MANIFESTO.

The Golden Age of Peaceful Enlightenment

Since Sept. 21, 2026

Publication:

In English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1343

In Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1195

DEAR VOLUNTEERS FOR ETERNAL PEACE!

         We, 24 coauthors of the *Planetary Science of Perpetual Peace* (abbreviated as SPP), a group of peacemakers - planetary citizens from 10 countries—are pleased to congratulate all people of good will o­n the International Day of Peace (Sept. 21). As a gift, we are attaching the PDF of the latest update (168 pages) of its second Russian edition and o­n the website here: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1264.

         However, we offer these congratulations with sadness, sorrow, disappointment and Peace lament. Today, Peace finds itself in a state of deep depression, akin to the condition Erasmus described over five centuries ago (1517) in his *Complaint of Peace*—a Peace "banished and cast down everywhere." Indeed, that remains its state today. We find it nowhere—save for a few fragmented "burrows" belonging to genuine civil-society peace organizations (which can be counted o­n the fingers of o­ne hand), where it has found a silent refuge.

         In our modern nuclear civilization, which has created and continues to expand the fundamental, irremediable reality of a nuclear arsenal capable for the inevitable "Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD) of humanity (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1194), peace has truly become "banished and cast down everywhere." The o­nly exceptions are those few burrows inhabited by living planetary peacemakers—figures who remain powerless and isolated, fragmented and cut off from meaningful communication with the wider world.

         Originating in Russia in 1975 and emerging o­nto the global civil society stage in 2005 under the name GGHA, the organization—having cast off the shackles of insularity and fragmentation through an integrative partnership and a synergy of past and present scientific peace-building achievements—has spent 21 years creating an unprecedented, transdisciplinary SPP. It was created based o­n a verified true in invariant structure of "substantially new" thinking (in Einstein’s sense), which varies o­nly in the sectoral content of the four fundamental societal spheres.

         Our world-first integrative and transdisciplinary SSPP of tetraspheral and coherent thinking is presented in the attached "Primer" (the second edition of the definitive book, in Russian). Together with its second edition—an English version scheduled for release at the end of the year under the guidance of American editors—it effectively ushers in a "Golden Age of Peaceful Enlightenment" in history.

         This Age of Enlightenment is "golden" in every respect: as a reminder of the Golden Age at the humanity dawn, free from war and violence; as a vision of a future defined by sustainable development and the prosperity of nations within the absolute security of perpetual peace; and as a means of preserving the ecological symbiosis without which perpetual peace cannot exist; as the prospect of a scientific, objectively true, and constantly practice-verified—and therefore invincible—method for the perpetual peaceful coexistence of nations in harmonious, natural cooperation. (According to Gandhi, "Truth is God, who always triumphs".) And in every other dimension and sense, in order to eradicate the causes of the profound global depression and the extreme crisis of ignorance in which the world finds itself within the MAD reality of a lethal nuclear civilization. For nearly a century, this civilization has abandoned the systemic scientific study of peace, contenting itself with ceaseless confrontation and wars punctuated by temporary, false truces—falsely substituting these, along with narrow and fragmented disciplinary thinking, for true, positive, and perpetual peace; such thinking remains blind to the true, invariant structure of humanity’s harmonious, coherent spheres as revealed in the SPP.

         In this reality, as attested by the "moles" among the "last of the Mohicans" of the peace movement, emerging from various fragmented burrows, nuclear war is becoming "ever easier and closer", mere 85 seconds away from the MAD, the "threshold for nuclear war has been lowered to Cold War levels," when the world has been transformed into the "information desert of a scorched media landscape," and "collective amnesia regarding nuclear weapons testing" reigns in mass media and pop culture. Simultaneously, the pursuit of perpetual peace becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous for its advocates—who are branded as "dissidents"—while the goal itself recedes ever further, like an infinitely retreating utopian phantom.

