Green Messiah is a novel by the author Luke Andreski about the genesis of a religion which gives a framework to humanist, anti-materialistic environmental belief.
William Tarkovsky, the central protagonist of Andreski’s novel, is profoundly afraid for his children’s future in the face of potentially cataclysmic climate change. Determined to find a way to transform the social processes that he believes are driving humanity towards extinction he is inspired to create a religion - a means of challenging the global polluters from within.
New Creationism, the religion that Tarkovsky creates, argues for a radical restructuring of our society - its ‘creation anew’ - along the lines of humanism, sustainability and service.
Andreski’s (and Tarkovsky’s) New Creationism states that our existing political structures will be inadequate to protect the future of our species; that other contemporary religions will be unable to preserve humanity in the face of environmental meltdown; and that our values and aspirations must radically change if we are to survive. New Creationism scathingly repudiates our society’s narcissism and selfishness and greed.
These beliefs are documented in The Book of New Creation , a work which is distinct from the novel Green Messiah. An extract from The Book of New Creation can be found below.
Further detail about both The Book of New Creation and the novel Green Messiah is available at www.greenmessiah.com.
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The
Book
of New
Creation
Time
‘Now is the time to be afraid’
Ordinance the first
Now is the time to be afraid
The time has come to embrace our fear
When animals know fear, what do they do?
When animals know fear they run away -or turn and fight
We are the turners and the fighters
We will face the menace squarely
We are strong
We will look upon our enemy with wide unblinking eyes
We are strong
We will overcome this menace that rushes towards us
We are strong
We will meet our enemy face to face
But who is our enemy?
What is this menace?
From where does it come?
Ordinance the second
We are the menace
We are the enemy
The enemy is ourselves
Purpose
Ordinance the thirty-first
We are part of a mission that began when life began, that will not cease until all life ceases. We are a part of the great, thrusting project of evolution, within which we will never be alone, as part of which we have not just one life but a thousand million lives
‘There are dead zones in our oceans’
Ordinance the forty-second
There are dead zones in our oceans, expanding with each season and never contracting
Ordinance the forty-third
There are nil zones of ozone high above our heads
Ordinance the forty-fourth
The glaciers whose melt-waters feed our valleys and our fields are vanishing while we sleep
Ordinance the forty-fifth
The ice caps that reject the sun’s heat are melting with the heat of our industry and consumption
Ordinance the forty-sixth
The permafrost that holds ancient marshland in place is de-frosting and unleashing its contagion
Ordinance the forty-seventh
The seas that feed and sustain our world are rising and baring their teeth
Ordinance the forty-eighth
The very air that we breath grows warmer than it should be, grows cold where it should be warm
Ordinance the forty-ninth
Storms smash our cities, kill our people and destroy our crops
Ordinance the fiftieth
The species that abut our species are dying all around us
Ordinance the fifty-first
We are on the brink of the apocalypse
Affirmation
Courage
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-fourth
In humanism, sustainability and service we shall find courage. In New Creation the animal in the man is harnessed, the alien is made human, the human becomes keeper of itself
In New Creation we are one
In New Creation we are strong
Affirmation
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-fifth
Disagree - and you define us
Become our enemy - and you will make us stronger
Change - and gain meaning
Join us - and know purpose
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-sixth
Self-change is our weapon
Self-sacrifice is our weapon
Service to our species and service to our world is our purpose
Unity and belonging are our strength
Imagination and thought are our strength
Dedication and commitment are our strength
Dedication to humanity and to the service of life everywhere is our strength
It is a strength that our enemies cannot understand
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-seventh
Our enemies will resist us
The self-destructive will resist us
The greedy and the self-obsessed will fight us
But we know who is wrong and who is right, without resorting to fear or superstition
And they know who is wrong and who is right, but their perceptions rest upon irrational belief...
