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Tim’s Philosophy
Tim Lewis refuses to be confined by genre, reaching out to many forms of writing to examine the themes he feels are important. Because of this, every book he has written is really an exploration of those themes from a different angle and emphasis.
What are the themes that dominate Tim’s writing?
- The search for a genuine world community of peoples; exploring communities of the
past, and experiments in future ways of living. Researching and visiting other cultures
and ways of life to understand who we are as humans and what type of social systems
would allow us to return to our essential being.
- A deep concern for the welfare of the planet and all its life. Exploring and understanding
our spiritual connection with all things, both at a personal level and as a species.
Using that connection to develop a new morality and social structure that fully recognizes
the rights of the environment and our responsibilities towards it.
- Empowered and self-serviced local communities that are the font of genuine democracy
and local control. These communities come together to form societies where people,
not governments, have control. Societies free from fear, oppression and intolerance.
- An abhorrence for the ignorance of established religions and the nonsense of gods and the idea of One
- Truth, which leads to intolerance. A search for a genuine spirituality based upon
direct connection with and compassion for all things.
- Being, belonging, sharing and caring.
- An abhorrence of big government, of war, of oppression, of exploitation and of the
suppression of people. For small government by the people that arises from local
communities and respects the equal rights of us all. The idea that we are brothers
and sisters and must help each other, not fight or exploit each other, if we are
to build a fair and free society for us all.
- The Diamond Rule: Treat others as, to the best of your knowledge, they wish to be
treated.
This is infinitely superior to the Golden Rule, which is essentially selfish and egocentric. The Diamond Rule replaces as “I wish to be treated” with as “they wish to be treated.”
- Genuine control over our economic and social environment, as well as our political environment.