         In this realm of the "information desert of a scorched peace by media landscape," everything hinders the "formation of a public demand for real nuclear disarmament," a goal that remains perpetually unachievable within society. o­nly the "Age of Enlightenment" within the SPP can transform these fragmented "moles of peace" into Shakespeare’s "moles of history," collaborating to create a genuine planetary perpetual peace, in the development of its SPP and the creation of its essential instrument for construction, cognition, and learning: the SAI-SPHERUM.

         The SPP fundamentally expands the horizons of our social, political, and cognitive imagination regarding perpetual peace toward a "substantially new," transdisciplinary, tetraspheral, and coherent mode of thinking. Mastering this requires an entire Age of Enlightenment, spanning at least the remainder of this century, to begin overcoming the natural, and thus not shameful, yet lethal ignorance inherent in the nuclear civilization's MAD consciousness.

         Its cognitive limitations and blindness condemn peace to a depression that is fatal for humanity and the unending crisis of the MAD inevitability, surmountable o­nly through the SPP Golden Age of Peaceful Enlightenment, which begins with the launch of its Primer within the IDP o­n September 21, 2026.

         We, planetary citizens of perpetual peace, call upon all people of good will to publish our SPP across all available media and discuss it in every forum—especially those for youth—in order to eradicate the MAD total, genocidal reality, in which we all live today. We also invite you to SEND your responses—ranging from the most scathing critiques to the most utopian or alternative ideas, but above all, scientific o­nes—for publication o­n our websites: "Planetary Citizens" (https://planetarycitizens.net/) and GGHA (spherons.leo@gmail.com).

         With peace, love, and hope for support for the Golden Age of Peace Enlightenment,

24 co-authors of the SPP

        September 21, 2026

          P.S. At the very last moment, American editor Zen Benefiel sent his own version of our Manifesto—one that expands upon it—which will be published alongside this o­ne within the next two days below.

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Дорогие друзья вечного мира!

         После долгих болезней, мучений и препятствий публикации нового издания НВМ в России (это особый вопрос после 21 сентября), рад послать вам черновик нашего Послания Планетарных Граждан на МДМ 21 сентября в прикреплении, 2 стр., на вашу поддержку с предложениями. Конечно, если нет принципиальных возражений. (Какие могут быть принципиальные возражения у соавторов НВМ более 20 лет???)

         Для ваших стилистических и грамматических замечаний, за которые я буду очень благодарен, остается лишь один день, 20 сентября, так как я должен послать это Послание с утра 21 сентября. Все другие замечания, по частностям и техническим деталям предлагаю обсудить после этой даты.

         Главный смысл и ожидание от вас при публичном обсуждении Послания с 21 сентября – это внятная, развернутая поддержка финально обновленной НВМ на русском языке, как старта Эпохи Просвещения Вечного Мира, с вашими предложениями дальнейшего развития, продвижения и активного участия в этой эпохе. (В конце года мы надеемся на публикацию обновленного, второго издания НВМ на английском языке, но это особый технический вопрос его главных редакторов.) Отсутствие от самих соавторов публичных откликов будет работать только на врагов вечного мира, только на царящую «информационную пустыню, выжженной медиасреды мира (peace)».

          Я очень надеюсь, что это ясно понятно всем нашим соавторам и друзьям за долгие годы сотрудничества.

С миром, любовью и лучшими пожеланиями здоровья,

Лев Семашко

19-09-26

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RESPONSES  

DearLeo,

Thank you for sharing the draft and for your continued dedication to the cause of peace and human harmony. I appreciate your persistent efforts despite many challenges.

I will review the draft and share any essential stylistic or grammatical suggestions if any, however I may do after translation it into English, within the available time.

Wishing you good health and success with the Message.

With warm regards,

Dr. Surendra Pathak, 

Principal Investigator, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Project,             

Consultant, Global Peace Foundation (GPF )- India 

Former Consultant, NAAC & Media, 

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Mhow, M.P.