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-eighth
We alone have the strength of true belief, untrammelled by prejudice or parable or myth
We alone have the strength of unity and meaning
We alone are the adults of our species
We alone are wardens to our world
They shall want and need and crave
and we shall stand before them with a level gaze
And if we fall beneath their weapons, we shall fall fulfilled
And if they kill us they will succeed in killing only themselves
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-ninth
Our eyes are the eyes of humans everywhere
Our children are their children
Our future is their future
We will not stand aside and watch their self-destruction
We will not appease their societies of superstition or greed
We will not abase ourselves before their edifice of wealth
We are casting off their shackles of pointlessness
Our purpose is irrefutable
Ordinance two hundred and thirtieth
Disagree - and you define us
Become our enemy - and you will make us stronger
Change - and achieve meaning
Join us - and live forever
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References
^ Bristol Evening Post, UK, 5th May, 'Is being green the new religion?'
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Notes
^ 1 Copyright © Luke Andreski 2009. The right of Luke Andreski to be identified as the author of both Green Messiah and The Book of New Creation has been asserted by him. He has given permission for this text from The Book of New Creation to be displayed in this specific entry but not to be reprinted or displayed elsewhere.
William Tarkovsky, the central protagonist of Andreski’s novel, is profoundly afraid for his children’s future in the face of potentially cataclysmic climate change. Determined to find a way to transform the social processes that he believes are driving humanity towards extinction he is inspired to create a religion - a means of challenging the global polluters from within.
New Creationism, the religion that Tarkovsky creates, argues for a radical restructuring of our society - its ‘creation anew’ - along the lines of humanism, sustainability and service.
Andreski’s (and Tarkovsky’s) New Creationism states that our existing political structures will be inadequate to protect the future of our species; that other contemporary religions will be unable to preserve humanity in the face of environmental meltdown; and that our values and aspirations must radically change if we are to survive. New Creationism scathingly repudiates our society’s narcissism and selfishness and greed.
These beliefs are documented in The Book of New Creation , a work which is distinct from the novel Green Messiah. An extract from The Book of New Creation can be found below.
Further detail about both The Book of New Creation and the novel Green Messiah is available at www.greenmessiah.com.
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The
Book
of New
Creation
Time
‘Now is the time to be afraid’
Ordinance the first
Now is the time to be afraid
The time has come to embrace our fear
When animals know fear, what do they do?
When animals know fear they run away -or turn and fight
We are the turners and the fighters
We will face the menace squarely
We are strong
We will look upon our enemy with wide unblinking eyes
We are strong
We will overcome this menace that rushes towards us
We are strong
We will meet our enemy face to face
But who is our enemy?
What is this menace?
From where does it come?
Ordinance the second
We are the menace
We are the enemy
The enemy is ourselves
Purpose
Ordinance the thirty-first
We are part of a mission that began when life began, that will not cease until all life ceases. We are a part of the great, thrusting project of evolution, within which we will never be alone, as part of which we have not just one life but a thousand million lives
‘There are dead zones in our oceans’
Ordinance the forty-second
There are dead zones in our oceans, expanding with each season and never contracting
Ordinance the forty-third
There are nil zones of ozone high above our heads
Ordinance the forty-fourth
The glaciers whose melt-waters feed our valleys and our fields are vanishing while we sleep
Ordinance the forty-fifth
The ice caps that reject the sun’s heat are melting with the heat of our industry and consumption
Ordinance the forty-sixth
The permafrost that holds ancient marshland in place is de-frosting and unleashing its contagion
Ordinance the forty-seventh
The seas that feed and sustain our world are rising and baring their teeth
Ordinance the forty-eighth
The very air that we breath grows warmer than it should be, grows cold where it should be warm
Ordinance the forty-ninth
Storms smash our cities, kill our people and destroy our crops
Ordinance the fiftieth
The species that abut our species are dying all around us
Ordinance the fifty-first
We are on the brink of the apocalypse
Affirmation
Courage
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-fourth
In humanism, sustainability and service we shall find courage. In New Creation the animal in the man is harnessed, the alien is made human, the human becomes keeper of itself
In New Creation we are one
In New Creation we are strong
Affirmation
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-fifth
Disagree - and you define us
Become our enemy - and you will make us stronger
Change - and gain meaning
Join us - and know purpose
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-sixth
Self-change is our weapon
Self-sacrifice is our weapon
Service to our species and service to our world is our purpose
Unity and belonging are our strength
Imagination and thought are our strength
Dedication and commitment are our strength
Dedication to humanity and to the service of life everywhere is our strength
It is a strength that our enemies cannot understand
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-seventh
Our enemies will resist us
The self-destructive will resist us
The greedy and the self-obsessed will fight us
But we know who is wrong and who is right, without resorting to fear or superstition
And they know who is wrong and who is right, but their perceptions rest upon irrational belief...
