What is Euthenics? Euthenist.org

Euthenics is recorded early in the 19th century and created by Ellen Swallow Richards, and in the original sense "the science of better living". It was perceived originally as the altering of an external world, when this is misleading. We use knowledge to alter our environment which then alters our living conditions. We want to keep seeking knowledge, but we must also retain it in order to gain more. Thus, the mind is actually also altered in two ways.

In altering our external existence and connection to it, we must know that even though most of the outside world is seemingly not in our control, we can control our habits pertaining to it, and we can do that by controlling ourselves. By realigning our essential habits, we alter our genetics as well, and the planet. This is also visible in the natural world of life as other species evolve based on their habits and desires. Some examples are the shark and its habit of swimming and eating. The shark is now the most evolved for that habit because the shark did not try to change and develop a new preferred habit, but got better at what it was already doing. Other species evolve in many ways but they change based on the two basic premises, habits and exposure.

Our environment is one of the premises in our existence, and it has really become overbearing because of our amusement in it. Instead of learning the lessons given to us by the life on the planet, we play with it to adorn ourselves in it mostly. We can easily be misguided by this in our evolution process, and begin to believe we can survive without the environment, or create our own somehow, out there, and there is no livable planet within living distance even in our own galaxy. Maybe we need to wake up. Just maybe, we never get out of here until we get it right. We use up all the energy, but where does it go but back into the original dimension from whence it came for further distribution.

In this sense, our true essence sits within our spirit power and our connection to the energy we use, transform, dispose of, and interact with, through all these states of consciousness. It would be critical to balance the whole process in order to learn what our true nature is, and possible realities beyond our assumption experienced.

Some refer to Euthenics as a study that only deals with the consequences of a problem and that eugenics deals directly with the problem. I would view this as not thinking correctly. Adjusting our habits has millions of time more power than changing one gene in hopes of preventing diseases we can't even understand why they are in the first place. Why are we attempting to stop diseases without looking at the habitual and exposure pattern made and informing people of that early in life? The answer is, we are greedy.

If eugenicist are saying they deal directly with the problem and euthenics is worthless, it looks like they are lying. Eugenics seems to be saying, go ahead with what ever habits you [are secretly informed to believe] and we'll fix it from the back end. This is nothing more than a ploy to keep you into the loop of designer life and human control. The consequences of not seeking further knowledge and respect concerning our habits and our true environment connections is jaded to say the least.

It is not to take away from human life to inform human life based on existing data which clearly shows an overlaying system upon the life process, and manipulation of it for purposes of profits disguised as the good of man. Euthenics does not remove life, but a system run amuck can destroy life by letting it grow and feeding from it. It is the feeding that is the problem. Our bringing life into the world is natural, its more the information that is missing that you would think a species as smart as we are would be able to convey to a new life just brought into the world. Better said, our education system is highly controlled and designed by foundations with other interests.

It's time for a second thrust in the study and practice of Euthenics as a Euthenist. You can help balance emotional habits with incoming intelligence for human behavior that just so happens to have earth as a partner instead of a device to be used up and sucked dry. Our polluting the planet may have no effect on it whatsoever except for one factor, and that is us and our demise from ignoring it for so long.

Euthenics, the original word, was coined back in June of 1894 by Ellen Swallow Richards and described in an article entitled, The Disappointing First Thrust of Euthenics. Her insight was against the same battle we fight today concerning aggressive use of the planet. She used her wisdom to evaluate the local water systems in the area of Poughkeepsie, NY where Vassar College is located today.

"Richards was able to solve the problem because of her understanding of public health and water pollution problems, gained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [MIT] did not call the discipline she practiced "euthenics." But Richards did. "Euthenics" was a word she herself had coined from the two Greek stems, eu, well; the, root of tithemi, to cause. Hence the word "euthenics" meant to be in a good state. Richards began the foreword of her book Euthenics, the Science of Controllable Environment, originally published in 1910, with these words: "Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously working through common interests, will be brought about the creation of right conditions, the control of the environment."

This was a beginning of reason applied to thinking and reminds me of Thomas Paine and his writings related to his Age of Reason. Without reason, we only have the word of man as God. Today, we live a life of chance engrained into our education through the games we play. The idealisms are only those who have the most interest and/or power, and our society is horribly compulsive in nature, not only in habits, but environmentally. In a darker sense, we are two experiments in progress. One, for the highest interests and control of others, and one, for our higher order in spirit.

The spiritual essence of humans is commonly thought to be a ghost. I would only agree in the physical sense, not spiritual. Most people believe in a supreme being or deity, yet this is a foundation alert. The grounding is by man, and it is intended to sway you. I was asked this question over 30 years ago. A better insight into perceiving a God, or higher power, would be to separate it from a being, for a being is physical. Man has relentlessly pulled any possibility of spiritual power into their realm of physicalism thinking. Yet, this may be our true home or dimension we can't perceive while in a body until we reach a level in understanding the science of our environment in a euthenics way. There is also the possibility that everything we see out our eyes is transformable at levels we still do not understand.