Adjunct Professor, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmadabad, Gujarat  

former Professor-Value Education, 

(Former Dean Social Science and Director Research, IASE Deemed University), President, Global Harmony Association India:

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1217

https://iaseuniversity.academia.edu/SurendraPathak
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-surendra-pathak-79a6068

20-09-26

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Dear Leo ,

I am in the hospital 6 weeks taking care of my mother. I shall try to find time. 

With peace from harmony and love

Panagiotis -Takis D Ioannides 

Co-founder Vice President of GGHA.

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=138

20.09.2026

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Кроме восхищения и безусловной поддержки я ничего не испытываю от нашей уникальной, но логичной для ГГСГ инициативы "Золотого века просвещения вечного мира" (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1195).

Это истинно золотое, самое драгоценное для сохранения жизни 8 миллиардов людей на планете просвещение. Оно освобождает нас от воин, ядерного геноцида на будущее всех поколений и детей. 

Не всё же время, более 80 лет, нам быть рабами и заложниками ГВУ. 

80 лет унизительного состояния более чем достаточно, чтобы начать серьёзно, научно думать, как в нашей НВМ, как освободится от него. Сколько его еще можно терпеть молча и пассивно! Никто, кроме нас о нем не говорит. 

Да здравствует наш Золотой Век Мирного Просвещения с НВМ! 

С уважением 

Вера Попович

Россия

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=578

20.09.2026

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Dear Leo,

Thank you for sharing your draft.

Please go ahead, I have nothing to add as it is in Russian and there is no point in translating and then commenting o­n its grammar etc. 

The contents as usual seems absolutely fine and timely. Thank you for your kind leadership and support in all these challenges.

For peace always,

Asha Mukherjee

 Former Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religion

and Former Director, Women's Studies Centre,

Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (WB)

INDIA 731235

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1170

20.09.2026

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Дорогой Лев Михайлович!

Большое спасибо за ваше письмо и за ваш неутомимый труд. Прежде всего желаю вам полного выздоровления, сил и крепкого здоровья!

Я полностью поддерживаю идею о том, что миру необходимо новое Просвещение. Однако с точки зрения системной экологии и кибернетики, вечный мир невозможен на отравленной и деградирующей Земле. Война против природы (экоцид) неизбежно ведет к войне между людьми за ресурсы, воду и продовольствие.

В качестве нашего вклада в Послание и в дальнейшую разработку Науки Вечного Мира я предлагаю включить ключевой тезис: «Биологический симбиоз и мико-технологии как материальный фундамент планетарного мира».

Ниже представлен наш краткий манифест, который показывает конкретный путь выхода из климатического коллапса:

Путь из экоцида и климатического коллапса: Нет грибов — нет будущего

Мало кто осознает, что действительно поставлено на карту: большая часть $CO_2$ в нашей биосфере запасается не растениями, а грибным мицелием в почве. Мицелий создает плодородный слой и регенерирует биомассу. Грибы — ключевые биохимики нашей эволюции. Обезлесение и монокультуры глобального агробизнеса ведут к катастрофической утрате плодородного слоя. Это системно снижает питательную ценность пищи, насыщает её токсинами и разрушает экосистемы — условия нашего собственного выживания.

Будучи древнейшим царством жизни, позволившим растениям и животным выйти на сушу, грибы обладают уникальным набором антивирусных, антибактериальных и антифунгальных свойств. Высшие грибы и их мицелиальные сети — это «архитекторы экосистем» и идеальная основа для мико-технологий:

1.Замена истощаемым ресурсам: Создание биотехнологических материалов (строительные блоки, эко-пластик, изоляция).

2.Регенерация почв и воды: Использование мико-фильтрации и мико-ремедиации для очистки рек, морей и почв от химикатов и тяжелых металлов.

3.Устойчивость к климатическому коллапсу: Мико-лесоводство (myco-forestry), защита ключевых видов (пчел) и локальное мико-земледелие.

Первоочередной фокус борьбы с экоцидом — это трансформация нашего образа жизни, культуры и сельского хозяйства через инвестиции в грибные решения. Нам необходимо вернуть понимание пищи как естественного лекарства. Регенерация генома грибов позволяет нам восстановить рушащиеся условия жизни.