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-eighth
We alone have the strength of true belief, untrammelled by prejudice or parable or myth
We alone have the strength of unity and meaning
We alone are the adults of our species
We alone are wardens to our world
They shall want and need and crave
and we shall stand before them with a level gaze
And if we fall beneath their weapons, we shall fall fulfilled
And if they kill us they will succeed in killing only themselves
Ordinance two hundred and twenty-ninth
Our eyes are the eyes of humans everywhere
Our children are their children
Our future is their future
We will not stand aside and watch their self-destruction
We will not appease their societies of superstition or greed
We will not abase ourselves before their edifice of wealth
We are casting off their shackles of pointlessness
Our purpose is irrefutable
Ordinance two hundred and thirtieth
Disagree - and you define us
Become our enemy - and you will make us stronger
Change - and achieve meaning
Join us - and live forever
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References
^ Bristol Evening Post, UK, 5th May, 'Is being green the new religion?'
----
Notes
^ 1 Copyright © Luke Andreski 2009. The right of Luke Andreski to be identified as the author of both Green Messiah and The Book of New Creation has been asserted by him. He has given permission for this text from The Book of New Creation to be displayed in this specific entry but not to be reprinted or displayed elsewhere.
The Norwich Film Festival (NFF) is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings which takes place in Norwich, England, during September. Established in 2009, this year sees the first ever festival.
Origins
The Norwich Film Festival was founded in 2009. It was devised mainly as a way for filmmakers local to the area to gain a platform to showcase their work to each other and the public. However, the festival quickly gained international recognition within weeks, attracting submissions from all over the world, including Spain, Germany, Czech Republic and Australia.
...
Set in a variety of venues throught the city, each place offers a unique experience to the audience, as well as showing different types of film.
...
Film categories
There will be five categories in the 2009 festival.
* Feature: ...
* Short: ...
* Documentary: ...
* Animation: ...
* Student Film: ...
The 2009 Norwich Film Festival
The 2009 Norwich Film Festival runs from Saturday, September 12th to Sunday, September 20th. It will be the first of an annual series. Below is the schedule of events.
* Saturday, September 12th
Norwich Arts Centre, 2pm - Opening film of the festival will be Six Degrees.
* Sunday, September 13th
...
* Friday, September 18th
Norwich Playhouse, 8pm - Shorts Night. A Collection of short films from around the world.
* Saturday, September 19th
...
* Sunday, September 20th
Vue Cinema, Castle Mall, tbc
Winners
2009 will be the first Norwich Film Festival, therefore there have been no previous winners. However, when this year's festival takes place, the shortlist and the winners will be seen here.
* Best Feature
* Best Short
* Best Documentary
* Best Animation
* Best Student Film
* Best in Festival
Origins
The Norwich Film Festival was founded in 2009. It was devised mainly as a way for filmmakers local to the area to gain a platform to showcase their work to each other and the public. However, the festival quickly gained international recognition within weeks, attracting submissions from all over the world, including Spain, Germany, Czech Republic and Australia.
...
Set in a variety of venues throught the city, each place offers a unique experience to the audience, as well as showing different types of film.
...
Film categories
There will be five categories in the 2009 festival.
* Feature: ...
* Short: ...
* Documentary: ...
* Animation: ...
* Student Film: ...
