most grateful to Laing, Lovins and lllich for accepting my invitation to come here and be with us. It is a promise to work together and be part o f the new process, the process which does not provide a ready-made blue print for a new society. It is not a process o f left wing or right wing politics. It is not a process to follow the leaders, but it is a process o f autonomous action by all o f us with a new consciousness of wholeness.

We, the friends o f the late Schumacher, seem to be in the same boat. Some of us see him as a champion o f intermediate and appropriate technology; others see him as an exponent of organic farming; there are others who see him as a prophet o f new economics; still others consider him the apostle of ecology, environment

This process does not begin and end with today’s event. Events o f this kind are only manifestations o f our solidarity and togetherness. But it is the everyday activities, choices and actions of an autonomous nature that makes the process work.

Satish Kumar

Editor Satish Kumar Editorial Group June Mitchell, John Seymour

Associate Editors Ernest Bader, Danilo Dolci, David Kingsley, Leopold Kohr, Jays Prakash Narayan, John Papworth

Promotion Joan Wilkes Layout Colin Tiffany Typesetting Jenny Duley

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