Только когда мы живем в симбиозе с окружающей средой, мы можем гарантировать безопасность и мир для будущих поколений.

Без грибов — нет будущего. Без экологического симбиоза — нет вечного мира.

Я предлагаю использовать этот подход как био-кибернетическое расширение нашей общей концепции мира после 21 сентября.

Желаю успешного запуска Послания в Международный день мира!

С уважением и миром,

Лукас Павлик (Mycoverse Foundation)

Вена

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

21-09-26

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Dear Leo and Vera,

Thank you both for your heartfelt commitment to this work.

Leo, I am deeply grateful for your perseverance through illness and many obstacles, and for the decades you have devoted to developing the Science of Eternal Peace. I wish you renewed strength, healing, and encouragement as this message is shared for the International Day of Peace.

Vera, I share your conviction that humanity must move beyond nuclear threat, passive acceptance, and systems that endanger present and future generations. Enlightenment—through knowledge, dialogue, scientific inquiry, and conscious participation—is essential to that transformation.

I would gently add that we are not alone in speaking to these concerns. Through hundreds of interviews with people around the world, I have encountered scientists, educators, peacebuilders, spiritual leaders, systems thinkers, social innovators, and planetary citizens who are raising awareness of our interconnectedness in their own unique ways.

Their diversity does not weaken the pursuit of global harmony. It demonstrates the range of perspectives, experiences, cultures, and contributions necessary to achieve it. Our opportunity is not o­nly to declare a new understanding, but to recognize, connect, and collaborate with the many people already helping it emerge.

More deeply, this must become an opportunity for humanity’s love to arise beyond the dissonance created by separative notions—beyond the belief that nations, cultures, disciplines, organizations, humanity, and nature exist independently of o­ne another. The fragmentation we witness externally reflects the divisions we continue to preserve internally and institutionally. Lasting peace requires more than opposition to war; it calls us to rediscover the affection, empathy, responsibility, and shared belonging capable of transforming how we relate to o­ne another and the living Earth.

The Science of Eternal Peace can offer an important framework within this larger planetary movement while remaining open to evidence, constructive criticism, complementary approaches, and continued development. Such openness does not diminish the work. It allows others to enter the conversation with dignity and helps the framework evolve through genuine participation.

Lucas’s contribution is a valuable example. His emphasis o­n ecological symbiosis reminds us that peace among people cannot be separated from peace with the living systems that sustain us. Rather than introducing a separate theme, I have incorporated his central insight subtly within the discussion of tetraspheric coherence:

“This coherence must also include humanity’s relationship with the living systems that sustain it. The regenerative role of fungi and mycelial networks in soil formation, plant health, nutrient exchange, water purification, and carbon cycling offers a powerful example: without ecological symbiosis, there can be no enduring human security or planetary peace.”

As my contribution to this process in my role as Executive Director of GGHA and Founder of Planetary Citizens, I have edited the Manifesto to preserve its significant references and essential concepts while clarifying unfamiliar terminology, moderating statements that might unintentionally discourage engagement, and strengthening its inspirational and participatory character.

The revised version presents the work not as a final or unquestionable declaration, but as an invitation to planetary inquiry—welcoming research, criticism, alternative proposals, cultural wisdom, and practical collaboration. I believe this approach will make the message more accessible and compelling to those encountering the Science of Eternal Peace for the first time.

Our collective capacity for change rests not in o­ne voice speaking for humanity, but in many voices learning to listen, understand, deliberate, and act together. The dedication behind this work provides an important foundation. Our next responsibility is to create a welcoming pathway through which others can recognize their place within it.

May this Manifesto invite not o­nly a new era of thought, but a new quality of relationship—one in which the love of humanity rises above the dissonance of separation and becomes a conscious force for coherence, cooperation, and peace.

I offer the edited Manifesto with gratitude and respect for your review and consideration here: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1344.