The 2009 Norwich Film Festival
The 2009 Norwich Film Festival runs from Saturday, September 12th to Sunday, September 20th. It will be the first of an annual series. Below is the schedule of events.
* Saturday, September 12th
Norwich Arts Centre, 2pm - Opening film of the festival will be Six Degrees.
* Sunday, September 13th
...
* Friday, September 18th
Norwich Playhouse, 8pm - Shorts Night. A Collection of short films from around the world.
* Saturday, September 19th
...
* Sunday, September 20th
Vue Cinema, Castle Mall, tbc
Winners
2009 will be the first Norwich Film Festival, therefore there have been no previous winners. However, when this year's festival takes place, the shortlist and the winners will be seen here.
* Best Feature
* Best Short
* Best Documentary
* Best Animation
* Best Student Film
* Best in Festival
Gabe Rodriguez "The Cornman" Cornman is an American Technician, Musician, and the SkillsUSA Internetworking National Champion of 2008.
Biography
Early life
Gabe was born in Chehalis, Washington in 1989 with both of his parents Michael and Krystyna Cornman being corn farmers, Gabe decided to start networking because he claimed to have mastered every aspect of corn farming. His education is from W.F. West Chehalis High School and New Market Skills Center.
Debate
Gabe was also in a High School debate tournament in 2009 and a Superior Court Judge in the Evergreen Boys State.
Networking career
In 2008 he went to the SkillsUSA internetworking Championship and won nationals with gold.
He now works at New Market Skills Center where he does tech support and grows corn in his office. He is also predicted to get his CCNA certification in September 2009.
Biography
Early life
Gabe was born in Chehalis, Washington in 1989 with both of his parents Michael and Krystyna Cornman being corn farmers, Gabe decided to start networking because he claimed to have mastered every aspect of corn farming. His education is from W.F. West Chehalis High School and New Market Skills Center.
Debate
Gabe was also in a High School debate tournament in 2009 and a Superior Court Judge in the Evergreen Boys State.
Networking career
In 2008 he went to the SkillsUSA internetworking Championship and won nationals with gold.
He now works at New Market Skills Center where he does tech support and grows corn in his office. He is also predicted to get his CCNA certification in September 2009.
Mary Healy is an Art Historian at the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland, specialising in 19th-century French Orientalism with particular emphasis on French women Orientalist artists, both painters and sculptors, who travelled to areas of the Maghreb during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Healy’s research is strongly focused on the life and works of Marie Lucas Robiquet (1858-1959). Healy is also a practicing artist working through the mediums of traditional printmaking, painting and photography.
Born in Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1978, Healy gained her B.A. honours degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the Limerick School of Art and Design in Ireland in 2006. Her artistic practice focuses on the element of symbolism in iconic paintings while examining the rituals of the contemporary female through the mediums of photography, painting and traditional printmaking.
In 2004 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France, where she trained under the printmaker Jean Michel Vaillant. Always holding her love of art historical theory, Healy perused her M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland, graduating in 2008. She is currently a PhD Research Scholar at the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland, under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Lawless. Healy is an active member of the Association of Art Historians, the Irish History Students Association, the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East and the Centre for Historical Research of University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College.
Healy’s research explores the forgotten women Orientalist artists of 19th-century France with particular emphasise on the artist Marie Lucas Robiquet (1858-1959). From a period of ‘searching for’ and recording French 19th-century women Orientalist artists, Healy has come to source primary documentation on ninety-eight women artists, both practicing painters and sculptors, who traveled to areas of the Maghreb between 1880 and 1940. Healy argues that female artists evolve the ‘ism’ through their genre subject matter which was primarily focused on the Maghrebian female. The objective of Healy’s research is not only to answer ‘who were the women Orientalist artists of nineteenth-century France?’, but she also strives to explores what addition the female perspective had on, and will have on, French Orientalist depictions and theories.
