Ureka is not just a new decentralised social network, its a powerful state of being!
Regardless of who we are, what we want or what is true for us, we can all recognise the need to discover missing pieces of our own jigsaw puzzle and the feeling of wonder as a bigger picture emerges for us.
(e)Ureka means 'I've found it' and discovery requires that we are free to discover - meaning we must support the free flow of information.
Free speech is a recognised right in some parts of the world, but is heavily denied almost everywhere - whether there's a recognition of a right or not. There are many different viewpoints, tactics and strategies that people are employing to attempt to survive and to have personal power in an ongoing power struggle. Sadly this often takes the form of attempts to control communication and information.
Even this itself has been heavily denied and glossed over - often with ‘nice’ images, which do not represent the truth. Many people are being raised from childrean on ideas and messages spun from corporate marketing, religious images and even scientific dogma. Often thesee sources hold up ideas as fact, which are found to not be fact by those who dig deeply enough with open minds and hearts. Just who is speaking truth and who is denying reality is not always obvious. To navigate this 'mindfield' of information requires real free speech, since we cannot discern truth when part of the information is hidden.
Liberation, to me, means understanding the complexities of life, and discovering ways to help us all to heal, balance and evolve into peaceful and even symbiotic coexistence. Few have yet been able to end their own suffering, despite countless humans years of experimenting. Its not that we have not had the power collectively, but we have lacked alignment and lacked focus of our use of power - which brings us on to decentralisation.
Decentralisation For Liberation!
Many people have thought for a long time that centralised power systems that prescribe paths in life are needed and even unavoidable, and that it is a fact of life which cannot even be questioned. They have then given away their own power and taught others to do the same, even shaming people for not wanting to. This in itself is so fundamentally flawed that I could talk about it for a month. Every single person has their own power and they need to be responsive to the needs of their own life, moment to moment to moment, in order to even continue living - let alone to enjoy themselves.
So immediately, we can recognise that some form of decentralised power is 100% essential for life to continue. The question then becomes - how much decentralisation is needed? What are the minimums and what is the maximum in order for us to have balance? As obvious as this question and inquiry is, it's not something that I have ever really heard anyone even talk about much outside of the field of decentralised systems design.
Part of the reason for this is that those who discuss the power struggles on Earth have usually framed it in the context of politics and political systems - and whether they state it or not, they are often covertly trying to gain more power for themselves and less for other people. As far as I can tell, this has been the case for every single system that has ever existed politically. Except perhaps for anarchism/voluntarism.
'Anarchy' simply means no ‘rulers’. Despite the images that have been sold via the mainstream channels for the idea of anarchism/voluntarism, it is an idea that means nothing other than that ‘no one gets to rule over each other’ - which is actually a requirement for real freedom. So, ‘how do we achieve a state of being on Earth whereby no-one is ruling each other’?
Violence is a form of ruling. So claiming that ‘without rulers, we would have violence’ is simply an error. The absence of rulers is also the absence of violence. The question is, how do we get there?
Care & Respect For Free Will
The question of how to live in balance is for everyone to answer for themselves because everyone has power and has their own unique journey in life. What form this ideal peace will take comes down to everyone's free will.
One certainty is that we all need to seek, understand and heal the violence within ourselves - emotionally, mentally, politically and any other form of violence we can find. Balance and real peace requires that we no longer overpower others or ourselvves. This can mean addressing outward violence towards other people, subtle violence through our words or through thoughts that control our own emotions and hold us back via our own internal and self directed violence. There are many forms of violence that must be understood now, some of them are generally being overlooked.
Power Struggles & Social Networking
So with these goals and thoughts in mind, it becomes apparent that when we look into the software systems of the world and the internet, they reflect the ongoing power struggle. Many people have pointed this out in the way that the big social networks that are owned by corporations tend to prey on and victimise their users behind a facade of public relations imagery that claims that this is not what they are doing.
We see this in the way that Mark Zuckerberg says that he wouldn't allow his own children to use Facebook and the accepted research that shows that this network has been carefully psychologically designed to maximise the goals of the owners and exploit the users as much as possible - milking them for their information and money. This is known as ‘surveillance capitalism’ but also extends into social engineering and at times into outright criminal abuse.