With peace, appreciation, and hope,

Zen Benefiel
Executive Director, GGHA
Founder, Planetary Citizens: https://planetarycitizens.net/

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1277

21-09-26

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НИЖЕ: Синий – комментарий Л. Семашко откликов Лукаса и Зена

Комментарий Л. Семашко в русском тексте Лукаса выше.

Dear Zen, dear Leo and Vera,

Thank you, Zen, for the care and sensitivity with which you revised the Manifesto. Your edit achieved something essential: it transformed the document from a proclamation directed at humanity into an invitation through which different people, cultures, disciplines and organizations can recognize their own place within a shared planetary inquiry.

I have taken this participatory architecture as the basis for a further edit. It preserves the historical references, the Perpetual Peace Science, tetraspheral thinking, SAI-SPHERUM, the call for planetary participation, and the contribution concerning fungi, mycelial networks and ecological symbiosis.

The new revision does not propose a different Manifesto. It makes several systemic implications of our shared argument more explicit.

First, it distinguishes coherence from conformity. If we speak of planetary coherence without making this distinction, coherence could be misunderstood as universal agreement, central control, or the dissolution of cultural and individual differences. The revised text instead describes coherence as the capacity of differentiated parts to remain in relationships that support life.

Second, it defines peace as a dynamic condition. “Perpetual peace” cannot mean an unchanging or permanently stabilized order. Every living system changes. Enduring peace must therefore mean the continuing capacity to undergo transformation without converting difference into domination, exclusion, or destruction.

This led to the image of boundaries as resembling the banks of a river. They do not end movement; they shape the space of possible movement. Boundaries can preserve identity and make relationships possible, but when their preservation becomes the system’s primary purpose, they narrow perception. Change then continues within the areas the system has ceased to observe, where it may accumulate until it appears as crisis.

Third, the revision introduces structural coupling. People, nations, cultures, institutions and disciplines can preserve their distinctiveness while changing through sustained interaction. This gives a more precise systemic foundation to your important insight that many voices must learn to listen, understand, deliberate, and act together.

Fourth, the revision strengthens the tetraspheral argument. The four spheres remain essential, but society does not arise from any o­ne sphere in isolation. It emerges through the changing relationships among people, information, organizations and material resources. The most important discovery may therefore reside not in an individual variable, but in the relationships among variables.

Finally, I added a reflexive dimension to SAI-SPHERUM. Any instrument that observes society also influences what becomes visible, what remains excluded and which possibilities for action can be imagined. Peace science must therefore include responsibility for its own distinctions, categories and methods of observation.

This also deepens the ecological paragraph you introduced. Fungi and mycelial networks are relevant not simply as another environmental subject, but as an example of how living coherence arises through relationships, exchange, adaptation and symbiosis. For consistency, I suggest that this paragraph now appear in both the English and Russian versions.

The central conclusion of the new edit is that peace cannot simply be declared as a value while informational, organizational, economic, technological and material structures continue to reward extraction, domination and escalation. The conditions of peace must become part of the relational architecture of society itself.

I am sharing the revised English and Russian texts as discussion drafts, not as final versions. I hope they can serve as the next stage of our collective examination and would greatly value your assessment of whether these additions strengthen the scientific, participatory and relational character of the Manifesto.

With gratitude, respect, and hope,

Lucas Pawlik.

Austria

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

21-09-26

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На мой взгляд, Лукас, этот документ дополняет и усиливает два предыдущих; он демонстрирует коллективный подход к нашей общей миссии и глубже раскрывает её суть. При этом установленные сроки ожидания ответа были разумными и позволили нам всесторонне проработать свои комментарии, ведь у каждого из нас есть и личная жизнь за пределами GGHA, которую тоже нужно учитывать.

Последние несколько недель я также работал над переводом нового текста НВМ на английский язык; теперь он готов и доступен по ссылке https://planetarycitizens.net/connect, которую Лео указал в Манифесте. Я создал для него отдельную страницу, которой раньше не существовало, так что теперь всё полностью соответствует целям Манифеста. (Эта страница исчезла, заменена другой, не имеюшей к Манифесту никакого отношения. Как жто понять?)

