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WRONG REALITY Part VII REALISATION DECIDING THE CONSTITUTION 42 DEFINITION OF HUMAN BEING Human being may be defined as the humantrue life of the individual, lived according to her or his own supraconsciousness of fulfilled intellect, so that the co-operative being of humanity isthis undeniable humantrue awareness on the part of, and between, each and every individual, with no authority, meaning or faith above or beyond that. The human individual is a mind and body of the human species, led by the mind. Human being is being fully and truly human. Definition of Human Being - 42a St Peters Square A crowded St. Peter's Square, Rome The foregoing had been the shortest article in this website, but I have since discovered that its subject - the Definition of Human Being - is the most frequently requested search term to bring visitors to this site. Therefore I have added a sequence of short sub-chapters, each carrying one or more photographs, which it is hoped will both confirm and throw new light on the above original statement. This Chapter, with its following sub-chapters, has two objectives. The first is to illustrate that, while we continue confining our thinking and action to the lesser conscious sphere, human being is capable of being defined in every and any conceivable way, because in the existing amoral world anything is possible. The second and most important objective is to point out that true human being is to be defined by supraconsciousness - that when both our thinking and activity submits to the guidance of the postconscious which is also embodied in the structure of our society, then will we be wholly fulfilled, ie humantrue. Pt.VII REALISATION DECIDING THE CONSTITUTION At present, each of us is normally characterised by the conditioning of our conscious mind, derived from our relationship with reality. This dictates the way we think, act and react, subject to the pictures and words presented in newspapers, on radio and television, and to the very tangible emotional influence of others, especially in large crowds responding to dramatic events. The Pope's thinking must be affected by his cloistered life, by his official duty to uphold the statutes and building blocks of his religion, his powerful position in much of the world, and his relationship with the masses of Catholic believers. His audience think according to the circumstances of their practical selves. Because his circumstances are not the same and his mind differently oriented, he cannot think as they do. Their wishful spiritual selves emotionally identify with this religion, but overall they are only marginally influenced by his words. So the character we appear to be is not necessarily the real us, but ourselves in relation to existing reality, tempered by our morality, perhaps in the form of a facet of reality - religion. This reality, which I call the Machine, is not truly moral, therefore we are not truly moral. It is against our intelligent nature to commit crimes and inhumanities but we commit them nevertheless under pressure from the Machine. In other words most of these people in St. Peter's square believe that it is human nature to be competitive and in conflict. They accept that in order to avoid consequent chaos and achieve some kind of stability they need to be ordered by governments and morally advised by church leaders such as the Pope. Governments and religious leaders too would define human being as instinctive emotional intelligence requiring the control of authority supplemented by the guidance of religion. This is because in existing human society the financial and political affairs of the Machine come first and morality takes second place, to be observed only where the Machine permits. In such a gathering only the leading figure is recognisable as an individual, but the entire crowd is made up of individuals. Each individual is apparently unique because the detailed range of everyone's experience, and their reaction to that experience, is necessarily different. The Pope's position is certainly unique, so his outward individual activity is different again. BUT..... in respect of humantrue moral responsibility every one of these individuals is the same. A more accurate definition of human being is that notwithstanding their many differences of superficial character, personality and position in the hierarchy, each and every individual, deep within, is fundamentally the same in that each has a postconscious mind whose function is humantruth. AND..... in order that it shall be possible for every individual to personify the common humantrue moral responsibility, it is vital that the worldwide framework of life, the entire structure of human society - our ideal reality - must also embody the humantrue principles and practices for which each and every individual is responsible Definition of Human Being - 42b Keeping Order We are anxious not to fall into disorder, but the Machine encourages it and we feel justified in making and enforcing laws designed to quash disorder. These laws are not guides to our moral behaviour so much as preventatives of amoral practices getting out of hand and becoming immoral, bad behaviour, and the laws may be enforced by means of equally inhuman punishment. Which of the characters in this picture defines Human Being? Each of the individuals pictured is essentially the same, but rendered different by external circumstances and conditioning. The man about to be beheaded and another at the head of a queue awaiting the same fate? They have rebelled against authority, in a cause which they thought just, but failed and were lawfully condemned to death. So is the true definition of human being that, faced