If you cannot see it, be in the presence of it or directly engage with it, you cannot trust that it will be in your best interests – whatever it might be.

In a world where everything has been telling us to place our trust and belief in people, businesses, governance, manufacturing , production and services that are somewhere else – either out of our locality, our presence or somewhere online, it does indeed sound counterintuitive to suggest that a better life and way of living for everyone can only come by redirecting the way we live and have relationships with everything in a completely different way.

Yet that is exactly where we need to be.

Easy living, based on processes and the input of people that we will never meet nor see, mean that we have lost sight of responsibility, whilst we have also surrendered our control.

To live well, to live freely, to live healthily and to live happy, the focus of life, living and of everything that feeds into it and supports it must be as local as possible, be transparent and be completely under our own control.

Every commercial activity that exists relates to a business, service or process that serves the interests of people in some way.

When commercial activities of any kind are placed in the service of specific interests and interests that are either deliberately hidden or kept out of sight, whatever they do will never be in the interests of us all, and the balance between us and the sense of justice and fairness is quickly lost.

The priority for all must be to meet everyone’s basic needs so that everyone has the food, the clothing, the transport, the technology, the education, the work and the means to be self-sustaining without help or support in return for working.

This means that the growing, production, manufacturing and supply chains that support normal life and that exist to meet everyone’s basic needs, must be returned to their most localised and people-centric forms.

We must accept that for many, a world that focuses on living life differently, simply doesn’t make any sense. Just because they cannot see it, doesn’t mean that it cannot exist. Likewise, just because we may only be able to see the future in the same context of how we understand everything in the World around us works today, doesn’t mean that we cannot think differently and embrace what will soon become necessary for everyone – no matter what we might currently believe.

Governance should always be as light-touch as possible. In so far as it is possible, people must always be allowed to set their own life rules.

However, the success of New Earth or the New World will be based upon us all agreeing upon, working with and committing to governance frameworks that provide the necessary direction, standards and security, so that people and their communities can thrive.

These are the 11 Principles of A Community Route

1. Economic Localism
2. Freedom does not hinder and is not hindered in any way
3. People First
4. No Hierarchies. Top-Down is at its end
5. Local People MUST make Local Decisions Locally & influence from The Grassroots-Up
6. Local Businesses buy, sell and promote Local Goods first
7. Every link of the supply chain must add value
8. Money or currencies have a fixed value and are only used as a medium of exchange
9. Technology: A tool to improve life, not end it
10. The Internet is a tool for life, not an alternative to it
11. In a People First system, the people will always be the first to speak.

In the 11 chapters that follow, we will go through each of these Principles, one by one.

Every community must be able to make rules that are considerate of the different dynamics that relate to it, but which sit outside and beyond the specific requirement for every individual to enjoy their own freedom and the related right to exist.

These might relate to very practical measures such as the infrastructure that exists, the types of foods that can be grown or produced in the area, or other ways in which its own economy or local marketplace works.

People should always be treated and respected as adults, and given every opportunity to choose, without unnecessary rules, regulations and laws that seek to control – that would only exist for the benefit of those who write or set them.

Genuine frameworks are principles that do not need to be changed, whereas rules, regulations and laws tend to be dynamic and must be updated to reflect changes and times.

Rules, regulations and laws are always open to interpretation and to abuse. If we want the New Earth or New World to work in a balanced, fair and just way for everyone that always puts People First, it is the principles that need to work, to be consistent, universal and reliable, before anything else.

Finding our way to a New Earth or New World where everything is balanced, fair and just for all, may in the first instance sound as if it’s all about making a load of different rules or laws.

What we need to see and understand is that this is exactly how the World around us acts right now. We have government at all levels pursuing more and more rules, to support and enhance the rules that they already didn’t need to set for us before, and we have an entire system of government and a public sector that is obsessed with creating laws for laws sake, and taking responsibility for more and more areas of life that they have no right to, just so they can justify who they believe they are.

Anarchy and the non-existence of any rules or laws at all, are the opposite extreme. And whilst there will always be those who will argue that being able to do whatever they like without fear of punishment would be a much fairer place to be, the reality is that for everyone to be genuinely happy, healthy, safe and to feel secure continually and all of the time, there will always be a need for a system of governance or rules set by the community being governed, for that community and by that community, in every possible respect.

Real freedom at a personal or individual level, is the freedom to be, to do, to think as we wish – without any of that encroaching or interfering with the same right to freedom for everyone else.

That freedom covers many different things and is a world in itself. But that world that is personal to us all is dependent upon factors that will always sit outside of ourselves and outside of our control.

It is to ensure that these outside influences always remain fir, balanced and just in their influence upon us – many of which we would never normally see – that a framework of rules, based on principles and values for a People First and values based life must be created and then protected to ensure that it always exists.

You are here because at the very least, you know deep down or unconsciously that things in our lives are changing and that no matter how ‘normal’ everything around you now appears to be, there is nothing ‘normal’ about any of it. You know that things have been feeling less and less ‘normal’ for a very long period of time.

The chances are that you are both a rational and sensible person and that whether it’s politically correct to say so or not, you possess what we used to be able to freely and openly call common sense.

However, it is just as likely that you cannot consciously see anything changing or deviating that much away from what you think of as being ‘normal’. That anything that seems out of sorts, will somehow be resolved. That everything will return to being how it always has been – just like it was before.

The hard reality that we all face is nothing will ever be the same as it has been.

Furthermore, we must also understand that the kind of change that is now underway, is happening, bit by bit, and in steps or in stages that in themselves will appear to arrive very quickly. But they are also taking place one at a time.

The truth that we face is that when the moment comes that the majority awaken to the reality that substantial change has already taken place, we will already be facing a situation where we no longer have the luxury of enough time to rationalise why everything has happened as it has.

We will not be able to press pause on events so that we can consider what steps we then need to take very quickly. IF, that is, we want our future to be one that is genuinely free, where we all have freedom of choice, and where health and happiness are the new ‘normal’ for everyone.

Balance, fairness and justice with humanity in our relationships is voluntary and must therefore be a reasoned choice. And that means people must be ready to lead the way and be the voice of reason that many other people will need in the  immediacy of the moment when the direction of the world switches and through chaos, we are all facing a very different way.

A Community Route is here to help you and help your community then, when everyone is awake. But it is also here to help you and those within your community who are already awakened or are awakening to what is happening around us all now.