Слушайте и действуйте согласованно,

Зен Бенефил

Основатель — PlanetaryCitizen

Соавторархитектуры — AI Universal Engine™

PlanetaryCitizens.net

21-09-26

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This document strengthens the previous two, imho, Lucas, and demonstrates a collective approach to our shared mission that edifies the nature of it, though the expected response time given was constructive to give full consideration in responses as we all have lives beyond GGHA that need to be considered. 

I've been working o­n the translation of the new PPS into English over the last weeks as well, which ought to be done and available through the https://planetarycitizens.net/connect link Leo has shared in the Manifesto. I've created a page for it that was not there prior, so it is aligned with the purpose of the Manifesto. (This page has disappeared and been replaced by another o­ne that has absolutely nothing to do with the Manifesto. How is o­ne to understand this?)

Listen and lead with coherence,

Zen Benefiel

Founder - Planetary Citizen

Co-Architect - AI Universal Engine™

PlanetaryCitizens.net

21-09-26

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Дорогие Зен и Лукас,

Большое спасибо за ваши ценные отклики и пожелания лучшего здоровья.

Мое данное письмо ограничено двумя основными вопросами: состоянием моего здоровья и информацией Зена о его переводе НВМ (PPS) на английский язык и ее публикации на его сайте.

1. Состояние моего здоровья крайне ухудшилось и выражается в предельной слабости вставать, ходить и что-либо делать. Я с трудом нахожу лишь пару часов, чтобы сесть за компьютер и что-то сделать из вороха обязательств и ответить хотя бы на 1-2 письма из накопившихся десятков не отвеченных писем. Я пишу это вам лишь с одной целью, чтобы предупредить вас, что я теперь не способен быстро отвечать на ваши письма, которые теперь они требуют у меня несколько дней или недель для ответа, за что прошу извинить меня.

Но в любом случае, рано или поздно, я всегда отвечу на них, чтобы сохранить и поддержать наш «коллективный подход к нашей общей миссии» по замечательному выражению Зена. Эту миссию конституирует наша коллективная за полвека «Наука Вечного Мира» (НВМ), на английском: “Perpetual Peace Science” (PPS – NOT “ETERNAL”, as translate Zen, instead “Perpetual ”, as at Immanuel Kant – please, let us respect and preserve the centuries-old traditions of the classics and our science,) как единственный путь коллективного разума VERSUS самой страшной, неотвратимой и лавинно растущей в ядерной цивилизации экзистенциальной угрозы «ГАРАНТИРОВАННОГО ВЗАИМНОГО УНИЧТОЖЕНИЯ» более 80 лет.

Все другие проблемы человечества – производны от этой первой, вторичны после нее. Если мы забудем или отодвинем ее с первого места, мы забудем главную тотальную угрозу геноцида человечества. МЫ НЕ ИМЕЕМ НИКАКОГО ПРАВА НА ЭТО!!! Поставьте перед собой всеми планетарными гражданами (ПГ) вопрос: КАКОВА САМАЯ СТРАШНАЯ УГРОЗА И КЛЮЧЕВАЯ НЕРАЗРЕШИМАЯ ПРОБЛЕМА ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСТВА В ЯДЕРНОЙ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИИ С 1945, с ХИРОСИМЫ И НАГАСАКИ? Плиз, организуйте мировой социологический опрос на эту тему через институт Гэллапа! Человечество твердо ответит в нем – ДРУГОЙ РЕАЛЬНОЙ И САМОЙ ОСТРОЙ ПЛАНЕТАРНОЙ УГРОЗЫ НЕТ!!!