with lawful injustice we obey the law and suffer in silence, or that we stand up for our believed rights and cruelly lose our heads? Is human being defined by the soldiers escorting the rebels to their death? It is probable that they regard this beheading as pitiful, but deserved - as morally wrong but lawfully right. They are simply doing their bounden duty, obeying orders without asking questions, only glad that it is not they who are queueing for the sword. Is this the Definition of Human Being, that we must conform to the norm, keep safely to the right side of the law and obey instructions? Lastly, the executioners. Did they choose this occupation, or was it the only job they could get? Have they something in their genes which enjoys cruelty and the sight of blood despite moral objections? Is it some trait which, in a kind community, might never surface but which is given full rein by this demand for public execution? Is it, then,the essence of human being that we do what we feel like doing, especially where the Machine supports us? Or that, with the help of a loving community, we do what is right, effectively suppressing those amoral genes? The Boxer rebellion had a cause, a cause which justified rebellion in the eyes of the rebels. Without a cause, with a peaceful people in a just and peaceful society, there would be no need of rebellion. But where there is a threat of rebellion there is also need of a powerful authority to put it down, in this case by staging public executions. And it is this same authority, whose suppression gave cause for the rebellion, which maintains soldiers to crush it and take prisoners, officials to stage this spectacle, and executioners to do the beheading. There is a parallel in the relief of Baghdad in 2003, where the fighting was followed by large scale looting on the part of Iraqi people. The outside world sees this looting as disgraceful, but it must appear differently in the looters' eyes. They must see it as justified in view of the vicious oppression and deprivation they have endured for years at the hands of a regime which certainly kept order, but cruelly. The character of the Boxer rebels and the Baghdad looters is not described by their actions. In humantrue circumstances they could never have behaved in this way. But, continually maintained through the decades under the Machine, unjust rule has caused understandably angry protest, followed by punishment, bringing resentment, more suppression and more angry protest. Whilst private human character is as good as individuals can make it under their circumstances, this and our collective public Machine behaviour does not define genuine human being. We see that genuine human being is defined by supraconscious moral awareness on the part of the individual and the good influences of humantrue society. The behaviour of the human being cannot be separated from the nature and state of our world social structure. Definition of Human Being - 42cAutoprogress This was the invention of two individuals, the Wright brothers, who applied their energy and intelligence not to the pressing problems of humanity and their solution in humantruth, but to man's accomplishment of heavier-than-air flight. This was applauded as a great human achievement but it was a matter of specialised ambition. Mankind had long dreamed of emulating the birds but it was not a matter of first concern. Would we Define Human Being as the creative and inventive urge, the need to investigate, discover and technologically develop things with little or no thought as to their necessity or the eventual consequences? Certainly not - this is to play into the hands of the Machine. Our prior need is to establish a cooperative, responsible humantrue society which knows how best to utilise its material resources. During the short time which followed the flight of the first aeroplane, industry found a ready market by applying the invention to warfare. There was no shortage of men and later women to fly these planes, exchanging dull Machine-jobs for the dangerous freedom of the cockpit. Their willingness was largely a matter of craving for adventure rather than mature intellectual decision. In the ensuing years, warplanes have become ever more deadly. and the aeroplane industry has exploited another huge and questionable market - tourism. On their way from big cities to plush resorts, the jumbo jets pass over places which haven't even developed a clean water supply. The ideal Definition of Human being is belonging to a society in which big decisions are unanimous, made by the supraconscious moral majority according to true need, not by a minority of persons who are apart Definition of Human Being - 42d Hierarchical Pyramids The hierarchical pyramids Machine at the top National governments at the top National governments at the bottom Moral majority at the bottom Some time in the future our present reality shall seem impossible, a reality in which Human Being is Defined as all people allowing themselves to be forced, instructed, ordered, persuaded, expected or bribed to be amoral or immoral when every one of them is and has always been, at bottom, truly moral. At the beginning of the First World War there was a surge of flag-waving patriotism and enthusiasm for the fight. Later this turned to sickness and horror as the death-roll lengthened and the suffering mounted. At the end of the war people were joyful and optimistic. For a time they were united by this momentous event and the euphoria it aroused, hoping that this would prove to be the war to end all wars. And it could have been, if this fervent wish had been translated into so strong a determination for world peace that governments could never again ignore and override