We need transportation to get to work and to social events, and possibly to obtain privacy, new learning experiences, or maybe just for adventure. In "primitive" cultures this was accomplished by walking. In our modern culture walking is not feasible for several to many reasons.

1. Our culture does not promote physical health in the majority adequate to walk more than short distances.
2. Our communities are so disorganized, complex, and dispersed over large areas that the distances needed to travel are inconvenient for walking.
3. Our culture does not allow enough personal free time to permit walking.
4. It is often not safe to walk because of traffic, pollution, or violent elements of our own culture.

• The cost of the automobile itself is enormous.
• The cost of insurance.
• The cost of police monitoring of traffic.
• The cost of roads.
• The cost of fuel.
• The cost of international conflict to obtain fuel from abroad.
• The cost to the environment in the mining of fuel.
• The cost of death and disability from accidents.
• The cost of transporting fuel.
• The cost of oil spills in the transportation of fuel, including its cost to the environment, other species, and other industries such as fishing.
• The cost to the aesthetic environment, which is now full of ugly pavement instead of trees, plants, flowers and wildlife.
• The cost to the aesthetic environment from smoke, smog, junkyards, polluting steel factories, etc.
• The cost to health from air pollution.
• The cost to health from worry over the finances of transportation.
• The cost to health from the stress of traffic.
• The cost to health from noise pollution.
• The cost to the health of autoworkers from exposure to countless toxins and noise.
• The cost to health from the loss of exercise from walking.
• The cost of medical bills from the loss of health from the loss of exercise and from pollution.
• The cost of exercise equipment and spa memberships in an effort to replace the exercise lost from the use of the automobile.
• The loss of family cohesion resulting from the scattering of the family by the automobile and the dispersal of community due to an automobile dependent arrangement of community.
• The cost of the stress from the loss of family cohesion.

Getting to our destination faster is not necessarily a benefit. In general it breeds attitudes of impatience, rush, stress, and restlessness. Further, the satisfaction of travel is lost. The wisdom of Nature provided legs for transportation. The physical act of walking to our destination gave us a satisfying sense of having traveled, of being in a new place. When the car does the traveling for us this satisfying sense of travel is lost. Some of the attunement to the new environment is thus lost. The sudden change in environments from rapid travel further handicaps proper attunement to one's environment. There is a tendency to remain restless, always seeking new and unnecessary changes.

On the other hand, when one uses the transportation of Providence, our legs, one remains more connected to the environment, more sensitive to the Natural order. There is no need for a sudden reattunement upon arrival.

Walking has countless other advantages as well.

• The most effective treatment for depression, so common in our car-culture, is aerobic exercise. Adequate walking may prevent most cases of depression.
• Many other cases of mental imbalance and psychiatric problems are also tied up with the car culture. Car cultures have countless additional sources of stress. Automobile based culture allows food to be grown far away, arriving at the consumer highly processed and no longer fresh. This results in improper nutrition and countless deficiencies.
• Walking promotes peace and mental calm. Often the best treatment for too much stress is a brisk walk in the fresh air.
• Walking promotes clear and balanced thought. The Wright brother's daily 8-mile walk to school was a necessary stimulus to their thought that enabled them to become world famous inventors.
• Walking with another also provides the ideal climate for social exchange. Either quiet, romantic exchange of hearts in love; the verbose interchange of friendship developing; or the profound, vibrational encounter of souls attuned in silence.
• Walking as one's mode of transportation promotes an attitude of patience and a more relaxed outlook on life.
• Walking promotes a better understanding of and attunement to the natural environment. This understanding and attunement is sorely needed in this modern world which is so grossly disturbing the natural order upon which it depends.
• Walking is good for the heart - an important consideration in this car-culture where heart disease is the number one killer.

Our culture uses a base ten number system. Every time you add a zero everything increases by a factor of ten. Zero is emptiness and amounts to nothing. It is very easy to add more zeros and vastly multiply complexity. The vast technological array and complexity of modern culture is really emptiness and amounts to nothing. A culture founded on a base ten number system naturally supports every increasing complexity. Competition, as opposed to cooperation, is an ideal tool for ever-increasing complexity and is naturally supported by a base ten culture.

A base ten culture likes multiplication and believes that solutions and progress arise from multiplication and increased complexity. As the only way to multiply anything in actuality is to cut it into pieces, such a system looks for purpose, progress, and solutions through dissection and analysis.

In a base one number system on the other hand, every time you add a one the number increases by one. The number ten would be 1111111111. Complexity is cumbersome. Unity and cooperation become esteemed instead of competition and complexity. Numbers greater than one appear redundant. Reality is seen as a unity. The purpose of life itself then becomes oneness.

Our cultural takes pride in its belief that it has a sophisticated understanding of numbers. In actuality its approach to life precludes it from gaining an adequate comprehension of numbers. It attempts to understand numbers with the instrument of the mind. The very structure of the mind and its relationship to the world prevents it from the possibility of ever grasping the nature of numbers.

The mind works through creating a dichotomy between itself and the world. As such it never deals directly with the world. It only works with mental constructs based on data compiled from the senses. Sense data is very limited and provides only rudimentary and incomplete information about the world. What the mind constructs from this indirect data does not even approach a similarity to the actual world. This includes the world of numbers.

The mind is an obstacle to understanding. Only by neutralizing the duality of the mind, and working directly with the object to be understood, can correct comprehension arise. Without such direct knowledge only theories and other superstitions abound.

The modern culture lacks both the technology for neutralizing the duality of the mind and the understanding and values necessary for the development of that technology. Knowledge, and the technology it supports, is judged by its pragmatic value, how it can be used to produce wealth and to fulfill other fantastic notions based on modern superstitions.

What is wealth? Is wealth related to how much money one has? Is wealth tied up with some fanciful notion of legal ownership? Ownership is only a superstition. People don't have possessions. Possessions have them. Failure to understand this simple truth reveals utter lack of true education.

Character is wealth. Peace of mind is wealth. Control of the mind is wealth. The ability to love and forgive is wealth. The desire and ability to serve is wealth. Non-attachment is wealth. Self-control is wealth. Non-violence is wealth. Truth is wealth.

Possessiveness is poverty. Greed is proof of impoverishment. To seek gain at another's expense is utter poverty. A felt need or desire for money or possessions springs from inner poverty.

That modern educated adults usually fail to grasp these pertinent facts unequivocally demonstrates the desperate nature of modern education. That even more often they fail to live by them defines modern culture as dysfunctional. It has failed both to provide an understanding of the nature and purpose of life, and has not provided the cultural means to acquire true wealth.

Modern education is in the dark ages, and modern progress, knowledge and technology has failed to advance the cause of humanity. This failure can only be rectified through total transformation of the underlying institutions of modern culture. The institutionalized conceptual foundations of modern culture must be replaced.