2. Перевод Зена русского Букваря НВМ моей последней версии от 16 сентября 2026, как он сообщает. Во-первых, я очень благодарен ему за этот перевод. Но первый вопрос этики переводчика – прислать его перевод, прежде всего, первому – автору и главному редактору, т.е. мне, так как Зен не владеет русским языком и, определенно, у него возникли непреодолимые для него трудности перевода некоторых, ключевых понятий с русского языка на английский в его ИИ. Так случилось с термином «ВЕЧНЫЙ МИР», который Кант перевел как «Perpetual Peace» и который мы использовали во всех английских переводах, сделанных и Лукасом, и Мэттом в прошлом году в официальном английском издании этой книги. Поэтому, Зен, могли бы вы прислать мне ваш перевод на английский, который сделан с помощью ИИ, допускающего, как известно всем, множество, до 80% ошибок перевода.

Другой момент – публикация этого английского перевода для всеобщего обозрения и комментариев на сайте Зена здесь (https://planetarycitizens.net/connect). На этой странице две ссылки (in link) – пусты и НИКУДА не ведут. ПОЧЕМУ? ГДЕ искать эту публикацию, предлагаемую читателем сайта, которые останутся только разочарованными? Возможно, на этой странице сайте Зена заложены какие-то технические хитрости и тонкости, неизвестные рядовым гражданам? Плиз, позвольте нам знать их. Я предлагаю Зену пока закрыть эту страницу до исправления всех ошибок английского перевода вместе с Мэттом и мной. Вы согласны?

Главное, для качественного редактирования английского перевода русского Букваря с тщательным исправлением множества ошибок ИИ, я думаю, необходимы ДВА ЕГО ГЛАВНЫХ РЕДАКТОРА: Зен и МЭТТ, имеющего большой опыт перевода первого английского издания этой книги год назад. Зен, вы согласны с этим, чтобы не нарушать «коллективный подход к нашей общей миссии» как вы абсолютно точно пишите? В новой редакции английского издания нашей ключевой книги – Букваря НВМ мы никак не можем обойти Мэтта. Вы согласны? От этого зависит и качество, и его судьба в американском медиа ландшафте и миротворчестве, ключевом для человечества.

Извините. Мои силы иссякли.

С миром и любовью,

Лев Семашко,

23-09-26

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Dear Leo, Lucas, Matt, and all,

Leo, first, I am very sorry to hear how significantly your health has deteriorated. Please take whatever time you need to care for yourself. There is no expectation o­n my part that you respond quickly, and I remain grateful for your decades of dedication to this work and to the possibility of peace.

Regarding the English translation, I need to clarify where matters presently stand.

Unfortunately, I simply do not have the time available to undertake the extensive additional work now required to prepare the document properly. The Russian source document provided for translation has presented substantial formatting and document-compatibility problems in conversion. These include errant tables appearing within the text, inconsistent paragraph indents, disrupted formatting, and other structural irregularities that require considerable manual review and correction in addition to the translation itself.

This is not a matter of unwillingness to contribute. At present, I am facing an immediate need to resolve my own income situation, and I must devote my available working hours to that priority. Until that is stabilized, I cannot responsibly commit the time necessary to reconstruct, translate, compare, format, and proof a document of this size to the standard everyone understandably desires.

I also want to respectfully clarify the suggestion that Matt and I serve as two chief editors. Matt has already indicated that he is not available to undertake this translation work because of commitments to his own work and travel requirements. I believe we need to respect that decision rather than presume his availability. This unfortunately means that the editorial structure Leo proposes does not presently have the human resources necessary to carry it forward.

I have, however, corrected the terminology o­n the Planetary Citizens page from “Eternal” to “Perpetual.” The page also now provides the downloadable Russian text together with both the Russian and English versions of the Manifesto resulting from our collaborative efforts to date.

For that reason, I do not believe removing the page serves our collective purpose. In my view, taking it down would diminish rather than support the Manifesto communication already shared with the group. The page can continue to provide access to what we have accomplished together while making room for further refinement when the people, time, and resources become available.