Of the two experiments in progress, the first experiment is completely out of control here in America. This is quite evident to anyone who has studied history outside of the establishment, and also studied the environment. The first signs of real problems are the effects from environmental input, mainly air, water, and food, and the lack of knowledge related to them. By removing the knowledge, problems are created to in effect, feed from in a backward attempt to appease the habit-exposure formed disease, a disease of the habit exposure altered pattern.

The second experiment report for life on earth, from the monitor of life as we might perceive it might be, "They feed off themselves, should we send in the comets and recycle them once more? Yes, it has come time, let's save as many as we can before the alien lizards begin processing their energy."

Our spiritual balancing of our interaction with earth and its consumables can only lead to better living and conditions to exist for future generations in any dimension ahead. Euthenist.org is committed to advancing and networking a better scientific understanding teleologically and psychologically of human and earth science.
updated 2007/09/04

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As time has permitted, I felt it was necessary to focus in on key areas for study related to euthenics and the euthenist lifestyle, in adjusting our habits in sync with earth and our surroundings. There are many questions to ask, so let's get started.

Since the world's problems are now insurmountable, that is to say, the sooner we act and stop wasting our energy, the sooner our children can repair the added damage that is now being done.

How are we going to supply everyone with clean drinking water if everyone is forced to buy it from the shelf? Should not water be free exclusive of municipal services? Why are corporations allowed to sell it in the first place? Should there not be a social structure built into the communities that provides free water to everyone for drinking purposes, especially now that most water is polluted? Is our government telling us we don't have a right to life?

At some point in time in the future, people will die of thirst, and this is already happening now in other countries. So one aspect to consider is the logic that is currently implemented in water use, which is piping and pumping by electricity mostly, and filtered using chemicals to kill bacteria and remove sewage, so that you can drink it. This is not necessarily a problem in the future as long as everyone is willing to pay for it, and willing to alter the species genetically in a type of mutation into multiple diseases that need serviced.

One real problem is land use, and the onslaught of housing for profits. Each home connected to a system that is poorly designed for an intelligent species. California is battling all sorts of irrigation problems as the water is being used up, but why? The above ground water war in California has some illogic to its fix. The farmers need more water but elsewhere in the Midwest, they depend on rain and whenever it comes. So the farms have found a way to have a great crop every year by accessing more water from above ground, but is this unfair? It is not that is it unfair, it is illogical, and not sustainable, therefore, these farms should consider not just their present families future, but the future of many far ahead. How much sense does it make to pump water into fertile area that is only fertile if excess water exist? The only sense it makes is profits and sustainability for the current families alone.

If you think about how much it rains in California, then you should immediately know that the weather is very unpredictable, and farmers probably could not exist unless they have the run off collected from a larger area around them. As the areas grow, more lawns need watering, which is not sustainable.

One might assume that the use of water around the home was excessive compared to total water use, but we should consider the watering of lawns that are purposely contaminated with chemical fertilization and pesticides including farms. It is thought the green yard around a home absorbs heat and makes the home more efficient, as a reasoning for lots of grass. This is nonsense, as homes are being built that are completely unsustainable for any future.

It would make more sense for small communities to develop their own water supplies that would be integrated together, and all waste accounted for in some way, each family taking responsibility for their own waste tanks [above ground for service] and disposal without the overbearing use of water as a transportation device. In these communities, houses would be built up and around their tanks. This would allow some living quarters on ground level, and the use of water cleaning and disposal would be on the second level. The tank would be accessible and removable from one side of the house and would contain special chemicals that treated the waste properly so that it could be removed easily. This waste would be treated again and placed into the earth for natural fertilization. As the communities diets improved, so would the fertilizer.

Waste tanks would be for bowel movement and urine waste only, while all other water uses would be recycled and used for plants and fruits. This extra water available in this process is the extra water the farmer needs but can't get, as there is no community like this that exists. Taking showers and wasting the water back into the sewer system is complete nonsense. This will force home buyers to use safer products when cleaning their clothing so that the water can be used for irrigation, foliage, and small farms.

It really is crazy when you think about all the rain upon our planet that is mixing with the current systems along with the overall surfaces and run off that has become polluted with our sprawl to more earthliness living.

People who move to cities often prefer non-city life, so they move outside of them, but this is a reaction to a system that is failing, and by moving out, we spread the disease of that system in many ways. The developers are more interested in profits, you only need drive around Florida once to see the subdivisions that are all connected to county sewer systems, and their water comes directly from the pipes at the facilities and pumping stations. Yet, this same system can only fail, as more water is used for transporting waste.