Healy's presentations on Marie Lucas Robiquet and women artist-explorers in 19th-century French Orientalism:
The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East Eighth Biennial Conference, Durham University, England, Friday 10-13 July 2009
Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin Postgraduate History Conference, Dublin, 22-23 May 2009,
Centre for Historical Research and History Department University College Cork Postgraduate Forum Postgraduate Forum, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 6 May 2009
Artefact: The Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians 2009 Study Day, Newman House, St. Stephens Green, Dublin, 4 April 2009
The Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth, 6 - 7 March 2009
Trinity College Dublin Lunchtime Symposium, 12 February 2009
Postcolonial Symposium, University of Stirling, 26 April 2008
National Gallery of Ireland Research Day, Dublin, 6 March 2008
Publications:
Edited by Yvonne Davis, researched by Mary Healy, The Water Colour Society of Ireland, UL, 2009
Mary Healy, ‘Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849): A Brief Synopsis of his Artistic Periods’, Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Catalogue, UL, (November, 2007)
Mary Healy, ‘Theory on the Hokusai Nishiki-e Print Held at the University of Limerick and Part of the Irish American Cultural Institute’s Helen Hooker O’Malley Collection’, Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Catalogue, UL, (November, 2007)
Mary Healy, ‘Contemporary Adaptations of Iconic Works’, Circa, (Winter, 2006), pp. 107-112
Born in Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1978, Healy gained her B.A. honours degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the Limerick School of Art and Design in Ireland in 2006. Her artistic practice focuses on the element of symbolism in iconic paintings while examining the rituals of the contemporary female through the mediums of photography, painting and traditional printmaking.
In 2004 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France, where she trained under the printmaker Jean Michel Vaillant. Always holding her love of art historical theory, Healy perused her M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland, graduating in 2008. She is currently a PhD Research Scholar at the Department of History, University of Limerick, Ireland, under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Lawless. Healy is an active member of the Association of Art Historians, the Irish History Students Association, the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East and the Centre for Historical Research of University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College.
Healy’s research explores the forgotten women Orientalist artists of 19th-century France with particular emphasise on the artist Marie Lucas Robiquet (1858-1959). From a period of ‘searching for’ and recording French 19th-century women Orientalist artists, Healy has come to source primary documentation on ninety-eight women artists, both practicing painters and sculptors, who traveled to areas of the Maghreb between 1880 and 1940. Healy argues that female artists evolve the ‘ism’ through their genre subject matter which was primarily focused on the Maghrebian female. The objective of Healy’s research is not only to answer ‘who were the women Orientalist artists of nineteenth-century France?’, but she also strives to explores what addition the female perspective had on, and will have on, French Orientalist depictions and theories.
Healy's presentations on Marie Lucas Robiquet and women artist-explorers in 19th-century French Orientalism:
The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East Eighth Biennial Conference, Durham University, England, Friday 10-13 July 2009
Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin Postgraduate History Conference, Dublin, 22-23 May 2009,
Centre for Historical Research and History Department University College Cork Postgraduate Forum Postgraduate Forum, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 6 May 2009
Artefact: The Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians 2009 Study Day, Newman House, St. Stephens Green, Dublin, 4 April 2009
The Irish History Students' Association Annual Conference, NUI Maynooth, 6 - 7 March 2009
Trinity College Dublin Lunchtime Symposium, 12 February 2009
Postcolonial Symposium, University of Stirling, 26 April 2008
National Gallery of Ireland Research Day, Dublin, 6 March 2008
Publications:
Edited by Yvonne Davis, researched by Mary Healy, The Water Colour Society of Ireland, UL, 2009
Mary Healy, ‘Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849): A Brief Synopsis of his Artistic Periods’, Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Catalogue, UL, (November, 2007)
Mary Healy, ‘Theory on the Hokusai Nishiki-e Print Held at the University of Limerick and Part of the Irish American Cultural Institute’s Helen Hooker O’Malley Collection’, Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Catalogue, UL, (November, 2007)
Mary Healy, ‘Contemporary Adaptations of Iconic Works’, Circa, (Winter, 2006), pp. 107-112