The page is: planetarycitizens.net/connect

My commitment to our collective approach and to the larger vision of planetary citizenship, peace, and human cooperation remains unchanged. Commitment, however, must also recognize the practical realities each of us faces. Leo is confronting serious health limitations, Matt has his professional and travel commitments, and I presently must devote my available time to securing sufficient income.

These are not failures of commitment. They are simply the realities within which our collaboration must presently operate.

Without the support and resources necessary to continue this work at the level it requires, what is currently available o­n the Planetary Citizens site represents what I am able to contribute at this time. I do have a number of skill sets applicable for hire should there be need at BeTheDream.com

I hope this is understood in the spirit in which it is offered—not as a withdrawal from our shared purpose, but as an honest recognition of our present capacities and a desire to preserve what we have already accomplished together until circumstances allow us to do more.

With peace, respect, and appreciation for everyone's contributions,

Zen Benefiel
Executive Director, GGHA
Founder, Planetary Citizens

23-09-26

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Dear Leo, dear Zen,

Zen's letter moved me — not because it is a withdrawal, but because it is honest. And honesty about capacity is exactly what this network has been missing in its internal communications for years.

I want to name something directly: the model we have been operating under assumes that commitment to peace work substitutes for income. It does not. Zen is not stepping back because his dedication has weakened. He is stepping back because he cannot eat o­n dedication alone. The same is true for Matt. And — I say this with full transparency — it is part of why I myself was unable to continue my role as chief editor of the Gandhica after my accident. Three broken vertebrae ended my active contribution not because the work stopped mattering, but because surviving physically had to come first, and there was no structure in place to support someone in that situation. –

- See the detailed critical response to this accusation in Russian o­n the Russian page.

This is the structural problem: we have built an organization that depends o­n volunteers absorbing all costs — financial, physical, temporal — while the outputs circulate without generating the resources that would allow the people who create them to continue.

The strategic reframe I want to propose: accumulating petition signatures has not produced the systemic impact that would justify asking more people to give more for free. Petitions without institutional leverage are gestures. Change comes from sustained, professional, coordinated work — and that requires people paid to do it. Even a small funded core of three to five people would accomplish more than the current model of dozens of exhausted volunteers.

I want to add another dimension to this conversation, because I believe it belongs here. I have spent the past years completing a book — Mystical Medicine: The Healing Reality of Psilocybin, Near-Death, and Dying (Mycoverse Foundation, 2026) — that speaks directly to the interior conditions without which no external peace architecture can hold. Durable peace is not possible while a growing majority of the world's population is trapped in an expanding mental health crisis. Structural reform alone cannot address that crisis. What the empirical research o­n psilocybin-assisted therapy, near-death experiences, and mystical dying consistently documents is a convergent transformation of exactly the interior rigidity — the fear, the dominance-orientation, the inability to perceive the other as kin — that underlies both personal suffering and collective violence.

And a dimension connects directly to the Gandhian Garden work we have done together: the fungal kingdom cannot be ignored in any serious account of life o­n Earth. Fungi are not peripheral. They are the symbiotic infrastructure that makes the coexistence of flora and fauna possible. To build a vision of planetary peace while ignoring the kingdom that literally holds ecosystems together is to build o­n incomplete ground. The Mycoverse Foundation's work — and this book in particular — attempts to bring that missing dimension into the conversation about what peace actually requires, biologically, ecologically, and psychologically.

The page Zen has maintained at planetarycitizens.net should stay up. What is o­n it represents real work. But it also represents the ceiling of what is possible under the current model.

Leo, you have given decades to this. That needs to be honored — including by ensuring that the people who carry this forward do not have to choose between the work and their rent.

With respect and solidarity,

Dr. Lucas Pawlik
Head of Ethics Council & Head of Mind and Soul Research, Mycoverse Foundation, Vaduz
Main Editor, Gandhica — Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Petition (2019)
Author, Mystical Medicine: The Healing Reality of Psilocybin, Near-Death, and Dying (2026)

23-09-26

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Conclusion of the discussion.

Brief takeaways for cooperation.