Castles in the air

I'm imagining:
- More and more people doing more and more good, for themselves and for everyone else.
- Peace, justice, beauty, kindness and companionship growing and spreading to more and more people.

I'm imagining that that includes:
- People seeing the possibilities and pursuing them. That includes arts, crafts, sciences, and individual and community development and service.
- People turning to God. That includes putting His prescriptions fully into practice, and developing and using His institutions as He prescribes.
- People encouraging and supporting each other in promoting their own evolving ideas and pursuing their own evolving initiatives, individually and together.
- People working together on evolving local, national and international community goals, plans, programs and projects.
- Evolving training, mentoring, encouragement and support programs and networks to help people develop and apply their knowledge, wisdom, vision, qualities and capacities.
- People improving their capacity to see where and how they might do the most good, in their own initiatives and in local, national and international community programs and projects.
- Inclusion of people of all ages, including children, in all of the above.
- Other things that I won't list now, or that I haven't thought of yet.

One question I see is, how will people measure progress, in their own initiatives and in community programs and projects?

The time frame of effects to measure range from immediate to hundreds of years or more. Some of the good that people want to do can be seen immediately, or within a few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years, and from their own experience or their familiarity with the experience of others.

Some effects of our actions and activities, on ourselves and the people around us, are easy to see. Some other effects, rippling out into the world, locally, nationally and globally, and combining with others, might be impossible to sort out.

Maybe effects decades or centuries in the future, and on communities, can be estimated by testing theories about community development in voluntary experimental communities. Some ideas might need to be tested in a community with members from every corner of the world and every corner of society, who have turned to Baha'u'llah and agreed to subordinate all other purposes to His, and to put His prescriptions fully into practice in that context.

Some ideas might need to be tested in other kinds of communities, including ones whose members are interested in the writings of Baha'u'llah but who don't agree to subordinate all other purposes to His, and to put His prescriptions fully into practice in that context.

Some ideas might need to be tested in other kinds of communities, with other ways of looking at Baha'u'llah, including rejection, or not even considering Him at all.

Some experimental communities might be highly organized and incorporated, with an administration which evolves very slowly. Others might be accidental fellowships with no administration at all.

Some experimental communities might include or embrace others. For example, a community of people who are interested in the writings of Baha'u'llah, which does not require unqualified commitment to His purposes, might include or embrace one which does.