Federal Inmate, 8867-147 draws "Outlaw Visions" from the violent Shadow Realm of Prison

March 7, 2013 - PRLog -- "Outlaw Visions" takes you on a journey that wends through monastic hallways, trial courtrooms, jail and prison cells, and onto campuses to engage with today’s young activists. 8867-147 climbed to the mountaintop, shouted “Peace! Peace!”—and heard society’s judgment: “Criminal!” With him you fall and descend into the hellish sectors of prison’s darkness where he existed as a subhuman—a numbered inventory of the State, 8867-147. Personal narrative and accounts of intimate prison experiences enable you to enter into realms of human thought and feeling that are dark, at times heretical, even possibly evil to you. He describes the horror of  becoming a subhuman, an institutional number—8867-147, and being The Man’s Bitch.

To descend into “where everything human is soon absent," there are three sets of “Rung stories” written as first-person accounts which are raw and savage—8867-147 makes no apologies. Prison’s revelation is that unless you experience your own subhumanness that you will never become a real human person. To enable you to become him, 8867-147 tells these Rung stories—which are carved out of flesh and spirit. Victoriously, you learn how to ascend from the dark sector into the sunlight sector and develop the “Earthfolk” vision that enables you to dwell peacefully and comfortably at home on the Living Earth.

Back on campus (2006-2008) to promote a play about his Vietnam era anti-war trial, “Peace Crimes: the Minnesota 8 vs. the war,” 8867-147 met young activists who were his visionary grandchildren. These youths mingle the passion and insights of Martin Luther King with John Lennon’s vision and are stirring up a storm of change.

These activists seek to create compassionate communities both locally and globally. In 8867-147's day it was just one war—Vietnam. Their concern is whether the human species will insanely kill itself by unleashing an ecological apocalypse and/or destroy the whole planet through creating a nuclear winter. How then to answer: "Is globalization a predatory or a creative movement? Does it seek dominion through conquest or can it become an enabling, humanizing movement?" The answers depend upon the visionary story we tell ourselves about the purpose, meaning, and value of human life, that is, our story of human origin. Globalization presents the challenge to re-imagine and embody a new mythic story of origin, one that replaces the dominant Western biblical story of Genesis.

"Outlaw Visions" presents the mythic Earthfolk vision and practices— a fundamentally distinct way of understanding what it means to be human, and how humans as individuals and communities can interact with each other.

Limited time free ebook, "Outlaw Visions" by Francis X. Kroncke, Federal Inmate 8867-147  explores the Light found in the deep recesses of America's and Western culture's Shadow realm. http://www.outlaw-visons.net/books.htm