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Welcome to Terra City!
Imagine
yourself a few years from now. You are in an airplane traveling towards a unique
place on Earth. After a few hours of flight the attendant announces: “Attention
please, we are approaching our destination, and if you look through the window
you can actually see it.”
Looking through the airplane window you distinguish
a sort of a… city with a shape resembling... the map of the world. You can see
at reduced scale all the continents and the oceans around them, and all the
countries of the globe with borders of… multicolored flowers.
This is Terra City! – a tiny
place on Earth where people created an unprecedented project - a human
experience as we never lived before,
a place meant to inspire us in creating a better world.
It
all started in year 2005, with a revelation: Looking at our long history – from
the age of stone and metal, through the age of agriculture, machines and
automation, to the information and communications, people realized that time has
come now for a... totally different ERA.
An ERA where abundance in everyone’s life,
fulfillment of everyone’s dreams, and enjoyment of every moment of being and
feeling alive are the major objectives. So, they opened themselves to a
Human Era dedicated to honoring and enjoying our
lives to the fullest!
Either we realize it or not, everyone, like you and
me, has a good side and a… not so good side. Depending on which
side of ours is dominant at a certain moment, we can be nice, generous and ready
to do great things for each other… or, we can be mean, selfish and destructive…
Hence the solution: If we would find a way to
stimulate our human side - then we can determine ourselves to act rather
well than bad.
If we gather the most creative, generous and
inspiring things that fellow human beings have thought and done in different
parts of the world, and make them accessible to everyone, in a completely honest
and open manner - that would help each one of us realize how wonderful and
precious our human side really is, how many great things we can accomplish
together, and how nice and human our lives and the entire world would become.
This is why this small piece of
land somewhere on Earth was chosen to become Terra City – to gather the various
expressions of goodwill, creativity, generosity and humanity of people from all
over the globe.
It
took a thorough analysis to choose this place, for it had to be hosted by a
country with a long time pacifist reputation, and also be accessible from
all corners of the globe.
Once the ideal place was chosen, the project was
discussed with the government of the host country - since Terra City had to have
a unique status - belonging to everyone, and to no one in
particular.
Then, the plan of the city was designed - a map of
the globe was drawn with all seven continents, and each country was assigned a
piece of land similar in shape and proportionate in size with the real country.
When the place was ready, the Terra City project was
presented to the world. Each country was invited to participate and create in
its little Terra Country the most representative image of its nation. All
countries on the planet were told something in this line:
Dear Friends from all
over the World - Welcome to Terra City!
History
showed us how many awful things can be done in the world, what horrors any of us
can be capable of, and how close to beasts we can behave at times.
Now, we need to see how many wonderful things we can
do together, how genuinely good our human side really is, how powerful
and benefic our synergy worldwide can be.
Do what you do for the Olympic games, when you
search your country for the best athletes to represent you! Gather the most
creative people of your country: artists, writers, scientists, inventors and
discoverers - the most beautiful minds and souls your nation has been blessed
with - and challenge them to find the most inspired ways to reach the human cord
of all their countrymen - and together, to contemplate like never before their
lives, their country and the entire world.
Let them use the most daring shapes, colors and
sounds to express in your Terra Country the most of your people, your
culture and your history - the greatest lessons they learned from the evolution
of mankind, their hopes and dreams, and shape the kind of world they wish their
children and grandchildren to live in.
For this is what Terra City is -
the image of the best of the entire world, and an inspiration for human
beings to strive together for much better.
This
is where people from all over the world will come to share their lessons and
achievements, with sincerity and generosity - to discover their own talents and
allow their creativity to flourish.
This is where people will support each other’s
efforts to become the best they can be, and reach that sublime stage of
“self-actualization”.
This is where people will discover the pure taste of
genuine respect of a human being towards another human being - for the simple
reason they are all living creatures on the same planet.
This is where people will listen at each other’s
problems and use the power of their synergy - the power of thinking and acting
together – to find true, long lasting solutions.
People will focus on real life priorities - find
ways to spread knowledge and optimize resources worldwide, produce enough food
for everyone on the planet, concert their efforts in search for cures for
diseases that decimate us every year, raise the level of education of their
children, so they will be able to take the Human Era to new heights.
After
visiting Terra City, each one of us will return to our country, our city, our
workplace, our church and our home, carrying with us its spirit, eager to share
it and multiply it with others - a bit more human than when we left, more
loving, more compassionate, more humble, and more daring. |