Social software systems (and systems generally) don't need to be like this, they can actually be the complete opposite and be designed with everyone in mind - to help everyone. So, this is one difference between centralised social networks and decentralised social networks. Decentralised social networks allow for everyone to have access to power and they can build and do as they please as long as they have the ability to do that within themselves. These systems do not guarantee liberation or that everyone will have a great time, but they do make these a possibility. In contrast, the currently best known, giant centralised social networks - by design - leave their users completely dependent on the decisions of a small number of people.
Centralisation Actively Stops Decentralisation Efforts
The only solution to problems stemming from too much centralisation is to increase the level of decentralisation. When a small group of powerful people seek to overpower people, we have a huge problem that can easily be overlooked. The obviousness of this problem to those who look at it has often come along with realisation of the extent of denial around this topic that attempt to cover this up as much as possible. It does not feel good to be enslaved and many people have decided to lie to themselves rather than face the truth.
The lies even extend to censoring people that talk about this publicly from time to time. I've seen myself many times and we can clearly see the cases of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and recently also Roger Ver as reflecting this issue. Whatever you may believe about these people, their story is one of censorship and control attempting to stifle information flow. In a sense, we can view this struggle as manifesting as ‘real free speech versus fake free speech’, centralised control of viewpoints and ideas vs decentralised and liberated thought.
I recommend everybody watch the classic movie adaptation of George Orwell’s legendary book ‘1984’. Despite the age of that work, it really does cut to the core of this issue. Power hungry people seeking to dominate others and also deny that they're doing it at the same time. This is where we get the idea of the inversion of war and peace, and a literal government ‘ministry of love’, which behind closed doors actually tortured people to death.
Getting Real About Freedom
Many people don't want to think about these things. Many people just want to look at cat videos and fill themselves with what they believe to be happiness. However, you cannot really be happy whilst denying reality. Listening to pop music on your iPhone while being surrounded by hungry lions is not necessarily going to stop you being eaten.
Moving towards balance means courageous shifts of behaviour and thinking, such that we all move in ways that change behaviours globally. People learn from experience and they also learn from and the experience of others. If a group of people learns new ways and are able to demonstrate that they bring them success, then this will spread.
This kind of movement actually can't be completely stopped as long as we still have enough decentralised power. These lessons can cross borders and into the hearts and minds of other people. Decentralised software has been amazing in that it has shown so many people the logic of how to operate with consensus among people without violence and without a central authority. Applying some of the lessons to human behaviour and social organisation is a different level of challenge, but it is very doable. *I am pointing to change that in no way needs to be robotic, artificial or controlled by computers. *
In fact, such change in society towards real balance, must come from a more emotional position within us, we must allow our choice to create lives that feel good and choose to learn to have real empathy for others (not imagined or mental empathy, but felt empathy) that genuinely feels into what others need and what we ourselves really need.
There's no way to create software that will make this happen, but we can design social networks and tools - even economic tools - which help this, and that feel good. This is the goal of Ureka!
So, What is Ureka?
Originally, I created Ureka to be a place to publish my books, which at that time, were more specifically inspired by my explorations of myself and of the way that energy moves within people. I wrote about patterns that I had found to be real, which few have noticed, and that I would like to share with everyone to help us all to heal, balance and evolve. In trying to share that information, I came up against the problems I've mentioned, including censorship and many other hurdles.
It has taken me a long time to reach a point where I feel able to deliver my gifts to the world online in ways that feels safe and good. Now, though, I intend to move forward in that direction. The ongoing war on Earth and accelerating distrust, polarisation, control, imbalance, poverty and general suffering cannot be denied by anybody who intends to honour real feeling and to live in the light of truth/honesty.
Ureka is intended to be a virtually indestructable source of information on the web, which helps people to be empowered through understanding, communication, information and economic benefits too. Elon Musk has made big claims about the 'free speech' features on X.com, but anyone who has really studied the difference between Hive and X already knows that there is a gap between his version of free speech and real free speech. We also know that as long as a centralised (and for profit) organisation is controlling the information flow, THEY are in the power position and not US! Hive changes this for us all.
Ureka is intended to both be a tool and a beacon of light and truth that sets a tone for others to be inspired by.
With all that in mind, I invite you to subscribe and support this project. Let’s co-operate to find exciting ways to solve our problems and to create new realities, which we are proud of and which future generations will thank us for.
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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