it. For a brief time the right-hand pyramid was inverted, and moral awareness reached towards the top in peoples' minds. But soon they returned to their separate competitive ways and the world reverted to its different Machine self-interests. Consequently, within a mere 21 years the world was again plunged into total war, followed by another never-ending series of smaller but equally violent wars. We have not yet realised that the human world community must primarily conduct itself according to the fundamental humantrue morality embedded in the postconscious mind of each and every individual. But we are learning, as the Iraq war demonstrates, and eventually, surely, we shall insist not only that there shall be no more war, but that all the Machine pressures and influences which are the underlying cause of war shall be removed. When that time comes we shall have a new Definition of Human Being - that no individuals shall permit themselves under any circumstances to behave in any way contrary to their supraconscious humantrue morality. Immorality shall then be utterly repugnant. Not only that, but concepts, practices or institutions which had once put their interests before humantrue interests shall cease to exist through non-acceptance and complete lack of support. The pyramid concept, with a few authoritative directors at the top giving orders and the great majority at the bottom doing what they were told, shall be remembered as ridiculous, kept in place by ignorance, not only contrary to humantrue morality and common sense but also unworkable. The ultimate aim is to have all people equal. As a first step to achieving equality we should invert the pyramid, with the moral majority at the top, leading the way. Definition of Human Being - 42j COMMUNITY Supraconscious humantrue community …..perhaps something like the Findhorn community, but worldwide We have had many spiritual, religious leaders who have offered moral guidance, taken from their own postconscious minds, but they themselves have been converted into figureheads, their messages of truth overlaid and obscured by the institution of churches, mosques and synogogues, giving again the false Definition of Human Being - that we lack responsibility and need to be subject to authoritative control. The only stable humantrue state shall be secured when responsibility is invested in the individual - every individual, meaning the whole people in community - and in each and every single individual representing supraconsciousness, ie humantruth, his or her being guided by true morality of the postconscious mind. This, again, is a true Definition of Human Being. It is likely that the people will change before they have been able to establish a humantrue framework of life in place of the Machine. But a humantruly aware world community shall itself render the Machine ineffective. The supreme leader of one nation who wishes to go to war with another shall find nobody willing to take up arms and fight. This shall not leave them vulnerable because the other nation's people will likewise refuse to fight. The entrepreneur who wishes to sell weapons shall be unable to persuade anyone to manufacturer them. The people of financially rich countries will insist that their wealth be shared with poor countries so that all become equally provided for. Those who cherish their national flag, their different culture, religion and language will be prepared to abandon them, seeking for and finding a common identity which all may share. The world's people will reject the standards of habit and consumption imposed on them by the Machine, substituting healthy and environmentally friendly standards and denying the Machine its profits without which it must shrink and die. The world's people will opt for a materially simple, intellectually rich way of life which can happily co-exist with nature. They will cease relying on the Machine's artificial entertainments and will indulge, instead, in the richness of their own creativity, while all sharing equally in the communal work of feeding, clothing, sheltering and caring for each other. Such a world community, rejecting the competitive greed and contrived hatred of the past, shall bring out the loving good that exists in everyone. 43 CODE OF INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR In order to sustain a true state of human being it shall be necessary to include in the constitution a code of individual behaviour. This will not be authoritative law, but a reminder to which individuals voluntarily refer for guidance and encouragement. At the present stage of contemplation, prior to agreeing the code, we should consider the following. We have long been trying to resolve the struggle between our humanity and the Machine, but unsuccessfully because we have never escaped from the latter's domination. We still address the human questions and problems according to the automatic concepts, standards and beliefs of existing reality. Consequently our reasoning is a variously confused mixture of falseness and truth, so that we can not agree. We now have to address these questions and problems with very different minds - according to supraconsciousness of humantrue reason. But however compelling our good intentions, we must remember that we are instinctive, conscious bodies as well as postconscious minds. Whilst our code of individual behaviour must unfailingly uphold our good and humantrue intentions, it must take account of, also fulfil, our inescapable, necessary emotions. When discussing ideal human behaviour we shall have to decide what practices are necessary and desirable, and what are unnecessary and undesirable. Some of these decisions are bound to go against the grain of long-accustomed