It may be that those with the most power in making decision are already aware of these revelations and do not mention them, so we are at risk of complete control from them in the future, as they will control all the services.

It may also have been much wiser for every community to have its own farm and disposal systems, almost like small towns, but highly organized, highly educated, and highly diverse ethnically allowing people to move in and out easily if need be. These farms could barter with other farming communities for goods. Each community and members could grow much of their own food from plants, as animal farming would not be allowed. Animal farming should be carefully examined, as it seems to be a serious polluter, and the diet is highly questionable.

All goods coming into a community should have their packaging examined to remove all waste production, or allow for communities to use specific packaging for specific purposes related to sustainability of the community. Communities could also arrange for electric production within the community, and rotation of available power throughout the community if necessary. Solar and wind are viable options, and each home would be equipped with these more sustainable systems, but would be located specifically within the community.

Each community should also be sized according the the number of participants in relation to the size of the available land and its specific uses, especially that of growing food.

Also, it would be extremely wise for each community to collect it own rain water and store it through a systems of gutters from the roof areas which would then be filtered within the community, possibly stored, and placed in use. There would be no sewer systems, all water would be accounted for.

Communities would have to be allowed to create their own laws pertaining to participation, but also allow anyone who was willing to abide to participate without prejudices or race issues, and these laws must be flexible because humans are far from perfect. They also should be free of streets and cars, and contain a type of transport system within them allowing outside goods an easy way to move from point A to point B within the community. An outside garage would be necessary for vehicles and bicycles that was still part of the community but separate.

The communities could also have their own craft people, and education systems allowing full participation for some who would not have to venture out into the world to find work picking up costs for child care and education. These smaller and highly organized entangled systems would help to offset feeding the monsters outside the gates.

Unfortunately, communities like this utopian idea have never been built, so the old one's must first die, and that is beginning to happen now. If homes had been built differently and thoughtfully, it would not be the homes that mattered, but the community.

It is the humans overbearing need to feel special that overlays the psyche and works it way up from the straw shack, all the way to 40 room houses, with 20 fireplaces, and 10 car garages. Our disease to live better is being reflected into the matter of the universe as any architect visualizes everyday, but does not see sustainability in any true sense, just something that works and were stuck with by those who service us.

These are some of the issues to consider when attempting to study and solve our current problems. A Euthenist has a lot of work to do to change the way people perceive being special, and how they interact with their environment. Being special should have nothing to do with fancy cars, and big houses, it should be for those who communicate with reason and care, and true concern for our future, and participate with other who also care.

In the construction of new housing, I have been an advocate against this practice and fostered reconstruction as an alternative, however, in viewing and analyzing all the homes in America, we have some serious problems to deal with.

In trying to rework spaces for people for over 30 years, this attempt seems feeble for the mere fact, most of the homes are located within the government controlled systems, which are most likely to become to burdensome for normal people in the future. Wood is still the #1 product to build with, but that will change for chemical versions which make no sense.

Too many wood products are being converted and recycled into material that does not actually last long when it should be used for fertilizer, and then a forced replacement of that product is eventually implemented which is more nonsense. The use of vinyl seems long lasting, but if the homes burn, the poisons are extreme and distributed into the environment. If vinyl is used, it must be used wisely, and not used on millions of homes out in the open market, as most of them will begin to fail.

This is the unfortunately reality of home building over the last 40-50 years, as the quality has dropped off the map, and so has the sustainability of those homes currently being built. An easy example is to drive through any subdivision built outside of a bigger city that has been there for at least 20 years, and the homes have become havens for poorer people.

In order for the developers to compensate this rot within their planning, they come up with ways to add spice to the subdivisions, like security, golf courses, and swimming pools. I would not be surprised to see communities with their own fantasy land, movie theater, and shopping malls.

These become attractive to shoppers, and the security is highly sought, but these leave out poorer people. So in trying to stop the rot, they raise the stakes, but that pushes up the illusion, and eventually the fog clears in the form of a society that is falling apart with abuse as a key factor.

The desire to live in big homes must be removed, and replaced with those who want a community where they actually participate with their neighbors, and do not esteem valuables that do not sustain the life of a community and its power to give life to its participants.

If communities are really smart, they will have their own library where Internet access is pennies a month for each family through a community network. It's not a dream, as dreaming is part of the problem. If we only dream about it, it never happens, and the replacements are only other people's dreams being filled, and your stuck with a lousy home on a lousy street with a lousy drive to the big city because that was dreamed for you.

Euthenist Study Guide Addition: The Garden of Hesperides, a design plan for a 5 part living and garden section in French style, and no fuel use, a forgotten notion of living on planet Earth.