feeling. They will have to be honoured with grim determination, until the time comes when they are fully accepted as part of our new, humantrue nature, with our emotions gathered in support. It is suggested that the code of individual behaviour shall be divided into three parts : Survival, Reproduction, and Fulfilment. Survival. To prepare the way for deciding how we shall achieve survival, we should first remove from our minds and wills our present automatic concepts, practices and motives. We should cease thinking and acting competitively, with egocentric self-interest. We should cease reasoning incompletely and applying our will to the preferment of kith and kin and to gaining possession, advantage, reward and status. The accepted intention of our postconscious guided intellect shall be to embrace co-operation, simple husbanding of resources, healthy diet, and to admit it as our own responsibility to keep humantruth, abiding by that which we know to be right and good, whatever contrary impulsions we may feel. These intentions shall be supported by the power of will switched to giving, loving, sharing, caring and cherishing - wanting allto be well, and making this its great and responsible undertaking. Reproduction. We need to see that whereas it is vital to the human race that we continue to reproduce, by overcoming instinctive inhibitions we have allowed ourselves to pursue the mating drive to extremes which are strictly unnecessary from the practical viewpoint. Sexual desire is instinct's means of impelling animals to reproduce. It is, and needs to be, nature's strongest but temporary drive, so that when the proper time comes it takes absolute precedence. In nature, when mating has been accomplished the sexual aim has been achieved and, there being no further need for it until next season, desire subsides, making way for other drives to assert or re-assert themselves, such as the call to defend territory, build a nest, or dig a burrow. Not so with humans. By virtue of our much more complex conscious minds we have a higher capacity for emotional stimulation than any other animal, yet our survival success does not require the use of this whole capacity. The normal animal's livelihood and safety, on the other hand, calls for a total brain capacity only slightly greater than needed for its maximum, pre-planned, vigilant activity. The human race still follows instinctive drives and, having bigger capacity for stimulation, also has greater ability to indulge those drives The Machine has taken from us the all-round responsibility for fending for ourselves, and replaced it with narrow tasks, more secure but normally less engrossingly stimulating. So we indulge in all kinds of artificial sports and entertainments, with the help of the Machine which profits from them. We are accustomed to mating at any time because human babies can survive birth at all seasons. But we mate frequently - far beyond the needs of reproduction - for only an average of just over two births per marriage are required to maintain the population. We pursue sexual gratification further still by practicing homosexuality and masturbation, indulgencies, seemingly peculiar to humans, which have no natural reproductive function. Our sexual practices do presently serve an acceptably important human function, however - the temporary release of tension and excape from frustration. But they are exploited by the Machine, as are all our appetites, in the interests of the money-economy. Up to a point it could be said that sexual titillation is a contribution to that important function, but when carried too far, as it is, the effect is to drag us still further below the level of postconscious awareness required for humantrue change. I suggest that in a much more widely and deeply fulfilling humantrue society, preoccupation with sex will be much reduced, kept to its important role of contributing to happy monogamous relationships, and more closely related to childbirth. It will be no longer subject to contrary commercial pressures in the shape of provocative dress fashions, make-up, films and magazines, or stirred up to excess by the misuse of drugs including alcohol. Restrained sexual behaviour will be encouraged and reinforced by the voluntary adoption of certain rules - that it shall never harm, threaten (and this particularly includes the terrible risk of AIDS), or give offence to anyone, or be allowed to displace other more essential cares and responsibilities. The final factor to keep sex in its appropriate place will be the many and varied other interests and satisfactions which will occupy everyone in a humantrue society. Fulfilment. I think there is no question but that when we are a supraconscious race it will be our true nature to fulfil intellect, and so find happiness such as we have never known. In respect of fulfilment, therefore, this code is not so much a matter of guiding our behaviour, since that will now come naturally, but of reminding us to keep the framework of life according to true human nature. To maintain our fundamental happiness we must ensure that the practices of the world bear out and support the pure postconscious awareness of our minds by fulfilling humantruth. It will be the responsibility of every single individual to see that this is constantly so. To prepare the way for spontaneously humantrue individual behaviour we shall have to turn our backs on substitute fulfilments. We must reject : competitive sport; violent and escapist entertainment, real or imaginary, about automatic life and existing affairs, in newspapers, television, films and books; hard drinking, drugs and tobacco; automated holidays and games.
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